Chapter 677: Explosion!

Heimu stared at the pressed-down meteor, a flash of light in her purple‑black eyes.

Blocking definitely won't work, the meteor's size is too huge, even a Magic Cannon might not pierce it.

It needs to be destroyed from the inside.

She twitched the corner of her mouth, "Let me teach you—what real bombardment is!"

She raised her left hand, fingers splayed, aiming toward the meteor.

Purple‑black mana gathered in her palm into a rotating light sphere.

The sphere left her palm, flew toward the meteor, swelling continuously mid‑flight, and finally became a purple‑black meteor streaking upward.

As the meteor rose, it dragged a dazzling tail, scorching the surrounding air into purple‑black.

"Star Light Explosion!"

Boom—!!!

The two meteors collided in midair.

The purple‑black meteor pierced the meteor's core, exploding the whole rock from within.

Shattered fragments flew in all directions, trailing flames, as if the sky had been torn apart.

Meteor shards slammed onto the ground, carving one pit after another, leaving the earth riddled with holes.

Some fragments burned out midair, turning into ash that drifted away.

The afterglow of the fireworks hadn't faded when Heimu sensed movement behind her.

She turned around.

Shen E had already appeared less than three meters behind her.

She raised the great sword overhead; violet light seeping from the cracks on the blade coalesced on the edge, forming a purple Light Blade extending over ten meters.

The Light Blade's edge was not smooth but serrated, with violet light flickering between the teeth.

His bare upper body bore purple patterns expanding at a visible speed, making him look as if enveloped by violet flame.

Heimu raised her Magic Staff, and a purple‑black Barrier unfolded before her.

The Barrier had just formed when the Light Blade slashed upward.

Crack—Bang!

The Barrier shattered.

Before the fragments could disperse, the next sword strike already landed.

Heimu sidestepped, the blade grazing her shoulder and cutting off a few gray‑white strands.

The severed hair floated in the air.

Immediately a horizontal slash swept in; she leaned back, the sword tip passing less than a fist's length in front of her nose, the wind pressure stinging her cheek.

The upward thrust followed instantly, and she twirled her Magic Staff to Blocking.

Clang!

The staff vibrated with a hum, her palm tingling.

Shen E's assault left no gap.

Each sword connected to the previous one's follow‑through, force stacking continuously, angles forever sealing her retreat.

There was nothing in those violet eyes, yet the sword swings were terrifyingly precise—product of thought, instinct, a combat reflex etched deep into existence.

Heimu dodged backward amid the sword shadows.

Her gray‑white hair fluttered in the sword wind, and the purple‑black skirt was slashed with several openings by the blade's aura.

A heavy overhead strike slammed onto the staff—

Clang!

The shock made the patterns on her palm glow.

The subsequent horizontal slash skimmed her waist, tearing the fabric and exposing skin brushed by wind pressure.

A heavy overhead blow pressed down from above.

Heimu blocked; the clash of sword and staff forced her down a notch, and the void beneath her foot rippled with two rings of purple‑black waves.

Shen E didn't sheath the sword, instead using the downward momentum to thrust his knee upward.

Thud!

The knee struck solidly against the Magic Staff's shaft, sending the staff and Heimu flying outward.

The knee's force was absurdly huge; she felt as if a meteor had struck her head‑on.

Heimu flipped twice in midair before stabilizing.

She flicked her tingling wrist and slightly curled her mouth.

"This is more like it!"

Shen E shattered the air beneath his feet, turning into a violet light that surged straight at Heimu.

The great sword trailed behind; its tip carved a trench of violet flame in the void, ripping the emptiness open, from which purple‑black fire spewed.

The purple patterns on his body flared to the extreme as he lunged, and the Light Wings on his back unfolded again, larger than before.

When the Light Wings spread, the entire sky behind him turned violet.

Heimu watched the charging figure, her pupils contracting to the limit.

She inhaled deeply, spun the Magic Staff once in her hand, and paused the staff's tip in midair.

Thud!

A muffled thump.

Mana surged, spreading up the staff's engravings, the entire Magic Staff glowing.

The space behind twisted again.

This time it's not ten thousand points, but ten million.

Purple‑black ripples spread across the entire sky behind her, and the center of each ripple split open a Spatial Rift.

The killing weapons protruding from the rifts spread out densely, their forms richer than the previous two waves and their numbers even larger.

Ten million sharp blades hovered in midair, all aligning toward the Shen E ahead.

The whole sky was filled with the blades; looking up from the ground, it seemed as if the sky had sprouted countless metallic scales.

Heimu pointed the Magic Staff forward, and the gem at its tip glowed with purple‑black light.

Behind her, ten million blades from the Spatial Rift each protruded half a length outward, and the magical runes on the blades activated simultaneously.

The entire sky was dyed purple‑black.

In her purple‑black eyes reflected the cold glint of the sky‑full killing weapons, and the curve at the corner of her mouth lifted a bit higher.

"I'll beat you until you can speak again—full power, full throttle!"

Shen E stood opposite, a great sword held horizontally before him, and the purple light seeping from the cracks on the blade was more intense than ever.

The purple patterns on his upper body had spread to the limit, from the center of his chest to the spine on his back, forming a continuous burning network.

The light within the patterns no longer flickered, but shone steadily.

The ground beneath his feet began to crack, and purple‑black Flame surged from the fissures, spreading outward along them, forming a burning ring at his feet.

The Flame leapt higher than his head, forming a Fire Wall behind him.

New points of light flickered on the dim yellow horizon above.

This time there were three.

Three meteors appeared in the sky simultaneously, converging toward the battlefield's center from different directions, trailing purple‑black Flame tails that turned the whole sky violet.

The tails of the three meteors crossed in the sky, forming a massive purple cross.

Shen E shattered the ground beneath his feet.

Boom!

He turned his whole body into a shaft of purple light, charging straight at Heimu.

The great sword trailed behind him, its tip carving a furrow of burning purple flame into the ground.

Where he rushed, the ground exploded outright, sending shards and Flame spraying to both sides.

Heimu also moved.

He drew a semicircle with the Magic Staff in front of him, and ten million sword blades from the Spatial Rift behind him fired simultaneously.

A flash of light at the corner of her eye swept over the three approaching meteors overhead, and her pupils contracted slightly.

Attacks from three directions pressed in at once.

The trail of her finger in the air carried a purple‑black Light Arc.

The three meteors pressed down from above.

The air was compressed until it roared with a booming crack.

Ten million blades poured forward from the front.

The sound of slicing through the air grew so dense it formed a continuous sheet.

Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh—!

Shen E's figure darted through the crossfire of meteors and sword blades.

The great sword's swing traced a series of rifts through the sky filled with Light Rain.

Bang bang bang bang bang!

Purple‑black Flame spewed from the ground fissures, burning across the barren planet's surface into a vast sea of fire.

The fire sea spread at an astonishing speed, and in the blink of an eye the entire land was ablaze.

On his bare back, the purple patterns shone dazzlingly under the meteors' light, the outline of Light Wings fully unfurled behind him, and each sword swing carried the momentum of the entire fire sea.

Flame surged with his sword's motion; wherever the blade swung, the fire burned.

Heimu watched the figure charging through the fire sea and meteor rain, and the fingers gripping the Magic Staff tightened slightly.