In that instant!
"Boom!" A thunderclap shook the heavens as a beam of golden light over a hundred feet wide blasted from the Golden Gourd's mouth. Its terrifying aura alone made Wang Yan's heart tremble. If it struck, the Cave Abode Secret Realm Pagoda might survive, but the attack covered far too great an area for him to escape its reach. He might well be vaporized on the spot...
However!
An unexpected scene unfolded!
"Aah!" A tremendous roar erupted below. Somehow, Ye Shisan had appeared beside the Golden Gourd. Orange light swirled around his body, which had grown to forty or fifty feet tall. Swinging the Earth Spirit Gold Staff, dozens of feet long and as thick as a bowl's mouth, he smashed it down viciously at the Golden Gourd...
In an instant!
"Clang!" An ear-splitting crash shook the heavens. Ye Shisan practically hurled his entire body into the blow as the Earth Spirit Gold Staff struck the Golden Gourd. The gourd shuddered violently and actually toppled sideways...
The Golden Gourd itself remained unharmed, without so much as a mark on its surface...
But that sudden tilt was the crucial thing...
"Boom! Boom, boom, boom!" The enormous golden beam blasting from the gourd's mouth suddenly trembled in midair. The entire beam slanted sideways, sweeping a terrifying storm of golden light across the sky as it blasted off in another direction...
Even more unexpectedly...
The golden beam actually hurtled toward Lingyunzi himself... Everywhere it passed, it seemed poised to blast straight through the sky. Boundless golden Gangale rolled wildly outward, and in the blink of an eye, the beam had shot hundreds of feet upward...
Just then!
"Damn it! What is going on?" Lingyunzi had never imagined anything like this would happen, and he cursed in terror. He knew the Golden