Raging waves surged and rolled amid fierce winds and torrential rain.
Whoosh!
A gleam of sword light pierced the curtain of rain. The sword's shadow swept through the air like sudden thunder and lightning, its dancing light already too fast for the naked eye to follow, like a three-foot dragon darting through the storm.
Feeling the unusual forces transmitted from the space at either end, Lian Youming moved as his heart willed and turned as his thoughts directed. His feet raced and his sword swung, constantly drawing on his muscles as he sought to merge these two forces into one within himself.
His feet circled and shifted in the Dragon Swimming Step Technique of Bagua Palm, while his spine employed Dragon Form Bone-Searching, moving like a great dragon, intent on subduing the vast ocean and commanding its overwhelming waters.
From afar, he resembled an azure dragon soaring into the sky to clash with the wind and rain, yet when his inner strength erupted, it was the supremely hard and fierce thunder force.
These two unusual forces, which should never have been able to connect, now used Lian Youming's entire frame as their medium. Like heaven joining earth and yin meeting yang, yet also like fire colliding with water, they produced all manner of strange changes within him.
What had the first person in this world to discover the transformations of inner strength thought at the instant they grasped the principles of heaven and glimpsed the mysteries of the universe?
Lian Youming did not know, but he felt he would soon experience it himself.
He had to make these surging waters serve him.
Yet why had a savage killing aura appeared without warning amid the storm?
It was coming so fast.
Rather than alarmed, Lian Youming was delighted.
His opponent had