106: The sword points to the eleventh level, and the brilliant soul prison of thunder is coming!

Bai Xiao slowly closed his eyes.

His mind completely sank into the depths of his soul, where a Soul Sword, radiating pure sword intent, quietly floated.

The Soul Sword master takes his soul as a sword and proves his Dao with the sword.

Every breakthrough he made was a deeper understanding of his soul and the Way of the Sword.

The tenth-tier is the threshold of the Gold-tier, signifying perfect control over one's own power and the initial use of laws.

And the eleventh-tier, on this basis, is the beginning of truly touching and wielding deeper rule power!

This threshold was not difficult for Bai Xiao, but it required time!

At this moment, under the pressure of Shi Potian's twelfth-tier might, Bai Xiao's potential was stimulated to its extreme.

He felt that the time needed for his breakthrough was infinitely shortened.

"Not enough… still not enough…" Bai Xiao whispered in his heart.

He could feel that his accumulation was already sufficient; what he lacked was just an opportunity, a breakthrough point to shatter his shackles!

Above Shi Potian's blood-colored greatsword, destructive energy fluctuations grew stronger and stronger, as if it was about to strike down at any moment.

Time waits for no one!

Bai Xiao suddenly opened his eyes, and in those originally pure platinum pupils, a deeper, more brilliant light now burned, as if stars were being born and dying within them!

"Soul Release… Mind Unleashed… God Liberation…" he murmured to himself.

"The Lingzhu lineage, Soul Sword returns to truth!"

"Today, I, Bai Xiao, shall use this body as a furnace, and enemy blood as fire, to forge my… eleventh-tier path!"

Before his voice faded, the platinum flame on his body, which had been compressed to the extreme, suddenly contracted inward!

All the light, all the energy, all the sword intent, seemed to be swallowed by an invisible black hole, surging madly towards the Soul Sword within his body!

His body, at this moment, became the center of a huge energy vortex!

"What is he doing?!" A trace of doubt flashed in the crimson pupils of the blood-colored demon god that Shi Potian had transformed into.

He could feel that Bai Xiao's aura, instead of collapsing under his pressure, seemed to be undergoing some more dangerous transformation.

"Trying to break through in battle? Foolish!" Shi Potian snorted coldly; although he felt a little uneasy, he had absolute confidence in his own twelfth-tier power.

He didn't believe that a mere tenth-tier could cross that barrier in such a short time!

"Break for me…!"

Shi Potian no longer hesitated, and the blood energy greatsword in his hand, carrying the might of destroying heaven and earth, suddenly struck down!

A blood-colored sword aura, hundreds of meters long, like the wrath of a god, tore through the sky; wherever it passed, space rippled, as if it was about to be cut open alive!

Facing this terrifying blow, capable of instantly killing any peak tenth-tier, Bai Xiao still had his eyes closed, his figure not moving an inch.

The platinum flame on his body had completely disappeared, replaced by a more restrained, yet also more terrifying, pure sword intent.

His body, at this moment, seemed to have transformed into a sword! A peerless fierce sword, poised to strike and about to drink blood!

Just as the blood-colored sword aura was about to reach him—

"Zheng—!!!"

A sword cry, as if from beyond the nine heavens, suddenly resounded through the sky!

The sword cry was clear and high-pitched, yet it carried an indescribable sharpness!

Immediately after, a platinum flame, even more powerful, purer, and more condensed than the previous "God Liberation" state, suddenly erupted from Bai Xiao's body!

This flame was no longer a simple energy form but had materialized; every wisp of flame was like the sharpest sword qi, cutting through the surrounding air, making a hissing sound.

The pair of wings behind him, forged from pure light, became more solid and more magnificent at this moment; every feather seemed to be carved from the purest platinum crystal, flowing with sacred and majestic dawn light.

His wingspan surged again, easily exceeding thirty meters!

His ink-black hair moved without wind, every strand shining with a faint platinum glow.

His opened eyes had completely transformed into two dazzling platinum stars, and the sword intent contained within them was enough to annihilate the soul of anyone who dared to look directly at them!

"Boom—!!!"

The blood-colored sword aura and the newly born platinum flame collided head-on!

There was no earth-shattering explosion; the blood-colored sword aura, upon contact with the platinum flame, rapidly melted and disintegrated, like ice and snow meeting the sun!

It was as if the platinum flame contained a higher-level rule power, capable of easily annihilating Shi Potian's blood energy!

"What?!" Shi Potian's pupils constricted violently, and for the first time, an expression of unbelievable shock appeared on his face.

He could clearly feel that Bai Xiao's aura, at this moment, had indeed broken through the shackles of the tenth-tier and firmly stepped into—

The eleventh-tier!

The true eleventh-tier!

Although it was only an initial entry, that leap in life level, that aura, could not be faked!

"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!" Shi Potian roared in disbelief; he could not accept this fact. He had paid such a heavy price, destroying his heart of god, only to gain temporary twelfth-tier power.

And the opponent had actually broken through to the eleventh-tier in battle, under his pressure?

This was simply the greatest mockery to him!

"Nothing is impossible." Bai Xiao's voice sounded.

He slowly raised the longsword in his hand; on the sword body, platinum flames flowed like living things, and the sword tip exuded a heart-pounding sharpness.

"Thank you for lending me your power to help me break through."

As soon as his voice fell, Bai Xiao's figure suddenly disappeared from his original spot!

"Dimension Break!"

The next moment, he had already appeared behind Shi Potian's side, and the longsword in his hand transformed into a platinum stream of light, piercing directly towards his back!

The speed was far greater than before!

Although Shi Potian was shocked, his battle instincts were still present.

He roared, swept his sword backhand, and the blood energy greatsword, carrying immense power, tried to force Bai Xiao back.

"Clang—!"

The sound of metal clashing was deafening!

In this collision, Bai Xiao's figure only swayed slightly before stabilizing.

However, Shi Potian's massive blood-colored demon god body was shaken back a step!

The comparison of strength, after Bai Xiao's breakthrough, had subtly reversed!

Although Shi Potian was still at the twelfth-tier, it was a realm forcefully elevated by external power; his foundation was unstable, and his power was wild yet difficult to perfectly control.

Bai Xiao, on the other hand, was a genuine eleventh-tier, and his utilization of his own power far surpassed Shi Potian's.

"Domain Expansion—Stellar Soul Thunder Hell!"

Bai Xiao let out a low roar, and the brilliant platinum flame on his body suddenly expanded outwards!

In an instant, with him as the center, the sky within a radius of several thousand meters was suddenly replaced by a strange phenomenon!