Wow!

Liu Mengru waved her jade-like hand, and the black hole behind her suddenly expanded, instantly doubling in size. From that black hole, black spears of light suddenly shot out ferociously, aiming at Peerless Sword.

Faced with such a dense barrage of spears, Peerless Sword's pupils narrowed. He exuded a powerful aura, causing the void to tremble. Swords qi automatically condensed at astonishing speed to meet the incoming attack.

Puff puff puff puff puff!

The sword qi and light spears clashed violently, exploding continuously in the air.

Chaotic air energy storms appeared out of nowhere, spreading in all directions and impacting the arena's shield, causing the entire shield to tremble incessantly, its light flickering violently.

At this level of confrontation, it was clear both sides were going all out.

"Grand Star Destiny Seal!"

With a delicate shout, Liu Mengru formed seals with both hands. From the black hole, countless stars seemed to emerge instantly, the universe brightened, each star releasing dazzling light, reflecting and converging into a complex curse seal.

With a palm strike from Liu Mengru, this curse seal also suddenly shot out, pressing down towards Peerless Sword.

"Soaring Dragon Emerges!"

Peerless Sword guided with both hands, causing the dense sword qi to gather and flow rapidly under his command, transforming into a sea of swords. Within that sea, sword qi surged wildly, clearly condensing into a massive sword dragon that soared out of the sword sea.

The two figures, one above, one below, these two terrifying assaults collided together, unleashing an extremely violent air energy sweeping out in all directions.

All this air energy crashed onto the shield, with nowhere to be released, otherwise the damage would have been astonishing. Yet even so, under such a powerful impact, the shield twisted, showing traces of reaching its power limit, nearing breaking point.

"These two's strength surpasses us by far."

Sima Xiaoyao and Murong Ziying exchanged glances. Just the aftershocks alone brought the shield to its limit, indicating that these two had strength approaching that of a Saint.

For the younger generation, the gap wasn't just minor.

"Seven Stars Domain!"

Seeing that the Star Destiny Seal couldn't defeat Peerless Sword, Liu Mengru immediately changed tactics. Between her jade hands, two completely different energies converged, one Yin, one Yang. Under the interweaving of Yin and Yang, the black hole suddenly expanded, enveloping the entire arena in an illusory realm.

Within the illusory realm, seven stars were arranged in a peculiar trajectory, completely sealing off the space around Peerless Sword.

The dense sword qi entered the illusory realm without a sound, vanishing completely, as if silently devoured.

A hint of coldness appeared at the corner of his mouth. Peerless Sword once again drove True Qi, causing the sword qi in the air to quickly combine in twos and threes, condensing into eight paths, guarding the eight directions around him. Wherever the sword qi guarded, the illusory realm couldn't penetrate, being isolated outside.

With the illusory realm isolated, Peerless Sword's body suddenly dashed out, slashing with a sword mingled with violent wind and thunder.

Seeing Peerless Sword closing in, Liu Mengru was unafraid of close combat. She raised her jade hand, and a radiant Bagua Pattern appeared in front of him. She lightly pressed on the pattern, and it suddenly moved forward.

Boom!

The power of wind and thunder exploded on the Bagua Pattern, and Peerless Sword's Treasure Sword struck right in the center of the pattern, distorting the pattern at the tip of the sword.

Time seemed to freeze at this moment. However, in the next moment, a sharp gleam flashed in Peerless Sword's eyes, followed by a loud shout: "Break!"

Puchi!

With the shout, Peerless Sword seemed like a Sword Saint, merging all his assaults into this one strike, breaking through the Bagua defense Liu Mengru had condensed.

The sword qi sliced through the air, and seeing Liu Mengru unable to evade, was about to be pierced by the sword light. But at this moment, Liu Mengru's graceful figure suddenly twisted. To everyone's shocked gaze, she split into two identical bodies, and Peerless Sword's sword light passed between them, striking the shield behind, causing a violent ripple.

With the appearance of two Liu Mengru, they simultaneously attacked Peerless Sword, launching a palm strike from a distance.

Peerless Sword dodged one palm, but was struck by the invisible force of the second, a powerful repulsive force exploding, causing him to stagger back, a trace of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.

"Both attacks as strong as the main body."

Ling Chen was taken aback.

Though this cloning technique appeared very mysterious, it was still a clone technique, and from its effect, the clone's strength was too overwhelming.

"This is the Liu Family's top secret art, Yin Yang Avatar Incantation."

Not far away, Ling Lie analyzed with a serious expression, "Liu Mengru seems to have cultivated this Yin Yang Avatar Incantation to a basic mastery stage, otherwise, such a simple avatar wouldn't have such power."

"Basic mastery stage?"

Ling Chen's expression of astonishment deepened. The Nine Great Families all had their own top secret arts, but few of the leading geniuses of each family managed to fully cultivate them. Ling Yuxuan cultivated the Breaking Sky Sword Art to only the eighth style, still far from mastery, let alone basic mastery.

"This is my cousin Liu Mengru's true strength."

Witnessing this scene, Ling Chen was greatly shocked. His cousin, who seemed inconspicuous and unremarkable, was unexpectedly so formidable.

It seems that back when Liu Mengru dealt with Liu Qing, she didn't use her true strength, not even utilizing a fifth of her power.

"Peerless Sword is injured!"

The crowd exclaimed. In their minds, Peerless Sword, as the king of the Central Dynasty's younger generation, should have a slight edge over Liu Mengru. Rankings in various aspects proved this point. However, in this peerless battle the two waged, Peerless Sword was the first to be injured.

"Could it be that Liu Mengru will take the first place in this Heavenly Sword Tournament?"

Ling Xue asked with some surprise.

"It's too early to conclude now."

Ling Chen shook his head. Though he was astonished by Liu Mengru's strength and secretly hoped for his cousin to win, Peerless Sword's strength was evidently not just to this extent. That was merely a minor injury and would not affect the outcome.