The shockwave spread at an incredible speed, slamming into the surrounding mountains in the blink of an eye. Massive rocks tumbled down, dust surged up, and the thunderous rumbling continued without end, carrying far into the distance.
The ground had been blasted into a crater dozens of meters wide. Mere clashes of metal had unleashed such destructive force that Yan, watching from afar, stood dumbfounded, so shocked she forgot to breathe.
Everything had happened too suddenly. Even she had failed to react in time.
W-What was going on? And what was that mysterious Black Shadow?
Yan raised an arm before her eyes to shield herself from the gale-force wind, countless questions flashing through her mind.
Feeling the force transmitted through the sword in his hand, Hua Zhen frowned almost imperceptibly before curling his lips. "A hundred years apart, and I never expected your strength to have increased this much."
Whenever Black Shadow disappeared for a time, it completed another self-upgrade upon reappearing. To be honest, this gave Hua Zhen a terrible headache. He simply could not understand the principles behind its upgrades.
Over more than ten thousand years, he had fought Black Shadow no fewer than a hundred times, so naturally, he had conducted quite a bit of research on it.
Previous theories concerning the void had compared the universe to an enormous program system and all living things to individual sub-programs.
Yet compared to an so-called individual program like himself, Black Shadow seemed more like a program in Hua Zhen's eyes. Cold and emotionless, its sole purpose was completing its mission—erasing him.
It had the appearance of a God River Body, but its entire body was wrapped in Black Qi. Hua Zhen had never seen its true form. He had collected some of the Black Qi before and