As the clash finally subsided, Terra Su and Yan Chao each retreated several steps, their eyes locked on each other, chests heaving.

"Hmph, I didn't expect you to have actually cultivated twenty strands of Sword Qi. You've got some skills," Yan Chao said with a grim expression. "Now I understand why the Third Prince was defeated by you."

"But..." Yan Chao's tone shifted, "in the face of absolute power, your little tricks are insignificant!"

"You mean the kind of power where you, at the peak of the eighth level of the Life and Death Realm, can't gain an advantage over someone at the fifth level?" Terra Su sneered. It was indeed pathetic that Yan Chao couldn't suppress him despite his higher cultivation level.