"She's still fighting!" A sharp light flared in Chu Tian's eyes.
"Foolish remnant soul, your resistance is meaningless." The Corpse Lord's mechanical voice gained the upper hand again, and his gray-white eyes turned cold once more.
"My sister's life isn't yours to define!" Without hesitation, Chu Tian put away the Hongmeng Human Emperor Sword. His hands flashed through seals as he drove his Taiyi Freedom Dao Heart far past its limits.
Transparent, colorless laws became billions of causal probes finer than hair. They ignored the terrifying defenses around the Life Corpse Lord and pierced straight into the immense body of the Ancestral Phoenix!
"Find her! Find her!" Chu Tian clenched his teeth until they cracked, blood spilling from the corner of his mouth. Searching for one remnant soul in the Corpse Lord's vast labyrinth of assimilating laws was like hunting for a needle in the sea.
One breath, two breaths, three breaths...
Just as the Corpse Lord's laws of assimilation were about to grind Chu Tian's divine sense to dust—
"Clang! Clang! Clang!..."
Deep within the Ancestral Phoenix, from a heart channel wrapped in layer upon layer of gray-white death qi, came nine faint but unmistakably rhythmic phoenix cries!
Nine phoenix cries! It was the desperate-situation signal Chu Tian and Chu Yueyao had agreed on while fighting side by side in the Taichu Myriad Phenomena Tower!
"Found you! Rat, get out of my way!"
Chu Tian roared and thrust out his right hand. The Taiyi Human Emperor Seal appeared in his palm, blazing with supreme golden light. He did not use the seal to strike the body. Instead, he turned the authority of the Human Emperor Seal into an invisible blade of will!
"Opening Heaven Beyond! Split this damned layer of consciousness open!"
Chu Tian and the seal became one,