"You're not bad yourself. Much stronger than these useless subordinates of yours."
Yun Che flexed his wrists, the gray-gold light around him growing ever brighter.
"No wonder the Three Great Ancestor Lords are all so wary of the Heavenly Dao Council. You really do have some ability."
Madam Qingxuan sneered, and the clear Heavenly Dao light at her fingertips surged. "Arrogant brat! Without the Ancestral Source backing you, would you even be worthy of saying such things before me?"
Before her words had faded, the clear light filling the sky transformed into densely packed Heavenly Dao Needle Shadows. Bearing the power of Soul-Locking Qi-Suppressing, they shot toward the major acupoints all over Yun Che's body.
Yun Che neither dodged nor evaded. He planted the Heaven and Earth Time-Heart Stele upright before him, and layers of gray-gold light barriers spread from its body. Every needle shadow that struck them burst into tiny flecks of light, unable to breach the barriers in the slightest.
"Relying on the Ancestral Source to back me up? Does your Heavenly Dao Council know nothing but that sort of nonsense?"
Yun Che pushed off with his toes and shot into the sky. The Heaven and Earth Time-Heart Stele abruptly expanded in his hands, smashing down at Madam Qingxuan's head with the crushing force of Mount Tai.
Madam Qingxuan raised a hand and thrust out her palm. Clear light condensed into an enormous palm imprint that met the blow head-on. The boom resounded through heaven and earth, and densely packed fissures split the ground across the entire Demons Battlefield.
In an instant, the two exchanged dozens of moves in midair. The shock waves bursting from the collisions between the clear Heavenly Dao light and Ancestral Source divine power sent all the black-armored knights attempting to surround them flying,