Seen from afar.
The entire Golden Scale Platform was shrouded in dense mist, apart from the Third Prince, who was held aloft by a pillar of water.
This was the Mist Concealment Technique that the Spirit Bone Stele had derived from the Mist Borrowing Technique.
The Third Prince probed with his Divine Soul and discovered that he actually could not sense any aura within the dense mist. Unable to sense the auras inside, he naturally had no way to locate Xu Taiping's hiding place.
"Then I'll leave you nowhere to hide!"
The corners of the Third Prince's mouth lifted.
Then he curled his sword fingers, and thousands of flying swords immediately scattered, arranging themselves in neat rows and columns above the Golden Scale Platform, like pieces filling a chessboard.
"Fall!"
Once the flying swords were in formation, the Third Prince thrust his sword fingers downward. With a boom, the thousands of neatly arrayed flying swords plunged down together.
Whoosh!
Almost the instant the word "fall" left the Third Prince's mouth, a figure burst from the dense mist at incredible speed.
It was naturally Xu Taiping.
As Xu Taiping broke through the mist, a searing fireball was rapidly condensing at his fingertip.
And his finger was aimed directly at the Third Prince ahead.
It had to be said that both his choice of timing and the flames gathering into a fireball at his fingertip sent a shock through everyone watching.
"Is that the Heavenly Fire Finger?"
"It's no ordinary Heavenly Fire Finger. It's the Heavenly Fire Finger powered by the Great Sun Golden Flame Art!"
The cultivators in the surrounding stands soon sensed the aura of that fire origin, and cries of astonishment rose around the arena.
But the Third Prince seemed to have anticipated that Xu Taiping would strike at