Yi Zi's two incarnations reacted differently as they faced Zhang Yu's sword strike. The incarnation that had taken the form of a true dragon twisted its body, and clouds surged beneath its feet, concealing it within.
Amid the drifting mist, its body could vaguely be seen hidden within. Zhang Yu's sword struck down at where the body clearly ought to have been, yet cut only into empty space.
Yi Zi had transformed part of his body into formless cloud vapor to evade the killing force of the external tribulation. Yet although Zhang Yu's strike had not touched his physical body, its fundamental Dao method was still conveyed through it.
In but an instant, countless shattered dragon scales and fragments of flesh scattered from the invisible clouds, golden blood drifting everywhere through the air.
Knowing it could not avoid the blow, the dragon body curled and turned, vanishing without a trace in an instant.
Zhang Yu's gaze flickered. He immediately recognized that this person had abruptly shrunk from a towering giant into something as minute as dust. Without the Eye Seal's observation, he would not have been easy to detect. The moment Zhang Yu caught sight of him, he swept up his sleeve and brought down another sword!
At the same time, the other Yi Zi, who still retained human form, faced the sword Zhang Yu had slashed across the void. He pushed outward with one hand, and layer upon layer of light and shadow appeared. Heaven and earth seemed to be split into countless pieces in an instant.
Yet Zhang Yu saw through it at once. This was no technique that shattered and severed the spatial domain. Rather, Yi Zi had transformed into hundreds and thousands of himself in a single instant.
Because a true dragon possessed an overwhelmingly powerful