Meanwhile, in the main building.
Lü Yan stood cursing in the second-floor hall, while Chen Yishan leisurely purged the flood-dragon poison. The other heroes and powerful figures whispered among themselves inside and outside the Mountains and Seas Tower, waiting for an official announcement from their host, Misty-Wave City, to find out just what had happened in Hundred-Blight Marsh.
But after a long wait, no one from Misty-Wave City appeared. Instead, a disturbance came from outside the tower:
A thunderclap-a bolt of lightning illuminated the vast city beneath the driving wind and rain, followed by the sound of something cleaving the air outside the Mountains and Seas Tower:
Whoosh-the patriarchs on the first and second floors looked puzzled. Though Misty-Wave City did not forbid cultivators from flying or using qinggong, with so many patriarchs gathered in the city, passing over their heads was a grave taboo. Even Lü Yan walked when he went out. No one ran across roofs and walls, much less approached with such speed.
At first, Lü Yan thought someone from Misty-Wave City had returned from outside. He turned toward the window, but halfway there, he felt an overwhelming pressure rush straight at him through the wind and rain outside!
The Fifth Daoist Sect Realm was "Soul Fusion," which united the three hun souls and seven po souls and greatly increased one's lifespan; the Buddhist Sect's was the "Dharma Body," which could manifest a golden dharma aspect to ward off all evil.
As for the Martial Artist Fifth Realm, "Dragon Suddenness," its special effect fully embodied the profession's defining trait-unparalleled courage!
Though it sounded useless, the baleful-breaking aura radiating from within was enough to drive back ghosts and gods, effectively providing an innate demon-suppressing effect. Cultivators of weaker realms would inevitably quake and shrink from battle.
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