Above, beneath a sky packed with dark clouds, gray aura flowed ceaselessly. Deities darted back and forth, some shrieking with laughter, others utterly silent.
Beyond the dark clouds, shadowy figures could faintly be seen. Their cries were lower and hoarser, and they were still trying to charge into the clouds and enter Black City Monastery!
There was also a figure completely unlike the deities, and they were chasing him!
The standoff continued.
Zhang Poxuan's aura was different because a patriarch of Celestial Master Abbey had already possessed him!
It was this patriarch's presence that kept Ba Qin and Kong An from intervening in the battle between the Real Person elders and the Cham Black Rakshasas.
Of course, a single patriarch was not enough to hold them off.
There was another man on the battlefield: Liu Yinping, a Real Person from the Liu Family of Ancient Qiang City!
Although he was fighting a Cham Black Rakshasa, he held a Yang Spirit Great Core the size of a baby's fist in one hand. That, too, posed a threat!
First, the Cham Black Rakshasa facing him could not gain the upper hand and was steadily retreating.
Second, this was the greatest trump card of Ancient Qiang City's Liu Family!
Their Yang Spirit Patriarchs were all inside their Great Cores!
Outside Ancient Qiang City, they could not summon their patriarchs. Even within the city, it was almost impossible.
There was only one reason: their Yang Spirit Patriarchs had never ventured out. From beginning to end, they all remained within the Great Cores.
With a Great Core on their person, they could use the Magic Arts of the Former Masters Lineage to let a patriarch possess them instantly, without an incantation.
On the surface, two patriarchs confronting two Sinpos already constituted a balance.
In truth,