Without increasing true essence or qi and blood power, continuing to improve killing power was neither difficult nor easy for a blade cultivator.
It meant constantly pushing everything you needed to control when delivering a saber strike to the ultimate realm you could reach at that moment.
Then, with the next strike, you continued to reach the ultimate realm that strike could attain, until your qi and blood and divine soul were utterly exhausted.
As he spoke, Xu Taiping threw a punch through the air at Yu Dan's half-body with a boom.
Bam!
The ferocious fist aura sent Yu Dan's half-body flying straight off the Sword Platform.
This Yu Dan was not the real Yu Dan, so Xu Taiping had not dealt a killing blow that would scatter his soul and disperse his spirit.
After doing all this, Xu Taiping picked up the wine gourd containing Hidden Immortal Wine, tilted his head back, and gulped down several mouthfuls.
The match was over now, so he no longer needed to worry too much about whether drinking Hidden Immortal Wine would violate the rules.
"In this Sword Inquiry..."
At last, Mountain-Guarding Elder Fu Yuan was the first to recover.
After staring at Xu Taiping several times with astonishment filling his eyes, he finally announced in a ringing voice:
"The winner of this Sword Inquiry is Xu Taiping of the Azure Profound Sect!"
A clamor erupted...
Elder Fu Yuan's voice jolted everyone in the surrounding stands awake. For a time, the deafening uproar even drowned out his voice as he asked the Sword Chief Ranking to select the cultivators for the next Sword Inquiry.
"Judging by that strike alone, never mind blade cultivators in the Spirit Refining Realm-even among blade cultivators in the Heaven Gazing Realm, Xu Taiping deserves to be called the