With the Bone Blade held across his chest, Meng Chao's imposing aura surged even higher.
The six dragon veins coursing through his spine, limbs, chest, and abdomen erupted with dark-gold dragon-shaped Spirit Flames. They coiled around the Bone Blade in layer after layer, adding an unsteady golden blade aura seven or eight meters long to the weapon's originally somber metallic gleam.
The golden blade aura reflected the golden Strange Fire in Meng Chao's eyes, driving his Battle Intent to its limit.
Facing "Lü Siya," parasitized by the Monster Mastermind and ten times stronger than before, he advanced rather than retreated. Taking advantage of the high ground, he brought his blade down in a head-splitting slash.
There was not the slightest flourish in this strike.
Though it formed the Spirit Magnetic Field of the Celestial Overlord Shattering Star Strike, concentrating all its destructive Spiritual Energy at the tip of the Bone Blade to create a tiny sun too dazzling to look at directly.
The move itself was entirely the first stance of the most basic Hundred Battles Blade Technique: Face-Splitting Wind Chop.
It was a blade technique that had existed since ancient times in the Earth Era.
One simply gripped the blade with both hands, raised it high overhead, and brought it down in a plain, unadorned chop.
Forget elementary and middle school students—even the little tyrants in many Dragon City kindergartens could execute this move skillfully.
Yet when the simplest move was unleashed by a monster like Meng Chao, who had cultivated nearly every basic skill to its pinnacle and pushed more than a dozen basic blade techniques beyond "Ultimate," its power was unparalleled.
Boom! Crack!
The blade tore through the air with a thunderous explosive shriek.
Visible ripples surged outward from both sides of the blade like Stormy Waves.