As he finished talking,【Redsweord】began to glow vibrantly. In an instant, the entire courtyard was as if it were shrouded by fog, flickering between light and darkness. [Hmph] Lingshuang muttered, picking up the sheath with her pointer and middle finger. [You’re only getting one hit in, so give me all you got.] [Here it is!]

With a roar, a second Ma Feima appeared.

This was the Taixuan Sixth Disciple’s Blade Sanction: 【Redsweord】]!

By filling the Xuanyuan Sword with Ki, and using Taixuan Blade Sanction to bend light.

The current Ma Feima had studied and practiced for decades, could now create mirror images at will.

 And so, two became four, four became eight; eight became hundreds, and hundreds became millions, innumerable as they were.

In this abandoned courtyard of high noon, there were an infinite number of [Tireless Courser] Ma Feimas…

The same Ma Feima, the same Redsweord.

It was as if a mirror shattered in this courtyard, all of their shards reflecting the figure of the Sixth Disciple of Taixuan.

 The man held his invisible greatsword, unable to contain his excitement. [This is just a friendly sparring session,] She said with annoyance, [Why am I playing a guessing game with you?] [Well it’s up to you to guess where I am then.] Ma Feima’s voice came from far away. [You’re too young. Some riddles are pointless, so why should I guess?] As she spoke, she raised her sheath towards the sky. [Hah!]

With a clear ring, the sheath【Sternsheath】shot forward,

lighting the air along its path in the courtyard in a thunderous boom.

 The fog that surrounded the two dissipated instantly and the air was shattered like a mirror. All of the Ma Feima’s disappeared into thin air. Under the shimmering mirror shards, Lingshuang stood stoically. [Truth among lies, not bad, you’re truly Master’s good junior disciple.] [...So strong, heh… Junior Brother admits defeat.] The tip of the 【Sternsheath】was a mere inch away from his throat. The 【Redsweord】that he raised up high was now dangling toward the ground. Ma Feima looked at it and laughed bitterly. [I knew I was no match for you, but how’d you do it? I haven’t even…] [There were three weak points in your strike.] Lingshuang said, clearly disinterested: [First is that water mirror. All of your copies mirror the original’s movements, so it wasn’t hard to pinpoint your location.] [Second is sound. You shouldn’t have answered me during battle. The Xuanyuan Sword can control light, but it can’t change the source of your sound.] [Third was the Ki Flow. I don’t even need to look at you to tell how the Ki is flowing around where you are.] [Ha, that’s what Second Senior Sister says too.] [Obviously. If I could see three weak points, she’d probably be able to see more than ten.] [...] [Ha, fuck, looks like I wasn’t good enough after all.] [I was gonna lose to you anyway, but to think that a sheath destroyed my Blade Sanction…] [Don’t go too hard on yourself. You could only do parlor tricks before, but now you can make copies of yourself using Blade Sanction. That’s tremendous growth from practice already. I’ll bet that anyone besides me, or Second, will have a hard time defeating you.] [But since you came all this way to spar, I’ll indulge you. If I won with a trick, that’d be no fun. I want to break your strike with brute force— Since you decided to hurt my disciple. Don’t you know the saying “You have to watch its master before you hit the dog”?] [Also,] She flourished 【Sternsheath】in the air.

[This is just a regular old wooden sheath. I probably couldn’t use it again after this anyway.

You were not defeated by [Ascension], but by [Eminence], understand? Feel a bit better about your loss now?]