"What was that?"
Chu Ming came to her senses atop the wooden wall.
She could not believe what had happened. Her eyes remained bewildered as she murmured, "Just what kind of divine ability or cultivation art was that?"
"That was indeed the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber!"
Qin Xiyan half closed her eyes and sighed softly. "He has mastered the Divine-Intent Saber Heart!"
"That's impossible!"
Chu Ming's face turned deathly pale. She felt all the strength draining from her body and could barely remain standing.
"Doesn't the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber require at least the third-rank lower stage just to begin? He was only at the fifth grade a month ago! How could he cultivate the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber?"
Even if Chu Xisheng's body and Primordial Spirit were strong enough to bear it, surely he still needed to reach the fourth rank?
Wasn't the very reason those powers had pushed this upheaval forward now to deal the Formless Divine Sect a crushing blow before Chu Xisheng mastered the Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber?
"I don't know."
Qin Xiyan gazed at the youth suspended seven hundred zhang in the air, his divine might imperious beyond compare, and shook her head with a complicated expression. "But facts are facts."
Her heart sank into icy depths.
Since Chu Xisheng had already mastered the Divine-Intent Saber Heart,
her earlier decision to hold back had undoubtedly been the height of foolishness.
Her position would also become very awkward.
The crisis facing the Formless Divine Sect had been resolved, which meant that her and Chu Ming's importance would fall another notch.
At the northern wall, Lu Luanli's face had taken on a somewhat dark, greenish cast. "The Divine-Intent Death-Touching Saber. This fellow just keeps getting stronger."
At first, she had been delighted, happy for Chu Xisheng.
But then Lu Luanli remembered