“The way I see it, you fellows should be the ones to back off,” Jian Xiaotian replied with a scoff. A sword intent began radiating from his body.

As Jian Xiaotian’s sword intent was only just radiating outwards, one of the sword marks on the surface of the meteorite responded. It suddenly released a sound of metals clashing. Immediately after that, a sword intent – with a greater level of profundity and sharpness than Jian Xiaotian’s sword intent – shot out from the sword mark and charged towards Jian Xiaotian.

“What a formidable sword intent!” Jian Xiaotian was able to sense it and he immediately understood that things were looking bad for him. He swiftly channelled out sword energy from his body. At the same time, the sword energy formed layer after layer of barriers, which flowed around him.

However, as the sword intent that Jian Xiaotian radiated rose, so too did the sword intent coming from the sword mark. Moreover, due to how much more powerful the sword intent was, Jian Xiaotian’s solemn expression finally turned distorted. At the same time, he began stepping backwards. It was as though there was an invisible force pushing him backwards.

“Eh? What happened?” Chen Feng was surprised. He did not understand what had just happened.

Seeing Jian Xiaotian backing away, the two black-clad...