"Sever!"
Holding the Heavenly Abyss Sword, Qin Hao unhesitatingly slashed at the root of a greenwood vine.
Shhk!
His sword struck the thick greenwood vine, several yards in diameter, squarely. With a slicing sound, it left a cut only half an inch deep.
"So hard?" Qin Hao froze slightly. There were countless greenwood vines here, most of them intertwined in a tangled mass, each several yards in diameter.
He had thought a casual slash, even relying solely on the Heavenly Abyss Sword's might, would suffice to split the root and extract the most concentrated essence of the greenwood vine.
Instead, he had merely left a half-inch sword wound in it.
"Heavenly materials and earthly treasures at the chaos origin level really are rather special." Qin Hao nodded inwardly. Even a slash from his low-grade divine artifact had failed to sever it.
Still, Qin Hao was in no hurry. The Heavenly Abyss Sword was a low-grade divine artifact, but he had not put his full strength into that slash. He had not even used its sword soul, and the power he had unleashed was less than one percent of his full strength.
Even so, he had wounded the greenwood vine, so cutting it apart completely should not pose much of a problem.
Hum, hum, hum...
With a thought, Qin Hao mobilized all the Heaven and Earth Ancient Way and world power he had already released. But before he could pour them into the Heavenly Abyss Sword—
The next instant!
The countless greenwood vines in front of him, to his left, to his right, and behind him seemed to have been provoked. Their thick tendrils began writhing like enormous snakes.
Even the vast Life Chaos Origin in this region grew restless.
Qin Hao's heart jolted.
"What's going on?"
Could his slash have