He raised a hand and pressed lightly against the void, as though bringing time and space to a halt. Divine rings rose behind him, layer upon layer, before interlocking into a single exquisitely intricate ring that shone with ten thousand layers of divine light.
The light it radiated was hotter and more dazzling than the golden sunlight.
The parted waves beneath him froze in midair as well. Within them, fish whose organs had been shattered were still blinking, blood streaming from their bodies.
As for the man cleaving toward him with such ferocity, he was pinned in midair like a remarkably lifelike statue.
Far away, Han Tian, who had already claimed a stretch of the sea, felt a terrifying pressure surge toward him and turned his gaze in Li Dao's direction.
"Interesting. Where did this monster spring from? What a terrifying Divine Ability!"
"An opponent worth fighting!"
Among the crowd from the Primordial Divine Mountain, Yun Xi's expression tightened. But when she sensed that familiar aura, her knitted brows slowly relaxed.
"So you really were all right."
Li Dao's expression remained utterly calm. A cold gleam flashed across the Long Halberd in his hand.
Shhk! With the sound of a blade piercing flesh, the Long Halberd drove straight through the man's abdomen.
"Argh-"
"How could you be-so fast!"
Horror filled the man's eyes. Clutching his halberd, he looked down at the Long Halberd impaling his body as bloody froth gushed from his mouth.
Dao Patterns flickered over his body, and his flesh writhed, trying to repair the wound. But Li Dao did not withdraw the Long Halberd. He merely gave it a light shake.
Pfft-
Runes plunged straight into the man's flesh. With a crisp cracking sound, he exploded into a bloody mist that drifted through the air.
Rumble-
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