"Cast the Fearless Seal, and even facing a Demon God, you shall know no fear."
When he severed the head of that Demon Venerable Realm Whale Demon, Xu Taiping finally truly understood what Ancient Buddha Kasyapa had meant.
This fearlessness came not from his mind, but from the power the Fearless Seal granted him, equal to that of the Whale Demon before him.
Fearlessness without that power to back it up was called ignorance.
Boom!
But before Xu Taiping could land, a flying sword formed from ice crystals came tearing through the air.
Then, with a bang, the sword broke through the Azure Luan Ring's protective gang wind. Fortunately, the Cloud-Riding Art's protective Profound Ice Armor appeared in time to block it.
Even so, the force of the sword sent him crashing heavily into the city gate.
He looked up and saw that the one wielding the sword was none other than Devil Master Jiao Ling.
With a whoosh, Devil Master Jiao Ling flickered and appeared before Xu Taiping, thrusting her sword at his neck.
The seemingly unremarkable thrust easily pierced the wind wall Xu Taiping had summoned again with the Azure Luan Ring.
Bang!
Only when he drove the Cloud-Riding Art with all his strength and summoned the Cloud-Within Armor, which only appeared upon cultivating the art to its third layer, did he block Devil Master Jiao Ling's sword.
The Cloud-Riding Art was a qi refining method the Spirit Bone Stele had extrapolated from the Rosy Dawn Formula he cultivated.
Upon cultivating it to the third layer, one would obtain a suit of Cloud-Within Armor. It looked like armor formed from a thin layer of cloud and mist, but was actually incomparably hard.
Of course, under normal circumstances, with Xu Taiping's current cultivation, the Cloud-Within Armor could not have