"Clang!..."
Before Fairy Lingyue could voice her thoughts, a clear sword cry startled Xu Taiping out of his reverie, and his gaze fell on the Sword Platform.
On the Sword Platform, not only was Sword Fiend's Aura Fluctuation climbing ceaselessly once again, but the sword qi true flames whirling around him were also visibly transforming into fire ravens.
In the blink of an eye, hundreds of fire ravens circled above Sword Fiend's head in formation.
"Sword Fiend's swordsmanship has actually broken through to the third level of sword qi manifestation?"
Standing beside Xu Taiping, A Meng looked on in disbelief as more and more sword qi fire ravens gathered above Sword Fiend, who was fighting Dugu Qingxiao.
Xu Taiping knew that the third level of sword qi manifestation was also its final level.
Although Dugu Qingxiao's sword qi flame lotuses closely resembled this third level of sword qi manifestation, they were merely produced by his swordsmanship cultivation technique, not true third-level manifestation.
To attain the true third level of manifestation, a sword cultivator had to transform his own sword qi into things imbued with spirit without relying on a cultivation technique.
Just like the sword qi fire ravens above Sword Fiend's head at that moment.
Once a sword cultivator broke through to this level, his swordsmanship realm could be considered to have reached the Half-Step Sword Saint Realm.
Watching the flocks of sword qi fire ravens wheeling behind Sword Fiend, Xu Taiping murmured gravely:
"Second Senior Brother underwent Nirvanic Annihilation twice just to barely force Sword Fiend to use this third level of sword qi manifestation. Isn't a demon cultivator who has just entered the Demon Emperor Realm supposed to have combat strength equal to a cultivator at minor completion of the Heaven Questioning Realm? Why is there such an