Under Juzi of the Universe-Suppressing Tower's attacks, the Protective Barrier visibly faded. Faint cracks had already begun to appear, and it clearly would not hold much longer.
Meanwhile, Ke Meili was pinned down by the Rogue Cultivator recruited by the Universe-Suppressing Tower, unable to interfere with Juzi's attacks.
Just as she was about to order them to abandon the sect's Defensive Array and lead the disciples in retreat to the Back Mountain-
After all, her sect was considerably weaker in both disciple numbers and overall strength. Once the array was breached and they fought the Universe-Suppressing Tower directly, the disciples would be unable to withstand them and would soon be slaughtered to the last.
Although Li Dalong had not appeared to join the fighting, he had been monitoring the entire battlefield with his Divine Sense from inside the Creation Cultivation Tower.
He did not know that Ke Meili still had the Back Mountain as a fallback. Seeing that the array was about to be breached, he prepared to act.
After all, he was now a Guest Elder, though Ke Meili had still not come to ask him to intervene.
But he could not possibly stand by and watch these disciples be killed by powerful enemies or captured and sold.
After leaving the Creation Cultivation Tower, he put it back into the System Space.
With a thought, he took the Supreme-Grade Immortal Artifact he had just drawn, the Thunder-Racing Bow, out of the System Space and looked over the beautiful, mysterious bow.
He mobilized his Immortal Power and slowly drew the bowstring.
As Immortal Power poured into the bow, an arrow formed from lightning appeared on the string.
By the time he had drawn the bow more than halfway toward a full moon, the lightning arrow had fully solidified. This was