At that moment, the commotion from their first clash on the battle platform had subsided.
Li Chaoxi looked at Li Tianming and smiled in admiration. "That was Dragon Calamity, the first strike of the Nine-Star Tyrant Heaven Sword Dao. I once defeated every so-called genius on the Myriad Emperors Ranking with that strike alone, yet you seemed to handle it effortlessly. That means you can already be called the outer sect's strongest disciple, not merely its most talented. Your gifts truly defy the heavens."
"I've never cared about empty titles. Everything I do is for cultivation and to grow stronger." Li Tianming smiled, unconcerned. "I had the advantage of striking first just now. Please don't hold back from here on, Senior Sister Chaoxi. Let's fight with everything we have."
"That's exactly what I want. Come! Let me see what you're really capable of." Light blazed in Li Chaoxi's eyes as she raised the Dawn Emperor Sword high.
She did not hesitate. Her eyes held nothing but a fierce passion for battle.
It seemed she, too, was obsessed with fighting and cultivation, much like Li Tianming!
In an instant!
Her surging golden Eonic Godforce, belonging to an eighth-rank Celestial Venerable, poured madly into the sword. It soon formed a golden storm that swept across the entire Emperor's Battle Platform!
And at the center of that storm stood Li Chaoxi!
She stood within the golden vortex, the Dawn Emperor Sword raised in one hand while the other hung naturally at her side, looking down at Li Tianming.
In that stance, her presence swept across the Emperor's Battle Platform. She seemed a sovereign ruling all under heaven, before whom every living being bowed!
Fortunately, while Li Tianming and Li Chaoxi had been talking, the Illusory God cultivators present had reinforced the Emperor's Battle