"Lady, you're quite formidable."
"So, the power that Brother
"So that power was hers? No wonder… no wonder."
When Linghu Hongfei spoke, many people suddenly realized the truth.
However, the female Spirit World Master did not answer Linghu Hongfei's question. Instead, with a wave of her arm, a colossal surge of black aura erupted from within her body like a volcanic explosion.
The moment that black aura appeared, an extremely unsettling aura spread outward in an instant.
No one could quite describe what kind of aura it was, but they couldn't help but feel a deep sense of dread welling up inside them.
Even the demon beasts — creatures innately vicious by nature — felt their hair stand on end in the face of the aura radiating from the female Spirit World Master.
Aooooowl—
At that moment, the black aura surged toward Linghu Hongfei, who stood at the edge of the arena, with overwhelming, avalanche-like force.
The scene was almost like a colossal demonic creature about to devour a pitiful human.
Yet facing the female Spirit World Master's assault, Linghu Hongfei showed not the slightest trace of fear.
Whoosh—
Suddenly, he swept his arm, and a blade of light slashed outward, cutting the massive torrent of aura bearing down on him cleanly in two. The severed energy scattered outward in all directions.
At that moment, people noticed that the weapon in Linghu Hongfei's hand had changed.
The immortal-grade weapon he had been holding earlier had been put away.
Now gripped in his hand was a silver great saber. The blade measured three and a third meters in length, with the edge making up roughly half of that.
Though it bore no elaborate ornamentation, it was incomparably sharp and radiated an extraordinary presence.
"That's not—?"
Upon seeing the great saber, many people's expressions shifted.
This weapon was called the Silver Light Heaven-Cleaving Saber — a half-Step Martial Emperor weapon.
Within the Ancestral Martial Star Domain, although experts at the Martial Emperor Realm could be counted on one hand, there were quite a few at the Martial Ancestor Realm.
True Immortal Realm experts could wield half-Step Immortal weapons, harnessing their power to augment their combat strength.
Naturally, Martial Ancestor Realm experts could do the same with half-Step Martial Emperor weapons.
However, half-Step Martial Emperor weapons were far too precious — so precious that every single one was an priceless treasure, one capable of sparking bloody carnage.
Those who possessed a half-Step Martial Emperor weapon were without exception renowned figures — the very cream of the Martial Ancestor Realm.
The reason half-Step Martial Emperor weapons were so invaluable was that ordinary Spirit World Masters simply could not forge one.
It was said that only Dragon-pattern Saint-robed Spirit World Masters could craft a half-Step Martial Emperor weapon, and even then, it required tremendous effort.
But as everyone knew, even the greatest Spirit World Master in the Ancestral Martial Star Domain, Master Liangqiu, had been merely a Snake-pattern Saint-robed Spirit World Master not so long ago.
Therefore, in the minds of the people, no one in the entire Ancestral Martial Star Domain possessed the ability to forge a weapon of that caliber.
Precisely because half-Step Martial Emperor weapons were so extraordinarily rare, nearly every one in the Ancestral Martial Star Domain had a notable provenance. Many of the older generation recognized them and could call them by name.
The one in Linghu Hongfei's hand at this moment — the Silver Light Heaven-Cleaving Saber — was one of the treasured half-Step Martial Emperor weapons of the