Yet the next moment, Dijiang froze.
There was no earth-shattering roar as he had imagined, nor any eruption of terrifying power.
His punch struck the Taiji Diagram as though it had hit empty air. The strange sensation of finding nothing to exert his strength against left Dijiang deeply uncomfortable.
Bang!
Just then, a savage recoil suddenly surged from the Taiji Diagram, many times more powerful than the punch Dijiang had thrown.
Boom!
Dijiang's chest abruptly caved in. The crack of breaking bones rang out inside his body, and his towering Ancestral Witch True Form staggered backward.
Had the Heaven and Earth's Yellow Exquisite Pagoda not protected this place, Dijiang's trampling footsteps would likely have collapsed more than half of Mount Kunlun.
Even so, the Heaven and Earth's Yellow Exquisite Pagoda flickered with light as Dijiang slammed into it.
Dijiang's expression changed. Silver light flashed across his chest, and his sunken chest and broken bones recovered almost instantly.
The next moment, his somewhat weakened aura turned ferocious once more.
"Roar!"
Dijiang roared, silver light flickering all around him. The space before him stirred like a pool of water, ripples suddenly spreading across it. He stepped forward and vanished from everyone's sight.
"Spatial traversal!"
Laozi's expression grew grave. His fingers formed one Mudra after another, sending them flying into the Taiji Diagram above his head.
Naturally, he knew why Dijiang was traveling through space: he wanted to use a spatial formation to bypass the Taiji Diagram's coverage and fight him at close quarters.
But Laozi was no Daochen, who cultivated both spirit and flesh and had nothing to fear from fighting Dijiang up close.
He cultivated only his Primordial Spirit, not his physical body. If Dijiang really got close and landed a punch, he might not die, but serious injury would be