White Brow Heavenly Lord reacted with lightning speed. The moment he saw that something was wrong with Withered Leaf, he moved to intervene—but he was still a step too late.
More importantly, Withered Leaf's momentum had been too overwhelming. Once a seventh-rank powerhouse unleashed his mana, it naturally formed a domain of law, making it difficult for any outside force to enter.
More terrifying still, Gao Xian had unleashed the Thunder God Sword, forcibly cleaving through Withered Leaf's ever-changing transformations and killing this seventh-rank Heavenly Lord, who had condensed the twin wheels of essence and qi, on the spot.
Withered Leaf's powerful Yang Spirit was utterly annihilated beneath the Divine Firmament Thunder Sword. White Brow Heavenly Lord was equally decisive; without the slightest hesitation, he turned and fled.
The Heavenly Foot Passage was Buddhism's foremost escape art, said to travel unhindered through the six realms and ten directions, arriving wherever the heart moved.
The claim was naturally somewhat exaggerated, yet it still showed the profundity of the Heavenly Foot Passage.
At White Brow Heavenly Lord's level, a single thought could carry him across millions of miles.
The spatial restrictions within Bright Heaven were formidable. The Three Lives Bright Mirror lay at the center, and the void restrictions surrounding it were even more intricate and mysterious. White Brow Heavenly Lord could not escape their constraints either. His Heavenly Foot Passage had not carried him very far; he had merely shifted to the other side of the Three Lives Bright Mirror.
Just as White Brow Heavenly Lord's form emerged from the rippling void, a keen sword light was already thrusting straight at him.
This sword pierced through space and found White Brow Heavenly Lord with perfect precision. Its peerlessly fierce sword qi severed the many shifts of mana in the surrounding void,