Dim ice crystals and transparent sword souls violently ground against each other, annihilating one another.
The chill of Eternal Night's descent frantically eroded the sword soul's sword intent, trying to freeze and rot it away.
True Monarch Tongxuan let out a muffled groan, his face instantly paling. The backlash from the sword soul and that sinking will nearly caused him to lose his focus.
His opponent wielded the momentum of heaven and earth, drawing upon endless darkness.
What he faced was an attack from a major realm whose standing was far from low.
But he was, after all, a foremost expert who cultivated the path of the sword soul. This Dao Fruit stood apart, beyond the Dao Fruits of the 108 Heavenly Fiend and Earthly Fiend, and had been nurtured by the Dao Master of the Myriad Chariots Sword Sect.
Its sword intent was incomparably condensed, and the giant sword forcibly tore apart the claw shadow of Eternal Night.
Yet before he could catch his breath, the ground beneath his feet suddenly collapsed for no reason. A surge of turbid earth-vein qi shot skyward, crashing straight into his protective sword soul. Caught off guard, he ran headlong into it and nearly had his mana tainted.
This was one of the misfortunes stirred up by the Heavenly Dao.
When the time was right, heaven and earth lent their strength; when it passed, even heroes lost their freedom.
Within this realm, now that the two had lost their concealment, every gesture and movement would be met with misfortune.
Crimson Yang and Tongxuan stood back-to-back. The light of the Fensui Sword and the invisible sword soul echoed each other, one blazing and one icy, barely holding on amid the raging storm of suppression from the three Main Gods and the Heavenly Dao.
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