Void Darkness lay deep and still. Sword Lord stood rooted to the spot in disbelief, feeling the icy gaze from Cang Hao behind him. For the first time, a bone-piercing chill rose within him.
The shadow of death.
Ever since he had attained the Primordial Spirit, that shadow—which he had thought had long since left him and would never return—now crawled across his face once more.
Meanwhile, Lu Yang lightly shook his sleeve and put away the [Heavenly Calendar Number], which had already been pushed beyond its limits after consecutively using the incomplete [Great Dao Answers Me] twice. He carefully savored the sensations and insights from that fleeting instant when he had [deleted] Sword Lord on the data level.
Though their manifestations differed.
[Great Dao Answers Me] truly was a state that allowed cultivators of equal rank to widen the gap between one another to the utmost extreme.
Powerful! Incredibly powerful.
No wonder Si Sui could flick Sword Lord away with a finger just after breaking free of his seal, before he had even transcended. Looking at it now, he had even held back then.
And there was World Honored One.
Chu Sheng of the life before last had actually needed a full hundred moves to kill him. Back then, Lu Yang had thought World Honored One was simply incompetent. Now it seemed Chu Sheng had merely been giving him face.
Come to think of it, Si Sui once admitted before me that he could not defeat Chu Sheng in a straightforward spell battle. Does that mean Chu Sheng's mastery of [Great Dao Answers Me] was actually greater than Si Sui's? It isn't impossible. After all, he had turned both [Time] and [Fixed Number] into a dazzling array of tricks.
After all, in his hands, it seemed as though anything