Big Brother, Your Heart Is Still Black Enough

Lin Yi slashed out with his sword.

The star pirate leader hurriedly raised his blade to block. The instant blade and sword collided, his expression changed drastically. The force surged along the blade and into both arms, numbing the web between his thumb and forefinger and sending him flying backward from the blow.

Lin Yi gave him no chance to catch his breath.

Dao's Carefree Song surged into motion, and with a flash, he appeared directly behind the star pirate leader's backward flight path.

Sensing the aura at his back, the star pirate leader forcibly circulated his spiritual power to halt his retreat. Gritting his teeth, he twisted around and slashed at Lin Yi with all his strength.

The blade light swelled violently, wrapped in every last shred of spiritual power within him—a desperate all-or-nothing strike.

"Tch." Lin Yi let out a soft laugh.

That earlier sword strike had already let him gauge the other man's limits.

The Dao-Derivation Realm was real enough, but his foundation was unstable, his spiritual power impure, and his blade technique crude. At this level, he would be crushed beneath the feet of any prodigy in the Eight Domains.

His left foot stepped forward.

His right hand drew back at his waist to gather strength. As spiritual power churned, layer upon layer of Ferocious Beast phantoms condensed behind him. Savage Bulls, Giant Apes, falcon wings, Turtle Shells—more than a dozen Ferocious Beast silhouettes spread across the starry sky, their pressure forcing the surrounding meteors to scatter outward.

The next second, all the phantoms surged forward at once. The outlines of more than a dozen Ferocious Beasts converged into the dragon-shaped phantom at the forefront.

After the illusory dragon devoured every other phantom, scales surfaced across its body, its dragon claws solidified, and light ignited in