217: White Sky Sword

Luo Yan's figure transformed into a cyan storm.

His entire being, along with the battle blade in his hand, merged into one, sweeping towards Bai Xiao.

The ground beneath his feet cracked inch by inch.

With the unfolding of his domain, 'Myriad Blades Wind Prison', the power of a 15th-tier legend was pushed to its extreme.

Wherever he passed, sand and stones flew, and rocks shot through the air.

He plowed a continuously expanding gully into the canyon floor.

The stone walls on both sides groaned under his violent aura, collapsing countless giant rocks.

He moved faster and faster, and the cyan storm finally transformed into a colossal tornado connecting heaven and earth, roaring.

They tore at space, vowing to rip the figure in front of him, along with the ground beneath his feet, into shreds!

As a 15th-tier legend of the wind attribute, Luo Yan went all out from the very beginning.

The canyon trembled, and the sky wailed.

Facing this almost cataclysmic strike, Bai Xiao simply calmly raised the Soul Sword in his hand.

Clang!

A clang of metal rang out.

The terrifying tornado, powerful enough to destroy cities and fortresses, abruptly halted the moment it touched the pale sword tip.

No matter how the wind blades cut or how the airflow roared, it could not advance another inch.

The next moment, sword light flashed.

Boom—!

The giant tornado was split in two, and the violent wind currents raged to both sides, carving two enormous indentations into the canyon walls.

Amidst the swirling dust, the two figures moved so fast that only afterimages remained.

Each collision erupted in an earth-shattering roar.

Sword light and blade shadows intertwined, sometimes on the ground, sometimes on the cliff, and sometimes soaring into the clouds.

The aftermath of their battle completely reshaped the canyon's terrain.

Peaks were leveled, rivers were dried up, and the chaotic energy currents in the sky were as turbulent as boiling water.

However, the more he fought, the heavier Luo Yan's heart sank.

Every one of his full-force assaults, every one of his proud killing moves.

They were all effortlessly resolved by the opponent in an almost artistic manner.

The opponent's sword was not fast, yet it always appeared in the most opportune position.

It was not heavy, yet it contained a law that could obliterate everything, making his usually unstoppable battle blade feel sluggish.

What angered and shocked Luo Yan even more was that, until this moment, the opponent hadn't even unleashed his domain!

This was blatant contempt!

Luo Yan had dominated battlefields for a century, renowned as invincible among his peers at the 15th-tier; when had he ever suffered such humiliation?

"Are you... playing with me?"

Luo Yan suddenly pulled back, a storm circling around him.

He stared at Bai Xiao, his voice filled with suppressed fury.

Bai Xiao did not answer, merely stood holding his sword.

"Good, very good!"

Luo Yan laughed in extreme anger.

"Since you are so arrogant, then let me show you the true fangs of the Heavenly Wolf Guard!"

"Wrath of the Wind God · Heavenly Wolf Howl at the Moon!"

He no longer hesitated, furiously compressing his domain and pouring it all into the battle blade in his hand.

A gigantic phantom of a Heavenly Wolf, composed of pure wind law, materialized behind him, howling at the sky.

At that moment, all the wind elements in the entire canyon bowed to him, as if they had seen their king.

This was his ultimate killing move, the source of his confidence.

It was an exchange of compressing his entire domain for a supreme strike that transcended limits!

He was confident that this strike was enough to utterly annihilate any opponent of the same tier!

"Bai Xiao! Show me your true power! Otherwise, die!" Luo Yan roared, his voice shaking the sky.

He refused to believe that anyone of the same tier could be strong enough to disregard his life-or-death strike.

Facing the power that could alter the heavens, Bai Xiao finally responded.

He looked at Luo Yan, his gaze calm, as if looking at a dead object.

"You wish to witness true power?"

Bai Xiao's voice clearly reached Luo Yan's ears.

It also reached the ears of all observers outside the Tianyan Battle Realm.

"Then, I shall show you."

Bai Xiao released his grip on the sword.

The pale Soul Sword floated silently before him.

An inexplicable aura emanated from him.

It was not pressure, not killing intent, but a kind of... 'emptiness' and 'stillness' where all things return to their end.

The next moment.

"Annihilation."

Buzz—

At this instant, the hearts of everyone in the entire Tianyan Battle Realm, and even in the New Moon Plaza outside, felt as if they had been struck by a heavy hammer.

A vast and ethereal voice echoed between heaven and earth.

It was the echo of the world, the resonance of the laws.

"True Name Liberation? This... how is this possible?"

On the viewing platform, someone cried out in disbelief.

Legendary powerhouses comprehend laws and condense domains.

But above that, there was another step: finding the "True Name" of one's own Great Dao, and merging with the Dao itself!

True Name Liberation meant that this legendary powerhouse had comprehended their laws to the extreme, capable of stirring the resonance of the world's origin!

That was not even the origin of one world, but the shared ocean of laws of all the myriad worlds!

This was a ticket to a higher realm, the prerequisite for a demigod!

In New Moon Plaza, everyone was stunned into silence by this scene.

General Wei Feng's face, which had remained composed, could no longer maintain its composure.

15th-tier... and he had already achieved True Name Liberation?

How was this possible!

Meanwhile, within the battle realm, as the words "Annihilation" left his lips, Bai Xiao's domain silently unfolded.

'Boundless Land of Death'.

There was no wild wind, no thunder, not even light.

Only an endless expanse of paleness.

Within the area covered by this paleness, all things lost their original colors, and time seemed to stop flowing.

Hard rocks began to weather into dust, and the remaining plants in the canyon withered in an instant.

All life and energy were rapidly stripped away in this land of death, returning to nothingness.

At this moment, Luo Yan's ultimate killing move was also fully charged.

He sensed the terrifying nature of the opponent's domain, but he had no retreat, and no time to think.

He only knew that the opponent was so arrogant as to actually let him fully prepare this move!

"Die!"

The gigantic phantom of the Heavenly Wolf transformed into a cyan pillar of light, tearing through heaven and earth, and crashed down towards Bai Xiao.

Between heaven and earth, only this single light remained, as if to devour the entire world.

Facing this decisive strike.

Bai Xiao raised his hand and grasped the Soul Sword floating before him.

Then.

He lightly swung it.

A pale sword light, meeting the cyan pillar of light, surged against it.

There was no standoff as imagined.

Luo Yan's highly anticipated 'Heavenly Wolf Howl at the Moon' was split in two the moment it touched the pale sword light.

The two separated cyan pillars of light flew past Bai Xiao's sides, crashing into the distant canyon walls.

Boom! Boom!

The distant towering mountains were directly leveled by the violent wind elements, and the earth was torn open with two giant, bottomless Rift Valley (fissures).

And Luo Yan stood dumbfounded in place.

He watched his ultimate skill be so easily broken, his mind a blank.

The next moment, he felt a chill at his neck.

Bai Xiao's figure, at some unknown point, had appeared beside him.

The sword had completed its horizontal slash and silently returned to its sheath.

"You... lost."