Lin Mo held his staff, the magic crystal atop it glowing with an exceedingly pure white light.
His lips moved slightly, and his vast mental power rapidly accelerated the construction of the formation model for the forbidden spell's incantation, which had originally been as lengthy as an epic.
The seventh-order single-target forbidden spell, Heavenly Punishment Sacred Sword, which normally required over a full minute and even assistance from a Mage Corps to channel, had its nodes linked in a mere ten seconds!
Riiip!
The heavens were torn wide open. A pure-white greatsword dozens of meters long pierced the clouds, its blade wreathed in savage sacred flames as it plunged with world-shattering pressure!
Before the greatsword even landed, loose stones on the hillside below began floating and shattering!
Kael's pupils contracted sharply. He clearly had not expected Lin Mo to compress a seventh-order spell's casting time to this extent.
Not daring to take any chances, he abruptly reversed the Holy Spirit Chains that had been targeting Lin Mo, transforming them into overlapping layers of Holy Radiance Curtain to meet the Heavenly Punishment Sacred Sword overhead.
BOOM-!!!
The two terrifying high-order spells collided violently in midair. An enormous, blazing-white ball of light expanded with a deafening thunderclap, and the entire mountain range shook violently.
The raging shock wave swept outward, clearing away every cloud within a thousand-meter radius.
Before the dust and scattered light element had fully dispersed, Lin Mo had already lowered his hands and stood still, steadying the surging magic power within him.
His eyes were filled with astonishment.
That single Heavenly Punishment Sacred Sword could have drained almost the entire magic power reserve of an ordinary Sixth-Rank Grand Mage.
Yet now, when he looked inward at his mental sea, the lake of magic power that resembled a boundless sea