Last punch!
Two faint golden auras appeared in Shui Wenxin’s pupils, and the black hair on his head, which was windless, had a strand of true qi travelling between the strands of his hair.
Even his dry and thin body looked like it had become a few points taller.
If one were to look closely, one would find that the skin on top of Shui Wenshin’s arms was covered with a layer of metallic luster, almost as if it had transformed into two metallic iron walls.
“Spirit Grade Lower Grade Martial Skill, Vajra Divine Fist!”
Zhang Ruochen was slightly surprised for a moment and recognised the martial skill that Shui Wenshin had performed.
“Haha! That’s right, it is precisely the Vajra Divine Fist!” Shui Wenshin laughed.
The Vajra Divine Fist was considered a relatively common fist martial art amongst spirit level martial arts, and it was extremely widely circulated, and in many counties, one could find the recipe for the Vajra Divine Fist.
Of course, even if the Vajra Divine Fist was widely circulated, even if it was more common, it was still a Spirit level martial skill, and only in the major county king’s mansions, sects, and clans, was it possible to include this kind of fist.
For ordinary martial artists, thinking of cultivating the Vajra Divine Fist was as difficult as climbing into the sky.
Shui Wenxin was only able to learn one of the eighteen moves of the Vajra Divine Fist, the Fiery Vajra, by chance.
Performing this move, Shui Wenshin was enough to burst out with the power of seventy-eight oxen, even the person who was currently number one on the Yellow Ranking List didn’t have such a powerful explosive power.
In other words, by executing the Vajra Divine Fist, Shui Wenshin possessed the strength of the number one in the Yellow Ranking.
A female Yellow Ranking martial artist in her thirties said, “Shui Wenshin has actually cultivated a move of the Vajra Divine Fist, using this move, I’m afraid that even the number one Yellow Ranking, Hei Changji, would not be his opponent.”
Earlier, one of the Yellow Ranked martial artists who had been defeated by Zhang Ruochen said, “Shui Wenshin wasn’t much weaker than Hei Changji even before he had cultivated a Spirit Ranked Martial Skill. Even Black Standing Ji could only slightly beat him by one move by executing the Spirit Grade Lower Grade Uncommon Sword Technique. Now that Shui Wenshin has cultivated the Vajra Divine Fist, his explosive power is even stronger, and it’s no longer difficult for him to defeat Hei Changji.”
“If Shui Wenshin is able to defeat the Ninth Prince, after this battle, his ranking on the Yellow Ranking will definitely be switched to the number one position.”
A slightly younger young girl said, “If the Ninth Prince defeats Shui Wenshin, doesn’t that mean that the Ninth Prince is the number one on the Yellow Ranking?”
An elder standing next to her, laughed, “Shui Wenshin even performed a Spirit Grade Martial Skill, so he must have the confidence to win, it’s impossible for the Ninth Prince to have a chance to win.”
“The Ninth Prince indeed still has some gap with Shui Wenshin, it seems that we don’t need Ah Le to make a move!” A few moments of disappointment appeared on Lin Mishan’s face.
If Ah Le had made a move, Zhang Ruochen wouldn’t have been as simple as losing.
Rather, death.
For Zhang Ruochen, Lin Mishan’s heart was a wave of inexplicable hatred, especially when she saw Zhang Ruochen in all his splendour, the more hatred she felt, wishing that Zhang Ruochen would die in front of her immediately.
Even she didn’t understand why she hated Zhang Ruochen so much.
“Fiery Vajra!”
Shui Wenxin renewed her momentum and launched both fists.
The true qi burned and transformed into two flaming iron fists, simultaneously striking out with a huge force of seventy-eight oxen.
If it was on the battlefield, Shui Wenshin’s punch would be able to scare off a hundred soldiers with just his Qi.
Not only did Zhang Ruochen not retreat, he instead rushed forward, his body’s aura like that of a savage elephant. The strength of the muscles and bones of his entire body were mobilised and transmitted up his arms.
“Barbarian Elephant Chi Earth!”
With a palm strike, the power of eighty-eight oxen erupted.
The result was obvious.
Shui Wenshin’s fist had just touched Zhang Ruochen’s palm when his entire body flew backwards and landed more than ten metres away in a sorry state, just short of falling off the battle stage.
On the contrary, Zhang Ruochen was still standing calmly in the centre of the battle platform, and had slowly withdrawn his palm.
It was a complete crushing of power.
Shui Wenshin looked at his fists, then looked at Zhang Ruochen, and let out a long sigh, saying, ”The younger generation is fearful! The later generations are fearful! From now on, Your Highness the Ninth Prince is the number one in the Yellow Ranking. With His Highness the Ninth Prince’s natural talent, he will soon be able to break through the Xuanji Realm, so he shouldn’t care about a Yellow Ranking Number One! Ai!”
Sighing, Shui Wenshen looked rather forlorn and walked off the battle stage, considered to be actively admitting defeat.
Only he himself knew how big the gap with Zhang Ruochen was. If Zhang Ruochen hadn’t taken the initiative to withdraw some of his power at the last moment, he would have definitely suffered serious injuries from that palm just now.
Zhang Ruochen’s power was stronger than the crowd had imagined.
As Shui Wenxin had said, Zhang Ruochen wasn’t very interested in being number one on the Yellow Ranking, and was mainly here for the reward of one million silver coins.
After all, the rankings on the Yellow Ranking List only recorded the martial artists of the Yunwu County Kingdom, the pattern was too small and the gold content was too low. If it was replaced with the first place on the Xuan Ranking List, the gold content of the list would be raised by a very high level, and almost all martial artists would desperately fight for the Xuan Ranking List.
Of course, it could only be said that Zhang Ruochen’s vision was too high, if any other teenage martial artiste was able to win the number one spot on the Yellow Ranking List, they would immediately become the toast of the entire county, and become the object of admiration for countless young maidens.
In the midst of the crowd’s boisterous chatter, that one fifteen year old Life Snatching Swordsman, Ah Le, finally ascended the battle stage and became Zhang Ruochen’s ninth opponent.
Those martial artists who were watching the battle became even more expectant.
Knowing that Ah Le’s previous ten battles had all killed his opponents with a single sword, no one knew just how strong he was?
Zhang Ruochen was also never undefeated, even Shui Wenxin was defeated in his hands.
Both are sharp young martial artists, who would be more powerful?
“This is interesting! Both of them are teenage generation’s sword dao masters, moreover, they are equally unfathomable, I wonder which one of them will win?”
“This is really hard to say, after all, that one Life Snatching Swordsman, from start to finish, only used one move, maybe he’s stronger than Shui Wenxin?”
At this moment, around the betting platform, there were many more people betting.
Zhang Ruochen, win. Bet one to three.
Zhang Ruochen, die. Bet one to two.
Lok, win. Bet one to two.
Lok, die. Ten to one.
Tie. Bet one to four.
Some people bet on Zhang Ruochen to win, some bet on Ah Lok to win, and of course, there were some people who bet on them to tie.
The Nine Counties Lord had full confidence in Zhang Ruochen and directly bet 10,000 silver coins on Zhang Ruochen to win. Almost all of her savings, she bet on it.
On the battle stage.
The two teenage swordsmen, ten paces apart, stared at each other.
Ah Le carried his iron sword without blinking his eyes, just like a statue, “You are indeed very strong!”
Zhang Ruochen said, “At your age, it’s also remarkable to be able to cultivate to your current height. However, your sword technique has a fatal flaw, and when you fight me, you have no chance of winning, instead, there is a high possibility that you will die under my sword. I advise you, admit defeat of your own accord!”
Ah Le’s sword technique was indeed terrifying, even Zhang Ruochen had to go all out.
Once he went all out, he would definitely not be able to show any mercy.
Either Ah Lok would die or he would die.
Ah Lok glanced slightly in Lin Mishan’s direction, a trace of strange light appeared in his eyes, and he resumed looking towards Zhang Ruochen, his eyes becoming even more resolute as he said, “The only way to know who will die and who will live is to battle it out.”
Zhang Ruochen gently shook his head and said, “You are cultivating the forbidden martial skill ‘Life Killing Sword Technique’, not only are you killing others, you are also killing yourself. Although you are able to kill a Yellow Ranked Martial Artist with a single swipe of your sword, every time you swing your sword, it will cause great damage to your martial body.”
Forbidden martial skills referred to martial skills that could only be performed at a certain cost.
For example, the Killing Sword Technique. Every time you swung out a sword, you were consuming your own life force.
If Ah Le continuously performed the Life Killing Sword Technique ten times, he wouldn’t even need others to make a move, he would have already self-consumed himself to death.
Of course, Ah Le’s attainments in the sword path were indeed very high, far surpassing martial artists of his generation. As long as he wasn’t facing a Yellow List martial artist, he didn’t even need to execute the Life Killing Sword Technique to kill his opponent with a single stroke of his sword.
To be able to be called a forbidden martial art, its power was naturally quite terrifying, and it wasn’t something that ordinary people could successfully cultivate.
Ah Le said in an unperturbed manner, ”Since you know that I cultivate the Life-Slaying Sword Technique, you should understand the power of the Life-Slaying Sword Technique. In the same realm, no one is able to block one of my swords. Not long ago, a martial artist in the middle Xuanji realm was also killed by my sword.”
Zhang Ruochen laughed softly and said, “As I said, you have no chance of winning against me. This is because, the Life Killing Sword Art that you cultivate is not complete and has fatal flaws. What you obtained in the first place was merely the remnants of the Life-Slaying Sword Art, right?”
Ah Le appeared calm and unperturbed as he said, “You want to break my will in this way?”
Zhang Ruochen gently shook his head and said no more, “Since you still won’t admit defeat, let me see just how strong your Life Killing Sword Art is?”
In fact, Zhang Ruochen didn’t hate Ah Le, instead, he rather appreciated his attainments in swordsmanship, as if he could see a super swordsman on the rise.
Whether it was in his previous life, or in this life, Zhang Ruochen had never killed anyone, and very much did not want the first person to die in his hands to be such a teenager. That was why he advised a few more words.
Facing Shang A Le, Zhang Ruochen also drew his Flash Soul Sword.
Two sword auras, emanating from Zhang Ruochen and Ah Le’s bodies at the same time, collided in the air.
Seeing Zhang Ruochen and Ah Le, who were facing each other in life and death on the battle stage, Lin Mishan felt very excited.
If Ah Le was able to kill Zhang Ruochen, it would naturally be the best. If Zhang Ruochen killed Ah Le, her heart also felt an indescribable pleasure.
A genius swordsman had died in the hands of another genius swordsman for her. Shouldn’t she be excited?
This feeling was too marvellous!
“Kill Life!”
Ah Le’s lips softly chanted as he transformed into a residual shadow and rushed forward towards Zhang Ruochen. At the same time, he raised his arm, and the iron sword in his hand, stabbed out with lightning speed.
Zhang Ruochen followed suit and took a step, also transforming into a residual shadow, to meet him.
