Chapter 1193: Lin Yuanmiao’s Sword
Li Changge felt a slight sense of regret. The Six Annihilations Sword’s strength lay precisely in its unpredictability. Since Sun Heyu harbored fear toward Li Changge, believing that the boy could truly harm him, the Six Annihilations Sword took root as the truth. Thus, no matter what methods Sun Heyu employed, the sword could still injure him, as it was something Sun Heyu himself deeply believed in. In essence, it was using Sun Heyu’s own conviction and strength to slay himself.
The deeper the Six Annihilations Sword wounded its target, the more firmly the injured person believed in its lethality, and hence, the greater the killing power of the sword. This formed a self-reinforcing cycle. If one could not shatter their belief, then even an indestructible golden body would be destroyed by a single sword strike.
Conversely, if one did not believe that this sword could harm them, then the Six Annihilations Sword would be like stabbing the moon in the water, unable to inflict the slightest injury. The mindless sword slaves were proof of this.
However, the ability to see through this technique varied from person to person.
If it were the Imperial Preceptor wielding the sword, then even if Sun Heyu fully understood all the principles and mysteries behind it, he would still find it difficult to break the belief and would still be cleaved in two.
While Li Changge lamented his missed opportunity, Sun Heyu was both furious and shaken by fear. He had been heavily wounded earlier in Lion City, and his injuries had yet to heal. This was why he had fallen into Li Changge’s trap.
Although Sun Heyu’s life was not endangered, this sword strike had damaged his Middle Dantian. The Middle Dantian was the central hub for the circulation of innate qi throughout the body. Once it was injured, the flow of qi everywhere would be affected. At this moment, even if he formed the Taiyin Sword Formation, he still could not sustain a prolonged battle with Lin Yuanmiao and the Three Prodigies. If he failed to disengage within a short time and became bogged down in a stalemate, the situation would turn extremely dire.
In the end, Li Changge was still only at the Wuliang stage and had not truly stepped into the Zaohua stage. Thus, if he were to face Sun Heyu head-on in a one-on-one confrontation, he would still be outmatched. Having achieved his objective with a single strike, he immediately withdrew.
At this moment, Lin Yuanmiao replaced Li Changge in battle.
Lin Yuanmiao was at the Pseudo-Immortal level. Without him holding the line, the Three Prodigies would have been shredded by Sun Heyu’s Taiyin Sword Formation.
The Daozi Sword that Lin Yuanmiao condensed multiplied into 100 swords. The sword tips glittered like scattered stars, resembling a rain of light or a thin mist, making it difficult to discern what was real and what was illusory.
Sun Heyu let out a cold snort. Without any visible movement from him, the twelve sword slaves responded in unison. The yin fire on their twelve longswords drew streaking trajectories through the air, interweaving into a massive net that descended right on Lin Yuanmiao.