Inside the secret chamber, neither particularly large nor small, Ding Songyan looked at Sun Feiyang, who had died with his eyes still open. His gaze swept around and settled on a tottering wall riddled with sword marks and puncture holes.
It was the wall nearest the passage.
Ding Songyan felt that his finest performance in the battle, the part that had pushed his strength to its absolute limit, was using Dao One Sword to pin down Sun Feiyang, "Evil Through and Through," completely. He had given him no opportunity to break through a wall and escape, or even to inflict much damage on the chamber.
That was almost unimaginable in a clash between fighters at the perfected Law Realm: their surroundings had barely been damaged!
By comparison, using Dream Sword to plant a mental weakness and lay a deception in advance, Candlelight Sword Intent to counter evil thoughts and the eight winds, Establishing the Six Harmonies to briefly restrain Sun Feiyang's invisible wings and leave him "hanging" in midair as a target, Return All Things to One to dissolve illusory evil deeds, the heavenly mind state to impersonate a Great Grandmaster and awaken Sun Feiyang's fear, Winter Sword Intent primarily for deception, and Summer Sword Intent in conjunction with Sun-Shooting Arrow Qi while alternating between fast and slow-all had performed as Ding Songyan expected. Though he had brought a lifetime of learning to bear, racked his brains, and given his all, these had remained relatively within his control.
Only Dao One Sword had been different. Even with the Hundun State's remote ability to "listen to force" and the heavenly mind state's grasp of the void aura, achieving what he had in that battle was exceedingly difficult for Ding Songyan at his current level. He even wondered whether the life-and-death struggle