The instant the Seven Emotions Demon Lord struck, Gu Yuanqing's true body intervened in the battlefield through the Heavenly Angling Technique.
With the power of the grotto-heaven empowering him, his avatar's strength rose straight to the limit his physical body could bear.
The towering North Spring Mountain Phantom appeared around his body, radiating an overwhelming aura that had stood unchanged since time immemorial. Within it lingered a faint trace of the North Spring Grotto-Heaven's origin Dao rhythm.
The moment the seven chains of seven emotions touched the North Spring Mountain Phantom's Dao rhythm, they were like rotten hemp ropes meeting a divine blade. With a piercing creak, they snapped taut to their limit, then broke apart inch by inch. A sweep of chaos heaven vital fire purified them completely.
All seven avatars of the Seven Emotions Demon Lord reeled backward. The abrupt severing of their power sent them retreating hundreds of yards uncontrollably. Then the figures exchanged glances, every one of them shaken.
Meanwhile, Demon Lord Xuan You's long-prepared blade had already broken through the layers of spatial barriers Gu Yuanqing had hastily erected with the sword intent of the Sword of Eternal Stability for All Realms. It then forcibly pierced the Inch-Distance Heaven-End technique formed from the way of space and stabbed straight at Gu Yuanqing's back!
Yet the blade ultimately struck the North Spring Mountain Phantom, which had abruptly solidified, Dao rhythm flowing through it.
The Demonic Blade pierced the mountain phantom, but its advance slowed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
As though mired in a swamp, every inch of progress consumed a vast quantity of demonic essence. Even the Dao laws of destruction condensed upon its edge were worn away and dissolved, strand by strand, by the vast, ancient Dao rhythm flowing within the