Chu Mu turned and fled.
He dared not look back or linger.
He plunged into the depths of chaos, swift as lightning, his nine-colored glazed body tracing a dazzling arc through the chaos.
As for the Nine Provinces Heavenly Dao, which he had almost finished devouring, he abandoned it outright.
If he did not flee now, Li Yang would surely cut him down.
"You can't kill me! You're half-dead already, without even a physical body! What are you going to kill me with?!"
He roared as he fled.
There was fear in his voice, and defiance too.
He, a transmigrator with a system, an Innate Dao Embryo, the prospective sovereign of the Three Great Domains, had actually been driven into a desperate flight by a dying man.
He could not accept it.
But that sword light drew ever closer.
The speed unleashed by the Stunning Sword Strike was terrifying.
There was no way to see the process of its approach.
All one could see was a red dot, but in an instant, that dot would swallow one's entire field of vision.
It was as though it transformed instantly from a one-dimensional point into a two-dimensional line.
Li Yang said nothing, nor did he need to.
His consciousness had completely merged into the Stunning Rainbow Sword. That sword was him, and he was that sword.
Where its edge pointed, chaos retreated; where its sword intent reached, all things were annihilated.
Everything along the path of the sword dao intent Li Yang had become was destroyed.
This was a killing move of the Sword Dao, and an ultimate sublimation.
Chu Mu had seen Li Yang unleash the Stunning Sword Strike many times.
But this strike was vastly different from all those before it, and not merely because its attack had risen to