Seeing this, a cold sneer touched Yuding Zhenren's impassive face. "Maitreya Buddha has calculated well!"
Yang Jiao smiled kindly. "You're too powerful, Zhenren! Your Sword Aura sweeps across the world. My master says you could hold your own even against a Veteran Quasi-Saint! But your Sword Aura is sharp, and sharpness falls under Geng Metal. Unfortunately for you, metal generates water. Kui Water makes it rather convenient to counter your Sword Aura! Besides, the rocks of Severed Phoenix Mountain hold considerable heat because of the Phoenix's Nirvana. Fire overcomes metal, so that, too, restrains your Sword Aura!
"We sent those people ahead to test it with the Vast Sea Formation. The Kui Water here weakened your Sword Aura considerably! Otherwise, one stroke of your sharp sword would have broken the formation and killed everyone inside. Yet it took you three! That shows just how strongly this place restrains you!"
Yuding Zhenren frowned slightly and tightened his grip on the Immortal-Slaying Sword. "A sound plan, and a good choice of ground. But that alone still isn't enough to qualify you as my opponents!"
Even as he spoke, Yuding Zhenren knew that the Kui Water here was a powerful counter to his Sword Dao.
After all, no matter how one cultivated the Sword Dao, there was no escaping sharpness. Sharpness was closely tied to Geng Metal, so the Sword Dao could not escape the domain of metal.
Even if one comprehended a so-called sword of water, the continuous sharpness of its Sword Aura was still tied to metal.
This place restrained Sword Aura to some degree.
Despite that, Yuding swept his piercing gaze around him. His Sword Aura gradually drew inward, as though returning to its purest, simplest state.
The sight alarmed Yang Jiao. Everyone knew that Yuding's withdrawn Sword Aura did