Cultivation: I Have a Skill Level Panel

The interweaving sanguine light and firelight in mid-air gradually dissipated.

The two were shockingly, evenly matched!

Within an extremely secret space,

the white-robed Spirit Shadow’s eyes had been watching everything.

His face, which had been calm and unruffled, his gaze placid and indifferent,

now revealed a look of utter shock.

’This kid... he’s simply a monster!’

’To clash head-on with a Half-Step Tongxuan Realm Sword Puppet with a mere True Martial Realm Eighth Layer Cultivation...’

’Judging by his bone age, he’s extremely young, yet his Cultivation has already reached the True Martial Realm Eighth Layer, and he’s even comprehended Sword Intent!’

’I thought that once the Half-Step Tongxuan Sword Puppet appeared, this junior would be crushed in an instant.’

’From my perspective, while they appear evenly matched on the surface, the kid is actually at a slight disadvantage. He’s suffering from the gap in their Cultivation.’

’But this is already monstrously talented!’

’If this keeps up,’

’that kid might actually have a sliver of a chance at victory!’

’Sigh.’

’My judgment was off.’

’I thought he was just another arrogant young genius who didn’t know his own limits.’

’I never expected him to actually have the strength to back it up!!’

’If that kid actually beats the Sword Puppet,’

’what’s the harm in giving both of these Heaven-Reaching Techniques I found by chance to him!’

’It’s better for someone to carry them forward than for them to be lost to the river of time.’

With this thought,

the white-robed Spirit Shadow’s mind became much clearer.

But the trace of shock in his eyes did not fade in the slightest!

Above in the firmament,

Gu Yun was like a bolt of lightning, constantly tearing through the void at incredible speed.

The burly Sword Puppet, however, was like a streak of blood-red light cutting through the sky.

The two figures flickered and clashed madly in mid-air, the sounds of their blades ringing out!!

They produced a sound like the clash of armored cavalry,

which echoed incessantly across the entire sky!

One after another, great holes were torn in the white clouds drifting across the blue sky.

Beams of light pierced through, shining with a dazzling brilliance.

From a distance,

it was as if the firmament had been battered with countless craters of varying sizes and shapes!

The intense Momentum of the battle was like a massive Celestial Meteorite crashing into a boundless, calm sea, kicking up endless, surging waves!

CLANG CLANG CLANG!!

The two figures flickered and clashed wildly.

Gu Yun moved like startling thunder, as agile as a roaming dragon and swift as lightning. His Sword Intent was incredibly tyrannical, and the Sword Qi he unleashed was like a shower of meteors tearing through the firmament as they fell.

The residual Sword Qi, suffused with astonishing Sword Intent, permeated every corner of the void!

The burly Sword Puppet was like a streak of blood-red light.

The sword light it brandished at a speed unattainable by ordinary people was like a surging great river.

A blood-red River of Sword Qi infused with Sword Intent pierced the heavens!!

After several hundred exchanges of fierce clashes,

Gu Yun’s body was now covered in sword marks, his robes soaked in blood.

Blood also trickled from the corner of his mouth. It was clear that Gu Yun had suffered significant injuries during this high-intensity battle with such a tyrannical foe.

But, his eyes, which flickered with wisps of lightning, burned with a mad battle lust!!

As for the burly Sword Puppet, its Battle Armor-clad body bore several slash marks.

Its overall condition was far better than Gu Yun’s.

A blood-red light flickered within its pupils!!

"CLANG!!"

Another tyrannical clash of blades resounded.

In that instant, ripples spread through the void like waves on water.

And almost at the same time,

a cold glint flashed in Gu Yun’s eyes. He suddenly slashed out horizontally again. The terrifyingly sharp Sword Qi tore through the sky like a soaring True Dragon, descending upon the burly Sword Puppet with overwhelming force!!

Perhaps due to the rich combat experience of the burly Sword Puppet’s former life, its reaction was incredibly fast. A scarlet light flickered in its pupils as it swung its heavy Giant Sword upward, tearing through the sky and instantly blocking Gu Yun’s incoming attack!

BANG!!

The sound of blades colliding produced a huge explosion in mid-air, like the clash of weapons, that instantly resounded throughout the sky! The resulting shockwave swept out in all directions!

The next instant,

Gu Yun stomped on the void, sending out layers of ripples. His figure, like a bolt of lightning, tore across the sky, crossing a distance of dozens of miles.

He stood atop a white cloud that had been pierced through, his clothes fluttering without wind, his long hair dancing wildly. Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth as Thunder Arcs coiled around him.

He exuded a horrifying might!

A grave expression now appeared on Gu Yun’s face.

’A Half-Step Tongxuan is truly powerful to the extreme, the absolute ceiling for the True Martial Realm. My opponent’s True Yuan, Sword Intent, and Physique are all tyrannical to the extreme!’

’And this is just a dead Half-Step Tongxuan, refined into a Sword Puppet, without complete mastery of its full strength from when it was alive!’

’Since it’s come to this,’

’I’ll have to go all out!’

Gu Yun muttered in a low voice.

He was determined to obtain the Taiyi Thunder Technique and Dragon Moving Nine Heavens.

’No one!’

’No one can stop me!!’

’Not even a Half-Step Tongxuan!!!’

At this thought,

Gu Yun suddenly stepped forward, erupting with a sea of Thunder True Essence. An incredibly dazzling light flashed in his eyes, like a bolt of lightning tearing through the dim sky, shining with unprecedented brilliance!!

In an instant, the sky seemed to be influenced by the unseen machinations of heaven and earth.

Immediately, the sky filled with dark clouds. Vast, pitch-black clouds enveloped the entire firmament.

The whole world grew dim. The dark clouds overhead were like ten million black-armored horsemen, threatening to crush everything below and creating an infinite sense of pressure!!

RUMBLE RUMBLE!!

Countless bolts of thunder and lightning tore through the sky, their dazzling light covering every corner of the world. The roar of thunder instantly resounded throughout heaven and earth!

Innumerable serpents of lightning danced wildly within the dim clouds, exuding a terrifying momentum!

Arcs of lightning and thunder coiled around Gu Yun’s body.

In a flash, a dazzling ray of lightning burst forth from Gu Yun’s eyes!

"Celestial Thunder Qilin!"

Gu Yun instantly formed a hand seal!

A terrifying aura abruptly enveloped heaven and earth.

BOOM!

An earth-shattering roar sounded.

All the lightning in the sky beneath the roiling, pitch-black clouds gathered to form a massive lightning qilin over ten miles in size.

"ROAR!"

The immensely vast lightning qilin opened its majestic eyes and let out an earth-shattering roar that seemed to shatter space itself!

Then, in the blink of an eye, it gathered the pure Thunder and Lightning Power,

as if acting as heaven’s executioner,

to punish and annihilate everything between heaven and earth.

It tore through layer after layer of space with overwhelming force,

with a vast and desolate power,

piercing through the world as it violently descended to obliterate the burly Sword Puppet below!

"This!"

"This kid’s Thunder Technique has actually reached this level of Cultivation!"

A hint of shock couldn’t help but appear in the deep pupils of the white-robed Spirit Shadow, who was watching from a mysterious corner.

’A true chosen one!’

’If the entire Sect were filled with such monstrous geniuses, in a few years, why would we worry about not returning to our former, glorious peak?’

’Why would the Sect have needed to flee to a remote place like the Eastern Profound Domain of the Celestial Essence Realm?’

At this moment, the image of those terrifying great enemies who could easily annihilate the entire Sect couldn’t help but surface in the mind of the white-robed Spirit Shadow!!

’Sigh!’

’At least,’

’the Sect has taken root here for a thousand years,’

’and they haven’t found us yet.’

’Otherwise,’

’with only two Unity Realm experts remaining,’

’we wouldn’t be nearly enough for those terrifying bastards outside the Celestial Essence Realm to tear to shreds!!’

’Forget it, forget it!’

’These are just some of the Sect’s top secrets I learned after I advanced to the Tongxuan Realm and entered the Sect’s upper echelons.’

’Dammit,’

’who gives a fuck.’

’I’ve long since returned to dust.’

’What do I care if the world is engulfed by a great flood?’

’This is nothing more than the last Spirit Shadow I left behind to pass on my legacy.’

’After the inheritance is passed on,’

’I will completely dissipate from this world!’

At this moment,

rampant lightning filled the sky, shattering the void. From the pitch-black abyss of the void where one couldn’t see their own hand, terrifying astral winds escaped, striking fear into all!

The massive, ten-mile-plus lightning qilin, accompanied by the ultimate expression of lightning,

possessed a vast Divine Power akin to a descending Celestial Tribulation. It tore through layer after layer of space as it lunged toward the burly Sword Puppet with lethal intent!!

Standing firm in the void, the burly Sword Puppet stared with its scarlet pupils at the qilin that resembled a descending Celestial Tribulation.

It seemed to know no fear! It did not dodge or evade.

It, too, wanted to act in defiance of the heavens!

The entire burly Sword Puppet issued an extremely cold, mechanical voice:

"KILL!!!"

The chilling, terrifying voice instantly caused the surrounding temperature to plummet.

A flash of sword light glinted in its crimson pupils.

A Heaven-Reaching Sword Intent erupted from its body, soaring into the clouds and piercing the firmament!