Inside the dazzling Great Spirit Stone Tomb, in a trapped passage filled with water, fire, and poisoned needles.
The battle between the Golden Core cultivators and the eight Golden-Armored Warriors continued, but the situation was growing increasingly grim.
Bai Xiaosheng was doing all right. He was at the late Golden Core stage, with profound cultivation and complete mastery of the Bai Family's ancestral swordsmanship. Every move seemed unremarkable, yet his Sword Qi was exceptionally solid.
Even against the savage Golden-Armored Warriors, he could fight two at once.
Gu Changhuai was having a little more trouble.
It was not that his cultivation was lacking. On the contrary, although he was only at the Golden Core middle stage, his high-grade Spirit Root, high-grade cultivation method, and superior Dao methods gave him raw strength slightly above even the average late Golden Core cultivator native to Azure Fields.
The problem was that he could not go all out.
He could not reveal his superior Dao methods, and even kept his Seven-Colored Feather Peacock Treasure Fan half concealed, afraid that someone with an agenda would recognize the distinctive signs of his Dao methods and spread the word. The repercussions would be terrible.
Bai Xiaosheng was actually in much the same position as Gu Changhuai.
At least Bai Xiaosheng had superb swordsmanship. Even without his Life-Bound Sword, he could get by with an ordinary Spirit Sword.
Gu Changhuai was different. All his abilities were tied to his Natal Magic Treasure.
Once he fought, he had no choice but to use it, yet he could not use it freely. Fighting while keeping it half concealed was exceptionally frustrating.
But neither of them had any other choice.
Otherwise, if they truly unleashed their full Dao methods and exposed all the trump cards of their inheritances, they would be