The sword light faded little by little.
Above the sky that had been torn in two, Xu Ruoshan's battered figure floated helplessly in midair.
Three Dark Yellow Ten-Thousand-Li Banners, their Dao resonance dimmed, flickered with faint halos as they supported him in the air.
A deep sword scar remained across the chest of his mountain-jade body. Scattered fragments of stone fell from his chest, turning to dust and dispersing.
"Cough, cough..."
"The Bai Cang Sword..."
"What a river of sword qi. I admit my inferiority."
Xu Ruoshan forcibly suppressed the origin power rampaging inside him, already torn apart by sword intent, and looked bleakly toward Bai Yi in the distance, who held Azure Edge loosely, seemingly without effort.
He had never imagined that one day, he would lose.
And lose so miserably.
Although he had transformed into a mountain at the last moment and barely blocked that sword strike that severed heaven and earth, the sword intent within its sword qi, faintly carrying a sense of boundless vastness, had wounded both his soul and his body.
If he did not maintain his jade body, he feared he would be unable to suppress the sword intent lingering within him.
"Sword heart..."
"So you've already touched upon the sword heart."
"My defeat was deserved."
"This... Sea-Hearing Token... can remain in your hands for a while."
Recalling the sight of that river of sword qi severing his mountain manifestation, a trace of fear flashed through Xu Ruoshan's eyes before he took the Sea-Hearing Token from his Storage Ring.
Without using origin power, he hurled it toward Bai Yi with his physical strength alone.
Immediately afterward, a Spirit Talisman flew from his waist, dissolved into specks of radiance that enveloped him, and carried him into the void, disappearing without a trace.
Bai Yi caught