The sword of the sun followed its ordained arc and struck.
Light-Thunder Heavenly Lord burned everything he had. His Sword Soul fused with his life-bound flying sword, and with all that he was, he too unleashed a strike!
Yet the two of them were not alone on this battlefield.
"Die?"
"No! Neither of us will die!"
At that same moment, True-Fire Heavenly Lord and Mysterious Water Heavenly Lord roared.
A moment ago, the battle had had nothing to do with them. They had merely been watching.
But the instant the Great Sun Sword Heir turned his gaze upon them, deadly intent descended.
The sword born from the Dyson Solar Sword Domain—the golden arc of sunlight that decreed an age without magic for heaven and earth—fell upon the cores of their souls. It pierced their bodies and utterly extinguished a portion of the spiritual energy within them.
Clang!
Under the chill of death, the inherited sword cultivators of the Great Yin-Yang Sword Realm unleashed all their power.
In an instant, the two burned their blood essence, bodies, and souls, pouring every shred of power into two flying swords, one crimson as fire, the other blue as water. Endless runes of yin-yang order arose and fell around them. Yin and yang, innately attuned to the Yin-Yang Dao, joined in harmony, and creation sprang forth.
They were plainly only two sword cultivators whose sword intent had reached perfection. Yet when their magic power and souls mingled as yin and yang, the will of a Sword Soul was born, along with its aura!
And this Sword Soul had not merely scraped past the threshold. It had traveled deep into that realm and undergone much tempering over the past several thousand years.
This Sword Soul was called the Yin-Yang Water-Fire Sword Soul!
Its ability was