Crack!
A tremendous crash rang out, as though heaven and earth were about to shatter.
Mountains shook and the earth split, as though everything was about to plunge into the apocalypse.
Liumu stood in midair, a faint smile on his face.
Back then, after leaving only Taotie's Gluttony and Samadhi Divine Fire within him, Taotie had fallen dormant.
Yet, unexpectedly, half a year earlier, Liumu had discovered that his divine fire held the only key to summoning Taotie.
Taotie's existence would crush everything in the world, so his true body could not emerge from the phantom.
But against a mere Ten-Tails, even a single bolt of Taotie's lightning could annihilate him.
Space and time seemed to stand still.
The instant Taotie appeared, everyone had felt a suppression rooted in their bloodlines.
Everyone had already harbored guesses about Liumu's strength.
His peerless hand-to-hand combat, his elusive Light Release, and even his daughter Muhan's ability to stop time.
None of them seemed like abilities that ought to exist.
But now...
After seeing Taotie.
Everyone suddenly felt that everything Liumu possessed made perfect sense at this moment.
What was this mysterious being?
A summoning beast?
Or... something that did not belong to this world?
Lightning filled the sky, dazzling patterns of thunder, and even the strength to completely suppress the Ten-Tails with nothing but a look.
The Masked Man stirred, poised to act. His aura erupted, and the chakra gushing from his pores brought a slight smile to Liumu's face beside him.
He was hesitating.
He was even wary.
He looked at the strange phenomenon in the sky and the shadow behind Liumu.
Before this mysterious being, the Ten-Tails was like an infant. Even his desperate struggle amounted to no more than a bolt of lightning from the other party.
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