The middle-aged cultivator's soul was undoubtedly powerful, but his cultivation realm was still at the peak Integration stage.
Faced with hundreds and thousands of multicolored blades surging toward him, each carrying an attack as powerful as that of a peak Integration stage cultivator, even the middle-aged cultivator, who had already awakened part of Xia Yuqi's memories, was suddenly seized by fear.
A cry of alarm suddenly burst from his mouth. "You... you're Venerable Xuanwei's successor?"
"Bang!" Just as the middle-aged cultivator cried out, four immense sword blades, each over a dozen zhang long, struck the enormous gourd simultaneously.
Amid the booming impacts, a whimper immediately rang out. The enormous gourd's violet light flickered wildly as it rapidly shrank, instantly transforming into something only a few inches in size.
White light flashed, and the middle-aged cultivator who had been standing there had already retreated more than a dozen zhang.
At the very moment the middle-aged cultivator cried out, Qin Fengming's ten fingers, which had been moving rapidly, also came to an abrupt halt in midair. The streaks of sword light vanished, and no more were released.
Being able to use only Qinglin Sword Light to strike one of the middle-aged cultivator's extremely powerful magic treasures until it lost most of its spirituality, forcing him to forcibly recall it, was inseparable from the greatly increased might of the Qinglin Sword Art Qin Fengming had unleashed. Its sword aura attack was comparable to one fully released by an early Spirit Severing stage cultivator.
There was another, even more important reason: this place was inside a mountain.
The Heaven and Earth Origin Energy surrounding the mountain peak could not be rapidly gathered within the mountain's interior. Under the frenzied absorption of powerful secret arts comparable to those of late and peak Integration cultivators, the