Before her words had even faded, Xiao Lingxi drew her sword.
A most basic straight thrust!
Yet this most basic straight thrust made Xuan Qingyi's expression change for the first time.
Because she saw that, at the instant Xiao Lingxi thrust out her sword, a point appeared within the Wind-Fire Formation before her.
An insignificant little point.
That point lay precisely at the very core where countless formation patterns of the Wind-Fire Formation intersected.
This was the formation's only flaw!
A flaw whose exact location even she herself could not immediately find and confirm!
Yet Xiao Lingxi had found it with no more than a single glance!
Of course, Xiao Lingxi's thrust was no ordinary thrust either. It was the Extremity Penetration Sword Intent!
The sword tip struck that flaw with incomparable precision.
Buzz!
With a soft sound, the entire Wind-Fire Formation collapsed with a bang!
The wind stopped.
The fire went out.
The wind and fire that had filled the entire arena turned into scattered points of light beneath Xiao Lingxi's simple thrust, vanishing into the Formless.
On the arena, only two peerless women remained, facing one another.
The entire Heaven's Pride Battlefield fell into a brief dead silence.
Then, with a boom, all the spectators erupted into an uproar!
"It broke! One sword broke it!"
"That was the Wind-Fire Formation! A top-tier Thought-Formation! Even an Epoch King could be trapped for a time, yet it was shattered by one sword strike!"
"How terrifying is Xiao Lingxi's attainment in the Sword Dao? She saw through the formation's flaw with one glance!"
"No! She didn't see through it! Her Sword Intent directly locked onto the formation's weak point! Her Sword Dao has already reached the level of Extremity!"
"No wonder she ranked third! That insight, that attainment in the Sword