Chapter 447: If You Can't Win, Run Away
Glancing at the Black Broken Sword on the ground, Fang Zhou summoned the Xuanyuan Sword, raising it high with both hands, infusing it with Innate True Qi.
The dull Xuanyuan Sword instantly returned to its original appearance, transforming into a dazzling gold, illuminating the whole surveillance hall.
Each ray of golden light was a fierce Sword Qi, making everyone feel an intense chill.
"Zheng!"
With the clear sound of the sword, countless dazzling golden lights formed a massive sword light, while countless Sword Qi converged into a gigantic golden sword.
This giant sword struck the top of the surveillance hall, surprisingly not penetrating through it instantly, as golden light burst forth, causing the entire surveillance hall to tremble.
Fang Zhou instantly realized that this hall was a whole, a cage, so solid that even his strongest swordsmanship couldn't penetrate it.
No wonder the Abyss Watcher was so composed, thinking he couldn't possibly escape.
However, under the impact of the golden light, the entire surveillance hall trembled more and more, the ceiling already cracked open, countless rubble falling and being shattered by the fierce Sword Qi.
The Abyss Watcher could no longer stand still, suddenly drawing the large sword from its waist.
"Sword Slash!"
Fang Zhou forcefully swung the Xuanyuan Sword forward.
The sword light transformed into a golden torrent at extreme speed, surging towards the Abyss Watcher.
The Abyss Watcher raised the large sword high with one hand, the sword wrapped in black light, which surged upwards like a tide.
It swung downward, the large sword sweeping out a fan-shaped black sword mark, the black light enveloping the sword immediately shot out, forming a straight black line.
The black line collided with the oncoming golden torrent, cutting it directly in half from the middle.
The golden torrent surged to both sides, crashing against the hall walls, producing a thunderous roar, the entire surveillance hall trembling once again, but the impact was much less severe due to the dispersion of the golden torrent's power.
Countless fierce Sword Intents erupted from the golden lights, carving numerous sword marks on the ground, walls, and ceiling, yet unable to reach the Abyss Watcher's perimeter.
It was like an immovable rock, remaining untouched under the torrent's impact.
The golden torrent lasted nearly ten seconds before disappearing, filling the hall with shimmering golden dots, like a sky full of stars.
The surveillance hall's ceiling and walls on both sides were struck into a deep pit by Fang Zhou's sword light, but could not be completely penetrated, illustrating the cage's astonishing sturdiness.
What surprised Fang Zhou even more was the Abyss Watcher.
With a casual demeanor, it had taken the Sword Slash head-on, completely unharmed.
Fang Zhou took out an elixir that could quickly restore Spiritual Energy and consumed it, feeling his whole heart sinking with it.
This enemy was too powerful, Fang Zhou couldn't see any hope of victory.
He cast a deep glance at the Black Broken Sword at the Abyss Watcher's feet, realizing it was currently impossible to seize it.
"Outsider!"
The Abyss Watcher aimed its large sword at Fang Zhou: "You will become kindling, burning your sinful body, sustaining the Soul Fire, atone for your sins!"
It gripped the large sword tightly and swung it forward, the sword erupting dense overlapping black light, crisscrossing with black Sword Qi to instantly form a dense net.
The black sword net swiftly passed forward, roughly slicing the air into blocks, which then churned into swirling air currents.
To Fang Zhou's eyes, the terrifying black sword net wrapped in air currents swept in, its grandeur threatening to slice everything apart, leaving behind precise and deep ravines wherever it reached.
This scene helped Fang Zhou finally understand where the intersecting scars on the walls, ground, and ceiling came from.
The Abyss Watcher likely wasn't battling here for the first time.
Faced with such terrifying, almost unavoidable attacks, Fang Zhou surprisingly found room for divergent thinking.
This was because he had already left himself a contingency plan, having left Bi An outside the surveillance hall.
Fang Zhou never fully trusted Night Mouse, always leaving a way out, which finally came into play at this moment.
He glanced at Night Mouse — the latter was kneeling on one knee, head bowed, expression completely unreadable.
Fang Zhou gave him a deep look, then swapped positions with Bi An, disappearing from the surveillance hall with a swish.
Boom boom!!
The black sword net slashed the walls, cutting crosswise trenches in the ones that could withstand the Sword Slash, the following chaotic currents hitting the walls, raising clouds of dust and debris, causing the hall to boom loudly.
Night Mouse slowly lifted his head, glimpsing at the spot where Fang Zhou had vanished.
He couldn't lie to the Abyss Watcher, but he could choose to conceal information.
Fang Zhou had many times displayed abilities akin to space transfer in front of Night Mouse, and Night Mouse kept this concealed, not revealing it to the Abyss Watcher.
This was the only thing he could do.
...
Swish!
Fang Zhou suddenly appeared outside the surveillance hall, hurriedly summoning Bi An back, uncertain if the armor on Bi An could withstand the Abyss Watcher's slash.
Once Bi An returned unharmed, Fang Zhou immediately fled along the path he came.
No match, no match, the Abyss Watcher was too terrifying, head-on confrontation offered Fang Zhou no chance of winning, the risk to his life was exceedingly high.
He couldn't fight directly, had to outwit, but for now, the most urgent thing was to escape first.
Fang Zhou had just fled not far when a beam of black light pierced through the tightly shut black iron gate of the surveillance hall.
Amidst loud thundering, the iron gate shattered into pieces, and the imposing figure of the Abyss Watcher quickly emerged from the surveillance hall.
Fang Zhou's scalp tingled, disregarding the anti-air cannons around, flying directly upward, accelerating his flight speed to the maximum.
In an instant, a large number of tower-shaped eyes in the fort locked onto Fang Zhou, shooting beams of black light at him.
Fang Zhou immediately summoned the Xuanyuan Sword, forming a sword circle around his body to shield against the black light shots.
Dozens of black light beams struck the sword circle, causing it to rumble and tremble, it wouldn't hold for long.
Taking advantage of the impact from the black light shots, Fang Zhou flew even faster outward.
The Abyss Watcher also ascended into the air, the surrounding anti-air cannons ignoring it.
The Abyss Watcher's blood-red eyes locked onto the fleeing Fang Zhou, dashing forward like a ghost, faster than lightning.
Each advance was like a teleport, leaping a great distance, revealing a blurred figure before surging forward again, the time between advances almost negligible.
Such speed by the Abyss Watcher was more than ten times faster than Fang Zhou's mere flying, after several pulses, it had silently caught up behind Fang Zhou, raising the large sword in its hand high.
When Fang Zhou sensed danger looming from behind, the Abyss Watcher's large sword had already swung down, slicing across Fang Zhou's waist.