At sea.
The purple sun plunged into the waters. The gray-red lightning, which had still been spreading its corrosive influence, swiftly receded and solidified into sheets of crystal, only to be shattered one after another by the surging, pervasive Sword Radiance.
The towering Thunder Marsh avatar rapidly dissolved. That golden edge still swept through, but inflicted no damage whatsoever. The demonic general reined in his horse and halted, turning his blade, yet countless streams of Deep Purple Thunder Pulp had already erupted and spread behind him, casting themselves into one body and once again forming that imposing Thunder Marsh Dharma Body.
The great horse of jagged white bones let out a long neigh, raised its forehooves, and stamped down through the air. Its breastbones opened one after another, and countless Thunder Ghosts and lightning bats poured out with shrill cries, cascading forward.
But the five linked drums had already begun to tremble. Thunderclaps rang out without cease, converging upon a single point and shaking every ghost and bat to pieces, reducing them to drifting golden dust.
Hope Sea moved again, becoming a streak of afterimage. He dragged billowing gray-red demonic clouds behind him, and as his Dharma Body moved, it left ugly scars thousands of miles long across the sea.
Countless bolts of mingled bright-gold and gray-red lightning filled the sky. Heavenly Lord's Smile abruptly activated, and innumerable bolts coalesced into a deep-black, blood-dripping eye, set into the vault of heaven to scan the world.
Xu Xuan knew what this Dao Realm Divine Ability did and immediately closed his eyes. Yet as his Spirit Sense extended and spread, the blood-dripping eye above sensed it and traced it back to him. Countless bolts of Divine Thunder, solid as golden blades, descended together with demonic lightning condensed into rootlike strands.
So long