Heavy snow drifted down, as if they had reached the end of the world.
A living being followed close behind. When Wang Xuan turned around, it nearly touched his face.
Before his eyes, the clearest thing was a pair of red battle boots. Small and suspended in the air, they were level with his eyes, rippling with power as they swept toward his head.
In fact, the attack had never ceased. He had become alert immediately, Imperial Daoized texture covering his entire body with the bearing of being Invulnerable to All Laws.
Had it been another Five-time Limit Breaking cultivator, they might already have died.
It was the figure of a woman, not made of flesh and blood but composed of golden light. She wore battle boots and armor forged from blood-gold, her body hazy and indistinct.
Wang Xuan let out a cold snort. The grid-like patterns before his face expanded and interwove. Combining the Star River Cleansing Body Scripture with sword light, he sealed off the void ahead and shredded the figure.
The woman rose into the air like a ghost, making not the slightest sound, yet she was incomparably sacred. Golden radiance poured down from all over her body. A pair of golden sword wings spread from her back; with every beat, threadlike sword light flowed forth without end, piercing the void and pouring down upon him.
Outside the body of Wang Xuan, grid-like sword light flowed like rippling water. The two forces collided without any thunderous blast, only soundless shattering and annihilation.
This was not a living being. It was manifested from Dao Rhyme, without flesh and blood, yet within its imprint flowed the light of a Primordial Spirit.
Calling her an inanimate object would not be entirely right. A spiritual domain had been simulated within her,