Paragon of Sin

WOOSH! 

Wu Baozhai's eyes contracted. A sensation of deadly crisis stabbed violently in her mind, unleashing loud alarm bells. When she finally sensed the incoming arrow, she could feel its tremendous power, sufficient to pierce through her head and take it directly off her shoulders! 

1st Grand Transformation!

She unleashed her strongest state! Leveraging her Imperial Heaven Aura with her Domain Seed to exceed the cultivation limitations of the 1st Grand Transformation. With her Imperial Pressure brought out, the arrow's trajectory shifted, and its speed underwent a drastic deceleration! 

It only lasted for a brief moment before it exploded with an even greater speed, recorrecting its course as if it was alive, yet it was enough for her to react! She didn't try to dodge—an extremely foolish action against a spiritual-based projectile. Instead, she smartly brandished her halberd with a thunderous boom of air and sound, swinging it in a vicious arc to intercept!

BOOM!!!

Her Halberd met the arrow head-on as an explosion erupted. 

WOOSH!

A figure was sent flying back at cannon-like speeds. Wu Baozhai released a grunt of pain as she was sent across tens of miles, barely coming to a stop after stabbing her halberd into the stage, scraping its surface to hinder her backward momentum. At the right side of her lips, a line of piercingly red blood leaked down to her chin and onto the ground.

Those normally limpid and intelligent eyes were now effusing with unprecedented seriousness. When she looked at the Greater Timelord entity, she discovered that an arrow was being nocked and then fired. Her eyes shrunk as she hastily erected her Astral Ward! 

Wu Baozhai readied herself to defend again, but when the arrow fired, it vanished as if it didn't exist. 

'Temporal Dissonance!' She immediately recognized the power of time was used, distorting her senses, both spiritual and physical, and causing her to not react properly. This was an advantage of cultivation that was incredibly difficult to overcome! It seems she couldn't hold back in the slightest.

Her aura erupted with tremendous force, releasing a strange phenomenon of multicolored stars above her head stretching for miles! The manifestation released tremendous Imperial Pressure! As her robes fluttered, her halberd in her hand, she seemed like the Monarch of the boundless stars beneath heaven. 

While Wu Baozhai was unleashing her greatest strength, the audience was completely startled by Wu Baozhai's defense. It was extremely difficult to respond to Temporal Dissonance; Moreover, they had a difference of two cultivation stages. This was incredibly shocking! 

"She blocked it!" While these two girls had expertly defended against the crushing Worldly Pressure, it wasn't as shocking as defending against the Greater Timelord entity's arrow! Because that arrow carried a vast amount of its power! In a battle of life and death, fights ended extremely quickly because cultivators used their strongest strength at the very beginning, with probing attacks only used for spars or contests.

Lin Xianxian determined that the Greater Timelord entity had used roughly 30% of their strength in that arrow, yet Wu Baozhai had blocked it! In actuality, this was 100% of its power in the brief time frame they used to gather their power and attack. 

The Greater Timelord entity didn't react with any emotion. It lifted its bow once again, shifting its direction towards Xue Yifei! 

Xue Yifei was already prepared against its Temporal Dissonance, her draconic eyes were enhanced manifestations of her physical visual sense, and it couldn't be easily fooled by time energies. As such, while her spiritual sense didn't notice the entity grabbing an arrow from its quiver, gathering its spiritual force, infusing it into the arrow, and firing it, her eyes completely did!

The difference in perceptions was disorientating, so Xue Yifei unhesitatingly severed her Spiritual Sense as she relied on her eyes. Suddenly, she tapped into her Yin-Yang Demonic Dragon Soul's power.

ROAR!!

ROAR!!

Two distinctly different yet uniquely harmonic draconic roars were unleashed! As they did, the stage beneath Xue Yifei's feet bent, and her eyes grew several times more intense. She held both her hands out, palms downward, and she slammed them violently against the stage.

Bam!

The roars were continuous until they merged, becoming a single roar that shook the hearts and minds of everyone who heard it, their innate blood energies slightly rumbling in their bodies. 

The arrow's speed was swift, yet the flow of draconic force from XuE Yifei was surprisingly faster! A surge of blinding silver light flashed around Xue Yifei, and an explosion erupted.

All those in the Astral Core Realm had to shield their eyes from the light, including Starlords, as the light's intensity was abnormally terrifying. When the light dimmed, revealing the scene, those cultivators hastily observed the situation, and their eyes widened!

Beneath the vast, ever-growing starry manifestation of Wu Baozhai was a silver-colored horned dragon coiled around Xue Yifei! It was tens of miles long and was the exact image of Anu, the azure-scaled Horned-Firmament Dragon! Besides its silver color and smaller size, there was no difference.

Its eyes carried tremendous spirituality within, seemingly as real as any other lifeform. If one looked closely, there were several fractured scales in a particular area of a mile, clearly where the arrow impacted! 

But the silver Horned-Firmament Dragon was healing with remarkable swiftness. With a shadowy flicker, Xue Yifei landed atop her dragon's head, her eyes exuding indescribable dragon might. 

Xue Yifei and Wu Baozhai looked at each. They didn't need to communicate or exchange an explanation of their powers. A strange connection formed; they knew what to do. 

The Greater Timelord entity had launched two powerful arrows back to back, carrying a total of 60% of its power, and it couldn't unleash another a short period. As such, it began to accumulate its aura, energy, and ambient forces for a final strike through its Worldly Domain. 

The two turned their gazes back to the entity and immediately acted!

ROAR!

Xue Yifei's silver Horned-Firmament Dragon unfurled its ginormous body and opened its silver maw. If one looked closely, there were even traces of saliva on its tongue, teeth, and jaw. Through this dragon, Xue Yifei unleashed Spatial Prison! 

This was an ability of those at the Spatial Resonance Phase, yet it was extremely helpful in locking down an opponent. Somehow, the Spatial Prison grew even stronger through the medium of her dragon, infusing perfectly with draconic force and sealing off all pathways of retreat for the Greater Timelord.

With its movement fixed for a brief period, Wu Baozhai didn't hesitate to push her strength to the highest limits!

2nd Grand Transformation! 

Normally, a cultivator couldn't unleash the 2nd Grand Transformation of the Imperial Heaven Qi Method unless they were at Star Core Phase, but Wu Baozhai's bodily foundation was sufficient to temporarily handle the explosive increase from galvanizing her Imperial Heaven Aura!

Her innate energies were boosted to an absurd level, shocking everyone who felt her rising aura! It was almost as if she was becoming a Starlord! With a fierce roar, she launched herself using her movement art with a single step. 

BOOSH!

The entity was boggled down by the Spatial Prison and instantly tried to retaliate by exuding a stronger spatial power but found it almost impossible to break in a short period. It was as if Anu's unique spatial bloodline was empowering it, forcing the entity to face Wu Baozhai's frontal assault! She was like a Monarch of the ages, supported by the boundless starry heavens above! 

"HA!" Wu Baozhai thrust her halberd toward the entity's forehead!