Pfft!
The masked man spat out a mouthful of blood.
Through the tears in his tattered robes, streaks of demonic patterns could suddenly be seen lighting up across his skin.
"Roar..."
The masked man's head suddenly twitched twice, and a low, inhuman growl issued from his throat.
He laboriously raised his eyes, shocked that he had not lost to the Heavenly Mechanism Puppet's fists, but to an Innate who kept pulling trump cards out one after another!
This Innate was even more... than the Cutting Path experts he had fought—
"Special?"
Only then did the masked man's thoughts freeze.
The instant the demonic patterns lit up, his consciousness had in fact begun to slow.
The clarity of his spiritual platform was also being eroded bit by bit by beastly desire. All manner of inner demons and obsessions from his past cultivation surged forth in an endless stream.
"Haah!"
Another strange howl escaped his throat.
Xu Xiaoshou retreated a little and watched the transformation in the person before him.
Back in White Cavern, on Sword-Severing Prairie, he had seen too many people fight over Yousi Sword, only to suffer qi deviation in the end.
This was a peerless sword that, by reputation alone, could draw sword cultivators and prodigies from all beneath heaven to contend within the White Cavern World.
It was not a famed sword, yet it bore the title of one of the Five Great Chaotic Divine Artifacts. Moreover, it had once shone brilliantly in the hands of the Eighth Sword Immortal and become known to the world.
It seemed that between heaven and earth, nothing could withstand a single slash from this vicious sword.
Reality was indeed so.
Other than sword cultivators and those acknowledged by Yousi Sword, Xu Xiaoshou had never seen anyone dare to forcibly wield