The City-Protecting Grand Formation above Witch City continued operating within a web of laws framed by Heavenly Spirit Earthly Fiend Array Patterns. Its dark golden radiance bore the sustained assault of six Heavenly Dao Saints like an ancient embankment reinforced time and again.
Outside the city, Chi You had already traced the course of his first clash with Hongjun. In his hands, the Tiger Soul Saber flared with a blood-red blade gleam, like a bowstring compressed to its limit, and slashed head-on toward the Purple Qi Whisk Hongjun was condensing.
The instant the blade gleam and whisk collided in the Chaos Void, they met like a heavy hammer striking a bronze mirror. Fragments of laws spread outward from the point of contact between blade and whisk, leaving a fleeting mark of intertwined red and purple in the Chaos Void.
Hongjun shifted back slightly under the collision, then reoriented the Purple Qi Whisk in his hand as though adjusting its angle.
His gaze lingered on Chi You's Tiger Soul Saber for a moment, sweeping over its blood-red radiance with the care of someone assessing a tool's ultimate limits.
Then he thrust the whisk forward as though adjusting his stance, and a ripple of laws formed from purple qi spread from his palm.
Like a river being guided along its course, it split at the whisk's tip into several parallel tributaries, shooting toward the vital points all over Chi You's body with greater speed and from more tightly packed angles.
The instant those tributaries of the purple qi law approached, Chi You subtly rotated his blade as though adjusting its orientation.
As the Tiger Soul Saber turned, its blood-red blade gleam divided into dozens of fine streaks arranged along the same trajectory, precisely intercepting the incoming tributaries of purple qi.
Each collision