The sword measured three feet and three inches, its body black as ink, with blood-colored patterns faintly flowing along its edge. It was a peerless divine weapon forged from Liu Lei's mystic bone and heavenly meteoric iron!
Xu Lou was Dragon-Slaying City's Sword-Bearing Master. Every Sword-Bearing Master also served as the city's chief sword instructor, its foremost swordsman!
The city secretly passed down a sixth-tier sword technique called the "Nine Chapters of Heaven's Punishment." It was a closely guarded secret of Dragon-Slaying City, its origins mysterious. Supposedly, Liu Lei had learned it on Mount Kunlun.
Each chapter of this sword art corresponded to a natural phenomenon-thunder, lightning, torrential rain, raging wind, hail, frost and snow, earthfire, landslides, and tsunamis. With the bearing of a sovereign, its wielder meted out punishment on Heaven's behalf, slaughtering every evil dragon in the world.
For this secret technique, Xu Lou had willingly sold himself to Dragon-Slaying City, just for a glimpse of that unparalleled art!
Nor had he disappointed them. He had become the first Sword-Bearing Master with an outside surname in Dragon-Slaying City's history.
Now, without a word or warning.
Xu Lou vanished from where he stood.
The next instant, he appeared thirty feet in front of Li Lingkui.
Sword light slashed down like a bolt of silk!
A trace of solemnity flashed through Li Lingkui's eyes.
So fast!
He crossed his palms, shifting from hardness to softness as he unleashed Huai River Whirlpool!
This move drew upon the Huai River's nine twists and eighteen bends, overcoming hardness with softness and straightness with curves. The descending sword light fell into his palm force, only to be diverted by its spiraling, yielding strength, grazing past Li Lingkui's shoulder!
The sword light struck the mountain wall behind him, leaving a gouge more than ten feet