To be precise, Xu Taiping's Burning Blade Style had evolved from the Demon-Slaying Blade's Dragon-Slaying Form.
Into this single strike, Xu Taiping poured all the most lethal aspects of the insights into blade intent, blade force, Blade Qi Manifestation, and blade domain power that he had gained through his trials.
"Boom!..."
As Xu Taiping slashed down from the air, the blade qi thunderclaps spreading from his body burst into flames all at once, multiplying their already formidable aura of destruction several times over in an instant.
The terrifying pressure of that destructive aura made Xu Taiping look like a god of slaughter descending from the heavens as he brought his blade down.
At the same time.
Amid a blade cry mingled with the calls of dragons and cranes, Xu Taiping's mountain spirit blade domain pressed everything within the thousand-zhang reach of his blade force firmly beneath it, like an enormous mountain that truly existed.
Under that pressure, even someone as powerful as Demon Emperor Jiao slowed in both movement and action.
At that very moment, the burning blade qi thunderclaps filling the sky abruptly transformed into two enormous fire dragons, coiling around Xu Taiping and the long blade in his hand.
"Boom!"
Then, amid the furious roars of the twin dragons, Xu Taiping's strike became a blade shadow hundreds of zhang long, condensed from pure flame. It spanned the sky and slashed down.
"Bang!"
Although Demon Emperor Jiao had sensed the strike the moment Xu Taiping attacked, he still failed to withdraw the hand reaching for Duan Xiaoyu in time, and Xu Taiping's blade severed his arm.
"Boom!"
More terrifying still, the blade shadow formed by Xu Taiping's Burning Blade Style appeared tangible but was actually formless. After severing Demon Emperor Jiao's arm, it rose into the wind like sand