Boom!
The border between Azure Sky Mountain and Floating Cloud Mountain shuddered. Rocks shook, vegetation withered, and deathly energy surged into the sky.
Standing on the eaves of the Yin Residence, the graceful black-robed figure held her hands behind her back. Her gaze upon Xuanming was icy and merciless, her murderous intent laid bare.
"It seems I still underestimated you!"
The Underworld Lord spoke in mingled shock and Rage.
She had gathered her strength for so long and struck by surprise. Even an opponent of equal cultivation might have been wounded; any living being below Spirit Refining should have been killed in a single blow. Though the old Daoist before her was formidable enough to barely exchange a few moves with a great Spirit Refining cultivator, this strike should at least have injured him, even if it had not killed him and extinguished his Dao. How could he remain entirely unscathed?
Wariness and jealousy inevitably rose within her. Her desire to kill Xuanming had never been stronger. Otherwise, one day, she might very well fall at the hands of this ox-nosed Daoist.
As for what strange secrets he possessed, she could destroy his body and seize his soul first. There would be plenty of time to torment and interrogate him afterward.
With that thought, the Underworld Lord attacked again.
Her Dao Domain contracted from a hundred zhang to three. Rather than diminishing, its Great Dao pressure increased, its power soaring severalfold. The pressure weighed on Xuanming like a mountain. His embryonic Supreme Polarity Dao Domain shrank, the Mountains and Rivers Diagram beneath his feet flickered, and even the thunderfire supreme polarity cracked, teetering on the verge of collapse.
She stood upon the River of the Underworld, ringing the Death Bell with her left hand and holding the Bone Bottle in