The situation took a dramatic turn, and a willow-lined path opened onto a vista of flowers.
At the critical moment, the Calamity Qi filling the sky suddenly collapsed.
The thunder sea that had been roaring and churning wildly rolled back toward the depths of the void. Countless thunder Divine Beasts stood frozen in place, as though all their spirituality had been stripped away. Their gazes were dull, and their bodies were rigid and lifeless.
Even those few humanoid Heavenly Tribulations began flickering in and out of existence before completely dissipating into nothingness in the blink of an eye.
" The situation... has reversed!"
The gleam in Ling Jiuxiao's eyes blazed brightly. The aura around him climbed steadily, like a volcano awakening, shooting straight into the starry vault.
A tiger fallen onto the plains still retained its might, let alone a Late-Stage Daluo powerhouse.
Previously, suppressed by the Heavenly Tribulation, he had been forced to divide his attention to resist the omnipresent True Intent of Annihilation, leaving most of his cultivation shackled.
Now that the thunder sea had receded, he was like a trapped dragon emerging from the abyss or a fierce tiger returning to the mountains. He opened his mouth and inhaled, and the vital essence of the eight directions poured into his immortal body like the Celestial River cascading backward, surging in madly.
Seeing this, Shen Yun's expression remained unchanged. He merely said calmly, "Weren't you supposed to break free from fate? At the crucial moment, your true nature has been exposed?"
His voice was not loud, yet it was like a bolt of heavenly thunder, striking straight into the depths of Ling Jiuxiao's Dao Heart.
The four words "break free from fate" weighed on him like a thousand jun. They were like a bird trying to smash through