Buzz!
A surge of sword intent shot into the sky.
It caused everyone to open their eyes and look toward the source of that sword intent.
There stood Lin Mo of Returning Origin Sword Manor. After killing Li Ping, a True Inheritor of Blood Kill Sect, and resting to regulate his breathing, he had finally drawn his sword once more, pointing it at Tu Yue, a True Inheritor of Spirit Intent Sect!
"Your sword... has finally been tempered well."
Tu Yue opened his eyes and looked at Lin Mo as he approached, speaking in a calm tone.
The other True Inheritors of the Eight Sects and the Capital's outstanding talents were either too severely injured to recover to their peak in a short time, or still a hair's breadth away from perfecting their martial intent.
Only Lin Mo, after cutting down Blood Kill Sect's Li Ping with his sword and verifying his own Sword Dao, had finally reached this height. His sword intent had become perfectly fluid and mature, reaching the pinnacle of the Fifth Rank Martial Artist realm!
"A man tempers the sword, and the sword tempers the man."
Lin Mo held his sword horizontally before him. He stopped two zhang away from Tu Yue and said, "I tempered one sword, and have only this one strike. If you can withstand it, no one will be able to stop you again."
His voice was light and calm. He did not say what would happen if Tu Yue could not withstand it, nor did he need to. He was a sword cultivator, and his life had reached the extreme through the sword. If one could not withstand his sword, only death and annihilation awaited.
"Come."
Tu Yue's answer was just as simple.
If he could sever the sword in Lin