In close-quarters combat, when the opponent was not a body cultivator, let alone Liu Feng, even a Quasi-Emperor would have to give you a wide berth at your side. What was more, you had pushed the Strength Dao Authority to its very limits. In an instant, you slashed Liu Feng dozens of times.
Even without using Heaven and Earth Manifestation, that surge of pure power tore relentlessly through the space of the present world, while also leaving Liu Feng's new Defensive Means unable to keep up. Thus, after the several layers of Defensive Means around him were shattered by the slashes, your blade truly struck his body!
Yet, unlike the imagined scene of Liu Feng being cleaved in two, your strike was far too forceful. Rather than relying on the blade's sharpness, it was sheer violence—as though, in that moment, you were venting your anger over his coming to trouble you, and avenging the other creatures of the Tianqing Realm who had died. Liu Feng's entire body was directly reduced to dust, his flesh collapsing into countless atoms too tiny to see rather than chunks of meat.
At that moment, you did not even intend to leave Liu Feng's true spirit behind. It too vanished beneath that slash, leaving Li Yixian with no chance of salvaging the situation.
Under such circumstances, aside from your own Retrograde Dao Fruit returning everything to its original state, or an Immortal Emperor using a Great Supernatural Power to forcibly revive juniors who had died only recently, only a few laws comprehended to an extremely profound level could offer salvation. Time and the Life Law were among them, and your sixth-grade Life Law happened to have touched that threshold.
For Liu Feng's current condition, the sixth-grade Life Law still had a small chance of gathering