"Impossible! How could he have mastered a blade domain at his age?"
In the Guangling Pavilion's stands.
After hearing Mu Yun's startled cry beside her, Mu Yuchen shook her head vehemently, unwilling to believe it.
"This must be an illusion technique Xu Taiping is using to put on a show!"
She spoke with utter certainty.
But the next moment, as Xu Taiping raised the long saber in his hand, the heavens' force throughout the Golden Scale Pool was drawn into his blade force with a boom.
That oppressive sensation, as though she stood amid a mountain of blades and a sea of fire, instantly robbed Mu Yuchen of speech.
Then a blade cry like a crane's call rang out explosively. The crane shadow that had been circling Xu Taiping and the True Martial Great Emperor's phantom abruptly merged into Xu Taiping's saber, finally becoming a snowbright blade shadow that slashed toward the True Martial Great Emperor's phantom along with the saber in Xu Taiping's hand.
Whoosh!
Amid the piercing sound of air being torn apart, a dazzling blade mark appeared before the True Martial Great Emperor's phantom. Then, with a boom, countless blade shadows burst from the phantom's back like feathers.
In the space of a single breath, the True Martial Great Emperor's phantom burst apart with a bang.
"Forgive your disciple's disrespect."
Xu Taiping bowed solemnly to the True Martial Great Emperor's dissolving phantom.
For True Martial Heaven cultivators, whatever sect they belonged to, they had to honor the True Martial Great Emperor as their master.
Then Xu Taiping raised his saber again and pointed its edge at Ji Ye.
Ji Ye was likewise enveloped in his eight-zhang blade domain. As the True Martial Great Emperor's phantom shattered, all the strings on his ancient qin snapped once more, and