Yi Guoxin struck too quickly, too suddenly—so quickly Qu Ping had no time to stop him, so suddenly that Qu Ping had never even considered stopping him. He could only stare wide-eyed and let events unfold.
Of course, he was not worried about Xiang Yang. If Xiang Yang could not take this move, it would only prove that he had misjudged him.
So it is Blood Calamity Sky. Yi Feixuan truly dotes on this nephew. If he spared no expense and transferred blood to Yi Guoxin before the battle, then this man really could be a formidable rival.
The instant Xiang Yang saw the man's method of attack, a thought flashed through his mind. From the vast sea of martial arts knowledge, he identified the origin of the martial art being used.
Blood Calamity Sky had been created long ago by an eccentric figure of the martial world. It was divided into Three Passes and Nine Essentials, neither wholly righteous nor wholly evil, and possessed an enormous reputation. Xiang Yang had gathered relevant information on it before.
It had once stood alongside the Blood Scripture of the Blood Demon lineage, known as the two pinnacle arts of blood refinement. Even the Unyielding Bone Demonic Art Xiang Yang had witnessed, which could transform its practitioner into a true zombie body, could only rank beneath those two.
The so-called Three Passes and Nine Essentials referred to the three passes—Shattering Void, Transforming Elixir, and Melding Spirit—which fully delineated the cultivation realms of this art. Each pass also held three essential points. Only by perfectly mastering them could one advance to the next level; hence the name Three Passes and Nine Essentials, Blood Calamity Sky.
Yet unlike the Great Patience Divine Skill cultivated by Ning Ke, which merely required a person to endure hardship,