"This old fellow has a few tricks up his sleeve!"
Xu Changxing murmured, his eyes showing not fear, but intense delight.
In his previous simulations, he had learned a wealth of sword techniques for fighting other cultivators.
More than half of those techniques were meant for overcoming the strong with the weak.
Xu Changxing had originally intended to display everything he had learned against Wu Chuan.
But Wu Chuan had refused to fight him head-on, fleeing instead with evasion techniques and various spell arts.
As a result, he had had no opportunity to use those sword moves, resorting to merging his body with his sword again and again.
Now that Wu Chuan had suddenly succumbed to demonic corruption, he had given Xu Changxing a chance to "overcome the strong with the weak."
Xu Changxing's sword core seemed to sense its master's intent. It trembled gently, receiving the lightning bolts striking down from above.
True essence circulated rapidly throughout his body.
Almost instantly, lightning-aspected true essence filled every meridian in his body.
Rooted in his meridians, this lightning-aspected true essence vaguely formed a great meridian array.
This "array" had only one purpose: to stabilize his meridians so they could bear the surging sword intent pouring from his thunder sword core.
Almost the moment he finished stabilizing his meridians, the demonic dragon formed from demonic qi charged at him again.
This time, Xu Changxing neither dodged nor retreated. Instead, he pressed two fingers together and pointed at the distant dragon of demonic qi.
"Go!"
With Xu Changxing's low shout, a streak of sword light comparable to heavenly punishment surged from his body, slashing toward the dragon of demonic qi like a startling rainbow.
Rumble!
Wherever the sword light passed, thunderous rumbles rang out.
The dragon of demonic qi, which had been baring