Read Novel Full Chapter 2092: Defeating The Second Shadow!
Chapter 2092: Defeating The Second Shadow!
The shadow’s blade never stopped moving, and every slash carried the same frightening sharpness. There was no wasted motion, no dramatic technique, and no unnecessary release of energy, just one perfectly honed attack after another.
Max began to see the pattern. The First Shadow had tested battle instinct, while the Second Shadow tested offensive sharpness. Its entire fighting style had been refined around making every strike as lethal as possible.
That made it extremely dangerous against anyone who leaned too heavily on their defenses. A cultivator might be stronger, hold more energy, or stand at a higher realm, but one mistake that let the blade connect could end the fight on the spot.
Max smiled faintly. "So that’s the Second Shadow."
He had seen enough, and there was no reason to keep testing it.
The shadow attacked again, bringing its curved blade down.
Max raised his left hand. One blue void ring appeared, then another, and then another, until ten glowing rings surrounded his arms.
The Ten Void Sealing Art.
As the shadow’s blade came down, the first void ring moved and locked onto the weapon. The second wrapped around the shadow’s arm, the third sealed the space around its shoulder, and the remaining rings spread across the rest of its body.
The shadow tried to move, and its blade trembled, but its motion slowed dramatically. The terrifying sharpness was still there and the power hadn’t gone anywhere, yet it simply couldn’t be released properly.
Max closed his hand, and the void rings tightened.
The shadow’s body froze, and its blade stopped inches away from him. For the first time, the Second Shadow had no way to continue its attack.
Max stepped forward and brought Dragonheart around in one clean strike that passed straight through the shadow’s body.
The black figure split apart. Its curved blade dissolved, and the rest of it followed, scattering as dark particles across the arena before vanishing completely.
The battlefield fell silent.
Max lowered Dragonheart.
The Second Shadow had been dangerous, far more dangerous than its cultivation suggested. Once its movement was sealed, however, the one thing that made it terrifying became useless, and the Ten Void Sealing Art had ended the battle almost immediately.
A moment later, Max reappeared in front of the enormous door leading to the Second Shadow Trial.
The spatial light around his body had barely faded before voices started spreading through the surrounding area.
"That was fast."
"Fast doesn’t cover it. I don’t think even a few minutes went by."
"So the rumors about him were true after all?"
"You mean Max Voidwalker, the Primordial at the 1st level of the Law Manifestation Realm?"
"Who else would it be? How many people at that cultivation realm do you think are wandering around the second monolith?"
The murmurs quickly grew louder.
By now, a great many participants inside the second monolith had already heard about Bloodstone City. Some knew that Max had overwhelmed a Dragon Race genius despite the enormous gap in cultivation, while others had picked up far more exaggerated versions of the story, including rumors that he had beaten Greyjin without using any real technique at all.
Whichever version they believed, one thing was becoming harder and harder to deny. Max was no ordinary Law Manifestation Realm cultivator, and the fact that he had entered the Second Shadow Trial and come back so quickly only reinforced that impression.
Several participants began watching him openly. A few Dragon Race geniuses frowned as they whispered among themselves, some angels studied him with guarded expressions, and several Primordials looked at him with open curiosity and interest.
"I wish you could watch the shadow trials from outside," one participant muttered. "I’d love to know exactly how he beat the Second Shadow that fast."
"You and everyone else."
Over in one corner of the second monolith, a young Spirit Race man stood quietly and watched Max from a distance.
His skin carried a faint emerald glow, and thin luminous patterns ran across his neck before disappearing beneath his robes. His expression stayed calm, though a trace of doubt lingered in his eyes.
"So that’s Max Voidwalker."
He studied him for a few moments. "I still don’t see what Lady Shreya finds so interesting about him."
He had heard the reports, of course, and he knew what Max had supposedly done in Bloodstone City. Rumors were only rumors, though, and until he saw something truly extraordinary with his own eyes, he wasn’t ready to believe that a cultivator at the 1st level of the Law Manifestation Realm deserved the kind of attention Lady Shreya had given him.
After standing there a while longer, the Spirit Race man sighed. "Still, orders are orders."
He reached into his storage space and confirmed that the item entrusted to him was still there, and then he started walking toward Max.
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Max stayed near the entrance of the Second Shadow Trial and glanced around the monolith.
He couldn’t see Rakan anywhere, and Rosaline was nowhere in sight either. Ervin had disappeared as well.
"They must have gone into the Second Shadow Trial."
That was the most reasonable explanation, and Max didn’t think too hard about it. Considering how strong all three of them were, he doubted the Second Shadow would hold any of them up for long. The sharpness of its attacks was dangerous, but once someone figured out what made the shadow special, there were ways to handle it.
So Max decided to wait.
A few minutes passed, and during that time, the number of people watching him only grew.
He could feel their eyes on him from every direction. Some of them were curious, others were wary, and a few carried clear hostility. With the perception of his Dimensional Sovereign Body, even the ones pretending not to look were hard to miss.
Max sighed inwardly.
’Being at the 1st level of the Law Manifestation Realm really does make me stand out too much.’
Everyone around him was in the Divine Lord Realm, and most of them were at the 2nd or 3rd level. Then there was Max, standing among them with a cultivation realm that shouldn’t have let him survive here in the first place. It was impossible not to draw attention.