The Square Heaven Painted Halberd drew upon the majestic power of the laws and cleaved down toward Lu Lin. His pupils contracted sharply as a fatal sense of danger surged over him like a tide.
The halberd had yet to reach him, but its icy, razor-sharp edge arrived first. Pain stabbed through his scalp, as if his entire head were about to explode the next instant.
Clang!
The Blood Pattern Steel Sword on his back sensed its master's peril and flew from its sheath of its own accord. Wrapped in crackling thunder, it rose to meet the True Lord Spiritual Treasure.
Clang!
A deafening crash erupted.
The Blood Pattern Steel Sword wailed as it flew backward. The spiritual light on its blade dimmed abruptly, revealing a massive notch that nearly split it in two.
But that single block finally checked the Square Heaven Painted Halberd's descent, if only for an instant.
That instant was a chance to live!
"Martial Dao Scourge, exchange!"
Lu Lin's thought rang out like a thunderclap.
In an instant, a charge of Martial Dao Scourge empowered him, and the thunder erupting around his body suddenly grew incomparably fierce and violent.
The fifth form of the Nine Heavens True Thunder Art—Ten Thousand Thunders Returning to Origin!
The endless thunder no longer scattered in all directions. Instead, it converged and compressed furiously, condensing in the blink of an eye into a giant sword forged purely from destructive lightning.
Empowered by Martial Dao Scourge, the thunderous battle sword's might surged. Carrying an intent to tear apart all things, it slashed at the transparent threads binding him.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—!
The incomparably resilient Thousand Threads melted and snapped beneath the thunder sword's unyielding, blazing force, like snow beneath the scorching sun.
Lu Lin's body grew light. He was free again!