Nine Dragons Saint Ancestor

”Oh? You still have a hidden trump card?”

Zhao Huai’an’s sudden deep voice made Yun Xiao feel somewhat excited. To be honest, with his current strength, dealing with a cultivator only one level higher than himself wouldn’t take much effort.

However, the Zhao Family is a first-class force on the Tenglong Continent, and surely they wouldn’t only have people like Zhao Huai’an. He wanted to understand the Zhao Family’s combat methods as much as possible. Since they’ve already become enemies, there might be opportunities for big confrontations in the future.

Swish!

After Yun Xiao’s words, Zhao Huai’an extended his right hand, and everyone saw a three-foot-long sword exuding a green light already in his right palm, emitting a distinctive aura.

”This is the Qingming Sword, three feet nine inches long, two inches six parts wide, obtained from Qingming Mountain of the Zhao Family twenty years ago. For twenty years, I’ve fed it with essence blood, and now it is one with me!”

Zhao Huai’an looked at the green light long sword in his hand with a somewhat mystified gaze. His words sounded somewhat enigmatic, yet they ultimately informed everyone of the Qingming Treasure Sword’s origin.

An Earth Rank Advanced long sword weapon doesn’t sound formidable, but upon hearing Zhao Huai’an’s last words, some people started to ponder.

In weaponry, feeding a weapon with one’s body indeed makes wielding it as seamlessly as one’s own limb. However, ordinary weapons can’t achieve such an effect. Thus, the Qingming Sword must have some unknown characteristics.

”Yun Xiao, if you can withstand my sword strike, I will voluntarily abandon the sword and concede. But if you can’t withstand it...”

In Zhao Huai’an’s tone was an extreme confidence. He didn’t finish his sentence but everyone understood his implication; failing to withstand it meant meeting King Yan.

”He’s finally going to use that move, isn’t he?”

As a Zhao Family prodigy, Zhao Ling knew well about the move Zhao Huai’an was about to perform. Though powerful, it harms both opponents and self. Even if Yun Xiao is slain, it would take years to recover.

”Hearing you say that makes me genuinely curious about what sword move it really is!”

Listening to Zhao Huai’an’s confident words, Yun Xiao stood with hands behind his back. He didn’t appear genuinely curious, but rather like an adult watching a child play.

”Ignorant child, how could you comprehend the power of Body Feeding Sword?”

Seeing Yun Xiao’s carefree and indifferent demeanor, Zhao Huai’an merely spoke lightly without getting angry, knowing the impending sword strikes demand utmost meticulousness.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh...

With a low shout, a unique aura emerged from Zhao Huai’an, followed by a bloody scent. Zhao Huai’an seemed enveloped in blood light.

Under everyone’s gaze, the blood energy Zhao Huai’an conjured poured straight into the Qingming Sword, swelling its size several-fold, causing its green light to emit a faint blood glow.

”Essence Blood as a Guide, Body Feeding Sword.”

Zhao Huai’an solemnly extended his right hand, and a drop of crimson essence blood from his fingertip sprayed onto the sword. Witnessing this, everyone saw an extremely astonishing scene.

Zhao Huai’an’s whole figure slowly merged into the now-gigantic Qingming Sword—it was the legendary Man and Sword as One.

”Tsk tsk, you’re really risking it all. This single move could cost you several decades of lifespan!”

As the reincarnated Long Xiao Battle God, Yun Xiao easily discerned what method Zhao Huai’an employed. Such methods are only used in life-and-death situations.

Indeed, once using Body Feeding Sword, it equates to enhancing the weapon’s power with one’s life force. The longer it lasts, the more life force is lost, potentially leading to death if prolonged excessively.

Yet realizing the current moment as Zhao Huai’an’s do-or-die situation, if he couldn’t kill Yun Xiao, then Zhao Huai’an himself would die. The battle had begun, leaving neither party any retreat.

”Die!”

From the massive blood energy sword came a stern shout, sounding mysterious and eerie.

But at this moment, nobody paid attention to this eeriness; they all wanted to know whether the coarse-clothed youth named Yun Xiao could withstand Zhao Huai’an’s Body Feeding Sword attack.

”What is he going to do?”

At this moment, everyone saw the coarse-clothed youth slowly raise his arm and take down the wooden sword slanted behind him.

”Does he think that with this wooden sword, he can withstand Elder Zhao’s Body Feeding Sword? Isn’t that far too overconfident?”

Many people had never seen the Dragon Taming Sword, and even those like Zhao Ling and Jun Tieshu who had, did not think that the wooden sword could truly contend against Zhao Huai’an’s Body Feeding Sword.

Strictly speaking, Zhao Huai’an, with his cultivation at the Middle Stage of the Earth Bending Realm and wielding the Earth Rank Advanced Qingming Sword, released a Man and Sword as One attack that was already comparable to the strongest strike of a late-stage Earth Bending Realm expert.

Although Zhao Ling and others had witnessed the power of that wooden sword, given such a disparity, it seemed unlikely that a wooden sword could contend with the Earth Rank Advanced Qingming Sword used in the Body Feeding Sword technique, right?

Those ignorant of the truth thought Yun Xiao was overestimating himself, but only Yun Xiao knew that techniques like Body Feeding Sword and Blood Nourishment Sword were insignificant under the Dragon Taming Sword. How could these mortals of the Tenglong Continent know the miraculous power of the Dragon Taming Sword?

”It’s over!”

With his entire body merged into the Qingming Sword, Zhao Huai’an naturally saw Yun Xiao’s actions and immediately relaxed.

A light sound emanated from the sword, and in the next moment, the Qingming Sword, as one with Zhao Huai’an, fiercely clashed with the unremarkable wooden sword in Yun Xiao’s hand.

Snap!

The gentle sound that followed led the presuming onlookers to instinctively think that Yun Xiao’s wooden sword couldn’t withstand the Qingming Sword’s Man and Sword as One power and had been cut in half. Surely next would be the crude-clad youth’s body?

”No! It’s not the wooden sword!”

However, some cultivators with strong Power of Soul saw an unbelievable scene. They were shocked to find Yun Xiao’s wooden sword was still intact.

In this case, what was severed could only be the Qingming Sword. Thinking of Zhao Huai’an, who had merged with the Qingming Sword, the spectators were shocked and eager to see the final result.

”Ah!”

Under everyone’s watchful eyes, a horrifying scream resounded, and then they saw a figure squeezed out from the broken Qingming Sword. This figure belonging to Zhao Huai’an was only half a body.

Some insightful observers noticed that at the tip of the severed Qingming Sword, half a body was also squeezed out, looking extremely bizarre and gruesome.

”How can that wooden sword be so strong?”

At this moment, no one considered the wooden sword ordinary anymore. It’s a joke to think so. Not only was the Qingming Sword, used in Body Feeding Sword, cut in two, but Zhao Huai’an’s tragic fate highlighted the victory of the crude-clad youth.

Severed at the waist, Zhao Huai’an was not immediately dead. He lifted his head, enduring the excruciating pain, and his gaze was fixed on the wooden sword in Yun Xiao’s hand.

”What sword is this?”

Zhao Huai’an’s breath was extremely chaotic, but his low voice was still clear to everyone. Perhaps this was his greatest wish before dying; the wooden sword was evidently several levels stronger than the Qingming Sword in Body Feeding Sword.

”Dragon Taming Sword!”

At this moment, Yun Xiao didn’t hide the truth. He stowed the wooden sword, untouched by a trace of blood, on his back, and upon uttering those three words, many gasped in shock.

”To dare call it ’Dragon Taming’, what arrogance!”

Some stubborn old-fashioned figures showed a hint of anger. Known as Nine Dragons Continent, where ancient legends of Nine Dragons resided, it was these dragons that were the highest faith for the cultivators of Nine Dragons Continent. No one tolerated such presumptuous defilement.

On this Nine Dragons Continent, a sword called ”Dragon Taming” was a huge disrespect to the Nine Heavens Divine Dragon. Despite the fear everyone felt about Zhao Huai’an’s two-part condition, they still thought the crude-clad youth was too arrogant.

”Dragon Taming Sword? Haha, dying under such a Divine Sword, is not in vain!”

On the other hand, the barely alive Zhao Huai’an, having received the answer he sought, seemed to use up his last bit of strength. Forcing a smile, he uttered one last sentence before his head slumped, ceasing all movement.

”Zhao Huai’an... is dead!”

Witnessing this, regardless of everyone’s discontent with the name ”Dragon Taming Sword”, they couldn’t help but feel a sense of awe towards the crude-clad youth.

Zhao Huai’an was an elder of the Zhao Family, a dignified Middle Stage of the Earth Bending Realm expert, yet he only lasted three moves against the crude-clad youth. And in the third move, he even used his strongest Body Feeding Sword technique.

Yet even so, Zhao Huai’an still couldn’t escape being split in two. Although part of the reason was his lack of understanding of the Dragon Taming Sword’s power, it was undeniably true that the crude-clad youth possessed the strength to crush a Middle Stage of the Earth Bending Realm expert.

Aside from the astonished onlookers, Zhang Daohe and Zong Puti, who had been watching this battlefield, felt a surge of shock and horror upon sensing Zhao Huai’an’s death, greatly divergent from what they had earlier thought.

Zhang Daohe was not much affected, being a powerful figure at the Late Stage of Earth Bending Realm, but Zong Puti, lightly prevailing against Chi Yan, felt a tightness in his heart, finally realizing that assisting Zhang Daohe against Yun Xiao might have been a bit rash.