Nine Evolutions of the True Spirit Chapter 296 – Surprises

Lu Ping knew right away the shout was not directed at him, but at the laughing Enlightened Master Liang. After all, the attack that came after was far beyond his ability to resist.

The attacker was a Late Core Forging Realm Enlightened Master!

The sea froze below the Flowing Cloud Canoe, and frost began encroaching over the hull. Immediately, the canoe's speed dropped in an instant.

At the same time, Lu Ping lost control of the dark clouds he had cast using the [Cloud Moving Rain Falling Art]. The raindrops hardened into bits of ice and became a hailstorm, the dark clouds converged towards the center, forming an ice shard hundreds of feet long directly above the Flowing Cloud Canoe!

Enlightened Master Lian’s expression darkened, and he released a flying sword towards the ice shard. But the three-feet-long flying sword was unbearably small and pitiful when compared to the few-hundred-feet long ice shard!

Lu Ping looked at the flying sword and sighed, even though this wasn't Enlightened Master Liang's nascent mystic treasure, it was still much higher in quality and power than his Golden Scale Sword.

"Split!"

Enlightened Master Liang commanded, and the flying sword split into eighteen swords. Then, he waved his hands like a musical conductor, orchestrating the swords into eighteen different patterns.

There were the [Breezy Wind Sword], [Clear Wind Sword], [Frosty Wind Sword], [Fiery Wind Sword], [Gushing Wind Sword], [Stormy Wind Sword], [Whirling Wind Sword]…

Lu Ping was dumbfounded to see these sword skills from Xuan Ling Sect's famous [Dissolute Delightful 18 Swords]!

Furthermore, those eighteen swords were actually made up of seventy-two spiritual sword lights each—that meant a total of 1,296 spiritual sword lights, which was the peak of Sword Spirituality!

The ice shard didn't last long under the onslaught of the eighteen swords. Then, Enlightened Master Liang pointed his left hand down and the eighteen swords split into two groups. Nine stayed above them to guard the perimeter while another nine drilled through

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