The East Sea Sword Forge's A-grade swords truly stood unrivaled beneath heaven. For the first time since Xin Cang, Pei Ye enjoyed that sharpness again: it sliced off his enemy's entire head without resistance.
Chapter 700: Unraveling the Knotted Heart
Zhu Gaoyang reached out a hand. The boy pressed against it in midair, borrowed its force, and shot toward the Feng River Envoy.
Zhu Gaoyang wheeled back through the air, Jade Tiger ringing clearly in his hand. For the first time, he met Yang Juhu's heavy spear head-on.
He fell short in that collision of strength, but the next instant, like an ape climbing a tree, he swept up the eighteen-foot shaft, raising his sword to cut straight at Yang Juhu's throat.
Yang Juhu roared. His spear whipped back like a spirit snake, while his left fist slammed into the blade.
Their eyes crossed, but Yang Juhu felt no force behind that stroke. Zhu Gaoyang's sword tilted aside, opening a bloody line across his shoulder. Only after passing his body did the stroke truly strike.
Descending at a slant, the sword fell into empty space. Its path was straight, neither long nor short, simple as a bead, lustrous as jade.
A crisp stroke, and a spray of blood flew from the Feng River Envoy.
Zhu Gaoyang swept past Yang Juhu like a flying crane. The boy had only just yielded the sword's position when Zhu Gaoyang loomed before the Feng River Envoy again. If that last stroke had been a jade bead, this one was a heavy axe. With a furious shout, he gathered Profound Qi upon his sword and smashed the Feng River Envoy, who held his blade across himself, heavily downward.
Two powers surged within Zhu Gaoyang: the True Profound he had withdrawn from the [Five Viscera Fence],