Seated opposite him, Prefect Liu Chuxuan of the Nine Prefectures spoke with even greater excitement:
"To raise Qingxuan's Fire Dragon Sword to such power is practically to recreate a cultivation technique. This young man's talent for the sword Dao comes once in a century. If that bastard Zhou Tong hadn't interfered, Dugu Qingxiao would have joined our Nine Prefectures long ago!"
He had asked the Azure Profound Sect for him more than once, wanting to pull Dugu Qingxiao out of Qingxuan's stagnant pool, but Zhou Tong had obstructed him every time.
Huang Que, meanwhile, recalled how Dugu Qingxiao had rescued him, Chen Hao, and the others from a ring of Corpse Wraiths in the Yunmeng Marsh Secret Realm that year.
"Yes, among the disciples of his generation, who can compare to Dugu Qingxiao in either temperament or talent? If Qingxuan hadn't held him back, he would probably have made a name for himself in the other Several Heavens long ago."
Huang Que spoke bitterly.
Yet Xu Taiping could not feel excited at the sight of this strike, for having seen the Divine Sense Qingxiao had left behind, he knew very well how it had come about.
His Second Senior Brother, Dugu Qingxiao, had been forced to develop this strike while facing hundreds of Corpse Wraiths after the other cultivators in Fallen Longyuan betrayed and gravely wounded him.
During those days trapped there, Dugu Qingxiao had gnawed on rotting animal carcasses and eaten dirt from the ground to replenish his blood Qi. He had even considered gnawing on the bodies of Corpse Wraiths.
Even in those circumstances, Second Senior Brother had kept repeating, "Stay alive," and "I have to stay alive," striking those Corpse Wraiths with his sword again and again while constantly refining his sword moves.
This move, "Fury Lotus,"