In the starry sky, a radiant Sword Dao World spanning tens of thousands of kilometers appeared. Billions of beams of pure golden light shone upon a severed finger, and faint clangs of sword cries rang out as the finger and the metallic radiance continuously clashed and intertwined.
At times, the severed finger tried to temporarily escape the battlefield, only to be swiftly captured again by the endless sunlight that resembled metal and dragged back into the Sword Dao World.
In such a terrifying battle, the flesh upon the severed finger peeled away layer by layer, eventually exposing its sinews. The sinews were likewise shredded by the sword qi of sunlight, until only a ghastly white bone remained, formed of three phalanges and radiating crystalline, immortal light.
Yet even such immortality began to dim beneath the endless metallic sunlight.
Crack!
At some point, a crack appeared in the white bone between the joints, exposing golden-red marrow within—the marrow of a Void Refinement Physical Body.
Whoosh!
The severed finger, now reduced to bone alone, erupted with blood light like mountains collapsing and seas overturning. It pierced a gap through the pure golden Sword Dao World and, before the gap could heal, escaped through it at the critical moment and returned to the Blood Robe Elder's body.
"Damn it!"
"He is stronger than an ordinary Dao heir of a Dao Integration Sect..."
The Old Man in Blood Robe roared unwillingly.
His entire body had turned deathly pale, the pallor of excessive blood loss. His hair shifted from withered yellow toward grayish white, and he had lost far too much vitality.
The Blood Lake Corpse Bone World Illusion around him was continuously collapsing and contracting as well, swiftly crumbling from seven thousand kilometers to barely over one thousand. The Power of Order of Heaven