"Brother A Meng, what did you think of Chen Hao's last strike?"
Watching Dugu Qingxiao walk toward the Sword Platform step by step, Cui Tiegu suddenly asked A Meng beside him without turning his head.
A Meng, too, had been watching Dugu Qingxiao ascend the platform without blinking. Only upon hearing Cui Tiegu's question did he withdraw his gaze and say with a look of regret:
"It's just a shame Chen Hao comprehended that final strike a little too late. Otherwise, what he severed would have been Sword Fiend's head, not his arm."
That was extremely high praise.
Cui Tiegu smiled and nodded.
"For Brother A Meng to give him such praise, it seems I wasn't mistaken. Chen Hao did indeed comprehend that strike at the moment of his death."
He paused here, then turned to A Meng with a mysterious smile.
"The Twofold Extremes Law Sword of Life and Death."
A Meng looked somewhat startled at this.
"You even know about that?"
Cui Tiegu chuckled.
"At the pinnacle of Origin Law lies Extreme Law. That's hardly a great secret. I think this boy Dugu Qingxiao must have already mastered some form of Extreme Law, too."
Only cultivators such as Cui Tiegu and A Meng, who stood at the summit of the Shangqing Cultivation World, knew that merely inheriting an Origin Law amounted to little. Only by cultivating an Origin Law to its pinnacle and transforming it into an Extreme Law could one truly be said to have mastered it.
And only after mastering one Extreme Law could one go on to cultivate another Origin Law.
After giving Cui Tiegu a searching look, A Meng suddenly asked curiously:
"Could it be that you were selected by the Sword Chief Ranking because you, too, wish to comprehend an Extreme Law through