In midair, a massive blade of light suddenly fell and smashed fiercely onto the Armored Man’s body.

This time it clearly caused some impact to the Armored Man; after swaying twice, he dropped to one knee on the ground, head lowered, as if completely lifeless.

"This guy is that weak?"

Xiang Tian froze for a moment. Cautiously, he walked to the Armored Man’s side and was just about to reach out and touch him when he saw Wang Zhan quickly circle around to his side, grab his shoulder, and yank him away.

Before Xiang Tian could react, he saw the Armored Man, who had just fallen silent, suddenly lift his hand and claw wildly toward the spot where Xiang Tian had just been standing!

If that blow from the Armored Man had landed, even Xiang Tian would have had no chance to escape.

Xiang Tian exhaled in lingering fear. He glanced at Wang Zhan beside him, then frowned and said, "Thanks. If it weren’t for you, I really would’ve fallen for this bastard’s trick."

"I just had a feeling he wasn’t that weak, so I instinctively pulled you aside. Sure enough, this was all his setup, just waiting for the chance to kill us both once we struck."

Wang Zhan gave a calm explanation.

Xiang Tian narrowed his eyes and clenched his fist, speaking with a cold edge, "Didn’t expect this damned bastard to still be lying in wait for us here."

Before the two could say more, they saw the Armored Man, as if he’d gone mad, charge at them again.

Wang Zhan shoved Xiang Tian aside, then directly raised his palm. Flames bloomed across his hand, the heat terrifying.

The next second, Wang Zhan swung his hand up and smashed it toward the crown of the Armored Man’s head!

Yet under this kind of assault, it still failed to pose any real threat to the Armored Man.

An energy ripple burst out, forcing Wang Zhan back several steps, but he quickly steadied himself, raised his hand again, and turned his palm into a claw!

"Indestructible Azure Dragon Spell!"

Dragon roars echoed from the sky as Wang Zhan slowly raised his hand, his aura faintly like a true dragon descending upon the world!

The Dragon Claw then smashed straight toward the Armored Man’s chest.

With a thunderous boom, Xiang Tian was shocked to find that the Armored Man’s armor had actually been pierced through by Wang Zhan’s fingertips!

"Nice, we finally broke this guy’s defense!"

In Xiang Tian’s view, the reason the Armored Man was so formidable was all because of the armor on his body.

Now that Wang Zhan had shattered the armor’s restraint, the two of them could attack with full force and finish off the Armored Man!

With the armor broken, the Armored Man’s strength was greatly affected; even his movements slowed a lot.

Wang Zhan seized the opening, raised the Deep Fire Blade in his hand, and drove it viciously into the shattered section of the Armored Man’s armor. In the blink of an eye, the Deep Fire Blade had already pierced through the Armored Man’s chest.

Wang Zhan stood proudly to the side. After confirming that the Armored Man was completely silent, he finally put away the Deep Fire Blade, withdrew the Nine Heavens Mysterious Fire Formation, then walked step by step to the giant boulder nearby. Reaching out to touch the boulder, he spoke in a low voice, "Break for me!"

With a deafening crack, the giant boulder exploded apart.

Wang Zhan narrowed his eyes slightly, his gaze locking onto the inside of the broken stone.

Inside that boulder lay a Broken Sword.

The blade was snapped, yet the width was quite large, making it look extremely strange. On that Broken Sword there were some odd patterns, which, on closer inspection, looked like runes.

Wang Zhan reached out and touched the Broken Sword. He immediately felt a pulling force; a blood mark opened on his fingertip, and droplets of blood flowed out, dripping onto the Broken Sword.

Xiang Tian, standing to the side, hurriedly ran over when he saw this and quickly asked, "Brother Wang, are you alright?"

Wang Zhan shook his head. "I’m fine."

He gave the wound a quick look. Fortunately, it wasn’t deep, but when he raised his head again, he suddenly noticed...

The blood that had dripped onto the Broken Sword had miraculously vanished, and the rusted, mottled Broken Sword now gleamed with much more luster; even the edge had become exceedingly sharp.

"Is it recognizing a master?"

Xiang Tian looked at Wang Zhan beside him with doubt.

Between heaven and earth, there existed many divine weapons and tools; it was the same even on the Star War Battlefield.

The Broken Sword before them clearly seemed out of the ordinary, and now it had miraculously absorbed so much blood—there was no way this was simple.

Even so, Xiang Tian still didn’t think much of the Broken Sword. He shook his head at Wang Zhan and said, "Brother Wang, this thing’s already broken. How strong can it be?"

"If you don’t like it, just toss it here. No need to waste our effort on it."

Wang Zhan, however, kept his eyes fixed on the Broken Sword. He picked it up, then suddenly chopped down hard at a big tree several meters tall beside them!

They saw a flash of sword light fall, and that tree was actually cut cleanly in half.

Xiang Tian was stunned as well. He hurried to Wang Zhan’s side and quickly said, "How much strength did you just use?"

Wang Zhan shook his head. "I didn’t use any strength at all, I just gave it a light swing. I didn’t expect it to have this kind of effect. Looks like this thing really is a piece of divine weapon and tool."

"It’s just a shame it’s already broken. If it were in perfect condition, how terrifying would its power be?"

Xiang Tian was also full of shock. No one had expected that this Broken Sword, which looked so unimpressive, would be so fierce.

"Lend it to me to play with."

As he spoke, Xiang Tian reached out, ready to take the Broken Sword from Wang Zhan’s hand.

But the moment he touched the hilt, he felt a rebound of force. Before he could react, his whole body was flung backward and slammed hard into the ground, the pain making him bare his teeth.

"What the hell was that?"

Xiang Tian climbed up from the ground with wide eyes. Rubbing his lower back, he grumbled irritably, "Didn’t expect this crappy sword to actually recognize its master?"

Wang Zhan just smiled and shook his head, saying nothing.

"Looks like I’ve got no way to test how sharp it is, but I don’t care anyway."

After Xiang Tian said this in a haughty tone, he took the lead and walked ahead.

Wang Zhan chuckled, and after putting away the Broken Sword, he followed in Xiang Tian’s footsteps.

The two of them turned into two streaks of light and disappeared into the forest.

...

Time passed second by second. The two of them arrived at the foot of Tianxiong City, but still hadn’t seen any sign of Luo Xue and the others.

The more it was like this, the more worried Wang Zhan became. After all, if all three groups arrived in Tianxiong City, and they still couldn’t see Luo Xue, that would mean Luo Xue was likely in grave danger and had run into trouble.

For a moment, Wang Zhan’s mood was very uneasy.

In the blink of an eye, the two of them had already entered Tianxiong City. Everything was still as familiar as ever.

In the distance, a familiar figure walked toward them first. When he came close, Han Junxiong smiled and said, "Didn’t expect that even though you took the shortcut, you still weren’t as fast as me. That does surprise me a bit."

Wang Zhan had no time to bicker with him. He asked directly, "Where are Luo Xue and the others?"

"Brother Wang."

Right at that moment, Luo Xue, who had been standing behind the group, walked to Wang Zhan’s side with a smile. "Out at sea I ran into Jiang Yin and the others. Then I got your message, so we returned to Tianxiong City together."

"But we never saw you come back, so we were even planning to head out to meet up with you."

Wang Zhan waved his hand. Just as he was about to speak, Xiang Tian beside him cut in first: "If we hadn’t run into some things on the way, we would’ve arrived long ago."

The group exchanged glances, and Luo Xue asked curiously, "Don’t tell me you ran into some powerful beast?"

Wang Zhan shook his head and explained, "Nothing that exaggerated. We did run into a guy guarding a piece of divine weapon and tool. His strength was decent, but Xiang Tian and I took him down together, and we seized the divine weapon and tool he was guarding."

"Although I have the Deep Fire Blade and wanted to split this divine weapon and tool with you, it had long since recognized its master, so there was nothing I could do."

Hearing that, everyone’s eyes lit up.

Especially Han Junxiong, who quickly crowded up to Wang Zhan’s side and hurriedly asked, "Brother Wang, what treasure did you get? Take it out and let me see."

"Don’t worry, I definitely won’t snatch it."

Xiang Tian crossed his arms and said, "Even if you wanted to snatch it, do you have that ability?"

"Don’t forget Brother Wang’s strength is right here in front of us. Even if all of us joined forces, we might not be his match. So with just you alone trying to take something from Brother Wang’s hand—are you kidding me?"

Han Junxiong gave an awkward laugh. He’d only been joking, but hadn’t expected Xiang Tian to take it so seriously.

In the blink of an eye, Wang Zhan had already taken out that Broken Sword and placed it in front of everyone.

Luo Xue shook her head with a smile. "Brother Wang, don’t tell me this is the divine weapon and tool you were talking about?"

"You don’t know how sharp it is. When the demonic beasts come again in the future, I’ll use it to prove whether it’s a divine weapon and tool or not."

Everyone clicked their tongues in amazement, but no one spoke.

"Alright, let’s go to the City Lord’s Mansion first and discuss how we’re going to respond next."

Wang Zhan waved to everyone, then said, "After all, it won’t be long before those demonic beasts arrive here. I’m sure they’ll launch a massive attack, so we have to be fully prepared, or we’ll be caught off guard by them."