How powerful was this sword?
At River Viewing Terrace, it had slain Qin Zhizhen, a cultivator of the Heavenly Mansion.
Now Jiang Wang himself had reached the Heavenly Mansion realm. With the Five Palaces Shining Together, this sword came crashing down like a mountain, and the world seemed to turn upside down.
Neither Huan Tao nor Swallow wanted to meet it head-on.
Even though they were both renowned experts of the Outer Tower realm!
So they could only retreat.
The sword tip had yet to strike the spear tip, but Huan Tao was already flying backward.
He seemed to have been struck, unable to withstand its force, his whole body reeling backward.
As he fell back, the iron spear in his hand swept upward in a half-circle.
The arc of light was like a crescent moon, like a curved blade, slashing back at Jiang Wang from the front as if to split his heart and lay him out as a corpse.
But it could not come anywhere near Jiang Wang.
It did not need to!
What made this spear arc powerful was not its sharpness or its lethality, but its ability to disrupt "momentum"!
The upward slash looked so simple, yet it was one of the "Nineteen Arc Styles" that had once made cultivators throughout the world tremble at the Mo Sect's name.
The Mo Sect dominated the world with its mechanical puppets. Its Puppet Warriors could even fight true cultivators head-on.
The Mo Warriors, for instance, were a classic example.
But Puppet Warriors were ultimately different from true cultivators.
Dao Essence Stones powered them, allowing them to rival Dao Essence. The various moves engraved into them, made part of their instincts, were no inferior to the techniques of ordinary cultivators.
Yet "momentum" and "intent"—powers on the spiritual level—could not