"Overlord... truly terrifying."
At the Purple Gold Wang Family estate, the old patriarch abruptly pushed open his bedroom door and looked up at the sky.
Black clouds bore down on the city, threatening to crush it.
Red lightning flickered faintly through the ghostly energy.
Overlord's furious roars and Gu Feng's howls echoed across the sky.
Unfortunately, only their voices could be heard; neither man could be seen.
"Gu Feng... one move short." Inside the Guan Family estate.
White Garment stood alone with a wine flask in hand, gazing wistfully at the sky. "Against Overlord as he is now, even I couldn't win without injury."
"Who won?" Several sons of the Guan Family beside him watched the black energy, thicker than the clouds, with curiosity.
Their cultivation was insufficient to see the battle between the two supreme experts.
Only the violent, earthquake-like tremors showed the world how fierce their battle was.
"Nine strikes, and Gu Feng still hasn't broken through Overlord's ultimate defense."
As though watching an exhilarating film, White Garment smiled enthusiastically. "Everyone has been deceived by Overlord's image. He's... unfathomable. He's actually mastered Tai Sui's special ability to perfection."
"What do you mean?"
"Tai Sui cultivated an ability of utmost yin and softness, while Overlord followed the path of utmost hardness and yang. When the two clash inside the body, the mild outcome is cultivation deviation; the severe outcome is destroyed meridians and the total loss of one's ability." White Garment spoke admiringly. "For Overlord to forcibly fuse the two is unheard of."
"Gu Feng will lose? Didn't he beat Overlord before?" Guan Lei asked agitatedly.
The latter chuckled and shook his head. "That was then; this is now. Overlord is like Little White Tiger. Their fighting strength under normal circumstances and in a fury are on entirely different