When Chen Shurui's Seven Kill Sword slashed at Ma Liang again, a thunderous bang rang out, and the blade was violently knocked away by the flame barrier.
He felt a powerful recoil surge through him, leaving his arm slightly numb.
He was secretly startled. The flame barrier's defenses were so formidable that ordinary attacks with his Seven Kill Sword could not break through at all.
At that moment, Ma Liang resembled a phoenix bathing in fire, his entire body shrouded in scorching flames, his momentum soaring like a rainbow.
Chen Shurui had been forced back for the moment, but he gripped his Seven Kill Sword tightly, his expression unchanged.
Yet the rhythm of battle never faltered. A trace of ferocity flashed through Ma Liang's eyes, and he shouted sharply, "First soul skill-Phoenix Detonation Fist!"
At his shout, flames instantly enveloped his right hand, forming a fiercely burning fist.
Then he swung his fist hard. Dozens of streams of fist force transformed into a lifelike fire phoenix that charged swiftly at Chen Shurui with a scorching Flame Impact, its power carrying an overwhelmingly fierce momentum.
Faced with this sudden attack, Chen Shurui instinctively executed "Horizontal Peak, Side Ridge" from the Lone Peak Thirteen Swords.
He held his Seven Kill Sword across his chest. An indestructible aura radiated from the blade, like a towering mountain standing firm through wind and rain.
At the same time, he nimbly shifted sideways, using his sword as a ridge to raise several more interconnected peaks beside the first, constructing a solid defense.
Bang! Bang! Bang! The fire phoenix collided fiercely with the mountainlike blade. Under the repeated impacts of the Flame Impact, Chen Shurui was driven steadily backward, his feet gouging a deep trail into the ground.
Yet his gaze only grew firmer, for Horizontal Peak,