Chapter 468 The Void Python Unleashes Its Power to Reverse the Battle, Jiang Yun's Beastmaster is Trapped in a Dire Situation!

Inside the challenge space.

The silver-gray Void Realm was boundless, with countless distorted spatial light rays flowing slowly in all directions.

Jiang Yun stood in the Void Realm, silver ripples undulating beneath his feet, his gaze sweeping over the Void Guardian's entry panel one last time.

"Void Stealth: 60% evasion against non-locked attacks while moving. Void Anchoring: Single-target imprisonment that ignores conventional defense. Dimensional Mirror: Two Clones indistinguishable from the real one. Void Collapse: Area-of-effect gravitational field plus finishing explosion. Dimensional Exile: Directly locks you in a small dark room for five breaths."

He mentally rearranged the most disgusting skills of the opponent, and the tactical framework had already taken shape.

"Listen up."

Jiang Yun's voice entered the consciousness of his three beasts simultaneously through the Soul link.

"The strategy for this battle is completely different from the last one. The Azure Ancient Dragon was a frontal brawler; we could use crowd control and focused fire in a chain combo to suppress it from start to finish. But this guy is space-type; it has damage-reduction passives, Clones, and exile. Our combo chain is easily interrupted by it."

"Nether Abyss."

He first cast his gaze toward Nether Abyss.

"You are the core of this battle. Your Origin Law attacks have a natural suppression effect on its passive evasion, cutting the probability directly in half. Your task is not to deal damage, but to break defenses and mark it. I will have you attach a wisp of your Origin Law mark onto its main body so that even if it activates Dimensional Mirror, we can distinguish which one is real."

Nether Abyss's dark purple Law eyes narrowed slightly, its slender and refined body crouching lower in the shadows, and a calm, almost indifferent consciousness was transmitted back.

"Understood. Shadow Shuttle allows me to stay in its visual blind spot at all times, and the Death Qi Domain will continuously weaken the spatial structure around it. As soon as it reveals a flaw, I can land the Law mark."

"Little Skylark."

Jiang Yun's gaze turned to the Divine Peng intertwined with wind and thunder on the branch.

"Your Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain has a natural interference effect on the spatial structure. Thunder is the only conventional element that can briefly disrupt spatial Laws. The Void Guardian relies most on spatial stability; your Ten Thousand Thunders Resonating will cause its space-type skills to have tiny deviations. Additionally, you are the fastest. If it exiles one of us, you are responsible for stalling for time."

Little Skylark lifted its slender neck, the three purple feathers on top of its head clanging in the wind, and the miniature lightning storm patterns rotating in its pupils suddenly brightened for a moment.

"Exile? I would like to see whether its spatial Laws are faster, or my Ancient Wind-Thunder Wing Slash is faster. After the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain is expanded to the limit, the ten thousand thunders will cause continuous impact on the spatial structure, and its spatial skills will inevitably be affected within the Domain range."

"Little Fire."

Jiang Yun finally looked at the dark golden True Dragon.

"You are the main force on the frontal battlefield. The Void Guardian's frontal defense is not as good as the Azure Ancient Dragon's; it does not have absolute defense at the level of Reverse Scale Protection. As long as your Dragon Flame Burst Kill and Water-Fire Dragon Breath can hit it head-on, the damage will be higher than when fighting the Azure Ancient Dragon. But your weakness is the lack of Law power. Once you are locked by Void Anchoring, you cannot break free yourself. Therefore, you must always stay on the same straight line as Nether Abyss. That way, once you are controlled, Nether Abyss can use Shadow Shuttle to come and help you break the anchor immediately."

Little Fire raised its dragon head, letting out a low, warlike dragon roar from its throat.

"Master, don't worry! That space worm doesn't have a hard shell like a True Dragon; my Dragon Flame can burn through it! If it dares to control me, I will use Nine Flames Burning Heaven to burn it, along with its space and body, together!"

"No."

Jiang Yun's voice suddenly became a bit more serious.

"Nine Flames Burning Heaven is an area-of-effect destruction skill, but its Void Stealth has a 60% probability of directly penetrating non-locked attacks while moving. No matter how fierce your Nine Flames Burning Heaven is, it's equal to zero if it doesn't hit. You cannot act recklessly in this battle; you must wait until Nether Abyss has marked it with the Law mark before focusing fire. Understand?"

Little Fire was stunned for a moment, its dragon tail flicking in the air. Although somewhat reluctant, it obediently nodded its dragon head.

"Got it… I'll wait for Nether Abyss to mark it before attacking."

"Very good."

Jiang Yun took a deep breath.

His five fingers suddenly clenched in the Void Realm.

"Then get ready!"

"Engage!!"

The words had not yet faded when three figures moved simultaneously.

Little Fire was the first to charge, its fifteen-meter-long dark golden dragon body tracing a brilliant golden flame trajectory in the silver-gray Void Realm.

The Water-Fire Dragon Domain expanded to the limit behind it with a boom. A sea of golden flames and a deep blue water region expanded crazily in all directions with it at the center. The Taiji light wheel suddenly lit up at the intersection of water and fire, shrouding half of the Void Realm battlefield under the suppression of the dual-attribute Domain.

It did not rush in face-to-face like it did against the Azure Ancient Dragon, but instead steadily occupied the central axis of the frontal battlefield. Its dragon mouth was wide open, and the golden-blue interwoven Water-Fire Dragon Breath in its throat was already ready to go.

Little Skylark soared into the sky at the exact same moment it started.

The Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain expanded violently behind it. Ten thousand thunderbolts, intertwined with azure and pale purple, roared in unison within the Domain. Gale winds were like blades, and lightning was like rain, dyeing the other half of the Void Realm battlefield into a kingdom of thunder.

Its massive wingspan flipped and shuttled through the lightning storm, its speed so fast that it left a string of intermittent afterimages in the distortion of the spatial light rays.

It did not charge directly at the Void Guardian, but instead circled to the high flank of the battlefield at an extremely fast speed, overlooking the entire battlefield from above. Cyan-purple wind-thunder blade light was already beginning to condense on its wings.

And Nether Abyss.

It had already disappeared from its original spot at the same moment Jiang Yun gave the order.

Not a sprint, not flight, but silently merging into the shadows in the Void Realm.

Even though this silver-gray Void Realm seemed clear, as long as there was light, there would inevitably be shadows.

Those distorted spatial light rays crisscrossed and flowed in the Void Realm. Behind every spatial rift and at the edge of every spatial fragment, there were shadow areas of varying depths.

For Nether Abyss, every shadow was its stepping stone.

Its aura completely disappeared the moment it merged into the shadows, leaving not even a trace of energy fluctuation.

A blinding silver-gray light suddenly ignited within the circular hole formed by dense spatial rifts on the Void Guardian's face.

Its giant python body whipped suddenly in the Void Realm, the thirty-zhang-long body lashing out like a long whip, and the surrounding space appeared with large-scale distortions following its movement.

It sensed the threat.

The three beasts approached simultaneously from three directions, each with an extremely sharp aura.

It was the first to strike.

In the center of that featureless face, the circular hole formed by the gathering of spatial rifts suddenly accelerated its rotation, and a spatial rift several zhang wide tore open in front of it.

Spatial Rift.

A violent, silver-gray spatial turbulence gushed out from inside the rift, pouring down in a straight line like a breached flood. Wherever it passed, even the Void Realm itself was torn with fine cracks.

The landing point of that spatial turbulence was precisely aimed at Little Fire.

But Little Fire was well prepared.

"Just this?!"

A trace of disdain flashed in the little dragon's eyes. Its dragon body twisted suddenly in the air, and the deep blue water region within the Water-Fire Dragon Domain instantly condensed into a high-speed rotating water curtain in front of it.

The spatial turbulence slammed into the water curtain. Although it caused the water curtain to tremble violently, water is soft and can cushion the tearing force of space. The turbulence was decelerated, dispersed, and dissolved layer by layer within the water curtain, eventually dissipating after leaving only a few shallow cracks on the surface.

And just at the moment the Void Guardian released the Spatial Rift, behind it, a pair of dark purple pupils lit up silently.

Nether Abyss had emerged from the shadows at the edge of a spatial fragment, its slender and refined pitch-black leopard body like a phantom merged into the shadows.

Its right claw was raised high, and the dark purple light winding around the claw tips was so dense it was almost tangible. The darkness of the Origin Law condensed at its claw tips, causing the surrounding spatial light to appear visibly distorted.

Nether Claw.

Accompanied by Origin Law penetration effect.

Accompanied by Death Qi erosion.

The wound cannot heal itself.

The Void Guardian seemed to sense the fatal threat behind it, and its giant python body whipped suddenly, wanting to escape into space.

But just at the moment it was about to merge into space, high above in the sky, dozens of precise purple lightning bolts struck down from Little Skylark's Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain, with each lightning bolt's landing point locked precisely around the Void Guardian's body.

Although lightning cannot directly injure the space-attribute Guardian, the magnetic field and shockwaves of the lightning could disrupt the stability of the spatial structure in a very short time.

The space around the Void Guardian appeared with extremely short-lived disorder under the impact of the ten thousand thunders.

That disorder lasted less than half a breath, but that half-breath was enough to forcibly interrupt the Void Guardian's spatial escape for an instant.

Half a breath was enough for Nether Abyss.

The dark purple sharp claws, carrying the full power of the dark attribute Origin Law, drew a straight arc in the air and fiercely cut into the joint of the spatial rifts at the Void Guardian's seven-inch position.

That claw had no earth-shattering explosion, no blinding light, only a slight, glass-shattering "chi-la" sound.

The Void Guardian's body was woven from spatial rifts; it had no flesh, no scales, but there were still connection nodes between those spatial rifts.

Nether Abyss's claw precisely cut into a node, and the dark purple Origin Law power permeated in all directions like venom.

A dark purple Law mark was embedded deep into the core of the Void Guardian's body.

"Marking complete."

Nether Abyss's voice rang out calmly in the Soul link, and its figure merged into the shadows again at the same moment. The spatial fragment storm whipped over by the enraged Void Guardian only hit the spot where it had just stood, blowing a temporary collapse into that piece of the Void Realm.

"Well done! Little Fire! Do it!"

Jiang Yun clenched his fist tightly.

Little Fire had already been ready.

At the exact moment Nether Abyss finished marking, the golden-blue energy ball compressed to the limit in its throat erupted.

Dragon Flame Burst Kill.

The purple-golden destructive energy ball, compressing the wheel-sized water-fire dual-attribute spiritual power of Little Fire, had golden flames and blue water crazily rotating, squeezing each other, and continuously collapsing inside the energy ball.

The Void Guardian wanted to dodge.

Its Void Stealth passive had a 60% probability of penetrating non-locked attacks while moving, but its body core had just been struck by the Origin Law mark by Nether Abyss, and that mark was continuously emitting dark attribute Law fluctuations, keeping the Void Guardian's spatial structure in a state of being interfered with by Laws.

Even worse, Little Skylark's Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain was still continuously releasing ten thousand thunders. Although the thunder's impact on space was not fatal, it was enough to cause tiny delays and deviations in the Void Guardian's spatial movement.

The 60% evasion probability was directly halved under the dual interference of the Law mark and the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain.

Dragon Flame Burst Kill hit the Void Guardian's body solidly.

"Boom!!!"

"Boom!!!"

The purple-golden destructive energy wave exploded in the silver-gray Void Realm. The shockwave of intertwined golden flames and water vapor blasted the Void Guardian's thirty-zhang-long giant python body flying backward.

The spatial rifts on the surface of its body were torn open with several large gaps in the violent explosion, revealing the deeper, pitch-black void inside the rifts.

The Void Guardian had no sense of pain, but it had its own emotions.

That was the Guardian's anger.

The light in the circular hole formed by the gathering of spatial rifts surged violently. Its body twisted suddenly in the process of flying backward, the spatial fragment storm around its body accelerated its rotation, and three phantom images with the exact same aura as the main body appeared around it simultaneously.

Dimensional Mirror.

Four almost identical giant python phantoms floated in the Void Realm, each emitting the same spatial Law fluctuations, and each surrounded by the same dense spatial fragment storm.

Four figures crisscrossed and shifted positions in the Void Realm; it was impossible for the naked eye to distinguish which was real and which was fake.

"It's coming."

Jiang Yun's pupils contracted slightly.

But just at this moment, a faint light flashed within Nether Abyss's Law eyes.

In its vision, a faint, deep purple light flickered at the core of one of the phantom images.

That was the Origin Law mark it had implanted earlier using the Nether Claw.

Although that mark could only last for a short time, before it dissipated, the true body of the Void Guardian was as clear as a firefly in the darkness to Nether Abyss.

"The second one from the left, the one retreating backwards at high speed. The other three are just Clones."

Nether Abyss accurately transmitted this information to Little Skylark and Little Fire.

Little Skylark's reaction was extremely fast. Upon receiving the message, it immediately flapped its wings and dived. Its thirty-meter wingspan carved a cyan-purple lightning arc in the air, and the Ancient Wind-Thunder Wing Slash, which had been gathering power at its wingtips, tore through the Void Realm.

That dual-wing slash, containing the Bloodline Power of the Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng and a trace of spatial tearing force, precisely bypassed the two Clones and struck the Void Guardian's true body solidly.

The Void Guardian clearly did not anticipate that the opponent would be able to distinguish between the real and the fake so quickly.

In its haste, it condensed a spatial barrier before itself, but that barrier lasted less than half a breath against the Ancient Wind-Thunder Wing Slash before being shattered.

The Wind-Thunder blade light cut into its body, tearing open a gash several feet long between the spatial rifts.

Taking advantage of the momentary stiffness caused by Little Skylark's strike, Little Fire had already closed in to medium range.

The sea of golden flames from the Water-Fire Dragon Domain surged up, and countless golden flame chains shot out from the sea of fire.

Fire Domain Cage.

The golden flame chains coiled around the Void Guardian from all directions. Although the space-type Guardian had a natural advantage in breaking free from physical restraints, Little Fire's Fire Domain Cage was imbued with the spiritual power erosion of both water and fire attributes. The golden flames burning on the chains continuously scorched the joints of the spatial rifts, severely limiting the Void Guardian's ability to break free.

At the same instant, Nether Abyss emerged once again from the shadows behind the Void Guardian.

The Death Qi Domain unfolded with a roar, and the thick, deep purple Death Qi surged towards the Void Guardian like a tide, continuously eroding the spatial structure on the surface of its body.

Dozens of phantom images of undead remnants emerged from the Death Qi, clinging to the Void Guardian's body like maggots on bone. Their Death Qi attached layer by layer to the surface of the spatial rifts, causing the stability of those rifts to continuously decline.

The coordination of the three tamed beasts was as smooth as flowing water. Although the Void Guardian's skills were bizarre, it was firmly suppressed under the marking of the Origin Law mark.

Outside the mystic light mirror.

Seeing this scene, the hearts of the Liu family Disciples on the plaza, which had been hanging in suspense, finally settled.

"Suppressing them! Grand Tutor Dongxuan's three tamed beasts are suppressing them again! That dark attribute beast landed the mark right at the start; that was so crucial! Otherwise, that Clone skill would be impossible to deal with. Four identical pythons—who could tell which was real and which was fake?"

"But to be honest, this Void Guardian feels quite a bit weaker than the Azure Ancient Dragon. The Azure Ancient Dragon was able to maintain an equilibrium with the three tamed beasts at the start, but this Void Guardian has been suppressed from the very beginning, and it hasn't even organized a complete counterattack yet. Diamond Rank Seven is indeed a far cry from Diamond Rank Nine."

"You can't say that. Didn't you see that Grand Tutor Dongxuan changed tactics this time? When fighting the Azure Ancient Dragon earlier, it was a head-on confrontation, but this time against the Void Guardian, it's clearly more cautious. That dark attribute beast applied the mark immediately; without that mark, the Void Guardian's Clones and passive evasion would be infuriating. Grand Tutor Dongxuan clearly did his homework before coming in."

"Indeed, that makes sense. However, the void seed is about to be obtained. Of the three clan-protecting treasures on the seventh floor, Grand Tutor Dongxuan has taken two by himself. I'm afraid our Clan Head's expression is probably darker than the bottom of a pot right now."

On the high platform where the Grand Elders were, the atmosphere had completely hit rock bottom.

"The Void Guardian is being suppressed..."

A conservative Grand Elder clutched his chest, his voice carrying a sense of exhausted powerlessness.

"Suppressed from the very beginning, and not a single decent counterattack until now. The coordination of those three tamed beasts is too skillful; marking, crowd control, and focusing fire—all done in one go. The Void Guardian's skill advantages simply cannot be utilized."

"Sigh... it's over, it's over. The void seed won't be kept either."

Another Grand Elder shook his head and sighed, the wrinkles on his face bunching up due to the heartache.

"The ancestral dragon essence blood is already gone, and now the void seed is about to be gone too. In the blink of an eye, only one of the three clan-protecting treasures on the seventh floor remains: the nether phoenix divine feather. This is the first time I've seen someone take two clan-protecting treasures in one day; no, it's simply unprecedented..."

"If only we had known, we shouldn't have agreed to five items... no, we shouldn't have let him enter the treasury in the first place!"

A conservative Elder muttered, but as soon as the words left his mouth, he was glared at coldly by Supreme Elder Liu Yunshan beside him, and he sheepishly shut his mouth.

Liu Qingyun stood at the very front of everyone, his expression completely numb.

Before, he would have felt heartache, his mouth would have twitched, and he would have clenched his fists inside his sleeves.

But now, seeing the Void Guardian being suppressed by the three tamed beasts from start to finish, he became calm instead.

That calmness was not relief, but a numbness that came after enduring too many blows, where his spirit had completely entered a state of self-protection.

"As expected."

He only said those three words, his tone as flat as if he were saying the weather was nice today.

Elder Liu Lan stood beside him, tilted her head to look at him, her mouth twitched slightly, and she very wisely kept her mouth shut.

However.

Just when everyone thought this challenge would be like the previous battle for the ancestral dragon essence blood, with the three tamed beasts suppressing the opponent from start to finish and ultimately finishing it off with one final blow, a sharp exclamation suddenly exploded from the plaza.

"Wait!! Something's wrong!! Look quickly!!"

Everyone's gaze instantly focused on the mystic light mirror.

Inside the challenge space, the giant python body of the Void Guardian, which had been tightly locked by the Fire Domain Cage, suddenly began to twist violently.

It wasn't struggling.

Struggling would mean exerting force in the opposite direction, attempting to break free from the chains. But the Void Guardian was twisting itself; its body, woven from spatial rifts, completely disintegrated in an instant, turning into countless fine spatial rifts that exploded in all directions.

Those spatial rifts gathered and reorganized in another patch of the Void Realm hundreds of feet away in less than half a breath after exploding, re-weaving into the intact body of the Void Guardian.

Dimensional Clone!

Body Switch?!

It wasn't struggling; at the very moment it was locked by the golden flame chains, it directly abandoned the trapped body and switched its true body to one of the Clones hidden in the distance.

That Clone bore the full effect of the restraint when locked by the Fire Domain Cage, while its true body had already escaped the center of the battlefield at the very instant the switch was completed.

The golden flame chains collapsed with a roar, but they only locked onto a Clone that was dissipating.

"What?!"

Jiang Yun's pupils contracted sharply.

And at the very moment the Void Guardian broke free from control, its true counterattack began.

Its body completed charging at the same instant it reassembled.

The storm of spatial fragments around it suddenly accelerated its rotation, and hundreds of spatial fragments gathered before it into a dazzling silver-gray light.

It opened that circular hole formed by the gathering of spatial rifts, and a visible wave of spatial Law erupted from within its body.

Void Anchoring.

The target is?!

Nether Abyss!!

Nether Abyss was in the gap between emerging from the shadows and preparing to land a second Nether Claw.

It had just exited the Shadow Shuttle state, and its aura had not yet fully converged. The Void Guardian precisely seized this fleeting opportunity.

The instant before Nether Abyss's claws were about to touch its body again, a silver-gray spatial anchor chain appeared silently around Nether Abyss.

That anchor chain was not a physical chain, but a semi-transparent silver halo condensed purely from the power of spatial Law. The halo tightened instantly around Nether Abyss, firmly imprisoning it in place.

Ignoring Shadow Shuttle, ignoring Shadow Evasion, ignoring any conventional physical and spiritual power defenses.

Because the principle of Void Anchoring was not to lock the target on a physical level, but to directly solidify the space around the target into a cage.

Nether Abyss's deep purple Law eyes widened sharply. It erupted with intense dark attribute Origin Law power, attempting to tear the anchor chain apart, but the Rank of Void Anchoring was on par with its current embryonic Law. Even if the Law power could affect it, it would take several breaths of time to fully break free.

Several breaths of time.

In battle, several breaths meant everything.

"Nether Abyss!"

Jiang Yun's heart tightened.

However, the Void Guardian's combo was far from over.

Its body whipped violently in the air, and silver-gray spatial Law power gathered again.

This time, it was directly above Little Fire's head.

Void Collapse.

A silver-gray light point the size of a fist suddenly lit up in the Void Realm. The moment it lit up, it began to crazily devour everything around it.

Space, light, air, and spiritual power were all pulled toward the center by the irresistible gravitational force of that collapse point.

The space within a hundred-foot radius contracted rapidly toward the collapse point, forming an ever-growing void vortex.

Little Fire was right in the center of the collapse range.

It felt a terrifying gravitational force coming from above. That force was not pulling its body, but pulling the entire space it occupied.

The Void Realm beneath its feet was tilting violently toward the direction above its head, and its massive dragon body was being dragged inch by inch toward the center of the vortex by that gravitational force.

"Roar!!!"

Little Fire let out an angry dragon roar. The Water-Fire Dragon Domain instantly expanded to its limit above its head, and the sea of golden flames and the deep blue water Domain surged madly toward the collapse point above, attempting to use the dual-attribute Domain power to resist the gravitational force of the Void Collapse.

But Void Collapse was not a physical attack; it collapsed space itself. Although Little Fire's Water-Fire Dragon Domain could counteract a portion of the gravitational force, it could not stop the inward contraction of the entire space.

And at the same instant, the Void Guardian's third skill followed closely.

Silver-gray spatial turbulence erupted once again from its circular hole.

Spatial Rift, this time aimed at Nether Abyss, who was locked in place by Void Anchoring.

Its goal was to land another hit with the Spatial Rift before Nether Abyss could break free from the anchor chain, rendering this most troublesome armor-breaker completely harmless.

Three-hit combo.

Void Anchoring locks down the armor-breaker.

Void Collapse traps the main damage dealer.

Spatial Rift finishes off the control unit.

All done in one go, without any pause.

This was the true strength of the Void Guardian.

It was being suppressed before, not because it was weak, but because it hadn't used its full power yet.

As a Void attribute Guardian, its skill combinations were highly dependent on timing and the order of the combo. Once it found the right window for a combo, its suppression power would explode in an instant.

Outside the mystic light mirror.

The atmosphere on the plaza froze completely in that instant.

"That dark attribute Divine Beast is locked!! Locked by a skill!! It can't move!!"

A young Liu family Disciple shrieked, pointing at the image in the mystic light mirror, his finger trembling violently.

"And that True Dragon!! It's been sucked in by the Void!! That black hole is dragging it inside!! Look at the range of that vortex; it wants to suck Little Fire into the center of the black hole!! The Spatial Rift is also aimed at that dark attribute beast!! Releasing three skills at once; this Void Guardian was completely faking it earlier!! It wasn't using its full power at all!"

"This skill set is so disgusting!!"

Another Disciple covered his face with both hands, revealing only two wide-open eyes through his fingers.

"Directly locked by a skill!! And that black hole is a large-area gravitational field; once sucked in, you have to take continuous damage plus the final finishing explosion. Plus the Spatial Rift for long-range follow-up... releasing these three skills together, who can withstand that?!"

"Who said the Void Guardian was weaker than the Azure Ancient Dragon just now?! Come out and take a beating!! The Azure Ancient Dragon fights you head-on; if you can't beat it, you can at least run! This Void Guardian locks you in place and takes you out with a full combo; you can't even run!! Opponents with space attributes are too underhanded!!"

In the area where the deacons and Elders were located, those seasoned veterans with rich combat experience discerned even deeper issues.

The white-haired Deacon Elder gripped his cane tightly, his voice carrying a hint of irrepressible shock.

"It is not that the Void Guardian was weak before, but that Grand Tutor Dongxuan's tactics were too exquisite; he landed the Law mark right from the start. If not for that Law mark, the Void Guardian wouldn't have been so passive. The reason it was being beaten passively before was because its true body was marked, and its Clone and evasion were both suppressed."

"But now it has recovered," another managing Elder added with a solemn expression.

"It used the dimensional Clone's body switch, abandoning the locked Clone directly, and immediately launched a counterattack after its true body broke free. Look at its skill release sequence: first anchoring the armor-breaker, then collapsing to trap the main damage dealer, and finally using the rift to finish off the anchored target. This sequence is strategic, not random. This shows that the Void Guardian's combat instinct is extremely strong; its tactical literacy is no worse than its skill set."

"Doesn't that mean Grand Tutor Dongxuan is in danger?" a younger managing Elder asked nervously from the side.

"The most critical armor-breaker among the three beast pets has been locked, and the main damage dealer has been sucked in. Although the remaining Divine Peng is fast, can it hold its own against a Diamond Rank Seven Void Guardian alone?"

"It depends on how Grand Tutor Dongxuan adjusts." The white-haired Deacon Elder's gaze was locked firmly on the mystic light mirror, a flash of complex emotion crossing his cloudy old eyes.

"This battle is harder to fight than the previous one against the Azure Ancient Dragon. Although the Azure Ancient Dragon is strong, its skills are overt; you can see every step of its movements. The Void Guardian's skills are covert; you never know from which angle or in what way it will strike next. This type of opponent is more headache-inducing than a simply powerful enemy."

"If I were to face it..." another managing Elder gave a bitter smile. "I'm afraid I would be locked by the Void Anchor in a single exchange, then have Void Collapse placed on my head, and both I and my beast pets would be sucked in, with certain death within five breaths. There wouldn't even be a chance to fight back. That Grand Tutor Dongxuan's three beast pets have been able to entangle with it until now, and even suppressed it for a time, is already the most Heaven-Defying of the Heaven-Defying."

On the high platform where the Grand Elders were located, those who were shaking their heads and sighing, declaring that it was all over, now had expressions that had undergone a subtle change.

"Something happened..." Supreme Elder Liu Yunshan raised an eyebrow, his tone carrying a hint of surprise and underlying schadenfreude. "The Void Guardian has started to exert its power. Once its skill set connects, the suppression will increase exponentially. Grand Tutor Dongxuan's dark beast has been locked by the anchor, and the main damage dealer, the True Dragon, has been sucked in by the Void Collapse; this wave is very difficult to handle."

"Good!!" Liu Lie even stepped forward from the crowd, a flash of long-lost excitement in his eyes. "The Void Guardian's skill set should be used like this! With the dual suppression of Void Anchor and Void Collapse, as long as this combo lands fully, Grand Tutor Dongxuan will at least have one beast pet severely injured! It seems this void seed still has a chance to be saved!"

The other conservative Grand Elders also revealed expressions of relief; although they dared not say it was impossible anymore, the anticipation in their eyes could not be hidden no matter how they tried.

Liu Qingyun stood at the very front, remaining expressionless. However, the corner of his eye twitched slightly at an angle no one noticed.

Inside the challenge space, Jiang Yun's brows also knit together. The Void Guardian's sudden three-hit combo completely exceeded his expectations.

Nether Abyss was locked in place by the Void Anchor, with several silver spatial anchor chains firmly imprisoning it within a three-foot radius.

Nether Abyss's body erupted with intense dark attribute Origin Law power, frantically impacting the anchor chains, and the dark purple light in its Law Pupils had become blindingly bright.

However, the Void Anchor was a direct application of the space Law; it required time to fully disintegrate it with Law power.

Little Fire's situation was equally critical. The silver-gray vortex formed by the Void Collapse was expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye, its swallowing range having extended from the initial hundred zhang to one hundred and fifty zhang.

Although Little Fire's Water-Fire Dragon Domain was resisting desperately, its massive dragon body was still being dragged inch by inch toward the center of the vortex.

Dragon Flame Burst Kill required charging, and while being continuously pulled by the space collapse, it had no way to stably condense spiritual power. The situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

"Master, do you need me..." Little Skylark's consciousness echoed in the Soul link, carrying a hint of anxiety.

It was circling high above the battlefield, the ten thousand thunderbolts of the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain still roaring continuously.

"Don't worry about me, keep an eye on the Void Guardian's main body; don't let it cast any more skills!" Jiang Yun rapidly issued instructions in the Soul link, his brain spinning frantically.

Although the Void Guardian's burst was fierce, it was not without weaknesses. Both Void Anchor and Void Collapse were high-consumption skills; by releasing two legendary-level skills simultaneously, the Void Guardian's spiritual power reserves must have a brief vacuum period.

Moreover, in order to succeed in its counterattack, it had already abandoned the Clone previously trapped by the golden flame chains.

Now, its dimensional Clone must still be on cooldown, and it could not create new Clones in the short term. Therefore, there was only one key: Nether Abyss had to break free from the Void Anchor in the shortest possible time.

As long as Nether Abyss broke free and re-applied the Law mark to the Void Guardian, its Void Stealth passive would be suppressed again. Without the support of passive evasion, the Void Guardian would not last long against the focused fire of the three beast pets.

"Little Fire! Hold on for five more breaths! Compress the Water-Fire Dragon Domain onto the surface of your dragon body and use Dragon Flame Body Protection to resist the spatial gravitational force!"

"Little Skylark! Fully expand the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain, increase the lightning density to the extreme, and focus on bombarding the spatial structure around the Void Guardian's main body! Disrupt its subsequent skill casting!"

"Nether Abyss!! Break free with all your might!!" Jiang Yun issued three orders simultaneously.

Little Fire let out a low dragon roar, and the Water-Fire Dragon Domain, which had been expanding outward, suddenly contracted, compressing entirely onto the surface of its fifteen-meter-long dragon body.

Golden flames and blue water intertwined on its dragon scales to form a layer of flowing Taiji light armor, and the gravitational force of the space collapse was weakened by nearly thirty percent under the cushioning of the Taiji light armor.

Its dragon claws were deeply embedded into the Void Realm, and although it was still being slowly dragged toward the center of the vortex, the speed of the drag had clearly slowed down.

At the same instant, Little Skylark let out a sharp cry.

The range of the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain suddenly contracted, shrinking from covering half the battlefield to only covering the three-hundred-zhang area around the Void Guardian.

The reduction in range meant a sharp increase in lightning density; ten thousand thunderbolts exploded simultaneously within the three-hundred-zhang area, with every inch of space enduring the impact of the lightning.

The spatial structure around the Void Guardian appeared visibly distorted and chaotic under the continuous bombardment of the ten thousand thunderbolts, and the next skill it was brewing was forced to be interrupted.

As for Nether Abyss, it had already driven its dark attribute Origin Law power to the extreme.

In its deep purple Law Pupils, the light had become as bright as two miniature Nether Suns.

The Death Qi around its body surged like boiling magma, and the Origin Law power condensed into one after another deep purple Law patterns on its body surface.

Those patterns spread outward from its pupils, extending along its slender, lean body all the way to its limbs and tail, shrouding its entire body in a layer of rich Law light.

Under the continuous impact of the Law power, the Void Anchor chains began to tremble violently.

Tiny cracks appeared on the surface of the anchor chains, and deep purple light shone through those cracks.

That was the dark attribute Origin Law disintegrating the shackles of the space Law from the inside. But it needed time.

Just at this moment, the Void Guardian seemed to sense that Nether Abyss was about to break free.

It abandoned its continuous suppression of Little Fire, its giant python body lashed out violently in the Void Realm, and that circular hole formed by space rifts turned toward Nether Abyss, which was anchored in place.

It wanted to strike this most dangerous armor-breaker directly with the Void Rift before Nether Abyss could break free.

Nether Abyss's pupils contracted sharply. The Void Anchor locked its movement, Shadow Shuttle could not be used, and it was now a living target that could not move.

"Little Skylark!!" Jiang Yun's voice exploded in the Soul link.

Little Skylark had already reacted the moment before Jiang Yun issued the order.

Its thirty-meter wingspan folded suddenly in the Void Realm, and its cyan-purple figure swooped down like a bolt of lightning, moving so fast that it left a straight track of light even within the spatial distortion.

It did not attack the Void Guardian. Because the Void Guardian was currently surrounded by a storm of space fragments, a frontal attack would most likely be avoided by its passive evasion.

It chose another path. Blocking in front of Nether Abyss.

Its thirty-meter wingspan fully unfurled, and the divine feathers interwoven with azure and deep purple looked like a huge, magnificent shield in the silver-gray Void Realm.

The spatial turbulence gushing out from the Void Rift slammed solidly onto Little Skylark's body.

"Screech!!!" Little Skylark let out a painful shriek, and the divine feathers interwoven with azure and deep purple scattered into countless fragments under the tearing of the spatial turbulence.

Its Wind and Thunder Body Protection had been fully activated at the first moment, but the spatial erosion effect accompanying the spatial turbulence ignored conventional defenses.

The Wind and Thunder Body Protection could only weaken the impact but could not block the tearing power of space itself.

Dozens of wounds of varying depths bloomed simultaneously on its body, with divine feather fragments and lightning arcs interweaving and splashing in the air.

But it did not retreat. Its thirty-meter wingspan still stood firmly in front of Nether Abyss, bearing the full damage of that Void Rift.

"Little Skylark!!" Jiang Yun's heart contracted sharply.

At the same time, the dark light in Nether Abyss's Law Pupils surged.

"Break!!" A low roar exploded in the Soul link.

The Void Anchor chains, under the full-force impact of the dark attribute Origin Law, finally collapsed with a boom.

Silver space fragments flew in all directions, and Nether Abyss's slender, lean black leopard body suddenly broke free from the shackles of the anchor chains.

It did not look at the Void Guardian but immediately turned its head to look at Little Skylark, which was blocking in front of it.

In those deep purple Law Pupils, a flash of extremely complex light shone. Inside, there was gratitude. There was anger. There was guilt. And there was a trace of deep and burning Battle Intent that had never appeared in its eyes before.

"Master." Nether Abyss's voice echoed in the Soul link, still its usual calm and concise tone, but every word carried a chill that could not be suppressed.

"Master! Please let me and Little Fire kill it together."

Little Fire also roared, full of killing intent. "Daring to hurt Little Sister Little Skylark! I will smash it to pieces!!!"