"Boom!-"
The instant Sword Immortal Qionghua finished speaking, another deafening explosion rang out from the Spirit Mirror, and streaks of azure lightning tore through the blood-colored mist that had enveloped Xu Taiping.
As the blood-colored blade mist dispersed, Xu Taiping's figure emerged clearly into everyone's sight.
Along with him, they saw arcs of electricity flashing ceaselessly around him.
Viewed from above, Xu Taiping looked as though he stood at the center of an extraordinary thunderstorm, with lightning striking down around him without pause.
"Boom!..."
Whenever the blood mist tried to approach, the flickering electrical arcs instantly became thick bolts of lightning, blasting apart all the blood mist that drew near.
"This..."
The three people before the Spirit Mirror were dumbstruck.
"This is... this is blade qi profound connection!"
Only after a long while did Zhu Huai cry out in excitement.
"And among the manifestations of blade qi profound connection, this is the exceedingly rare Blade Qi Transformation into Thunder..."
Sword Immortal Qionghua, who had always been proud and aloof, now looked at Xu Taiping without the slightest trace of disdain.
"It really is! It really is!"
On the sixth floor of the Eight-Faced Tower, Gu Qingcheng clenched her fists and shouted, heedless of her composure, when she saw Xu Taiping's Blade Qi Transformation into Thunder.
"Could this be the blade qi profound connection you mentioned, Miss Qingcheng?"
Beside her, Dugu Qingxiao also came to his senses.
Earlier, while watching the battle, Gu Qingcheng had explained to him that Xu Taiping had been unable to withstand Blade Slave's blade qi precisely because Blade Slave's blade qi had broken through to the realm of blade qi profound connection.
Zhao Linglong and Jiang Zhi also looked expectantly at Gu Qingcheng.
"You're right, Brother Dugu. This is indeed the young master's blade qi