"Shing-!"
Amid a blade cry like the roar of an ancient ferocious beast, Blade Slave, with the manifestation of a strange deity appearing behind him, slashed down at Li Yezhu without hesitation, even after seeing him weave several spiderwebs before himself in succession with spider demon battle intent.
"Swish!"
With a sound of cleaving air mingled with the shattering of metal and stone, a blade mark tore across the sky, slicing open that entire stretch of heaven and earth, including the spiderwebs before Li Yezhu.
"Boom!"
Immediately afterward, as a deafening explosion rang out, waves of heat formed from blade qi surged out of the blade mark Blade Slave had carved across the sky, sweeping toward Li Yezhu with overwhelming force like heavenly might suddenly descending.
Most inconceivably of all, as the waves of heat formed from blade qi engulfed Li Yezhu, the phantom of a giant hand appeared out of thin air and lifted both Li Yezhu and those blazing waves of heat formed from blade qi.
"Slash!"
At the same time that giant hand appeared out of thin air, many people heard a faint, elusive voice issuing an edict suddenly sound between heaven and earth.
The voice issuing the edict seemed to say "slash," yet it also seemed to say "kill," and sounded somewhat like "annihilate."
Yet even those who could not make out what that furious shout said felt an inexplicable chill of fear upon hearing it.
"Bang!..."
Before the chill of fear in the hearts of those watching through the Spirit Mirror could fade, the giant hand clenched hard, and the blade flames in its grasp abruptly exploded.
A blast of air mixed with white mist swept violently across that stretch of heaven and earth.
When the blast dispersed, everyone turned their eyes back to Li