Half-Step Lamp-Lighting

A Lamp-Lighting strike... could not even wound him?

Among ordinary Lotus-Seeding Great Demons, You Wujiang believed few were his match.

Yet before a young demon born to ancient blood and armed with a mighty treasure,

he was so utterly powerless.

The Cosmic Demon King was pleased with their reactions.

"Now that you know how high the heavens are and how deep the earth is, you can..."

"Be on your way!"

Before his words had faded,

Boom!

Golden light flashed.

The Cosmic Demon King vanished from where he stood.

The next instant,

he appeared before Jiang Yuechu.

"Die!"

The Fangtian Halberd came crashing down with the force of ten thousand thunderbolts.

But

the grisly sight he expected never came.

It was as though someone had cut off a roaring river at its source.

Amid the dust filling the sky,

the halberd blade hung three inches above the young woman's head.

It could advance no farther.

The Cosmic Demon King's pupils contracted sharply.

Beneath the blade,

five slender fingers had clamped around its crescent edge.

Jiang Yuechu's head was slightly bowed, her hair veiling most of her face.

Only her red cloak snapped in the violent currents of air.

"You..."

Horror seized the Cosmic Demon King.

He had put all his strength into that strike.

He had even poured most of his Demon Essence into it.

How could she have caught it like this?

The Cosmic Demon King strained with both arms, while the wings on his back beat furiously, whipping up gusts of foul wind.

But no matter how hard he pushed,

she did not budge an inch!

Below him,

the young woman who had kept her head lowered slowly straightened.

Her red cloak surged like waves rising on a sea of blood.

Jiang Yuechu slowly raised her eyes.

From her