"I'll fight you to the death!!!"
The Violet Firmament Dao Lord's eyes nearly split with rage as he finally tore open the precious edict in his hands!
Riiip-!
With a sound like tearing silk, the edict ripped down the middle!
A vast, thunderous roar of water suddenly erupted!
At first, it was as faint as spring rain falling to earth, but in an instant, it swelled into deafening, raging waves that resounded across hundreds of thousands of miles of mountains!
Then.
Under the Violet Firmament Dao Lord's hopeful gaze.
A great hand forced open the void!
A tall man clad in a black Daoist robe stepped out of the torn edict's golden light and descended above the Violet Firmament Prefecture!
His eyes were deep-set, his temples faintly gray, yet he showed no sign of age. Instead, he exuded an unshakable, towering presence.
The moment this avatar appeared.
The tall man frowned slightly, then swept his sleeve with an expressionless face!
Rumble!!!
In an instant, the entire expanse of heaven and earth, sealed tight by Ye Li's dense [highest clarity qi], shook violently!
Under the intervention of this overbearing power, the spell-suppressing pressure weighing on everyone in the Violet Firmament Prefecture immediately diminished by more than half!
Yet, to the Violet Firmament Dao Lord's horror.
Though the domain formed from clear qi shook fiercely, it still showed no sign of breaking!
Its laws remained as stable as ever!!
"Hmm?"
The tall man could not help looking surprised, his brow lifting slightly.
Only then did he turn his gaze toward the Dao-Robed Youth high above, a trace of undisguised astonishment entering his voice:
"What overbearing domain laws."
"With a divine ability like this, which faction in the Southern Region do you belong to? Who is your master?"
Ye Li stood with his