A Warrior Undefeatable

Seizing the only opening, Jared burst through the spirit formation and drove his golden blade toward Dioz.

"Perfect timing!" Dioz laughed, thrilled rather than alarmed.

Dioz's frame blurred, melting into the nine soul banners until a towering black shadow lunged at Jared. Gold sword-light and night-black phantom claws crashed again and again, each impact shaking the very bones of the abyss. Thunder rolled across clouds that churned like ink, lightning split the sky, and the world itself seemed to cower from their duel.

The others-Saleto, Jhaelyn, Jemina, Flaxseed, and the rest—huddled inside the shattered hall, watching through the lattice windows with knotted brows.

"Do you think Jared... can win?" Jhaelyn whispered, twisting her fingers together.

Saleto exhaled. "Dioz is at the Earthly Immortal Realm-his depth is unknowable. The fact that Jared is still standing is a miracle already. May he grant us an even greater one."

Flaxseed's eyes gleamed. "That lad's got fire-now that's a fight worthy of any man!"

After three hundred exchanges, their bodies were gashed and their breathing ragged, yet neither had gained the slightest advantage.

Jared's intricate sword work and potent soul-force parried Dioz's assaults and even struck back, forcing the immortal onto his heels more than once.

Dioz answered with his Earthly Immortal Realm cultivation level and Nether Arts, his cultivation a weight that pressed on Jared like a mountain, keeping the initiative in his grasp.

"Your strength surprises me, boy. But you're still at the Wandering Immortal Realm at best—you cannot defeat me. Survive my final technique, and live. Fail, and die. Nether Obliteration, Souls Unite!"

He pulled the nine soul banners into himself; suffocating pressure billowed out as his body turned translucent, coalescing into a single colossal globe of spirits.

"D*mn," Jared muttered, feeling the cataclysm caged inside that sphere.

He sensed that if it burst, everything would be reduced to ashes.

"Heaven Splitter!"

Light erupted from the Dragon Slayer Sword; golden energy gathered into a sword shadow the size of a mountain and hovered above his crown.

"Go!" Dioz roared, hurling the soul sphere with world-ending force.

The gleaming orb plummeted toward Jared like a fallen star.

"Cut!"

The titan of golden light swept down, splitting darkness and striking the sphere head-on.noveldrama

For an instant, time refused to move.

Then, power beyond words detonated-the whole Darkwind Abyss convulsed, the heavens fore wide and distant starlight poured through the wound. fo

The Seventh Hall rocked on its foundations, stones raining as the citadel nearly collapsed.

Jared flew backward under the last shockwave slammed against the shattered wall of the Seventh Hall,

and spat a thick ribbon

Across the rubble, Dioz's vast soul sphere burst, shrinking to greasy black smoke that streaked toward the horizon.

"Jared Chance, I will remember today. One day I will return and burn you and this hall to ashes." Dioz's venomous promise echoed across the emptiness.

Jared stared after the smoke, meaning to give chase, but strength deserted him. Darkness rolled in, and he crumpled to the ground.

"Mr. Chance!"

"Jared!"

Jhaelyn, Jemina, Elton, and Flaxseed dashed forward and caught him before his head struck the flagstones.