"Whoosh!"
Amid a piercing whistle through the air, Gu Yu brought his long saber slashing heavily down at Gou Yinhai.
Though Gu Yu's blade force was fierce and his strike swift, the saber technique he used was utterly ordinary. Gou Yinhai saw through it at a glance and simply raised his axe in both hands to block the blow.
"Bang!"
Amid the tremendous crash, the force of the recoil sent the long saber in Gu Yu's hands bouncing backward.
Before Gu Yu could gather his blade force again, Gou Yinhai shouted:
"Take my axe!"
Then, with a boom, Gou Yinhai swung the great axe in his hands at Gu Yu's waist, the blow heavy and powerful.
"Crack!"
Fortunately, at that critical moment, Gu Yu threw himself backward, bending his entire body into a reverse bow, and only just escaped Gou Yinhai's lethal axe.
"Bang!"
After dodging Gou Yinhai's axe, Gu Yu immediately used the recoil from driving his long saber into the ground to straighten himself, then rode that momentum into another slash at Gou Yinhai.
"Bang!"
But just as before, Gou Yinhai raised the axe haft and blocked it.
This time, however, the saber in Gu Yu's hands was not knocked away. Instead, he held it against the axe haft and pressed down on Gou Yinhai with his formidable qi and blood power.
"Crack!"
The tremendous force actually pressed down so hard that the bluestone slabs beneath Gou Yinhai's feet split apart.
Though Gu Yu was not using divine-human variant bone power at that moment, over these past two months and more, his body had long since been tempered by that power until his qi and blood power rivaled the Martial Saint Realm.
It was simply that this qi and blood power had grown too quickly, while Gu Yu