Chapter 1253
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The Octagonal Tower, the eighth floor.
“Xu Taiping of the Qingxuan Sect, do you really wish to give up climbing the tower in exchange for a chance to test your sword with me？”
Hearing that Xu Taiping would rather give up climbing the tower than test his sword with him, a hint of “living person” emotion once again appeared on the cold and indifferent face of the sword slave.
“Please, senior sword slave, give this junior a chance.”
Xu Taiping nodded with extremely firm eyes.
He had thought it through carefully and was not acting impulsively when he gave up the opportunity to be the first to climb the tower and chose to test his saber skills against the Saber Slave.
Firstly, based on his experience in the Mysterious Wilderness Tower so far, the danger encountered on each floor of the Mysterious Wilderness Tower is greater than that on the previous floor.
So even if he could narrowly avoid the Saber Slave on this tenth floor, when he reached the eleventh floor he would still have to face an opponent stronger than the Saber Slave.
Rather than that, it would be better to use the Saber Slave as a yardstick to infer how strong the opponent on the eleventh floor would be.
Secondly, just now, when he sensed the sudden change in the Saber Slave’s saber intent and saber momentum, he suddenly had many insights in his heart.
“The saber qi reaching the profound level that Senior Saber Ghost mentioned, perhaps this time when testing my saber skills against the Saber Slave, I can master it.”
Xu Taiping muttered to himself in his heart.
According to Saber Ghost’s statement, his saber skills are already very close to the saber qi reaching the profound level, just one step away.
And if he could master the saber qi reaching the profound level at this time, whether facing the Saber Ghost in front of him or the unknown opponent on the eleventh floor, he would have nothing to fear.
And after hearing Xu Taiping’s words, the Saber Slave used his pair of lifeless pupils to quietly “stare” at Xu Taiping for a moment before heavily nodding and saying：
“Good！”
As he spoke, he raised his arm and heavily hammered behind him without looking back.
Immediately, there was a loud “boom”. The gate that had originally appeared out of thin air behind him was smashed to pieces by his punch.
Then, as he paced back, his expression cold, he said to Xu Taiping：
”Let me put the ugly words first. You are so arrogant to give up the opportunity to be the first to climb the tower. If you can’t show some real skills to satisfy me next, not only will I not show mercy, but I will also expel you from the Profound Wilderness Tower, just like Chu Yinan of the South Chu State, and you won’t be able to enter the tower within ten years.”
When saying these words, the Knife Slave’s hand had already been placed on the handle of the knife, and his face was so gloomy that water could drip from it.
”Naturally！”
Seeing that the Knife Slave was willing to test the knife with him, Xu Taiping’s heart suddenly relaxed.
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”Giving up the opportunity to be the first to climb the tower and choosing to test the knife with the Knife Slave, what on earth is Xu Taiping thinking？”
In the South Chu Imperial Palace, after being stunned for a long time, the King of Chu then murmured in disbelief with a face full of incredulity.
At this time, the expression of the Qionghua Sword Immortal was also very complicated.
Only the old Martial God Zhu Huai’s gaze towards Xu Taiping in the spirit mirror was extremely hot.
First, when he saw the Knife Slave in the spirit mirror agree to test the knife with Xu Taiping, he then murmured without blinking his eyes：
”We still underestimated this kid too much.”
The King of Chu furrowed his brows upon hearing this, and then looked at Zhu Huai with a puzzled expression and asked：
”Why does Elder Zhu say this？”
”Alas…”
Before Zhu Huai could speak, only the Sword Immortal Qionghua beside him suddenly let out a sigh, and then smiled bitterly and explained to the King of Chu：
”What Elder Zhu said is right. We have underestimated this Xu Taiping too much. Not only does he want to climb the tower, but he also wants to use this Blade Slave as his whetstone, making the ‘blade’ in his hand sharper when he enters the eleventh floor of the Mysterious Desolation Tower！”
After the Sword Immortal Qionghua’s voice fell, Zhu Huai also nodded and said：
”This kid has not been dazzled by the current situation and is still using all the available opportunities to continuously improve himself.”
After hearing what the two said, the King of Chu finally understood something, and there was no longer the slightest bit of contempt in his gaze towards Xu Taiping.
”Boom！ -”
Just at this moment, a deafening burst sound suddenly came from the spirit mirror.
The three of them and saw that inside the spirit mirror the blind Blade Slave’s saber qi once again turned into flames, and in an instant, it enveloped the entire eighth floor hall of the Octagonal Tower.
”He actually used the saber qi to reach the profound level as soon as he came up. Could it be that this Blade Slave has also regarded Xu Taiping as a worthy opponent？！”
After seeing the actions of the blind sword slave in the spirit mirror, the expressions on the faces of the three people simultaneously revealed shock.
It should be known that before this, when facing Yunye Luocheng and others, the sword slave didn’t even draw his sword first.
“Ceng！”
Almost at the same time when the sword slave turned his saber energy into flames and covered the entire hall on the eighth floor of the Bamiantai, Xu Taiping, who had already put his hand on the saber handle, suddenly leaped forward and forcefully pulled out the saber.
“Open！”
As the Thunder Soul Saber was drawn out of its sheath, Xu Taiping let out a loud shout and activated the Saber Domain Mountain Soul.
Facing an opponent like the sword slave, he didn’t dare to hold back any strength.
“Hong！ ……”
The moment the Saber Domain Mountain Soul was activated, the invisible mountain soul power in the saber domain instantly dispersed the flames transformed by the sword slave’s saber energy.
“Shua！”
However, the sword slave was not afraid of the saber domain at all. With the flames rising around his body, he held the long saber and leaped into the Mountain Soul Saber Domain, and then slashed down heavily at Xu Taiping with a single saber strike.
“Peng！”
What surprised the onlookers in front of the spirit mirror was that in the face of the sword slave’s saber strike that came with the momentum of mountains and seas, Xu Taiping only casually raised his saber to block and easily bounced it off.
“Hong！ ……”
If it weren’t for the air waves caused by the collision of the two knives, which blew open all the windows on the west side of the Eight-sided Tower, it would be difficult for everyone to imagine how much force was in Xu Taiping’s casual block.
“Shua！”
And after blocking this ordinary knife move of the Knife Slave, Xu Taiping slashed towards the Knife Slave who was retracting his knife with a knife shadow shining with thunder and lightning.
“Peng！ ——”
Although at the last moment, the Knife Slave finally turned the blade to meet this knife, but in this Mountain Soul Knife Domain, Xu Taiping’s knife chopped with the power of the Mountain Soul was extremely heavy. Not only did it break the Knife Slave’s knife momentum, but also made his thin figure fly upside down like a thread and hit the wall of the Eight-sided Tower heavily.
“Hong！”
But just as the Knife Slave’s body hit the wall heavily, two clusters of golden flames suddenly flew out from his eyes, which originally only had white eyeballs and no black pupils.
And in the instant when the golden flames flew out, a pair of golden double pupils suddenly appeared in his pupil-less eyes.
“Hong！ ——”
As the pair of golden double pupils opened, the fluctuation of the Knife Slave’s breath suddenly increased by more than ten times.
The sparse saber flames that originally wrapped around his body suddenly surged like a violent wave, rushing towards Xu Taiping first.
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The saber slave has opened his double pupils！
Inside the South Chu imperial palace, the old martial god Zhu Huai stood up with an extremely excited expression.
“Just after the fight started, he opened his double pupils. Does the saber slave actually dread this Xu Taiping so much？”
The expression on the face of the Qionghua Sword Immortal was extremely complicated.
