I am invincible in the fight

Li Fan couldn't help twitching the corner of his mouth as he looked at the Mortal city below, which had turned into a massive crater and ceased to exist.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly; otherwise, had he been struck by that sword light, not only would his physical body have been directly destroyed, but it probably would have also damaged the Foundation of his Grotto-Heaven.

Fortunately, he wasn't too unlucky and hadn't stood too close. Otherwise, if he had been covered all over by the Immortal-Mortal Miasma, he probably would have triggered Huan Zhen on the spot!

"To be this far away from the stone statue, and yet the impact of the Luck-draining effect is already this great…" Li Fan felt a chill in his heart as he retrieved and replenished his devoured Luck from the Xuan Birds Feather. He also quietly circulated the [Destiny Domain] to prevent himself from being affected by the outflow of Luck again.

The smoke below dissipated, revealing a wooden sword planted straight into the bottom of the giant crater on the ground.

It somehow looked somewhat familiar.

"Ah, Fellow Daoist, I am truly sorry!"

At this moment, the owner of the wooden sword finally arrived belatedly, saying to Li Fan with a look of embarrassment and guilt.

"It is all my fault for not mastering my craft well; I almost took Fellow Daoist's life!"

Li Fan looked toward the newcomer. Although the other party did not recognize him, Li Fan was not unfamiliar with this person at all.

He was none other than Shuo Feng, the notorious second-generation immortal of the Myriad Immortals Alliance, the darling child of Scarlet Snow Immortal, and nicknamed [Wo Wudi]!

Only a short while ago, when he appeared during the "friendly exchange and sparring match" between the Myriad Immortals Alliance and the Five Elders Association, he had still been at the Soul Transformation cultivation stage.

Yet now, looking at him, Shuo Feng was actually only at the Foundation Establishment Realm!

"He hasn't concealed his cultivation; is this because he suffered some stimulation and crippled his cultivation to retrain from scratch?" Li Fan's gaze swept over Shuo Feng, a trace of imperceptible light flashing in his eyes.

"So it is Fellow Shuo Feng!" Li Fan cupped his fists neither servile nor overbearing, saying, "I thought it was some petty scoundrels from the Five Elders Association coming out to cause trouble again!"

Shuo Feng's face flushed slightly.

Not finding it strange that the other party recognized him, he hurriedly explained: "It's a misunderstanding, truly a misunderstanding. I was originally meditating on my cultivation in the air, but somehow, this wooden sword suddenly went out of control. Fortunately, Fellow Daoist reacted quickly; otherwise, I would have needlessly created karmic sins of slaughter once again!"

"Heh, it's fine. I can also see that Fellow Daoist didn't do it on purpose. However, what is going on with your Realm, Fellow Shuo?" Li Fan sized up the other party, intentionally displaying a hint of doubt on his face as he turned to ask.

Shuo Feng did not hide it, stating frankly: "It's nothing much. I just felt that I had walked down the wrong path before, so I'm starting over from the beginning!"

Although Li Fan had known this long ago, he still wore a look of shock. He carefully examined Shuo Feng for a long time before shaking his head slightly and sighing: "The Soul Transformation Realm is already the ultimate goal that the vast majority of Cultivators in the world dream of. Yet Fellow Daoist actually has such daring and resolution, deciding to retrain just like that…"

"I admire you, I truly admire you!" Li Fan praised, cupping his fists.

Shuo Feng gave a light chuckle, brushing it off: "It doesn't deserve such high praise from Fellow Daoist. How am I any stronger than ordinary people? I'm merely relying on my revered mother to back me up. Even if my retraining fails and I remain merely a Foundation Establishment cultivator for the rest of my life, how many people in this Myriad Immortals Alliance would dare to look down on me? But if an ordinary Cultivator fails, it truly is eternal damnation."

Li Fan smiled, neither agreeing nor refuting.

Instead, his gaze turned to the wooden sword in the giant crater below, and he said with a frown: "Although Fellow Daoist is retraining, you are clearly not something ordinary Cultivators can compare to. Judging by the speed and might of this wooden sword, I'm afraid it could easily slay even average Golden Core cultivators."

Shuo Feng also agreed: "Fellow Daoist has good eyes, this wooden sword…"

He paused for a moment, then continued: "To tell you the truth, this sword is the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Object I used to successfully re-establish my Foundation this time. However, although I have already successfully achieved Foundation Establishment relying on this item, I still cannot completely control it."

"It is quite a headache." Saying this, Shuo Feng pointed downward.

However, the wooden sword in the pit only shook gently for a moment and did not respond to Shuo Feng's summons, remaining stuck in the ground.

No matter how extraordinary his demeanor was, a trace of awkwardness could not help but surface on Shuo Feng's face.

Giving a light cough, Shuo Feng successively cast spells, repeating this three times.

Only then did he finally recall the wooden sword to his side.

Li Fan looked carefully at the wooden sword before him; it could no longer be described by the four characters "utterly ordinary".

There were no patterns on the sword body, nor did it emit any profound aura.

It could even be said to be extremely "crude", looking just like a children's toy purely carved out of wood.

But judging from that formidable strike just now, Li Fan knew that this item was by no means as ordinary as it looked.

His heart stirred, and Li Fan suddenly proposed: "This sword is rather interesting. As it happens, I have always had some comprehension regarding the Dao of the sword. It's just that I've been troubled by not being able to find a suitable opponent to spar with. Why don't we…"

Hearing this, Shuo Feng was overjoyed, clapping his hands in praise: "I have also just achieved a Breakthrough and was just worrying about not finding a suitable opponent to practice with. Fellow Daoist's words hit right in the center of my desires!"

With a solemn expression, Shuo Feng gently gripped the wooden sword, pulled his figure back by a certain distance, and pointed from afar at Li Fan: "Let's stop at the point of a friendly match!"

"Very well!" Li Fan agreed in a resonant voice.

Before his words had even faded, eighty-one blue water swords had already taken shape abruptly. Forming a sword formation in mid-air, they whistled and flew to Shuo Feng's side in the blink of an eye.

This was a fatal move that Li Fan executed by mobilizing the power of the Water Attribute Grotto-Heaven, taking the Profound Truth of the Cloud Water Heavenly Palace's Sea Quelling Divine Sword as its core, and imitating it. He did not hold back just because Shuo Feng was only a Foundation Establishment cultivator, mobilizing the power of an entire Grotto-Heaven with all his might.

"Water Dragon Chant!"

Following Li Fan's loud shout, the blue water swords instantly scattered like water dragons filling the sky, piercing together toward every corner of Shuo Feng's body.

Faced with Li Fan's seemingly unsparing attack, Shuo Feng was not alarmed but instead delighted.

With his eyes closed, just as the eighty-one water swords were about to reach his body, he slowly swung out a sword.

It seemed extremely slow, but in reality, it was fast to the extreme.

"Clang!"

"Clang!"

"Clang!"

Like a bolt of white lightning, it shuttled continuously among the water dragons filling the sky.

Every time the wooden sword collided with each blue water sword, it produced a crisp metallic clashing sound.

In the blink of an eye, the wooden sword glided about and had already crossed blows with every single water sword one by one.

Shuo Feng retracted his sword.

As if it had exhausted all his strength, his arm trembled slightly.

And the next moment, these eighty-one blue water swords that should have been under Li Fan's control actually all turned traitor, instead attacking toward Li Fan.

Furthermore…

There seemed to be a trace of an even more profound change upon them, and the azure water dragon they formed actually seemed to come alive in Li Fan's eyes.

Faint dragon roars could be heard by his ear, and amidst the crisscrossing Sword Qi, it had already roared up before Li Fan.

"This is…"

A sharp glint flashed in Li Fan's eyes, yet his reaction was not the least bit slow.

Heaven and Earth were instantly illuminated by a blue hue.

A streak of sword light slashed out from before Li Fan, tearing the azure water dragon apart from the middle with the momentum of splitting bamboo and destroying the withered.

And its momentum unabated, in the blink of an eye, it slashed straight toward Shuo Feng's face.