Ye Han surged forward with the Cloud-Chasing Divine Steps, his feet seeming to tread wind-and-fire wheels as he whipped up a raging hurricane...
The Truefire Gourd above his head continuously blasted out scorching fireballs, bombarding the Ironclad Beasts and sending them flying with agonized howls...
However, Ye Han was not unleashing the Truefire Gourd's full power. Though the fireballs were astonishingly hot, they merely reddened the Ironclad Beasts' armor or sent them flying with the force of their explosions, rather than killing them outright.
As Ye Han charged past, the Millennium Ironwood Swords unleashed streak after streak of razor-sharp Qing Xuan Sword-Ray, attacking the Ironclad Beasts in a dazzling flurry.
The sword-rays struck with astonishing speed, easily piercing the Ironclad Beasts' heat-reddened scales.
Were these Ironclad Beasts not renowned for the incredible defensive strength of their scales?
Why were the sword-rays piercing them so easily?
A closer look would reveal the secret. When the flaming fireballs spewed by the Truefire Gourd struck the Ironclad Beasts, a change occurred.
The scales on the Ironclad Beasts' bodies actually stood upright on their own...
This was a little-known trait of Ironclad Beasts. When their armored scales encountered intense heat, or whenever they were exposed to high temperatures, they naturally raised their scales to dissipate the heat...
Ye Han had happened upon this detail while reading and committed it to memory.
That was why he had released the Truefire Gourd. When its scorching fireballs and flames struck the Ironclad Beasts, heat of that level was not enough to injure them...
But it could make the Ironclad Beasts' scales open, weakening their defenses ever so slightly.
Even if it left only the tiniest gap.
Yet Ye Han's divine sense and swordsmanship were now far beyond what they had once been. Although he was still using