"When you feel ready to challenge me, just think it, and this Phantom Body of mine will appear." With those words, the Alien Race elder vanished from the world.
Luo Feng heard him, but did not let it distract him.
His consciousness remained immersed in the scene of that single strike.
With one casual sweep, delivered as though it took no effort at all, the elder had shown a mastery of the Origin Mystery and the blade that Luo Feng found almost beyond belief.
That strike is too profound. It holds so many mysteries, each applied to perfection, Luo Feng thought.
He threw himself into analyzing it. Even his clone in the Divine Will Space devoted itself to comprehending the strike.
Luo Feng stood in the Tenth Layer of the Heavenly Tower as if in a daze. Inside his mind, however, that strike played over and over.
Where the heart reaches, where the mind reaches... There's so much contained in that strike.
Leaving aside the Origin Mystery, the elder had not even used a real blade. But Luo Feng had attained the Blade Heart himself, and he could tell that the elder had attained it too.
Luo Feng had only just reached the Blade Heart. His understanding was still shallow, and his ability to use it limited. As he studied the strike, insights kept flashing through his mind.
Luo Feng stood there for a full month. With Time Acceleration running at hundreds of thousands of times the normal rate, far more time had passed for him.
Whoosh!
Luo Feng moved.
To match the elder's strike as closely as possible, Luo Feng also went without a blade, using his palm instead.
Endless Blade Qi gathered around Luo Feng's palm as ten different facets of the Origin Mystery intertwined. Following what he