Chapter 164: Proving the Dao Through Self: The Guardian's Awakening

The phantom of the Lord of Terrine dissipated like smoke in the wind, and for a single, breathtaking moment, a fragile hope bloomed on the blood-soaked battlefield. The suffocating pressure that had bent the spines of even the strongest cultivators vanished, and the relentless flood of otherworldly beasts faltered, their hive-mind momentarily thrown into chaos by the disappearance of their master. A cheer, hoarse and desperate, began to rise from the human lines. It was a sound of defiance,...