"Whoosh!"
The rushing of an illusory river echoed as Ji Hao drew it down from another plane. It swept past the Sword Gu, carrying away time and leaving decay behind.
Growth and decline cycled endlessly, interwoven in reincarnation, dreamlike and illusory.
A hundred breaths later, space twisted and shattered layer by layer, unleashing turbulent force. The formless power could no longer resist time's erosion. With a faint tearing sound, a few broken, aged Formless Sword Gu fell out and reassembled into the white-haired elder.
His face was deathly pale, his body like rootless duckweed, as though a passing breeze could scatter him.
"The young are truly formidable. Truly formidable." The white-haired elder sighed with a bitter smile. Defeated in the field he took greatest pride in, he had long since lost any hope of turning the tables. One sword and one saber had severed his life.
The Spatial Killing Sword had severed his path, and the Heavenly Emperor's Time Saber had severed his life. They were terrifying beyond measure.
Ji Hao approached slowly, walking through the air, his breathing steady. With a sweep of his sleeve, Sword Qi filled the Origin Qi in the surrounding space. Swaths of Sword Gu turned to powder and evaporated between heaven and earth.
It was already decided? In the distance, Sword Maniac He Qi looked back in astonishment. Both were at the Half-Step Dharma Body level, yet this unconventional struggle to the death had been decided so quickly.
As expected of a reincarnated Heavenly Venerable!
The white-haired elder chuckled, seemingly with a trace of regret. Glancing at He Qi in the distance, he shook his head. "So be it. A loss is a loss. What good would resentment and hatred do? Qianyuan has the Sword Gu command token. Something went wrong with his transformation.