A boundless sword intent surrounded Heifeng Jiansui, harmonizing with his mortal body. Nine elemental halos surrounded his body, as the Nine-Element energies within him harmonized to form a perfect Nineprime Sword Body. Surrounding him, spacetime began to crack like glass shattering.

“I have the bloodline of a Black Phoenix, and having cultivated it to the 1st Principle of Yin-Yang, I can summon the strength of a Chaos Sovereign for a second. With the Ninelight Circuit Sheath, I can bring forth a miracle and battle for a minute. So, our battle will be settled a minute. How about it?” Heifeng Jiansui cast a domineering air as he asked.

“Eh, how short.” Nineorigin smiled cold-heartedly. “It would be boring.”

“Eh, this is a battle of swordsmanship after all. If it isn’t short, it would be meaningless. What now, after bravely coming forth, can’t you spare a minute?” Heifeng Jiansui’s words seemed taunting. Nineorigin smiled predatorily.

“I won’t hold back either. The Nine Elements and the Sword, my comprehension of them far surpasses you.” Saying this, Nineorigin glared at him. Placing her hand on the sword sheathed on her hip, she drew the sword in a fluid motion.

“The Nine Elements… I concede to you in them. But not even you can dare boast of surpassing me in the Sword Dao!” Saying this, the sword intent that was hidden in Nineprime was bared, and swordlight emitted from him like a blooming lotus.

“Don’t act so showy. Let’s go then, I’ll show you the power of a World Spirit!” Drawing the energy of the world to form a sword, boundless sword intent and the energy of the Nine Elements converged to form a dazzling sword. 3 foot long, it seemed as if it could cleave apart the stars.

Grasping it with one hand, she pointed it at Heifeng Jiansui.

“Come, then! With my strongest, I shall beat your strongest!" Saying this, Heifeng Jiansui drew his sword with one fluid motion, pointing it at Nineprime. With the draw, the haloes of the Nine Elements seemed to fuse together on his body, and a golden light covered him!

Sword intent flashed at Nineorigin when the sword was drawn, the momentum exploding into force. It wasn’t an attack, but simply a phenomenon formed when the peerless Nineprime revealed its strength! With the sword formed in her hands, she cleaved through it.

“I’ll take the first move!” Confidently proclaiming this, she flashed before Heifeng Jiansui and slashed out. Her sword blow was parried by Heifeng Jiansui, the center of his sword flashing with sparks.

Slash, slash, slash! A string of continuous blows were blocked by Heifeng Jiansui in a blink! With one hand on his hilt and his other finger pressing on the centre of his double-edged sword, all the force that Nineorigin attacked with was dissipated.

“Take this!” With his eyes tinted with red, he countered with a vicious cleave. Nineorigin’s sword moved to block, but with ghostlike grace, the edge of his sword evaded and cleaved through the robe, leaving a bloody gash upon her abdomen.

“Heh, that was nothing!” The cleave healed in a moment, and Nineorigin leaped at him to attack once more. Raising his sword to parry again, he once again slashed out, this time leaving a long gash on the shoulder. In response, Nineorigin playfully tapped the wound, and the injury disappeared.

Their confrontation went on in this vein, with a dozen blows guarded and a single blow breaking through, yet meaningless.

“A second has passed. Is this your ‘strongest’, Jiansui?” Nineorigin said this with a mocking tone, but couldn’t help but feel awe at the strength displayed. The small window of a second had witnessed an exchange of nearly a thousand blows.

“As if, I was just warming up. Nineprime, come forth, slash open all that comes in your path!” The sword in his hand that had a clear mirror-like blade a moment before, shone with intense light and nine intricate runes appeared upon it. With the shining starlight illuminating the sword, a slash like lightning flashed.

Facing this strike that surpassed the previous attacks, Nineorigin knew that she couldn’t take it casually. With a flick of a finger, wind howled, thunder raged, rain pattered and a bolt of lightning slashed to meet the swordlight.

Boom! Wind struck out in shockwaves as the power that could shake the skies struck. Without pausing for a moment, Nineorigin called a bolt of light and a spear of darkness to fly at Heifeng Jiansui. He charged at her, slashing through the two elemental bolts, even using the momentum formed from the exchange in force to boost his speed!

Sheathing his sword back, he ran forward at Nineorigin. Every step he took, swordlight streaked behind him. His entire body emitted swordlight, as if he was a sword forged in a human body.

Facing him, Nineorigin felt a shiver run through her back. Following her instincts, she immediately retreated. It was the first time she had felt a threat to her life. Facing him, even though he was a mortal, she couldn’t afford to hold back. Because even now, he was capable of things she would haven’t ever dream of…

“Five Elements Converge!” Instead of simply controlling the vast elemental energy, she called upon the power of the Dao, the Supreme Dao that was inherent to her. Five colored light rotated in a wheel, before finally transforming into a heaven covering palm that slapped on the puny figure approaching her!

Looking at the flying palm, Heifeng Jiansui’s eyes blazed red. “Your attack is like Buddha’s Palm, covering even fate. What a pity… that even Buddha couldn’t seize me, even after chasing for a thousand years!” Screaming this in a frenzy, he didn’t even draw his sword, flying into the palm.

“Ah!” The palm flew forward, untouched and unbroken. And having breached it untouched, Heifeng Jiansui flew at Nineorigin with a grin.

“You… You actually saw through the flaw of my Five Phase technique and sneaked through it? Weren’t you a Sword Immortal, didn’t you minor in the Nine Elements? How is your skill capable of piercing through, how can you see through the perfected laws of the Five Phases?” Nineorigin’s surprise could be heard in her voice.

Of course, Nineorigin was surprised. But how could she know Heifeng Jiansui’s adeptness at escaping techniques? If there was a path, he could enter it, if there was no path, he could create one anyway!

With a hand upon his sheath, poised for a draw, sword intent surged from him like a spring. Upon the ground, swords began sprouting like grass…

“…Brace yourself! This is my strongest blow! Nine Origins, Converge!” Facing the fearsome swordsman, she burst out with her full strength. All the energy of the surrounding world, of the Chaosworld was drawn into the small sphere forming on her finger like a black hole.

Facing the tremendous power, the grin on Heifeng Jiansui’s cheeks widened and the grip on his sword loosened, bracing for the confrontation.

“Nine Elements, Return to Void!” It was as if the world turned dark, as if the Heavenly Dao ceased functioning for a brief moment. The pressure of elemental energy struck Heifeng Jiansui before the vortex, destroying the sword momentum he had built up. And then, the black hole-like vortex that had swallowed untold amounts of energy struck.

But before that, the sword was drawn. The darkness that gripped the world lost hold over a 3 foot line.