Mahoraga suddenly let out a low, rumbling roar and swept its left arm across with a whistle through the air.
The air burst under the pressure of its passing arm, and a visible streak of compressed air slammed straight toward Qingxiao.
Qingxiao raised his arm to block.
"Thud-"
The heavy, muffled impact struck his forearm like an entire wall crashing into him.
The force poured through his arm into his chest. Qingxiao dug both feet hard into the ground, bracing against the blow as he plowed backward four or five steps.
Two deep furrows scraped through the hard pavement, and broken stones burst into two waves of dust beneath his feet.
As expected of the Ten Shadows Technique's ultimate shikigami, its stats really were high.
But they were still nowhere near his!
The next second, Qingxiao pushed off and charged in again.
Mahoraga launched an all-out counterattack.
The Sword of Extermination on its right arm cleaved down with the weight of a collapsing mountain. The wind of its swing arrived first, pressing a straight trench through the dust on the ground.
The blade left a pale white afterimage in its wake. Positive cursed energy burned with a sizzling sound in the air, as though it would slice space itself apart.
Sharp metallic clangs overlapped with the roar of black thunder.
With every punch that struck the blade, Black Flash erupted first-black cursed energy darted out like serpents of lightning.
It collided with the positive cursed energy in bursts of tiny white sparks, the sizzling sound of erosion piercing the eardrums.
A vacuum-like blast of air exploded outward. A ring of ground instantly caved in, and cracks spread like a spiderweb.
The remaining physical force traveled along the blade. Mahoraga's wrist dipped slightly, and the blade veered half an inch aside.