If Lu Xiaotian hadn't broken through to the body cultivator's Integrated Realm one step ahead of time, the Misty Sword Embryo would already have become impossible to suppress. After climbing nine-tenths of a mountain, one could still fail at the last step. Lu Xiaotian had worked toward this for so long; naturally, he wasn't going to let that happen.
Besides the Misty Sword Embryo in his lower dantian, only the Demon-Suppressing Tower could hold its own against it. The Brahma Rakshasa True Flame and the relic were tightly bound to the tower. As for the Formless Profound Flame he had refined later, it was far weaker than the Misty Sword Embryo. But it was, after all, one of the Buddhist sect's great sacred flames. Though it wasn't compatible with the Demon-Suppressing Tower, under the Misty Sword Embryo's immense threat, it had drawn very close to the tower, joining it in resisting the sword embryo.
The illusion mirror he had cultivated through the True Illusory Canon was weaker than the Demon-Suppressing Tower, but stronger than the Formless Profound Flame. Lu Xiaotian had, after all, practiced the Zhao clan's illusion arts for many years. The short-range teleportation ability within his illusions had saved him from death more than once; it was one of his trump cards. Though it was weaker than the Misty Sword Embryo and the Demon-Suppressing Tower, that didn't mean the illusion art itself was weak. Profound arts that could match something as overbearing as the Misty Sword Embryo were few and far between. The Demon-Suppressing Tower and the relic were also among the Buddhist sect's most treasured inheritances. They were not inferior to the Misty Sword Embryo; it was only because the embryo had devoured half of City Lord Ye's Sky-Soaring Sword Embryo that it had gained the upper