Let This Moonlight...
Soon, the captain assembled the Cloud Knights, who neatly surrounded the training ground, while Bai Luoming and Jingliu stood on either side of the training ground.
As for Bailu, she stood in a corner. Although she wasn't the one going on stage, she was ready to help anyone who got injured.
The Cloud Knights surrounded the training ground with expectant expressions. As time slowly passed, the Cloud Knights, who had initially been able to maintain Order, began to discuss among themselves.
"Why isn't the fight starting yet! I want to see rivers of blood and teeth flowing!"
"By the way, who's facing Sword Champion? And what's their strength?"
Seeing the Cloud Knights so excited, the captain stopped paying attention and instead focused on the two people in the training ground, hoping to learn a move or two from their duel.
Inside the training ground, Bai Luoming and Jingliu were facing off. Before the fight officially began, he looked around and finally chose to take a sword that gleamed with a cold light from the weapon rack.
Seeing Bai Luoming choose the sword as his primary weapon, Jingliu nodded secretly, quite satisfied with his choice. After all, she was the Sword Champion of Luofu, and Bai Luoming's choice of the sword as his weapon—didn't this demonstrate his approval of Bai Luoming?
Bai Luoming, who was holding a sword to the side, was naturally unaware of Jingliu's thoughts. He held the sword and recklessly poured the two Path energy into it.
The Path of Destruction endowed Bai Luoming's sword with indestructible sharpness, while the Preservation Path endowed it with unparalleled sturdiness.
At least for now, the sword in his hand is no less powerful than any peerless divine weapon, but who knows what will happen after the fight.
Having done all this, Bai Luoming held the sword in a rather unorthodox posture, looking at Jingliu provocatively.
Jingliu was even more pleased with this. From Bai Luoming's various actions, she could tell that he didn't know how to use a sword, but his continued choice to use it was itself a testament to his unwavering commitment.
She waved for Bai Luoming to attack, and Bai Luoming, no longer holding back, raised his sword and slashed down towards Jingliu's position.
Jingliu dodged to the side. From her perspective, Bai Luoming had actually revealed a considerable opening. If it were Jing Yuan, she might have already knocked Jing Yuan's sword away.
When Bai Luoming saw Jingliu dodge, the corners of his mouth turned up. He gathered his strength in the downward slash of his sword, and then with a light stroke, he slashed horizontally at Jingliu.
Jingliu curled her lips into a smile, and with a slight lift of her right hand, an ice sword instantly materialized in her hand. She then easily blocked Bai Luoming's attack with the ice sword.
The two exchanged blows, each countering the other's moves, resembling a scene from a police drill. Seeing this, the surrounding Cloud Knights began to jeer, shouting, "Boring! I want to see bloodshed!"
Jingliu ignored him and continued to dismantle Bai Luoming's attacks.
Even though Jingliu was holding back, Bai Luoming still didn't last long against Jingliu before Jingliu seized an opportunity and knocked his sword away with a single strike.
The moment the sword left Bai Luoming's hand, the infusion of Path power ceased, and after tracing a graceful arc, it shattered into pieces like ice crystals.
Sword: This guy is so bad! Feed me peanuts! Feed me peanuts!
Bai Luoming stared blankly at the sword that had slipped from his hand, then looked at Jingliu and said, "This childish game ends here."
Having said that, he shone brightly, and the power of his Path condensed into a pair of gauntlets in his hands, which he then assumed a fighting stance as he looked at Jingliu.
The audience, witnessing this, excitedly shouted, "That's exactly what we wanted to see!"
Jingliu Bai Luoming become serious, Jing Liu couldn't help but feel a little expectant. He twirled his ice sword and faced Bai Luoming.
Then, Bai Luoming's fist shone brightly, and he kicked out with his toes, his fist pointing directly at Jingliu.
Jingliu was not afraid at all, and blocked Bai Luoming's powerful attack with his sword.
The moment their attacks clashed, a surge of energy exploded across the field, kicking up a cloud of dust.
Bai Luoming was shocked as he sensed the power of Jingliu. He hadn't expected that his proud stats would be unable to gain the upper hand in the clash of power, and that Jingliu would easily block them.
Jingliu was equally startled. She hadn't expected Bai Luoming's strength to be so great, far exceeding her Remembrance. Just from that punch, she was actually struggling to keep up.
Seeing this, Bai Luoming's eyes darkened slightly, and he no longer held back, launching a rapid barrage of attacks at Jingliu, using all his strength in every punch.
Seeing this, Jingliu was also delighted and stopped holding back. He brandished his ice sword, and a flash of sword light swept across, accurately catching Bai Luoming had made due to his punches.
The two moved with incredible speed, their movements creating countless flashes of sword light and fist shadows. Even the Cloud Knights Lieutenant, who was watching closely from the sidelines, was unable to keep up with their pace for a moment.
However, Jingliu was, after all, the leader of the Luofu Sword Champion. At this moment, even though Bai Luoming tried his best, he still could not shake Jingliu's strength when he attacked with all his might.
Soon, with a final clash between the two, the battle came to an end.
Jingliu lowered his ice sword and looked calmly at Bai Luoming, while Bai Luoming clenched his fists, and the Preservation force wrapped around his fists shattered with a bang.
Even at this point, Bai Luoming's eyes still revealed a surging fighting spirit. He dispersed the power of Path surrounding him, raised his right hand, and the surrounding air began to become scorching hot.
Amidst the curious gazes of the crowd, Bai Luoming conjured a greatsword in his hand and boldly activated the third stage!
At this moment, Bai Luoming was surrounded by flames, and his upper body clothes were instantly burned away, revealing an incomparably vast aura.
He held his greatsword, its blade pointing directly at Jingliu, and said arrogantly, "For me to use this move, you have every reason to be proud. After this battle, I think I will never forget you."
When Jingliu saw Bai Luoming start talking nonsense during the fight, she smiled. This was the Bai Luoming she knew, the Bai Luoming she knew, who would say these inexplicable things during the fight.
Despite the laughter, Jingliu clearly didn't underestimate Bai Luoming at all; on the contrary, she began to prepare for battle. Generally, when Bai Luoming started talking nonsense, that was when he was about to unleash his full power.
As expected, upon seeing Jingliu's smile, Bai Luoming's expression stiffened. He took it as Jingliu's prejudice, raised his greatsword, and attacked Jingliu. However, he did not unleash his full power, only using a small portion of it.
Bai Luoming's skills were still rough at this moment, but the energy he released was more than an order of magnitude more terrifying than before, and even Jingliu dared not easily withstand it.
Thus, in everyone's eyes, the roles had reversed, and Bai Luoming was now almost overwhelming Jingliu, while Jingliu was the one struggling to cope.
After exchanging a few more blows, Jingliu seized an opportunity and once again deflected Bai Luoming's sword with a single strike. The aura of Bai Luoming's greatsword plummeted after it left his hand.
Jingliu paid no attention to any of this. Seeing Bai Luoming's greatsword being knocked down, Jingliu's eyes flashed red, and he leaped into the air, chanting, "Let this moonlight..."
Bai Luoming was startled. At this moment, he was inwardly cursing Old Bai. So what Old Bai said about only having the combat power of the Lord Ravager by wielding a greatsword was actually just a literal statement. You really have to wield a greatsword to have it!
Jingliu's ultimate move was already charging up, Jingliu Bai Luoming could only look up at Jingliu and say, "Hey, can we make peace?"
"Moon On Glacial Rivers!!"
As soon as these words were spoken, massive crescent-shaped sword energies rained down on Bai Luoming.
Bai Luoming was somewhat helpless and had no choice but to mobilize all his Preservation power to form shields around his body in an attempt to block the attack.
The sword energy bombarded the ground relentlessly, easily shattering the training ground and kicking up clouds of dirt and dust.
Soon, Jingliu stopped releasing sword energy and looked down at the arena.
As the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, Bai Luoming stood in the now-ruined martial arts arena, his entire body covered in dust. He looked up at Jingliu Bai Luoming, flashing a bright white smile, and gave him a thumbs-up, praising, "You've got guts!"