"Shing..."
Almost at the very moment Purple-Robed Elder Lu thought this, another piercing blade cry suddenly rang out from the Spirit Mirror.
Immediately afterward, a streak of blade light radiating starlight lit up within the Spirit Mirror, slashing toward Xu Taiping as though it would break out of the mirror.
"Boom!"
With a tremendous crash, the dazzling blade light that all but spanned the firmament once again cleaved through the phantom mountain Dongfeng Yuejian had summoned with the power of One Stroke Opens Heaven to shield the three of them.
Fortunately, the instant the phantom mountain was cleaved apart, Dongfang Yuejian unleashed the power of One Stroke Opens Heaven again.
This time, she drew a great cauldron steeped in an ancient air, sheltering all three of them beneath it.
"Clang!"
With a collision that rang with the sound of metal and stone, the cauldron finally blocked the slash Dragon Clan Divine General Cangyuan had delivered with that brilliant blade light.
At this sight, a cultivator in the First-Rank Pavilion teahouse immediately asked in bewilderment, "Isn't it said that the Dragon Clan's greatest strengths are their physiques and innate divine abilities? Why are their martial cultivation techniques so powerful too?"
In the eyes of most cultivators,
the Dragon Clan differed little from demonic beasts, especially certain ancient spirit beasts.
They seemed more like a populous clan of demonic beasts with greater intelligence than ordinary spirit beasts.
But clearly, that was not the case.
An elderly cultivator in the First-Rank Pavilion teahouse immediately explained to the others, "While the Dragon Clan was contending with the Human Race for the Three Realms, the strongest among them evolved their already nearly flawless true dragon bodies once more so they could stand against the increasingly powerful human cultivators. Thus came the legendary true dragon divine