Chapter 2972: Perfect Saber Intent Armor
The effect of the Heavenly Emperor's Son's Future Sword looked just like the spear technique "Mingyin Gapo" used by the Ancient Nether avatar corresponding to the Black Dragon World: it possessed a "sure-hit" effect.
However, Mingyin Gapo worked by reversing causality.
Future Sword, on the other hand, did not cut the present. It cut the future!
Once the sword struck, its target would inevitably take the blow under the influence of temporal law. Unless, of course, they possessed a means of countering the way of time.
Golden Cheng Lin had evaded the "present," only to run straight into the sword light of Future Sword. The layer of gold paint covering her body was scraped away, exposing what lay beneath.
Song Shuhang, who had been observing Golden Cheng Lin through heavenly dao sight all along, focused his gaze slightly, locking onto the scraped patch.
The beautiful portion of her body, as pure as colored glaze, looked very familiar indeed.
"So that's it. You painted yourself gold," Song Shuhang said slowly.
Throughout the myriad heavens and realms, there was probably only one person who would do something like this—and do it to herself.
"Touch-up paint is expensive." Even after taking a sword strike from the Heavenly Emperor's Son, Golden Cheng Lin's expression did not change—possibly because her face was covered in gold paint too, hiding the color beneath.
On the surface, aside from having a layer of paint scraped off, her actual body appeared completely unharmed.
The Heavenly Emperor's previous strike had not been an ordinary probing attack, after all. It was a sword move imbued with genuine killing intent.
"Fellow Daoist, someone is trying to cut you down, and you're worried about a little paint?" the Bone Dragon Artifact Spirit could not help asking.
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