Battle Mode and Bizarre Reactions

Wu Pifu looked at his palm with satisfaction, ignoring the uncertain, alarmed expressions on the two Ascendant Bodies beside him. He drew his saber and charged straight at the Three-Legged Crow.

The Three-Legged Crow had a bird's lower body and a human upper body. Seeing this, it immediately flew into a rage. "What audacity! You've truly turned the heavens upside down! I considered you a Heaven-Favored One and at least let you complete the Heavenly Dao mission first, yet you actually..."

Before it could finish speaking, Wu Pifu, who had been charging toward it, suddenly vanished. Within an instant so brief that even its senses failed to detect it, he flashed to its side and brought his saber down. First came the high-temperature protective layer it was so proud of—an ultra-high heat far beyond that of boiling seas and incinerating mountains, with an average temperature of roughly one hundred thousand degrees. Though it was merely a thin layer covering its Ascendant Body, no mortal thing could possibly pass through that absolute defense. The instant anything touched it, it would be vaporized.

Yet now, that invisible, intangible protective layer of constant passive extreme heat was directly erased over a large area by Wu Pifu's single slash.

The Three-Legged Crow's face was still twisted in furious rage, its mouth still forming words, but shock had already appeared in its eyes. Before it could react at all, Wu Pifu's Deathbound Saber had cut across its left eye. The blade swept horizontally from its left eye to the bridge of its nose, then through its right eye. In a flash, the human head on the Three-Legged Crow's upper body was split cleanly into upper and lower halves, the severed portions directly annihilated. Its bird-like lower body then fell toward the sea as if it