"What's this?" Zhao Xiuyuan focused his gaze. The Five-Element True Lightning that had been spilling around the Lotus Avatar had gradually thinned, and he could now make out the figure seated within. The wisps of lightning intent drifting around it gave Zhao Xiuyuan a feeling he had only sensed from a few senior members of the Thunderclap Immortal Sect.
Could he be about to advance to True Immortal? The thought flashed through Zhao Xiuyuan's mind. This lightning intent already bore some resemblance to the aura emanating from the sect's seniors.
But this Unknown had received no outside help at all. Reaching the True Immortal realm solely through his own cultivation was simply too astonishing.
The lightning intent around them grew more intense. Zhao Xiuyuan drew in a breath and instinctively retreated farther away.
Crackle, crackle—thunder and lightning flashed inside the Lotus Avatar, racing through his body. Many electric serpents even leaped across his skin. Five swords of True Lightning—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—already hung suspended in his dantian. Yet between those swords still floated a shadow of a sword, formless and colorless, its aura concealed.
The Lotus Avatar had cultivated the way of the sword embryo for so long. How could it be so easy to root out? As the Five-Element True Lightning burst forth from the True Lightning Swords, the sword intent within his body coalesced into all kinds of sword embryos, transforming into countless flying swords, large and small, that lunged at the True Lightning Swords in his dantian.
The Five-Element True Lightning was powerful, but the sword embryos inside the Lotus Avatar were no ordinary things either. Even Lu Xiaotian's true self hadn't foreseen the conflict that arose between them. After all, it was the Lotus Avatar who was directly cultivating the way of the sword