All those present stared at the vast snowfall, lost in a trance.
This sword move was unlike Sword One or Sword Two that Su Bei had demonstrated before!
In the Sword Scripture, each sword move was more powerful than the last! Sword Cultivators were not typically known for their overwhelming Spiritual Energy, but the Sword Scripture did contain a few techniques that specialized in overpowering opponents with the vast spiritual energy of the natural world!
Sword Three was one of them! A single strike, yet it was like tens of thousands of swords!
WHOOSH WHOOSH—
Countless snow swords rustled down from the sky, and the very firmament seemed to descend with Su Bei's technique!
Key Smoke silently observed the move before him, gazing at the man in white on the fighting platform. In a daze, it was as if he saw the old Sect Master of the Sword Sect from a thousand years ago!
The same Sword Three, the same singular strike. It was also because of this very strike that Shangguan Wendao managed to halt tens of thousands of Wilderness Cultivators above the Cang River! Even I would be utterly incapable of executing such a perfect strike, one hundred times my own strength! Apart from this strike, the Sword Sect possesses another—the sovereign strike... Mountain and River Divide!
It was after that strike, Mountain and River Divide, that the Cang River gained another name: Broken Sword River!
Ji Nanjue sighed softly, her gaze no longer fixed on the high platform.
Once Su Bei executed this sword move, the outcome on this fighting platform is already decided; there's no need for me to watch further. Back then, at the Unrepentant Cliff, I imparted the Sovereign Sword, Mountain and River Divide, to Disciple Su Bei! That strike which shattered the momentum of the Wilderness Cultivators also seemed to mend the very backbone of the world. If Su Bei has mastered this Mountain and River Divide, can he truly replicate the legendary style of the Underworld Sword Sect's strike from a thousand years past?
In Su Bei's hand, the Qingping Sword trembled unceasingly as he pointed it skyward. Blue-purple mists swirled, and amidst the flurry of snow, before the downfall could completely cease, he unleashed another sword strike!
Su Bei laughed heartily as he wielded his sword, despite the blood that gushed uncontrollably from the corners of his mouth.
For me, a hundredfold increase in power is ultimately too much of a strain. The meridians within my body are as chaotic as ever. However, perhaps due to several immersions in the Cold Spring's Immortal Qi, the damage isn't as severe as when I fought Luo Ritian!
His blood-stained white robe, embroidered with begonias, was silhouetted against the bright moon in the sky above. Moonlight cascaded down, revealing a Da Bai!
"As the bright moon arrives, so does the stream of splendor!"
"Sword Two, Momentary Splendor!"
The Momentary Splendor, unique to Su Bei, was like a first encounter, unforgettable.
The night sky was like a swath of black cloth, and this sword strike was a pair of shears, carving a lotus flower into the dark fabric!
A fissure appeared in the celestial canopy. Initially, it was but a narrow slit, through which a sliver of moonlight struggled to emerge.
Then, the fissure widened, gradually assuming the shape of a lotus. Finally, it revealed the full, brilliant moon behind the canopy. The entire land was bathed in silver, reflecting the splendor of that magnificent green lotus!
BOOM—
The twelve Refining Void figures stared with wide eyes, their teeth clenched so tightly that blood seeped from their lips!
"Break for me!!"
The roar echoed throughout the heavens and earth!
Vast and potent nature's spiritual energy swept in from all directions, frantically pouring into the bodies of the twelve Refining Void cultivators, all directed at Su Bei's two cyan rainbows!
"Fist of Great Sorrow!"
"Glazed Fire!!"
"Hold it!!"
The twelve streams of spiritual power intertwined, forming a torrential river of Spiritual Energy that seemed to cover the sky!
Yet, amidst the storm of snow swords, they were like fragile thatched huts in a tempest, precariously holding on.
Streams of Spiritual Energy surged wildly, were shattered, and then surged again!
Finally!
PFFT!!
The leading elder in green robes flushed crimson. A muffled groan escaped his throat as he spat out a mouthful of blood.
BOOM—
BOOM—
As one of them faltered, in the next instant, figure after figure was sent flying. The terrifying shockwave spread for miles around!
PFFT!
"AH!"
Dust billowed, obscuring the sky!
「At last.」
Quiet descended upon the fighting platform.
As the dust settled, all the spectators stared in stunned silence at the scene before them.
Over ten thousand snow swords, infused with immense Qingping Sword Qi, crisscrossed the surface of the fighting platform, leaving it utterly devastated!
The twelve figures lay scattered haphazardly, already unconscious and insensate.
Su Bei stood quietly, leaning on his sword. The Qingping Sword had carved two trails, each over an inch deep, into the ground. Blood continued to trickle from the corner of his mouth, dripping onto the Qingping Sword, causing it to gleam with a grim light!
The night breeze swept past. Su Bei sheathed his sword and stood with his hands clasped behind his back, resolute and majestic.
He faintly exuded some of the grandeur of the legendary Underworld Sword Sect of old!
Victory and defeat had been decided.
An utter silence reigned!
Everyone stared at the scene in shock, many taking a long time to regain their senses.
Those twelve Refining Void cultivators, defeated just like that?! Twelve cultivators at the Mid Stage Refining Void, capable of contending with a Peak Refining Void expert, defeated just like that?? Defeated by a single sword strike from Su Bei?!
「The very next moment!」
Thunderous cheers erupted, rolling endlessly throughout the heavens and earth. The vast majority of cultivators from the ten major competition zones had already arrived at this mountain peak before Su Bei's battle, and countless gazes were now fixed upon him!
"AAAH!"
HISS—
"Elder Su really won!?"
"Let not the world underestimate the Sword Sect!! AHHHHHH!"
On the Elder's Platform, Wang Tong's expression was grim as he watched the unfolding scene, surrounded by the astonished cries of the Sacred Land Elders.
To them, Refining Void cultivators were nothing extraordinary. However, he mused, if they were at the same cultivation level, they definitely couldn't fight twelve opponents simultaneously! It must be known that the Refining Void realm is not like realms such as Foundation Establishment and Golden Core; those capable of fighting above their level in such advanced realms are exceedingly rare. What's more, Su Bei had, with a single sword, felled twelve opponents all by himself!!