"Too powerful! Is this what a king's disciple is like?!"
Many people stared in stunned disbelief. Everyone present was a martial arts expert, and quite a few were grandmasters. Their insight into martial arts was extraordinarily sharp, honed through countless trials.
Yet they had all been shaken by Jia Zhijie's sword.
As the saying went, a single move was enough for an expert to judge the skill behind it.
Although Jia Zhijie had been unknown before, this one sword alone was enough to place him among the monstrous geniuses, on a level with Lu Chao and the others.
"That kid is finished. There's no way he can withstand a sword this close to perfection." Several sword grandmasters immediately reached the same conclusion: Xia Ping was as good as dead.
The Nine-Layer Wave Sword was terrifying. Once unleashed, it produced a fearsome wave of force, like the sea surging in layer upon layer. The farther it progressed, the more terrifying its power became.
With such power, even Lu Chao, who possessed an Indestructible Vajra Body, might not be able to withstand it.
And Xia Ping was far too arrogant. He had actually let Jia Zhijie make the first move, missing his best chance to dodge.
Faced with wave after wave of surging sword energy, the kid had nowhere to run. He would soon be shaken into critical injury, swept out of the arena, and eliminated for good.
But at that very moment, just as Jia Zhijie's sword energy reached its most concentrated and powerful peak, Xia Ping made his move.
He stepped forward, as if a Primordial Savage Elephant were trampling the earth. The ground shuddered beneath him as he raised one hand and circulated the qi within his body, which rumbled like thunder.
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