"Just what one would expect of a Sword Cultivator—such sharpness!"
At the sight of that sword strike, Liu Xuanji was briefly stunned, then laughed boldly instead. His voice carried a rumble like mountains shifting and continents colliding. "Though you are only at the True Person realm, you possess an extraordinary foundation, and can even borrow the descending force of a Heavenly Venerable from another world to unleash this sword light—young Fuxie Sword Master, you truly live up to the name of Fuxie Sword Master!"
As he spoke, he strode forward. His entire body swayed, then suddenly expanded to an immense size.
With that single step, Liu Xuanji's human body vanished. In the place where he had stood, a mountain, a stretch of land, hills and towering peaks spreading beyond all bounds, mighty mountains and precipitous ridges—a fully unfurled body of Gods and Devils rapidly manifested.
Between heaven and earth, the military formations of Great Yu's Northwest Heavenly Pass and Changhe could no longer be seen. The forest of banners was gone, the camps scattered like stars were gone, and so too were the towers and stone turrets that had stood here for tens of thousands of years.
Endless mountains, continents shuddering and splitting apart, and storm clouds and lightning churning ceaselessly above those continents blanketed everything.
Then...
They converged as one.
First, two continents collided, crashing together to form a towering mountain that propped up earth and heaven. Then lava surged and rocky crust clung to it, condensing in an instant into the skeletal frame of an enormous beast.
Earth, stone, lava, adamant, lightning, storms, dark clouds, scorching winds—everything came from all eight directions, gathering around and encasing that skeleton. They became rock-colored flesh, steel-colored scales, lightning-colored fur... as well as eight blood-red eyes and two black horns.
The true