Jiang Chen regarded the frantic You Lan with a faint smile. "You think you're worthy of fighting me?"
As he spoke, a glint of that sinister Golden Eye flashed from his gaze. Twin beams of golden light, sharp as arrows, pierced straight into You Lan's pupils.
You Lan spent his days as a master of manipulating the dead — commanding spirits, controlling the souls and spiritual consciousness of others. But when faced with a true expert in spiritual domination, someone like Jiang Chen himself, he was no more helpless than a babe.
The sinister Golden Eye bored clean through, sinking into You Lan's spiritual sea.
His consciousness was instantly obliterated by that tyrannical force. His entire body seized as if struck by possession, his eyes going blank in an instant, his limbs trembling without cease.
It did not take long before You Lan's body had stiffened into the rigidity of a statue.
Xia Tianze watched with quiet admiration at how formidable Jiang Chen's Divine Ability proved to be. He mused that this hardly seemed like an inheritance from the Glazed Glass Palace.
Such terrifying eye techniques — from what school had this Divine Ability originated?
Xia Tianze told himself that even in the primordial era, he had witnessed many masters of ocular arts. But someone who wielded eye techniques with the same effortless mastery as Jiang Chen, making the profound seem trivial — that was exceedingly rare.
Restraining You Lan was merely the appetizer.
Jiang Chen's expression remained placid as a calm sky, his gaze drifting toward the mountain wall where the Stonefiend Old Ancestor lurked.
"You're next."
The Stonefiend Old Ancestor's eyes blazed with an eerie, unnatural light, fixed unblinkingly on Jiang Chen. A rasping, inhuman cackle scraped from his throat. Abruptly, those uncanny eyes of his erupted with an earth-yellow radiance that rippled outward in concentric waves, spreading like rings on water.
The glow carried a strange field of influence. The moment it drew near, it brought a suffocating heaviness to the chest and an almost unbearable nausea.
The Black Tortoise Divine Beast suddenly barked a warning. "Everyone, be careful — there's something wrong with that light. I can feel a terrifying petrifying force. This is an earth-attribute Divine Ability."
The Black Tortoise was something of an authority in this domain. He excelled at manipulating gravitational force, which also fell under the earth attribute. This petrifying ability was clearly earth-attribute as well.
The Black Tortoise's warning snapped everyone to full alert.
Long Xiaoxuan cursed loudly. "Damn you — take this!"
He was not inclined to show any mercy. The Mountain-River Shatter Claw lashed out through the void, seizing directly at the mountain wall.
Crash!
Long Xiaoxuan's Divine Ability was extraordinary. That single grasp reduced half the mountain face to rubble. But the Stonefiend Old Ancestor was embedded within the rock, enjoying the advantage of the terrain.
Though Long Xiaoxuan's assault was fearsome, it could not dislodge the Stonefiend Old Ancestor.
The Old Ancestor was admittedly not at his peak, but killing him here in his stronghold was still far from easy.
Jiang Chen, however, was not one to believe in the impossible.
He had brought this many fighters precisely so they could strike at the Stonefiend Old Ancestor from every angle, leaving nothing to chance. He was determined to annihilate a god-realm Old Ancestor.
The Taisui White Tiger gave its body a violent shake and smashed its ferocious tail into the mountain face with bone-crushing force. Xiao Bai's tail could extend or contract at will, serving as a devastating whip that could lash out with lethal precision.
The Taisui White Tiger's inherited Divine Ability was no mere showpiece.
One dragon, one tiger — both attacked the Stonefiend Old Ancestor with frenzied fury.
The Stonefiend Old Ancestor had the mountain wall to shield him, an advantage afforded by the terrain itself. But this same wall was also his prison. This was the place of his seal.