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Tang Changsheng laughed heartily. "I won't be careless. Hongxing, Ningbi, and the rest of you fellow cultivators, please activate the great formation!"
The True Void Innate flashed into view in the void. Boundless sea stretched in every direction, and countless lotus flowers bloomed across it in an instant. The next moment, they spat out innumerable seeds, sending them shooting into the void of the Star Sea.
The Seven Great Sages had only crossed half the void when countless pale-blue lotus seeds came hurtling toward them.
"What are those?"
Great Sage Yifeng was the fastest. With a shout, he revealed his true form: a colossal golden-winged Peng several thousand yards tall. He beat his wings fiercely, whipping up a gale through the Star Sea to stop the lotus seeds.
But the seeds all exploded at once. Pale-blue and dark-green flashes of lightning darted everywhere, too numerous to count.
At the first clash, Great Sage Yifeng screamed and returned to human form, his entire body charred black.
The Thunderbolts had struck him as though he had been put through an electrocution.
"Yifeng, how are you? Are you all right?" The other six sages were shocked and called out to him.
Great Sage Yifeng trembled for a long while, as though electricity still ran through him, before he managed to cry, "I'm fine! Watch out, more are coming! That's Gui Water Divine Thunder..."
The sages' expressions changed. As one of the Five Elements' divine thunders, Gui Water Divine Thunder was not particularly formidable.
The problem was that none of them had imagined there could be so much of it.
At least tens of thousands of