The Azure Pine Sword spun several times in midair, then plunged into the dirt with a sharp thunk.
Liu Chenggong stared in disbelief. He looked down at his right hand. The web between his thumb and forefinger was tingling and slightly swollen.
Chu Huai Xu stared at him just as incredulously. "You're the Deputy Captain of the Enforcement Team, and you're this weak?"
There was a useless guy in the group!
For ordinary cultivators, Body Tempering was only practiced during the Aperture Opening Stage. After that, their main methods relied on the Spiritual Power within their bodies.
They relied on Spiritual Power to kill their enemies, and on Spiritual Power to defend themselves.
Spiritual Power was the foundation of a cultivator!
In Chu Huai Xu's eyes, Liu Chenggong's Physique was definitely stronger than that of an ordinary Nine-Orifice Disciple, but it shouldn't be stronger than his own.
That was why he'd told Liu Chenggong to use a sword. Otherwise, wouldn't he, an Eight-Aperture Expert who specialized in Body Tempering, be bullying a mere Second Realm cultivator?
Besides, without Spiritual Power, a Spirit Sword couldn't unleash much power anyway.
But no matter how Chu Huai Xu looked at it, he couldn't understand why the other man seemed as though wine and women had drained him dry. What a Deputy Captain in name only!
He'd flicked the sword with his finger just now partly to look cool, but also to hint that Liu Chenggong shouldn't hold back—he clearly still had strength to spare.
If that had been enough to decide the winner, it would've been a bit ridiculous.
Han Shuangjiang watched from the side, deeply shaken.
If Liu Chenggong hadn't been examining the web between his thumb and forefinger, she would've wondered whether he was being a little too obvious in his