The agreed half-hour had long since passed. Zhao Yuanpu's severed arm had already been reattached through another application of divine arts and coated with premium medicinal ointment. He only needed another ten days or half a month of rest to recover completely.
Yet his pale face and drifting gaze made it clear that he was not in very good condition.
Although he had sensed that something was wrong and promptly twisted aside to evade, he still could not completely avoid that terrifying giant blade that followed like a shadow. In the end, his right arm had been severed at the shoulder.
As a Late Nascent Soul Stage cultivator, being severely wounded in a single strike during a direct clash with a First Layer Nascent Soul cultivator was undoubtedly a tremendous blow to Zhao Yuanpu.
He himself knew that he had not been the slightest bit careless at the time. He had made ample preparations for his defenses, yet Zhou Yang had still severely injured him.
Even now, whenever he recalled that dragon-headed giant blade capable of tearing apart and cleaving through space itself, his heart still trembled with lingering fear and shock.
He had come within a hair's breadth—just a little closer, and that dragon-headed giant blade would have split him cleanly into two!
Before the battle, neither Zhao Yuanpu himself nor True Person Qingyang, Wei Qi, and True Person Deng—the three Nascent Soul Stage cultivators—nor even Zhou Yang had expected the outcome to turn out this way!
Zhao Yuanpu and the others had completely underestimated Zhou Yang's true strength, while Zhou Yang had underestimated the power of the Azure Dragon Sky-Splitting Slash.
After all, this was the first time he had used this move since learning it.
Although he had long known that this move was immensely powerful and