[Avatar of the Heavenly Dao]
[Level: 250]
[Skills:]
[Heavenly Dao Sacred Body: The Avatar of the Heavenly Dao is immune to all Order-type attacks. Furthermore, the lower its HP, the higher its defense becomes. When its HP falls to one percent, it gains damage immunity lasting ten minutes.]
[Heavenly Dao Halo: The Avatar of the Heavenly Dao commands the three thousand rules. All attacks other than Chaos-attributed ones are nullified. Every ten minutes, this halo disables for one second.]
[Absolute Order: The Avatar of the Heavenly Dao is a manifestation of Order; all of its attacks inflict Order-attributed damage.]
[The Dao Follows Nature: The Avatar of the Heavenly Dao can manipulate and enhance all natural phenomena.]
[Time Rewind: Every twenty-one minutes, the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao activates Time Rewind, restoring itself to peak condition.]
[Remark: Beneath the Heavenly Dao, all things are straw dogs.]
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When Yu Xian shared the appraised attributes with everyone, a collective gasp rippled through the crowd.
Although the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao didn't possess many skills, every single one was utterly broken. Synergized together, there was practically no way to win unless someone seized the exact window to burst down the avatar in two strikes.
"Wait, Salty Fish, isn't your class tied to Order? Doesn't that mean your skills won't work on the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao at all?" Niman suddenly remembered the attributes Yu Xian had once revealed, unable to resist asking.
Yu Xian chuckled. "I'm not the one trying to shatter the void. What do I have to worry about?"
"Oh right, I almost forgot—you're an admin dog," Niman said with a brief pause, breaking into a helpless smile.
At that moment, the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao opened its eyes, looking down at Zhang Shou below. An instant later, the previously tranquil Qilin Mountain began to violently shudder. Two colossal earth hands erupted from nothingness, swatting toward Zhang Shou.
Standing his ground, Zhang Shou lashed out with a flash of his saber, and both giant earthen hands instantly crumbled to dust.
"Heaven Cleave!"
Zhang Shou kicked off with both legs, vanishing into thin air and reappearing directly before the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao, his saber sweeping toward it. But just as the blow swung outward, a violent gale struck him without warning. Before his saber could even graze the avatar, he was slammed straight into the ground.
Saber Astral Tyrant Body!
The instant Zhang Shou crashed against the earth, red energy enveloped his entire body. In a flash, all of Qilin Mountain blew apart, carving out a colossal crater. He stood right in its center amidst scorched black earth and bubbling magma.
"Saber Intent Pillars the Heavens!"
Locking onto the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao from deep within the crater, Zhang Shou unleashed a remote slash through empty air.
A thirty-thousand-meter saber beam burst from the chopping saber in his grasp, cleaving straight toward the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao in the sky. Yet when the saber beam crashed upon it, the strike failed to leave even the slightest mark.
Instead, the shockwave ripped open the webbing between Zhang Shou's thumb and index finger, sending searing pain through his arm as though he had struck an immovable mountain.
No.
Even an actual mountain would have split in half under his current blade.
This was more like striking a hacker who had turned on god mode.
Invulnerability?
Zhang Shou froze, suddenly reminded of an event from his previous run through the Zhen Realm.
He gazed up at the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao. Even though it sat cross-legged in the void as a humanoid, in his eyes it overlapped completely with the figure of a Great Dao True Beast.
*Damn it.*
*Does this thing have an invulnerability state too?*
Subconsciously glancing back toward Yu Xian, Zhang Shou saw Yu Xian subtly flash several hand signals. Zhang Shou's eyes nearly popped out of his skull.
*What an absolute freak!*
Two strikes. He had to kill it in two strikes, and his timing had to be immaculate. The slightest hesitation or delay would ruin everything.
Taking a deep breath, Zhang Shou swiftly pushed himself up from the ground. As he stared at the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao, his mind instantly calculated the timer, which had started ticking the exact moment the avatar appeared.
Every twenty-one minutes, the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao reset its status, and upon suffering a lethal blow, it gained ten minutes of damage immunity.
The first strike had to trigger the avatar's invulnerability. Once those ten minutes expired, he would have to unleash his second strike, executing it before the status reset.
"Then my only option is the momentum strike."
Zhang Shou swiftly sheathed his saber, his mind's eye snapping open in an instant.
In truth, his calculations had taken less than a second. The Avatar of the Heavenly Dao struck once more as invisible winds condensed into countless razor-sharp blades, converging from all directions to shred him apart.
Just as the wind blades formed an inescapable perimeter, Zhang Shou decisively activated Saber Astral Tyrant Body.
He stood like a nail driven into midair, completely wrapped in red brilliance, radiating an impenetrable aura.
The wind blades rained down upon Saber Astral Tyrant Body without threatening it in the least, failing even to shake the red light. After all, Zhang Shou's Saber Astral Tyrant Body was a max-enhanced skill; its defensive potency was completely rock-solid.
Zhang Shou remained steadfast beneath the tempestuous onslaught, the battle intent blazing in his eyes growing ever fiercer as he counted down the seconds in his heart.
Saber intent and saber qi fused into one.
Man and blade became a single entity.
Zhang Shou's momentum surged. The red astral energy that had serenely clung to his body began to fluctuate, gradually igniting like roaring flames.
"Five... four... three... two... one... zero!"
Zhang Shou silently finished his mental countdown. The moment he reached zero, his aura erupted into the sky, instantly blowing apart the surrounding wind blades.
Stored Momentum—Heaven-Cleaving Slash!
Zhang Shou drew his saber with ferocious resolve, hurling the saber beam he had nurtured for minutes straight toward the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao high above.
Under this slash, heaven and earth lost their luster, and the entire world seemed painted red. Not a single trace of his fierce saber intent leaked out, yet simply beholding the strike laid bare its absolute will to obliterate all things.
Watching the slash hurtle toward it, the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao naturally raised its defenses. Countless barriers of light and wind materialized before it, forming hundreds of shields in the blink of an eye to fortify it thoroughly.
Unfortunately, it was entirely useless.
In a fraction of an instant, Zhang Shou's saber beam bisected every single shield, crashing squarely into the Avatar of the Heavenly Dao and carving a deep gash right down its center.
Had the damage immunity not triggered, this single strike would have cleaved the avatar in two.
With that stroke finished, Zhang Shou immediately began channeling his momentum once more.
The Avatar of the Heavenly Dao, however, was enraged.
It had previously hovered cross-legged in the void with solemn, divine aloofness. But after suffering that blow, its pupils trembled violently, and its expression twisted into pure savagery.
Opening its maw, it unleashed a roar that resonated with the overlapping voices of countless men and women, and dark storm clouds instantly blanketed the heavens.
Thunder and lightning crashed down from the storm clouds as fierce winds swirled into a tornado to trap Zhang Shou. The earth ruptured in layers, and magma surged skyward as a fiery dragon, roaring and snapping its jaws at him.
And that was not all.
Innumerable water droplets fell from above, coalescing into countless miniature swords. The moment the preceding onslaught subsided, these liquid blades would immediately follow up, granting Zhang Shou not a single moment of respite.
Yet facing this relentless torrent, Zhang Shou remained utterly unshaken. Like a nail hammered into that pocket of space, through howling wind, driving rain, and every attack hurled at him, he stood entirely motionless, enduring every blow by sheer grit.
He was waiting for the next ten minutes to pass!
Chapter 617