Chapter 332: Six Paths Sword: Infinite Kalpas in a Single Thought!
Boom—!
The ground was torn up, and a massive roar swept across the entire open space together with the shockwave.
This time, it was not the effect of swords colliding.
Luke and Edelweiss each stood in place, motionlessly watching each other.
Violent sword energy spread from both of them and met in midair.
Sharp and chilling sword intent intertwined, forming a sword storm that ordinary people could not understand.
Within the collision of sword energy and sword intent, Edelweiss was once again amazed by Luke's talent.
'He's grown stronger again.'
Unlike growth in strength such as swordsmanship or abilities, things like sword energy and sword intent, which seemed vague and intangible in the eyes of ordinary people, were not easy to improve.
But compared to their last battle, the current Luke had grown by leaps and bounds in both sword energy and sword intent.
Even Edelweiss could not help feeling shocked by his unparalleled talent in the way of the sword.
At the same time, she also felt a faint trace of pressure.
However, if Edelweiss was like this, how could Luke not be the same?
He understood his own growth more clearly than anyone.
But in their current clash, the difference between Luke and Edelweiss had not changed at all.
Perhaps the gap had indeed narrowed.
But the degree to which it had narrowed was not enough to change the battle situation.
Judging by Luke's growth, this was actually something unbelievable.
He had grown so much, yet he had still failed to shrink the gap between them in any meaningful way.
No matter how one thought about it, that was abnormal.
Of course, this abnormality was only if one placed it on an ordinary person.
When placed on Edelweiss, it seemed completely natural.
Because she was also growing.
This woman, who was already the world's strongest swordsman, was growing stronger at a speed not much inferior to Luke's.
Only because of that could she still completely suppress Luke in their second battle.
The clash of sword energy had no winner or loser.
The collision of sword intent was difficult to judge.
This meant that in these two realms, Luke was already in no way inferior to Edelweiss.
However, the instant the Sword Domain appeared, the clash of aura and realm that had been locked in a stalemate turned completely one-sided.
A Sword Domain as sharp and cold as winter wind covered the space.
With the support of this Sword Domain, Edelweiss's sword energy and sword intent easily surpassed Luke's.
In only a brief moment, the sharp aura that had originally been evenly matched was defeated by the strengthened chilling aura and began to sway on the verge of collapse.
Just as this clash of aura was about to end in Luke's complete defeat—
Luke moved!
"Hm?"
Seeing his not-so-wise action, Edelweiss could not help letting out a faint sound of confusion.
When one's aura fell into a disadvantage, striking first was not inherently wrong.
Because once one's aura was truly crushed, the gap when fighting would become even larger than when merely at a disadvantage.
So ordinary people, and even most powerhouses, would act first when they saw that their aura was falling behind.
Using the initiative to make up for a disadvantage in aura could be considered common sense.
However, this truly could not be called an excellent choice.
After all, in the end, this action itself was "forced."
It was a compromise made out of helplessness.
When true top-level powerhouses faced this kind of disadvantage in aura, each of them had their own way to deal with it.
Evading, interrupting, breaking through—there were many possibilities.
And in Edelweiss's eyes, Luke was clearly not some "mediocre" person.
Forget everything else.
In their last battle, when facing Edelweiss's Sword Domain, Luke had used a method of condensing his sword intent to forcibly break through.
Although whether that same method would work this time against Edelweiss at full power and fully prepared was another question, it was still better than this helpless compromise.
Edelweiss could not understand Luke's choice.
But this time, she had no intention of guessing.
Originally, she had never needed to guess other people's movements.
For Twin-Wings, for the overwhelmingly powerful world's strongest swordsman, it did not matter what the opponent intended to do.
Because she would crush all tactics and schemes from the front with absolute strength.
Luke's charge was not fast at first.
He felt the Sword Domain covering all the surrounding space.
That feeling, like cold wind blowing across him, was precisely the essence of Edelweiss's sword path.
Cold, sharp, yet so solitary and sacred.
That was right.
It was just like her residence, the highest peak of this world, the Sword Peak Edelberg, standing alone and apart from all else.
Looking at the faint image of that highest peak manifesting behind the pure-white swordsman, Luke mobilized a certain power deep within his consciousness that he had just mastered.
At the same time, he revealed a fearless smile.
Then…
——!
Silent and soundless, Luke suddenly accelerated.
Under the effect of the Twin-Wings sword, his entire body seemed to transform into a flash of light that vanished in an instant.
Sword light flickered, but only for a single moment.
After that instant, Luke disappeared.
The next moment, when the light flashed again, he was behind Edelweiss.
Ring—!
Clang, clang, clang, clang—!
A chain of sword collisions suddenly rang out.
Edelweiss swung the platinum swords in her hands, blocking every blade in the sweeping storm of attacks.
Strangely, although Luke had already appeared behind her, the clear sounds of swords crossing had still not stopped.
Edelweiss calmly observed every incoming blade.
Among them were not only the trajectories of the Starfall Sword and Ser-Veresta, but also invisible swords formed from sword energy and sword intent.
Ring, ring, ring, ring—!
The sounds of sword collision rang endlessly.
Faced with such a strange situation, Edelweiss still appeared very relaxed.
Endless blades?
She had already seen that earlier.
Trying to defeat her with that kind of sword technique was nothing more than a daydream.
Although she did not know why Luke himself had appeared behind her, Edelweiss still easily blocked every incoming blade.
In her spare time, she even had enough leeway to glance slightly behind her, intending to see what exactly Luke was doing.
It was with that glance that Edelweiss saw it.
She saw the figure that flashed once again for an instant.
Luke's attack had not ended.
Just like before, after only an instant of flickering, Luke's figure appeared on another side of Edelweiss once more.
Once, twice, three times, four times…
Luke flashed faster and faster, with no sign of stopping at all.
More and more attacks came at Edelweiss from every direction.
This was no longer a simple sword technique made of countless attacks.
It was a slash that crossed time and gradually became completely identical.
As Luke's movements grew faster and faster, perfectly overlapping slashes began to appear.
Power, angle, direction, and even time.
A sword technique that crossed time.
Dual-Life-Sword: Secret Technique!
Six Paths Sword: Infinite Kalpas in a Single Thought!
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