The clash between Shi Feng and the Fire Demon Serpent had left him at a considerable disadvantage, but Flaming Thunder Burst was far more than a devastating offensive skill — it was also a crowd-control ability.
The Fire Demon Serpent was a Special Elite, granting it a certain degree of resistance to stuns.
What should have been over five seconds of stun duration was reduced to a mere five seconds against the Fire Demon Serpent.
Five seconds meant little to an ordinary player, but to Shi Feng, it was more than enough.
Wind Chasing Sword!
Shi Feng instantly closed the distance to the Fire Demon Serpent, simultaneously boosting his attack speed by 30%.
Even that wasn't enough. He activated another auxiliary skill from his Shadow of Purgatory — Purgatory's Power.
It increased attack speed by 100% and damage by 30%, lasting 15 seconds with a two-minute cooldown.
He then unleashed the Nine-Headed Dragon Slash.
Twelve phantom copies of the Abyssal materialized around Shi Feng in an instant. Each phantom blade dealt 40% of his attack damage and lasted 30 seconds, though it required a full five-minute cooldown.
Shi Feng swung both swords at full power, and combined with the twelve Abyssal phantoms he commanded, a total of fourteen blades converged on the Fire Demon Serpent in a frenzied onslaught.
Then the sky filled with dancing sword shadows.
Fourteen… twenty-eight… fifty-six… one hundred and sixteen…
Countless flashes of blade-light intertwined, transforming into a raging storm of swords that swallowed the Fire Demon Serpent whole.
Blade after blade carved into its massive body. Every strike dealt nearly five hundred points of damage, and close to half of them were critical hits, dealing over a thousand points each.
Meanwhile, every Abyssal phantom dealt over two hundred points of damage on its own — twelve phantoms in all. Their combined output was even more terrifying than Shi Feng's own.
The Fire Demon Serpent's one hundred and fifty thousand hit points drained away like floodwaters through a breached dam.
In a mere five seconds, its health had plummeted to 61%. The serpent was just regaining consciousness, ready to erupt with thunderous fury, when Shi Feng leveled the Abyssal at it and pointed.
"Now's not the time for you to wake up." He activated Abyssal Bind without hesitation. This was his burst window — if the Fire Demon Serpent was allowed to counterattack, everything would be for nothing.
In the blink of an eye, nine pitch-black, gleaming chains burst from the ground and clamped down on the Fire Demon Serpent, pinning it so thoroughly it couldn't so much as twitch. All it could do was roar in fury, watching helplessly as Shi Feng's swords pierced its body over and over, bleeding away its life with no way to fight back.
The four-second Abyssal Bind could not be reduced in duration by the Fire Demon Serpent's resistances, and its defense dropped by a full 100% — rendering its formidable natural toughness utterly meaningless.
Every sword strike from Shi Feng now dealt over eight hundred points of damage. When the occasional triple critical hit landed, the damage soared past twenty-five hundred.
A dazzling stream of numbers cascaded above the Fire Demon Serpent's head — a massive twenty-five-hundred-point crit had barely faded before a seventeen-hundred-point double crit replaced it. Nearly every other blow was a guaranteed critical hit.
The damage from each Abyssal phantom had also climbed to roughly three hundred and fifty points.
Those four seconds were pure hell for the Fire Demon Serpent.
When it finally broke free from the chains, only 19% of its health remained. Shi Feng was already prepared.
"Disappear!" He raised the silver-gray Abyssal high overhead.
All of the surrounding fire elements, thick and concentrated, converged onto the Abyssal's razor-sharp blade, erupting in a blinding flash of searing light that made it impossible to look at directly.
It was his ultimate killing technique — Flame Burst — capable of inflicting six waves of catastrophic damage on a single target.