As Ye Weiming, united with his sword, attacked right before his eyes, an all-too-familiar and deeply detested feeling once again enveloped Di Shitian's heart.
It was the fear that came when facing death and defeat.
He had experienced this feeling only three days ago. Yet after merely three days, he was about to experience it again.
And unlike last time, the one facing that feeling before had only been an avatar possessing his true body's full strength. This time, his normal true body was personally experiencing this terrifying sensation he so loathed!
Fortunately, Di Shitian was, after all, a monstrous old freak who had lived for over two thousand years. Even when facing such a despairing situation, he did not lose his composure.
With the killing move upon him, he suddenly thrust both hands forward, conjuring an incomparably thick ice shield out of thin air to meet Ye Weiming's Man and Sword as One head-on. As his Sacred Heart Art qi continuously poured into it, the ice shield kept expanding, spreading rapidly in every direction and becoming thicker and sturdier.
Bang!
Sword Light struck the ice shield, instantly sending shards of ice flying everywhere. Thanks to the properties of Man and Sword as One, the cold qi contained within those shattered ice crystals was absorbed into the sword qi. Though it could no longer grow endlessly like a snowball as before, it barely maintained a balance between income and expenditure. No matter how much internal force Di Shitian poured into the ice shield, the sword qi's power did not diminish in the slightest. It continued devouring the opponent's strength, exerting an unceasing and terrifying pressure upon him.
This was the result Ye Weiming had prepared beforehand!
Although there was still an enormous gap in strength between them, through his ability