Xie Approaching the Abyss tilted his head back and watched the axe cleave toward him.
In that instant, his right hand wrote a Replacement Character.
The instant the Replacement Character took shape, he exchanged positions with a fragment of stone brick that had been shaken loose three zhang away.
The axe struck where he had stood, dimming the Gold-Patterned Restriction on the stone brick's surface for an instant, but Xie Approaching the Abyss had already appeared on the other side of the Arena.
"Replacement Character."
Lang Tu landed on the stone brick. His dark green slit pupils swept over the cloth-robed figure across the Arena, and a trace of gravity flashed through them.
"You really have mastered the literary path."
Xie Approaching the Abyss withdrew his right hand, his face a shade paler than before.
Although the Replacement Character could exchange positions, each use consumed a considerable amount of his Haoran Righteous Qi.
The inky light at his fingertips trembled slightly, as though bearing some kind of sustained pressure.
His breathing had quickened a fraction, but he kept it steady, preventing Lang Tu opposite him from noticing his expenditure.
"Heh heh..."
"I'm getting serious."
"Be careful."
"Don't die..."
Lang Tu began to fight seriously.
He switched the axe from his left hand back to his right, then sharply dragged his left hand across the back of his right claw. Dark red blood welled from the reopened old wound there.
The blood gathered in his palm into a thin, dark red membrane, its surface seething with densely packed Killing Intent runes.
He slapped the membrane onto the axe's face, and in that instant, the entire weapon became a blood axe formed wholly of Killing Intent.
Killing Intent filled every notch in the axe's face, and the dark red light along its