Silence fell.
As Li Xian spoke those words, the disciples watching swiftly fell silent.
Everyone stared blankly at Li Xian on the Sword-Dueling Platform, disbelief filling their eyes.
One against two!?
Facing the first- and third-ranked disciples on the Outer Sect Disciple Ranking, he actually wanted to fight one against two!?
Yun Tiankuo, already burning with rage at Li Xian's failure to see the bigger picture, yet forcibly keeping his emotions in check because his strength fell short, seemed to ignite and explode at that moment.
"Li Xian, you arrogant fool!"
"If you want to dig your own grave, we'll oblige!"
With fierce shouts, both leaped into the air and landed on the Sword-Dueling Platform.
The moment they landed, fist and sword struck together.
They gave Li Xian no room whatsoever to change his mind.
It was hard to tell whether they had been riding a tiger with no way to dismount, unsure how to end this, and seized upon Li Xian's wild claim of fighting "one against two" to launch their attack, or whether his words had truly provoked them, their killing intent boiling as they sought to kill him as quickly as possible and wash away their humiliation.
"Die!"
True Astral Force condensed.
"Good!"
Li Xian answered with a shout.
Facing the force of the punch Yun Tiankuo, whose fists subdued mountains and rivers, unleashed in his frontal assault, he neither dodged nor evaded, but raised his fist to meet it.
He did not use the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Technique enhanced by Seven Stars Pointing at Fate, nor invoke the Heaven and Earth Sword Canon's killing move to turn his fist into a sword. Relying solely on his limit-breaking state to better unleash his True Astral Force, he pierced precisely through every feint in Yun Tiankuo's fist technique