"Boom!"
Amid a blade cry mingled with a dragon roar, a golden blade shadow hundreds of zhang long followed the Water-Cutting Blade in Xu Taiping's hand, cleaving toward the approaching surge of aura.
Demon-Slaying Blade, Dragon-Slaying Form.
With his new understanding of ultimate intent, Xu Taiping's Dragon-Slaying Form at the ultimate realm had clearly grown more powerful.
"Boom!"
With a tremendous crash, Xu Taiping's Dragon-Slaying blade shadow slammed into an enormous skeletal claw shadow.
Behind that enormous skeletal claw shadow stood a white-haired elder in purple robes, his terrifying aura scattering the lightning that kept falling above the Golden Scale Platform.
"Bang!"
The blade shadow and claw shadow shattered together after colliding.
Only, the blade shadow shattered far more thoroughly, while the claw shadow merely lost half of itself.
That alone showed how formidable the purple-robed elder's cultivation was.
Had Xu Taiping struck even a fraction later, or failed to commit his full strength so decisively, he would very likely have been gravely wounded beneath that claw shadow.
The purple-robed elder clearly had not expected Xu Taiping to block his claw strike either. He hesitated briefly and did not immediately draw the long saber at his waist, which radiated a terrifying might.
By the time he prepared to act again, the voice of Qiu Shanyuan, Prefect of Youyun Prefecture, exploded like thunder above the Golden Scale Platform-
"Mystic Blade Ancestor, dare make another reckless move, and you can stay in my Golden Scale Pool as fish food!"
Beyond the indescribable majesty in his voice, the sound waves that accompanied it blasted apart all the blade qi gathered around the Mystic Blade Ancestor.
At the same time, several sharp whistles tore through the air, and four White-Robed Attendants of Youyun Prefecture, each holding a longsword, surrounded the purple-robed elder whom the