Qin Fengming knew full well that Splitting Light Misleading Shadow would do little harm to Immortal Fairy Si Rong. Naturally, he had not unleashed this sword technique, which consumed tremendous amounts of magical power and soul energy, again merely to compete with her in expenditure.
Even Qin Fengming had to admire the female cultivator's movement technique and escape speed.
When she exerted herself fully, he could not keep pace with her movements even by using Profound Sky Evasive Steps to their utmost.
Without the sword rays doing everything they could to obstruct her, he would have been unable to keep a constant lock on her position.
His earlier evasion of her sudden sneak attack had been perilous in the extreme. Faced with that abrupt assault, Qin Fengming had understood that, under those circumstances, her uncanny attack would strike him whether he launched an attack himself or tried to dodge.
The reason was simple: she had already enveloped every route by which he could escape.
Naturally, Qin Fengming could not remain where he stood and launch an attack either. At the time, he could not lock onto the trajectory of her movements at all. He could only sense faint spatial fluctuations somewhere nearby, but the instant they appeared, they shifted elsewhere.
The chance of successfully striking the source of those fluctuations in that hairbreadth instant was virtually nonexistent.
Of course, had Qin Fengming released the Ink Flame Thunder Frog, he could have resisted her uncanny attack.
Yet he had not. Instead, he had chosen an exceedingly dangerous response.
He had kept his true body standing in place while unleashing his sword technique at full strength, incorporating Gale Phantom Steps into each Splitting Light Misleading Shadow incarnation. Throughout it all, his true body had remained exactly where it was.
Only when her