Crimson Sun Heavenly Lord had cultivated for tens of thousands of years; his cultivation was profoundly deep. As a member of the Devil Race's imperial clan, he had been born with exceptionally powerful divine consciousness.
With the protection of his essence wheel and his natal Divine Artifact, the Nine Suns Heavenly King Wheel, under normal circumstances he could never have had his life force severed by a single sword strike.
Crimson Sun Heavenly Lord's soul origin had been wounded by the Soul-Seizing Divine Aspect Curse, leaving him dazed for an instant. This caused a trace of stagnation in both the mana and divine consciousness throughout his body.
Gao Xian seized that opportunity. The Wuji Divine Sword moved in response, slipping through the gap. With one strike, like spring breeze turning to rain, form dissolved into formlessness.
What made this strike even more powerful was the sword intent contained within it. In truth, it condensed the positive and negative Five Elements power of the Great Five Elements Divine Light into an extreme yin sword qi, driving it straight into Crimson Sun Heavenly Lord's yang spirit and soul.
Crimson Sun Heavenly Lord, who cultivated the Nine Suns technique, followed the path of supreme-yang fire.
The extreme-yin, extreme-cold water-element sword qi formed by the Great Five Elements Divine Light naturally restrained Crimson Sun Heavenly Lord's fire-element mana. It also made this sword strike accord with the wondrous mutual generation and restraint of heaven and earth.
As a result, the power of this strike increased severalfold.
By the time Crimson Sun Heavenly Lord awoke from his daze, it was already too late. The extreme-yin, extreme-cold sword qi had cleaved through his pure-yang divine consciousness and penetrated directly into the origin of his soul.
The formidable Crimson Sun Heavenly Lord had not yet completely lost