The black flood dragon lunged at Chu Kuangren, its billowing, savage baleful aura surging like a tsunami. An ordinary cultivator would have been scared pissless.
But Chu Kuangren was no ordinary man. He swept Kunwu through the air.
An incomparably sharp blast of Sword Qi surged out and struck the flood dragon, shattering countless scales. Blood gushed like a spring.
"Roar..."
A wretched howl rang out. The intense pain stoked the black flood dragon's savage baleful aura, and it opened its mouth to spew a black torrent of Spiritual Power.
Chu Kuangren unleashed Floating Light and Shadow. His figure vanished from the spot like a streak of light, and when he reappeared, he was already on the flood dragon's right.
He raised his hand and delivered another slash!
And this slash struck precisely where the previous one had landed.
With a ripping sound, flesh tore apart.
The vicious black flood dragon was cleaved clean in two and crashed back into the lake with a boom. Waves churned, and its blood stained more than half the lake red.
On this day.
On the fiftieth floor of the Sword Tower, Chu Kuangren slew a vicious flood dragon by the lakeside.
"Ah, what a shame. No one saw how dashing I looked." Chu Kuangren sighed, then returned the Kunwu Sword to its sheath.
Just then, a golden light shot out of the black flood dragon's corpse and transformed into a fist-sized pearl covered in Dao patterns.
"This is..."
Slightly surprised, Chu Kuangren reached out and caught the pearl.
An understanding immediately welled up within him.
"This is the Sword Tower Core. Once I refine it, I can take complete control of this Sword Tower." Chu Kuangren's eyes lit up.
Without delay, he began refining the Sword Tower Core.
Outside the Sword Tower.