Five Wheels Fusion

The water mirror, streaked with sword marks, shattered in midair into glittering fragments of waterlight.

Li Zichen watched the drifting waterlight, her gaze slightly unfocused.

Gao Xian's peerless sword strike had cleaved straight through Ice Li without any trickery. It had merely followed the exquisitely subtle weaknesses in the shifts of Ice Li's mana and driven directly in. Ice Li had clearly never expected Gao Xian to launch a frontal assault—and one so overbearing and fierce.

Ice Li's powerful Primordial Spirit had also been intimidated by Gao Xian's sword intent. In that moment of daze, she was slain. In Li Zichen's view, Ice Li had definitely been defeated by Gao Xian before. That was why she had been so easily shaken by his sword intent.

There was another issue: this was, after all, only Ice Li's avatar, and its level was somewhat inferior. Faced with a peerless sword deity like Gao Xian, that small gap was magnified without limit.

The sword intent from that strike had projected three thousand li away. Its lingering ripples even split apart the water mirror condensed by the Divine Firmament Origin Yang Mirror. It was not Gao Xian deliberately showing off his might; rather, she and Yun Qingxuan had drawn the sword intent over with their divine senses, causing this damage.

Gao Xian had clearly restrained his sword intent as well. Had he seized the momentum to strike, he would never have merely shattered the water mirror.

Li Zichen knew that the Azure Cloud Sect was a minor sect. Though its inheritance was ancient, its highest level was only Spirit Transformation. Yun Qingxuan had only made such rapid advances after going to the East Sea, receiving Wan Yingying's support, and, through extraordinary luck, finding a sixth-tier Divine Artifact in the depths of the East Sea