Chaotic energy currents swept past Ikaruga's body, pulverizing a ten-meter-wide rocky area behind her!
The clashes were becoming increasingly perilous!
Night's twisting power was unpredictable and enigmatic; it could restrict from a distance, defend up close, and even fold space to change its own position!
Meanwhile, Ikaruga's sword skills were at their peak; her blade shattered everything in its path, and her spatial perception was terrifyingly precise, always allowing her to break through the opponent's most dangerous attacks with minimal cost!
Their figures rapidly intertwined, collided, and separated above the ruins!
Each exchange was accompanied by the wailing of space and the clear ringing of blades!
The clang of metal, the shattering of space, and the hum of magical impacts were incessant!
Clang!
Rip!
Hum—!
Scattered light specks and spatial turbulence swirled around them like a storm!
The ruins were carved with deep grooves, and broken rocks were easily torn apart, frozen, or twisted into knots!
Pure combat techniques and the application of spatial laws were pushed to their limits by both of them!
"Twist: Spatial Turbulence!"
Night's hands suddenly spread outwards!
Centered on him, the space within a twenty-meter radius became utterly chaotic!
Like a lake into which a huge rock had been thrown, countless chaotic spatial rifts of varying sizes flickered, annihilated, and reappeared without any pattern!
A violent spatial storm formed instantly!
Innumerable invisible spatial cutting blades were mixed within the storm, capable of instantly dismembering anything caught within it!
"Mugetsu Style: Eight Directions Slash!"
Ikaruga was at the center of the storm, her eyes as sharp as an eagle's!
She gripped the Moonlit Blade's hilt with both hands, her body spinning rapidly like a top!
The bright blade light was no longer a few scattered streaks, but instantly condensed into an impenetrable, continuously expanding spherical blade net!
The blade speed was pushed to the extreme!
Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang, clang!!!!
A continuous series of crisp slashes merged into a piercing, ear-splitting shriek!
Like heavy rain striking banana leaves!
The blade light fiercely collided with the omnipresent spatial turbulence!
Each collision erupted in dazzling sparks!
Ikaruga, like a lone boat in a stormy sea, relying entirely on her miraculous swordsmanship and powerful magic, managed to carve out a "safe" moving space within the destructive spatial storm!
"It's time to end this!" A hint of impatience flashed in Night's eyes!
He had never encountered such a troublesome swordsman!
His hands suddenly clasped together, and two completely different, opposing, terrifying twisting forces pressed fiercely from left and right like millstones towards Ikaruga in the storm!
"Mugetsu Style: Lion's Manifestation!"
In the center of the storm, Ikaruga let out a clear shout!
Her rapidly spinning figure suddenly paused!
Time seemed to slow down for a moment around her! She went from extreme motion to extreme stillness!
The Moonlit longblade was raised above her head, the blade intent and magic power condensed on its body as vast as the sea!
It was no longer about technique and cutting as before, but erupted with an absolutely ferocious aura of dominating the world and reigning over all beasts!
Roar—!!! It was as if the phantom of a lion king roared behind her!
The longblade, carrying a resolute will to split mountains and cleave peaks, slashed down with a crash!
Boom—!!!
The violent spatial storm was forcibly split open by this blade, imbued with a Overlord aura, creating a huge gap!
The spatial millstones pressing in from both sides were violently shaken by this slash!
Ikaruga's figure, like an enraged lion breaking free from its cage, boldly charged out from the cracked passage!
The blade light aimed directly at Night's head!
"Mugetsu Style: Crane Soaring to Heaven!"
Giving Night no chance to breathe!
Ikaruga, having burst out of the storm, tapped her foot, and her entire being shot into the sky like a true white crane!
The blade light converged, condensing into a single point of ultimate sharpness and cold gleam!
Man and blade became one!
Carrying the sharp will to pierce through the void, she stabbed down at Night from the zenith like a white lightning bolt!
"Twist: Absolute Barrier!"
Night's expression finally changed slightly!
His hands crossed in front of his chest, and his magic power erupted with full force!
A shield of energy, as black as ink and constantly twisting and rotating on its surface, instantly condensed above his head!
This was not a simple magic shield, but an absolute defense formed by forcefully "solidifying" and "folding" a section of space countless times using twisting power!
It was as if hundreds of layers of space were stacked above his head!
Hiss—!!!
An extremely sharp friction sound rang out!
The sharp edge of Crane Soaring to Heaven fiercely pierced the center of the black barrier!
Dazzling sparks, accompanied by ripples of spatial collapse, furiously splattered!
The indestructible barrier violently fluctuated, its surface deeply dented by the stab!
But ultimately... it was not pierced through!
Ikaruga's unyielding blade, for the first time, encountered a "wall" that could stop it!
Both of them had multiple tears in their magic robes and kimonos, and even faint bloodstains where spatial rifts had grazed them.
Fine beads of sweat permeated their foreheads, and their breathing was heavier than before.
The continuous extreme offense and defense, whether it was the eerie spatial manipulation or the exquisitely precise slashes, consumed vast amounts of mental energy and magic power.
The two once again closed the distance, their killing intent boiling to the extreme!
Night's vortex eyes spun wildly, his hands suddenly spread open, his fingers frantically exerting force as if grasping something!
The space around him instantly became extremely unstable, like a shattered mirror!
Ikaruga's eyes narrowed; instead of retreating, she advanced!
"Mugetsu Style: Garuda!"
A clear shout!
Ikaruga's figure blurred, instantly leaving nine afterimages of various forms in space!
Some diving, some gliding, some circling... like the legendary dragon-eating giant bird displaying its movement techniques!
The nine afterimages contained different sword intents, making it hard to distinguish true from false, as they simultaneously lunged at Night!
"Hmph! Illusions? In the face of twisting power, they are meaningless!" Night coldly snorted, his right hand suddenly clenching at the void!
A certain space beside him suddenly collapsed!
Puff!
The Garuda afterimage at that position was instantly crushed by spatial power!
However, at that very instant, the true Ikaruga had emerged from Night's sensory blind spot—the dead angle above his head—like a hunting night hawk!
The blade light was dazzling!
"Mugetsu Style: Rakshasa Demon Bone!"
The Moonlit longblade carried a purple, extremely cold magical light and a pure killing intent that severed life and death!
The target of this strike was Night's right shoulder!
Not fatal, but enough to severely wound!
However, a cruel smile appeared at the corner of Night's mouth!
"Twist: Spatial Displacement!"
The moment Ikaruga's blade fell, Night's body rippled violently like a reflection in water!
And the space at the position she was slashing was eerily replaced by a large magic crystal pillar covered in sharp spikes!
This crystal was originally ten meters away!
Thud—Crack!
The longblade fiercely struck the crystal pillar!
The immense recoil made Ikaruga's arm numb!
As the crystal shattered, she also revealed a tiny flaw due to this unexpected displacement!
Her body slightly lost balance from the forward momentum!
"Die!"
Night's eyes burst with sharp light!
This was the moment he had been waiting for!
His bizarre vortex eyes suddenly glowed with black light!
A terrifying aura, capable of annihilating space itself, erupted!
The surrounding ruins and shattered stones silently turned to dust!
"Twist Magic Arcane Art: Collapsing Space!!"
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