This time, the moment they met, both sides immediately struck to kill. They had tacitly skipped even the customary exchange of pleasantries.
A rain of swords filled the sky, turning into silvery streams beneath the moonlight as it shot down at Pang Ban from above. Yet just before the Sword Light reached him, Pang Ban vanished from where he stood in an incomparably bizarre manner. The next instant, he appeared from the ground directly beneath Ye Weiming, as though he had emerged from nowhere, and blasted an upward punch at him.
With Fang Yeyu no longer needing his protection, Pang Ban's tactics became far more flexible. He no longer needed to forcibly withstand all of Ye Weiming's ultimate moves and killing techniques.
Suspended in midair, Ye Weiming had not expected Pang Ban's attack to come so quickly or so strangely. Startled inwardly, he swiftly put away Reverse Scale and drew the more powerful Night Sky Sword instead. With a downward flick of its tip, he directly pierced through the force behind Pang Ban's punch.
Sword Breaking Style!
This was the strength of the Sky Shaking Nine Swords. If the original Dugu Nine Swords had encountered Pang Ban's punch, he would likely have needed to consider whether to use the Palm-Breaking Form or the Qi Break Stance to neutralize its force. Before the Sky Shaking Nine Swords, however, that problem simply did not exist.
Of course, the reason he could so effortlessly and casually break Pang Ban's punch was also due in no small part to Cloud Chess Heaven.
After all, once a martial artist had reached Ye Weiming's level, their true qi, moves, cultivation methods, and every other aspect had already perfectly fused into part of their strength. Forcing a distinction between them would be an exceedingly dull affair.
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