"What a Zhang Qi. You quietly trained the Autumn Wind Falling Leaves Blade to the Great Success Realm, then kept it hidden from me all this time. If Li Fenghua hadn't angered you tonight, I'd still be in the dark."
His companion was deeply displeased.
His gaze darkened too.
But in the blink of an eye, his expression returned to normal.
Zhang Qi had hidden his strength, but hadn't he done the same?
They were even, then. No reason to hold a grudge.
Just then, another Blade Light cut across the night sky.
The wind Zhang Qi's blade technique had stirred up in the mountains was inexplicably suppressed. His fierce attack, like a coiling Wind Dragon, was torn apart in an instant by a single Blade Light.
Clang, clang, clang...
A rapid series of metallic clashes rang out.
Zhang Qi's face changed drastically, and he cried out again and again.
His companion's expression changed at once.
Shock filled his eyes.
What was he seeing?
Li Fenghua, the young martial artist he had judged to be only at the seventh or eighth level of Body Tempering, had drawn his blade too. Terrifying Blade Intent spread from it as it plunged into Zhang Qi's flurry of blade strikes, shattering them with ease. Even the Blade Intent Zhang Qi had barely begun to touch was snuffed out on the spot.
In that instant,
the blade arrived, and the wind rose.
A Hurricane suddenly surged through the mountains, sweeping across Zhang Qi as he roared and tried to retreat.
The wind was like a blade scraping bone.
It passed over him in one sweep.
Zhang Qi had taken only two steps back when his body seemed to be cut a thousand times over. It burst apart.
His body exploded into fragments!
Blood rained through