"He's condensed a Sword Heart?!" From a high, deserted place.
Lu Shizhang looked stunned.
Then he suddenly turned to the feminine-looking Yuan Tiankuo beside him and snapped, "You knew all along that he'd condensed a Sword Heart?"
No wonder!
No wonder that little lady had said Yu Xiu would push him out of fifth place among the Ten Heroes!
And no wonder Yu Xiu had been able to follow Shadow Demon Chang Qing and Wei Guan all this time without making a sound or being detected.
So it turned out that wasn't some remarkable Breath Concealment Art at all. It was Hidden Edge of the Sword Heart!
He'd concealed every trace of sharpness, without letting out the slightest hint of his presence!
No wonder—no wonder Yuan Tiankuo, who was always so proud, had suddenly taken such an interest in a newcomer who'd only just joined Dragon-Slaying Peak!
So he'd already cultivated a Sword Heart!
Then everything made sense!
It was true that Great King Ram Horn was half a step from the Third Pass, the Five Spirits Realm. It was also true that Yu Xiu had only just entered the Second Pass, the Five Elements Realm.
The two were separated by a full nine minor realms and half a major realm!
By all rights, Great King Ram Horn should have found killing Yu Xiu no harder than killing an ordinary tiger.
It wouldn't have mattered how high Yu Xiu's swordsmanship was or how great his potential might be.
In the face of overwhelming strength and the suppression of a higher realm, none of that would have made the slightest difference.
No matter how high your swordsmanship, without sufficient cultivation to back it up, you might not even be able to break through your opponent's defenses.
And if you couldn't break