Qi Yun’s age, less than a hundred years old, was considered quite young amongst the half saints.
The lifespan of a half-saint was at least two hundred years old, and some of these profound cultivation existences were even able to live to two hundred and sixty, two hundred and seventy years old.
Above Qi Yun’s head, there was a white saintly cloud. From that cloud, a long river of holy qi rushed out, and at the forefront, it condensed into a fist imprint.
The fist force flew across the sky, immediately bringing up a powerful Qi, and the air in a radius of tens of miles vibrated at a distance.
Qi Qiankun nodded, revealing a look of appreciation, secretly saying, “Qi Yun didn’t take his opponent lightly just because their cultivation was weak, striking out with ten per cent of his strength, his heart is quite steady.”
Not taking the enemy lightly was a good habit.
Qi Yun was executing a Ghost Grade Medium Grade Martial Technique, the Lingyun Fist, which condensed with ten percent of its strength, and just the fist wind that emanated from it sent a tombstone in the middle of hundreds of thousands of jin, curling up and flying.
“The power of a Half-Saint is truly terrifying.”
Zhang Ruochen’s face was grave as he took a deep breath and injected the Saint Qi in his body into the two Golden Snake Saint Swords in a continuous stream. At that instant, the inscriptions in the swords emerged completely, emitting two eye-catching sword Qi rays.
The might of the two Saint Swords completely exploded out.
Before he had broken through to the Seventh Transformation of the Fish Dragon, he had never utilised the full power of the Golden Serpent Saint Sword, thus, at this moment, he was rather looking forward to the outcome of this duel.
“Break for me.”
On the surface of each of the two Golden Serpent Saint Swords, a golden serpent silhouette tens of feet long emerged. Hundreds of sword qi, swirled and flew around the golden snake.
Immediately after, Zhang Ruochen performed the Sword Royal Art, and the two swords flew out at the same time, striking the fist imprint and Qi Yun above respectively.
There was a rumble.
The power of the Golden Serpent Saint Sword was quite astonishing, and it unexpectedly broke apart the fist energy.
Seeing this scene, the few people present were all startled.
A mere cultivator of the Fish Dragon Seventh Transformation was actually able to erupt such such a powerful force?
Qi Yun revealed a surprised expression and said, “I see! Earlier, the person who blocked one of my sword waves was you.”
Although he was quite surprised, Qi Yun did not have much time to think. Because, another golden holy sword had already flown in front of him.
“Seal of Heaven.”
Qi Yun stretched out a hand and struck it forward.
With that, an icy cold power, like a mist of water, rose up from the ground, from the bottom of the earth. At the same time, a pillar of lightning light, poured down from the sky, surrounding Qi Yun’s body.
In Qi Yun’s palm, on the other hand, there was a pillar of red-coloured flame that impacted.
The three massive forces of ice, flame, and lightning formed three circular seals ten feet in diameter that overlapped and appeared in front of Qi Yun’s palm.
The Heaven Sealing Seal, a Ghost Grade Upper Grade martial skill, not only possessed a powerful defence, but also a devastating attack.
“Boom!”
The Golden Serpent Saint Sword struck at the centre of the Heaven Sealing Seal, and the powerful layer of cold air defence, shook violently, then cracked open a gap.
Qi Yun’s face changed slightly, without quite Lin Yue’s strength, he was so powerful that he actually pierced through the first layer of the cold defence.
Zhang Ruochen’s palm, striking forwards through the air, sent a force of sword intent, striking the hilt of the sword, causing the Golden Snake Sacred Sword to continue to thrust forwards.
“With a bang, the second layer of the Heaven Seal’s fiery defence shattered.
A fist-sized ball of flames flew out in all directions, hitting the ground and creating a huge deep pit.
The pair of clear eyes of the Sacred Book Talent Maiden exuded a bright lustre, the corners of her mouth couldn’t help but rise slightly, and she secretly said in her heart, ”This fellow’s strength, is surprisingly so powerful, to be able to compete with a Half-Saint at the seventh change of the Fish Dragon is really not simple. He has also reached the Supreme Extreme Realm at least twice in the Martial Dao Fourth Realm, or even, possibly, three times.”
In this battle, even if Lin Yue couldn’t defeat Qi Yun, as long as he was able to fight Qi Yun for three or five moves, he would definitely be on the front page of the Eastern Region Wind and Cloud Newspaper, becoming one of the favourites of the Sword Discussion Conference.
The Sacred Book Talented Maiden’s two long and slender jade fingers gently touched the tips of her hair, and for this battle, she was finally somewhat looking forward to it. It was curious to know how many more surprises Lin Yue could bring her?
“The ability is not small.”
Qi Yun’s eyes burned, both palms slapping out forwards at the same time, his entire body’s holy qi surging out from the Yin Dimension Sacred Vein and Yang Dimension Sacred Vein in a steady stream.
The Heaven Sealing Seal rapidly rotated in a circle, erupting a powerful force that shook the Golden Serpent Sacred Sword away.
“Rise!”
Qi Yun’s hands, in an upward motion, lifted the Heaven Sealing Seal to a height of a hundred feet above the ground.
His hands, then, pressed downwards again, suppressing the Heaven Sealing Seal towards Zhang Ruochen.
The three forces of the Heaven Sealing Seal were like three gigantic spinning wheels that completely enveloped Zhang Ruochen, seemingly to suppress him within.
Zhang Ruochen only felt that the pressure on his body was increasing, the Saint Qi in his body flowed back towards the Qi Sea, and even breathing became extremely difficult.
“What a powerful force, if it were to strike on his body, I’m afraid that he would die for sure.”Zhang Ruochen secretly said.
Zhang Ruochen clenched his teeth as the Heart of Sword Intent in the centre of his brow rotated rapidly, emitting a powerful sword intent.
The sword intent was like a substantial sword, emitting a clattering sound as it flew out from his brow, converging towards the Golden Snake Sacred Sword and overlapping with it.
“Sword One.”
A sword stabbed out, a powerful sword aura that pierced through the Heaven Sealing Seal’s aura. Zhang Ruochen and the Golden Snake Sacred Sword attacked towards Qi Yun at the same time, transforming into a shuttle of sword qi light.
“Good timing!”
Qi Yun remained unperturbed as he brought his hands together to form a clasped fist.
Instantly, behind him, a flame giant, nine feet tall, stood out. The Flame Giant wore battle armour with chains wrapped around its entire body, its arms were thicker than pillars, and its entire body was filled with an aura of power.
The Flame Giant also assumed a clasping posture and struck forward, slashing at Zhang Ruochen’s head.
“Holy Blood Battle Shadow.”
Zhang Ruochen slightly choked, not expecting Qi Yun to put up such a fight.
He didn’t dare to meet the Flame Giant head on and immediately took a step to the left, moving across a distance of thirty feet to avoid the Flame Giant’s attack.
“Boom!”
The Flame Giant’s double fists, striking the ground, shattered the thousands of corpses on the riverbank, and the river of corpses tore open a huge gap.
A wave of flaming aura, surging out from both fists, impacted on Zhang Ruochen’s body, striking his entire body with a shock of blood qi and sending him flying backwards for several miles before he landed back on the ground.
Immediately, Zhang Ruochen revolved his gong method and flowed it to all the meridians in his body in an effort to smooth out his breath.
Sacred Blood Battle Shadow was a means that could only be performed by a Half Saint, by burning a drop of Sacred Blood in the body, the blood qi and the Sacred Soul would become one, thus erupting into a twelve percent attack.
A half-saint burning a drop of holy blood could only exert one strike.
In order to strike a second blow, one must continue to burn holy blood.
If one burned too much holy blood, even a half-saint would be greatly injured, and thus, half-saints would not perform such a tactic until it was absolutely necessary.
The current situation was somewhat different.
Qi Yun wanted to have a quick battle, thus, that was why he used the Sacred Blood Battle Shadow.
Burning a few drops of holy blood was actually no damage to him.
The Sacred Book Talented Maiden smiled coldly, “A Half-Saint fighting a cultivator of the Fish Dragon Realm actually had to use the Sacred Blood Battle Shadow, is that the only thing the Qi Clan’s Half-Saint is capable of?”
“Lord Talented Lady is wrong, as long as one is able to win, isn’t it the same to use any means?”Qi Qiankun twirled his beard and smiled.
In fact, Qi Qiankun’s heart, was also quite surprised, how could he not expect that Lin Yue would actually be so strong.
However, Lin Yue’s strength being strong was a good thing for him.
As long as he captured Lin Yue, he would be able to have a good negotiation with the Two Elemental Sect, and he believed that the Two Elemental Sect would definitely not give up on such an outstanding human master.
Qi Yun had cast out the Holy Blood Battle Shadow, how many more moves could Lin Yue dodge?
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
……
Qi Yun burned holy blood and controlled the Holy Blood Battle Shadow as he continuously attacked Zhang Ruochen.
The more they fought, yet the more Qi Yun was shocked.
The power that erupted from the Holy Blood Battle Shadow was indeed very strong, beating Lin Yue so much that he could only dodge, not daring to fight him head on at all.
However, the speed that Lin Yue exerted was very perverse, always able to escape from under the Holy Blood Battle Shadow’s fists. According to Qi Yun’s projections, Lin Yue’s speed was surprisingly a bit faster than even he, a Half Saint.
The speed of a Fish Dragon Seventh Transformation cultivator was even faster than a Half Saint, even if he said it, I’m afraid no one would believe it.
Attacking nineteen punches in a row, Qi Yun burned nineteen drops of holy blood.
Although, consuming so much holy blood was not enough to hurt Qi Yun’s vitality. However, if the battle continued like this, who knew how much Saint Blood would have to be burnt before Lin Yue could be taken down?
Qi Yun retracted the Sacred Blood Battle Shadow back into his body, and was suddenly a little out of breath.
The successive attacks just now had caused him to consume quite a lot of Saint Qi.
Qi Yun began to be wary, secretly saying, “In the Perishable Tomb Forest, there is no heaven and earth aura to allow for the rapid recovery of holy qi, continuing to consume it will be quite unfavourable for me, I have to change my tactics to make it work.”
It was only at this moment that Qi Yun truly realised that this Fish Dragon Seventh Transformation cultivator in front of him really seemed to have the strength to fight him.
Zhang Ruochen flicked the dust on his body and looked over towards Qi Yun, saying, “The legendary Half-Saint, it turns out to be nothing more than that.”
Qi Yun gave a cold smile and said, “The greatest advantage of a Half Saint is that he can mobilise a large amount of heaven and earth aura and turn it to his own use. If you were outside of the Perishing God Graveyard, this seat would be able to beat you to dust with just one strike.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “Even a Half-Saint has to make excuses for his failure? Honestly speaking, your strength has really let me down.”
In fact, just now, Zhang Ruochen had also used his full strength, and, on two of those occasions, he had almost avoided Qi Yun’s attacks.
The reason why he said this was not because he really looked down on Qi Yun, but rather, he wanted to provoke Qi Yun into anger.
Qi Yun’s state of mind was originally quite smooth.
But not being able to fight for a long time made him a little irritated as well.
A Half Saint, actually letting a cultivator of the Fish Dragon realm taunt him, even if Qi Yun’s state of mind was no longer good, at this moment, all of them were completely enraged.
“Junior, this seat will let you see the true strength of a Half Saint.”
In Qi Yun’s brow, the Divine Martial Seal presented itself.
A flaming Saint Blade, through the Divine Martial Seal, flew out from the Qi Sea and swung towards Zhang Ruochen.
That Saint Blade, emitting waves of blazing heat, illuminated the entire heaven and earth in crimson. The corpses on the riverbank all burst into flames, creating a rather bizarre scene.
Zhang Ruochen’s face also stared as he mobilised his entire body’s Saint Qi and struck the two Golden Serpent Saint Swords out at the same time to meet the Saint Blade that Qi Yun had slashed out.
