"Boom!!!"
Gu Yu's furious roar had barely faded when the aura fluctuations around him suddenly swept outward like a great river bursting its banks.
At the same time, the blade domain formed from countless crimson-flame blade shadows enveloped the arena.
At this sight, Old Martial God Zhu Huai in the Spring Rain Pavilion lost some of his composure and said:
"Gu Yu was actually hiding such tremendous fighting strength!"
Goddess of War Jiang Cuicui likewise said, her face filled with shock:
"In less than a year, he comprehended blade domain power. What astonishing talent!"
But to Xiahou Qingyuan behind them, what startled him even more than Gu Yu's talent was his temperament and his rock-steady Dao heart.
He drew a deep breath, then murmured with a complicated look in his eyes:
"Just what did Xu Taiping teach him?"
Beside him, Xiahou You froze for a moment, then murmured as well:
"The Gu Yu of today really is a completely different person from the mad old man we first met."
While the two were speaking, a deafening crash rang out, and in the Battle-Watching Projection, Gu Yu forcibly scattered Pang Zhong's blade force.
At the same time, the countless blade shadows within that blade domain coalesced into an enormous lion shadow in an instant.
Then Gu Yu, his entire body a mangled mass of flesh and blood, abruptly swung his blade down at Pang Zhong ahead of him once more.
In that instant, the phantom lion shadow formed by the blade domain suddenly opened its enormous jaws.
The next moment, a deafening lion's roar erupted from the Battle-Watching Projection.
At the same time, countless densely packed blade shadows formed from the roar's sound waves could be seen shooting relentlessly toward Pang Zhong's Blade-Edge Hurricane ahead.
This was the power of Gu