With Li Dai's voice, accompanied by those movements like flowing shadows passing through flowers, the Duye Sword emitted a faint, deep glow. Centered on Li Dai, everyone felt as though the surrounding environment suddenly shifted. A piercing, torrential killing intent blanketed the area, carrying a suffocating sense of mortal danger. Plunging into it stirred an impulse for pure slaughter, yet a stream of clarity urged them to hold their ground and exercise restraint.
This was the brilliance of the Dancing Flowing Light technique. Once Li Dai released her Slaughter Sword Intent, it could harvest lives while simultaneously inciting the most brutal bloodlust within cultivators. Yet, channeled through the movements of Dancing Flowing Light, the sword projected a radiant glow that kept minds clear. Who would stay sober and who would fall into madness lay entirely in Li Dai's hands.
When she finished the technique—as ethereal as a dust-free immortal—the Duye Sword left in its wake what seemed like a sea of blood. At her shouted command of "Retract!", the demonic blood and necrotic energy that had been surging toward the skull all reversed direction, rushing toward Li Dai instead. Dancing Flowing Light was overwhelmingly tyrannical. Combined with Li Dai's slaughter intent, it drove the Duye Sword into a state of violent fury, sucking in death qi and blood like a bottomless pit until the speck of white on the blade was completely dyed crimson.
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