Inside the Trial Space of the Ruins.
Brilliant blade light erupted from the ground, one streak after another, dazzling and soul-stirring, blazing with searing Golden Light.
The streaks converged in an instant, weaving an impenetrable net across the gray sky. Carrying boundless, terrifying sharpness, it swept down over Mo Yun.
In a flash, heaven and earth shook. Stray Blade Qi tore bottomless black fissures across the endless grassland, while the net of blade light sliced the gray sky apart like a mirror on the verge of shattering.
"The ultimate ninth... really is terrifying."
Feeling its unmatched might, Mo Yun sucked in a breath of Blade Qi. A translucent black saber instantly materialized in his hand.
Then he moved, sweeping his saber upward like thunder cleaving the sky. A dazzling silver-white blade light flashed forth, like a divine rainbow piercing the sun, ready to split heaven and earth apart.
In an instant, the vast net of brilliant blade light descending from above collapsed, torn open by an enormous gash. Silver-white mist billowed and drifted down alongside the blazing golden blade light, like frost falling in June.
At the same time, Mo Yun's expression steadied. Saber in hand, he became a blurred bolt of lightning and raced toward a rise to the southwest.
That was precisely where the Trial Spirit Elder stood.
Watching his sublimated ninth strike break apart in an instant, the elder's heart surged with towering waves.
He had never imagined that in a mere twenty-one days, this young man could grow to such a terrifying degree.
"The makings of a Great Emperor!"
"This boy has the makings of a Great Emperor!"
"Since the ninth strike cannot stop you, then... blade, come!"
Whoosh!
An exquisite short blade, lustrous as mutton-fat jade, appeared in the elder's hand. With a furious shout,