"Slash!!!"
Li Yun raised the Heaven-Slaying Treasure Blade with an impassive expression. A dazzling blade radiance lit up and stretched toward the farthest reaches of the sky like a beam of light.
He brought it down without the slightest mercy.
"No... no, this isn't right... don't!"
"Please... spare..."
Supreme Sage Yuan Zhang cried out in terror. He could already sense the danger.
Danger unlike anything he had ever known.
But his cries could not stop Li Yun's blade. They could not even stir the faintest ripple in Li Yun's heart.
The blade radiance flashed and vanished.
It descended upon Supreme Sage Yuan Zhang's head at an incomparable speed.
In that instant, his terrified cry rose into a shrill, agonized scream.
In the briefest instant, the blade radiance passed through his body.
His scream stopped abruptly.
Darkness swallowed his vision.
He felt as though the entire world had died. He could no longer sense the world, or even himself, as if everything had ceased to exist.
Only after two or three seconds did he come to his senses and see the world before him again.
And he saw Li Yun raise the Heaven-Slaying Treasure Blade once more.
He discovered to his horror that he was still alive, but a tenth of the once-vast Supreme Sage Origin within him had vanished without a trace!
That was Supreme Sage Origin!
How much time and effort would cultivation have cost him to gain a tenth of it? And now it had simply vanished?
Suddenly—
He jolted. Li Yun's blade was already falling again.
He instinctively tried to dodge.
But he found that the mysterious, terrifying law beneath Li Yun's blade had overwhelmed his Supreme Sage law, pinning it so firmly that he could not move an inch.
The blade fell again and passed straight