Yu Yuanzhen dove.
His hundred-meter dragon body tore through the sea of lightning. His foreclaws blazed with searing white electricity, and the air along his path burned with an acrid stench. Bai Jin stood his ground and raised his right hand.
The dragon's claw stopped half a foot away.
The distance between its talons and Bai Jin stretched without end, and the lightning was shut out by an invisible Interface Layer. But the impact did not vanish. The peak beneath Bai Jin's feet sank with a roar, and a ring of air blasted outward along the mountainside.
There was no surprise in Yu Yuanzhen's dragon eyes.
His real killing move lay underground.
Eight formation platforms thundered at once. Drawn by the formation, the thunder veins within the mountain rock erupted beneath Bai Jin's feet. Electricity surged through the places where he touched the ground, straight toward his meridians.
Bai Jin's arm went numb. The hem of his robe blackened in an instant.
He tapped a foot against the ground and slipped into Folded Space. A Second Round of lightning blasts chased his landing points, erupting wherever he had just stepped.
"So that's how it works."
His Six Eyes swept over the mountain and immediately saw through the formation.
Limitless could stop energy from entering the space around him. But to stand, breathe, and move, he had always allowed small amounts of the outside world through its filter. The Sect-Guarding Thunder Formation conducted lightning through all of Dragon Mountain, striking precisely at those points of permitted contact.
This tactic could not truly hurt him, but it was enough to keep him moving.
Bai Jin changed his filter at once.
He formed an extremely thin gap with Limitless beneath his feet, lifting his body half an inch off the ground and completely