Chen Fuye's brows furrowed tightly, and strands of Sword Qi drifted around him of their own accord.
His memories seemed to be pulled back to that battle nearly a thousand years ago.
Just beyond the cliffs of the Sunken Forbidden Grounds, Xiang Kuang had stopped him while he was in a state of demonic possession.
Both were prodigies who had stepped into the Spirit Transformation Extreme and comprehended and grasped a trace of Origin power. They had fought for years on the outskirts of the Forbidden Grounds, each reaching the state closest to his limits in his entire life.
By then, their clashes were no longer driven by power at the ordinary Spirit Transformation level.
Every move was infused with the power of their respective Origin Great Daos. In that state, both of them had already sensed the existence of the Origin Great Dao.
It could even be said that they had truly touched the threshold of the Mahayana Sacred Realm.
After Xiang Kuang used the Golden Crow Token to draw out the Golden Crow True Heart Flame in the end, he stepped halfway into the Mahayana Sacred Realm. Only then, with the might of the Sage Realm, had he crippled Chen Fuye's arms.
It was that very Golden Crow True Heart Flame that burned away all the Demonic Qi he could no longer suppress inside himself.
It allowed him to perfectly control the power of the Heavenly Demon and truly attain the Sword Demon Dao, but it also brought him to the point of utter exhaustion.
He had thought Xiang Kuang would kill him, but he had never expected that after winning, Xiang Kuang would shed his former ferocity and arrogance. Not only did he use Pills to keep Chen Fuye alive, he also built a stone hut beneath