And yet...
The Heaven-Severing Buyu Sword, which had once shared his intentions and mingled with his divine sense, did not budge. Still trembling incessantly, it hovered beneath Dragon Slayer.
Hum!
High above, crimson clouds swirled, and the mist scattered.
Within thirty feet of Dragon Slayer, the void shuddered, and heaven and earth twisted.
The Heaven-Severing Buyu Sword lay horizontally below it, like a subject kneeling before a king, humming and trembling without retreating.
Even when summoned, it gave no response.
At first, Zhou Buyu thought the Heaven-Severing Buyu Sword had been frightened, temporarily obstructing his divine sense and preventing it from answering his summons.
But a moment later, he summoned it again. After several successive attempts, the Heaven-Severing Buyu Sword still gave no response.
He even dimly sensed something.
The strand of crimson divine sense he had buried deep within the Heaven-Severing Buyu Sword was being slowly devoured by an incomparably overbearing, terrifying, mysterious power. Soon, it would decay and vanish.
How was this an obstruction of his divine sense? Xiao Chen was clearly using that battered ancient sword, which loomed in the void like a king, to forcibly subdue his divine sword and seize it!
But the Heaven-Severing Buyu Sword was a peerless Fierce Armament, possessed of intelligence and untamable pride. Even he had exhausted his schemes, expended his fortune, and sacrificed countless spiritual treasures of heaven and earth before the sword acknowledged him as its master.
The battered ancient sword Xiao Chen called Beastbane had faced the Heaven-Severing Buyu Sword for only a brief moment. How could it possibly subdue it by force and erase the soul sense he had spent years planting deep within its blade?
"What's going on? Zhou Buyu can't call back his Heaven-Severing Buyu Sword?" Lao Six was aghast.
"It looks like something's gone