Su Shi'er had already exhausted all his strength by using his sword technique and spell a second time to drive Purple Cloud Surging Waves.
Now that his sword technique had been broken, all his cultivation had been utterly drained. He did not even know how long it would take to recover.
Faced with the fierce offensive still sweeping toward him, he had no power left to resist.
He had thought that by risking his life in one desperate struggle, he could at least fight his way to a sliver of survival.
Yet he had never expected such an outcome.
Even Su Shi'er could not help feeling despair and helplessness in such a situation.
At that moment, Ye Qingxue's beautiful eyes widened, the terror on her face turning to anguish.
She wanted to do more for Su Shi'er, but her cultivation and strength were insufficient. The powerful sword momentum in the field alone pressed down on her until she could barely breathe.
And it was precisely at that hair's-breadth moment.
Within a radius of a hundred miles, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi underwent a startling upheaval, stirring the winds and clouds into wild transformation.
Amid the sudden change, a mighty streak of sword light shot in from beyond the heavens.
Though it came later, the sword light arrived first. Its tremendous power was compressed into a single line, and wherever it passed, the plum blossom sword qi in its path was pierced through and scattered.
Clang!
This was followed by a crisp ring of clashing steel. The incoming sword light struck, neither a hair off nor a fraction astray, directly upon the tip of Tan Taiqing's Snow Plum Sword.
In terms of the energy contained within the sword techniques, this incoming sword light was far inferior to the technique Tan