"Clang!..."
As the sword cries grew increasingly piercing, most of the blade of Shi Jianchen's longsword had already emerged from its sheath.
The area covered by the sword light around Shi Jianchen, along with his sword intent and sword might, expanded more than threefold.
Everywhere the sword light reached, the ruins on the ground were crushed into heaps of fine sand.
By contrast, Xu Taiping, who had held the upper hand just moments earlier, now had his aura fluctuations completely suppressed. His blade force was suppressed so thoroughly that he could not release it at all.
"Clink!"
Finally, Xu Taiping returned his blade to its sheath, unleashing the Life-Taking Blade's Returning Blade to Sheath Form.
In an instant, eighteen successive barriers of light, condensed from blade qi and thunderflame, enveloped his body layer upon layer.
At this sight, Xiahou Qingyuan immediately frowned in the spectator seats of Spring Rain Pavilion and said:
"It seems Xu Taiping intends to take a defensive stance and withstand Shi Jianchen's strike."
He immediately added:
"But in my view, the gap in cultivation and combat power between these two is enormous. Even the Life-Taking Blade's Returning Blade to Sheath Form at the ultimate realm might not withstand this strike from Shi Jianchen."
Beside him, Xiahou You drew a deep breath and said:
"Not necessarily."
Xu Taiping's earlier ultimate realm killing power had given her tremendous confidence.
The other spectating cultivators in Spring Rain Pavilion were just like Xiahou You. Although deeply worried, they were also confident that Xu Taiping could withstand this blade strike from Shi Jianchen.
"Clang!"
Just then, with a sword cry like heaven and earth splitting apart, the longsword in Shi Jianchen's hand abruptly left its sheath.
Then, with a thunderous boom, the dazzling sword light that had enveloped Shi Jianchen abruptly