Sword rays and sword qi crisscrossed and exploded across hundreds of miles. Countless glowing fissures split the sky, and the shock waves set the entire sea churning. Tsunamis thousands of feet high swept madly in every direction...
Even a thousand miles away, the muffled explosions of those earth-shaking sword qi collisions could be heard... Their sheer power was truly astonishing...
Of course!
Although Li Xiaoya's swordsmanship had improved considerably, he had only cultivated it to the Fifth Layer...
Tianyuan, on the other hand, had cultivated the Tianyuan Sword Formula to the Seventh-Layer Peak. His attainments in swordsmanship were more than ten times greater than Li Xiaoya's. Of course, exchanging moves with Li Xiaoya was merely a way to help him practice, not a genuine contest, so Tianyuan naturally held back...
Although Tianyuan had created eight layers of the Tianyuan Sword Formula, the Eighth Layer was, in truth, only a theoretical level of swordsmanship. Even Tianyuan himself had never mastered it, because in theory, the Eighth Layer required magic power and divine sense to execute. It was a heaven-defying sword dao said to be capable of slaying Immortal Tribulation Stage cultivators...
However, since Tianyuan himself still had no magic power, he had never mastered it... Naturally, there was no Eighth Layer to demonstrate...
To master the Eighth Layer, he would have to wait until he left this place and recovered his magic power...
Their exchanges mostly consisted of Tianyuan instructing Li Xiaoya, with little genuine sparring involved. Still, Li Xiaoya's talent for the sword dao truly delighted Tianyuan. He seemed eager to pass on every last bit of his swordsmanship to Li Xiaoya...
Later.
Li Xiaoya learned the truth.
Tianyuan actually felt that he might not survive his next heavenly tribulation, which was why he was doing all this...
The reason