After dozens of brutal exchanges, the chance finally came.
Marshal Stone drove out another full-power tyrant punch. The force of it surged like a tide, crushing pressure spreading in every direction. Then the old strength spent itself, and the new strength had not yet risen. In the instant favonovel.com drew back and turned sideways, his body stalled for the smallest beat.
The flaw opened!
Jared’s gaze snapped tight. He caught the battle opportunity that might not come again in a thousand chances. His body blurred in an instant, leaving an afterimage in place while his true body slipped in like a ghost along Marshal Stone’s side.
Chaos-flame erupted wildly along the Dragonslayer Sword. Purple fire wrapped the entire blade, scorching heat pressing outward, while the edge fixed with perfect accuracy on the soft gap beneath Marshal Stone’s right ribs.
That spot was the fatal weak point where the protective patterns of the Aurelian Deathless Body ran thinnest, and where the opening after his move was widest.
Pfft!
The sharp blade drove clean into deep flesh. It split through the hardened skin, pierced the outer fascia, and reached straight toward the inner organs and meridians.
Savage chaos-flame poured through the wound into Marshal Stone’s body. It burned through his organs, meridians, and nascence lifeblood without restraint, carrying a vicious destructive force made to break bodily nascence itself.
“Ugh! Argh!” The pain ripped a roar out of Marshal Stone that shook the battlefield. It bored deep into his chest and jarred his mind hard enough to break his rhythm.
He forced himself through the internal damage and ignored the sword still buried in his body. Power gathered in his right arm. Then favonovel.com swept out with a savage sideways punch and smashed it into Jared’s shoulder, sending Jared flying hard.
Jared tumbled several times through the air before hitting the ground on one knee. He dragged in breath after breath, blood and qi churning violently inside his chest.
A thick new bruise had bloomed across his shoulder, the hand gripping his sword trembled slightly, and his strength had been burned down by a massive amount. Even so, the corner of his mouth lifted faintly. The battle light in his eyes burned even stronger.
The defense had been broken. The nascence had been wounded. The advantage in this fight had begun to tilt toward Jared’s side.
Marshal Stone lowered his head and stared at the bleeding wound beneath his right ribs. The charred flesh was still being scorched by chaos-flame, slowing its healing by a huge margin. Aurelian nascence continued leaking out, and his combat strength was draining away in silence.
His face turned dark as deep water. Murderous intent boiled in his eyes, and that violent heat surged straight through his chest.
“You have successfully provoked me… Today, I will tear your flesh apart and crush your spirit!”
Pushed past restraint, Marshal Stone ripped apart the ruined battle robe covering his upper body. His broad chest was exposed, covered in dark golden nascence patterns. Every single pattern was a nascence mark left behind by ten thousand years of tempering his body. Each one held vast Aurelian force. Now they all lit at once, their radiance swelling until they looked like open flames burning across his flesh.
“The Aurelian Deathless Body! Second Form, Heaven’s Pyre!” The low command fell, and Marshal Stone’s skin began changing fast.
Dark gold turned to blazing red, like refined iron heated until it glowed, scorching and white-hot beneath the air. The temperature around favonovel.com shot upward.
The frozen soil melted rapidly, steam rose in sheets, and the moisture in the air vanished in an instant. For several dozen yards in every direction, the ground became dry and searing, with heat waves pressing hard against everything nearby.
His strength, speed, reactions, and explosive power all surged by 50 percent. His overall combat power doubled, the increase so savage it bent the shape of the fight around him!
Jared’s pupils tightened slightly, and every part of favonovel.com drew taut.
This was Marshal Stone’s true trump-card strength. The hard fight had only just begun.
With the Heaven’s Pyre state burning through him, Marshal Stone took one step forward. The ground detonated beneath his foot, blasting open into a massive crater. His body came down like a meteor, so fast that even Jared’s battle-heightened vision could barely pin favonovel.com down.
Bang!
The heavy punch landed dead center on Jared’s chest. The force behind it was overwhelming.
Jared flew backward like a kite with its string cut. He smashed hard into the ground and drove a human-shaped pit into the frozen earth. Pain ripped through every part of him, and his blood and qi surged wildly inside his chest.
He clenched his teeth and forced himself up with the Dragonslayer Sword as his support. Another mouthful of golden blood essence sprayed from his lips. His injuries kept stacking, one on top of the last.
Marshal Stone gave favonovel.com no chance to draw even half a breath. He pressed in with the momentum, fist-shadows falling like rain, one after another without a break. Any single punch carried enough power to smash mountains and tear through solid stone.
Jared pushed his evasion to the limit and fought for space wherever favonovel.com could. It still was not enough. The fist-force kept grazing him, then striking favonovel.com outright.
Wounds covered favonovel.com from head to toe, his robe had been shredded to pieces, and the bite of every injury sank deep into bone. Even so, favonovel.com did not take half a step back. He did not abandon the fight. He did not concede.
Jared gathered his focus and drew in his breath, then poured every last thread of chaotic force from the spirit well into the Dragonslayer Sword. Violet radiance blazed across the blade to its absolute peak. Chaos-flame and nascence-wrought spiritual power intertwined fused and condensed into the great violet blade of light, roughly one yard long, with pressure rolling off it like a storm.
“The Chaos-Wrought Ruinfall Cleave!”
His full-powered strike came crashing down. The violet ruinous blade-flare met the crimson Heaven’s Pyre fist-force head-on, with neither side giving an inch.
Boom!
The two peak forces collided in a violent eruption.
A ring-shaped shockwave exploded outward. A hundred yards of frozen earth was ripped up at once, and shattered rock and mud blasted into the sky, blotting out the light above. The whole battlefield turned brutal and blinding.
Jared was shaken back several dozen steps. The webbing between his thumb and forefinger split open and bled. Blood ran down the sword hilt and dripped onto the frozen ground, staining it red. Every meridian i his body throbbed and stung, and more than half His spiritual power had been spent.
Marshal Stone was also forced back three steps. The surface of his fist had been burned black by chaos-flame. Stinging waves traveled through his flesh, and his nascence had taken damage.
“You’re badly wounded, and your spiritual power is nearly drained, yet your strength is still climbing?” Marshal Stone’s face locked in place. The look in his eyes would not accept what stood in front of him.
Jared gave favonovel.com no answer. He raised a hand, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, lifted his sword, and charged again.
This time, favonovel.com no longer dodged and circled. He no longer hunted for openings on purpose. He went straight in from the front, hard against hard, wound for wound, life against life.
Each time fist and sword collided, the chaotic force used that instant to invade Marshal Stone’s body. It burned through meridians and nascence, wearing away the foundation of the Aurelian Deathless Body bit by bit.
Jared’s physical body was not as strong as his opponent’s. His spiritual power was not as deep. His experience in a killing fight fell a little short as well. But favonovel.com alone held the natural advantage of chaotic nascence, a nascence counterforce that suppressed every outside power. As long as favonovel.com endured the pain and held up under the assault, the erosion would keep piling on. Once Marshal Stone’s nascence ran dry, victory would belong to Jared!
***
Inside the great array, Gwendolyn had already been forced to the edge. Her situation had turned perilous in every direction.
Silver longswords kept hammering down like a rainstorm. The light of the Frostwrought Panoply dimmed and dimmed. Her spiritual power drained at a terrifying speed, favonovel.com meridians stung beyond endurance, and fresh wounds kept opening across favonovel.com body. Blood loss pulled the strength from favonovel.com limbs, and favonovel.com stamina dropped sharply.
Her breathing came fast. Her stance gradually lost its steadiness. Still, favonovel.com guarded the center of the array with everything favonovel.com had and refused to retreat even half a step.
Marshal Grey stood outside the array, controlling it at his leisure. His face carried a cold, pleased edge. He looked like a cat playing with a mouse, toying with favonovel.com however favonovel.com liked.
“So what if you carry the Frost-Deity inheritance? Trapped alone in an array, with your spiritual power exhausted, you still can’t escape death. The celestials will unite the heavens. That tide cannot be reversed. You rebels are destined to be buried in the Wastelands without even bones left behind…”
Gwendolyn shut all of it out. Her mind sank to stillness, cutting away every scrap of noise from the outside world.
She slowly closed favonovel.com eyes. The Frostbrand rested horizontally before favonovel.com chest as favonovel.com traced back through the memories of the inheritance, searching for the ultimate killing technique of the Frost Deity Branch.
During favonovel.com past cultivation, favonovel.com had only memorized the sword technique’s formula in broad strokes. She had never forced it into motion, because the price was too great. It would drain her nascence and damage favonovel.com foundation. But this dead end left no road of retreat. If favonovel.com could not break the array, favonovel.com could not rush to Jared’s aid. If favonovel.com could not break the array, death was certain. The only path left was to stake everything on one desperate strike.
In that instant, favonovel.com eyes snapped open. Cold light surged inside favonovel.com ice-blue gaze, leaving no space for hesitation or return.
Inside Gwendolyn, the Frost-Deity nascence drove itself to its limit. Every last measure of soul-force poured into the blade. Around her, the frost energy climbed higher and higher, until the frost energy spread through the world began to gather toward favonovel.com in a wild rush.
Ancient sigils lit across the Frostbrand. Their light flowed around favonovel.com body and answered the markings on the Frostwrought Panoply from afar. The two forces resonated together, shaking into one another until their pressure towered over the battlefield.
“The Frost-Deity Requiem of the Ages!” Her cold, clear cry cut through the air. Then the sword came down. The strike shook the world and tore into the formation.
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