"D-dead?"
Everyone before the Dao Transmission Mirrors across the Five Domains was left dumbfounded by this sudden, drastic reversal.
In the blink of an eye, Master Shou in the Southern Domain had still been shouting challenges, yet Master Shou on the Holy Mountain had been blasted to pieces by Great Emperor Cangsheng?
"So fast?"
"No way, they'd both gotten bigger!"
"I think Master Shou deliberately exposed a flaw... He wanted to use a scheme to make that false body disappear. There must be a deeper meaning behind it!"
"I beg to differ. If you youngsters had witnessed the battle of the Ten Seat Holders, you wouldn't be saying such things."
"How so?"
"Exposing a flaw rests on both sides being evenly matched, without either surpassing the other by too much. Once the gap is too vast, or both sides' attacks are too powerful, whoever reveals a weakness first—whether deliberately or not—will die the moment their opponent seizes that chance."
"Now that you mention it, I did witness the Divine-Love Battle from afar at the Godslayer Official Ruins. Arrows rained down like a torrential stream, sealing everything off so tightly not even water could pass through. It was on an entirely different level from this. Great Emperor Cangsheng was ultimately mindful of the lives and deaths in the Central Region... Yet back then, even someone as powerful as Shen Yi never dared say, 'I'll expose a flaw.'"
"Exactly. Exposing a flaw means yielding the initiative. Whoever yields dies."
"Then Master Shou..."
Everyone turned to Master Shou in the Southern Domain's Dao Transmission Mirror, only to see a stunned look on his face, as though he too had been dumbstruck by that arrow.
If it had been anyone else, they could have gleaned something from that reaction at a glance.
But this