With that said, as the starting gong sounded, the battle began.
The very instant the gong rang, Nian Quan drew his sword, slashing out successive waves of surging, tide-like Sword Qi.
The reason swordsmen were praised for having the "foremost combat capability" was precisely because, under the enhancement of Sword Intent, even the simplest release of spiritual power was amplified into Sword Qi rivaling high-lethal-force spells, complete with a certain degree of spell-breaking capability. Not only that, its release speed was extremely fast; if ordinary cultivators were unprepared, they would be suppressed by a swordsman the moment the fight started.
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