Fire Wuhai had also underestimated Gu Chen's strength. Gu Chen's second primordial spirit invaded the Solar Divine Pearl, wielding a Black Fiend Sword in one hand and a Fire Cloud Chain in the other, intent on strangling him to death.
Fire Wuhai had been sitting inside the pearl, but now he rose and released three hundred and sixty Sun Gods Needles. Each unleashed boundless needles of light, sending hundreds of millions of divine rays shooting outward to strike the Black Fiend Sword and Fire Cloud Chain incessantly. Every impact burst into showers of sparks.
He also spread his ten fingers, shooting ten streams of Greater Yang Sword Qi from his fingertips.
Shi Feiyang had devised this cultivation method specifically for him, extrapolating from the yin-yang and five elements Sword Qi techniques in Hesha's Marvelous Book. It blended Greater Yang essence qi with his own true essence to forge Sword Qi. It shared the same lineage as the five elements Sword Qi, but lacked the many transformations arising from the elements' mutual generation and restraint. Instead, it pursued absolute purity and utmost yang, giving it a distinctive power of its own.
The ten streams of Sword Qi surged forward and first entangled the Black Fiend Sword.
The Heavenly Lust Cult Master had helped Gu Chen forge this Black Fiend Sword over a thousand years ago, when he first embarked on cultivation. But during his battle with Elder Longbrow, the Azure Cord Sword had severed it into several pieces. He later retrieved the broken pieces and rejoined them, continually drawing yin fiend qi from the earth lung underground and infusing it into the sword to strengthen it.
Against anyone else, this sword would still have swept all before it. Against Fire Wuhai, however, it was already restrained by true solar fire. Once