Gu Daoling had already reached the Late Cave Illumination Realm, yet at this moment, an inexplicable force had confined his entire body. He was stiff all over, unable to move even a finger.
He willed the Law of Power within the Cave of Darkness in his Dantian, but it was equally useless. He could only watch helplessly as he whistled through the valley, the forest and trees streaking past his sides like fleeting light and shadows...
"Bang!"
With a deafening crash, Gu Daoling slammed straight into a mountainside.
The very instant he struck the mountain, he suddenly felt the mysterious force binding his body vanish.
Gu Daoling flashed like a Black Ray and came to a stop in midair above the valley.
He stared in astonishment at the crater he had smashed into the mountainside, countless stone fragments of all sizes pattering down from it...
Gu Daoling sent his divine sense through his own body and found not a single injury anywhere. Duan Rong seemed merely to have played a joke on him.
However, looking at the enormous crater in the mountainside, as well as the helpless feeling brought on by that mysterious force which had bound his entire body just now, he was certain of one thing: Duan Rong had indeed formed a Nascent Soul.
After all, he was a Late Cave Illumination Realm cultivator. If Duan Rong had not attained the Nascent Soul Realm, how could he have made such a mess of him so effortlessly?
Duan Rong stood in the courtyard, watching Gu Daoling fly away. A trace of disappointment could not help flashing through his eyes.
He had sent Gu Daoling away with a single palm not only because Gu Daoling and Zhu He had come one after another to disturb him. More importantly, Duan Rong