Above the shattered starry sky, a broken blade fell. Before it struck the ground, it turned into a burst of brilliant starlight and gradually vanished.
Standing on the ceiling of the underground mall as though it were level ground, the savage greatsword glowing red had forcibly cleaved the two-meter-long Commanding Sword in half, leaving Fang Li with only the other half of the broken blade.
"Got you!"
That instant of vulnerability allowed Rearguard Water to raise Ascalon in his hand once more.
Clang!
The red light upon it suddenly shifted to blue. Rearguard Water raised its razor-thin, razor-sharp section head-on and mercilessly swept it at Fang Li before him.
The heavy, terrifying blow stirred up a vortex in the air.
The edge scraped across Fang Li's skin, telling him that this strike, which had severed even Bō Xié's blade, could slice an entire building apart.
Faced with such an attack, Fang Li had no way to defend himself after losing his weapon.
Therefore, Rearguard Water was certain of his victory.
Squelch—!
As the sound of flesh being severed rang out clearly, Fang Li's body was viciously cut in two, scattering a great deal of blood.
However...
"No...!"
Rearguard Water's keen combat intuition and instincts immediately detected something wrong. Without a second thought, he reversed Ascalon and held it behind him.
Whoosh—!
Almost at the same instant, a flash-like kick landed on it.
Clang—!
The kick, flowing with dazzling starlight and enhanced by Star Pulse Energy, crashed heavily into Ascalon, kicking up a ring of violent wind.
"You saw through it?"
Fang Li remained in his kicking stance, still holding Bō Xié's broken blade in his hand as he raised an eyebrow.
"As expected, you weren't that easy to fool."
Before Fang Li's words had even faded, the blade in Rearguard