"What kind of monster is he? Can he really take a single sword strike like that?"
"The power of this sword is at least ten times stronger than the first one just now. Although no energy was used, and strength wasn't increased, the sword Qi itself is genuinely much stronger!"
"According to my teacher, there are nine stages in sword cultivation. He spent his entire life only staying at the fifth stage, Qi Sword Control, and didn't even reach the sixth stage, All Things as Sword."
"Gu Xiao might possibly have already reached the seventh stage of Divine Sword Control, and that sword adept seems to be at the eighth stage, Human and Sword Unity."
"Perhaps Gu Xiao really can win against him. I feel he hasn't even exerted his full power yet; don't you think he's acting like he's just coaxing a child?"
"My heavens, even just being at the seventh stage, there aren't many in the world who can reach it!"
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