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As the energy from heaven and earth converged, a raging wind howled across the rooftop, and behind Jack Clark, a thirty-meter-tall phantom wielding a War Halberd and surrounded by rotating halos of light, loomed faintly.
With the phantom's emergence, the energy from heaven and earth gathered and swirled around, whipping up winds that howled with an awe-inspiring force.
However, unlike the solid-seeming true martial arts phantoms of Vernon Lowe and Hannah Gail, the phantom behind Jack appeared rather ethereal, for it was merely a projection of will.
The reason was a lack of cultivation, missing just one step.
Feeling the Combat Shadow standing firm between heaven and earth in his Sea of Consciousness, and the True Dragon Power within his body that had thickened several times over, reaching the late stages of the Sixth Heavenly Stage, Jack's eyes narrowed slightly.