"Enough. I won't toy with him anymore!"
Then his Mystic Gestures changed, and a beam of spiritual light struck the cauldron. The flames suddenly surged, instantly overwhelming the shield.
Crack!
Within a few breaths, it shattered into fragments that rained from the sky. The massive cauldron then whistled away and stopped thirty feet above True Monarch Zifeng's head.
"Daoist Wu, thank you for yielding."
Zhou Xun's calm voice rang out, carrying a trace of composure.
True Monarch Zifeng's face turned ashen, and a flash of unwillingness and shock passed through his eyes.
He had never imagined that the Profound Earth Shield, the treasure he had always been so proud of, would prove so utterly vulnerable before the Crimson Bright Cauldron's flames.
"You... you have actually refined the Crimson Bright Cauldron to such a degree!" True Monarch Zifeng said through gritted teeth.
Zhou Xun smiled faintly but said nothing.
Naturally, he would not tell True Monarch Zifeng that he was no longer the real Zhao Ping, but Oblivion River True Lord Zhou Xun.
Fairy Xinyue, standing nearby, was equally stunned.
Previously, she had believed that even if Zhao Ping had broken through to the Nascent Soul realm, he could not possibly be a match for True Monarch Zifeng, an established Nascent Soul cultivator.
Moreover, his Heavy Earth Dark Light was renowned throughout Azure Cloud Prefecture. It had once defeated several cultivators at the peak of Nascent Soul Early Stage.
Yet now, it had been defeated so easily by Zhao Ping.
Did that not mean Zhao Ping's true strength was already comparable to a Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivator?
Why had I never realized he possessed such strength before?
At that thought, her beautiful eyes shifted with a flowing gleam.
At the same time, she hurried forward to smooth things over. "Fellow