Xia Zhiqiu froze.
Was Second Master Xuanyuan... not optimistic about A'Su's chances?!
Was A'Su really in danger this time?!
On the challenge platform.
One of the two men facing each other finally moved.
Blood fiend mist rose from the long saber in Su Ye's hand. In a flash, he appeared before Roderick and brought his blade crashing down.
Su Ye had launched the first attack.
Clang—
But Su Ye's saber failed to strike Roderick.
An enormous shield stood before Roderick, blocking the saber in Su Ye's hand.
"Is that all the strength you've got?"
Roderick's mocking voice came from behind the shield.
"Long Aotian, if that's all you can do, you'd better hurry home and suckle at your mother's breast. The Burial God Graveyard isn't a place for a baby like you."
As he spoke, the shield in Roderick's hand blazed with golden light.
Su Ye felt a tremendous force erupt from the shield, and... it felt somewhat familiar.
This was... the force of the blow he'd just delivered!
Every bit of it had been reflected back at him!
Was that this shield's ability?
Su Ye retreated a few steps and quietly examined the shield in Roderick's hand, soon reaching a conclusion.
"A Ninth Tier Shield? And one made with xingchen gold, at that. You really spared no expense!"
A ninth tier weapon.
And a defensive shield at that, the most difficult kind of weapon to craft.
What was more, this defensive shield had been made with xingchen gold, supposedly the hardest material used in artifact refining.
Roderick truly lived up to being a Royal Descendant. He certainly wasn't stingy with his equipment.
Looking over his own equipment, only the Blood Shadow Battle Saber in his hand had been nurtured to the eighth order.
Even Su Ye felt a little