"Roar!" "Woof!" "Na!" "Ying!"
Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Xuele, and Zhiling all shuddered, opening their eyes in astonishment.
Was this the power possessed by a Void Refinement Dao Venerable's avatar?
Faced with that finger, they had not even had time to react before their vision went black and they were expelled from the Bronze Giant Stele.
Only Aji frowned slightly, suppressing the shock within and looking up at Chen Beiwu.
The Dao Venerable's avatar was certainly formidable, more than Aji could handle, but it was not so powerful as to be utterly impossible to resist.
The reason Aji had failed to respond and block that finger for Chen Beiwu beforehand was not the enormous gap in combat strength. Rather, the avatar formed by projecting essence, qi, and spirit into the Bronze Giant Stele had been severely weakened, able to exert only seventy percent of the original body's strength.
"You noticed it too?"
Sensing Aji's gaze, Chen Beiwu slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, thoughts turning in his mind.
A Void Refinement Dao Venerable's avatar stood far above them, beyond anything a Nascent Soul True Lord could hope to challenge. But the Heavenly Abyss Trial was, after all, a legacy trial left behind by the Heavenly Abyss Dao Sect, meant only to select true Peerless Heaven's Prides to inherit the sect's Dao Lineage. Its difficulty could not possibly have been set too outrageously high.
Chen Beiwu was not exaggerating. If the Dao Venerable's avatar housed within the Bronze Giant Stele did not hold back, never mind the Southern Wasteland Four Regions-even the foremost prodigies of the Immortal Alliance's Five Great Grotto-Heavens and Thirteen Immortal Sects could not pass this trial.
Fortunately, Chen Beiwu's intuition had indeed been correct. Though the Dao Venerable's avatar within the Bronze Giant Stele was powerful,