This time, the Heart Demon did not dodge.
Not because he did not want to, but because the Mysterious Crane's aura had locked him firmly in place.
He could still toy with Lu Changfeng at the peak of the Sixth Realm in the palm of his hand, but Lu Changfeng in the Seventh Realm was an opponent who stood on the same level as him.
He drew a deep breath and drove the power of his Qiongqi Dharma Form to its utmost limit. The scales on his limbs abruptly thickened, the wings beneath his ribs snapped open, and dark-golden killing intent surged out like a tsunami, crashing fiercely against the black blade light descending from the sky.
"BOOM!!!"
Over the wilderness outside Chang'an City, a black sun seemed to rise without warning.
Shock waves spread wildly in every direction from the point where the two collided. Trees snapped at the waist, enormous rocks crumbled to dust, and even a section of the battlements on the distant city wall collapsed from the tremors.
When the light faded.
The Heart Demon Yu Zhou's feet had sunk three feet into the ground. Spiderweb cracks spread through the earth beneath him, and his arms were crossed before his chest. Most of the scales on them had shattered, and dark-golden blood seeped from the cracks, dripping into the dust.
Lu Changfeng had returned to human form and knelt on one knee a hundred feet away. The Delusion-Cutting Blade stood slantwise in the ground beside him, its hilt still humming.
Both men were panting.
Blood ran from the corners of both their mouths.
The difference was that Lu Changfeng's aura was still climbing.
The effects of Reverse Heaven and Earth had not yet ended. He slowly rose from the ground and grasped the hilt of the