Chapter 188: A Heaven-Shaking Sword Shocks All Around!
Rumble~
Boundless sword momentum blotted out the sky, and the curtain rose on the battle in an instant.
Holding a saber and a sword, Di Qinglin charged straight at Yu Huatian, seeking to engage him at close quarters.
Yu Huatian unleashed the Fourteenth Sword.
Sword qi and murderous aura hung heavy over the square, like dark clouds filling the sky. But as this sword thrust out, it suddenly parted those clouds and revealed the sunlight.
It was not warm, gentle sunlight, but a blazing sun hot enough to melt gold and stone, a sun as red as blood. Beneath it, life flourished and all things revived, as though spring had arrived.
A sword was an instrument of slaughter. Although its ultimate purpose was to kill, the Fourteenth Sword contained a thread of vitality. That thread could make an enemy lower his guard, allowing the killing blow to land.
This was the true essence of the Fourteenth Sword.
Yet its power was ultimately limited. It sufficed against ordinary Great Grandmasters, but against a top Great Grandmaster like Di Qinglin, it clearly struggled to cover every gap.
Boom!
With a tremendous crash, the sword qi vanished. Di Qinglin hurtled back a dozen yards, but he had successfully neutralized the immense power within the strike. The domain of vitality contained in the sword qi had also failed to take effect.
Though Yu Huatian had not retreated a single step, his brows furrowed slightly.
This strike had not produced the result he wanted to see.
Previously, at Tianning Temple, he had inadvertently unleashed the Fourteenth Sword. Yet that strike had been entirely different from all its previous variations. There had been neither slaughter nor vitality, only destruction and deathly stillness.
That single thrust had severely wounded