Chen Baixiao's body was severed by a single sword strike. Like shattered porcelain, it instantly cracked into countless fragments, each grain glimmering with crystalline light beneath the starlight before turning into even finer dust and finally dispersing into nothingness.
The flying swords in the sky also shattered one after another. In less than a breath, they had completely turned to nothingness. The sword case hovering nearby shifted from solid to incorporeal, seeming to return along with his vanished worldly body to the Void Abode.
Zhang Yu flicked his wrist, and the various divided sword lights all flew back. Light rippled over the blade, sending forth a long sword cry that seemed able to shine straight into one's heart.
With this sword, he was telling Chen Baixiao: Why had he not used the art of division, convergence, and circuitous maneuvering? Because there was no need. He could break through head-on, so why resort to further transformations?
He raised his eyes toward the sky. Compared with Dan Xiaochen, Chen Baixiao was exceedingly cautious. During their clash just now, he had leaked only a trace of his aura. He had likely learned Dan Xiaochen's lesson and feared Zhang Yu might see through his Void Abode.
For cultivators like them, so long as they could not locate one another's Void Abodes, they could not truly be killed. Even if their worldly bodies were slain, they could return after a while.
But that did not matter. No matter how tightly a Void Abode was hidden, once its divine aura descended into the world and formed a worldly body, he would be able to seize a faint trace of it.
So long as the other party did not retreat, if he found opportunities to slay him several more times, he would eventually locate it.
With that