Ning Yao held Tianzhen, one of the four immortal swords. She glanced at everyone in the courtyard and asked Chen Ping'an by voice transmission, "What exactly happened?"
Chen Ping'an gave her a detailed account. Ning Yao listened with a deepening frown and took another look at Yuan Huajing and Ku Shou.
That casual glance from Ning Yao was enough to make Yuan Huajing, a Nascent Soul Realm sword cultivator, and Ku Shou, a Golden Core Realm Earth Immortal, feel a Great Dao pressure that seemed to embody Heaven's Will. Both cultivators suddenly struggled to breathe. The flow of Spiritual Energy within them began to stall, even showing signs of freezing like water turning to ice.
Such was an Ascension Realm sword cultivator. If she became their enemy, Qi cultivators below the Upper Five Realms might be worth less than ants.
The other Chen Ping'an summoned by Ku Shou was suffused with Pure Divine Nature. He was not the complete Chen Ping'an, yet in killing power alone, he surpassed him. He should have been the Inner Demon Chen Ping'an encountered when breaking through the Nascent Soul Bottleneck. But because Chen Ping'an had integrated his Dao with the Sword Qi Great Wall, that lawless, taboo-defying Outer Heavenly Demon had been suppressed and sealed within the city. Ku Shou's Still Water Realm could copy Chen Ping'an into the mirror, but just as it could not conjure a Night Roaming Sword from nothing, it could not reproduce the "real realm" of Great Dao Suppression Charm formed by half the Sword Qi Great Wall and two worlds. And so the other Chen Ping'an had escaped his cage.
When the two Chen Ping'ans met afterward, neither seemed to throw a punch or swing a sword. In truth, the slightest flaw in Chen Ping'an's state of mind