Hou Niao had finally survived this ordeal.
It was somewhat by luck and somewhat by force; for him, confronting a Tongtian Third Realm cultivator posed no pressure, but facing a Golden Core cultivator was more likely to be disastrous than not.
This Wu Sect cultivator, whose name he still did not know, lost in two ways: the first was carelessness, and the second was a thunderous coincidence.
His own consumption was also considerable, attacking with continuous Body Sword Conversion assaults, which meant pushing his mana to its absolute limit from beginning to end; he had no choice, as he couldn't afford to leave even the slightest gap against a Golden Core whose realm far surpassed his own.
