Smoke and dust filled the sky, obscuring all sight. The Spirit Treasure's sweeping strike had left strands of terrifying power behind, interfering with Divine Sense scans.
Though neither his eyes nor his Divine Sense could penetrate it, Liu Yu's extraordinarily keen Spiritual Perception could still detect two sources of Spirit Pressure within.
One of them undoubtedly belonged to True Person Kongqing.
After repeated experiments in the Immortal Mansion World and improvements in his own cultivation, Liu Yu's control over the Ruined Sword had advanced further.
He could now perform some less complicated maneuvers.
Of course, his attacks were still limited to conjuring a gray Sword Shadow. More complicated moves remained beyond him.
Thus, his previous strike had naturally avoided True Person Kongqing.
But his control was not yet precise enough. As the gray Sword Shadow swept past, the man had inevitably been caught in its wake.
The Azure Yang Demonic Flame, empowered by the True Treasure-level Nine-Palace Azure Yang Lamp until its might approached the fourth grade, was extinguished. An entire sea of fire vanished into thin air.
True Lord Skyfire of the Sacred Fire Cult had originally intended to forge a fire element Spirit Treasure named the Sacred Fire Sword.
But a twist of fate had produced the Ruined Sword instead, with an entirely different final attribute.
Once its transformation was complete, the sword therefore embodied a sense of "flames extinguished," making it particularly effective against fire element things.
Thus, merely being caught in its wake had snuffed out the demonic flame, whose power approached the fourth grade, without giving it any chance to resist.
Kong Qing had also suffered considerable injuries from the collateral force.
Combined with the massive amount of Golden Core Origin he had burned, the consequences erupted all at once. His cultivation had already fallen