This Sword Strike Is to Guard Against Arrogance and Impatience, Artifact Refining Grandmaster Gu Qingming

In the young man's eyes,

Gu Xuanjin, his junior, was far too arrogant!

Perhaps, with the help of a trump card, he could withstand a move or two from an expert at the first or second heaven of the Quasi-Emperor realm.

Yet that had made him conceited enough to think he could contend with every Quasi-Emperor-level expert!

So the young man prepared to teach his junior a lesson and make him rein himself in a little.

After all, a Peak Quasi-Emperor was still a Quasi-Emperor, so it wasn't exactly cheating.

At that moment,

Gu Xuanjin felt as though he stood at the center of a boundless sea of swords,

engulfed by endless, razor-sharp Sword Qi.

Gu Xuanjin saw that this ancestor intended to take him down a peg.

But he didn't mind.

Arrogance required strength, and he happened to have it!

Beside Gu Xuanjin,

the void trembled, and the sword Dao roared.

Vast, boundless silver-white Sword Qi surged into being from the void.

Its domineering, razor-sharp force seemed ready to tear heaven and earth apart and shatter the cosmos!

The snowy-white sea of swords churned violently, trying to grind the silver-white Sword Qi to nothing!

But the silver-white Sword Qi refused to be outdone.

Like furious dragons roaring and crying out in contention, it too ground away at the snowy-white Sword Qi that filled the sky.

In an instant,

the two terrifyingly sharp forces stood evenly matched, destroying and dispersing one another!

The next moment,

the immortal weapon in the young man's hand, the Abyssal Blowing Snow, bloomed with pure, flawless snowy-white divine light.

The sword Dao surged around him, and the shrill whistle of swords cutting through the air echoed ceaselessly.

Endless power gathered into a snowy-white sword beam.

The slightest sharpness spilling from it was more than heaven and earth could bear, carving cracks through the void.

Gazing at Gu Xuanjin,

the young man shouted, "Little fellow, watch closely. This sword strike is to guard against arrogance and impatience!"

Then he slashed with his sword. Heaven and earth lost their color, and all things fell silent!

In Gu Xuanjin's eyes,

the snowy-white sword beam, originally four or five feet long, suddenly became a heaven-cleaving greatsword that spanned heaven and earth.

The world crumbled, and all things were pulverized!

Its world-destroying might made souls tremble and shattered hearts and gallbladders!

A single wisp of the Sword Qi swirling around it was enough to kill an ordinary Peak Quasi-Emperor and extinguish their Dao.

Clang-

A sword cry rang out across heaven and earth!

Gu Xuanjin raised his hand.

Countless rays of silver-white light gathered before him.

In the blink of an eye,

they had formed a silver-white divine sword ablaze with divine radiance!

It was ethereal and sacred, with an endless edge,

and radiated a presence that made hearts palpitate.

Sensing that terrifying presence,

the young man in the distance was somewhat surprised.

His junior seemed far stronger than he had imagined!

The next second,

heaven and earth abruptly changed, and winds and clouds surged.

A terrifying vision of immortals falling appeared in the void!

The silver-white divine sword tore across the sky.

Bearing the boundless heavenly might to pulverize everything, it met the snowy-white, heaven-severing greatsword!

Boom-

It was as though two immortals had each hurled a longsword.

The swords collided with a crash.

In an instant,

the explosion resounded through the clouds,

giving rise to countless earthshaking phenomena.

Heaven and earth shook and roared, countless layers of the void shattered, and endless laws were annihilated.

Gods and Devils wailed, and immortals and buddhas fell!

The scene was astonishing and utterly shocking!

The terrifying residual force swept outward like a world-ending storm!

The places where Gu Xuanjin and the young ancestor stood were both destroyed.

Between heaven and earth,

silver-white Sword Qi raged in every direction, while snowy-white sword light blotted out the sky and sun.

The boundless intent of sharpness resembled a river flowing through the nine heavens,

rolling and surging in mighty waves!

But after the two divine swords remained locked in a stalemate for a few breaths,

Gu Xuanjin's silver-white divine sword proved superior.

It smashed the heaven-cleaving greatsword apart!

Amid brilliant heavenly might and an endless edge, it slashed down with a thunderous crash!

Its might was so great that it seemed capable of wiping out everything and destroying all that existed!

The young man discovered, somewhat awkwardly,

that he couldn't block this sword strike!

He had no choice but to release the suppression on his own strength.

In an instant, a mysterious, terrifying immortal Dao presence spread out.

The young man casually waved a hand.

Gu Xuanjin's incomparably mighty silver-white divine sword vanished into nothingness.

"I underestimated you, little fellow."

"You're only at the Heaven-Reaching Realm, yet you can unleash such power."

"It's simply unimaginable!"

There was some shock on the young man's face, but even more gratification and satisfaction.

"It seems you really do have the ability to wield the Abyssal Blowing Snow."

Having earned his ancestor's approval,

Gu Xuanjin merely smiled faintly.

The young man glanced at his body, which had already begun to turn illusory.

"The power of this strand of my divine sense is nearly exhausted."

"It's time for you to return."

As his words fell,

he left a mark on Gu Xuanjin

so he could save his life in a moment of danger.

After all, Gu Xuanjin was his own junior, and since he could look after him now, he naturally wouldn't hold back.

In the blink of an eye,

Gu Xuanjin's surroundings abruptly changed, and he found himself back in the sword tomb.

The vast expanse of snow and ice was gone.

Only the young man's voice still echoed in Gu Xuanjin's ears.

"Little fellow, I don't think it'll be long before we meet in the Immortal Realm."

Beside Gu Xuanjin,

the snowy-white, cold immortal sword Abyssal Blowing Snow floated quietly.

After putting it away,

he looked at the last sword beside him, a cyan immortal sword named Azure Clouds Reflecting Shadows.

Leaving an immortal sword like this here to gather dust was clearly a waste.

Although Gu Xuanjin no longer needed it,

it would come in handy when setting up the Nine-Bend Hell-Burying Sword Formation Diagram.

So Gu Xuanjin pocketed this immortal weapon as well.

Unfortunately, activating the Nine-Bend Hell-Burying Sword Formation Diagram required nine longswords of the same grade.

Afterward,

he first selected eight suitable longswords at the extreme Dao imperial weapon grade.

He planned to go out and have an ancestor of the Edge Refining Hall refine them into immortal weapons to assist the sword formation diagram.

Although it would take a long time,

it was enough to finish refining them before the Immortal Ancient Battlefield opened.

Then Gu Xuanjin selected another nine longswords at the extreme Dao imperial weapon grade.

For now, he would use these nine longswords to activate the Nine-Bend Hell-Burying Sword Formation Diagram.

Gu Xuanjin transformed into a streak of bright white sword light, crossed the void, and left the sword tomb.

Atop a divine mountain to the left of the Dao Evolution Hall

stood a vast complex of buildings, solemn and imposing, with a grand, ancient simplicity.

Tribulation clouds filled the sky above, unleashing fierce lightning tribulations.

But surprisingly,

those undergoing the tribulations

were not Gu Clan disciples, but sentient divine weapons!

This was where the Gu Clan refined all manner of magical treasures.

The Edge Refining Hall.

A streak of silver-white sword light swept swiftly in from the distant sky, carrying an edge that filled the heavens.

Like a sword immortal descending to the mortal world,

it abruptly landed at the central and most spacious and magnificent main hall of the Edge Refining Hall.

The profound sharpness faded, revealing Gu Xuanjin's noble, transcendent figure.

The Gu Clan disciples guarding the entrance

looked on with worship and excitement, like fervent fans chasing after a star.

They all bowed respectfully at once. "Greetings, Lord Divine Son!"

One of them then led Gu Xuanjin into the main hall of the Edge Refining Hall.

Inside the hall,

numerous profound laws and a vast immortal might filled the air.

All kinds of magical treasures floated on every side.

And at the very center

was a white-haired ancestor with the youthful face of a man in his thirties.

He was Gu Qingming, the man in charge of the Gu Clan's Edge Refining Hall!

He was proficient in both alchemy and artifact refining.

His attainments in artifact refining were extraordinary.

He was one of the five strongest artifact refining grandmasters in the world.

Moreover, he was a peerless powerhouse who had stepped halfway into the domain of the immortal Dao.