Inside Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum, almost the instant Qin Shi Huang's furious roar rang out, a massive wheel abruptly formed between his upraised hands. It slowly rotated, drawing in the majestic dragon qi behind him with savage force and erupting with terrifying, heart-quailing pressure.
Qi, fate, fortune—Imperial Heaven Grand Wheel!
"Go!"
With a two-handed throw, Qin Shi Huang sent the enormous wheel hurtling forth. Its grand and terrifying pressure compressed the air into hurricane-force gales as it charged straight at the two intruders in the mausoleum passage.
In an instant, the entire tomb passage seemed frozen solid.
Dugu Qiubai, charging at the front, felt his qi flow stagnate and his fate become locked on. He swiftly shouted, drawing the longsword in his hand. Like a flood-dragon overturning the sea, it stirred up wave after wave of sword light. The sword tip seemed alive as it followed the weak point of the slowly crushing wheel and stabbed toward it.
Clang, clang, clang—!
The instant the blade touched the slowly rotating Imperial Heaven Grand Wheel, deafening metallic clashes erupted along with transparent shockwaves.
Waves of spatial distortion burst from the point where the two attacks collided.
The Imperial Heaven Grand Wheel was like a great sun of golden flame, as though a god had turned the solar wheel. Not only did it lock down the surrounding space, but as it rotated, it twisted health itself, using the terrifying power of spatial distortion and the impact of fortune to crush everything.
Yet Dugu Qiubai was no ordinary man. Once he unleashed the Void-Shattering Form he had created by combining the Heavenless Sword Art taught by Mu Yingxiong with the mysteries of Shattering the Void, every stream of spatial distortion was deftly deflected with minimal force.
From afar, it looked as though Dugu Qiubai's