"What an overbearing law!"
The Unfeeling Immortal Emperor drew a sharp breath. "That Fifth-Turn Heavenly Slave just denied the very foundation of existence!"
Faced with an attack that would have driven any Fourth-Turn Immortal Emperor to despair, Fang Chen smiled.
His smile was faint, but it carried an ease he had never shown before.
He neither braced himself to take the blow nor dodged.
He slowly raised the Floating Immortal Sword, pointing its tip at the Sword Light that erased everything.
Then he made a seemingly simple move: he tilted the blade slightly, bringing its shifting seven-colored Chaos Luster against the gray-white Sword Light.
Hiss!
There was no earth-shaking collision, only a faint sound like a drop of water falling into boiling oil.
The instant the gray-white Sword Light touched the Chaos Luster, a miracle occurred.
The Sword Light, powerful enough to erase existence, began to dissolve the moment it touched the Chaos Luster. Like ice meeting Sunlight, it melted away until it became the most basic particles of energy, which the Chaos Luster absorbed.
The whole process flowed like moving clouds and running water, as though it could never have happened any other way.
"That's impossible!"
The Unfeeling Immortal Emperor cried out.
For the first time, a flicker of human confusion crossed the Fifth-Turn Heavenly Slave's hollow eyes.
He could not understand why his law had failed before his opponent's power.
Fang Chen spoke, his voice calm as still water. "Your erasure is merely a power granted by the Heaven and Earth Laws. What I possess is the seed of a law that creates."
As his words fell, the seven-colored radiance on the Floating Immortal Sword surged, gathering at its tip into a tiny, slowly turning Chaos vortex.
Fang Chen stepped forward and appeared before the Fifth-Turn Heavenly Slave