The moment Sword Light Cycle was unleashed, five beams of sword light surged directly toward the soundless slash the Bronze Dragon King had swung at him.
Boom, boom, boom…
As the sword light blazed forth, deafening sounds of metal clashing followed in rapid succession. The violent shockwaves sent tremors through Shi Feng's entire body, and the impact traveling up his blades left both arms numb — the paralysis spreading all the way through until he could barely move them at all.
It was merely a casual attack from the Bronze Dragon King, whose basic stats were only slightly superior to his own, yet the sheer force behind the strike easily exceeded what Shi Feng's Sword Light Cycle could withstand.
As for why, Shi Feng could only barely grasp a small part of the reason.
And before he could recover from the paralysis, the Bronze Dragon King's dragon-scale greatsword vanished from view once more — silently, without a trace. This time, even Shi Feng's perception failed to catch the faintest hint of the slash's trajectory. All he felt was a sharp pain in his chest. At some unknowable instant, the blade had pierced clean through his heart. His health poured out like floodwaters breaching a dam, streaming endlessly away.
"Beyond the realm of humanity?" Shi Feng raised his head to look at the Bronze Dragon King, who had already sheathed his blade. His vision greyed out in an instant, his health dropping completely to zero, and he collapsed to the ground.
Sword Light Cycle was the most powerful combat technique Shi Feng currently possessed. Even against monsters with far greater strength or experts who had mastered Domains, he had been confident it could pose a serious threat.
But against the Bronze Dragon King, it could only hold for a single exchange.
This was the peak power of the entire Divine Realm. Whether in attack or in the steps of movement, every action bypassed perception entirely — silent, effortless, requiring no conscious thought whatsoever. The body moved on its own, fast to a degree that even reflexes could not keep up.
Though such a thing should have been fundamentally impossible, the Bronze Dragon King had achieved it, utterly transcending the limits of human capability.
Only now did Shi Feng fully understand why, in his previous life, so many Tier 4 experts — who outranked those humanoid monsters by a significant margin in level — had ultimately needed to pay an enormous price just to barely bring one down.
After Shi Feng was killed, five seconds later he reappeared in front of the magic circle that imprisoned the Bronze Dragon King. His health was fully restored, as though everything that had just happened had been nothing more than a dream.
But seeing the Bronze Dragon King standing off to the side, Shi Feng knew very well — this was no dream.
"All right, let's begin the second round!" The Bronze Dragon King drew his dragon-scale greatsword once more and charged at Shi Feng.
This time, Shi Feng fully understood the Bronze Dragon King's overwhelming power. In a direct confrontation, he wouldn't survive a second blow. If he wanted to last three days within three hundred attempts, he had to stall for time. Without hesitation, he spun around and fled.
But the Bronze Dragon King seemed to have seen through his intentions from the very start. The greatsword was hurled directly at Shi Feng, cutting off his escape. In that brief moment, the Bronze Dragon King appeared behind him — and at some unknowable instant, another dragon-scale greatsword materialized in his hand, slashing down toward Shi Feng's back.
However, Shi Feng had anticipated this as well. He had already activated Divine Shadow Step, instantly swapping places with his clone. The clone was in an invulnerable state — no attack could harm it.
Everything unfolded just as Shi Feng had predicted. When the Bronze Dragon King found his attacks useless against the clone, he immediately turned to strike at the other duplicates. Although Shi Feng could not perceive the Bronze Dragon King's slashes, anyone who attacked would inevitably leave an opening — and he intended to exploit every gap left by the Dragon King's assault on his clones.
In the next instant, Shi Feng swapped back to his original position, pivoting to thrust a sword strike at the Bronze Dragon King.
The Bronze Dragon King was mid-attack against another clone, his side completely exposed with no defense whatsoever. Shi Feng felt a surge of excitement and drove his blade straight toward the Dragon King.
Clang!
Just as the Holy Sword Thunder Slayer was about to pierce the Bronze Dragon King, a single slash — invisible to both the eye and perception — struck the Holy Sword Thunder Slayer head-on, knocking the attack cleanly aside.
"So fast!"