Du Tianhuo looked like a god of war bathed in fire. The green flames burning around his body made him seem far larger and more imposing. His weapon was a meteor hammer, and its blazing iron head hurtled toward Hu Xiaotian's face like a shooting star chasing the moon.
Hu Xiaotian thought little of Du Tianhuo's martial arts. Although Du Tianye had displayed considerable strength when he lifted the bronze bell earlier, few people alive could defeat Hu Xiaotian in a head-on contest of internal power. What concerned him was Du Tianhuo's fire-setting art. He aimed the Delicate-Brow Saber at the approaching Flaming Meteor and slashed. Clang! A piercing metallic ring sounded, and the flames clinging to the Flaming Meteor scattered in all directions, instantly becoming a skyful of drifting fire that closed in on Hu Xiaotian.
Green flames also caught on the point where the Delicate-Brow Saber had struck the Flaming Meteor, racing along the blade toward its hilt. It was this drifting fire that had frightened off Blade Demon Feng Xingyun earlier.
Hu Xiaotian had anticipated this. After their weapons clashed, he swiftly retreated, using the Void Art to form a void qi vortex within his Dantian Sea of Qi. Drawn by its powerful suction, the scattered flames rushed madly toward him, each one like a moth throwing itself into a fire.
Du Tianhuo was overjoyed at the sight, convinced that Hu Xiaotian would now be burned to ashes. Yet not a single flame reached Hu Xiaotian's body. Instead, they clung one after another to the blade of the Delicate-Brow Saber. Hu Xiaotian swung the saber, stretching the drifting fire along its blade into a flame serpent twenty feet long. Gathering his strength, he used the saber as a sword and attempted a move from the Seven Heaven-Slaying