"Star Punishment!"
Gu Chenfeng's Primordial Spirit let out a stern, commanding shout.
The battle axe in its hands cleaved down.
Whoosh!
An axe shadow wrapped in silvery-white starlight swept toward the assassin.
The immense power gathered within the axe shadow made the black-clad assassin's expression change sharply, and he hastily shook his saber.
After shaking Gu Chenfeng's physical body away, he turned his saber and met the starlit axe shadow head-on.
Rumble...!
The saber collided with the illusory axe shadow, yet the impact erupted in a muffled, thunderous blast.
The two forces remained locked for a moment.
Bang!
The starlit axe shadow exploded.
The black-clad assassin was also sent staggering backward through the air, but even so, he had managed to withstand the strike.
Yet in the very next instant-
Boom!
Suddenly, a tremendous crash rang out from the black-clad assassin's Divine Platform. An axe shadow formed of divine sense had struck it viciously.
A domineering, overwhelming axe intent pierced through his Divine Platform, violently battering his Sea of Consciousness and Primordial Spirit.
"Ngh!"
The black-clad assassin grunted, his body convulsing violently as bloody mist sprayed from all seven of his facial orifices at once.
Horror filled his heart. He had never imagined that this axe strike could attack his Primordial Spirit directly.
He wanted to continue pursuing Gu Chenfeng, but his head hurt as though it would burst, his divine sense churned violently, and his Primordial Spirit was so severely injured that he could not continue the pursuit at all.
He could only sit cross-legged at once, circulate his cultivation, and swallow several spirit pills to stabilize his injuries.
Meanwhile, after delivering that axe strike, the spirit light surrounding Gu Chenfeng's Primordial Spirit dimmed, and it abruptly shot back into his brow.
"Ngh!"
Gu Chenfeng grunted again. The vacant