Rather than retreat, Yun Che advanced. His Sun-Moon Immortal Phenomenon instantly spread a yin-yang shield before him and took the saber strike head-on. A thunderous boom rang out, filling the air with dust. The blade qi blasted a crater several yards wide into the shield, yet failed to leave even a white mark on its surface.
The bushy-bearded man's pupils contracted sharply. Clearly, he had not expected this boy, who appeared to be only at the sixth turn, to withstand his full-powered strike.
"You have some skill. No wonder you dared kill members of my Soul-Merging Immortal Sect."
"You really do talk too much."
Before Yun Che finished speaking, he had already teleported in front of the bushy-bearded man. The Immortal-Splitting Saber slashed down viciously, wrapped in the power of three immortal phenomena, while alchemy fire swept toward his opponent's chest with dragon breath.
The bushy-bearded man hastily raised his saber to block. The deafening clash of metal numbed his arms, and he stumbled back five or six steps before regaining his footing. The webbing between his thumb and forefinger had already split and begun to bleed.
Shocked and furious, he had never imagined that an Eighth-Turn Profound Immortal like himself would come off worse in a head-on clash of sabers. With an angry roar, he summoned his immortal phenomenon, a pitch-black Mountain-Splitting Giant Elephant, which bellowed as it charged at Yun Che.
"Attack together."
At the bushy-bearded man's command, the remaining twenty-odd Soul-Merging Immortal Sect disciples immediately formed a sword formation. Countless streams of sword qi wove into a net and bore down on Yun Che from every direction, joining the Mountain-Splitting Giant Elephant in a pincer attack.
Yun Che chuckled, and his three immortal phenomena appeared at once. The Dragon-Controlling Immortal Phenomenon opened its mouth and unleashed an