At first, all the Blackwater Demon Lord had seen was rosy light and streaming shadows filling the sky. He could not yet be certain who had come.
After all, among the Canglan Righteous Path, at least four Mystic Insight Venerables had attained the Dao through arts of rosy light. Three of them were also at the Mystic Insight Early Stage, differing only in the branches of their arts.
But once he heard that unmistakable torrent of abuse, he no longer needed to identify her art. He knew who she was.
"Chu Qingying!"
As soon as he recognized Venerable Shuying, the Blackwater Demon Lord's enormous face emerged from the churning demonic clouds.
"Hmph! You arrogant girl. You truly don't know how high the heavens are or how deep the earth runs!"
Demonic energy writhed across that enormous face as he snarled, "When you first reached Mystic Insight, you hid behind your senior brother and shouted at me. Now that we've met again, with that old Daoist Mingxiao no longer here to protect you, do you think you can still act so brazenly before me?"
As he spoke, the Blackwater Demon Lord sent his Zhen Xuan power eastward through the vast demonic clouds.
But Venerable Shuying showed no intention of yielding. As rosy light and streaming shadows gathered and scattered, a crimson Divine Wind rose skyward, driving the Blackwater True Profound that sought to push east back dozens of miles.
The sight gave the Blackwater Demon Lord pause. He had not expected Venerable Shuying's cultivation to reach such heights in a mere century.
True, she was relying on the power of a Fuyao Sect wind-path treasure to oppose him while still at the early stage.
But winning the recognition of that treasure of Dao enlightenment and wielding it with her Zhen Xuan