"Die!"
Lu Ren held nothing back. Drawing on the last of his Saint Body's power, he unleashed Annihilation God-Slaying Sword, hacking at Hun Mie Xian again and again.
Hun Mie Xian fought desperately to block him. He no longer had the strength to defeat Lu Ren head-on; he could only hold out until Lu Ren collapsed from exhaustion.
But as they clashed, their wounds grew worse. The agony had left both their minds hazy.
One conviction kept them going: they had to kill the other and end the threat for good.
The ground around them was stained scarlet.
At first, their swords rang out violently with every clash. As the fight dragged on, the sound grew fainter and fainter.
"At this rate, they'll both die!"
"But... who dares go near them? Who knows what power they might unleash?"
Fear gripped everyone watching.
The battle had shaken them to the core. Even if the two could no longer fight and simply lay there, few would dare approach.
Suddenly, a fierce light flashed in Lu Ren's unfocused eyes. A trace of sword-soul power gathered within the Annihilation God-Slaying Sword, and he brought it down on Hun Mie Xian.
Half-kneeling on the ground, Hun Mie Xian raised his sword to block, only to feel an irresistible force surge toward him.
At their peak, that force might have been negligible. Now it knocked the Heavenly Nether God-Slaying Sword straight from his hand. The Annihilation God-Slaying Sword followed through and slashed across his chest.
"Aah!"
Hun Mie Xian screamed and flew backward. The Annihilation God-Slaying Sword had torn a huge gash across his chest, laying flesh bare and severing several ribs. He lay motionless, his fate unknown.
"Hun Mie Xian is dead! We won!"
After a long, stunned silence, cheers erupted from the Xuanhuang Alliance.