"Roar!"
Spattering beast blood, scarlet-gold saber light, and the giant beast's repeated roars plunged the mining pit into fierce combat.
After his first slash, Outer Gang surged around Chen Jue. He left an afterimage tracing an unpredictable path through the pit, like a butterfly fluttering up and down, circling Bai Ze as he unleashed dazzling arcs of saber force.
The first few arcs opened long, broad wounds across Bai Ze's body. But with every passing second, the Five-Colored Radiance surrounding Bai Ze stopped dispersing evenly after Chen Jue's saber force tore it apart. Instead, it suddenly twisted and condensed into a solid, five-colored energy mirror in midair, which flew up and down around its body to block his slashes.
"Confining energy? Concentrating it to a high degree? There are actually signs of localized crystallization!"
"Is this a conversion from energy into solid mass?" Chen Jue's pupils contracted at the sight. When his saber first struck that Mental Barrier, it had felt like slicing through thin paper.
Now, when he slashed again, the sensation of an edge sharp enough to tear through anything changed instantly. It was like cutting into a non-Newtonian gel: the blade could not advance an inch.
A closer look revealed that the rainbow light spreading from the five-colored prism's surface had actually enveloped Chen Jue's saber force!
Not only that, even the physical blade was firmly blocked by the crystallized five-colored prism at that instant.
Enraged, Bai Ze accelerated, swinging a foreleg with violent force and whipping up a fierce gale as it swatted sideways at Chen Jue.
Its door-sized paw broke the sound barrier the moment it swung out, stirring up masses of white airwaves in Chen Jue's field of vision.
But things were different now. Previously, Chen Jue had yet to comprehend Martial Blood Force,