Chapter 723: Rule Change
"What?!" exclaimed Asuka. He could hardly believe his eyes.
The Daoist he had crippled was now standing on the stage again, completely unscathed. The energy of the demon blade should have damaged his foundation, rendering him useless. Let alone fighting, even standing and walking should have been impossible.
Yet now, he is back, fully healed? And that Azure Soft Sword, it has returned to its original form?
A shadow passed through Asuka’s heart. In the Jiepeng resting hall, the other Jiepeng warriors, including the old Sword Saint Oniba Henzō, were equally stunned.
Could Great Xia be harboring some hidden master?
"Don't worry." Fujisai Jirō stood up and said, "Great Xia must have someone with a secondary awakened Earth level healing ability. But such abilities consume an immense amount of energy, there’s no way they can keep healing everyone indefinitely."
"That must be it," Maeda Daisen agreed.
The Jiepeng warriors in the resting hall gradually regained their composure. However, in the passageway, the sword-bearing slave Takano Kumagawa had a different reaction. His eyes gleamed with excitement.
"Interesting. The Great Xia exchange delegation must have had contact with Chongque City. The demon blade infused with Outer Space energy isn’t something just anyone can counter... Heh, they’ve finally shown their hand," Takano Kumagawa murmured to himself, his lips curling into a sinister smile.
In the arena, Asuka unsheathed his demon blade once again. A dark red mist surged outward. The thick, ominous, malevolent aura spread like a flood of fresh blood, instantly covering half the arena.
Against this eerie backdrop, Asuka, gripping his blade, looked like a Demon God standing atop a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. A suffocating pressure filled the venue.
From the spectator seats, Wang Fei, Miss Fan and the others felt a terrifying sense of impending doom wash over them.