East Mother's expression tightened slightly. She extended one hand, faint sunlight glowing from her middle finger and thumb. With a gentle pinch, the azure sword was fixed before her.
Sword light flickered across the blade. As East Mother exerted force with her fingertips, it transformed into specks of fluorescent radiance and scattered away.
Yet East Mother's expression remained grim, because the sword that had struck at her was not tangible. While Yu Chen attacked her, he had also sent a sword slash toward West Mother.
Though the two sword strikes came one after the other, there was no gap between them when they fell upon the two goddesses.
Thus, West Mother, who wished to aid East Mother, had no time to defend herself. She stepped back, wisps of moonlight rising over her body as she swiftly widened the distance from the sword—and from East Mother as well.
Yu Chen's sword took the opportunity to sever a trace of the intangible connection between them. The power that had been suppressed within him swiftly recovered by more than half.
"Impressive. To think you could manipulate Cosmic Light and disrupt our perception within the Mount Hexu we constructed—such methods are no less than those great gods who command Cosmic Light. However, we two also know a few arts involving Cosmic Light. Let us use this Mount Hexu as our foundation and test them out, to see which of us is stronger."
East Mother looked at Yu Chen with some emotion, but in the next instant, a golden ruler appeared in her hand. She struck it toward Yu Chen.
The ruler radiated sunlight throughout its body, its surface engraved with the scene of the Void-Union Mountains. When it struck, it carried the power of the surrounding Void-Union Mountains, clearly intending to prevent Yu Chen