You Were Not Entirely Useless Either

Li Tianxing's brows were tightly furrowed, and his earlier confidence had long since vanished without a trace.

At the beginning of the exchange, he could injure Shen Yun with a hundred swords, then it gradually became fifty swords, twenty swords...

But now, the two of them had actually reached a deadlock. To him, the process of watching his advantage be gnawed away inch by inch was nothing short of a nightmare of gradual descent.

"How can his cultivation increase out of thin air? Just how did he manage this?"

Li Tianxing's gaze burned brightly. His divine sense spread like a net, sweeping over the battlefield millions of times in an instant, yet he still could not discern the slightest mystery.

Breaking through in the midst of battle and using heavenly tribulations to slay enemies were things he had long since grown accustomed to. He had even created such feats himself several times, forging an illustrious reputation in the Upper Realm.

Yet a bizarre situation like Shen Yun's—where his strength continued to rise without warning or disturbance—was still something he had never heard of.

Swish—

Just as he became distracted, a streak of Sword Qi suddenly appeared without a sound. It was so fast that it left no trace, yet it weighed as heavily as a thousand jun. Condensing the True Meaning of Unfettered Freedom, it shot straight toward his face.

"The True Meaning of Freedom?!"

Li Tianxing's whole body shook violently. Upon sensing that familiar aura of laws, his mind became a tangled mess, and even his Dao Heart began to waver.

By the time he reacted and prepared to raise his sword to block, he was already half a beat too slow.

Rip!

With a crisp sound, his right palm was pierced by the Sword Qi. In an instant,