Seeing the downpour of ghostfire about to touch him, Mu Bai punched skyward. Earth-attribute Origin Power spread above his head into a brown Light Screen. With a series of muffled pops, the two met, and the ghostfire paled. Scarlet-white flames crashed down like the collapsing heavens, sweeping toward him with a sky-filling wave of searing heat.
"Just as I thought!"
Mu Bai had never expected the strange old man to possess Five Elements Origin Power techniques as well, and was deeply shocked. Without hesitation, he struck out with his palm again, releasing water-, metal-, and fire-attribute Origin Power to form a three-colored canopy overhead, barely managing to dissolve and disperse the searing scarlet-white flames crashing down.
The instant Mu Bai resisted the Azure Netherworld Ghostfire, the black-robed old man knitted his brows and narrowed his eyes. He had not expected to encounter someone who could counter his techniques either. Though inwardly astonished, his hands never stopped. He reached out, his hands transforming into black-gold iron claws that traced cold gleams through the air as he lunged at Mu Bai.
Just then, a piercing whoosh split the air as a massive boulder wreathed in blue and red flames hurtled toward them. Mu Bai abruptly twisted aside and somersaulted more than ten zhang away. A thunderous boom followed, and the boulder blasted a pit several zhang deep into the valley floor where they had been fighting. The black-robed old man had also flown swiftly away like a black cloud.
Looking in the direction the boulder had come from, Mu Bai saw an enormous figure standing on a mountain summit. Seeing Mu Bai looking at him, the gigantic man strode forward like a walking mountain. Only then did a sliver of moonlight emerge from behind him to illuminate the valley.
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