Mission

Three days later, Li Yuanba and Tang Xue Ning left Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion together. As they flew on their swords, Tang Xue Ning shared a mission with Li Yuanba.

Xue Huan, a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Peak Cultivator of the White Emperor Sect, was known as a Half-step Great Cultivator, and he had mastered the Invisible Yuan Magnetism divine power.

In the conflict between the White Emperor Sect and Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion, Xue Huan had made quite a few Sword Cultivators suffer heavy losses.

Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion had a mission specifically to kill Xue Huan alone, and the reward for the mission was extremely generous.

At present, both Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion and the White Emperor Sect were restraining the level of their fighting, keeping it from rising to the point of a clash between Great Cultivators. That meant this Half-step Great Cultivator, Xue Huan, was the strongest combatant the White Emperor Sect could deploy.

Keeping the battle at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage level benefited both sides. Once the fighting exceeded that level, it would amount to a fight to the death between the White Emperor Sect and Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion.

A death match between two superpowers would have far too great an impact, and it concerned the foundations both sides had built over tens of thousands of years.

A victory or defeat decided through battles at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage could also settle this hatred. In any case, the higher-ups on both sides did not truly wish to fight to the death. Whether it was Sword Intent Soaring Pavilion or the White Emperor Sect, there were many forces watching them closely.

If the two superpowers really weakened even a little, other superpowers would swoop in and reap the benefits.

But neither side would