The sword radiance moved with astonishing speed, roaring like an enraged bull when it struck. After the thunderous impact, it cleaved straight through the waist of that Yama Robe, forcibly tearing open a gash!
But soon I discovered that the gash had returned to normal, and there was a reason I had not directed the sword radiance into the robe. After all, this garment looked much like a treasure such as the Empty Space Ring. It could redirect an attack elsewhere. If the Sword Pill were sucked inside, I would lose a formidable treasure.
As expected, Shang Zhao was exceedingly cunning. When the sword radiance shot toward him, he immediately spread the robe toward it, genuinely intending to trap the sword radiance in an alternate space. That way, he believed he could deal with me. I merely kept harassing him and had no intention of attacking the robe itself, but the problem was obvious now: I could not attack his vital points at all.
Boom!
While I was probing him with the sword radiance, the lid of a coffin was blasted open by him. The headless black robe swayed sluggishly before becoming motionless, like an eight-sided tortoise shell with no weaknesses. I did not dare make any more aggressive moves with the sword radiance, so I could only circle around him, looking for an opportunity to use the Ghost-Summoning Art!
Controlling a ghost at the Nine-Yang Realm with the Ghost-Summoning Art would inevitably consume an enormous amount of magical power, and I could only control it for an instant. But in a battle between Nine-Yang Realm experts, a single instant was already extremely dangerous. If I forcibly pulled out his hand, for example, the sword radiance could immediately sever it!
Shang Zhao might have been too frightened, because he began