With both hands gripping the hilt of the sword, the aura on the battle stage quickly converged towards Zhang Ruochen, forming a vortex of aura.
Zhang Ruochen and the Valley Water Sword flew straight out together, and in an instant, they passed through the lightning and collided with the sword stabbed out by Zhao Wuyan.
With a loud boom, powerful sword qi fluctuations surged out from the tip positions of the two swords, crashing into the top of the formation light walls surrounding the battle platform. The twenty feet tall battle platform gently shook.
The force of the recoil caused both of them to simultaneously withdraw sharply backwards, landing on the edge of the battle platform.
Zhang Ruochen’s right wrist, broke open with a bloody crack, and blood slid down his fingers, dripping onto the ground.
Zhang Ruochen only felt that his entire right arm was as painful as if it was broken, even his meridians suffered from not-so-light trauma.
“After all, my cultivation level is still a bit poor, if I could break through to the Fish Dragon Fifth Transformation, it should be much easier to deal with it.”Zhang Ruochen secretly operated his true qi, surging it to the meridians of his right arm and began to heal his injuries.
The sword just now, although Zhang Ruochen did not injure Zhao Woyan, it broke through his Body Protecting Holy Deity, leaving a sword mark at the location of Zhao Woyan’s collar, tearing out a one-inch long gash.
It could be imagined that if the sword had been deflected just a little bit more, Zhao Woyan’s throat would have been pierced.
Zhao Wuyan felt his hands and feet go cold and didn’t dare to take it lightly anymore. At the same time, he also understood that this person did indeed have the strength to fight him, and should not be underestimated.
“Your attainments in the Dao of the Sword are truly impressive, you have at least reached the eighth level of the Sword One realm, if not the ninth. However, your cultivation is yet still too low, and you are destined to lose today.”
Zhao Wuyan was quite confident and had the belief of certain victory in his heart. He mobilised his entire body’s strength and sent his battle sword in a quick strike towards the ground, the tip of the sword colliding with the formation on the ground.
“Rumble!”
With the tip of the sword as the centre, a layer of circular air waves lifted up, emitting loud sounds of wind and thunder as they surged out madly towards Zhang Ruochen.
Zhao Wuyan was also an intelligent person who knew how to borrow force to attack his opponent.
The force he borrowed came from the battle platform’s formation, using the power of the formation to cause a certain degree of interference to Zhang Ruochen.
Of course, not anyone could borrow the power of the formation, a little carelessness, not only would they not be able to borrow the power, but instead, they themselves would suffer the backlash of the formation.
Only by controlling the power to an extremely subtle degree could one manage to borrow the power.
“Somewhat interesting.”Zhang Ruochen smiled faintly.
Layer upon layer of surging air waves crashed into Zhang Ruochen’s body, sending him skidding backwards with the impact.
Skidding to the edge of the battle platform, Zhang Ruochen’s toes flicked and leapt, landing in mid-air three feet above the ground, hanging in the air, avoiding the ground’s air waves with ease.
Immediately after, the crowd under the platform saw three coloured pillars of black, green and yellow Qi coalesce and appear under Zhang Ruochen’s feet. It was because of the three pillars of Qi holding them up that Zhang Ruochen was able to stand in the air.
“Those are the three intrinsic five elemental forces, the water attribute aura, the earth attribute aura, and the wood attribute aura.”A participant of the Fish and Dragon Eighth Transformation was quite shocked.
“Could it be that Lin Yue has cultivated the legendary Three Spirit Treasure Body?”
“That should be the case, only the Three Spirit Treasure Body can fight against the Sacred Body.”
Qi Fayu gently nodded her snow-white chin, a bright light flickering in her eyes as she said in her heart, “It’s getting more and more interesting, actually even the rare Three Spirit Treasure Body has appeared. Just how many more cards does he have?”
The reason why she had rushed to watch the battle was because she wanted to see if Zhao Wuyan could test out Lin Yue’s true strength.
Obviously, Zhao Wuyan was indeed very strong, forcing out Lin Yue’s bottom cards continuously.
“Wow.”
Zhang Ruochen controlled the power of the five elements, causing them to transform into means of attack. The Water Attribute Aura condensed into a mass of liquid ice water, transforming into sharp and sharp ice spikes.
The earth attribute aura condensed into boulders, and the wood attribute aura condensed into vines.
With a wave of Zhang Ruochen’s arm, hundreds of ice thorns, as if they were ten thousand arrows, densely shot towards Zhao Wuyan.
At the same time, the earth attribute aura condensed into a huge stone mountain that also weighed an unknown number of ten thousand jin. The body of the stone mountain, which was almost completely covered towards the entire battle platform, violently suppressed downwards.
“Tai Xuan Asking Heaven.”
Zhao Wuyan’s eyes flashed with a refined aura, his legs stomped, resembling a green-coloured pillar of light, and he rose up into the sky, stabbing out with his sword, the sharp sword qi forming a huge arc of light, breaking open the huge stone mountain.
Crushed stones, continuously fell towards the ground.
“Swish!”
Suddenly, on Zhao Wuyan’s right side, a three-metre high piece of broken rock cracked out with spiderweb-like lines, from which a silhouette flew out, and it was none other than Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen held his sword in his left hand like a phantom, and unexpectedly stabbed out with his sword, leaving behind only an eye-catching sword light.
On Zhao Wuyan’s face, a shocked expression flashed, not expecting that Lin Yue would actually hide inside the stone mountain. Moreover, before that, he actually didn’t notice it at all.
Zhao Wuyan was also exceptional, his reaction speed was extremely fast, he lightly shouted and his body quickly sank downwards, wanting to avoid Zhang Ruochen’s killing move.
“Spread your hands.”
The Valley Water Sword slashed past Zhao Wuyan’s right wrist, colliding with the skin, emitting the sound of gold and stone friction, and sprouting a grain of sparks.
In the end, the Valley Water Sword broke through Zhao Wuyan’s fleshly defences and cut the tendons of his hand, leaving a deep bloodstain.
From Zhao Wuyan’s mouth, a muffled sound came out, a sharp pain came from his arm, and his battle sword flew out of his hand, being steadily caught by Zhang Ruochen.
The two of them landed on the ground again, Zhao Wuyan covered his bloody wrist and quickly backed away in a rather lousy manner.
Zhang Ruochen, however, had already seized Zhao Wuyan’s sword and cupped it in his left hand, saying, ”Another good sword at the 12th rank True Martial Treasure Artifact level. If you admit defeat, the sword will be returned to you.”
The hand tendon was cut, causing Zhao Wuyan’s right hand to completely lose its battle power, and it would take at least a day before he could use an elixir to renew the tendon back.
Although his combat power was greatly reduced, Zhao Wuyan had no intention of lowering his head and snorted coldly, “It’s just a twelfth rank True Martial Artifact, even if you take it, it doesn’t matter much. When it’s time for the duel, I hope we’ll meet again, and at that time, I’ll let you see, my true strength.”
Although he lost to Zhang Ruochen’s sword, Zhao Wuyan was quite unwilling, only feeling that it was because of his carelessness that he was caught in the gutter by the other party.
In fact, he still had the power to fight.
If he were to display his bottom card, he would even have a chance to completely flip the game and turn defeat into victory.
Only, Zhao Wuyan found that the wound on his wrist could not be healed at all, and his meridians were quite painful, so it seemed that he had suffered from Lin Yue’s hidden hand.
After all, Lin Yue’s reputation as a “villain” in the Two Element Sect had never been good.
Zhao Wuyan vaguely felt that the situation was a bit bad, and continuing the battle might not be a good thing for him.
Since this was the case, there was no harm in letting Lin Yue win.
Waiting until the duel, it would be fine to defeat him again.
Without looking back, and without asking Zhang Ruochen for his battle sword, Zhao Wuyan marched straight down to the battle stage, and then, left the Purposeful Imperial Spirit Mountain.
All the participants were all a little dazed.
“What’s going on, Zhao Wuyan clearly still has the power to fight, and has every chance to bounce back, so why did he suddenly leave the battle platform?”Many people expressed their disbelief.
Among the participants, the oldest, Dao Xuanqi, said thoughtfully, “On the surface, we only saw that Zhao Wuyan’s right hand tendon was severed, but in reality, that may not be the case. Perhaps the injuries he sustained are heavier than we thought.
If it was only the hand tendon that was severed, it would have at most reduced Zhao Wuyan’s combat power a bit.
However, Zhang Ruochen’s sword just now sent a sword qi into Zhao Wuyan’s meridians. That sword qi contained the power of time, and even with Zhao Woyan’s cultivation, it would be difficult to dissolve it in a moment.
If the battle continued, even if Zhao Woyan won, he himself would definitely suffer heavy injuries and would not be able to cope with the next battle.
In fact, Zhang Ruochen really hoped that Zhao Woyan would continue to fight, so that he could use the “Drag” technique to “drag” Zhao Woyan alive into serious injuries, and thus not be able to participate in the duel.
In the duel, there would naturally be one less opponent.
“Rather a smart person.”
Zhang Ruochen laughed and put away Zhao Wuyan’s twelfth rank True Martial Treasure Grade sword and walked straight down the battle stage.
Lin Yue being able to win was certainly out of many people’s expectations, and originally, the crowd had only regarded Lin Yue as a sword dao wizard.
Now, all the participants had to start paying attention to him, seeing him as a great enemy and as a favourite for the top ten.
Zhang Ruochen had just arrived at the bottom of the mountain aiming for the Imperial Spirit Mountain when the sound of a tiny wind breaking sounded behind him, followed by a flash of silhouettes as Xu Changsheng appeared in front of him, standing under a tree four feet away.
After the two rounds of fighting had ended, it was already late at night, and the surroundings were pitch black, with only the top of the Spirit Mountain still having firelight, resounding with a clamour.
Zhang Ruochen stopped and glanced towards Xu Changsheng who was standing in the darkness, saying, “What does Senior Brother Xu have to say?”
Xu Changsheng’s gaze, which was quite cold, said, “Lin Yue, I have specially checked you. Four months ago, you were still only at the cultivation level of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, your qualifications could only be considered excellent, but you couldn’t reach the top level.”
“You only returned from going to the Eastern Region Evil Earth for just one training trip, not only did you stop indulging in female lust, but also, your cultivation suddenly reached the Fourth Change of the Fish Dragon, and you even cultivated the Sword One to the Ninth Layer Realm, it’s as if you’ve changed into a different person.”
From the beginning to the end, Xu Changsheng was staring at the “Lin Yue” in front of him, observing the changes in his expression.
To his disappointment, Zhang Ruochen appeared calm from the beginning to the end, not showing the slightest hint of a different colour.
Zhang Ruochen laughed, “What does Senior Brother Xu mean?”
Xu Changsheng snorted coldly, “I guess you are no longer the same Lin Yue that you once were, perhaps, it is some evil person from the black market who has put on Lin Yue’s skin.”
“If I wasn’t Lin Yue, do you think the Half-Saint Ancestors wouldn’t be able to tell? Senior Brother Xu, if you’re really idle, you’d better think more about how to improve your Sword Dao realm, lest when the duel comes, you won’t even be able to make it into the top ten, and I won’t be the one who’s humiliated at that time.”Zhang Ruochen laughed lightly.
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