Noticing that the heavenly blade was starting to grow unstable after it failed to directly break through the final layer of the ice lotus, Xuan Hao's train of thought shifted away from escaping and instead turned towards thinking about ways to resist the heavenly blade until the growing instability caused the heavenly blade to collapse in on itself.
BANG-!
CRAAAAACK~!
However, as the heavenly blade pressed down again with an even more terrifying power than before, causing countless small cracks to spread throughout the ninth layer of the ice lotus, the slowly budding dream of making use of the growing instability in the heavenly sword to escape danger without needing to make use of the Dao of Space disappeared just as fast as it had appeared.
