Silver light surged in Zhan Yun's eyes as she transformed into twelve figures.
They were Zhan Yun at different ages. Some wielded giant hammers, others gripped long spears, but all carried a murderous aura that could move mountains with a single strike.
Jiang Shu's bones thundered. A vast Dharma Form appeared behind him, and qi and blood surged like smoke from all three hundred and sixty acupoints.
"Shout!"
Jiang Shu let out a battle cry and drove his fist, wrapped in chaotic thunder, into the folds of spacetime. The Law of Strength revealed its most violent aspect.
The phantoms of past and future were crushed into dust by pure force. Zhan Yun's true body staggered backward, fine cracks appearing across the blade of her axe before vanishing at once.
She suddenly broke into a smile. Her Battle Runes blazed, and her entire body became the embodiment of the Law of Strength.
The Bronze Battle Axe disappeared.
Or rather, Zhan Yun herself was the battle axe.
Every gesture she made embodied the ultimate realm of strength; even the path traced by her fingertips was the perfect curve for exerting force.
A grave look flashed through Jiang Shu's eyes. The Three Sacred Embryos formed hand seals at once, and the Heaven-Eating God-Slaying Halberd became a stream of ash-gold light that merged into his right arm.
When pure strength reached its limit, even spacetime came to a halt.
Where their fists and palms collided, the void first collapsed into a singularity the size of a needlepoint, then erupted into a shockwave that swept across the starry river.
Zhan Yun heard the faint crack of bone in her ears. Without hesitation, she shattered thirty percent of her qi and blood, shifting half an inch to the side at the very last moment.
The ash-gold