This was impossible.!
His killing blow had been casually blocked by the young man who had clearly been at a disadvantage. The gaunt man's pupils contracted, and then the other party's soft chuckle rang out.
The quiet words entered his ears like thunder exploding!
An unprecedented sense of danger instantly gripped the gaunt man's heart.
But it was already too late!
Boom—!
A burst of formation light expanded explosively from the white-robed young man, sending all the Shikigami, sound blades, and slashes flying. Powerful magical energy erupted from where he stood beneath the night sky.
Countless rays of light appeared, their intricate paths interweaving. Amid the precisely outlined formation patterns, two points of light rotated to form the outermost circle.
A vast and unfathomably profound radiant formation, dozens of meters across, unfolded magnificently in the night sky!
As it spread open, the light formation that had just condensed the Star Drawing Cone slowly rose toward its core.
The two formations nested together, their light as bright as day!
At that moment, bathed in the glow of the massive arcane formation overhead, his hair and white robes fluttered in the luminous wind. The young man raised his Jade Ruler high and smiled devoutly, his expression soaring.
"Bind the dragon as the catalyst."
As the glorious golden formation activated, he opened a pair of radiant eyes like those of a Divine Lord.
"Let starlight become splendor!"
The instant his words fell, the Star Drawing Cone in the formation's core abruptly enlarged. Empowered by the radiant formation dozens of meters wide, the already formidable attack seemed to be "amplified," ascending into a strike of an even higher order.
As the mysteries of formations revealed themselves, the enormous Star Drawing Cone, over ten meters long, resembled the spearhead of Heaven's Punishment!
Within the fierce