Crack!
The ice sculpture behind them had clearly failed to trap Yi and Ancestor Wuji for long.
They broke free after no more than a single sentence.
Yi clutched his wound and instinctively retreated, frantically using life force to connect the two halves and restore his body. Yet he discovered that the Sword Thought lingering in the wound was preventing him from repairing himself by any means.
"This damned thing, always resorting to sneak attacks..."
Yi hated it to the extreme.
He had already been successfully ambushed twice by Xu Xiaoshou of the Saint Slave.
The last time had been on the long street of East Heavenly King City. With that lesson already behind him, he should have been more cautious.
But...
That fellow's Master-stage cultivation was simply too deceptive.
Yi had never imagined that the little brat would launch an attack without a word the moment he landed.
"Mad dog!"
While cursing inwardly, Yi used the Great Path Principles to strip away the Sword Thought remaining on his wound.
But Sword Thought was, after all, second-generation Divine Mind Penetration.
The reason Divine Mind Penetration was so great, the reason Kui Leihan had indisputably ranked first among the Ten Seat Holders—squeezing even the once world-renowned Eighth Sword Immortal out of place—
Was because this attack method he had created possessed all three states of qi, intent, and spirit. It transformed the abstract into substance, then used illusory thought-power to inflict real damage.
Below holy power, it was practically the only means of indiscriminate attack that could ignore cultivation tiers.
It was also publicly acknowledged across the continent as the most unsolvable offensive and defensive technique among Spirit Refiners of the same stage.
Unsolvable!
Even ancient sword cultivators who had mastered the Nine Great Sword Techniques would not be bestowed such