"Swish, swish, swish!..."
No sooner had Ziyan finished speaking than Xu Taiping's seven afterimages abruptly transformed into seven dazzling streaks of blade light.
Those seven dazzling streaks delivered seven consecutive slashes, each striking Lu Yuan and cutting apart all the blade qi around him.
"Swish!"
Then the seven afterimages abruptly merged into one.
Xu Taiping appeared above Lu Yuan's head, gripping his long saber in both hands.
Boom!
Without hesitation, he slashed down.
Bang!
Though Lu Yuan exerted all his strength, he still failed to block this Life-Seizing strike and was sent flying backward.
As he flew, his protective gang qi was sliced open, and a gaping wound appeared across his chest.
"What a thrill!"
In the end, however, he managed to halt himself just before falling off the platform, then let out a roar.
Immediately, "flames" rose around him once more. Gripping the hilt of his treasured saber with both hands, he shouted:
"Blazing Flame Slash!"
Boom!
The moment his words fell, the fluctuations of his aura abruptly surged like a tide.
Streams of true qi resembling "flames" burst outward, then poured entirely into the treasured saber in his hands.
"Clang!"
Amid a piercing metallic tremor, Lu Yuan became one with his saber, abruptly transforming into a blade shadow more than ten zhang long and sweeping horizontally toward Xu Taiping ahead.
Boom!
The terrifying blade shadow, over ten zhang long, swept across the platform.
"Swish!"
But just then, Xu Taiping and his long saber transformed together into a spinning streak of silver blade light. Like a throwing knife cleaving through the air, he shot across the entire platform, breaking through Lu Yuan's flame-hot blade qi and slashing into him.
Bang!
Caught completely off guard, Lu Yuan took the strike square in the chest.
Crack!
The heart-guarding mirror he relied