"Rumble."
Thunder rolled across the skies.
Even though Mei Suren had already attained sainthood, the mutated Triple Saint Calamity brought by the Three-Calamity Eyes had not faded. Only one calamity had been removed; two remained.
And now, the Saint Calamity came crashing down furiously upon the old Sword Saint below.
Yet after Mei Suren had become a Saint, the combat power of his Sword Manifestation had soared to unprecedented heights. Merely guarding behind him, it rendered the nine heavens' lightning calamity utterly incapable of harming Mei Suren.
—Divine Mind Penetration was meant to display its greatest power only after one became a demi-saint.
"Xu Xiaoshou..."
Mei Suren curled up on the ground, grief in his eyes as he held a charred severed arm, tears blurring his vision.
He had been one step too late! When he had destroyed the Saint Calamity and attained sainthood, Mei Suren had already caught sight of Xu Xiaoshou arriving.
This had made him unwilling to spend too much time comprehending the Saint Dao even after attaining sainthood, and he had swiftly ended his state of enlightenment.
But when he came back to his senses...
Such a huge Xu Xiaoshou, with such a powerful physical body, had still been struck dead by the remaining Saint Calamity!
After being struck for only that brief moment... Xu Xiaoshou had died, leaving behind only a severed arm! Holding that arm, Mei Suren employed every method he knew, yet could not save his newly accepted student.
He was a Sword Saint, not a Medicine Saint.
Having only just attained sainthood, he had already lost such a prized disciple. It truly left his emotions incomparably complicated.
"Xu Xiaoshou, Xu Xiaoshou, how could you be so foolish?"
"This was this old man's Saint Calamity, a Triple Saint Calamity. How did you dare