Boom.
Luo Feng was the first to draw his sword.
Moreover, the instant he drew it, all the Blood Qi within his body erupted.
His surging Blood Qi was like a furnace, causing the temperature across the entire arena to soar in an instant.
This was the Blood Qi Furnace!
And as one of the Top Ten Outer Sect Disciples, Luo Feng possessed as many as two hundred and eighty strands of Blood Qi!
In terms of Blood Qi, he was not even inferior to the higher-ranked martial artists among the Top Ten Outer Sect Disciples.
Driven by that terrifying two hundred and eighty strands of Blood Qi, Luo Feng's swordsmanship became a streak of bloody light that shot straight toward Zhang Su.
Everyone held their breath.
They stared fixedly at Luo Feng and Zhang Su.
Luo Feng's strength was well known to all.
Two hundred and eighty strands of Blood Qi, coupled with a top-tier sword technique—the Chiyan Sword Technique!
Originally, Luo Feng's Chiyan Sword Technique had reached the Major Accomplishment Realm, and its power was already exceedingly terrifying.
But now, that streak of crimson sword light nearly filled everyone's vision, as though it had blanketed the entire arena.
It carried the feeling of a single spark setting the prairie ablaze.
This was absolutely not the Chiyan Sword Technique at the Major Accomplishment Realm.
Perfection!
This was the Chiyan Sword Technique at the Perfection Realm!
"Senior Brother Luo Feng actually cultivated the Chiyan Sword Technique to the Perfection Realm?"
"Senior Brother Luo Feng really knew how to hide his strength. He must have been saving it to deal with those higher-ranked Outer Sect disciples and raise his own ranking further. But now that Zhang Su has challenged him, he can only go all out."
"The Chiyan Sword Technique is already unbelievably powerful at the Major Accomplishment Realm, let alone now that it has reached Perfection! Zhang Su truly has bad luck challenging Luo Feng—he just happened to encounter Senior Brother Luo Feng after his Chiyan Sword Technique reached Perfection."
"Under such a terrifying Chiyan Sword, even if Zhang Su possesses an unrivaled sword technique, I fear his chances of survival are slim..."
At this moment, Luo Feng had fully displayed the bearing of one of the Top Ten Outer Sect Disciples.
Yet Zhang Su remained remarkably calm in the face of this strike.
Clang.
The next moment, Zhang Su also drew his sword.
The Lengshuang Sword instantly left its sheath.
It seemed to carry a trace of chill.
Yet Zhang Su's Blood Qi was not inferior to Luo Feng's in the slightest.
Boom.
Three hundred and four strands of Blood Qi erupted at once.
More than three hundred strands of Blood Qi likewise formed a Blood Qi Furnace.
It was even stronger than Luo Feng's.
The terrifying pressure of his Blood Qi instantly overwhelmed Luo Feng's Blood Qi.
"What?"
"That Blood Qi pressure has definitely surpassed three hundred strands!"
"Wasn't Zhang Su said to have an ordinary Cultivation Base? How could he cultivate more than three hundred strands of Blood Qi?"
Many Outer Sect disciples around the arena were stunned.
As for Luo Feng, his heart was already churning with stormy waves.
He stood directly opposite Zhang Su, facing that terrifying power of Blood Qi head-on.
He could clearly feel his own Blood Qi being suppressed.
He was one of the Top Ten Outer Sect Disciples!
Yet he was being suppressed in terms of Blood Qi?
Among the Top Ten Outer Sect Disciples, only those ranked relatively high could suppress him with their Blood Qi.
But Zhang Su?
He had joined the Guiyuan Sect only a year ago.
How could he have cultivated more than three hundred strands of Blood Qi?
Luo Feng could not understand it.
However, Zhang Su's swordsmanship did not seem so dazzling.
It even made Luo Feng feel that it was utterly ordinary.
Because Zhang Su's sword merely gave a light thrust.
There was nothing particularly miraculous about it.
Yet the Light Shadow Killing Sword at the Perfection Realm was precisely like this.
Soundlessly and silently, it could unleash the sharpest killing strike.
As Luo Feng unleashed the grand and imposing Chiyan Sword Technique, Zhang Su's Lengshuang Sword concealed itself within it and silently arrived before Luo Feng.
It completely pierced through the crimson sword light that filled the sky.
By the time Luo Feng noticed it, the Lengshuang Sword was already right before him.
Luo Feng's eyes widened.
A powerful sense of danger rose within him.
He would die!
If he failed to block this strike, he truly would die!
"Ah..."
Luo Feng nearly exhausted all his strength to twist aside.
Zhang Su's Lengshuang Sword shifted by the slightest fraction and stabbed directly into Luo Feng's chest.
Then...
Ding.
A faint sound rang out.
A trace of surprise appeared in Zhang Su's eyes.
The Lengshuang Sword actually could not pierce Luo Feng's body?
"Inner armor?"
Zhang Su immediately thought of one possibility.
Luo Feng was wearing a suit of inner armor.
That inner armor had saved Luo Feng's life.
Otherwise, that sword strike would have pierced straight through his heart.
But what did it matter if he had narrowly escaped disaster?
The sword in Zhang Su's hand flickered.
Swish, swish, swish.
Sword shadows instantly filled the sky.
The Nine Shadows Sword Technique—One Sword Nine Shadows!
Zhang Su's Nine Shadows Sword Technique had also reached Perfection.
Thus, when he used it, it came as naturally as lifting a hand, flawless and effortless.
Luo Feng's heart tightened.
Of course he knew the Nine Shadows Sword Technique.
These nine sword shadows held no distinction between real and false.
Because every single sword shadow was real.
His longsword abruptly spun.
It transformed into a curtain of swords that filled the air before him.
Clang, clang, clang.
The two treasured swords collided without cease.
Luo Feng's sword curtain precisely blocked Zhang Su's swordsmanship.
One sword, two swords, three swords...
All the way to the ninth sword!
Nine sword shadows, nine crisp rings.
Luo Feng had actually blocked them all.
"Hahaha, I blocked them all! The Nine Shadows Sword Technique may be powerful, but it can do nothing to me..."
Luo Feng was high-spirited, his heart filled with wild joy.
As one of the Top Ten Outer Sect Disciples, he had not earned his reputation for nothing.
Yet Luo Feng found something very strange.
Why were all the people below the arena staring wide-eyed, their mouths hanging open and their faces filled with terror, yet not a single sound came from them?
Everyone was utterly silent.
Click.
Zhang Su even sheathed his sword, merely looking at Luo Feng with calm eyes.
Drip.
Drop after drop of blood fell from Luo Feng's body to the ground.
Luo Feng reached out and touched his neck.
His hand was covered in Yin Hong blood.
Under the horrified gazes of the crowd, blood had begun to gush from the deep gash on Luo Feng's neck.
Luo Feng's heart jolted.
"When was I struck? I clearly blocked all nine sword shadows..."
Luo Feng did not understand.
He merely clutched the bloody gash on his neck with all his strength.
As though he wanted to stop the blood from gushing out.
But he could not stop it.
Blood still flowed from between his fingers.
He felt the strength throughout his body vanishing bit by bit.
An icy feeling coiled around his heart.
Luo Feng was still racking his mind to recall it.
When had he been struck?
Thud.
Luo Feng fell stiffly to the ground, devoid of breath.
He was dead!
Luo Feng, one of the Top Ten Outer Sect Disciples, had died beneath Zhang Su's sword.
Yet until his death, Luo Feng did not know when exactly he had been struck.
Luo Feng might not have understood, but everyone beneath the arena had seen it clearly.
Nearly all of them had witnessed it.
Under the cover of those nine sword shadows filling the sky, Zhang Su had actually thrust out one more sword.
That strike was soundless and silent, yet its speed had reached the utmost extreme.
Moreover, it merged into those nine sword shadows, making it impossible to guard against.
While Luo Feng was still trying to fend off the nine sword shadows, he had already been struck.
It was only that Luo Feng had not known it then.
All his attention had been focused on those nine sword shadows.
Silence!
The surroundings were deathly quiet!
This was the Life and Death Arena—casualties and deaths did not matter!
Zhang Su turned around and walked down from the arena step by step.
The crowd automatically parted to make way.
Zhang Su led Chu Dachuan and the other two away from the arena without looking back.
Boom.
Only after Zhang Su and the others vanished from sight did the crowd erupt into an uproar.
"Senior Brother Luo Feng actually died?"
"Even inner armor could not save Senior Brother Luo Feng..."
"That sword strike just now was too terrifying. It silently merged into the nine sword shadows. Senior Brother Luo Feng could block the nine sword shadows, but he could not block that terrifying strike!"
"If I'm not mistaken, that was the Light Shadow Killing Sword, right? No one has cultivated the Light Shadow Killing Sword successfully for a long time. Many people do not even know how terrifying it is. This sword technique kills without leaving a trace—it is exceedingly terrifying."
"Who said Zhang Su's Light Shadow Killing Sword had only reached the Major Accomplishment Realm? It has clearly reached Perfection..."
"A perfected unrivaled sword technique—Senior Brother Luo Feng did not die unjustly..."
Only at this moment did many people seem to realize Zhang Su's terrifying nature.
Moreover, from this day onward, Zhang Su had officially ascended to the ranks of the Top Ten Outer Sect Disciples of the Guiyuan Sect!
This was not merely a change of one slot, nor simply the replacement of one name.
It was equivalent to an earthquake in the Guiyuan Sect's Outer Sect!
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