After the Void Silver-Eyed Beast burned its life essence, its silver fur turned dark red from the roots.
Its feet did not move, yet six claws appeared before Bai Jin's chest at once. Pitch-black rifts trailed behind their tips; any tree that touched even one of those lines was severed, its cut surfaces sliding several feet apart.
Bai Jin stepped left.
The first claw swept past his face, and he knocked its wrist aside with the back of his hand; the second sliced toward his ribs but slowed for an instant under Limitless; the third hid in the shadows of the first two and struck straight for his heart.
Bai Jin flicked the side of its claw tip.
Soul Power burst between his knuckles, wrenching the Silver-Eyed Beast's entire foreleg outward. Bai Jin closed in, slammed his shoulder into its chest, and drove his right knee against the thinnest part of its belly armor.
Bang!
Silver blood sprayed from the gaps between its scales.
The Silver-Eyed Beast tossed its head in pain, and the second ring of light in its vertical pupil spun sharply. The forest floor beneath Bai Jin became open sky a thousand meters above the ground, and he began to fall. The Soul Beast appeared overhead, limbs tucked in, diving like a burning Dark Red Spear.
Chen Xin's Seven Kill Sword cleared its sheath completely.
He was about to cut through space when Bai Jin's laughter rang down from above.
"Senior Sword, if you're watching the show, don't steal the best spot."
The Fifth Soul Ring lit up.
Shrinking Earth compressed a thousand meters into a single step.
Bai Jin vanished midfall and appeared behind the Silver-Eyed Beast the next instant. He seized its long tail with one hand, swung himself over its body, and stamped hard