Lu Yin stared at Chu Yuan in disbelief. How could the blade have cut into him when it had been far enough away for Lu Yin to use the Knowing realm of Truesight? It had appeared as though the blade had instantly traversed the distance. It had not broken through space or moved quickly, but rather had seemed to already have chopped into his shoulder. It had felt both natural and correct for the blade to be embedded into Lu Yin’s body.

But how?

Chu Yuan held the hilt of his blade and pressed down with an incredible amount of force. He used his innate gift to multiply the power of his attack in an attempt to chop straight through Lu Yin's body with the blade.

In the end, he had still underestimated Lu Yin. Just because Chu Yuan had managed to land a direct blow with his blade did not mean that the fight was over. Lu Yin’s body was just too freakishly durable. Most people would only face a single stellular tribulation when they broke through to the Envoy realm, and then another tribulation for each subsequent breakthrough. On the other hand, Lu Yin had faced four tribulations for each of his three breakthroughs, and this had tempered and strengthened his body an extra three times for each tribulation that he passed.

An inch into Lu Yin’s body was as far as the blade could proceed.

Lu Yin was startled to see that Chu Yuan was able to land such a perfect blow, while Chu Yuan was startled by Lu Yin’s raw physicality. Even if this attack had struck Heluo Mavis or Lu Tianyi, it would have gone...