"Waning Flower!" Lin Bai suddenly moved, like a rampaging dragon, attacking Ji Xiang with enough power to destroy the world. A chilling and solemn aura of death spread throughout the four seas and eight deserts.
A beam of bright sword light, like sunlight piercing through the darkness, dashed towards Ji Xiang’s forehead as quickly as lightning.
"Divine Power! Snow-Burying!"
As Lin Bai thrust his sword forward, without losing momentum, he immediately swept across with another sword.
Two swords appeared at once, immediately releasing a force that could decimate everything in sight, leveling everything below the cliff.
Faced with Lin Bai’s fierce twin swords, Ji Xiang’s face remained stoic.
Ji Xiang swung the Demon Sword with a single hand, and the blood-red eyes on the blade suddenly emitted a startling blood-red light!
The Demon Sword angrily cleaved down.
The crimson sword qi collided with Lin Bai’s twin swords, blocking them both simultaneously.
In an instant, after blocking Lin Bai’s twin swords, Ji Xiang surged forward!
"Soul-Slaying Sword Art! Asura Hell!"
Ji Xiang roared. When he stabbed downward with his sword, a crimson sword qi materialized.
This sword qi charged towards Lin Bai, and throughout its path it suddenly split apart, turning into countless black shadows. Inside, it was as if numerous ferocious and horrifying evil ghosts were concealed, attacking Lin Bai from all directions.
This sword qi, split into thousands of black shadows, quickly surrounded Lin Bai in the blink of an eye.
Wave after wave of black shadows attacked Lin Bai, each carrying the sharp gleam of third-stage Sword Intention, as frightening as if each black shadow could easily shatter a mountain.
With the wailing of ghosts and howling of wolves, Lin Bai’s surroundings turned into hell within a hundred meters.
Lin Bai retreated at a high-speed, his eyes flickering and his expression solemn.
Suddenly, the Flying Swords shot out from his Dantian, flashing into the mid-air.
Following Lin Bai’s command, the Flying Swords continuously chopped down, decimating all the incoming black shadows with a single strike!
At this moment, Lin Bai suddenly felt a hint of chilling breath.
His gaze hastened downward, only to find that Ji Xiang had already reached his back!
"Soul-Slaying Sword Art! Restless Yin Spirit!"
Ji Xiang, who appeared like a ghost behind Lin Bai, fiercely slashed down with his sword, attempting to cut Lin Bai into two halves.
A sensation of life and death crisis enveloped Lin Bai, making his hair stand on end and his goosebumps rise.
Releasing all his energy into the first-stage Sword Intention, Lin Bai shot a sword through, breaking through a brutal Sword Qi column attacking Ji Xiang.
The two swords collided, shaking the whole cliff range.
A staggering explosion resounded throughout the whole place.
Below the cliff, powerful forces collided and swept up thousands of dust and smoke.
Before the dust settled, Ji Xiang attacked again. A crimson sword qi burst out, "Soul-Slaying Sword Art! Extinguishing All Living Beings!"
This sword shook the world. As soon as it was released, the world lost its color, and everything fell silent.
The sword Qi burst out, carrying Ji Xiang’s determination to kill Lin Bai, destroying everything in its path and heading towards Lin Bai!
"Swords Skill! One Sword Turns into Nine!"
Facing Ji Xiang’s world-shattering attack, Lin Bai quickly controlled his Flying Swords.
The Flying Swords shot out, a beam of golden light attacked Ji Xiang’s earth-shattering strike.
As soon as the Flying Swords flew out, they transformed into nine identical Flying Swords and collided head-on.
Lin Bai furiously manipulated the hand gestures of the Swords Skill, injecting all his True Qi into the Flying Swords without any reservation.
The flying sword was as swift as lightning, its unstoppable momentum shattered Ji Xiang’s sword qi. Immediately thereafter, nine swords materialized simultaneously, attacking Ji Xiang’s body.
The first three swords directly knocked Ji Xiang flying.
The fourth sword sent the Demon Sword in Ji Xiang’s hand flying.
The last five swords blinked and embedded themselves next to Ji Xiang’s neck, under his arms, by his thigh, and on top of his head.
Ji Xiang was defeated.
If Lin Bai’s intention with this strike was to kill Ji Xiang, the five swords that were transformed would have been enough to pierce through Ji Xiang’s skull, his neck, and his heart.
"Stop fighting now, I will not kill you."
Lin Bai emerged from the dust, looked at Ji Xiang who was subdued by the flying swords on the ground, and spoke in a cold voice.
Immediately, Lin Bai waved his hand and the nine flying swords that had transformed disappeared, integrated into the Dragon’s Eye Flying Sword, and were received into his dantian.
Ji Xiang, lying on the ground, did not attack Lin Bai again, he said faintly: "My mentor was right, I am not your match."
Ji Xiang said expressionlessly.
From the moment Lin Bai saw Ji Xiang, Ji Xiang had a face devoid of expression. Whether in the face of life and death or facing his friends and family, his expression remained the same.
Only when he saw Ling Tianzi, Ji Xiang’s face would show a respectful expression.
"Our fight was meaningless to me, I said I will not kill you!" Lin Bai sheathed his sword and turned around, leaping towards the cliff.
Li Shanqing, seeing Lin Bai’s victory, cried out in surprise and happiness, "Well done, junior brother!"
Ling Tianzi said, "Are you still worried about him now?"
Upon hearing this, Li Shanqing awkwardly smiled, "Master, your foresight surpasses us all."
Ling Tianzi said, "His ability to defeat Ji Xiang means he is qualified to fight Lin Zi’er!"
Li Shanqing asked, "Master, is Lin Zi’er really that powerful?"
Ling Tianzi replied, "It’s not her who is powerful, but her Martial Soul...the Primordial Divine Woman’s Way..."
"So many years, it’s been so many years since I last saw the Primordial Divine Woman’s Way..."
In Ling Tianzi’s eyes flashed an intelligent light.
Li Shanqing asked, "Master, isn’t Primordial Divine Woman’s Way just a Heaven Level Fifth Grade Martial Soul? What’s so great about it?"
Ling Tianzi looked at Li Shanqing and laughingly said, "The reason why the Primordial Divine Woman’s Way is so formidable is because it possesses a Martial Soul Secret Skill called Primordial Altar!"
"During the Primordial Era, when the Human Clan was still treated as food by the Demon Clan, the suffering was unbearable. Every human tribe would choose a bright and intelligent girl who was rumored to be able to communicate with spirits."
"These girls became the Divine Woman."
"The Divine Women would ascend the altar, amass the tiger bones, deer antlers, snake fangs, bull horns, eagle claws - symbols of five different types of power, to worship. It was said that this Divine Woman could communicate with unbeatable and extremely powerful heroic spirits through this method."
"In the Primordial Era, the Human Clan had preserved this method for an unknown period, struggling to survive under the Demon Clan."
"Then, the Human Clan defeated the Demon Clan, the world became peaceful, humans populated the earth, no longer needing the Divine Women."
"They feared the power of the Divine Woman to summon heroic spirits and consequently, overnight, all the Divine Women were tied to the Pillars of the Gods and burned to death."
"It is said that the Divine Women were burned for three days and nights, wailing for three days and nights, swearing they would return with the spirits of Hell, to slaughter all under Heaven..."
Ling Tianzi spoke in a calm voice.
After listening, Li Shanqing said, "Master, the story you told is really creepy."
Ling Tianzi said, "Scary, isn’t it? There are many unknown and powerful techniques and divine powers from the Primordial Era. For instance, the Divine Women’s power to call the spirits of the dead, or that the light from a single grain of rice can burn millions of forests, a turtle shell can tell the past and future..."
"The Primordial Era has its own unique understanding of martial arts and specific magical divine powers."
"But martial arts have developed to the point where there is now a fixed classification for martial techniques and divine powers."
"In the Primordial Era, there was no order, no laws, no rules, both humans and the Demon Clan fought each other, just to survive; for the sake of survival, there was no good or evil, no right or wrong, no justice or evil."
"Everything was just for survival."
When Ling Tianzi mentioned the Primordial Era, his eyes held a deep reverence for that lost era.