The "Story" Told by Saber and Sword

A golden phantom of the Exquisite Pagoda enveloped Xi. Black and white rays swirled around him, purple fortune light accompanied him, and Sage Virtue Water and invisible Hidden Virtue rippled about him. He seemed like a god from the realm of imagination, shrinking the distance as he charged forward to punish the world. His right fist, which he brought down, transformed virtue into the Great Ultimate, faintly threatening to shatter the void and turn all matter into something formless and intangible.

He had no intention of talking, nor did he want to hear Meng Qi out. He meant only to kill him and silence him, covering up the matter. The world around them dissolved into a hazy blur; the five elements grew indistinct, the four symbols fell into chaos, and the scene took on the state of the world's beginnings. The normal forces of heaven and earth that could be borrowed vanished. Under such conditions, most Exterior experts would be heavily suppressed, unable to bring even half their strength to bear—perhaps not even a tenth!

Facing Xi, a Grandmaster whose greatest advantage was this very power, Meng Qi was entirely unafraid. Even setting aside the fact that the Yuanshi Golden Chapter described the beginning of heaven and earth, the peerless art of all beginnings, the Eight-Nine Arcane Art alone could adapt to this kind of suppression. A machine built to fight anywhere, anytime, was no empty boast!

Through transformation and adjustment, the Eight-Nine Arcane Art made the suppression of laws within a powerful foe's domain ineffective against its user. This was one of the art's greatest features in the Outer Scenery Chapter. As Meng Qi put it, "Other people's 'domain' advantage doesn't work on me!"

Yet Meng Qi felt little confidence of victory. He even thought he might not survive,