As soon as the white-haired old man began, the other two Heavenly Immortal experts acted as agreed, plowing trenches through the sea amid thunderous rumbling.
In moments, the trenches, each nearly twenty li long, joined end to end. From the air, a gigantic triangle was clearly visible in the sea, a magnificent sight.
But that was not their objective. Once the triangular trenches connected, all three thrust their arms to either side, driving their magic outward. They could feel the power on either side of the trenches still connected, and sought to widen the gaps and sever that vast network of power.
Li Hongjiu immediately sensed it and understood their intentions in an instant. He spread his arms and cast again, sending the invisible power across the distant, boundless sea surging toward the trenches the three Heavenly Immortal experts had carved-which was no different from pressing down on the three themselves.
The three Heavenly Immortal experts immediately felt the pressure, but stiffened their necks and stubbornly held their magic in place, determined to withstand it and sever Li Hongjiu's connection to the power of the vast sea.
Yet they had underestimated its potency. They thought that, having blocked it, they could hold out if they persevered, unaware that the invisible power kept piling in from the distant sea.
As the pressure accumulated and intensified, the terrifying might gathered from that vast ocean surpassed ordinary imagination. Veins bulged on the necks of the three men bracing the trenches, their eyes seemed ready to pop from their sockets, and one after another, they coughed up blood.
Eyes bloodshot and a thread of blood spurting from the corner of his mouth, the white-haired old man turned unwillingly toward Li Hongjiu in the distance. Suddenly, his gaze flickered as an idea struck him. He