"Courting death!"
The Twin-Headed Evil Phoenix let out a shriek that could pierce metal and crack stone. Its wings snapped open, and dark red flames erupted from its body, coiling upward around it like two roaring fire dragons.
Both heads opened their jaws at once. Two pillars of dark red fire shot out and crossed like a giant pair of shears, cutting toward Fang Chen.
Where the fire passed, it scorched twisted cracks through the void, sending dark red law fragments flying in every direction.
Fang Chen watched the two converging pillars of fire in silence.
He did not even move.
Only when the flames were about to reach him did he raise his right hand and gently spread his fingers.
Hum!
An invisible qi wall formed before him. The two dark red pillars, fierce enough to incinerate the void, struck it as though they had hit an unseen barrier. They exploded into sparks that scattered across the sky.
The sparks fell on the square's stone slabs, leaving dense black scorch marks.
The Twin-Headed Evil Phoenix's pupils contracted. Fang Chen's casual gesture held power beyond anything it could comprehend, power as unfathomable as an abyss.
Fang Chen lowered his hand, his gaze still calm. "Is that all you can do? Then you have no reason to exist!"
He raised his right hand, pressed his index and middle fingers together, and made a light stroke toward the Twin-Headed Evil Phoenix.
A strand of gray sword light, fine as a hair, burst from his fingertips. Silent and swift as lightning, it crossed the void faster than the eye could follow, slicing precisely toward the phoenix's two heads.
Terror seized the Twin-Headed Evil Phoenix. It could sense the power within that gray sword light—a horrifying force capable of erasing existence itself.
It threw