"That's not right!"
"Wait, wait!"
"How could he cut off a piece of peerless-grade Soulfire Stone with a single stroke?!"
Gu Changming, who had initially been astonished by the quality of that peerless-grade Soulfire Stone, soon realized that Xu Taiping's ability to cut it open with one stroke was even more astonishing than its quality.
In fact, it was not just Gu Changming.
At that moment, Blade Ghost and Xu Taiping himself were equally surprised.
Blade Ghost asked in bewilderment:
"Xu Taiping, what did you just do?"
As Xu Taiping put that enormous Soulfire Stone into the Dragon-Trapping Tower, he replied rather helplessly:
"I just swung my blade normally. I didn't do anything."
Since that stroke had only been his second attempt, he had not used the Annihilating Blade Art, only an ordinary blade technique.
Suddenly, a thought stirred in Xu Taiping's mind, and he looked at the Water-Cutting Blade in his hand:
"Could it be because of the Water-Cutting Blade?"
Ever since the Water-Cutting Blade had been forged into a Great Dao Divine Weapon, the limits of Xu Taiping's own cultivation had allowed him to comprehend only one of its Great Dao divine powers: Blade Devouring.
Hearing Xu Taiping say this, Blade Ghost also seemed to realize something, and his tone grew slightly excited:
"That could indeed have something to do with your Water-Cutting Blade's Great Dao power."
As though responding to their conjecture, a five-colored halo of divine power suddenly appeared over the Water-Cutting Blade.
Sensing the aura of divine power within the halo, Xu Taiping said in delighted surprise:
"It looks like we'll be able to take away quite a bit of Soulfire Stone this time."
Hearing this, Blade Ghost reminded Xu Taiping:
"Your cultivation has yet to break through to the Dao Integration Realm. The Water-Cutting