Jared drew a steady breath, then drove the Dragonslayer Sword straight into the floor. At once, black-gold marked aura poured down the blade and roared into the stone beneath his feet.

The ground bulged. and dragon-shaped shockwaves, dozens of them, burst upward. Midair, they braided into a single five-clawed black dragon, savage and ferocious.

“Dragon’s power, subdue!” The dragon reared back and roared. The blast rattled glazed roof tiles loose, sending them clattering like lethal hail. With a whip of its tail, the beast hurled its entire body against the golden greatsword.

Boom! Holy power in radiant gold tangled with black-gold Power of Dragons, twisting into a storm of raw force that everyone could see.

At the eye of the storm, space warped. The shockwave slammed into the Holy Light Sect elders, who couldn’t dodge in time. They spat blood and crashed unconscious against marble pillars.

Outside the threshold, Flaxseed and Corin felt their hearts leap. Each collision, they realized, carried enough might to erase a beginner-phase Earthly Immortal Realm cultivator without effort.

Yet Jared, only at Wandering Immortal Realm Level Nine, had met an Earthly Immortal Realm Level Eight’s full strike head-on.