Ice Cloud, who was earnestly listening to Li Bei’s swordplay on the dueling stage, suddenly had a change of expression. Clearly, she had also received an order from her ancestor.
Ice Cloud wasn't like the Demoness, who had a doting Immortal King father. Besides, others didn't know that the Demoness was the daughter of Immortal King Bai Fang. Only a handful of people knew the Demoness's true identity, including Long Qing and the other Immortal Kings.
The Demoness could refuse Immortal King Bai Fang's request, but Ice Cloud couldn't.
Li Bei didn't know why Ice Cloud's expression had changed. He thought what he was saying was too profound, so he smiled and said, "Actually, the most important thing to breaking through to the Substance of Sword Intent is to transform your Sword Intent from the virtual to the real, turning the spiritual Sword Intent into a tangible substance, like this."
As he spoke, Li Bei extended his left hand and gently clenched it. A long sword that looked exactly like the Heavenly Pivot Sword appeared in his hand. Of course, this wasn't the real Heavenly Pivot Sword, which he was still holding in his right hand.
This 'Heavenly Pivot Sword' was entirely condensed from his Sword Intent. This was just the lowest level application of the Substance of Sword Intent. He hadn't yet figured out the more advanced applications. After all, he hadn't fought anyone during his thousands of years in the Void Realm. Without experiencing battles, he naturally couldn't apply his Substance of Sword Intent to its ultimate limit.
"Young Master, Ice Cloud will use her full strength later. Please don't hold back," Ice Cloud said.
She felt a bit bitter inside. One was her ancestor, and the other was wholeheartedly explaining to her how to break through to the Substance of Sword Intent. Moreover, she had clearly said earlier that she wasn't trying to snatch the Immortal Scripture from him, but now that her ancestor had given the order, she had no choice but to obey.
Originally, she thought Li Bei would be angry that she didn't keep her promise, but a glint of excitement flashed across Li Bei's face.
"I couldn't ask for more!"
Li Bei put away the real Heavenly Pivot Sword and instead used the Heavenly Pivot Sword condensed from Sword Intent.
"Young Master, be careful."
After Ice Cloud reminded him, her aura changed drastically, becoming even colder than before. Snowflakes slowly began to fall from the sky.
Li Bei's eyes narrowed. He could feel a powerful force of heaven and earth gathering in the sky. Clearly, Ice Cloud had used her Saintly Aura Phenomenon, and Ice Cloud's Saintly Aura Phenomenon was even more profound than that of the Mirror Moon Holy Son, able to mobilize a wider and stronger range of the power of heaven and earth.
The saying that all beings below a Saint are ants was an exaggeration. For some peerless geniuses, it wasn't unheard of to defy Saints at the逍遥( Free and Unfettered) Realm. At least, as far as Li Bei knew, the Supreme Ancient Emperors and Great Emperors of the Mortal World had all killed Saints before becoming Saints when they were young.
The saying that all beings below a Saint are ants only applied to most people, not to geniuses.
The Mirror Moon Holy Son looked at the dueling stage with a deep gaze, sighing inwardly. Earlier, he had said that he was saving his Saintly Aura Phenomenon to deal with the successors of Immortal King forces, but judging from Ice Cloud Immortal Maiden's Saintly Aura Phenomenon, he was no match for her.
Ice Cloud Immortal Maiden's strength was probably comparable to that of a Saint at the Third Level.
This was the foundation of Immortal King forces. Even if they cultivated the same Immortal Scripture, they were still incomparable to True Immortal forces.
"Ice Soul!"
Ice Cloud waved the long sword in her hand, and an icy sword light appeared between heaven and earth, roaring and slashing towards Li Bei. Even the space was frozen wherever it passed.
This was the power of heaven and earth. This strike had already reached the Saint Realm.
Li Bei's current cultivation was only at the Transcendent Realm, and his perfected Substance of Sword Intent could indeed contend against the peak of the逍遥( Free and Unfettered) Realm, even defeating it. However, facing the power above a Saint, he could only rely on his powerful physical body forged by the Undying Scripture to withstand it.
However, Li Bei didn't want to rely solely on his physical body. He was a sword cultivator. If a sword cultivator didn't use his sword to defeat his enemies, would he still be called a sword cultivator?
"Rending the Heavens!"
Li Bei waved the Heavenly Pivot Sword condensed from Sword Intent and used the Rending the Heavens Sword that he had comprehended thousands of years ago. After thousands of years of precipitation, his understanding of the Rending the Heavens Sword had reached a perfect state.
With one sword strike, the sky was torn apart.
A space crack tens of feet long suddenly appeared in the sky. The moment the space crack appeared, the Ice Soul sword light was instantly swallowed. The space crack that had swallowed the Ice Soul instantly condensed into an incomparably terrifying sword light.
The sword light exuded the intent to tear apart everything and destroy everything. A trace of shock flashed in Ice Cloud's ice-blue eyes.
"Boom!"
Ice Cloud raised her sword to block, and the powerful force made her retreat again and again. The tearing Sword Intent made her skin feel a faint pain.
"Tear!"
Ice Cloud's sleeves shattered into powder, revealing her fair hands. At this moment, however, crystalline blood beads were constantly oozing from her fair hands. The powerful Sword Intent was tearing her body apart.
"Boom!"
Finally, the sword light dissipated, and Ice Cloud had retreated to the edge of the dueling stage.
Below the dueling stage, the Mirror Moon Holy Son frowned as he looked at Li Bei. Li Bei didn't use this move when he fought him earlier. If he had used this sword, he would have been defeated without even showing his physical strength.
"Just who is this Nine Swords Young Master? Why is his strength so great?" The Mirror Moon Holy Son couldn't help but be curious about Li Bei's origins. He had asked his ancestor earlier, but his ancestor didn't know the origins of the Nine Swords Young Master either.
However, many people speculated that the Nine Swords Young Master might be a successor cultivated by the Supreme Void Palace. Only the lofty Supreme Void Palace could cultivate such a powerful successor.
However, the Mirror Moon Holy Son didn't think so. If the Nine Swords Young Master was really a successor of the Supreme Void Palace, there would be no need to hide his identity. He guessed that Li Bei might not be from the Supreme Void Realm, which was why he was unknown.
It had to be said that the Mirror Moon Holy Son had guessed correctly, but there was no way he could know how powerful Li Bei's master was. After all, even Gu Changsheng himself didn't know what realm he was in.
"Is this the power of the perfected Substance of Sword Intent? It's indeed terrifying." Ice Cloud didn't care about the blood on her hands at all, but looked at the sky in shock. At this moment, there was a crack in the sky, left by the sword light just now.
Li Bei was also shocked by his own Rending the Heavens Sword. He never expected that the power of his Rending the Heavens Sword would be so strong with the blessing of the perfected Substance of Sword Intent.
It should be known that Liu Yanran and Liu Yuran's Substance of Sword Intent had also reached the Lesser Success Realm, but they couldn't break through the Mirror Moon Holy Son's defense. Was there really such a big difference between the Lesser Success Realm and the Greater Success Realm of the Substance of Sword Intent?
After this is over, I must ask the old guy what's going on.
"Ice Cloud, do you have any more powerful divine abilities? Let's continue!"
Li Bei looked at Ice Cloud happily.
"Ah... oh!"
When she heard Li Bei call her name directly, Ice Cloud was stunned for a moment, then reacted. She held her long sword and pointed it at the sky!
"Skyfall Storm!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the color of the sky and earth changed.
"Rumble..."
Huge rumbling sounds continued to come from the sky. Countless forces of heaven and earth gathered towards the sky, eventually transforming into a powerful blue ice storm. This time, the storm was many times more powerful than the previous blade storm, and the dueling stage had already begun to freeze.
Li Bei's face changed. He opened his mouth to speak, but before he could say anything, the storm had already descended.
"Young Master, be careful!"
Ice Cloud was also taken aback. Skyfall Storm was her strongest attack method. She had once used this move to kill a Saint at the Fourth Level demon beast. She had never thought of using this move to deal with Li Bei, but she had subconsciously used it during the moment of distraction just now. Now it was too late to regret it.
Although someone would come to the rescue at the critical moment, the pain of flesh and blood was inevitable.
Ice Cloud felt extremely remorseful in her heart.
"Ice Cloud is actually using this move. Doesn't she have a crush on the Nine Swords Young Master? Why is she still using this move?"
The Demoness looked at the dueling stage in astonishment. She had the best relationship with Ice Cloud, so she naturally knew that this was Ice Cloud's strongest offensive divine ability. Even she would need to use some trump cards to block it.
"Maybe it's because the Nine Swords Young Master is too proud, and Ice Cloud Immortal Maiden can't stand it anymore."
Long San chuckled. For them, it didn't matter who defeated the Nine Swords Young Master, as long as the Nine Swords Young Master was defeated.
But they didn't care, but their ancestors did.
They looked at the dueling stage nervously. If the Nine Swords Young Master was defeated by Ice Cloud, then they would have no chance.
Ice Cloud's ancestor was even more nervous than them.
"You guys are confused because you care too much. How could the Great Emperor's disciple be so easily defeated?"
Old Ancestor Yao shook his head. Although he also cared about Gu Changsheng's promise, he wasn't as anxious as Long Qing and the others. After all, the Yao family's relationship with the Great Emperor was incomparable to theirs.
Even if they achieved Immortal Reverence, they would still have to call him Old Ancestor Yao, after all, the Supreme Void Immortal Reverence of the past had also called him that.
Sure enough, just as Old Ancestor Yao had said, when the storm dissipated, Li Bei's upper body had completely disappeared, revealing his strong physical body.
A faint golden light covered his body surface, and dozens of blood qi divine rainbows surrounded his body, exactly thirty-six in number.
The thirty-six blood qi divine rainbows, coupled with the Undying Scripture, made his physical body indestructible, withstanding Ice Cloud's attack.
