"Strike..." Zhang Daoran's face hardened. A pale white radiance issued from the magic treasure in his left hand and shot several hundred zhang into the air.
"Pfft..." The radiance landed on the boulder, immediately extinguishing its flames. A faint layer of frost rapidly spread across its surface, followed by a series of cracking sounds. Cracks began to appear across the boulder's outer layer and gradually deepened. When it fell to around a hundred zhang before Zhang Daoran, he waved his right hand, sending forth another fist over ten zhang in size. It struck the boulder squarely. Boom... The hundred-zhang boulder exploded into dozens of pieces, some grazing past Zhang Daoran as they fell, others flying off at angles in every direction.
"Good!" A Nascent Soul cultivator standing guard behind Zhang Daoran shouted. Another ten cultivators released their magic treasures, their multicolored radiances flashing out to shatter the stone fragments rushing toward them.
"Haha, Brother Daoran truly is formidable!" Xiao Hua laughed and raised a thumbs-up. Ever since entering Yaotai Mountain, he had never felt so exhilarated. Though countless boulders lay before them, and he had no idea how long they could hold out, fighting enemies alongside a cultivator like Zhang Daoran was thoroughly satisfying.
"Now let us see Brother Xiao's methods!" Zhang Daoran narrowed his eyes. Directly in front of Xiao Hua, a boulder over a hundred zhang wide was likewise plummeting down.
Xiao Hua smiled. "This Xiao cannot compare to Brother Daoran's exquisite methods. I can only use clumsy ones! I fear Brother Daoran will laugh at me."
As he spoke, lightning flickered around Xiao Hua's body. His enormous figure shot upward, reaching the underside of the boulder in the blink of an eye. Then Xiao Hua's eyes widened, and he raised the As-You-Wish Staff with both arms, swinging