Chapter 1317 - 1317: Half-Step Unity Realm

The silver aura around Qiao Siyang's body became increasingly dazzling, and in an instant, something resembling wings appeared behind him.

Liu Zixuan focused his gaze, and upon seeing clearly what lay behind that light, his pupils involuntarily contracted slightly.

The Sword Demon had once told Liu Zixuan that the realms of the Angel Sect had slightly different nomenclature compared to the Star Sea.

They defined a martial artist's strength by the number of wings they possessed.

In the Angel Sect, the strongest are the Holy Wing Angels, equivalent to the world's strongest realm, followed by the Nine-winged Angels, equivalent to the Unity Realm, and the Life and Death Realm corresponds to the Eight-winged Angels!

And at this moment, the Qiao Siyang in front of him was clearly an existence at the level of the Eight-winged Angels.

Faintly, below the eighth wing, two small wing buds could be seen, indicating Qiao Siyang had seemingly touched upon some threshold of the Unity Realm!

Seeing this, Liu Zixuan mused inwardly, fearing Qiao Siyang was hiding even deeper than the true sect leader of the Angel Sect, Mos Ivan.

Comparatively speaking, the strength of the two was probably evenly matched!

At this moment, the silver light had dissipated, as Qiao Siyang, holding a blade, his eight wings behind him gently fluttered, resembling the angels of Western legends!

"Liu Zixuan, dying under the Radiance of my Holy Blade, you shall not resent it!"

Interestingly, Qiao Siyang's appearance was of a slightly robust man, his voice previously had a somewhat male magnetism, yet now after the appearance of the eight wings, his voice had turned rather effeminate.

Liu Zixuan raised an eyebrow: "Listening to your voice, could it be that the so-called angel is androgynous?"

"What the hell do you know!"

Qiao Siyang cursed: "After reaching the highest realm with our Angel Sect's secret technique, we can encompass all phenomena of heaven and earth, the appearances of male and female are merely superficial!"

"In simpler words, you just want to be a genderless pervert!" Liu Zixuan mocked with a smile.

"Blasphemous!"

With that, Qiao Siyang cursed loudly and immediately launched a blade attack towards Liu Zixuan.

This time, his attacks were no longer weak and soft as before but seemed infused with a special kind of power, as a faint light spread slowly from the eight wings, converging onto his arm, then extending onto the blade.

The blade which previously seemed ordinary now gathered numerous rays of light.

Almost brightening this whole piece of heaven and earth.

Suddenly, that radiant long blade slashed down directly.

In that instant of slashing, Liu Zixuan suddenly felt as if his scalp went numb because he realized that at this moment, it was not simply a blade descending upon him, but as if a sharpened peak of a mountain was pressing down on him.

Before the blade's edge fell, the intent struck first, the closer the blade, the more intense the pressure, the surrounding hidden qi slashed at the surrounding trees, cutting them helter-skelter.

Boom!

Boom!

The ground under Liu Zixuan's feet seemed like something heavy was pressing upon it, causing him to sink deeply along with the ground.

Feeling the qi grow more intense, Liu Zixuan dared not be the slightest bit careless, hastily throwing out the Ghost Gate Needle.

Circulating around his fingers in mid-air for a moment, he then shouted, "Condense for me!"

In an instant, a defensive array promptly formed.

Liu Zixuan knew, this must be one of Qiao Siyang's killing skills, merely an array would not be enough to contend, so he swiftly summoned back the Xuanyuan Sword into his hand.

With a lift of the sword's edge, a dragon's roar instantly resounded, and the Xuanyuan Sword, bearing the entire array, smashed towards Qiao Siyang's attack!

Boom!

Rumble!

First came the collision, then it was immediately followed by an earth-shattering tremor.

The qi collision from above to below made it seem like a natural disaster had occurred around them, all surrounding trees fell neatly together, flowers, grasses, and trees withered instantly, and in the surroundings, smaller animals were seen being instantly obliterated.

Thump, thump, thump!

Qiao Siyang abruptly retreated several steps backward, spitting out a mouthful of fresh blood.

On Liu Zixuan's side, the situation was not much better, he staggered several steps upon landing before stabilizing himself, though he did not spit blood, his meridians within were slightly damaged from the shock.

Qiao Siyang spat aside a mouthful of blood, revealing a sinister smile: "As expected of the first genius of Star Sea, integrating array sword technique, it really is somewhat rare!"

"You're not bad either!" Liu Zixuan remarked seriously.

"It seems, without revealing some trump cards, it will be difficult to kill you."

Qiao Siyang said with a faint smile.

Liu Zixuan raised an eyebrow, could it be this fellow hadn't exerted full strength just now?

As he pondered, Qiao Siyang's eight wings behind him suddenly fluttered again, the previously extremely small wing below the eighth wing soon grew much larger, not as large as the other eight wings, but reaching half their size.

As this ninth wing appeared, the aura on Qiao Siyang's body suddenly surged immensely. Suddenly, his momentum overshadowed Liu Zixuan's.

"This… doesn't seem like a secret technique." Liu Zixuan frowned.

Qiao Siyang smiled with pride: "By chance, I acquired something in this ruin that corresponded with my Angel Sect's cultivation technique attribute, it happened to allow me to manifest a Half-Step Unity Realm strength even at the Life and Death Realm!"

At this point, Qiao Siyang abruptly changed his tone: "So Liu Zixuan, in such a scenario, what makes you think you can contend with me!"

Liu Zixuan's brows furrowed, Half-Step Unity Realm!

Although it was not a true Unity Realm, its power already surpassed the Life and Death Realm by much.

At this moment, fear did not reside within his heart, rather it was filled with a sense of exhilaration.

Because since stepping into this ruin, he hadn't truly sparred with a Unity Realm powerhouse yet.

Of course, previously in the tower, he had merely encountered such a realm expert but hadn't fought life and death, so it didn't count!

Looking at Qiao Siyang before him, Liu Zixuan's eyes were filled with fighting intent.

He tightly gripped the Xuanyuan Sword once: "Then let me see how strong your Half-Step Unity Realm truly is!"

He eagerly anticipated this battle!

For only through extensive exposure to the power of the Unity Realm can he fathom how to breakthrough into the Unity Realm himself.

After all, the higher the realm, the less regularity there is to follow, one must explore by themselves.

Qiao Siyang took a step forward, his aura resembling a torrential flood erupted directly.

Once again, he hefted his blade, directly lunging toward Liu Zixuan.

This time, he did not use his killing skill; instead, he planned to engage in close combat with Liu Zixuan.

The reason was simple, he felt Liu Zixuan at this moment was not worthy of his killing skill, but in close combat, to hack him to death slice by slice, to see Liu Zixuan's body torn, to see Liu Zixuan shattered, unquestionably that would bring him endless pleasure!

Liu Zixuan frowned, raising his sword to meet the blow, upon impact, was sent flying back more than ten meters, feeling the brutal force's impact on his meridians, he couldn't help but mutter: "Seems brute force truly doesn't work!"