This azure sword-staff was Li Qi's Noble Phantasm, the sublimation of the Legendary Great Deed from this stage of his life. Though it had not reached EX+ like Wang Daoming's, it was still EX-ranked.
Yet constrained by certain absolute rules left behind by the Transcendents, while they could use their ultimate moves as ordinary attacks, fusing the effects of the first and second releases of their Noble Phantasms into every gesture and lifting their usual usage limits—
The final release of a Noble Phantasm was an exception. Indeed, only Transcendents were omnipotent, not the traces they left behind—unless a Transcendent wished for those traces to be omnipotent. But transcendence was, in the end, transcendence, unlike all else.
This time, every Heroic Spirit's final Noble Phantasm release could be used three times.
Once those three uses were exhausted, they would be eliminated outright.
Like the violet fire that had nearly burned the Earth to ashes before—it had been the final release of a Noble Phantasm. His Noble Phantasm was also violet qi, which was why it had gone unnoticed. Unlike Li Qi now, who had directly manifested an object.
Of course, that also had to do with personal habits. Purple Sovereign had been born as a mass of violet qi, and in that corner of his life, he had never possessed the habit of wielding weapons. He himself was the strongest weapon.
But in the earlier part of Li Qi's life, in one of his most radiant moments, he had walked with a bamboo staff and straw sandals, lighter than a horse; wielded a staff in place of a sword, and swept all before him with his blade!
At present, Li Qi held only a simple azure sword-staff, yet every motion he made was effortless and unrestrained—even though his opponent was