"And after you lifted the seal on your soul seal, you already had little true essence and qi and blood left. Even after drinking that pot of spirit wine, the true essence and qi and blood you could recover were limited."
"Next, I need only slowly exhaust your true essence and qi and blood, and you will no longer have the strength to fight me."
"So."
"From the moment that punch of yours shattered only half my Sword Mountain, you were destined for utter defeat."
Su Chan's words sent an uproar through the crowd.
Even Xu Taiping had to admit that, apart from Fairy Lingyue, there was probably no one else who understood him as well as Su Chan did.
For there were certain secrets about him that even his Senior Sister Zhao Linglong and Senior Brother Dugu Qingxiao did not know.
Yet Su Chan knew them like the back of his hand.
But Xu Taiping neither refuted him nor replied. He merely reached up to wipe his mouth, then bent his knees slightly and pushed off hard with both feet against the gang wind beneath him.
Boom!
Amid a piercing blast of air, Xu Taiping leaped up.
With qi and blood power alone, he soared above Su Chan and the Sword Mountain behind him.
At the foot of the Sword Mountain, Su Chan tilted his head back and glanced at Xu Taiping.
Then he flicked the longsword in his hand upward.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Amid piercing whistles, the black swords embedded in that remaining half of the Sword Mountain once again shot toward Xu Taiping like raindrops.
Xu Taiping wasted no words either. Drawing on the true essence and qi and blood power he had wrested from the soul seal through the potency of the Hidden Immortal Wine, he