Beams of light kept appearing and connecting to Wei Yuan, Hsu Wuji kept circling around him at high speed and launching surprise sword strikes from time to time, and the Avatar-stage warrior kept flickering and severing the beams one by one. 

However, there was a slight delay between its disappearance and reappearance. It was enough for Hsu Wuji to spot an opening.

Although the warrior was an Avatar, he stood motionless like a statue. Wei Yuan was only using it to block Hsu Wuji’s advance and buy time for himself to replenish his Dao energy. He absolutely did not have the strength to launch a counterattack.

The assembled bigshots all had keen eyes. After the initial shock, they quickly realized that although the warrior possessed Avatar-stage cultivation, he was completely devoid of any life force. They reckoned that the discarded shell of a deceased Avatar-stage cultivator had somehow ended up in Wei Yuan’s hands and been refined into a mystic treasure-like object using a secret technique.

Although the Palace of Absolute Beginning had the shortest history among the immortal sects, it also boasted the greatest number of Dao paths, many of which were contradictory and straddling the line between orthodox and heretical. Therefore, it was hardly surprising that they would possess such methods.

The warrior in Wei Yuan’s possession was effectively an immobile Avatar-stage cultivator. Its mystic body was tough, and it had undergone refinement. It was not something an ordinary Dao Foundation stage cultivator could destroy.

Hsu Wuji had confirmed this by tentatively swinging his sword at it. He only...