Sword Qi?
That wasn't right.
When had he unleashed Sword Qi?
How had I failed to notice?
No—
I'd been on guard the whole time. He couldn't have wounded me without warning.
Even a lion used all its strength to catch a rabbit.
I had to go all out too, or risk capsizing in a roadside ditch!
"Sever."
Song Jianzhou barked. Dense, surging Sword Qi erupted from his body, gathering in midair into a colossal sword shadow a hundred meters long that shot straight at Xu Yuan!
At the same time.
"Dance."
Xu Yuan uttered a single word.
A long road appeared before the little building. Red walls and green tiles lined both sides, with branches of apricot blossoms reaching over the walls and swaying in the wind.
In an instant.
Hundreds of wounds split open across Song Jianzhou's body, spraying blood mist into the sky.
The blow interrupted his Sword Seal, leaving the colossal sword shadow blurred and indistinct.
—Law Imago: Blood-Mud Blossoms!
This was the Imago that followed Night Rain Sealed Cage. Invisible Sword Qi invaded the enemy's body, destroying everything within, shaping blood into flowers that unfurled and burst through the flesh.
"I see. You unleashed this Imago while I was converting your Swordsmanship!"
Song Jianzhou burst into wild laughter and spread his arms.
"But what good is an attack like this?"
"Before the Law of conversion, every attack becomes mine to use!"
Song Jianzhou abandoned the Greatsword and changed the Spell Seal in his hands.
—Law Imago: Hundred Birds Paint Spring!
The giant bird suddenly burst apart into flock after flock, filling the sky as they swept toward Xu Yuan.
Every bird possessed a Law.
Together, they wielded the power of a hundred Laws!
The birds fluttered down onto the apricot branches lining the path and