As soon as the Sword Threads entered the silver light barrier, they encountered an invisible resistance. As though caught in a mire, their speed plummeted.
By then, the scholar had stopped chanting, though he maintained his original posture. The silver lotus of light in his hands had unfurled petal by petal and floated some ten feet above his head, radiating dazzling silver spiritual light.
By the time Xiao Yu's Sword Threads came within several dozen feet of the scholar, they had lost most of their speed. The scholar moved with ease, evading their slicing edges.
Xiao Yu's eyes narrowed involuntarily. The sheer power of the scholar's silver lotus supernatural ability truly surprised him.
Seeing that his silver lotus could just barely hold off the Sword Threads, the scholar surnamed Zhong breathed a sigh of relief, then turned a cold gaze on Xiao Yu.
"Is that your strongest supernatural ability? It doesn't seem like much!"
"You're celebrating too soon!" Xiao Yu's surprise lasted only an instant. Faced with the scholar's mockery, he merely gave him a contemptuous glance.
Then he instantly activated the transformation art of the Brahma Saint Heavenly Demonic Cultivation Method within his body.
The moment the scholar saw what Xiao Yu did next, his mocking expression changed. Surprise gave way to solemnity, and finally he looked as though he faced a formidable enemy.
Golden light flickered all over Xiao Yu as his entire body swelled at incredible speed. In the blink of an eye, he had become a golden giant thirty feet tall.
Every exposed part of his body was covered in a layer of exceptionally thick-looking scales. Golden light flowed continuously over them, with faint runes flickering in and out of sight, lending them an air of profound mystery.
The streamlined muscles rising slightly along his torso