492 Soul-stirring (1/2)

Those black and white sword shadows constantly clashed in mid air. The entire space fissure was cut apart, forming a giant black crack.

Ten thousand feet wide, all the heaven and earth spiritual energy had disappeared. A hundred feet around Zong Shou was perfectly fine. Even if occasionally it broke under the huge striking force, it would be able to recover in time. Pieces of it returned to their original positions, becoming perfect.

However, Zong Shou mostly relied on the black hole in his body to directly obtain heaven and earth spiritual energy from the heavens and earth itself. Although it was limited, it could reduce his consumption to the lowest point.

Jueyu, opposite him, didn't rely on heaven and earth spiritual energy. He continuously caused the void storm, threads of black colored cracks to merge into his sword. Its strength was also vast.

Sword after sword clashed. Zong Shou slowly stopped bothering about anything else. He was forced to fully focus to defend against Jueyu's attacks. It was almost mechanical, and he didn't know how much time has passed.

The sword light in their hands spread out a cracking sound at the same time.

Then, the black colored broadsword and fire yin sword couldn't handle such a level of intense fighting anymore. After one more strike, they all broke into pieces!

Zong Shou was startled. Then, he stopped thinking about the sword artifact breaking. He didn't hesitate to grab in the air, gathering the spiritual energy from all directions. Instantly a silver colored energy sword formed up.

On the side of Jueyu, he also didn't hesitate. He instinctively reached out with his hand, directly gathering the void crack into a sword shape, stabbing out towards Zong Shou.

”Peng!”

An explosion no weaker than before reverberated through the entire million feet of space. These 2 'swords' once again smashed into pieces during the intense collision!

In that instance, 2 silver black sword lights gathered up once more--continuously clashing, continuously breaking apart. In a blink of an eye, there were another thousand strikes. Then, the speed of the sword light forming up slowed down at the same time.

Right away, Lei Dong felt something. A moment later, Suchen also frowned.

”The tempo seems to have become slower!”

The sword speed of the 2 of them had reduced by a lot. Jueyu had to use much more time to complete a strike.

On the side of Tanqiu, the speed at which he formed the silver sword energy was also reduced accordingly.

This was also what Suchen felt weird about.

Tanqiu reduced the speed at which he formed the energy sword because his soul power was not enough--unable to maintain the energy. His spell body true image was already showing signs of being unstable.

However, on the side of Jueyu, he was still at his peak state. Although he consumed huge amounts of energy, he could still support it.

At this moment, however, he didn't suppress him and force the win. Instead, he slowed the tempo down to give Tanqiu some breathing room. Furthermore, each sword he stepped out seem to be extremely tiring, which he didn't understand.

”What is there to be surprised about?”

Ruotao shook his head and smiled, his eyes shining a bright light, ”Jueyu isn't doing so voluntarily! The reason why is that Tanqiu had already understood his great extinction sword to a great level. Didn't you see that just now each sword consumption of Tanqiu was reducing? When he faced Jueyu's sword, he is finding it much more comfortable, able to break it halfway through. It is obvious that he had deduced Jueyu's sword trajectory…”

Suchen's body shuddered a little. Thinking back carefully, that was the situation.

This was the case for the 700 previous swords. Only during this period due to the lack of soul power, each time that Tanqiu faced a sword, it seemed difficult. That was the reason why he didn't notice it.

At this moment, Lei Dong laughed coldly, ”Tanqiu is still lacking in strength. He has to be more careful to cover up for the weaknesses in his sword. He has to use stronger sword trajectories to avoid being defeated in a sword!”

Suchen was shocked and knew that Jueyu was being more careful--putting down his tempo was because he needed more time to deduce and plan out his attack.

However, if he didn't attack and Tanqiu recovered, he would still lose in the end.

The 2 people in front of them had already forced each other into the brink.

Ruotao, on the side, also concluded.

”Within 10 swords, the outcome will be decided! If I didn't see it for myself, I don't dare to believe that apart from that person, there is someone who could force Jueyu into such a situation…”

Lei Dong scoffed coldly, not retorting. It was obvious that he agreed with those words.

7 swords later, there was a muffled grunt that sounded out in the void.

Jueyu retreated a full ten thousand feet. This time, he stood in the void and didn't continue to attack. His brows furrowed tightly, and his face was extremely solemn.

Zong Shou also didn't chase him to strike, standing still on the spot. His were eyes slightly closed like he was regaining energy.

After the silver-colored energy sword in his hand dissipated, he didn't form another one. He only silently stood on the spot.

On the side of Jueyu, he was thinking back to the few swords before. It took a few breaths until he smiled.

”We have already fought 19442 swords. This battle feels good. No matter if I win or lose, I am satisfied. Why not we decide the victor with the next sword?”

Zong Shou's brows furrowed as he opened his eyes. His soul power was mostly consumed. At this moment even the body was just left with a shadow of Tanqiu. He found it tough to even speak, giving a simple nod of the head.

”Okay!”