"Boom!"
With another shrill blast through the air, mingled with a dragon roar and a crane cry, the golden sword shadow formed by the Hidden Sword Art closed to within a hundred feet of Su Chan almost in the blink of an eye.
"Bang!..."
But just as the delighted spectators thought Xu Taiping's strike was about to shatter Su Chan's body, divine soul, and demon seed together, an unexpected crash abruptly wiped the joy from their faces.
Only when they looked closely did they discover that Su Chan's Taotie had blocked the golden sword shadow.
What utterly baffled them, however, was why Su Chan could now block the strike with Taotie alone when even his full strength had failed to stop it moments earlier.
Soon, however, another piercing sword cry abruptly dispelled their doubts.
Amid that sword cry, a character meaning "sundial," written in dazzling sword radiance, suddenly expanded at the tip of Su Chan's Demon God Weapon, the Taotie Sword.
In the end, that character, bright as a great sun, stood before Xu Taiping's golden sword shadow like a massive black hand.
"Bang!"
Before anyone could understand what was happening, the golden sword shadow formed by Xu Taiping's Hidden Sword Art shattered with a crash.
For a moment, the scattered Golden Sword Qi fluttered through the sky like golden feathers.
Even the Rusty Lion Sword was hurled away by the shock wave of the sword shadow's explosion.
At this sight, both the Spectating Cultivators and Xu Taiping on the battlefield were stunned.
After a moment's daze, the weakened Xu Taiping finally spoke. "The Character Deciphering method of breaking swords?"
Indeed.
What Su Chan had just used to break his Hidden Sword Art was precisely the Character Deciphering method of breaking swords, learned under the same master as him.
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