The instant his words fell, his body shot forward. The Seven Killings Blade, wrapped in sharp blade light formed from the Five Elements True Meaning, carved a brilliant arc through the gray-white mist and lunged straight at the Demonic Core Realm gray-white dragon beast.
The four beasts followed close behind, their auras erupting at the same moment. Like five different forces converging into a mighty torrent upon the same battlefield, they collided fiercely with the dragon beast that had lurked in the valley for untold years.
Li Bufan charged at the forefront, the Seven Killings Blade flowing in his hand like a streak of light. Move after move of the Greedy Wolf Saber Technique unfolded without end. Water curtains, seas of fire, vines, golden blades, and mountains—the five phenomena revolved in turn, forcing away all the dense Hidden Dragon Qi around them and revealing a battlefield illuminated by light.
Where the blade passed, even the air was sliced with fine cracks. Every strike carried the fused power of the Five Elements True Meaning and the Blade Domain, landing precisely upon the dragon beast's scales.
Yet the gray-white dragon beast moved with extreme speed. Though enormous, it was not clumsy in the slightest, drifting through the mist like a gray-white phantom.
Li Bufan unleashed ten consecutive slashes, but at least half were easily evaded. His blade only swept through the air and afterimages around its body.
Although the remaining strikes that hit its body left wound after wound upon its scales through the sharpness of the Seven Killings Blade, most only cut into the surface of the scales, at most an inch deep. To the dragon beast's massive and solid flesh, they were as insignificant as mosquito bites.
A little gray-white blood seeped from the wounds, but the instant it touched