Magic Circle
Ryu's mind wasn't on any of this, though, he was entirely enraptured by the profundity of Elder Aika's earlier strike. If he was correct, she didn't need to display such might earlier, it was only because of her sudden inspired breakthrough that she had used such a top level application of her Dao.
Just then, the metal palm split in two but the Fragmented Sky God was riddled with nine holes… It didn't seem to make sense. If there were nine attacks, then why wouldn't the metal palm also gain nine holes?
It seemed that there was a simple answer. After all, even Qi Refinement Realm experts could control their streams of energy perfectly. Maybe she just split a blade attack into nine.
But what would be the purpose of that? Especially when the nine holes essentially split the man down in half as well. After all, every single one of the lines had gone down a straight vertical line.