The sword light was grim and chilling. Nie Yun felt every acupoint across his body covered by the opponent—gate of life, gate of death, living gate, vulnerable gate... The sword radiance was like water flowing into every crevice, sealing off every possible retreat.
"An expert!"
His pupils contracted. Nie Yun immediately understood that his opponent was a master swordsman, stronger and more terrifying than himself by far!
If the opponent's strength had vastly surpassed his, he would not have found it frightening. After all, in the Universal Divine Realm, where one could create Great Daos surpassing the Heavenly Dao, powerful figures emerged in droves. But... although the sword light behind him was terrifying, he could clearly sense the opponent's cultivation—it was the same as his own, mid-stage King Sealing!
Such strength could lord over the Chaos Ocean, but here, it was nothing conspicuous, hardly worthy of being called an expert!
Yet such a person filled him with fear and helplessness. That alone showed how terrifying he was!
"Break!"
Though shaken inwardly, Nie Yun did not panic. He had experienced too many dangers; while the situation before him was terrifying, it had not yet reached the point of no return.
There was no time to turn the head of the long spear in his hand. He fiercely jabbed the spear shaft backward.
This thrust was aimed not at the sword-wielding ambusher, nor at the longsword in his hand, but at a point in the air that seemed unrelated to either of them.
Had anyone else seen it, they would certainly have thought that Nie Yun, in his panic, had lost his direction and was now doomed. In truth, only those engaged in the fight understood that this point was the most perfect way to break the opponent's ambush!
The ambusher's swordsmanship