Fortunately, that aura vanished in a flash, replaced by a surge of aura as weighty as a mountain that spread out from Xu Taiping.
With a boom, the two surges of aura collided on the Stored Swords Grounds, ultimately forming an enormous wall of interwoven ice crystals and flames before Xu Taiping, dividing the Sword Platform in two.
Moreover, the ice-covered side of the immense wall was rapidly pushing its flame-covered side backward, even forcing that enormous Sword Shadow back along with it.
Only when this immense wall reached the center of the Sword Platform did it stop.
At the sight on the Sword Platform, the disciples in the Cloud Tower stands first fell speechless, then burst into cries of astonishment.
"Xu Taiping has Spirit Refining Realm cultivation too?"
"Even if he doesn't, judging by his profound true essence alone, he at least has the strength to fight someone in the Spirit Refining Realm."
Listening to the clamor of discussion around him, Chen Hao, who had been utterly speechless, suddenly turned to A Meng beside him with a wry smile. "As expected of someone Junior Martial Uncle chose."
A Meng nodded. "We're in for a good show."
Across from them, Prefect Liu Chuxuan, who was being pestered by the woman Patriarch Wuya had transformed into, stood up in delighted surprise at the sight and said:
"I bet right! I was right not to intervene, right not to intervene! How could someone chosen by Youyun Prefecture lose here!"
Beside him, Huang Que let out a long breath of relief.
The disciples of the Seven Peaks also breathed sighs of relief.
They had already prepared themselves for Xu Taiping's defeat and were ready to risk their lives to rescue him. Unexpectedly, just as Eldest Senior Sister Jiang Zhi had said, their Junior