Minister Ning added, “Even more astonishing is his talent above spiritual power. According to County King Yunwu, Zhang Ruochen’s spiritual power has reached the twenty-ninth rank.”
“Only sixteen years old and his spiritual power has reached the twenty-ninth rank?”
The people present were all top-notch powerhouses, and could be called the most powerful group of people in the Thousand Waters County Kingdom. However, even they couldn’t calm their hearts when they heard this news, feeling quite surprised.
Minister Ning Shangshu was just as surprised as they were when he initially heard this news.
The Thousand Water County King nodded, making a very high appraisal, saying, “This son is a wunderkind, if he can be cultivated vigorously, he might be able to become a Half-Saint in the future.”
“It depends on his performance in this Sword Discussion Conference!” Minister Ning laughed.
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Jin Feng Wan.
The two Xuanji Realm Great Circle Celestial Pride, at the same time, mounted the Battle Martial Stage and began to compete with swords.
They were competing with sword moves and did not use true qi.
In other words, the Sword Competition was actually comparing whose sword skills were more superior, and it didn’t have much to do with the strength of their cultivation.
The two Xuanji Realm Great Circle Heavenly Pride were both very strong, possessing Xuan Ranking Martial Artist level strength, and were always able to perform eye-opening sword techniques.
The Thirteenth County Lord sat above, watching the two heavenly prides who were competing with each other with swords, feeling very bored.
In her opinion, the number one in today’s sword competition must be one of Xun Guihai, Liu Xin, Tuoba Linsu, and Qing Chi Bai.
Inside the four of them, one of them must be her prince consort, and all those other geniuses were just mediocre in front of the four of them.
Watching them compete with each other was not at all interesting.
Right at this moment, the Thirteenth County Lord suddenly saw Zhang Ruochen standing at the very back of the crowd, her eyes slightly lit up, revealing a few cold colours, and she secretly said in her heart, “This fanatic actually dares to come to the Sword Discussion Conference, that’s really great, now is the time to clean him up.”
At this moment, the two heavenly prides on the Battle Martial Stage had already split the victory.
A genius named “Zhu Yi” was victorious, defeating another genius named “Luo Kong”.
Seeing Zhu Yi standing on the battle stage, the Thirteenth County Lord stood up and smiled with bright eyes and white teeth, “Mr Zhu deserves to be the most talented prince of the Golden Dream County Kingdom, his swordsmanship is superb, which makes this County Lord very impressed.”
Hearing the Thirteenth County Lord’s praise, Zhu Yi was flattered and hurriedly bowed to the Thirteenth County Lord.
The Thirteenth County Lord glanced towards Zhang Ruochen in the distance and suddenly added, “It’s a pity! Although Prince Zhu’s sword skill is very high, it is not as high as the Ninth Prince of the Yunwu County Kingdom. This County Lord has heard that although the Ninth Prince of the Yunwu County Kingdom only has a cultivation of the middle extreme position of the Xuan Extreme Realm, his swordsmanship is even higher than that of a martial artist of the Earth Extreme Realm. Furthermore, the Ninth Prince once told this County Lord that for today’s geniuses, if he calls his swordsmanship second, no one would dare to call it first.”
“Boom!”
Hearing Thirteenth County Lord’s words, the entire Jin Feng Wan exploded.
One must know that none of the young martial artists who were able to enter Golden Phoenix Wan were weak, all of them were top-notch heavenly prides.
That Ninth Prince of the Yunwu County Kingdom, how dare he claim to be the number one in the world in swordsmanship?
Such arrogance!
All of the young geniuses present were enraged, wanting to defeat that Ninth Prince and ruthlessly humiliate him.
“A prince of an inferior county, how dare he be so arrogant!”
“Even a half-saint disciple wouldn’t dare to say that he is the best in the world in terms of swordsmanship, that kid actually dares to put out such harsh words, if I were to know who he is, I would have to make him see what a true swordsmanship expert is.”
“It’s probably a frog at the bottom of the well who has been staying in a lower county, the number one in the younger generation’s swordsmanship in a lower county, coming to the Thousand Waters County, it’s very difficult to be ranked in the top 1,000 of the younger generation.”
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Chen Tianshu, who was standing beside Zhang Ruochen, laughed, “If what the Thirteenth County Lord said is true, then that one Ninth Prince of the Yunwu County Kingdom is truly an oddball, and today, he’s considered to have stirred up a lot of anger. Brother Zhang, what do you think?”
Zhang Ruochen looked like he hadn’t heard Chen Tianshu’s words at all, and he finally understood at this moment the reason why the Thirteenth County Lord had sent him the Sword Discussion Post.
She really had evil intentions!
There were two ways to kill someone, one was killing with a stick and the other was cupping. Obviously, the Thirteenth County Lord used the second one.
On the surface, she was praising Zhang Ruochen, but in reality, she was pushing Zhang Ruochen to the opposite side of everyone.
This place was not suitable to stay for long, so Zhang Ruochen prepared to leave.
The Thirteenth County Lord naturally refused to let him go, seeing Zhang Ruochen wanting to leave, so she immediately raised her voice and said, “Ninth Prince, where are you going? Didn’t you want to make a splash and shock the entire audience at the Sword Discussion Conference, why are you in a hurry to leave now?”
All of the people followed the Thirteenth County Lord’s gaze and stared at Zhang Ruochen who was about to leave.
Originally, Zhang Ruochen was standing at the very back, and now that he was also the only one leaving, when everyone turned to look, he naturally appeared quite striking.
Someone had already rushed up to stop Zhang Ruochen who was about to leave.
Zhang Ruochen really didn’t want to provoke that one Thirteenth County Lord, turning over, he calmly said, “Your Highness, Thirteenth County Lord, are you sure that what you just said is the truth?”
The Thirteenth County Lord snorted coldly and said, “Could it be that this County Lord would still frame you? At that time, tenth brother was also present, and he heard it clearly.”
The injuries on the tenth prince’s body had already healed and he stood out, saying, “That’s right, at that time, he did show off his sword skills in front of the thirteenth royal sister, claiming that his sword skills were the best in the world, and that all the other geniuses were unbeatable in front of him. What? Your Highness the Ninth Prince, are you denying it now?”
Zhang Ruochen also stopped arguing because, right now, even arguing was useless.
Those geniuses of Jin Feng Wan all stared at Zhang Ruochen with cold smiles on their faces. Those county lords and noblewomen sitting in the attic also let out giggling scoffs.
Only Chen Tianshu, who had greeted Zhang Ruochen earlier, could see some clues and expected that Zhang Ruochen had offended the Thirteenth County Lord and the Tenth Prince, and that was why he was being plotted by the Thirteenth County Lord and the Tenth Prince, wanting to humiliate him by the hands of the genius jungles present.
Zhu Yi stood on the Battle Martial Stage and sneered, “Your Highness the Ninth Prince, I’ve heard that you are the best in the world in terms of swordsmanship, so I wonder if I can ask for a few moves?”
The crowd roared with laughter once again.
The Thirteenth County Lord held her chest out and stared at Zhang Ruochen smugly, as if she was saying, “This is what happens when you offend this County Lord, not only does this County Lord want to teach you a lesson, but also, she wants you to lose your reputation.”
Zhu Yi once again said, “Your Highness the Ninth Prince, could it be that you are looking down on me and can’t even give me a few moves?”
“No matter! Since Brother Zhu wants to learn my sword skills, then I will have a few moves with Brother Zhu!” Zhang Ruochen’s gaze carried a bit of coldness as he walked towards the Battle Martial Stage.
Originally, Zhang Ruochen didn’t want to cause any trouble and didn’t want to participate in any Sword Discussion Conference, but the crowd had to force him.
Zhang Ruochen was not someone who was afraid of trouble, since that was the case, so what if he came to meet the world’s talents?
Walking to the bottom of the Battle Martial Stage, Zhang Ruochen’s toes stood on tiptoe, and his body was like a light breeze as he flew into the formation and gently landed on the Battle Martial Stage.
In fact, Zhu Yi did not expect Zhang Ruochen to actually dare to compete with him in a sword competition, seeing Zhang Ruochen mount the Battle Martial Stage, Zhu Yi explained the rules of the sword competition to him, saying, “In the Sword Discussion Conference, what is compared is only the Dao of the Sword, and it does not compare with cultivation. Can you understand what I mean?”
Obviously, Zhu Yi was treating Zhang Ruochen as a rash youth, lest he did not know the rules of the Sword Discussion Conference’s competition.
Zhang Ruochen simply took the Flashing Soul Sword out of his sleeve and pulled the battle sword out of its scabbard, revealing a cold, sharp light from the blade.
Squeezing the sword steadily in his hand, Zhang Ruochen said, “Are you still competing or not?”
Zhu Yi’s eyes turned cold, and no longer talking nonsense with Zhang Ruochen, with a swish, he pulled out a five-foot-long green iron battle sword.
He quickly rushed forward, taking six steps in a row, each step stepping according to a certain subtle pattern, very magical, making it difficult to figure out the orientation of his sword.
Judging from his steps alone, Zhu Yi had already reached a rather high level of mastery, comparable to an average Xuan Ranked martial artist.
Zhang Ruochen stood still, not moving at all.
“Shoo!”
Zhu Yi’s pace moved to the left as he stabbed out with a sword, and even though there was no no use of true qi, three sword blossoms still appeared on the blade, displaying a very skillful sword technique.
In an instant, the green-coloured blade of the sword stabbed to within a foot of Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen also immediately launched his sword, striking after him.
Just when Zhu Yi’s sword was about to stab Zhang Ruochen’s heart, Zhang Ruochen’s sword, preceded against Zhu Yi’s neck.
Zhu Yi felt a coolness coming out of his throat, as if his throat was sealed by ice, the whole person was as if petrified, not daring to move a bit.
His sword was still three inches away from Zhang Ruochen, while Zhang Ruochen’s sword had already pierced through the skin outside his throat, leaving behind a red spot of blood.
As long as he dared to move one more time, Zhang Ruochen’s sword would be able to pierce his throat.
Zhu Yi’s legs trembled a little and his whole body broke out in a cold sweat as he said, ”The …… Discourse on the Sword …… Great …… Assembly, forbidding the …… killing …… killing ……”
“Swish!”
Zhang Ruochen stared at Zhu Yi and took his sword back, saying, “You’ve lost!”
Only when he saw Zhang Ruochen withdraw his sword did Zhu Yi exhale a long breath, and his entire body felt as if he had been deflated.
The geniuses and juniors present were all astonished.
Earlier, the one genius who had lost to Zhu Yi came out in shock, “Defeating Zhu Yi with just one sword, his sword skill is too powerful!”
Only those who had truly fought against Zhu Yi would know exactly how powerful Zhu Yi was. But even though Zhu Yi was very powerful, he was still easily defeated by Zhang Ruochen.
The Thirteenth County Lord also revealed a few surprised looks, grinding her teeth fiercely as she said, “This bast*rd still has a few real skills!”
Tuoba Linsu stared at Zhang Ruochen standing on the battle martial stage and said, “Good sword technique! The sword technique is simple and the sword intent is brilliant, able to turn complexity into simplicity without dragging his feet in the slightest. I would like to go and meet him for a while!”
Tuoba Linsu, the number one expert of the younger generation of the Longchuan County Kingdom, at a young age, he possessed a martial cultivation of the Earth Extreme Realm.
It was precisely because of this that he was qualified to sit beside the Thirteenth County Lord.
