NOVPUB"You slippery loach, die! Harness the vast sea!"
Superior Xuanming channeled the Divine Pill Xuanming, his power flowing endlessly. At this moment, he was somewhat angry. Su Changkong, relying on his Shrinking into Inches-like technique, had made it difficult for him to cope for the time being. In a fit of rage, Superior Xuanming formed a vortex of True Qi in his palm, spinning rapidly like a black hole, producing a tremendous sucking force.
The Xuanming Secret Scripture could siphon others’ power for one’s own use, and at Superior Xuanming’s level, he could drain someone’s True Qi from a distance. In his fury, he fully exerted himself, his suction force latching onto Su Changkong to actively extract his True Qi!
But at this moment, Su Changkong didn’t retreat but advanced, directly confronting Superior Xuanming.
"Die!"
Surging True Qi gathered and swirled between Superior Xuanming’s fingers, his fingers furiously clawing. His face bore a ruthless expression, intent on capturing Su Changkong, sucking out his True Qi, and tearing him to shreds alive!
Yet, suddenly, Superior Xuanming’s eyelids twitched violently, a sense of extreme threat overwhelming his heart.
"Clang!!"
Su Changkong’s hand had already pressed on the hilt of his sword at his waist. As his palm touched the sword, as if resonating, the ordinary Iron-Cutting Sword was imbued with a soul, emitting a loud and clear sword cry!
This sound was not real, but ethereal, from the soul, illusory yet deafening!
"What?"
At this moment, Superior Xuanming felt a numbness on his scalp. It was as if time had stopped when he saw an invisible wave dispersing, a chilling sword light breaking free from the scabbard’s restraint, seemingly slow but in reality so fast it threw off one’s senses.
The chilling sword light, ghostly yet real, simple yet magnificent, streaked through space, tearing through the void as if it was mere paper, approaching from afar!
Perceiving danger, Superior Xuanming hastily retreated, but it was slightly too late.
"Pfft!"
The sword light sliced over the hand Superior Xuanming had extended, and along with a crisp tearing sound, the dense protective True Qi covering his palm was effortlessly torn apart. Half of his hand, along with his five fingers, was chopped off and flung away.
"My... My hand!"
Superior Xuanming staggered back, somewhat disoriented, until a soul-piercing pain struck him, causing him to let out a piercing, mournful howl. The pain from where his hand was severed seeped deep into his soul, as if it had been partly obliterated, making it unbearable!
"It was that easy... to injure him?"
Even Su Changkong himself was somewhat shocked; his previous ’White Tiger Roars and Kills’ and other powerful moves, had struck Superior Xuanming’s critical head area and had failed to injure Superior Xuanming at all. But now, using his Blade Soul, he had chopped off a hand in a single encounter!
"So that’s how it is... Superior Xuanming’s ’pseudo Divine Skills’ can absorb and neutralize any attack, but it doesn’t include the ’Blade Soul’, that is the power of the soul! It is an entirely different kind of force!"
Su Changkong realized.
His Five Animal Frolics used the Essence Qi Spirit to mobilize nature’s spiritual energy and unleash powerful moves, which Superior Xuanming could absorb and neutralize in this domain.
But when the Blade Technique reaches the Soul Realm and forms a Blade Soul, that is the sublimation of the soul, the power bursting forth from the soul itself, different from nature’s spiritual energy or the True Qi cultivated from the physical body. Therefore, even the Xuanming Secret Scripture reaching the level of pseudo Divine Skills could hardly neutralize it!
"How... How is this possible? What kind of divine weapon is this? How could it break through my Xuanming True Qi?"
Blood spurted from Superior Xuanming’s severed hand, the pain causing his soul to tremble. He found it hard to believe that Su Changkong could injure him so effortlessly with a single cut. He thought it might be related to Su Changkong’s sword, which must be a divine weapon hard to find in the world!
Of course, in reality, the Iron-Cutting Sword Su Changkong wielded was just an ordinary sword, yet when resonating with his Blade Soul, it surpassed any divine weapon!
"Kill!"
In a flash of thought, Su Changkong gave Superior Xuanming no chance to catch his breath. His soul was trembling, and his body overflowed with a sharpness that could cut down everything. With one step forward, he held the Iron-Cutting Sword with both hands and brought it down in a Splitting Cut.
This simple slash was naturally perfect, creating a tiny, pitch-black fissure, as if by fate, sword drawn, certain hit! Nothing uncuttable!
"Divine Pill Xuanming!"
Superior Xuanming’s hairs stood on end, and he let out a somewhat mad, long howl. The Divine Pill Xuanming within his Dantian burst forth and expanded rapidly, turning into a nearly ten-foot-diameter black sphere between them. The dense True Qi filled it, like a black hole that could grind anything that neared it into pieces.
Facing this soul-splitting slash, Superior Xuanming found it hard to dodge and had to defend with the Divine Pill Xuanming he had painstakingly cultivated for many years.
"Hiss!"
The Iron-Cutting Sword slashed furiously, carrying with it the power from the soul, impregnable, accompanied by a screeching tearing sound. The near ten-foot-diameter Divine Pill Xuanming was slashed by the blade, ripping open a huge gash.
"Boom!"
The originally intact Divine Pill Xuanming, once ripped open, was like a pierced balloon, with a vast amount of True Qi pouring out crazily from within. This dense True Qi, cultivated and absorbed from countless Martial Arts experts by Superior Xuanming over nearly a hundred years, 𝓷ℴ𝓿𝓹𝓾𝓫.𝓬ℴ𝓶
turned from vapor to liquid, shooting in all directions, making it seem as if a black, fine rain had started within nearly a mile radius!
