"Mystic Yang, you brat!"
"Your sword has lost its edge!"
"Hahaha—"
"Lost its edge!"
The old man seemed possessed. For a time, his wild, unrestrained laughter was the only sound between heaven and earth.
Yet where he stood,
facing that frenzied laughter,
Liu Dongqing remained remarkably calm.
He had used this sword strike too many times, and each time he had opened with the Heavenly Fate Mystic Bird.
No Dao or technique in the world was invincible. It was only natural that someone would think of a way to counter it from that angle.
But the moment the old man's wild laughter rang out,
cultivators across the land turned their gazes toward Liu Dongqing, as though waiting to witness his response.
Or perhaps
they were waiting to see the myth of that legendary sword strike shattered.
Under all those watching eyes, Liu Dongqing spoke evenly.
"Your sect was once a great holy land, stationed amid the twelve hundred mountain ranges north of the Southern Border. Time and again, it stood at the forefront of the Holy Profound War, serving as both spearhead and shield for the Southern Border's sects."
"You brought out the Dao and techniques of the Myriad Phenomena Sword Sect from that glorious age. It's only natural that they could block one of my techniques."
"But here's the problem."
"What you neutralized was my Heavenly Fate Mystic Bird."
"What does that have to do with my Sword of Time's Passage?"
"Since you're so fixated on it, I'll oblige you!"
As his words fell,
for the first time,
the aura of the Sexagenary Life-Slaying Dao Fruit Resonance burst forth from Liu Dongqing without the slightest restraint!
That Dao resonance, blazing and immense as the World-Suspended Heavenly River, crashed toward the ancient Daoist, whose face still bore the remnants of