Chapter 1011: Cutting Down Bai Hu

A clone cannot, like the original, instantly summon the power of the Five Directions and Five Elements to suppress the chaotic-colored sword qi.

Moreover, it is merely a clone, not that important.

The sacred beast Bai Hu, merely controlling its clone, directed all the sharp bristles it had just prepared to unleash straight at the chaotic-colored sword qi, making no other defensive or evasive move.

Because the sacred beast Bai Hu knew the chaotic-colored sword qi was too fast—his clone had no chance to evade, let alone resist.

Even his original body could not withstand the chaotic-colored sword qi, let alone this mere clone.

The sharp bristles unleashed by the sacred beast Bai Hu's clone were instantly cut to dust by the chaotic-colored sword qi.

They served not the slightest blocking purpose.

The chaotic-colored sword qi, undiminished in speed, slashed toward the sacred beast Bai Hu's clone.

Swoosh!

Crack!

A flash of blade-light, the Dao of Sword erupted—the chaotic-colored sword qi sliced through the sacred beast Bai Hu's clone like cutting tofu.

The next instant, the sacred beast Bai Hu's clone began to split open from the center, slowly dividing into two halves.

Moreover, when the chaotic-colored sword qi struck the sacred beast Bai Hu's clone, it flooded the clone's body with vast amounts of sword qi.

The Jin Zhi Dao power surging within the split clone was also mostly obliterated, utterly unable to resist the sword qi's rampage.

Boom!

Under the onslaught of the torrential sword qi, the split clone exploded violently and dispersed into the void.

This was the terrifying nature of the Hunyuan layer's Dao of Sword—even when transformed into a Jin Zhi Dao True Spirit, it could not block the Dao of Sword's slash.

Because the Hunyuan layer's Dao of Sword could even obliterate Dao power itself.

In the instant the sacred beast Bai Hu's clone was split in two, Bai Hu felt a sharp pain in his Primordial Spirit, as if stabbed by a blade.

The sacred beast Bai Hu instantly realized his clone was utterly destroyed.

In truth, Bai Hu was not afraid of his clones being attacked.

With the reinforcement of the Five Directions and Five Elements Array, each of his clones had been forcibly transformed into a Jin Zhi Dao True Spirit.

As long as the Dao power within the clone was not instantly obliterated, the clone would remain unharmed.

Even if reduced to ashes, it could regenerate.

Besides obliterating all Dao power, there was another way to destroy the sacred beast Bai Hu's clone.

That was to directly attack the Primordial Spirit.

Every clone appearing in the Five Directions and Five Elements Small Heaven was formed from the massive chaotic-colored sword芒 Luo Fu had slashed.

In other words, they were originally lifeless objects.

To turn these lifeless objects into clones, Bai Hu had to leave behind a fragment of his spirit within them.

Without a spirit fragment, these could not be called clones—they were merely puppets.

It was through these spirit fragments that Bai Hu's original body could smoothly control the clones, enabling them all to forcibly transform into Jin Zhi Dao True Spirits.

Forcibly transforming a living being into a Jin Zhi Dao True Spirit was no easy feat.

Even with the Five Directions and Five Elements Array's miraculous power, it could at most transform the Five Sacred Beasts into Dao True Spirits.

It could not possibly turn Bai Hu's enslaved puppets into Jin Zhi Dao True Spirits.

The reason Bai Hu's clones could transform into Jin Zhi Dao True Spirits was that each contained a fragment of his spirit, making them one with him.

Since they were one with him, when Bai Hu became a Jin Zhi Dao True Spirit, these clones naturally became Jin Zhi Dao True Spirits as well.

Success came from the spirit fragment; failure came from the spirit fragment.

With this spirit fragment present, Bai Hu's clones had a fatal flaw.

If this spirit fragment was obliterated, the clone would instantly lose its foundation and collapse and vanish.

The reason the split clone disintegrated was not because Luo Fu's sword qi was too powerful, but because the spirit fragment had been severed, depriving it of its foundational existence.

While Luo Fu slashed through Bai Hu's original body and destroyed one clone, Bai Hu's other clones continued attacking Luo Fu.

With the Hunyuan Eternal Open Heaven Sword no longer blocking them, waves of sharp bristles now loomed within arm's reach.

In an instant, they could tear Luo Fu apart.

Yet Luo Fu's face showed not a trace of fear.

Because he had already used his Hunyuan Eternal Open Heaven Sword to carve out a path to survival.

The direction where the chaotic-colored sword qi had cut through was now sparsely covered with sharp bristles, since the clones in that sector had been destroyed.

Bai Hu had not anticipated his clone would be obliterated so instantly.

Thus, he had no time to react.

By the time he reacted and reallocated clones to seal that opening, enough time had passed for Luo Fu to evade the other clones' attacks.

With a light flick of his Hunyuan Eternal Open Heaven Sword, Luo Fu's form flashed forward, his entire body like a blade, shooting straight through the gap he had carved.

The sparse bristles blocking his path were effortlessly intercepted by the sword in his hand.

Bai Hu had nearly laid a heavenly net, intending to shred Luo Fu.

Yet in the end, one clone was instantly cut down by Luo Fu, while Luo Fu remained unscathed.

The overwhelming waves of sharp bristles did not even graze Luo Fu's sleeve.