Lu Feng was utterly certain of his current state. Though he could recreate the scene of that sword strike exactly as it had been, he simply could not bring forth the same spirit it had possessed.
The sword momentum he unleashed could likewise contain that Cloud Sea Sword Intent, yet at the instant he struck, he was still a fraction slower than he had been then.
Ordinary people would not be able to discern any change from such hesitation, but Lu Feng understood that it was precisely this nearly imperceptible pause that had kept him from grasping the essence of "Intent Leads Spirit."
With no success in his comprehension, Lu Feng could only helplessly rein in his sword intent and head north once more, searching for traces of Ji Lanxin and the others.
After traveling several more li.
He suddenly sensed the immense commotion of battle...
More accurately, "heard" was not the right word. He had felt that immense disturbance.
It had not reached his ears as the clangor of colliding weapons would. Rather, ripples of Soul Consciousness, like waves spreading across water, surged into his soul sea.
Almost instantly, Lu Feng determined that two formidable factions must be competing in Soul Power ahead. Only a clash of such scale and intensity could send its aftershocks several hundred meters away.
Yet when he cautiously approached to investigate, his eyes filled with surprise.
He had assumed that such powerful fluctuations of Soul Power must have come from at least a dozen or twenty Soul Masters at the Earth Soul Realm Late Stage, perhaps even the Heaven Soul Realm, fighting with all their might. Yet as he drew close, he discovered that there were only two people in the vast open ground amid the distant mountains!
By sheer coincidence, he had encountered