"Whoosh!"
With a sound of tearing air, Xu Taiping's long blade came slashing heavily down on the Blade Slave's Protective Gang Qi.
"Roooar!"
In a mere instant, amid a blade cry mingled with a dragon's roar, the long blade in Xu Taiping's hand sliced straight through the hundred-odd layers of Protective Gang Qi around the Blade Slave as though cutting tofu.
"Boom!..."
Amid the explosive shattering of Blade Qi, Gu Qingcheng and Dugu Qingxiao both froze.
"One slash broke a hundred layers of protective Blade Qi... Young Master Taiping really has incorporated the power of the Mountain Spirit Blade Domain into his Demon-Slaying Blade!"
Just as those before the Spirit Mirror could scarcely believe their eyes, Gu Qingcheng's eyes suddenly lit up, and she spoke with utter certainty.
She was right.
The "Ordinary" blade technique Xu Taiping was executing at that moment was actually the Dragon-Slaying Form infused with the Blade Domain's Mountain Spirit Power.
This form retained the Dragon-Slaying Form's momentum-once the blade struck, it would never return without severing the dragon's head-while also incorporating the invisible gravity of the Blade Domain's Mountain Spirit and the destructive power of Thunderflame.
Thus, before this slash, even the protective Blade Qi formed by the Blade Slave's Returning Blade to Sheath Form was as flimsy as paper.
"Bang, bang!"
Before anyone could react, another deafening burst rang out, and over two hundred more layers of Protective Gang Qi formed by the Blade Slave's Returning Blade to Sheath Form shattered in succession beneath Xu Taiping's Blade Force.
In just one or two breaths, the three hundred-odd layers of protective blade Gang before the Blade Slave dwindled to a mere dozen or so.
For a moment, his figure, shrouded in Blade Qi, became clearly visible.
"This time... this time he really can! Junior Brother