After a brief moment of astonishment, having already received the Life-Taking Blade's legacy, he guessed that this was a divine power stirred by the Heavenly Wrath Five Forms Art in conjunction with the Deity-Sealing Form-the power of teaching the Dao.
Propelled by this power, Xu Taiping suddenly had the illusion that he stood beyond worldly affairs, looking down upon the mortal realm.
With this feeling, when he looked again at Li Yezhu's "Please Enter the Urn," he felt that the strike was riddled with openings.
Shing!
With a piercing blade cry, Xu Taiping slashed.
Whoosh!
As Xu Taiping slashed, a blade mark flickering with sparks appeared before almost every arm reaching out of the fissures, amid a shrill tearing of the air.
Li Yezhu's true body, with its eight arms, was no exception.
Rumble!
Just as when Blade Slave had used the Deity-Sealing Form earlier, the instant these blade marks appeared, an incomparably majestic, furious rebuke rang out between heaven and earth. Though no one could make out what it said, its oppressive force, like the awesome might of heaven, still sent chills through everyone.
Boom!
Immediately afterward, the power of thunder formed from blade qi poured out of the dozens of blade marks. After engulfing the arms and their blade force, it all began converging on Li Yezhu like rivers pouring into the sea.
Bang!
But just as this surging Blade Qi Thunderclap was about to engulf Li Yezhu, he suddenly severed his own eight arms, breaking free of the Deity-Sealing Form's blade force at the cost of grievous damage to his cultivation.
Even so, when the phantom of that enormous hand, seemingly carved from white jade, appeared, his figure still paused for an instant as he was about to fly away.
In that very instant, the enormous white