"Give me the knife." I held out my hand, but Zhiling immediately hid the knife behind her back and hurriedly said, "No way! You said it was giving it to me. How can you just ask for it back now?"
"I'm not asking for it back. A perfect beauty naturally needs a finely crafted blade to match." I smiled. Zhiling eyed me suspiciously, clearly reluctant to part with the knife. "What if you don't give it back? Without this knife, I can't beat you at all."
I wasn't a stingy man. Someone like Zhiling was definitely needed by Tianyi Dao, so I pulled out a divine blade that looked rather unusual. When I held it up to the sunlight, countless crisscrossing beams of light slanted down after refracting through it, creating a dazzling, gorgeous display. The blade's shape was also completely different from the one in Zhiling's hand. It resembled a Tang sword, not one of the standard long blades of the Eight Desolations World.
Seeing that this Tang sword could emit such strange beams of light, Zhiling couldn't resist raising her own Kuiyi Stone divine blade toward the sky. To her disappointment, however, the sunlight passed straight through the blade and shone onto her face without the slightest obstruction. It couldn't produce beam after beam of refracted light like my Tang sword, which made it look as though the sword naturally possessed some mysterious power.
"Why is this happening? Could it be that their materials are different?" Although Zhiling had spent many years in the marketplace and possessed an exceptionally sharp eye for goods, her mind short-circuited for a moment.
I didn't hide the truth from her. "This is a Sunken-Heaven Stone Tang sword. Although its main material is still Kuiyi Stone, I added several hundred pieces' worth of