Within the deathly silent, gray Demon Domain, the white-robed man knelt on one knee, his face bloodless. Flecks of dark light continued to seep from the hole in his chest.
"Just one strike... destroyed forty percent of my essence..."
Recalling that terrifying sword strike only deepened his shock and fear.
Had he not received the Ancient Qi Refiners' secret manual from that lord and learned its many divine abilities and spells, using the ancient defensive art, the Taiyi Dark Fiend Mirror, to block much of the Sword Intent unleashed by that strike, he might have died on the spot!
Even against the Book Reader's full-powered attack, he might have been defeated, but he would not have lost much of his essence.
Even if that Immortal Sword was an unfinished heavenly treasure, even if this was the Dharma Body Inheritance of Celestial Venerable Shangqing, even if a sword immortal excelled at killing, it still could not possibly have been this terrifying!
To unleash such power with only Half-Immortal Magic Power, his understanding must have reached a terrifying height!
"What a sword immortal..."
His face ashen, the white-robed man stared at Lu Qingfeng in the distance and said through gritted teeth, emphasizing every word, "Everyone thought you had lain dormant for five hundred years. Some even thought you didn't dare face your Heavenly Tribulation. Who could have imagined... that you had comprehended the Sword Dao of the Great Luo Supreme Realm here in the mortal world?"
His voice rang out with hatred, and nearly every cultivator within the Demon Domain heard his bitter words.
"Great Golden Immortal!"
"What? The Sword Dao of the Great Luo Supreme Realm?"
"How... is that possible?"
"In the mortal world... without even an inheritance from the Upper Realm, he attained the Great Golden Immortal realm?"
"I haven't