[Phantom Void Step]
His figure blurred, covering the distance between them in an instant, and he came in from the Minotaur's left side, the Celestial Lord Blade angled toward the exposed spine point marked in the system prompt. The strike was clean and precise.
The Minotaur twisted with a speed that had no right to belong to something its size.
The bone plating on its shoulder intercepted the blade. The impact rang out like a struck bell, the golden light of the weapon flaring against the natural armor, and the Minotaur's free hand swept across in a backhand that Lin Yi barely cleared, the displaced air from the swing hitting him like a physical blow and sending him skidding backward across the cracked floor.
He caught his footing. His arm registered the feedback of the blocked strike, pressure traveling back up through the blade into his wrists and shoulders.
