"Blade Ghost" Chu Xiudao was a saber wielder as renowned as Xiao Jinghong's master, "Sword Saint" Li Wudang.
His Blade Dao was said to have long reached the peak of the perfection realm, but his limited talent had kept him from advancing, leaving his strength far below Li Wudang's.
He owed his fame alongside Li Wudang entirely to several great deeds in his younger years.
These included slaughtering seventy-two bands of bandits in the Taihang Mountains, killing a great saber wielder who had traveled all the way from the Wa Kingdom, and challenging a little-known saber wielder called "Eight Thousand Years" in the Capital Prefecture.
People throughout the martial world delighted in recounting these exploits.
But the reason people placed Chu Xiudao alongside Li Wudang was their sparring match.
Although he had not lasted even ten moves, many rising practitioners of the Blade Dao in the Central Plains took him as their goal.
A ghostly saber that bewildered souls, splitting heaven and cleaving earth-that was "Blade Ghost"!
As Chen Yi thought about these things, he used the Meteor Butterfly Steps to roam beneath the night sky. The ground raced past underfoot, almost nothing more than a blur.
His Dao of Steps had now reached the perfection realm, bringing his Meteor Butterfly Steps to the perfect level as well.
His speed far surpassed what it had been.
When Chen Yi first faced Song Jin Jian, their movement speeds had been much the same.
Now, in a contest of movement techniques, Chen Yi could outpace Song Jin Jian tenfold.
To put it plainly, at full speed, he could cover a hundred li in a single breath.
But he was now in Barbarian territory and could not afford to draw too much attention.
After all, that "Hidden Immortal" still existed within Barbarian territory.