The Sea of Chaos was struck by an immense force in an instant, sending its waters surging backward.
Chaos turbulence rose all around, ten thousand meters high and hundreds of millions of zhang wide!
The defense imbued with the power of the Great Ming dynasty blocked the arrow fired by Wu Ding, emperor of the Shang Dynasty-an arrow that had once slain a deity.
But it was not actually over.
Just as Zhu Yuanzhang was congratulating himself on blocking that attack, he suddenly discovered that King Wu Ding, who should have been tens of millions of zhang away, had vanished without him noticing!
Then a sense of mortal danger suddenly came from behind him.
Zhu Yuanzhang stiffly turned around, instantly drawing the sword at his waist and thrusting!
But the smooth sensation of piercing flesh that he had expected never came.
Neither did the empty sensation he might have felt if his thrust had missed or been dodged.
Zhu Yuanzhang's thrust, carrying the power of an early Primordial Origin Golden Immortal, had actually met resistance!
It was like a mortal taking a freshly forged kitchen knife and hacking at a plate of refined steel!
He felt no penetration whatsoever. Instead, the shock numbed his entire arm!
Under Zhu Yuanzhang's frozen gaze stood King Wu Ding, who had originally been behind him and was now in front of him after he turned.
He was a burly man at least two meters forty-six tall. Rather than the robes that marked an emperor, he wore sturdy armor forged from refined materials!
His height clearly exceeded that of an ordinary human, but strangely enough...
King Wu Ding himself was a mass of knotted muscle, like some monstrous, elite bodybuilder who had spent decades training back on Earth!
His yellow-brown skin gleamed.
Under Zhu Yuanzhang's