As Lin Yun stepped onto the stage, a large crowd of Double Honour Pavilion disciples had already gathered below to watch the excitement.
“Who is Elder Lu fighting?”
“I heard it’s someone Elder Yuan Xia brought.”
“He looks pretty young. Actually daring to spar with Elder Lu?”
…
The scene quickly buzzed with heated discussion.
On the arena.
“You know the arena rules, I take it? No treasures or external items allowed.” Elder Lu looked at Lin Yun with open contempt.
“I know. Elder Lu, win or lose, I hope we stop at the right moment.” Lin Yun said.
Elder Lu gave a scornful laugh. “It seems you’re already scared I’ll hurt you before we even start. Don’t worry, if you can’t take it, just step off the stage and I’ll stop attacking.”
Lin Yun smiled. “Elder Lu, I’m afraid of hurting you.”
“You…”
Elder Lu’s face darkened. “So young, yet your mouth is utterly without limit! Even if I hold back thirty percent of my strength, I can crush you easily, and you dare spout such arrogance!”
“Today, this old man will teach you a lesson!”
With those words, Elder Lu flicked his wrist and revealed a gleaming silver spear.
“Boy, here I come!”
“Meteor Spear Art, Storm Fury Kill!”
Elder Lu’s arms shook as vast inner energy poured into the spear. The weapon instantly turned into a cold gleam and shot towards Lin Yun with murderous intent.
Whoosh!
Wherever the spear passed, sharp chill tore through the air and space itself howled in fury.
The Meteor Spear Art was one of the stronger Da Luo-class spear techniques in the Double Honour Pavilion. Secret manuals of this level were normally only available to pavilion elders, and even then they had to be exchanged with merit points.
“Elder Lu opened with the Meteor Spear Art. He’s not giving his opponent any breathing room!”
All the Double Honour Pavilion disciples below stared fixedly at the stage.
On the arena.
Lin Yun instantly drew his own treasured sword.
“Flying Shadow Swordsmanship!”
The sword in Lin Yun’s hand turned into a streak of sword light and met the attack at astonishing speed.
Boom!
Sword light and spear shadow clashed. The full power of both strikes poured out.
When the surging force struck, Elder Lu’s expression changed abruptly. His whole body was forced back several steps, each footfall causing the arena to tremble.
“Elder Lu actually lost ground!”
“That guy seems pretty fierce!”
In this first probing exchange, Lin Yun had already seized the upper hand.
Within Lin Yun’s body stood the Tree of Origin. Unless he actively suppressed it, the vital energy it released would fuse with his inner force and greatly amplify its power.
Therefore, when neither side had yet used many special techniques, Lin Yun’s inner force alone gave him a considerable advantage.
“I didn’t expect Elder Lu to wield a Da Luo Heavenly Soldier as well.” Lin Yun remarked.
From that single exchange, Lin Yun could tell. If Elder Lu had not possessed a Da Luo Heavenly Soldier weapon, he would have looked far more wretched just now.
The foundation of the Double Honour Pavilion truly was impressive. Someone at the Transformation Dao level could already wield a Da Luo Heavenly Soldier. Back when Manor Lord Wu was also at Transformation Dao, such a weapon had been completely beyond his reach.
Having steadied himself, Elder Lu’s face was filled with shock.
“You… you have a Da Luo Heavenly Soldier too?!” Elder Lu stared at Lin Yun in astonishment.
As an elder of the Double Honour Pavilion who had been at Transformation Dao for several hundred thousand years, even he had only obtained his Da Luo Heavenly Soldier weapon tens of thousands of years ago, and only after enormous effort.
From visually inspecting Lin Yun’s bone age, he guessed Lin Yun was very young, perhaps only ten or twenty thousand years old, possibly not even ten thousand.
As another attack shot forward, Elder Lu’s divine sense and physical strength erupted instantly, adding to the strike and causing its power to soar once more.
“Flying Shadow Sword Art, Sword Rain!”
Lin Yun counter-attacked without delay. Inner force surged violently from his dantian sea, and his sword became a sudden storm of blades that rushed forward.
His Origin Return-level divine sense burst forth, attaching itself to the sword, while his full physical strength exploded at the same time.
Clang!
The ferocious collision detonated, energy pouring out like a volcanic eruption.
“What?!”
Elder Lu’s expression changed dramatically again.
He had already unleashed the first stage of the Meteor Spear Art. He had assumed that level of spear technique would be enough to gain the upper hand.
Indeed, the power erupting from Elder Lu’s spear art was already one level stronger than the sixth stage of Lin Yun’s Flying Shadow Sword Art.
