As the spear descended toward the dragon's forehead, a piercing screech tore through the air as a burst of light swallowed the battlefield. A violent shockwave surged outward, sending dust and debris across the clearing as Lin Xiao Tian and the others reinforced their Qi shield to withstand the impact.
As the dust began to settle, their vision cleared enough to reveal what had truly happened at the final moment. Just before the strike connected, the dragon had twisted its body and dipped sharply, forcing the attack to miss its head by a narrow margin.
The spear tore past where its skull had been an instant earlier, grazing along its upper body as it redirected its force. The wound that followed was not clean, but dragged across its shoulder as it completed that evasive movement.
