When a sword returned to its sheath, it did not always mean the battle was over. Sometimes, it was gathering strength for its next unsheathing.
How could reforging earth, water, fire, and wind possibly stop halfway? Though the Fuxie Fragment had answered An Jing and Fuxie's summons, it had thoughts of its own—the Holy Demon and the Great Abyss of Avici had to be destroyed, but the humans of Tianyuan Realm had to be slaughtered too!
Hidden amid countless secret realms, the Fuxie Fragment was absorbing the boundless Xuanyuan Qi gained from destroying the Great Abyss of Avici to recover. It was accumulating power, awaiting the moment it could shatter the entire Tianyuan Realm with a single stroke, reforge the Heavenly Dao, and create the mortal world anew!
An Jing actually felt that Tianyuan Realm should have been destroyed—and its people slain—long ago. But as he had said before, they should at least wait until he had picked out all those in Tianyuan Realm worth saving. There was no need to be in such a hurry.
Not to mention...
"Its condition is too poor."
Fuxie murmured, "It is my Sword Guard. Ordinarily, it should not possess such razor-sharp sword light. But because I shattered, the residual Sword Qi and the demonic qi from my battle against the Heavenly Demon were housed within it, allowing it to unleash such terrifying power."
"But it is too badly damaged. It absolutely cannot complete the reforging of earth, water, fire, and wind. Once it has annihilated half of Tianyuan, it will collapse on its own."
Yes. That was the greatest problem.
It was not merely the trivial matter of destroying Tianyuan Realm, but the fact that Fuxie's Sword Guard would disintegrate after reforging earth, water, fire, and wind.
It was currently concealed within Tianyuan's