When Ji Jue, battered and miserable, had been darting about under the suppression of the steel storm, he finally chose to strike back. In that instant, after a shrill sound of shattering, the vast dueling arena seemed to be swallowed by dead silence.
It was as though even sound itself had been torn apart.
A second ago, Ji Jue had still been swaying like duckweed in the wind. Now, shrouded in Blood Flame, he had turned into a meteor from beyond the heavens. Rebirth Form manifested, iron light burst forth, and eight thrusters at his elbows, calves, lower back, and shoulders spewed Blazing Light. Like the ultimate maneuverability of Powered Armor, in less than 0.1 seconds, he accelerated from a standstill to six hundred meters per second, broke the sound barrier, and left behind a stark-white Mach Ring spreading from where he had stood.
The light and heat unleashed by Zhanlu were, under the reversal of Thunder Comes' blessing sequence, converted into pure physical kinetic energy without any loss. They propelled Ji Jue forward in a mad rush.
He turned himself into a meteor falling from the sky—accelerate, accelerate, accelerate, accelerate again!
The blades rushing head-on, the endless fragments, the steel thorns rising from the ground, the sand and gravel frozen into iron walls, even the Realm of Encirclement of the Fireworks Cauldron... everything shattered apart like thin paper before that advancing streak of bloody light!
He gouged a deep rift into the earth. Power enough to shatter Heaven and Earth coiled around his five fingers as they drove inch by inch toward Yellow Beard's head! No more holding back, no more hesitation.
One-One-Nine Form · Pan Ying!
Tangible bloody light entwined his fingers and empowered the Realm of Encirclement. A shocking vermilion strand had already risen from the blood-red