The complete strike arrived.
Not as a technique deployed through a sequence. Not as energy released from a charge. As the Law's own arrival at the place it had been building toward since the guest hall comprehension night on Tianyuan Star, through every engagement and every depth crossing and every accord discovered in the upper reaches' formations.
The Thunder Surge Blade at the wound's edge expressed the Law at Boundary depth and the complete strike was simply what Boundary depth expressed when the Law made contact with what it had been oriented toward from its first recognition.
The wound received it.
He had expected resistance in the way every engagement in the Middle Domain had produced resistance, the obstacle meeting the expression and the expression meeting the obstacle and the gap between them determining the engagement's character and duration. The wound produced nothing he could categorize as resistance.
What it produced was responsiveness.
