Fang Chen's Sword Momentum was no longer just for defense and attrition. He began striking back with exquisitely precise Sword Moves.
Amid the Chaos Thousand-Eyed Worm's storm of attacks, he caught the slightest opening. The Floating Immortal Sword flashed like gray lightning through the blur of her bladed fingers, its tip stabbing straight toward her left shoulder.
The Chaos Thousand-Eyed Worm's pupils contracted. She desperately twisted aside, but Fang Chen's sword was too fast.
The tip grazed the amber glow protecting her left shoulder and tore open a hairline Crack. Return to Ruin Sword Intent seeped into it like maggots burrowing into bone, slowly eating away at her defenses.
"You?"
The Chaos Thousand-Eyed Worm was stunned. She had thought Fang Chen was a spent crossbow bolt under her relentless assault. She had never expected him to unleash such power now.
Fang Chen said nothing. His body straightened again beneath the pressure.
He knew the Altar no longer had enough energy to sustain its terrifying suppression. The crushing force of its Law was slowly weakening, retreating inch by inch like the ebbing tide.
His aura truly began to rise. The Buddha Light of the Myriad Buddhas War Scripture intertwined with energy fed back by the Floating Immortal Sword, driving his power toward new heights.
He met the Chaos Thousand-Eyed Worm's increasingly dense attacks and launched a counteroffensive.
The Floating Immortal Sword became a sky full of sword shadows. Every strike slipped precisely into a gap in her protective glow, tearing away another wisp of its thinning amber energy.
Under that relentless cutting, the Chaos Thousand-Eyed Worm's protective glow grew thinner and more fragile.
Her aura began to fall in earnest, wavering like a skeleton stripped of its supports.
The light atop the Stone Pillars went out completely, like snuffed candles leaving