These six Fine Steel Sabers had been his biggest expense for this match.
"I'm just afraid you won't even get a chance to draw them."
His hand resting on the sword hilt at his waist, Ji Wuyou still smiled at Xu Taiping with narrowed eyes.
"Are you both ready?"
The examiner's voice rang out just then.
"I'm ready."
Xu Taiping nodded, then pressed one hand to the saber hilt at his waist and clenched the other into a fist, his right leg in a bow stance and his body leaning slightly forward.
"I'm ready too."
Ji Wuyou nodded with a narrow-eyed smile, forming a Sword Finger with one hand and a Seal Hand Sign with the other. The longsword at his waist trembled in its scabbard with a humming buzz.
"Then let the match begin!"
The examiner withdrew from the arena and announced loudly.
"Clang!"
"Shing! ..."
Almost the instant his words fell, a sword cry and the sound of a saber leaving its scabbard erupted together.
Immediately afterward, a crescent of blade light shaped like a full moon crossed paths with a flying sword.
Xu Taiping used Full Moon to evade Ji Wuyou's flying sword and successfully reached his back. But the saber in his hand could not withstand the impact of their clash and shattered with a crack.
"Shing!"
Already prepared for this, Xu Taiping unhesitatingly circulated the true qi within him and drew another saber from his waist.
"Boom!"
Explosive blade qi formed a blade shadow more than ten feet long, cleaving straight toward Ji Wuyou's back.
Seven-Kill Blade, Three Kills, Steel-Breaking.
From the sixth kill, Full Moon, to the breaking of his saber and drawing another, and then to this third kill, the entire sequence flowed in one unbroken breath, like drifting clouds and running water,