Mu Yunshui's expression was calm as still water, her skin fair as jade, her face utterly placid. As she looked toward Chen Fan, her beautiful eyes shimmered with brilliance.
After pondering for several breaths, she spoke.
"Spiritual energy and lightning both belong to heaven and earth, but lightning governs slaughter, while spiritual energy is especially gentle. That is why we cultivators can draw the latter into our bodies for cultivation. Yet the energy it contains is in no way weaker than lightning's; the two stand on equal footing. Chen Fan's Eight Trigrams Sword Formation gathered an enormous amount of spiritual energy, and his final sword strike absorbed all the spiritual energy within the formation. Its power was far greater than it appeared."
"It's just that... that sword strike also exhausted all the True Qi in his body. He must be at the end of his rope now," Mu Yunshui said.
At these words, several Immortal Sect disciples nodded in sudden realization, voicing their agreement. After all, Chen Fan was only at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer. No matter how heaven-defying he might be, he could not escape the reality of depleted True Qi.
Meanwhile, Liu Xun's fighting spirit still blazed fiercely. Though his realm had been suppressed to the Foundation Establishment Early Stage, the true essence within him remained vast and surging. The true essence consumed by that move just now was merely a drop in the ocean.
Standing in midair, he pointed his sword directly at Chen Fan and sneered coldly. "I'll give you two choices. First, stay there until your last shred of True Qi runs dry, then fall to your death. Second, extend your head yourself and let me cut it off, so it can serve as my stepping stone."
"Third: I'll suppress and kill you." Chen