Chen Xuan did not meet the attack head-on. As he darted sideways, he unleashed the Time Sword Art, silver-gray sword shadows laying a slowing field around the ancient beast.
But the ancient beast was far too enormous, diluting the effects of the temporal slowing field considerably. A field that could reduce a seventh-stage Sovereign's speed to a crawl only slowed this colossal beast, hundreds of zhang in size, by roughly thirty percent.
Thirty percent was enough.
Chen Xuan activated his dark-gold halberd, gathering the ninth-level power of the matter origin imprint at its tip, and thrust at the gap in the joint of the ancient beast's left foreleg.
The blade barely pierced the flesh before its carapace caught it. The ancient beast let out a deafening roar of pain, and the law patterns on its dark-red shell suddenly blazed. A heavy recoil traveled back along the shaft, numbing the web between Chen Xuan's thumb and forefinger.
He withdrew his halberd and retreated, reassessing the situation.
The eighth-stage Sovereign ancient beast had an exceptionally solid foundation. It was on an entirely different level from the other-race Sovereigns below the seventh stage he had encountered before, and conventional rapid attacks had limited effect on it.
He needed to bring out a more decisive power.
The ten origin seals in his dantian accelerated their rotation simultaneously.
The boundless chaos dao origin seal coordinated them from the center. The power of the nine nine-order origin seals activated one after another in a specific sequence: time, space, matter, life and death, creation, annihilation, karma, reincarnation, and destiny. Guided by chaos energy, the nine powers merged into one, becoming a stream of silver-gray light that surged into Chen Xuan's right arm and passed through the dark-gold halberd's shaft to gather at the front of its blade.