Below the arena, the disciples of Evergreen Valley's lineage were all stunned.
It was not as though Evergreen Valley had no disciples who practiced swordsmanship. It was simply that their lineage's primary cultivation art, the "Evergreen True Art," offered very little boost to attack power. Even those who cultivated sword arts only used them as supplementary techniques and would not delve too deeply into them.
Someone like Wang Shouzhe, who seriously cultivated swordsmanship and attacked with such ferocity, was practically as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns. Some of the younger disciples had never even seen such a thing before.
However, Mu Yuanbai was ultimately a powerful expert at the third level of the Spirit Platform Realm. No matter how fierce Wang Shouzhe's Sword Qi was, injuring him with a single strike would be difficult.
His figure swayed, and in an instant, he drifted away as lightly as a fallen leaf, barely avoiding that streak of Sword Qi.
The Sword Qi grazed past him and struck the arena.
"Riiip!"
The Sword Qi sliced open the arena floor as easily as a knife cutting through butter, instantly carving a long trench into the stone platform.
Such power made Mu Yuanbai suck in a cold breath.
"Profound Qi Body Protection!"
How could he dare slack off in the slightest? He immediately used a secret technique of his sect.
Thick Profound Qi burst forth from within him, billowing his clothes and sending his sleeves fluttering.
A pale-white energy gathered, forming a layer of nearly tangible Profound Qi Body Protection around him in the blink of an eye, as though he had donned a suit of energy armor.
In terms of pure defensive power, this layer of Mystic Gang was far inferior to the Wood Spirit Shield, nor did it possess the endlessly