There were no fancy tricks to this saber strike. It was simply fast, simply heavy.
Even with a layer of gang qi protecting him, even with a suit of soft armor on his body, Elder Lin still had his chest cleaved open by this strike, swift as the wind and heavier than ten thousand jin, leaving a wound deep enough to expose bone.
But Elder Lin truly lived up to his standing as a high-rank cultivator of Cloudview Palace. Despite such grave injuries, he endured the excruciating pain and mustered all his strength to thrust a palm at Xu Taiping.
Boom! Though this desperate palm strike was powerful, Xu Taiping had never intended to linger in battle. Once his saber strike landed, he immediately stuffed a Qi-Enhancing Pill into his mouth, then repeated his trick amid the thick fog and charged at the other elder.
A high-rank cultivator's dying counterattack was terrifying.
"Elder Sun, watch out for this boy's clone!"
Thud!
Realizing this, Elder Lin immediately shouted a warning to Elder Sun, but the words had barely left his mouth before he heard the dull impact of a fist.
Then the pounding impacts rang out one after another, like rolling thunder.
Struggling to keep his injuries under control, Elder Lin extended his spiritual sense to investigate, and horror immediately appeared on his face.
He sensed that the Azure Profound Sect disciple attacking Elder Sun with his fists had not only sealed off every chance for Elder Sun to retaliate through the paths of his punches, but was also using fist intent to raise his fist force, layer upon layer, as he punched, thereby increasing his fist might.
Whoosh!
Just then, a fierce wind suddenly swept through with a howl, clearing all the thick fog from the courtyard.
Once the fog