"Buzzz..." As Elder Black Dragon suspended a hundred-jin piece of ship-ballast iron from the flying sword's hilt, the Rusty Sword began to tremble and hum.
At the same time, Xu Taiping's body suddenly tensed.
"One hundred jin."
Elder Black Dragon glanced at Xu Taiping without immediately adding a second piece of ship-ballast iron.
Xu Taiping knew Elder Black Dragon was giving him a chance to steady his breathing.
After drawing a deep breath, he nodded to Elder Black Dragon.
"Sorry for the trouble."
Although he was experiencing symptoms of soul weeping just as before, with a buzzing ringing in his ears, rapid breathing, and a pounding heart, it was still within what he could endure.
Elder Black Dragon was slightly surprised by Xu Taiping's performance.
After all, Xu Taiping had not been this at ease in the previous round.
But he said nothing and immediately hung a second hundred-jin piece of ship-ballast iron from Xu Taiping's Rusty Sword.
"Buzzz!" The instant the second piece of ship-ballast iron was hung, the symptoms of the Soul Weeping Affliction intensified. Xu Taiping felt as though his head would burst, filled with an incessant buzzing only he could hear. His heartbeat also accelerated, pounding as though it would burst out of his chest.
"Hah, hah, hah..."
He began gasping for breath.
Had wisps of energy not emerged from those few apertures of his from time to time to keep his mind clear, he would probably have already fainted and collapsed.
"Two hundred jin."
Elder Black Dragon's voice rang out again.
But to Xu Taiping's ears, that voice was stretched out endlessly, and it took him a long while to understand it.
"Hah..." After releasing a trembling breath, Xu Taiping nodded, his entire body shaking as he maintained his Sword Finger gesture, and mustered all