Chapter 723 Reaching Great Perfection with a Single Swallow

Chapter 723: Chapter 723 Reaching Great Perfection with a Single Swallow

Its purpose was obvious.

The old man intended to capture Lin Feng alive, drag him away, and cut out his tongue as punishment for insulting Young Master Nangong.

The enormous palm descended rapidly.

The pressure alone caused cracks to spread across the ground.

Several cultivators in the crowd hurriedly retreated again.

"That’s the power of a Nascent Soul Realm expert!"

"He isn’t even holding back!"

"There’s no way that mortal can survive this!"

Just as the giant palm was about to reach Lin Feng, Li Ruoxi moved.

"Hmph!"

She stepped forward without hesitation.

A sword instantly appeared in her hand, and terrifying spiritual energy erupted from her beautiful body.

She raised the sword toward the descending palm.

Li Ruoxi was completely fearless.

She knew that Lin Feng was deliberately playing the role of a mortal.

Since her husband was pretending to be weak, she naturally had to be the one to step forward and protect him.

She had no intention of allowing anyone to touch him.

The enormous palm continued descending.

Li Ruoxi prepared to strike.

But before she could move, Lin Feng suddenly spoke.

"Wait, wife."

Li Ruoxi turned her head slightly.

Lin Feng was still standing there calmly.

"Take this sword instead."

He smiled.

"It’ll be put to good use in your hands."

"Hmm?"

Li Ruoxi was confused.

Then she noticed that Lin Feng was holding the golden stone in his palm.

The next moment, the stone suddenly cracked.

Crack!

Golden light burst out from the stone.

The entire crowd instinctively held their breath.

The mysterious stone treasure that Lin Feng had refused to open earlier was finally revealing its contents.

The golden stone completely shattered in his hand.

A strange aura immediately spread through the surroundings.

Lin Feng casually reached into the broken stone and pulled out the treasure hidden inside.

Then he tossed it toward Li Ruoxi.

"Catch."

Li Ruoxi instinctively caught it.

The moment her hand closed around the object, her beautiful eyes widened.

Her expression changed.

"This..."

She stared at the object in her hand.

The surrounding cultivators also stared.

One second passed.

Then another.

Nobody spoke.

Even the old man who had been attacking Lin Feng momentarily slowed down.

The object in Li Ruoxi’s hands looked nothing like the dazzling divine treasures everyone had imagined.

There was no brilliant spiritual radiance.

No terrifying sword intent.

No overwhelming aura.

Instead, it was a sword.

An extremely old sword.

Its blade was covered in what appeared to be layers of rust, and its surface looked ancient and weathered, as though it had been buried underground for countless years.

The crowd stared in disbelief.

"This..."

"It’s..."

Someone swallowed hard.

"It’s a rusted sword?"

The words spread through the crowd.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

After spending one million high-grade spirit stones, Lin Feng had actually obtained a rusty old sword?

Some people couldn’t help but look at each other.

"Is that really the treasure he was bragging about?"

"He called that the most special treasure in the entire batch?"

"Hahaha..."

A few people almost laughed.

But the old vendor did not laugh.

His expression had become unusually serious.

He stared at the rusted sword in Li Ruoxi’s hand, his eyes narrowing.

For some reason, he suddenly felt a faint sense of danger.

It was an instinct developed from years of dealing with strange treasures.

Sometimes, the most terrifying treasures were precisely the ones that looked completely worthless.

And this rusted sword...

He had a feeling that it was far from ordinary.

Li Ruoxi stared at the rusted sword in her hand.

Even after examining it carefully, she could not discover anything particularly special about it.

It simply looked like an old, rusted sword that had been abandoned for countless years.

In fact, Li Ruoxi felt that if she swung it too carelessly, the sword itself might simply snap in half.

Yet she did not doubt Lin Feng for even a moment.

She trusted him completely.

If Lin Feng said that this sword was special, then it was special.

There was no need for her to question his judgment.

She wanted to inspect the sword more carefully and figure out what exactly was hidden beneath all that rust, but she had no time for that now.

The enormous palm was already descending toward them.

"Hmph!"

Li Ruoxi’s expression became serious.

She gripped the rusted sword firmly and stepped forward.

She knew exactly what kind of opponent she was facing.

A Nascent Soul Realm expert.

An entire major realm above her current cultivation.

She could not afford to underestimate him.

"Take this!"

Li Ruoxi swung the rusted sword with all her strength.

She poured her spiritual energy into the attack and unleashed her most ferocious sword technique.

"Whoosh!"

A gentle sword light suddenly emerged from the rusted blade.

It was small.

It was thin.

It did not appear particularly powerful.

Compared to the gigantic palm descending from the sky, the sword light looked almost laughably insignificant.

The crowd immediately became excited.

"Hahaha! What can such a tiny sword light possibly do?"

"She’s actually trying to block a Nascent Soul Realm attack with that?"

"She must be desperate!"

Even Young Master Nangong’s expression became mocking.

The old Nascent Soul Realm cultivator remained completely calm.

To him, the outcome was already decided.

Then the sword light touched the gigantic palm.

"Bang!"

The entire world seemed to fall silent for a split second.

The next moment, something completely impossible happened.

The enormous palm split apart.

Just like that.

There was no prolonged clash.

No earth-shaking struggle.

The terrifying palm that had been created by a Nascent Soul Realm expert was sliced cleanly apart by that seemingly harmless sword light.

The crowd’s smiles instantly froze.

"What...?"

Before anyone could recover, the sword light continued forward.

It did not weaken.

It did not slow down.

It shot upward into the sky with unstoppable momentum.

Boom!

The defensive formation covering Infinite Sword Domain City suddenly activated.

Brilliant runes appeared across the sky as the enormous formation awakened.