Boom!
Under everyone's watchful eyes, fist radiance and sword qi collided madly.
When the Five-Element True Power, condensed to the limit of human capability, was unleashed, it automatically drew in a faint layer of the power of heaven and earth, crashing fiercely against Jian Wuchen's sword strike.
The fist force condensed to the utmost on his fist surged amid its violent contest with the sword qi, standing firm and unmoving. Even as it wore away, it did not allow Jian Wuchen's blade to touch his fist in the slightest.
Jian Wuchen's sword strike had been blocked by his fist.
The Shuiyang Prefecture and Green Mountain City martial artists watching beneath the stage erupted in commotion.
Jian Wuchen, whose single sword strike could unleash such terrifying might that they could not even see through it, had been stopped by Li Chengfeng's fist in one move!
That one exchange alone made their hearts surge!
It meant that Shuiyang Prefecture's prodigies were not utterly powerless before Jian Wuchen, nor were they incapable of blocking even a single move. Someone could contend with him—could clash with him head-on!
That thought alone was enough to stir them into excitement.
But Li Chengfeng's gaze sharpened in an instant.
"Something's wrong with his sword."
Li Chengfeng muttered inwardly, sensing the distinctive power lingering along Jian Wuchen's blade—power condensed to the extreme, yet carrying a crisp, icy clarity.
He could clearly feel that this power was utterly different from the sword qi he himself unleashed. Rather, it felt like the surrounding power of heaven and earth that accompanied him whenever he activated his True Force.
The difference was that the essence of his opponent's sword qi was far less condensed than Li Chengfeng's Five-Element True Power, but it carried a great quantity of the qi of heaven and