With the doubts in his heart resolved, Xu Taiping no longer held anything back.
He released his divine soul power without restraint, then took every strike of the Jueyun Sword attacking him into his awareness.
Once his divine soul had sensed every sword strike assailing him like a raging storm, Xu Taiping lifted the Rusty Lion Sword in one hand and declared:
"Rusty Lion, unsheathe!"
His words had barely fallen when a metallic ring sounded. The Rusty Lion Sword flew from its sheath as a streak of sword light, then thrust thunderously into the Jueyun Sword's sword intent with an ear-piercing whistle.
At first, everyone felt that beneath Jueyun's vast sword intent, which all but covered heaven and earth, Xu Taiping's counterattack was a mere cup of water against a blazing cartload of firewood.
But no sooner had that thought arisen than a boom rang out, and the Rusty Lion Sword's light suddenly scattered across the sky like Rainstorm Pear Blossoms.
Then the two swords collided.
Bang!
Amid the deafening crash, everyone watched in horror as every strike unleashed beneath the Jueyun Sword's sword intent turned into an ancient seal script character the instant it collided with Rusty Lion's sword light.
Seen from far below, the ancient seal script characters filling the sky resembled dazzling stars.
Clang!
The instant Jueyun's sword intent turned into a sky full of ancient seal script characters, Rusty Lion soared into the heavens, bearing a golden sword shadow two or three hundred zhang long.
Boom!
The golden sword shadow shot straight up ten thousand zhang into the sky, tearing apart the dark clouds covering the heavens with a single strike.
Once the dark clouds shattered.
Clear skies stretched ten thousand li.
Patter, patter...
The waves stirred up by the Jueyun Sword's sword intent now became