For nearly half an hour afterward.
Within the field woven from merit golden light and lotus flame, Qin He planted every step on a law node, holding the upper hand.
The Bone Sage Monarch's dark-gold skeleton was already riddled with holes. His right arm had failed to reform after shattering, and the joints of his left leg had been scorched black and brittle by lotus flame.
Dark-red blood paste dripped through the gaps between his bones, only to be torn apart by the life-and-death law within the field as it fell into the void, leaving not even a trace.
Yet he still did not crumble into oblivion.
The deep reserves of the half-step Imperial Dao realm were laid bare in that moment.
Qin He's demonic fist slammed into his skull again. The dark-gold bone shattered on impact, and the deep-purple flames in his eye sockets abruptly dimmed, as though they would go out the next second.
But before Qin He could land another blow, the scattered bone fragments hurtled together under the pull of the yin-evil law, like a swarm of bees returning to their hive.
Within a few breaths, the shattered skull had reformed, though the blood paste between its seams had grown thinner and the deep-purple flames a little weaker.
"At half-step Imperial Dao, the Dao laws have begun to merge. My essence is linked to the yin balefulness of heaven and earth. You can do nothing to me! Hmph!"
The Bone Sage Monarch's voice rasped like a worn-out bellows, yet carried a vicious resolve to fight until one of them was dead.
The gold-and-black patterns deep in Qin He's eyes grew denser, and the field around him tightened once more.
He could clearly sense that the Bone Sage Monarch's essence was indeed connected to the earth veins'