"Die!"
Seeing that Lu Ren had no intention of dodging, killing intent blazed in Xuan Hou's eyes. The lightning sword in his hand erupted with fierce light, tearing through the void as he slashed at Lu Ren.
Yet the strike never reached Lu Ren. It stopped three feet from him.
A surge of Sword Qi had risen around Lu Ren, forming a protective barrier.
The entire immortal realm of the Third Heaven fell silent as a graveyard.
Xuan Hou's sword struck the protective Sword Qi, but for a moment, he could not shake it.
"This is..."
"Isn't that the protective Sword Qi Jiang Huanyu formed through Sword Dao? Lu Ren has already figured it out?"
The elders were stunned.
The heavenly talents found it just as unbelievable. After fighting Jiang Huanyu only once, Lu Ren had learned his protective Sword Qi.
"That boy's talent for Sword Dao is monstrous too!"
Jiang Huanyu sighed with admiration. "This battle is his true test of mastery!"
"How is this possible?"
Lightning kept bursting from Xuan Hou's sword. Laden with a terrifying aura of calamity, it battered the protective Sword Qi before him.
Crack, crack!
The protective Sword Qi shattered, but guided by Lu Ren's Sword Dao, it became over a hundred streams of Sword Qi that swept toward Xuan Hou.
The streams pierced the void and gathered into a fearsome torrent that slammed toward Xuan Hou.
Bang, bang, bang, bang!
The Sword Qi struck Xuan Hou, sending him flying sideways.
Just then, a figure shot out from behind Lu Ren. It was the mirror image he had created long ago.
The mirror image possessed seventy percent of Lu Ren's strength at his peak, making it stronger than Lu Ren was now.
It charged straight at Xuan Hou. A razor-sharp Chaos Sword Light tore