"Sixth soul skill, Dark Demon Heaven-Shaking!"
The sixth spirit ring beneath Jiang Peng's feet, a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, blazed with black light as he hurled the enormous axe in his hand at Ji Juechen with brute force.
The enormous axe spun rapidly through the air, whistling as it hurtled toward Ji Juechen wreathed in black-and-red flames. Ji Juechen did not dodge. Instead, he stood where he was and closed his eyes.
He raised his longsword high, its blade radiating azure light as keen sword intent swirled around him.
Just as the enormous axe was about to strike him, Ji Juechen snapped his eyes open. The Soul Tool Longsword in his hand met the Heaven-Shaking Axe head-on, but rather than striking its blade, he struck its handle.
Ji Juechen's strike sent the Heaven-Shaking Axe flying, but Jiang Peng did not panic at the sight. The first spirit ring beneath his feet lit up, and he waved both hands through the air. The deflected Heaven-Shaking Axe changed direction in midair, tracing a bizarre arc as it attacked Ji Juechen from behind.
But Ji Juechen was no fool with no battle sense. All those fights at the academy over the years had not been for nothing. He turned the longsword in his right hand and held it behind his back to block.
Seeing the attack blocked, Jiang Peng began waving his hands again, and the Heaven-Shaking Axe shifted with his movements.
This was the signature technique Jiang Peng had developed through his first soul skill, a unique method of attack that belonged to him alone.
Through the control afforded by his first soul skill, he could make the Heaven-Shaking Axe attack eighteen times in succession while airborne. That was why he had named this technique the Eighteen Dragon-Slaying Forms.
After blocking