"Once this old man kills you, this pearl will be mine as well!"
With a cold, contemptuous sneer, Zhong Sanxiao thrust another sword at Lu Feng.
Clearly, such stalling tactics had no effect on him whatsoever.
Or rather, the matter of the Heaven and Earth Secret Treasure was far too significant. He truly could not tolerate unrelated people surviving to spread word of it.
This was his secret treasure.
The only reason he had agreed to follow that Young Master was because the latter had promised him a share of the secret treasure once it was obtained, and because of that man's status and background.
Lu Feng condensed a sword and held it crosswise in defense, borrowing the force of Zhong Sanxiao's sword momentum to recoil onto a gravel bank at the side.
Then, as his aura surged, he kicked up countless stones and blasted them toward Zhong Sanxiao, impeding his advance.
At the same time, he seized a brief opening to take a similarly long, narrow sword from his storage artifact.
Yet unlike Zhong Sanxiao's sword, this one was far lighter—a flexible sword.
The reason Lu Feng no longer relied on the attainments of the Swordless Realm, even at the cost of exposing this peerless blade obtained from the Hundred Valleys Sword Ruins, was not only because his own strength was inferior to Zhong Sanxiao's and condensed swords would gain him little advantage.
There was another reason. The sword in his hand had been forged from a special kind of Ice Attribute refined iron. Its extraordinary material could, to a certain extent, make up for his lack of Water Essence Qi, allowing him to reach the external level of a pseudo-Five Elements Five Qi Realm.
Though this improvement was negligible in terms of his overall strength on the path