The golden light that severed Left Heavenly Venerate's head from his neck was none other than the Spirit Tool Sword Pellet Zhang Qingyuan had kept under his control all along. It struck from behind his head with a surprise attack, cutting his head clean off!
For this strike, Zhang Qingyuan had merely used a small portion of his magic power to control it across the void, while concealing the Sword Pellet's aura to achieve the effect of a surprise assault. Naturally, it did not produce the grand spectacle from before, when he had exerted his full strength and the Metal Element Law between heaven and earth had resonated with it.
Yet even so, by virtue of the Sword Pellet's nature as a Spirit Artifact, it possessed an edge that could be said to cut through anything.
Although Left Heavenly Venerate had sensed the approaching danger the instant Zhang Qingyuan remotely controlled the Sword Pellet with his Spiritual Sense, turning it back to tear through the void, he was utterly unable to respond.
Having suffered severe injuries in succession, with nearly all his backup plans exhausted, he had been driven to the end of the road by the unceasing bombardment. Thus, Zhang Qingyuan's remotely returning Sword Pellet finished him with a single strike!
The Sword Light formed by the Sword Pellet beheaded Left Heavenly Venerate in one stroke.
It then transformed into a smooth arc of light, tearing through the vacuum and flashing back around Zhang Qingyuan like lightning. Amid golden ripples as tangible as substance, it entered his body and disappeared.
Not far away,
Left Heavenly Venerate's headless corpse, slain by the Sword Pellet, remained suspended in mid-air, tracing a parabola as it prepared to fall from the high altitude.
The body that had rapidly swollen like a balloon before