Hum!
The Ink-Gold Divine Saber traced a perfect arc through the air and landed squarely in Yue Xiaofei's palm.
The instant he gripped the hilt, a warmth that felt like blood calling to blood spread through his body.
The Dragon Vein essence the saber fed back into him instantly replenished his badly depleted vitality. It even stabilized his Second-Stage Gene Lock at the early National Authority Level!
This was his weapon.
A true god-slaying blade!
Holding the saber, Yue Xiaofei used not a trace of Internal Force. He simply followed the blade's edge and gave it a casual horizontal swing toward a bare black coral reef in the distance.
Hiss!
There was no earth-shaking blast, no torrent of blade energy.
Only a hair-thin line of ink-gold light flashed through the air.
The next second, the hard reef—larger than a football field and rising dozens of meters above the sea—split cleanly down the middle.
The cut was smooth as polished glass.
A light sea breeze swept past. The entire upper half of the coral mountain slid off and crashed into the deep sea, throwing waves high into the sky.
One slash had sheared off a mountaintop!
"Good saber."
Ning Hongye had come to his side without him noticing. A rare look of approval appeared on her cool, beautiful face.
This blade had surpassed the bounds of mortal weapons.
It carried the Sea-Calming Cauldron's Dragon Vein essence, born to suppress and slay foreign, corrupt False Gods.
Yue Xiaofei swung the Ink-Gold Divine Saber behind him and slid it into its sheath.
He turned to look at the enormous bronze cauldron, now fully restored and standing guard at the Dragon Kingdom's eastern gate. A great weight finally lifted from his heart.
Modu was safe.
But his fight had only just begun.
"Maternal Grandfather,