Ssh! Ssh! Ssh! Ssh! Ssh!
Five incomparably sharp bursts of slaughtering claw force grazed Lin Feng's body, tearing through his golden protective emperor light and leaving five savage black furrows in the void. Alien Dao principles raged within those furrows, lingering long afterward.
Even the residual force of a glancing pass was enough to tear apart the protective divine body of a peak God Emperor—a testament to the slaughtering might of these five Emperor-Slaying Shadows and the sharpness of their Dao resonance!
The claw force shredded the edges of Lin Feng's clothes, and a thin trace of blood seeped from his shoulder. This was the first time an outside enemy had wounded his physical body since he entered the Ancient Ruins Secret Realm.
The faint pain reached his divine soul with perfect clarity. Rather than frightening him, it made his Dao heart clearer and his combat senses sharper.
"Dao for their bodies, slaughter for their souls. They draw on the power of myriad Daos to endure, undying and indestructible, growing stronger the longer they fight. They're several times harder to handle than the remnant spirits in the middle layer."
Lin Feng murmured his assessment, the fighting spirit in his eyes growing ever more intense.
In that brief exchange, he had already grasped the Emperor-Slaying Shadows' defining traits: they had no physical bodies, existed beyond life and death, feared neither wounds nor pain, and knew no fatigue. They drew endless energy from the Myriad Dao Turbulence. As long as the Dao principles in this region continued their chaotic battle, they would never exhaust themselves or perish. Stranger still, they could devour the Emperor Power, Dao resonance, and residual divine ability force their opponents released, turning it into nourishment for their own slaughter Dao patterns. The longer they fought, the fiercer they