Swish, swish, swish!
The power originating from the Second Nightmare Realm now allowed Ye Chen to slice through monster flesh with clean, effortless precision, rather than struggling as he had before, his blade catching in his hand and every step an arduous ordeal.
The agony of its limbs being severed twisted the Abyss Walker's face into a savage grimace.
Then, the monster suddenly flung out its pair of slender arms tipped with sharp bone blades. Like two ghostly black claws, their afterimages tore through the air as they swept simultaneously at Ye Chen's upper and lower body.
Whoosh!
Facing the Abyss Walker's fierce counterattack, Ye Chen neither startled nor panicked, neither faltered nor retreated. He merely widened his eyes in total concentration, sprang off his front foot, and flipped sideways through the air, becoming a small spinning top rotating vertically as he passed straight through the gap between the monster's upper and lower claws.
With that agile maneuver, Ye Chen not only evaded the Abyss Walker's dual-claw counterattack in one stroke, but also closed directly in before it.
The crimson blade followed the swing of his left arm and spun fiercely toward the monster's torso. The Abyss Walker's abdomen immediately split open, flesh and blood spraying everywhere as another bloody gash appeared across its body.
"Ugh—!"
Feeling the tearing agony rip through its chest and abdomen, the Abyss Walker's face convulsed. It immediately turned and swung an elbow toward Ye Chen's back in pursuit.
Yet Ye Chen evaded the monster's attack perfectly with another nimble backflip, even taking the chance to throw three more blood-red flying knives with his free right hand.
This time, the three flashes of crimson blade-light plunged directly into the Abyss Walker's face, blinding nearly ten of its eyes on the spot.
"Screeeech—!"
After its head