"This..."
"How could this be... This lightning... wasn't... fake, but just now..." Palace Master Qi Xue had barely restored his body, his face filled with shock.
He had never imagined that among the lightning falling from the sky, real lightning had been hidden amid the false.
Moreover, the Corroding Yin Wind and filthy water had suddenly appeared as well, catching him completely off guard. He had not been prepared in the slightest.
With no defenses in place, Palace Master Qi Xue was directly heavily injured, and his divine body rapidly declined to less than fifty percent.
And the attacks within this grand formation did not come only once. The lightning in the sky was still brewing, while the Corroding Yin Wind and filthy water continuously swept toward Palace Master Qi Xue.
What made Palace Master Qi Xue feel the worst was that these bolts of lightning, Corroding Yin Winds, and filthy waters were not entirely real.
They appeared overwhelmingly powerful and blanketed the heavens and earth, but most of them possessed no real offensive power. Only a small portion of the three contained truly terrifying might.
Yet these Corroding Yin Winds, filthy waters, and lightning bolts had all been created by the nine-layered illusion formation within Cao Bing's grand formation. Falsehood and reality interwove like interlocking teeth; within you was me, and within me was you. From perception alone, there was not the slightest difference.
Because of this, Palace Master Qi Xue had no way to determine which attacks could truly harm him. He could only go all out to block every attack that sought to land on him.
But these attacks covered the sky and numbered countless, while Palace Master Qi Xue himself was badly wounded. Such an all-out, regardless-of-cost defense would inevitably consume him enormously.
Under such intense