As the smoke and dust dispersed, the surrounding wilderness returned to silent darkness.
This ruin deep within Fallen Sky Mountain appeared ever more desolate and cold.
Tang Lingqi and Tang Bao Er had both recovered from their despair and terror, though their expressions were still somewhat dazed.
The lingering fear remained.
This battle had been far too terrifying!
Especially that final strike. Though the two of them had been on the battlefield, they had lost all perception and had no idea how Su Yi had ultimately broken Sword Madman's Grand Dao Sword Domain.
Only now, when they saw Su Yi withdraw the Dao sword pressed against Sword Madman's brow and heard what Su Yi said, did they both freeze in astonishment.
Though it was only a few words, the bearing they revealed was profoundly stirring!
"Having known the vastness of heaven and earth, yet still cherishing the green of grass and trees."
Sword Madman murmured softly.
No one knew how great an impact every word of that sentence had made upon his heart!
"Is this the bearing a sword cultivator should possess, which you mentioned before?"
Sword Madman asked.
His robes were bloodied and torn. Fine, crisscrossing sword wounds, like a spiderweb, covered his skin, with fresh blood flowing from them.
His gaunt face was pale as paper, making him look all the more bedraggled and downcast.
Yet when he raised his eyes to look at Su Yi, his gaze remained as pure, fervent, and resolute as ever.
"Not quite."
Su Yi thought for a moment. A trace of profoundness surfaced in his eyes as he softly said, "The bearing of a sword cultivator can encompass all things, the stars filling the skies; yet it can also contain the slightest speck of dust, the mayfly in the vast sea."
"One