"Those sword techniques just now..." Yong Xian was filled with doubt.
The other party's sword moves had been far too profound. He could not understand them, yet he desperately wanted to know more, his heart itching beyond endurance.
"The sword strike Brother used to break the sword formation was a sword art created by combining the stele's engraving with the first metal puppet. Either move alone was utterly ordinary and full of flaws, but when combined, they could unleash power beyond imagination!"
Seeing that he did not understand, Nie Tong explained.
When Nie Yun had suddenly raised his sword just now, it had not been his own creation. It was precisely the move the first puppet had used against him. Fused with the sword art carved on the stele, its might instantly increased severalfold, breaking the combined attack formed by the ten puppets in one stroke.
"That can be done too..."
Yong Xian blinked, his palms drenched in sweat.
Like everyone else before, he had believed these two youths were merely scions of some great family, with no real skill to speak of. Only now did he understand that their comprehension of the Sword Dao had reached a level that made one's heart tremble. Compared to them, every genius he had seen before was no different from a rustic village lout who understood nothing.
A sword was a dead thing in his hands, a weapon. Yet in theirs, it seemed to come alive, wielded at will... Had he not seen it with his own eyes, he truly would not have believed that such swordsmanship, such genius, existed in this world!
"The third trial is the most dangerous. There is a spatial Formation inside, and countless Eagle Beasts will attack. It mainly tests a challenger's endurance. If your endurance is insufficient,