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"Hehe, Xuan Kongzi, this old man merely opened a spatial channel to send someone through. That shouldn't count as breaking the rules of your Pill Tower, should it?" Ninth Tian Zun said with a chuckle.
"You know exactly what you're doing. Do you really take us for fools?" Xuan Kongzi shouted angrily.
With a wave of his sleeve, his palm struck out toward Ninth Tian Zun from afar, unleashing a massive blast through the air. As his palm fell, the energy within heaven and earth violently trembled.
An enormous invisible spatial hand pierced through space itself, slamming down toward Ninth Tian Zun. Facing that descending spatial hand, Ninth Tian Zun's face grew solemn. His fingers moved rapidly as he let out a low shout.
"Rise!"
In an instant, endless water-element energy surged together, gathering around him and forming a massive blue water barrier a hundred zhang tall. It enclosed both him and the spatial rift within.
Immediately after, the enormous spatial hand crashed down hard upon the giant blue barrier. The overwhelming power of space spread out in all directions, twisting and shattering the surrounding air.
The terrifying impact made many of the onlookers' expressions drastically change. They couldn't help but secretly sigh. Xuan Kongzi truly lived up to being the leader of the Three Leaders of the Pill Tower—his strike was anything but ordinary.
Boom!
The vast force of space swept outward. That seemingly solid blue water barrier only held for the blink of an eye before it burst apart with a resounding explosion. At once, endless sheets of rain poured down from the sky, pelting the buildings below with a crisp splattering sound.
"Hmph."
Ninth Tian Zun staggered backward from the force, retreating more than ten steps before he could steady himself, a muffled groan escaping his throat. Clearly, in this first clash with Xuan Kongzi, Ninth Tian Zun had already suffered some injuries. Just then—
"Xuan Kongzi, you've gone too far!"
A cold, indifferent voice echoed out. From within the cracked spatial rift, an icy aura so frigid it chilled the bones slowly emanated outward.
Feeling that freezing aura, Xuan Kongzi's raised hand gradually lowered. His brows furrowed slightly as he muttered softly, "Qiu Di the Eighth Tian Zuns?"
The spatial rift widened, and that overwhelming cold energy spread across the area. A white-robed figure stepped slowly out from the spatial fissure, appearing before countless gazes.
"Ninth brother, why did you summon me here?"
The white figure stopped, casting a faint glance at Xuan Kongzi before turning to Ninth Tian Zun, his voice cold and detached.
"See for yourself what's happening," Ninth Tian Zun said with a frown, his tone deep.
You came here and immediately asked questions—can't you look first? What a show-off.
Hearing that, the white figure lifted his head and slowly swept his gaze around.
Only then did everyone get a clear look at him. It was an elderly man with a weathered face, hair and beard completely white—even his pupils were a chilling white, exuding an aura of utter frost. He stood there like an ancient block of ice that would never melt.
"He's… breaking through a realm? Dou Sheng?!"
The white figure's gaze finally landed on the Wei Mansion not far below. His expression froze for a moment, then suddenly changed as he sensed something. He inhaled sharply, his pale eyes rippling with shock.
"The one breaking through… is Yao Chen?" he turned to ask Ninth Tian Zun hesitantly.
"Obviously," Ninth Tian Zun replied curtly, though he still nodded heavily.
"No wonder you called me," Eighth Tian Zun's snowy brows twitched slightly, his mood growing complicated. After a moment, he glanced toward the distant trio of Xuan Kongzi and the other two Pill Tower Leaders.
This situation… was troublesome. If this were happening anywhere else, it wouldn't be so bad. But to make a move inside Holy Pill City? That was never a good idea.
He looked at Ninth Tian Zun, a hint of dissatisfaction in his tone.
"What, are you afraid? Yao Chen is in the middle of breaking through to Dou Sheng, but who knows if he's prepared any backup plans. That means the time left to us is running out."
"If we just stand here and watch him complete his breakthrough without doing anything, it'll be hard to explain ourselves when we return." Ninth Tian Zun's expression darkened as he transmitted his voice privately.
Truthfully, he was already starting to regret it. If he'd known things would turn out like this, he never would've accepted the mission to come to Holy Pill City and investigate.
He had originally planned to sneak in, take a quick look around, and then head back to make his report—but of course, he just had to run into this mess. Now, there was no avoiding it.
"So, you're trying to drag me into the water with you?" Eighth Tian Zun frowned.
"I'm giving you an opportunity," Ninth Tian Zun said, glancing sideways at him. "Back then, you were defeated by Yao Chen, weren't you? You've held that grudge all these years. It's been stuck in your heart like a thorn, hasn't it?"
"Now, if we let Yao Chen succeed in breaking through, you'll never have another chance to surpass him."
Hearing that, the hand stroking Eighth Tian Zun's snow-white beard paused slightly. A flicker of emotion rippled within his icy white eyes.
After a moment of silence, he finally nodded slowly. "In that case, let's move. I'll hold off Xuan Kongzi and the other two as best I can. You go for the mansion's barrier and disrupt Yao Chen's breakthrough. But be careful of that Wei Yang."
"Don't worry," Ninth Tian Zun said confidently, a faint grin tugging at his lips. "With the two of us working together, that Wei Yang is nothing to fear. If we decide to retreat, they won't be able to stop us."
Then his gaze turned sharp in an instant.
"Move!"
He clenched his hand tightly, and a vast fluctuation burst out from his palm, spreading across the area.
As that power expanded, the surrounding space once again became damp and heavy. Raindrops began condensing out of thin air, filling the sky in dense sheets that stretched as far as the eye could see.
A torrential downpour blanketed the void, cascading down. Each seemingly ordinary droplet actually contained an incredibly concentrated water-element energy. Though the energy felt cool and gentle at first glance, it carried a terrifyingly strong corrosive power.
Just one of these strange raindrops, if fired at high speed, could easily pierce through the Dou Qi defenses of a Dou Huang expert.
A single drop possessed that much destructive force.
Now, with countless such drops filling the entire sky, their combined power would be unimaginably terrifying. This strange phenomenon made the expressions of the Pill Tower's experts grow increasingly grim.
"You dare!" Xuan Kongzi bellowed, his sleeve flicking as his body shot up into the air.
Within a hundred-zhang radius around him, every strange raindrop that appeared shattered instantly into nothingness. Behind him, Xuan Yi and Tian Leizi followed closely.
At this point, there was no need for more words.
"Heh, your opponents… are us." Eighth Tian Zun took a deep breath, raising his palm as an overwhelming surge of frigid white energy erupted outward, sweeping toward Xuan Kongzi and the other two in a storm of ice.
"Eighth Tian Zuns, Holy Pill City—this is not a place where your Hall of Souls can act with impunity!" Xuan Kongzi shouted, both palms pushing forward slowly.
Boom!
Heaven and earth shook violently, and black cracks spread across the void in an instant.
The Three Leaders of the Pill Tower—Xuan Kongzi, Xuan Yi, and Tian Leizi—joined forces to face the Eighth Tian Zun of the Hall of Souls. The sheer scale of the battle was earth-shattering, sending chills down the spines of all who watched. The spectators quickly retreated far, far away.
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