That sword carried neither edge nor malice, floating silently like the most ordinary stone sword.
Yet in the eyes of Li Xiaoyu, Lu Xueqi, and Bi Yao, it was anything but ordinary.
They could clearly sense the pressure emanating from that plain stone sword—a pressure great enough to make them submit.
That pressure was neither power nor law, but the most fundamental Dao, one that stood above all else.
A primordial Dao capable of creating all things—and destroying all things.
At the sword's pommel, a Primordial mark composed of five-colored runes floated and slowly turned.
With every rotation, it stirred the stars of the heavens and altered the flow of time.
"Primordial Immortal-Slaying Sword."
Zhang Xiaofan looked at the utterly transformed Stone Sword in his hand and murmured softly, his eyes filled with confidence and resolve.
He knew that from this moment on, he would no longer be a youth who needed protection.
He would become an executor of the laws, able to stand shoulder to shoulder with him and protect the world together.
Zhang Xiaofan would use the sword in his hand to sever all evil in the world and bring the final order to this darkness-shrouded world.
"Boom!"
With the birth of the divine sword, a pressure several times more terrifying than before erupted from Zhang Xiaofan.
That pressure was vast and holy, as though it were the sole law between heaven and earth.
Zhang Xiaofan slowly opened his eyes.
His eyes were no longer cold and severe, but as vast as the universe.
It was as though they contained every mystery of the world.
Zhang Xiaofan had completely fused the Primordial laws left behind by the Heavenly Emperor with his own Dao heart.
He, too, had stepped into the legendary supreme realm.
Half-step Saint Realm.
He floated