The six fine steel long knives were the biggest expense for this competition.

“I’m afraid you won’t even have a chance to draw your sword later.”

Ji Wuyou put his hand on the hilt of his waist and smiled at Xu Taiping.

“Are you both ready?”

The voice of the invigilator sounded.

“I’m ready.”

Xu Taiping nodded, then put one hand on the hilt of his waist, and the other hand clenched his fist, his right leg in a bow stance, and his body slightly leaning forward.

“I’m ready too.”

Ji Wuyou nodded with a smile, then pinched the sword with one hand and the seal with the other, and the long sword at his waist trembled in the scabbard.

“In that case, let the competition begin!”

The invigilator stepped back and announced loudly.

“Clang!”

“Swoosh!…”

Almost as soon as the voice fell, the sound of swords and knives rang out at the same time.

Immediately after, a blade of moonlight crossed paths with a flying sword.

Xu Taiping dodged the attack of Ji Wuyou’s flying sword with the moonlight, and successfully came behind Ji Wuyou, but the knife in his hand shattered because it couldn’t withstand the impact of the collision between the sword and the knife.

“Swoosh!!~”

However, Xu Taiping, who had been prepared, unhesitatingly circulated the true qi in his body and drew out another long knife from his waist.

“Boom!”

The bursting knife energy turned into a more than ten-foot-long blade shadow, slashing straight towards Ji Wuyou’s back.

The third kill of the Seven Kills Blade, the Broken Steel.

From the sixth kill of the full moon, to drawing another knife after the broken knife, and then to this third kill, the whole process was completed in one go, as smooth as flowing clouds and water, as if it had been rehearsed countless times, causing the cultivators present to be amazed.

“Clang!”

However, just as Xu Taiping’s third kill was about to strike, Ji Wuyou’s flying sword, as if it had eyes, drew an arc in the air and suddenly slashed towards the blade shadow.

“Bang!”

With a loud noise, the knife energy released by Xu Taiping’s third kill was instantly destroyed by the flying sword, and the long knife in his hand shattered with a loud “crack”.

Ji Wuyou’s flying sword was only knocked back a few feet due to the counterforce.

The difference in strength was clear at a glance.

“Boom!”

But as if Xu Taiping had anticipated this scene long ago, at the moment when the long knife in his hand shattered, his fist hidden behind him, with the sound of a bull’s roar, heavily punched towards Ji Wuyou’s back.

At this moment, Ji Wuyou, who wanted to control the sword to save himself, naturally did not have time.

“Even if the sea dries up and the rocks crumble!”

But at this moment, Ji Wuyou, who was still facing away from Xu Taiping, suddenly recited a spell loudly, then stomped his right foot on the ground.

“Bang!”

In an instant, the originally hard ground suddenly collapsed.

Xu Taiping, who was standing unsteadily, staggered and almost fell.

“Boom!”

However, Xu Taiping promptly used the Shadow Wind Step, his figure flashed, and he took a step out of the original position.

“Clang!”

Before Xu Taiping could stand firm again, the sound of a sword being drawn and the sound of the air being torn suddenly rang out, and a sword light pierced towards his back.

“Snip!”

But to the surprise of everyone present, including Ji Wuyou, Xu Taiping did not dodge the sword, but let it pierce his body.

“Boom!”

Just as everyone was puzzled and astonished, a cloud of blood mist suddenly burst out from Xu Taiping’s body.

Then everyone saw the blood mist instantly condense into ice, freezing his upper body and the flying sword together.

The flying sword of Ji Wuyou was sealed inside Xu Taiping’s body at this moment.

“Ji Wuyou’s flying sword is being controlled?!”

“He’s a madman!”

Many people couldn’t help but exclaim at the sight.

Because no one had expected that someone would use their own body to seal the flying sword.

Zhao Linglong and Qingxiao were so shocked that they couldn’t even speak.

“Swoosh!”

At the same time as the sound of astonishment filled the air, another sound of drawing a sword rang out.

Despite the intense pain, Xu Taiping’s movements did not pause at all.

“Boom!”

The bright blade shadow poured out like a bursting flood, slashing straight towards Ji Wuyou.

The seventh kill of the Seven Kills Blade, the Killing Blow, the Soul Pursuit.

“Wind, come!”

After several failed attempts to control the sword with qi, Ji Wuyou, with a grim face, finally had to recite the Wind Come spell.

“Boom!”

As soon as the words fell, a gust of wind, like a giant hand, slapped towards the blade energy of Xu Taiping.

But it was too late.

“Bang!”

With a loud noise, Xu Taiping’s blade edge cut through the strong wind, and the blade slashed towards Ji Wuyou’s body.

“Swish!”

Although the blade was blown off course by the strong wind, it still cut off one of Ji Wuyou’s arms.

“Ah!…”

Ji Wuyou screamed in pain.

But then, in anger, he pinched another sword finger, mobilized all his true qi, and roared:

“Sword, come!”

With a “crack,” the ice armor that had formed on Xu Taiping’s chest shattered, and Ji Wuyou’s flying sword was immediately pulled out from Xu Taiping’s back.Ji Wuyou was able to draw the sword this time, partly because he had been gathering strength for a long time, and partly because Xu Taiping’s breath was relatively weak after he had struck with his blade.

“Ugh~”

Under the intense pain, Xu Taiping grunted, but immediately he grinned and looked at Ji Wuyou, saying:

“Taking a sword strike in exchange for a hand, worth it!”

While speaking, he once again used the remnants of his True Qi to coagulate blood into ice, sealing the wound on his back.

This scene made all the cultivators in the audience break out in a cold sweat.

From the moment the sword pierced him to the severing of Ji Wuyou’s arm, and then to Ji Wuyou drawing the flying sword from his back, it all happened in just over ten breaths’ time. Many cultivators didn’t understand what had happened until now.

“Trading wound for wound, cutting off Ji Wuyou’s arm, greatly reducing his combat power… Could it be that Taiping had planned all this from the start?”

Dugu Qingxiao said, shocked.

“If that’s really the case, then this young fellow’s schemes are possibly deeper than yours or mine.”

Zi Yan was equally astonished.

“Boom!”

Amidst the uproar of the crowd, Xu Taiping’s long blade slashed out once again.

“Clang!”

Ji Wuyou, with a face full of resentment, put all his effort into driving the flying sword to meet the attack.

However, because he was missing an arm, Ji Wuyou could no longer use both the flying sword and spells at the same time, and the situation on the field gradually began to tilt in Xu Taiping’s favor.

If things continued like this.

As long as Xu Taiping could find an opportunity to unleash the Charging Bull Formation, Ji Wuyou would undoubtedly lose.

“Boom!”

Just then, Ji Wuyou suddenly cast another wind spell.

He widened the distance between himself and Xu Taiping, then wiped his hand on the blade of the flying sword, smearing Xu Taiping’s blood on his palm, and began to chant a complex and obscure spell. Finally, with a ferocious smile, he shouted angrily:

“The pain of my body, returned tenfold to yours.”

Hearing this, Dugu Qingxiao abruptly stood up.

“This Ji Wuyou, he actually used the Twin Injury Curse?!”

His eyes filled with anger as he coldly snorted.