Facing this Darkflame fireball, which was sufficient to threaten the life of a Great Cang Realm Late Stage cultivator, Cao Feiyu finally took the initiative to retreat half a step for the first time. But there was no fear in her eyes; instead, a gleam as sharp as a sword flashed through them.
She no longer swung her sword to block. Instead, she held the Autumn Water Long Sword upright before her, put the fingers of her left hand together like a sword, and gently brushed them past the cold blade.
Heavenly Descent Sword Art · Annihilation Slash!
Time froze for a moment.
Immediately afterward, that dark-red fireball containing terrifying destructive power was like a punctured bubble, silently beginning to annihilate inch by inch from its center.
There was no explosion, no blaze—only streams of pure yet chaotic fire-element vital energy, utterly turned into nothingness by that single point of annihilating intent at the sword tip.
"What?" Yan Jin's pupils abruptly shrank, and a look of horror appeared on his face for the first time. One of his strongest killing moves had actually been broken so lightly and effortlessly?
However, Cao Feiyu's sword did not stop.
After destroying the fireball, that sword intent carrying the Dao rhythm of annihilating all things followed the connection in the unseen, traced back along the path of flames Yan Jin had blasted out, and counterattacked straight toward his true body.
Yan Jin was greatly alarmed. He frantically drove his vital energy, and the glazed flames around his entire body surged, laying down one flaming barrier after another before him as he simultaneously retreated explosively.
But it was useless.
Cao Feiyu's sword had locked onto everything about him. Wherever the sword intent passed, the flame barriers were pierced through and annihilated layer by layer like