Chapter 599: Mark of the Xuan Family
Max’s sword began to blaze, not wildly but with an intense, concentrated heat that shimmered like molten light. The combination was volatile, but Max controlled it with perfect precision. Sparks danced around him as the aura of his sword intensified—blistering and unrelenting.
Then, with a roar of his own, he met Silus’s spear head-on. The collision was cataclysmic. Spear and sword slammed into each other with such raw violence that the floor beneath them exploded in a shockwave of stone and light.
The chamber trembled. Waves of fire and invisible edges of severing force lashed in all directions, incinerating and cutting everything in their path.
Max felt his muscles straining, the air around him twisting from the force, but his blade didn’t break. It held. The flaming edge crackled, severing energy slicing through the aura of the Solitary Spear as he shouted with all his might, pushing against the momentum of Silus’s spear.
For a moment, time seemed to pause. Two wills, two weapons, three concepts—locked in a brutal contest of dominance. And then, with a blinding flare of light and heat, the impact erupted outward, throwing both combatants away in opposite directions like meteors colliding mid-air.
Max landed steadily, panting slightly but still upright. His sword glowed faintly with embers, the flame yet to die out.
"Flame concept? You’ve comprehended two concepts?" Silus gasped, staggering backward as his spear arm trembled from fatigue. His breathing was ragged, and his eyes were wide with disbelief. Sweat dripped down his face, mixing with the dust and blood that clung to his skin.
In all his years in the Middle Domain—where geniuses rose and fell like stars—he had never once encountered someone who had truly mastered two distinct concepts at once. Not at this level. Not with this power. It was rare. Unheard of.
And now, standing before him was a youth from the Lower Domain wielding not one but two concepts in harmony—flame and sword.
What made Silus’s heart truly sink into despair was not just the revelation, but the fact that his strongest attack, Solitary Spear, the ultimate technique of his Spear God Arts, had utterly failed to break through.