The terrifying sword edge fell, and the entire expanse of space twisted by illusion exploded down the middle.
Shards of shattered space sprayed in every direction like broken glass. Each shard reflected Song Ting's face.
But as the shards broke, those faces dissolved like bubbles.
The real Song Ting appeared behind them, his face slightly pale and a shallow bloodstain on his left shoulder.
"How did you...?"
There was genuine surprise in Song Ting's voice.
Blood Baleful did not answer.
He merely shouldered his greatsword, took another step forward, and uttered one word.
"Guess."
Song Ting clicked his tongue. The cut on his shoulder was healing visibly, but his eyes had changed.
For the moment, he put away his casual, teasing manner.
He formed a complex hand seal before his chest, and his figure changed rapidly amid streaming light.
He became an enormous pitch-black wolf, a hundred yards long, with bared fangs, blade-like claws, and dense black scales covering his entire body.
The giant wolf lunged at Blood Baleful.
His claws tore open five rifts in space, each spilling a black torrent from the Void.
Blood Baleful raised his sword to block. The claws slammed into the blade and drove him back dozens of yards, sword and all.
His feet plowed two white furrows across the ground.
The giant wolf's tail swept in next, striking his ribs with crushing force and knocking him sideways.
A crack opened in the shield of Killing Intent over his left ribs, and a trickle of black blood seeped through.
Blood Baleful's expression turned colder still.
He stopped abruptly, gripped his greatsword with both hands, and drove it point-first into the floor of the Arena before him.
The instant the blade entered the ground, all the Killing Intent around him poured madly into it, as