Before he was struck by the lightning, Xuan found himself shielding a woman against seven individuals.
Of the seven, three were powerful beasts while the other four were human cultivators.
All of them were far more powerful than anyone he had seen in the Cloud Severing Ancestor's memories.
Each of these individuals wielded an unfathomable aura that felt as though it could destroy the world with a single thought, and here he was fighting not one, but seven of them.
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First was the Divine Dragon, a massive creature with scales like polished jade and eyes that held the wisdom of a thousand ages. It coiled in the air; its presence alone was enough to crack the earth.
Beside it soared a dark-feathered, three-eyed crow, a Divine Beast from ancient myths whose very gaze radiated an eerie, scorching heat.
The third beast was a monstrous, half-demon, half-beast creature with the head and powerful horns of a Divine Beast Kui Niu.
