Elsewhere.
The Five Black Dragon Lord condensed a great Immortal Art and swooped down, intending to suppress Zhang Yuan with a single strike before finding and slaughtering Ao Xiu.
But when he saw the black-robed First God Cult Master appear before him, and realized he was an Ascension Realm cultivator of the qi sea uniting spirit dao who had not even reached celestial person perfection, irritation flared within him.
Now any miscellaneous dao cultivator dared stand in his way. They were truly courting death.
"Get lost!" the Five Black Dragon Lord growled.
The First God Cult Master gave no reply. Black mist churned within his sleeves, and he flung out a blade as black as ink.
The Five Black Dragon Lord paid the incoming blade no mind. Even without countering it with an Immortal Art, this incarnation's Immortal Lord-level True Dragon body was enough to ignore most miscellaneous dao spells.
Yet when the black blade reached him, the Five Black Dragon Lord suddenly sensed something was wrong. Feeling its tremendous power and the danger it posed, he immediately unleashed the great Immortal Art he had prepared to suppress Zhang Yuan, using it to block the First God Cult Master's black blade instead.
Bang!
The Divine Art of the qi sea uniting spirit dao crashed into the great Immortal Art of the qi refining to immortality path. Immortal essence and divine power crushed and collided with one another, grinding the surrounding world several times over. Space shattered like a mirror, all matter annihilated within it, leaving a stretch of vacuum where nothing existed.
Although the Divine Art did not drive the Five Black Dragon Lord backward, it forcibly halted his descending charge. He transformed into a black-robed dragonman and hovered in midair, looking at the First God Cult Master ahead.
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