A flicker of surprise flashed through the Chaos Thousand-Eyed Worm's countless eyes. It clearly had not expected Fang Chen to launch a counterattack while besieged from two sides.
Its reaction was swift. The eye-like protrusions across its vast body turned in unison, and billions of amber beams shot toward Fang Chen like a downpour.
But this time, Fang Chen did not dodge.
He held the Floating Immortal Sword across his body. Golden Buddha Light and nine-colored Chaos Radiance intertwined along the blade, forming a luminous scroll like a Star Chart set ablaze.
The amber beams hammered the blade with a dense rattle like rain striking banana leaves. Its light rippled violently, like a bronze gong struck by billions of pebbles at once.
The force of the beams drove him backward, each step carving a long gray trail through the void.
Yet his feet never stopped. Like a small boat still advancing against the current, he pushed upstream through the soul storm.
When only a few thousand zhang remained between him and the Chaos Thousand-Eyed Worm, he suddenly accelerated.
The light on the Floating Immortal Sword compressed to its limit. Every ounce of power gathered into a single Chaos-Colored point at its tip, and he thrust it straight at the Chaos Thousand-Eyed Worm's enormous body.
"One Sword Returns to Ruin!"
The Sword Light made no sound. Only a gray line as fine as a hair burst from the tip, shooting straight toward the center of the Chaos Thousand-Eyed Worm's body.
The Chaos Thousand-Eyed Worm's countless eye-like protrusions lit up at once. It sensed that the gray line posed a threat far greater than his previous slashes.
Its mouthparts snapped open, firing a tightly condensed amber pillar of light that collided head-on with the gray line in the void.
The instant the