Elder Long sneered at Lu Ren's arrogance.
"Lu Ren, you truly are arrogant!"
"Though this old man is merely a ghost body, I still possess the power of Dao-Proving!"
"With your mid-stage Return-to-True cultivation, you dare act presumptuously before this old man?"
As his words fell.
Boom!
Elder Long abruptly swept out his hand, summoning surging Yellow Springs Ghost Qi from the void. It instantly condensed into a massive ghostly palm that slammed fiercely toward Lu Ren.
Before the ghostly palm even descended, the surrounding void began to tremble violently.
A pressure comparable to the Dao-Proving Realm instantly enveloped Lu Ren's entire body.
Yet Lu Ren did not retreat in the slightest.
He could sense that although Elder Long's ghost body was terrifyingly imposing, it was ultimately not his true Dao-Proving body.
This ghost body relied on a strand of divine soul will for control.
If it had been before, when he was only at the Four-Leaf Realm, he naturally would have had no way to deal with this ghost body.
But now, his divine soul had already entered the Five-Leaf Realm!
Divine light flashed through Lu Ren's eyes.
Buzz!
A powerful divine soul fluctuation erupted from between Lu Ren's brows.
In an instant, the phantom of the Eternal Soul Tree flickered past in the depths of his divine soul.
Five soul leaves swayed gently.
The next moment, that divine soul power transformed into an illusory sharp sword, piercing straight through the void and stabbing fiercely at Elder Long's ghost body.
Pfft!
The illusory sharp sword instantly sank into Elder Long's ghost body.
The ghostly palm Elder Long had struck out froze in midair.
His ghost body also trembled violently.
"You..."
Elder Long stared fixedly at Lu Ren, his face filled with disbelief. "How is this possible?"
"Your divine soul