After the greatsword Hu Yunting had merged with shuddered in midair for a moment, it steadied again.
Looking over again as the dust cleared, he saw Yue Wen lying at the edge of the arena, seemingly pondering something.
His aura was subtly changing.
Alarm surged in Hu Yunting's heart. Something's wrong. Is he having an epiphany?!
An epiphany in the midst of battle was not his exclusive privilege. Yue Wen could naturally have one too. As a fellow genius who had just experienced that state himself, Hu Yunting was naturally familiar with it.
Yue Wen's previous all-out burst had nearly killed him. If Yue Wen had another epiphany, the situation might change again.
In the cultivation world, when someone encountered another person having an epiphany, they generally stood guard in silence rather than disturbing them. Hu Yunting respected public etiquette most of the time too... except in the arena.
He wheeled around, and the greatsword whistled toward Yue Wen in a vicious thrust!
He had to interrupt that epiphany!
Unfortunately, it was already too late.
Yue Wen's True Dragon Method rumbled into motion. A powerful storm of astral qi formed a vortex, spreading outward and sending rippling tremors through the air.
Hu Yunting's greatsword actually met resistance during its thrust, advancing with immense difficulty.
Feeling that surging astral qi, Hu Yunting was horrified. He knew Yue Wen had broken through to the late Astral Realm. There was nothing remarkable about that realm itself; Hu Yunting was already at the peak of the Astral Realm.
What terrified him was that Yue Wen was only in the late Astral Realm, yet his aura already possessed such spirituality.
Each stage of cultivation linked to the next. The stronger the astral qi refined by the great fire in the early stage, the stronger its