Chapter 264: Chief Sovereign's Emissary
The instant the greatsword came down, Lin Qin's blade was already there to meet it.
Blade and sword collided with a thunderous boom. The entire hall trembled, gems rained from the vaulted ceiling, and the jade floor cracked inch by inch. Violent shockwaves spread outward, snapping the surrounding stone pillars one after another.
Lin Qin did not budge.
The stone statue's greatsword was knocked aside. Its body leaned back slightly, and it took two steps back before steadying itself.
It raised its sword again.
This time, it used its full strength. A blinding light flared from the greatsword.
Lin Qin did not retreat.
He charged forward.
One slash.
Blade-light and sword-light collided. There was no deafening explosion, only a crisp sound like cloth tearing. The stone statue's greatsword broke in the middle, half of it flying away and stabbing into the ground a hundred zhang away. The blade-light did not lose momentum and struck the statue across the chest.
A thin crack appeared in the statue's chest. The crack spread upward to its shoulders, downward to its waist, and outward to its limbs. Amid a series of cracking sounds, the fractures multiplied and thickened, covering its entire body like a spiderweb.
The stone statue lowered its head and looked at its body.
Then it shattered with a crash, turning into a pile of rubble.
Lin Qin sheathed his blade and stood where he was.
The pile of rubble left by the statue began to glow.
Light seeped through the gaps between the stones, growing brighter and more dazzling. The rubble slowly rose within the radiance, reassembling and condensing into a circular platform. It stood three chi high and over a zhang across, its surface smooth as a mirror and emitting a faint golden glow.
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