"An explanation?" Venerable Ziming glared at Heavenly Lord Hanjian. "Lin Hanjian, do you truly think this old man fears you?"
As he spoke, the aura around Venerable Ziming burst outward with a metallic clang.
Strand after strand of aura struck everyone like sharp blades, hacking, smashing, chopping, and slicing.
Rumble...
Had Xiahou You, Bai Yue, and the others not already been circulating their power to defend themselves, that aura alone might have severely injured them.
Snap!
Just then, Heavenly Lord Hanjian suddenly snapped his fingers.
A sharp crack followed, and the aura enveloping Xiahou You and the others abruptly shattered.
At the same time, beams of cyan light enveloped them one after another.
At that moment, Xiahou You and the others could finally be certain-Heavenly Lord Hanjian and his disciple Yan Xuanling were protecting them.
Boom...!
Then, with an ear-splitting qi explosion, everyone sensed the aura fluctuations around Heavenly Lord Hanjian suddenly engulf this stretch of heaven and earth like raging waves on a furious sea.
Bang!!
Amid the thunderous crash, Heavenly Lord Hanjian's aura collided heavily with Supreme Venerable Ziming's.
Boom!
In the blink of an eye, Heavenly Lord Ziming's aura was forced back to within a hundred feet of his body.
It was not hard to see that Heavenly Lord Hanjian's cultivation far surpassed Supreme Venerable Ziming's.
With his aura suppressed, Supreme Venerable Ziming immediately flew into a humiliated rage.
"Lin Hanjian, cultivation does not represent combat strength!"
As he spoke, a scorching flame suddenly appeared in his palm with a boom.
Rumble...
The instant the flame appeared, the entire surrounding world trembled.
Sensing the violent killing power within that flame, Qu Chao Ci exclaimed in horror,
"C-could that be... innate true fire?!"
Having experienced the might of innate true fire in the Yaochi Sacred Land, she recognized