"Whoosh!"
This time, the Human Sovereign Sword did not slash at all the iron chains in one stroke as before, but only at the one closest to Xu Taiping.
"Bang!"
With a tremendous explosive crash, the iron chain snapped beneath the Human Sovereign Sword.
Yet none of those watching felt any joy at that moment.
The key was whether Xu Taiping could withstand the lightning backlash from the Dragon Clan's sealing restrictions next.
"Boom!"
Almost as soon as the Human Sovereign Sword fell, Xu Taiping had assumed the fist stance of the Ancestral Sage Fist's Heaven-Blocking Stance. The instant the chain broke, the qi and blood power within him transformed into a Bull Demon Phantom, which shielded him beneath it with its arms raised to hold up the heavens.
Although his physique had suffered severe damage from the power of thunder, he still had a great deal of qi and blood power left.
However, because of the Dragon Clan's power of thunder, his physique continued to recover very slowly despite that remaining qi and blood power.
"Boom!"
Almost the instant the Bull Demon Phantom appeared with its arms raised to hold up the heavens, a bolt of lightning as thick as the mouth of a bowl, formed from the Dragon Clan's power of thunder, struck straight down upon it.
"Bang!"
Though the Bull Demon Phantom formed from qi and blood power dispersed eighty percent of the lightning's force, the remaining twenty percent still struck Xu Taiping's true body.
"Boom!"
In an instant, all of Xu Taiping's qi and blood power was blasted apart, and his body was once again engulfed and scorched by the power of thunder.
For a time, the smoke and dust over the stone platform once again obscured the image in the spirit mirror.
For a time,