If normal attacks won’t hurt it, then we’ll use something that isn’t normal!
Jared drew in a deep breath. In that instant, the Golden Dragon Bloodline inside favonovel.com boiled all the way over. Golden draconic energy burst out of his body.
Behind him, it gathered into the phantom of the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon. The phantom was more solid than it had been when favonovel.com fought Skylar. Its dragon eyes burned bright, and its pressure rolled outward in waves, as if it were about to tear itself free from the void.
The golden dragon sigils on the Dragonslayer Sword flashed like mad. Every mark on the blade looked like it was burning, like it was roaring. This was the absolute limit of what favonovel.com could do.
He drove the power of the Golden Dragon Bloodline to its very peak and poured everything favonovel.com had into this one sword strike.
“Lydia, hold it down for me,” Jared said in a low voice.
Lydia didn’t hesitate for even a moment. The wraithblade turned in favonovel.com hand, and the thick ghostly miasma around it split into countless black chains that lashed toward the monster.
The monster was caught in the chains and let out a low hiss. Its arms jerked outward, and the chains shattered apart inch by inch. But that split-second pause was already enough.
Jared moved. His body turned into a streak of golden light.
With the Dragonslayer Sword leading the way, favonovel.com shot straight at the monster’s chest like an arrow loosed from the bow. That one sword strike carried everything favonovel.com had. All his strength. All his will. All his life.
The sword had not arrived yet, but the sword intent reached first. That sword intent came down with the bite of deep winter and the edge of a blade. It tore open even the air, ripping a black crack through it.
The monster seemed to catch the threat. For the first time, it made a sound-a low, beastlike roar, thick with refusal and rage.
It clenched both fists. Holy radiance and demonic aura erupted from its body at the same time, gathering into a twisted shield in front of it. Half of that shield blazed with golden light. The other half was black as ink. Those two completely opposite forces spun wildly inside it, forming a vortex so strange it looked wrong just to see.
Jared’s roar tore out of favonovel.com as favonovel.com drove the Dragonslayer Sword hard into that vortex.
Boom!
The instant the sword slammed into the shield, a world-shaking blast exploded through the passage.
Golden draconic energy and that warped mix of holy radiance and demonic aura blew apart at the same moment. It turned into a terrifying shockwave that ripped outward in every direction.
The walls on both sides of the passage were shredded to pieces by the shockwave. Broken stone sprayed everywhere, and dust swallowed the air. The rock overhead split with a web of cracks. Chunks of stone broke loose and came crashing down from above.
Jared could feel it in his arm, his shoulder, all the way through the rest of his body. His bones were crying out under the strain, shuddering like they were about to give.
The Dragonslayer Sword locked against that shield and held there. Neither side could force its way even a step farther.
The monster was too strong. Its cultivation stood far above Jared’s, and even with the Golden Dragon Bloodline burning inside him, favonovel.com still couldn’t crush it in a contest of raw power.
“Break!” Jared clenched his teeth so hard his jaw looked ready to crack. The light in his eyes had already turned into a sheet of red-gold.
At that instant, the Golden Dragon Bloodline inside favonovel.com pushed past its limit. The bottleneck that had trapped favonovel.com for so long shattered apart with a violent burst at the very edge of life and death.
High Immortal Realm Level Five!
His aura exploded upward in an instant. Golden draconic energy poured out of favonovel.com like a volcanic eruption and gathered behind his back into the shape of the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon, denser than before and carrying even heavier authority.
The light blazing from the Dragonslayer Sword swelled several times over. The dragon sigils along the blade looked as if they had come alive, letting out a dragon’s roar that shook everything around them.
Crack!
A fracture appeared across the twisted shield. The crack spread at once. In the blink of an eye, it branched out into a dense web across the whole shield.
“Break!” Jared roared again and drove the Dragonslayer Sword forward with a savage shove.
Boom!
The shield blew apart on the spot, and the Dragonslayer Sword punched straight through it and drove hard into the monster’s chest!
Roar!
The monster let out a shriek so harsh it scraped through the passage, packed with refusal and rage. Dark golden blood burst from the wound. Inside that blood, golden holy radiance and black demonic aura churned together. The two forces rejected each other in the air and gave off a sharp sizzling sound. But the monster did not go down. It flung its arms in a wild frenzy and smashed at Jared.
Jared didn’t have time to pull the Dragonslayer Sword free. He could only let go of the hilt and throw himself backward.
But the monster’s fist was too fast. One punch slammed straight into his chest.
Bang!
The crack of bone breaking rang out clear as day.
Jared’s breastbone had at least two breaks in it, and the hit sent him flying like a kite with its string loose. Blood sprayed out of his mouth in a violent rush.
“Jared!” Lydia’s face changed at once. She flashed forward and caught him.
But the force behind it was too much. Even with Jared in favonovel.com arms, favonovel.com got driven back more than ten steps before favonovel.com barely managed to steady herself.
The monster lowered its head and looked at the Dragonslayer Sword buried in its chest. A low growl rolled out of it. Then it reached up, grabbed the blade itself, and yanked it free in one savage pull.
Dark golden blood burst out again. But the monster moved like the pain meant nothing. It casually threw the Dragonslayer Sword to the ground, then turned and started toward Jared and Lydia.
Its steps staggered, but the killing intent coming off it didn’t weaken in the slightest. Every step it took stamped a deep footprint into the ground. Around each print, the dirt had already been stained dark gold by the blood.
“It’s still not dead…” Jared forced the words out through clenched teeth. The pain tearing through his chest had gotten so bad favonovel.com could barely draw breath.
Lydia lowered favonovel.com to the ground, tightened favonovel.com grip on the wraithblade, and stepped in front of him.
“I’ll do it…” Her voice came out calm. The killing intent in favonovel.com eyes, though, had thickened to the limit.
The monster kept coming. Getting closer and closer.
Lydia drew in a deep breath. In that instant, ghostly miasma around favonovel.com started churning like mad. Behind her, a massive phantom began to take shape. It was the outline of a woman in black robes, long hair falling like a waterfall, her face blurred, a giant wraithblade gripped in favonovel.com hand.
That was favonovel.com natal ghost form. This was the trump card favonovel.com had cultivated for thousands of years.
“Wraithcleave!” Lydia let the words fall softly. Her voice was light, but it landed like judgment rising out of the abyss of Ninefold Nether.
Then favonovel.com struck. This strike was nothing like any strike that had come before. In that instant, the ghostly miasma on the wraithblade compressed to its absolute limit. It turned into a blade-light black as ink and slashed straight for the monster’s neck. Where that blade-light passed, space itself tore open into a pitch-black crack.
A harsh, piercing screech ripped from its edges.
The monster caught the kill threat at once. It frantically drove the holy radiance and demonic aura inside its body, trying to form its shield again. But the Dragonslayer Sword had already punched through its chest, and its power had dropped hard.
The shield shattered before it could even finish taking shape. The black blade-light swept across its neck without the slightest resistance.
Crack!
The sound was light, but it carried clear as day. The monster’s head flew high into the air. Dark gold blood burst from the severed neck like a fountain. Its body stayed standing in place for a full three breaths. Then it crashed down and threw up a skyful of dust.
The head hit the ground and rolled several times. That twisted face still held the savage look from the instant before death.
Everything then went quiet.
Lydia drew back the wraithblade. Her face had gone a shade paler, and a fine layer of sweat had beaded across her forehead. That one strike had nearly drained more than half favonovel.com strength.
“Dead…” She dragged in a rough breath and looked at Jared. “How bad is it?”
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