But there was no time to dwell on the question. The palm projections were already upon him, and he knew that he could not allow them to hit him right now. Naturally, he had plenty of ways to stop them, yet the moment he mobilized his mana to use some abilities of his own, a strange disturbance spread through his meridians.

Hm? My mana… This brat is disrupting it with some kind of Domain!

Realizing he could not allow the interference to continue, he spat out a round pearl. It rose into the air and burst with light, sealing off the surrounding space.

Before the barrier could fully stabilize, a sharp sword cry pierced the air. The next instant, seven swords sang in unison and seamlessly formed a sword formation. The streams of fiend qi merged into a raging storm of sword light that slammed into the pearl and blasted it skyward.

Liu Jun's face darkened. "Despicable!"

Then, he detonated the pearl. An overwhelming wave of freezing power flared outward. Wherever the light reached, boiling magma solidified into frozen rock, and the blistering heat that had scorched the cave for centuries...