Chapter 903: Taiyin Thirteen Swords
Beneath Katsura Yoshiyuki’s skin, it seemed as though a small serpent slithered along his veins. Yet, as a cultivator still possessing the strength of the Zaohua stage, he instantly severed the corresponding meridians, halting the lightning-dragon’s course and dispersing it before slashing out horizontally with his blade.
Qi Xuansu stood unmoved like a mountain. With Green Cloud in hand, he drew a circle, shifting into the Yin-Yang Polar Reversal Technique. It not only dissolved Katsura Yoshiyuki’s strike but also flowed seamlessly into the Reversing Qi Technique.
The essence of the Reversing Qi Technique lay in advancing as retreat and bending as extension. This swordplay returned upon itself, with clarity turning obscure and qi flowing in reverse.
It was a cunning technique. Even a sect master would struggle to find a counter immediately if they saw it for the first time, unless they could overwhelm the technique with sheer force.
For a brief moment, Katsura Yoshiyuki himself did not know how to dissolve it.
Seizing the moment, Qi Xuansu briefly closed his eyes before snapping them open. This was the Omniscient Eyes.
Light surged within Qi Xuansu’s eyes before a profound gleam burst forth.
Katsura Yoshiyuki’s expression shifted slightly as the wound at his chest started spurting blood without end.
Yet he showed neither panic nor fury. He calmly unleashed his blade, blade qi raining down on Qi Xuansu. His strokes overlapped and interwove, dazzling in their ferocity. However, before Qi Xuansu’s layer upon layer of defenses—Celestial Phenomena Spiritual Body, his indestructible body spirits, Green Netherworld Armor, and Five Elements Qi Shield—not one strand of blade qi managed to strike his core.
Katsura Yoshiyuki was in no hurry, continuing his assault. If Qi Xuansu’s sword intention grew ever higher in layered ascension, Katsura Yoshiyuki’s blade only grew faster until the blade itself vanished, leaving only countless intersecting trails of light woven into a net that slowly eroded the space around Qi Xuansu.
Qi Xuansu refused to sit still, awaiting death. He thrust Green Cloud straight toward Katsura Yoshiyuki.
Ordinarily, with such a thrust, Katsura Yoshiyuki needed only to counter with his long blade, and Qi Xuansu’s arm would be severed at once. Yet having witnessed Qi Xuansu’s ability to reconstruct his body, even the loss of an arm was trivial. Thus, it was better to meet offense with offense. After all, Katsura Yoshiyuki’s Monohoshizao was much longer than Green Cloud.