Yu Ci turned his back on the source of the sword cry and let the powerful sound bore into his mind palace.
The sound waves caused him no harm. In fact, this sudden tide of sword cries had been drawn here by Yu Ci himself.
The sword intent extracted from the talisman trembled, driving his spirit intent and vital essence. Through the Seed True Talisman, it transformed into pure Sword Qi, which circulated with a low hum, spreading spontaneously beyond his body. Then, through the blood-killing aura pervading the blood-colored world, it reached the Xuan Huang Killing Sword three li away—and received an instant response.
Sword intent resonance!
In the sky, the two Void Stepping cultivators were intimidated by the sword intent that seemed capable of slapping the heavens and shaking the earth, leaving them dazed and unable to understand what was happening. Yet the blood-colored world had already begun to convulse violently. Stirred by the sword cry, the blood-killing aura instantly roiled and boiled. A massive impact comparable to the earlier blood tide swept through every corner within dozens of li in the blink of an eye. Yu Ci faced away from the impact without any intention of evading it. He gripped the sword hilt tightly, and in the end, even closed his eyes.
With a thunderous boom, the impact struck him. His body jolted violently, his internal organs seeming ready to flip over, yet the sword intent contained within him did not change in the slightest.
He formed a talisman in his heart. In its complete state, it had seven key fractals and sixty-four aperture nodes. Among all the talismans Yu Ci had encountered, only one possessed such a structure—the third-layer talisman seal of the Sword Immortal Secret Realm, simplified by him from the first layer!
The three-layer