His blade could strike Zhu Yan, and even without using his sword, he could inflict substantial damage on Zhu Yan.
For an ordinary martial artist, a strike to the flesh would be enough to threaten their life.
Sure enough, when the blade's edge dissipated and Zhu Yan regained its footing, only a faint white mark appeared on its chest where it had been struck.
Shen Qian's expression was solemn. He glanced at Xu Nian and the others who were doing something in the distance, and then unleashed his second strike.
At the same angle, with the same dazzling blade light, faint traces of shattering appeared in the void, indicating that the power of Chen Qian's second strike was slightly enhanced compared to the previous one.
Clang!
Zhu Yan, who had just charged forward, was once again slashed back, and the white mark on his chest deepened. Chen Qian was confident that as long as he kept slashing, he could inflict real wounds on Zhu Yan.
"roar!"
Having been stabbed twice in succession, Zhu Yan truly flew into a rage. It roared to the sky, and stars faintly appeared above its head. The next moment, brilliant starlight continuously poured into Zhu Yan's body, its fur hardened, and its body swelled up again. At the same time, mysterious patterns appeared on its body surface.
Those patterns contained a primal spiritual power; just looking at them made Shen Qian's head spin and his thoughts become chaotic.
This chaos lasted for less than half a second before I was jolted awake by the system.
Before he could even lament that his second-level forbidden spiritual power couldn't withstand the influence of these patterns, his expression changed, and his figure vanished from the spot.
Because Zhu Yan, who was just in sight, has disappeared.
Kacha!
Just where the sinking had stopped, a hand that could blot out the sky suddenly clenched, and the space shattered like a mirror, revealing a large area of darkness.
He was hundreds of meters away from the sinking site, feeling extremely fortunate. Had he been half a second later, he would have suffered a severe injury.
Shen Qian closed his eyes, blocking his visual perception to avoid being affected by those patterns, but his situation became more difficult amidst Zhu Yan's sudden and violent offensive.
If it weren't for the "Shadow Shifting" ability, Chen Qian would have had no other options besides using trump cards like the "Time Conch".
Fortunately, the ancient monsters that covered the mountains and plains had been trembling and crawling on the ground ever since the appearance of the Zhu Yan, as if they were suppressed by their bloodline. If they had joined the battle, Shen Qian would have been unable to hold on long ago.
"Damn it, what are you guys dawdling for? Hurry up!"
While struggling to stay afloat, Chen Qian occasionally unleashed a perfect strike to catch his breath, all the while roaring angrily into the distance.
He didn't know what Wang Hou's trump card was, but he was dissatisfied that Xu Nian and the others had taken so long to prepare.
If Chen Qian wasn't here, how would they have used this method?
Although the "Shifting Forms" technique is extremely powerful, it can only repeat past paths in the end. As time goes by, the space for maneuvering before sinking becomes smaller and smaller, and the situation is inevitably sliding towards danger.
...
Hearing Shen Qian's roar, Xu Nian, who was far away, just set up the last array flag according to the scroll's instructions. Seeing the array flag automatically merge into the void, Xu Nian breathed a sigh of relief. He glanced at Shen Qian, who was struggling with Zhu Yan, with a hint of cold smile, and then tossed the scroll in his hand high into the air.
"Walk!"
Xu Nian was extremely decisive. The moment he threw out the scroll, his figure turned into clouds and mist, and in the blink of an eye, he had traveled hundreds of feet.
Guo Zhouyuan, Nie Han, and Ji You behind him turned and fled without hesitation.
The remaining people's expressions changed.
"Shouldn't you remind Chen Qian?" the female expert with long, wavy hair hesitated.
"Without him stopping Zhu Yan, how can the scroll be guaranteed to work? If this scroll fails to destroy Zhu Yan... then we will all die!"
Another martial artist from the Mountain and Sea Realm saw through it all, sneered, and turned to leave.
The others followed suit, and the female martial artist could only shout "Be careful before sinking!" from afar before fleeing frantically into the distance.
...
"Be careful of what?"
Shen Qian heard the woman's warning and, after dodging Zhu Yan's fatal strike once again with a teleportation technique, glanced at her out of the corner of his eye and was taken aback.
The dozens of mountains and seas led by Xu Nian had already turned into small black dots on the horizon and were about to disappear from sight.
What are they doing?
The moment a doubt arose in Shen Qian's mind, he went blind.
More accurately, their vision was robbed by a sudden burst of intense light from high above.
He focused his mental energy on his eyes and strained to look up. He saw a huge black scroll floating in the sky.
From the surrounding void, dots of array flags lit up like starlight. They crisscrossed and formed a complex pattern that resembled a star field. Then, all the light was projected onto the black scroll in the sky.
"An extremely profound technique for manipulating star power... King... Is this the trump card to destroy the altar?"
Shen Qian quickly realized what was happening and sensed an extreme danger from Xu Nian and the others' frantic escape.
Zhu Yan also stopped attacking Chen Qian and stared at the black scroll in mid-air with fierce eyes. Then it leaped up and pounced on the scroll.
The dazzling starlight trembled under Zhu Yan's impact, but before Zhu Yan could launch a second attack, the black scroll that had absorbed endless starlight had already expanded to a size of ten thousand feet, enveloping the endless sky.
Immediately, a real star field emerged from the surface of that curtain-like black scroll.
The black scroll acted as a medium, directly erasing the distance between the void and the starry sky, exposing the world of this Great Wilderness directly to the Milky Way.
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