The ultimate sword strike that represented the collapse of the Heavenly Pillar thrust upward from below.
The Nine Mounds blade art representing the mountains and rivers, meanwhile, cleaved downward from above.
It was as though the two combatants had switched positions.
Yet their might was not diminished in the slightest.
Terrifying blasts of force screamed outward.
Three layers of light screens had already risen in succession around the dueling platform. The Green Fang Platform's Magic Array had activated in response, driven directly to its limit to protect the spectators in the stands.
The dueling platform itself was already riddled with cracks.
The floor tiles engraved with intricate array patterns had reached the limit of what they could bear.
In the stands, light flowed through Helian Yunyun's azure eyes. She watched the clash of blade and sword, but even more than that, the collision between two kinds of "intent."
The black-robed nun, who had been absent-minded until now, also focused her gaze.
Jiang Wang's sword broke the Heavenly Pillar and made a sword of it; it truly carried the force of Heavenly Collapse.
Yet the mountains and rivers, the great earth itself, possessed a vast heart capable of bearing all things.
As the saying went: "The earth's disposition is Kun; thus does the gentleman, through abundant virtue, bear all things."
No matter what calamity came, the mountains and rivers silently endured it.
At this moment, Longing swept upward. The Sword of Roaring Flame Mountain crashed into the endless mountain ranges spread across the Celestial Vault. It shattered one mountain after another formed from blade force, but the mountains and rivers stretched infinitely far.
Dou Zhao spread out the blade intent of the Nine Mounds Blade Canon as though writing a magnificent essay. It spoke of scenery, wrote of mountains and rivers,