Time Manipulating System

Chapter 106

Chapter 106

Gu Yang raised his sword again. This time he held back no longer. Peak ninety‑percent Sword Intent erupted once more. But now he did not swing casually; a fierce light flashed in his eyes. He brought his sword down and murmured under his breath, “Heaven‑cleaving Sword Art… Sever the Vast Sky!”

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The instant the blade fell, a terrifying sword qi burst forth as if it could cleave the heavens. crack The surrounding space trembled violently under the sword’s power, as if it might rupture at any moment.

Bai Tianhong’s face changed drastically. “What!?” he gasped. “What sword technique is that? Such a terrifying sword qi!” Even as a sword‑path genius, he had never seen such domineering, razor‑sharp sword qi.

I cannot take that! he thought. Absolutely not! Yet if he avoided it, all the years he had spent forging an invincible heart might be wasted. Torn, he stared at the rushing sword qi, gritted his teeth, and chose to dodge.

whoosh

He flashed aside. The extraordinary sword qi sliced through the sky and slammed into a nearby hill. Moments later the sword qi struck the hill and a terrifying shockwave rolled outward. The several‑hundred‑meter mountain split cleanly in two. A bottomless, dreadful sword scar radiated from the hill, cleaving even the earth beneath.

Everyone inhaled sharply; their bodies trembled. Some felt their legs go weak. This, one slash had split a mountain hundreds of meters high in half. Could a Ningzhen Realm cultivator do that? Not even a peak Baoyuan Realm master could manage such a feat; perhaps only a Yuanhai Realm powerhouse might barely accomplish it.

As the crowd recoiled in horror, Bai Tianhong’s expression soured. He had been on the verge of comprehending ninety‑percent Sword Intent, but Gu Yang’s blade had shattered his breakthrough. What had been about to reach ninety percent had been forced back to peak eighty percent. Bai Tianhong’s chest heaved; his eyes brimmed with madness and unwillingness.

So close, just one more step! he thought. I could have grasped ninety percent! But he forcibly interrupted me!

“Damn it!” Bai Tianhong roared. “If you’d quietly been my whetstone, I wouldn’t have harmed you. But you dared interrupt my breakthrough, you deserve to die!”

A murderous intent exploded from his eyes. Although he knew the terror of Gu Yang’s sword, he believed Gu Yang’s strike could not hit him. As soon as the words left his mouth, his aura surged wildly. In a single minute he pushed from the seventh layer of Baoyuan Realm to the ninth layer. His true qi became monstrously fierce. He had used a secret method to temporarily raise his cultivation, enough to give him absolute crushing power.

Previously Bai Tianhong had only wanted to fight Gu Yang to temper himself and attain ninety‑percent Sword Intent. Now, because Gu Yang had ruined his chance, he would not hold back. He intended to kill Gu Yang.

A terrifying true‑qi aura erupted. Red‑hot true qi seemed to set the sky ablaze; its might forced onlookers to recoil. Wrapped in that fire‑red true qi, Bai Tianhong resembled a war god reborn in flame. He gripped a crimson spirit sword; peak eighty‑percent Sword Intent roared out.

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The red true qi on the blade flared even hotter, radiating waves of heat. Bai Tianhong no longer hesitated, he surged forward, sword in hand. “Die!” he shouted.

The combination of ninth‑layer Baoyuan true qi and peak eighty‑percent Sword Intent was terrifying. Even a peak Yuanhai Realm master would likely retreat from such a blow. Bai Tianhong aimed the strike to kill Gu Yang.

Spectators gasped. “This slash is no weaker than Gu Yang’s earlier one!” “Even a first‑layer Yuanhai Realm master might not stop it.” “At this close range… Gu Yang’s finished!” Many sighed at the thought that the duel between two monsters might end with one death.

But when everyone thought Gu Yang could not possibly block the blow, he remained utterly calm, his gaze cold. “Peak eighty percent, huh?” Gu Yang murmured indifferently. “Is that all?”

He slowly raised his spirit sword. He did not dodge or evade; he walked straight toward Bai Tianhong’s blade.

“What!?” people cried. “Gu Yang isn’t dodging?” “He’s charging Bai Tianhong’s sword, he’s courting death!” Some watched in shock, others in confusion; a few seemed to sense something and prepared to speak.

At that moment an unimaginable peak aura exploded from Gu Yang, sword intent unlike any before. This sword intent was whole: a small‑perfection level sword intent. The instant it appeared, Bai Tianhong, who had thought victory certain, stared wide‑eyed. He fixed his gaze on the utterly different, terrifying sword intent emanating from Gu Yang and stood dumbfounded.

“That is…” he whispered, trying to speak, but before he could finish the terrifying sword intent struck like lightning and swallowed him.

boom

sput

The dreadful sword intent detonated. Bai Tianhong’s swing shattered. The small‑perfection sword intent tore Bai Tianhong’s body apart into fragments.

When the terrifying sword force faded, the area lay in ruin. Bai Tianhong’s figure had vanished. In the place where he had stood remained only a storage ring and a white mid‑grade spirit sword.

Chu State’s number‑one prodigy, Bai Tianhong, had fallen.