Facing this swift attack.
Devil Abyss swung his staff crosswise to block.
The black staff rose vertically before his chest, and the instant the shaft collided with the tip, another ring of intertwined gold and violet shockwaves exploded outward.
The shockwave spread in a circle in all directions, producing a dull echo when it struck the Coiling Dragon Pillars at the edge of the arena.
The Gold-Patterned Restrictions on the pillars' surfaces flashed for an instant under the shockwave's wash.
His body was shoved half a step backward by the force of that thrust, his heel scraping a shallow mark into the ground.
Fine dark-violet motes slowly dissipated along the edge of that mark.
"You only know how to hit people with the tip of your staff?"
After steadying himself, Devil Abyss flipped the black staff half a turn and raised it overhead in both hands.
"Then I'll smash you with the shaft."
His arms slammed downward, and the black staff came crashing down from above toward Sun Wang's head.
As the shaft descended, the dark-violet magma patterns over the black staff's surface surged at the same time, forming a constantly rotating dark-violet halo around it.
The halo spun at terrifying speed, churning all the surrounding air into a warped vortex.
The vortex was mixed with dense fragments of demonic laws, every fragment emitting a piercing slicing sound.
Those slicing sounds layered together into a continuous, low hum, threaded through with tiny crackling explosions.
It was as though countless miniature explosions were occurring and vanishing at the exact same instant.
The black staff's shaft continued expanding as it pressed downward.
One magma pattern after another lit up along its body.
They illuminated from the tip to the tail, turning the entire black staff into a pillar of light blazing with