Saber9 hovered in the air, his sword gleams swimming around him like a school of fish, easily fending off the waves of vines.
He began to perform hand seals quickly with both hands, and his aura began to become unpredictable.
Naturally, Nine Gloom noticed the changes, but he did not pay too much attention to them.
The previous two rounds of attacks had given him a rough idea of Saber9's standard. He did not think that Saber9's attacks were much of a threat. His attention was still mostly focused on Lin Huang and Virtuoso.
He did not ignore Saber9 completely either. Instead, he sent more vines to attack Saber9. He also increased the frequency of his vines' attacks in an attempt to interrupt Saber9's attacks.
However, the sword gleams swimming around Saber9 were like living creatures. Not only did they increase in number with the number of vines, but their speed also increased rapidly under the influence of the vines' attacks.
Furthermore, Saber9's hand seals were completed very quickly.
The moment he finished forming the seal, a golden sword gleam suddenly lit up in his eyes.
Approximately a meter in front of him, a golden sword gleam began to consolidate at a speed visible to the naked eye.
There was only one sword gleam, but it gradually stretched to approximately a meter in length. It looked almost no different from the millions of sword gleams that Saber9 had consolidated earlier.
Only Saber9 knew that this sword gleam was completely different from the ones he had consolidated previously.
The essence of this sword gleam was a sword formation that Saber9's Primordial form had left behind. Furthermore, he had injected a hint of energy into it.
This sword formation's original function was to protect Saber9's life. It would be activated passively the moment Saber9 died. It would unleash an attack that was comparable to a Lord's.
Of course, the effect of Saber9's active activation was much weaker.
One reason was that Saber9 had not mastered this sword formation, so he could not unleash its full power.
The other reason was that when it was actively activated, the hint of energy that Saber9's Primordial form injected into it could not be used. It was Saber9's own Divine Power that was used.
Although nothing unusual about this sword gleam could be seen on the surface, Lin Huang and Virtuoso could clearly sense that this sword gleam contained terrifying energy.
No matter how slow Nine Gloom was, he could sense the threat that this sword gleam posed. The threat was even vaguely greater than the two shockwaves that Virtuoso had replicated earlier.
Naturally, Nine Gloom had no idea what Saber9's sword attack was, but that did not stop him from viewing it as a terrifying attack-type secret skill.
"As expected, I still underestimated this sword cultivator!"
In reality, he had not underestimated the three opponents before him at all. However, he had not expected that he would still misjudge Saber9's ability.
Seeing that the sword-light had completely condensed into form in the blink of an eye, Nine Nether raised his guard.
The moment the golden sword light condensed into form, the sword light suddenly transformed into a bolt of lightning and shot out.
"So fast!"
Not only Nine Gloom, but even Lin Huang and Virtuoso could not help sighing to themselves.
The sword was so fast that Lin Huang felt that it was the fastest attack he had ever seen since he started cultivating.
With his eyesight, he couldn't even see this attack. Even with his Divine Will, he could only capture the traces left behind by the sword.
"Such a sword … If the opponent was me, I might have been killed before I could even use the Mirror," Lin Huang sighed in his heart.
He could imagine that apart from its speed, the power of this attack would be extraordinary as well.
After all, it was a trump card left behind by an almighty being!
As an almighty being's clone, Virtuoso was able to see more.
At first glance, they could tell that Saber9's attack had not fully activated the power of the trump card. He could roughly guess why this was the case.
"As expected, activating it on its own is much weaker." Virtuoso cupped their chin and thought to themselves, "The attack's still a little weak … An attack of this level shouldn't be able to kill Nine Gloom."
Before the outcome of this attack was known, Virtuoso had already begun planning their next step.
Nine Gloom, who was currently facing this attack, was under immense pressure.
The attack was extremely fast. Even with Nine Gloom's eyesight, he could only barely catch a glimpse of the sword gleam. Fortunately, his Divine Telekinesis was powerful, so he could sense the sword gleam's complete trajectory.
The moment his Divine Telekinesis caught a glimpse of the sword gleam, Nine Gloom attacked without hesitation.
Countless vines grew wildly, surging toward the golden sword gleam.
He no longer had any extravagant hopes of blocking this attack. He only hoped that he could use the vines to wear down the power of Saber9's attack.
After the golden sword gleam locked onto Nine Gloom, it actually broke free of Saber9's control completely.
Faced with layers upon layers of vines, it had no intention of circling around them. Instead, it pierced right through them. Wherever it passed, it was as easy as crushing dry weeds, piling up all over the ground.
The vines could not stop the sword gleam at all. Almost all of them were crushed into dust when they were about ten centimeters away from the sword gleam.
Nine Gloom did not panic at all when he saw this.
The sword gleam did not seem to dim in the slightest, but Nine Gloom was very certain that each time the sword gleam came into contact with his vines, it would weaken a little.
This time, he had borrowed the technique that Lin Huang and Saber9 had used against him earlier. He had added a secret technique that absorbed and drained Divine Power into all of the vines.
After colliding with the vines two or three times, the weakening of the sword gleam would definitely not be obvious. However, what if it was hundreds or thousands of times? What if it was tens of thousands of times?!
Nine Gloom himself had not expected that he would be able to apply what he had learned so quickly, using the technique that Saber9 had used against him earlier on his opponent.
Lin Huang and the other two very quickly noticed that something was amiss.
Lin Huang had no idea what Virtuoso's current expression was under the mask, but he saw that Saber9 was frowning slightly. Nobody knew whether Saber9 was dissatisfied with the strength of his attack or whether he was displeased with Nine Gloom's trick of returning the favor to him.
However, Lin Huang himself looked rather helpless under the mask at the moment.
He had not expected that the trick that he and Saber9 had played would cause him trouble as well.
In the air, countless vines surged toward the golden sword gleam.
The golden sword gleam was unstoppable. Its speed did not seem to slow down at all. In the blink of an eye, it pierced through the layers of obstacles and arrived in front of Nine Gloom.
Nine Gloom did not dodge. He knew that there was no point in dodging.
There was no way he could evade this attack at all.
Therefore, he chose to defend with all his might.
Countless vines extended out instantly, reinforcing themselves and forming a complex structure. They formed a series of silver arc-shaped shields in front of him.
In the blink of an eye, the shields had consolidated into eighteen shields.
It was as if there were eighteen walls in front of Nine Gloom.
Almost twenty extremely thick Divine Chains of Order of various colors were coiled around the shields. They were the material manifestations of the energy of Order.
In the blink of an eye, the golden gleam collided with the shields.
Gold and silver divine lights lit up abruptly, instantly blotting out the sun. At that moment, it was as if the world was left with only two colors, gold and silver.
Even the two spectators, Lin Huang and Virtuoso, could not help narrowing their eyes slightly.
However, apart from the gold and silver gleams, both of them could not see anything else.
A moment later, the two gleams gradually faded. Only then did Lin Huang and Virtuoso finally see the situation of the battle.
The eighteen layers of silver shields, which were like city walls, had been completely pierced through by a giant hole the size of a water tank.
Meanwhile, Nine Gloom, who had been hiding behind the shields earlier, had vanished as well.
"Nine Gloom … has been killed?!" A hint of doubt arose in Lin Huang's heart.
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