Chapter 5181 — A Thousand Blades in Flight
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"What a formidable movement art!" Ling Tianyou's eyes lit up. What stunned him was not that Wei Zhao had sensed it in advance, but that against such a close-range needle assault, Wei Zhao had been able to evade it with perfect composure — and without suffering a single scratch.
Given Ling Tianyou's station, even his sparring partners in the Thousand Blades Sect were at least of Golden Core strength. Yet even a Golden Core expert, facing this surprise assault of flying needles, could at best have hardened his protective true qi and taken the blow head-on; no one had ever evaded it as completely as Wei Zhao had. Such a movement art was simply unheard of, unseen.
"The honor is mutual. To have mastered the legendary Thousand Blades in Flight — you are no ordinary man yourself," Wei Zhao said with a faint smile.
"Thousand Blades in Flight?!" The crowd was startled anew. They counted carefully the needles now swarming densely through the air, and then cried out in stunned amazement: "Nine hundred and ninety-nine flying needles, plus that one ribbon — it really is a thousand blades in flight!"
"How is that possible? Isn't Thousand Blades in Flight just a baseless legend? Ling Tianyou actually achieved it?" Even with the evidence before their own eyes, the crowd could scarcely believe it.
After all, a hundred blades unleashed together was already extraordinary; even among the Thousand Blades Sect's finest, only Nascent Soul monsters could hope to manage it. Splitting the mind a hundred ways was not something one could master merely by wishing to; without sufficient natural endowment, thousands of years of practice would come to nothing. As for a thousand blades in flight, that required splitting the mind a thousand ways — a difficulty not a thousand or ten thousand times greater than a hundred, but beyond all reckoning. It was simply not a feat that humans could accomplish!
Yet the facts lay before their eyes: Ling Tianyou, at nothing more than the peak of the late Foundation Establishment stage, had managed to achieve the legendary Thousand Blades in Flight. Was this fellow even human?
"No wonder the whole Thousand Blades Sect stands behind him as sect master — so this is the kind of world-shaking genius they've produced. No wonder!" Only now did Xin Yi'an finally understand.
As for Ling Tianyou's ascent to the sect master's seat, the entire Taigu Alliance had long been divided in its speculation — and so it was among the upper echelons of every Taigu sect and clan. However great a genius he might be, to make a Ling Tianyou, still only at the peak of late Foundation Establishment, the master of a whole sect seemed far too frivolous a thing.
But now, having witnessed Thousand Blades in Flight with his own eyes, Xin Yi'an finally understood. The Thousand Blades Sect had not lost its collective mind — it had latched onto a colossal thigh. Once this Ling Tianyou came into his own, there would likely be no one in the entire Taigu Alliance to match him. By then the Thousand Blades Sect would surely shake off its long decline, and its future would be boundless indeed!
And not Xin Yi'an alone — even Bing Wushuang at his side was moved. A Ling Tianyou who could command a thousand blades in flight was not to be measured by common standards. Even now, at only the peak of late Foundation Establishment, he was already fit to stand on equal footing with Golden Core experts like themselves; give him a little more time, and perhaps even they would be looking up at him.
As for Xue Jianming, a raging storm churned in his heart at that moment, and he could not help but flush hot and red! (To be continued~^~)