This thing is a wonder of heaven

The next moment, it seemed as though Shuo Feng was about to be split in half by Li Fan's sword light.

But right at that moment, Shuo Feng slashed out with another sword strike.

"Clang!"

The sword light slashed against the wooden sword, producing a sound like a mallet striking a massive bell.

The two of them locked in a deadlock for a brief moment.

An instant later, the sword light suddenly reversed direction and abruptly attacked toward Li Fan.

Furthermore…

Its speed was even faster, and its sword momentum even sharper!

Locked onto by the returning sword light, dodging was impossible. Li Fan had no intention of exposing his true strength, and moreover, this probing test had already achieved its purpose.

Therefore, he extended his right hand, directly revealing his Water Attribute Grotto-Heaven, and invoked the power of the Grotto-Heaven's domain to suppress the sword light.

"Boom!"

After being struck back by the wooden sword, this streak of sword light—which originally came from Li Fan—seemed to have gained a few more parts of the sword's "sharp" attribute.

Even though it was trapped by the Grotto-Heaven's domain, it did not cut off its momentum of slashing forward. It emitted a tremendous roaring sound, swearing to break open the bindings placed upon it.

Li Fan let out a cold snort and added a bit more power.

Only then was he able to completely suppress it.

Looking back at Shuo Feng at this time, he did not seize this opportunity to launch an attack. Instead, it was as if some mishap had occurred to him, and he was currently trying to appease the wooden sword that was violently shaking nonstop.

"Let this spar end here! I am two major Realms higher than you, yet I fought back and forth with you—that in itself is already a loss." Li Fan let out a long sigh and shook his head, saying.

"A proud son of heaven is a proud son of heaven after all, Foundation Establishment fighting a Nascent Soul…"

"It is far from something Mortals like us can hope to reach." Li Fan looked rather disheartened.

Letting out a long breath, Shuo Feng, who had re-subjugated the wooden sword, saw this and couldn't help comforting him, saying, "Fellow Daoist need not take it to heart. The vast majority of the reason I am able to reach this step is entirely thanks to the merit of this wooden sword."

Perhaps because Li Fan's displayed temperament suited Shuo Feng's taste immensely, or perhaps because he inherently had nothing to fear.

After hesitating for a moment, Shuo Feng said not without smugness, "Not to hide it from Fellow Daoist, this sword…"

"It is a Heaven's Wonder!"

"Fellow Daoist's defeat is not due to a fault in battle!"

Shuo Feng gently stroked the body of the wooden sword, a trace of infatuation flashing across his face.

Hearing this, Li Fan couldn't help narrowing his eyes.

Putting on an appearance of extreme shock, he stared fixedly at the unremarkable wooden sword in Shuo Feng's hand: "Heaven's Wonder?"

"Fellow Daoist isn't joking, are you? Heaven's Wonder secretly aligns with the Heavenly Dao, ethereal and traceless, never revealing itself in the Mortal world. The only one known to everyone is that legendary Derivation Law Jade."

"This broken sword could actually be a Heaven's Wonder as well?" Li Fan deliberately said this.

Shuo Feng chuckled softly, "I used it to achieve Foundation Establishment, so how could I be mistaken? This Heaven's Wonder is named [Sword]."

As he spoke, Shuo Feng gently swung the wooden sword, stirring up a flash of sword light.

"Sword?"

Li Fan's heart shook.

"Could it be that this item is the convergence and Incarnation of the Law of the Sword in the Xuanhuang World?" He couldn't help asking.

Shuo Feng nodded, and the wooden sword pointed toward a lush, leafy giant tree not far away.

Under Li Fan's gaze, that tree underwent a subtle change in an instant. A gentle breeze blew past, and the leaves drifting down from the branches fluttered with the wind.

As they brushed past another tree, they actually swept across the air like a peerlessly sharp sword.

The tree was severed right at the waist on the spot.

Another strong gust of wind blew, and leaves fluttered everywhere. The tree enlightened by the wooden sword was like a peerless swordsman, continuously executing sword strikes.

Tree after tree beside it collapsed with a loud crash.

This bizarre scene left Li Fan completely dumbfounded.

"Perhaps what Fellow Daoist says is not false!" He slowly said, pretending to stammer slightly out of shock.

Shuo Feng smiled slightly, "Naturally. I obtained this item from the ruins of the former Heavenly Sword Sect by risking a narrow escape from death."

Looking at the wooden sword in his hand, Shuo Feng recalled the scene back then: "If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, Fellow Daoist, you would never be able to imagine the shock in my heart at that time. The Heavenly Sword Sect's Sword Tomb buried millions of swords. But all of those ancient swords, stuck haphazardly and disorderly in the ground, were all slightly bent toward the exact same direction."

"It was just like having an audience with the emperor among swords."

"And right at the very center of the million-sword Sword Tomb, I found it."

A trace of arrogance flashed across Shuo Feng's face: "At that time, I knew that my insistence on recultivating despite my mother's opposition was an incomparably correct choice."

"Otherwise, how could I have encountered such an opportunity?"

"Heavenly Sword Sect, Sword Tomb…" Li Fan stared at the Heaven's Wonder item [Sword], countless thoughts flashing through his mind instantly. But in the end, he abandoned the idea of immediately activating his Insect Binding Divine Power to make this item his own.

"A Heaven's Wonder…" Li Fan's eyes were filled with envy.

Suddenly, he asked somewhat strangely: "With such a confidential matter, Fellow Daoist is just casually telling a passerby like me? Aren't you afraid that I will spread it and make it known to everyone?"

Shuo Feng waved his hand grandly and said arrogantly, "I have always acted according to my own whims. You clearly knew my identity, yet during our spar just now, you still held nothing back and went all out. Very good!"

"Besides, what if you tell others about this matter? Having obtained such a divine object, if one cannot show it off to others and instead covers it up, how is that any different from walking in embroidered clothes at night?"

"But after all, harboring a rare treasure is bound to attract the covetous eyes of others…" Li Fan paused, still seemingly finding it hard to understand.

"Petty villains coveting it?" At this moment, Shuo Feng suddenly burst out into a loud laugh, his overbearing aura completely unmasked.

A brilliant golden armor emerged on his body, radiating an extremely powerful coercion that even caused Li Fan to involuntarily step back a short distance.

"Although this Heaven's Wonder of mine is extremely rare, it is already useless to Cultivators at the Dao Integration Realm and above."

"Below the Dao Integration Realm, who else could possibly harm me? Moreover, even an expert of the Dao Integration Realm might not necessarily be able to break the defense of this armor."

Shuo Feng pointed at the armor on his body, speaking with a somewhat complex expression.

Li Fan could only be left speechless.

"So this is the confidence of a top-tier second-generation immortal from the Myriad Immortals Alliance…"

"Still, it is for the best. Without you being this confident, extracting information about this Heaven's Wonder from your mouth would have taken quite a bit of effort."

Li Fan suppressed the thoughts in his heart, looked at Shuo Feng who had already put away the golden armor, and asked again, "Although Fellow Daoist's wooden sword is indeed extraordinary, I always feel that its specific manifestations still seem to have some gap compared to the legendary Heaven's Wonder."

"Could it be because Fellow Daoist has not fully mastered it yet?"

Hearing this, a trace of helplessness appeared on Shuo Feng's face.

"Fellow Daoist is so careful in observation! A Heaven's Wonder item is indeed extraordinary. Even though I have used it for Foundation Establishment, I still cannot achieve complete mastery over it. Sometimes it even slips out of my control."

"That was exactly the case when it almost accidentally injured Fellow Daoist just now."

Hearing these words, Li Fan suddenly recalled the scene of Shuo Feng fighting Su Xiaomei that he had witnessed in his past life.