Chapter 852: Secret
A single sword strike. Fate Breaker. The jade-colored, stone-like longsword slashed out a single arc of sword light. The motion was simple, and the sword light ordinary. But the effect was anything but that.
The annihilation beam from the Mother of All Beasts met the sword light head-on, and in that instant, it was as if spring wind had met gentle rain. The beam dimmed, disintegrated, and completely vanished from the world.
The annihilation field surrounding the Mother of All Beasts was also cleaved apart. The Thirty-Third Heaven gradually began returning to normal.
“That sword again... Why is it still here?” The Mother of All Beasts released a mental scream, filled with fury and fear.
It had once been sealed by this very sword, in a place without light. It had been buried in darkness, enduring immense loneliness and humiliation. It had been the most terrifying chapter of its long life.
What was even more terrifying was the fact that, even now, it could barely muster the will to fight against this sword. Back then, the sword hadn’t even been wielded by its true master, but a woman. Even so, it had sealed the beast.
Yet now, from the resonant hum of the sword, the beast sensed a Dao resonance far deeper than what that woman had once possessed.
Can it be... that the sword's wielder now is the true master? No. That wasn’t it.
It had once caught a distant glimpse of the sword's true master. It was a human far too terrifying to describe. If the real master had truly descended, there would be no need for such elaborate maneuvers. Just a single glance from the master would have been enough to reduce it to ashes.
The golden vertical pupil of the Mother of All Beasts examined Li Xiaofei, golden patterns within it swirling and flashing like an enormous wheel of fate, calculating and unraveling something in silence.
Li Xiaofei gripped the sword in his hand tightly. The Heavenly Pillar was a sword. Ximen Qianxue had never told him about that. The Blood-Drinking Sword had never left. It had always been there.
But even for Li Xiaofei, as the second-generation wielder of the Dual Sacred Body of Blade and Sword, gaining the full acknowledgment of the Blood-Drinking Sword, and truly unleashing its power, was anything but easy.