With emergency troops closing in from outside, Chen Mo was anxious to leave this place!
But he had not expected this ugly fellow to intercept him! Since that was the case, then they would clash head-on! Besides, it was not as if he had never fought anyone head-on before!
Thus, when Chen Mo saw the tachi, as short as a wakizashi, swing toward him, he casually drew Onimaru and met the strike with a slash.
With a clang, both of them felt the vibration traveling through their blades and simultaneously stepped back, dissipating the impact. Looking at their weapons, neither blade had suffered any damage!
In the blink of an eye, they both said of the other's blade, "Fine sword!"
Both had absolute confidence in their own weapons, yet neither had expected that their clash would not result in the imagined scene of broken blades and injured men. Thus, they both marveled at the quality of the other's sword!
There was no need to mention Chen Mo's Onimaru. It had been reinforced with certain metals in the later stage, then refined through his True Essence before finally becoming the Onimaru it was today! Xu Shi's blade, however, also had quite an origin!
His blade had been forged from materials taken from a meteorite, then refined over a thousand years before becoming this short sword! During the refining process, the blade, originally meant to exceed one and a half meters, had somehow shrunk to less than seventy centimeters, making it resemble a wakizashi!
Of course, Xu Shi had no Artifact Refining methods from Cultivation of Immortality to refine this blade. Instead, it had been forged through a place under his control!
Fortunately, although the blade had shrunk considerably, its sharpness had not been damaged in the slightest! Not only that, it