The bronze skull hammer swept downward through the dark winter air with murderous speed.
Gui Sha grinned under his ragged black veil, channeling fifty years of rancid corpse-qi into his bony arms. His yellow teeth clicked together in venomous anticipation.
CLANG!
The heavy bronze hammer struck the blunt head of the sixteen-inch Infant-Blood Baleful Nail with full force.
Gui Sha expected to feel the iron sink effortlessly into the soft topsoil. He expected the black infant blood to poison the underground dragon vein, rotting the pure earth qi into a putrid swamp of toxic bile.
Instead, the hammer bounced back as if it had struck an anvil of solid celestial diamond.
A sharp, ringing shockwave traveled up the bronze shaft, numbing Gui Sha’s wrists and rattling his collarbones.
“What is this?” Gui Sha hissed in disbelief, his triangular viper eyes bulging behind the thin gauze. “This soil is harder than refined tungsten!”
