Testing the blade again: the Jade Shattering Art and the Thousand Kills Blade's Earth-Killing Stance

In an instant, the sword light, like the waters of a great river, swallowed all of Gu Yu's remaining blade force.

Only Gu Yu's true body remained, blood qi mingling with blade qi as they whirled around him. Gripping his blade with both hands, he desperately held out against Dongfang Yuejian's blade force.

At that moment, Gu Yu was like a lone skiff on a storm-lashed sea, liable to be swallowed by Dongfang Yuejian's sword intent at any moment.

Yet just as Master Xuanzhi thought Gu Yu would concede, Gu Yu, still gripping his blade with both hands, threw back his head as though driven mad and roared again:

"Better to shatter as jade than survive whole as a tile!"

"Shatter the Eye Aperture!"

"Shatter the Ear Aperture!"

"Shatter the Nose Aperture!"

Then, with a boom, Gu Yu's eyes, ears, and nose all burst into a bloody pulp.

Immediately afterward, three blood-red rings formed from pure spiritual power spread out one after another around the blood-drenched Gu Yu.

At the same time, the aura fluctuations around Gu Yu rose three stages in succession.

"Boom!..."

The instant his aura surged, Gu Yu gripped his blade with both hands and brought it slashing down against Dongfang Yuejian's sword intent.

"Swish!"

Amid an ear-piercing sound of cleaving air, Gu Yu's single slash actually split Dongfang Yuejian's sword intent in two.

"Boom!"

And the instant he broke through Dongfang Yuejian's blade force, Gu Yu roared once more:

"One Blade, a Thousand Kills!"

As his words fell, a boom rang out, and densely packed blade shadows burst apart, starting from the fissure in Dongfang Yuejian's sword intent.

"Rumble..."

In a single instant, thousands of Gu Yu's clones appeared, all wielding long blades as they carved apart Dongfang Yuejian's sword intent.

Clearly, Dongfang Yuejian had not