This move was far more powerful than the hundred attacks before it.
Without a moment's hesitation, he swept his right hand over his storage ring. The Seven Killings Blade came free with a low hum, its bloody glow swelling severalfold as it left the sheath. A keen aura of slaughter spread from its edge.
"Heaven Without a Handle!"
Gripping the blade in one hand, Li Bufan met the diving streak of icy-blue light head-on.
Fueled by his True Essence, the blood-red blade swelled into the phantom of a colossal edge a hundred zhang long. With the force to cleave mountains and sever peaks, it struck the Dragon Scorpion's giant pincer, which was shrouded in icy-blue Demon Essence.
A deafening clang of metal against metal exploded through the cavern, shaking chips of rock from the walls.
Dazzling light erupted where the blood-red blade met the blue pincer. The two utterly different forces clashed and tore at each other in midair, sending out rumbles like muffled thunder.
But the deadlock did not last long.
The Dragon Scorpion's power at the Peak Demonic Core Realm was simply too great for Li Bufan. After the blood-red blade resisted the blue pincer for several breaths, fine cracks appeared across its surface. They spread visibly until the blade shattered like broken glass, scattering into a sky full of blood-red sparks.
With Li Bufan's move broken, the Dragon Scorpion's giant pincer drove on toward him, trailing the last of its blue Demon Essence. It was less than a few feet from his chest.
There was no time for a second slash. At that life-or-death instant, his left hand snapped through a seal.
"Red Emperor Fire Dragon Qi, go!"
He thrust his palm toward the Dragon Scorpion, and crimson fire qi surged from it.
In midair, the fire