Bang!
Amid the explosive boom, Ji Jue was sent flying backward and crashed to the ground.
A huge hole had been blasted straight through his chest.
Like a shaped charge, the concentrated impact had entered through his back, burst out through his chest, and blown away one of his heat-dissipation, pressure-boosting "lung lobes," along with his reinforced metal sternum. His other equipment had also been disrupted to varying degrees.
Fortunately, the Red Firmament-transformed spine was hard enough to endure the spreading shockwave head-on.
For anyone else, this would have been an unequivocally fatal wound. But it was okay—Ji Jue's internal framework had been built entirely around Three-Phase Alchemy. After cycling a few times, it would be fully repaired.
It was only a temporary grievous injury.
Faced with Ye Xian's Scene Tremor, he had no power to resist.
And resistance would have been useless.
Once a move like Scene Tremor had been calculated, seen through, and fully analyzed, defense became utterly useless. So long as it touched a weak point, every strike would land true.
He could not block it. He could only dodge.
And if he could not dodge, then like Ji Jue now, he could only take it head-on.
There was no helping it. Ye Xian was too fast, and her timing had been too perfect. The instant his full-focus clash ended, she had caught the timing. The one blessing amid misfortune was that he still had the Third Spirit Essence Hand to block once, preventing his Zhanlu-transformed heart from being detonated.
The consequence was that the existence of his third hand had also been exposed.
She would definitely guard against it from now on.
Before Ji Jue had even hit the ground, his auxiliary engines had already gone full throttle. Reversing thrust, shifting direction—at the same time, countless