Ji Yuan let out a long breath at last, and a smile finally appeared on his face.
"Ji had truly been afraid before—afraid that you gutless wretches would lack the courage to come looking for me in the end. Dragging this out another year, another day, even another moment, would be a Calamity of Heaven and Earth. But fortunately, you finally came."
As Ji Yuan spoke, Moon Azure and the others did not cease their movements. The dark clouds in the sky dispersed, revealing an enormous Moon Azure Mirror. Figures with no one within them appeared in every direction, and everything around them became immensely distorted. Streams of flowing light swept toward Ji Yuan and Xiezhi.
Xiezhi met them with his fists, while Ji Yuan swept his sleeve and scattered the lights. Yet those lights gradually turned into slender shadows, as though they possessed lives of their own. Moon Azure and the others stepped upon the radiance as they closed in on Ji Yuan, immediately launching their attacks.
The Moon Azure Mirror overhead possessed an especially bizarre power. At times, Ji Yuan faced an attack rushing at him from the front, only to find the scene before him twisting the instant he swept his sleeve. The image of the attack remained ahead, but the sense of danger suddenly rose behind him. He had to swing up his sword sheath to block it, and every breath brought dozens, even hundreds, of such exchanges.
"Ji Yuan, stop putting on a bold front. Within this formation, not even the starlight of the Heavenly River can shine through. Dreaming of borrowing the Power of Heaven and Earth to deal with us is wishful thinking."
"Hmph, you wish to rule Heaven's Dao alone and command all under Heaven. Your ambition is not small, but you