The sound of a blade splitting the air, the faint tremor of a sword, the heartbeat of an opponent, the flow of blood...
Every sound within the Martial Practice Platform was captured, all of them submitting to the Sound-Hearing Immortal State and offering up every piece of information they held, without the slightest concealment. In the world of sound, from another perspective, this blade was reconstructed anew.
Out of the utmost respect for Qin Zhizhen's transcendent blade technique, Jiang Wang had activated the Sound-Hearing Immortal State at the very first opportunity.
He took in everything, learned all there was to know.
Excellent!
He said "excellent" not because Qin Zhizhen's blade technique was anything less than powerful. On the contrary, Qin Zhizhen had not been boasting: the blade technique he displayed had indeed surpassed the pinnacle of this realm.
Qin Zhizhen's Extinction of Past Lives was more imposing and more forceful than Xiang Bei's Western Pole Style from the Eight Desolations No-Return Halberd Technique. It was more decisive, and more terrifying.
But according to the information captured by the Sound-Hearing Immortal State, and the might Jiang Wang had personally experienced, this blade was only a hair stronger. It had not reached the level of Dou Zhao's overwhelming dominance over his peers in the Outer Tower realm.
If it truly were powerful enough to be "the greatest killing art since the Present World began," Jiang Wang would have chosen to pull back immediately, give up the contest of swordsmanship, and instead try to decide the outcome with Supernatural Powers and Daoist Arts. That would undoubtedly mean a weakness had been exposed, and he would have lost the first move.
That was why he said excellent!
Qin Zhizhen wanted to establish an aura of invincibility and seize the upper hand in their clash