The so-called ultimate blade strike at his current realm.
It did not simply mean a full-powered strike after raising his cultivation to the Spirit Refining Realm, but a strike that, after driving his Qi and Blood and True Essence to their fullest, incorporated the Great Sun Golden Flame Art, the Power of Lightning Flash, the power of the Blade Domain, and even Heaven-Opening Force.
"Boom!..."
Almost as soon as Xu Taiping took his blade stance and roused his Qi and Blood and True Essence, a seven-star Sword Shadow tore through the air toward him, seemingly about to pierce straight through his body.
"Shing!"
At that hairbreadth moment, Xu Taiping drew his blade.
At the same instant, his body grew to twenty feet tall, scales covered his skin, and scorching Great Sun Golden Flame rose from his long blade, with sparks of lightning sizzling within the flames.
"Roar!..."
"Roooar!..."
"Chirr!..."
As Xu Taiping slashed toward the sword light, dragon roars, crane cries, and cicada calls erupted together.
"Boom-!"
In the end, all those sounds were drowned out by the piercing shrieks of streak after streak of Blade Qi tearing through the air.
In a mere instant, before the initially imposing seven-star Sword Shadow could even touch the blade shadow Xu Taiping had slashed out, it collapsed with a thunderous crash.
But Xu Taiping's Blade Force did not dissipate. After a slight pause, it transformed into blade phantoms as thin as cicada wings, whirling outward with the sweep of the long blade in his hand.
In an instant, those countless, densely packed blade phantoms scattered outward with Xu Taiping at their center, like a flock of birds startled into flight in the woods.
"Rumble..."
Countless blasts of Blade Qi tearing through the air rang out together, ultimately becoming the rolling thunder of