Believing he had driven this body's True Essence and qi and blood power, along with his blade force, blade qi, and blade intent, to the ultimate realm, Xu Taiping drew his blade again with a shing and murmured:
"Burning Blade!"
The words had barely left his lips when he stamped forward with a bang.
Boom...!
As Xu Taiping stepped forward, enormous human figures appeared in an instant before the gravestones amid the battlefield ruins beneath his feet.
Like the scene of the Human-God Push-Back, these figures all thrust their hands toward Xu Taiping's back.
Among these figures were unmistakably Xu Taiping himself and Beiguo Xiao.
The figures of Beiguo Xiao and Xu Taiping within the blade intent phantoms successively reached out in the posture of the Human-God Push-Back toward Beiguo Xiao, who was swinging his blade at the Blade-Sharpening Boy.
An indescribable sense of grief and desolation suddenly swept through the entire Blade-Testing Pavilion like a hurricane with Xu Taiping's descending Spring-Slaying Blade.
This was precisely the blade intent Xu Taiping had comprehended through his many years of trials, from those elders who could go to their deaths without hesitation for nothing more than the convictions in their hearts-
"I bid you go to your death."
Almost at the instant Xu Taiping revealed his complete blade intent, the figures behind him all turned into streams of flame, converging like brooks upon the long blade he swung toward the Blade-Sharpening Boy.
Boom!
The next moment, amid an ear-splitting blast, Xu Taiping, whose body had also burst into flame, brought his blade crashing down upon the Blade-Sharpening Boy.
Bang...!
Amid the tremendous impact, although the Blade-Sharpening Boy blocked Xu Taiping's strike with Blade Qi Thunderclap and the long blade in his hand, its force still drove him back several steps, leaving several