“I was just stating a fact, not to make you believe it. It doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not; the outcome won’t change,” Ye Yuan said indifferently.
“Humph! I don’t believe you then! No matter how monstrous you are, you’re just at the First Level Spirit Condensation Realm. Can you oppose the heaven?” Su Yishan said indignantly.
After that, Su Yishan rushed forward and collided together with Ye Yuan.
The pair’s movement techniques were quick to the extreme. They turned into two streaks of afterimages and clashed together non-stop. In a blink, they had crossed over a dozen exchanges!
Su Yishan’s movement technique goes without saying. He also trained in a high-grade Tier 2 movement technique, not at all inferior to Nanfeng Zhirou’s Spirit Swallow Dance!
However, after Ye Yuan broke through to the Spirit Condensation Realm and had the support of immense essence energy, the true might of the first stage of the Spirit Void Shattering Space also emerged!
His speed was actually even slightly faster than Su Yishan!
Outsiders could not tell, but Su Yishan’s senses were incomparably clear.
Just because of that tiny bit, his attack was forever half a beat slower than Ye Yuan’s. This also resulted in him being unable to unleash his full power each time.
Ye Yuan’s Eighth Layer Wave and Absolute Yang Finger were Tier 1 martial techniques with tremendous power. Especially the Absolute Yang Finger, its power could no longer be mentioned in the same breath as it was during the Essence Qi Realm.
While it could not cause real harm to Su Yishan, it made him unable to leave it unrestrained.
Ye Yuan made use of this half a beat advantage coupled with the powerful might of the Absolute Yang Finger and the Eighth Layered Wave to forcefully fight Su Yishan to a draw!
This sort of feeling made Su Yishan so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood.
Currently, he was somewhat regretting playing such large stakes with Ye Yuan. He should have used his most powerful move right from the start and fight Ye Yuan to the death.
Under the current situation, it was no longer possible even if he wanted to withdraw from the fight.
It was like Ye Yuan went mad. He pestered him dead from the start till the end without giving him any chance to catch his breath.
“Damn it! To think that his movement technique is so strong. I fell for his trick!” Su Yishan silently cursed as he dealt with things.
His present thoughts were very simple. To find a chance to break free from the battle and then unleash a big move!
However, Ye Yuan just refused to give him this chance.
The current Ye Yuan was like an old bull which did not know fatigue. All his moves ‘greeted’ Su Yishan’s body like a raging tempest.
Having just parted forever with his father, Ye Yuan’s heart carried boundless grief. He turned this sorrow into battle power and unleashed it all on Su Yishan’s body!
The current Su Yishan was just the target to vent the emotions in his heart.
Just like this, the two of them exchange over a hundred rounds in a hundred breaths of time!
Boom!
Another clash, but this time the pair separated.
Ye Yuan finally gave up his entanglement with Su Yishan. The negative emotions in his heart were almost vented finish.
After pulling apart, the pair were panting heavily. Clearly, such high-frequency clashes were very taxing on their stamina and essence energy.
After panting a few times, Su Yishan recovered first. He said furiously to Ye Yuan, “Ye Yuan, don’t think that you’re very impressive just because your movement technique is fast! If you have the capability, try breaking apart this move of mine for me to see!”
Finishing, Su Yishan raised both palms towards the skies. It was precisely the starting motion of the Heaven Flipping Palm!
Su Yishan was already at the Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm. Displaying the Heaven Flipping Palm right now could no longer be mentioned in the same breath as back in the academy!
An astonishing aura undulated out. It actually made people feel that the sky was rent asunder and the earth was split open.
Ye Yuan breathed in deeply and recollected his feelings. He took out the Canghua Sword and said lightly, “The warmup exercise is already done. Now, I’ll send you on your way with the Nine Swords Stance which was completed because of you guys’ assassination!”
Finishing, his silhouette split, and nine Ye Yuans appeared in front of Su Yishan’s eyes.
Su Yishan’s pupils involuntarily shrunk when he saw the situation. He did not expect that Ye Yuan was actually still hiding such a formidable move!
Chang One’s fight only lasted for an instant. Back then, he was battling with Nanfeng Zhirou and did not witness how Ye Yuan avoided the assassination.
Also, during the subsequent spars, Ye Yuan did not use this move either.
No matter how one looked at this, the nine silhouettes gave Su Yishan an enormous shock!
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A terrifying sword intent similarly undulated out, clashing with Su Yishan’s aura. It was actually not at a disadvantage at all.
Su Yishan had an extremely strong impression of this sword intent.
Back then, for Liu Ruoshui, Su Yishan was put into a sorry state by Ye Yuan. It was due to being struck by this sword intent.
However, the current Azure Dipper Floating Zero Sword Art could not be mentioned in the same breath as it originally was anymore.
Ye Yuan’s sword intent realm was exceedingly high. It was just that he did not have the essence energy to match it.
The Ye Yuan today had already broken through to the Spirit Condensation Realm and condensed nine spirit liquid drops. Displaying the might of the Azure Dipper Floating Zero Sword Art would naturally be several levels higher than what it was in the Essence Qi Realm!
Ye Yuan no longer lined up in a straight line when he executed the Nine Swords Stance this time, but instead, it was nine disorganized figures.
After the Nine Swords Stance was completed, Ye Yuan could already freely display these nine silhouettes and also freely control the timing of releasing the sword beams.
This way, the might of the Nine Swords Stance would be much greater.
The sword beams released by the nine disorderly silhouettes would be much harder to defend than if they lined up in a row.
Also, Ye Yuan now could freely adjust the entire sword beam releasing duration according to the opponent’s situation.
This alteration in rhythm was the hardest to be on guard against.
If the opponent was not overwhelmingly more powerful than Ye Yuan, then how could they defend the second sword beam when they had just blocked one sword beam and not mustered up new strength?
This was the greatest aspect of this Nine Swords Stance that Ye Yuan created!
Powerful sword intent synchronizing with multi-varied attacks could let Ye Yuan’s power soar once again!
Su Yishan instinctively sensed that things were not right. But right now, it was like a notched arrow that had to be released.
Since he could not differentiate which was Ye Yuan’s true body, he would just directly sweep across with the wind from his palm!
With his powerful strength of Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm, he would directly crush Ye Yuan!
Even if Ye Yuan had condensed nine spirit liquid drops, the disparity between them was still enormous. If he did not make good use of this advantage, then he would have completely no chance of victory at all today.
The Heaven Flipping Palm by itself held incredible power. Among the Su Family’s Tier 2 martial techniques, it was also a pinnacle existence.
After breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, Su Yishan had faith that he could rely on the Heaven Flipping Palm to crush Fifth Level Spirit Condensation Realm martial artists!
Su Yishan was indeed a genius. He al
so had rich experience in being in critical situations and was not those sort of flowers which grew up in a greenhouse.
But sadly . . . he met Ye Yuan!
Just as he was prepared to release the Heaven Flipping Palm, his brain suddenly blanked out. His divine soul sunk into a disoriented and hazy state!
However, Su Yishan rapidly regained consciousness.
Except that when experts exchange blows, that split second of delay was ample to cause lethality.
The nine sword beams whistled out and arrived in front of Su Yishan dazzlingly. Su Yishan only regained consciousness at this time. It was already too late to want to circulate his strength to defend.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh.
Nine sword beams struck Su Yishan’s body solidly and instantly broke his protective essence energy, destroying his internal organs.
What happened . . . This was the last thought that went through Su Yishan’s mind. But he would never know.
Nanfeng Zhirou swallowed hard and felt somewhat parched.
What in the world happened just now? She also really wanted to know.
At that final moment just now, Su Yishan clearly hesitated for a bit. Just that short moment cost him his life.
But in that sort of life and death juncture, why would he waver? Was this any different from suiciding?
Nanfeng Zhirou knew that it was definitely something Ye Yuan did. But she did not know what method he used.
Speaking of which, after Su Yishan broke through in cultivation realm, he was actually already on par with her. Ye Yuan could kill Su Yishan, so he naturally also had the ability to kill her.
Nanfeng Zhirou unwittingly thought back to two months ago, that scene where she almost killed Ye Yuan.
Just two months and he already caught up, even surpassed her?
To think that she, Nanfeng Zhirou, had always boasted she was a genius. But in front of Ye Yuan, she was nothing!
“Senior Apprentice Sister Nanfeng? Senior Apprentice Sister Nanfeng?”
“Uh, ah? What is it?” Nanfeng Zhirou only reacted after Ye Yuan called out twice in a row.
“It’s late. We should go.”
It had already been five to six days since they entered the Endless Forest and Ye Yuan still had two medicinal herbs which he had not acquired.
Since this matter was settled, he naturally did not want to continue delaying.
If not for the fact that he needed to break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, Ye Yuan would have long let Yuan Fei kill Su Yishan and would not have let so many things happen.
Nanfeng Zhirou followed behind Ye Yuan somewhat dejectedly, utterly unlike her usual self.
Along the way, the two were very silent. Neither opened their mouth to speak.
After four hours, Nanfeng Zhirou finally could not resist and opened her mouth to ask, “Ye Yuan, don’t you have anything you want to ask?”
“When you want to talk, you’ll obviously say it. If you don’t want to talk, then it’s also meaningless if I ask.” Ye Yuan just replied nonchalantly without turning his head back.
Nanfeng Zhirou glared at Ye Yuan’s back view somewhat resentfully and said discontentedly with pouting lips, “Tch, this guy who doesn’t understand women! This Princess will talk about it, alright? My father is Nanfeng Yi. I’m called Nanfeng Zhirou. My aunt is called Nanfeng Ruoqing. My father is the ruler of the State of Qin. Is this fine?”
“I already knew this long ago.”
“I know that you are aware, but you should at least show me your attitude, right?”
Nanfeng Zhirou was so exasperated by Ye Yuan that she gritted her teeth and halted her steps to stomp her feet. She shouted loudly at Ye Yuan’s back view, “Hiding our identities from you is my aunt and my fault, but we also have difficulties that we can’t say. It’s so inconvenient to enter the academy with my aunt and my identity. That’s why we concealed our surnames. Initially, I also planned on telling you when we get back, but didn’t I not have the opportunity this whole time?”
Ye Yuan also stopped and turned around. Looking at Nanfeng Zhirou, he suddenly smiled and said, “Senior Apprentice Sister Nanfeng is thinking too much. If I really have any attitude, I would have long left you behind and ignored you and not stand here talking to you. Not having an attitude is the best attitude.”
Nanfeng Zhirou bit her lips and then said angrily, “Then why didn’t you say that earlier. I even thought that you were really angry.”
“You also didn’t ask me,” Ye Yuan replied very innocently.
Nanfeng Zhirou thought about it and felt so too. It seemed like it had just been her imagining all sorts of things from the start. She had not even asked this fellow.
Perhaps even this matter of concealing their identities did not count as something in this guy’s heart?
“Fine then. I was the one who imagined things! Then you tell me. When you killed Su Yishan, why did he slow down by half a beat?”
Nanfeng Zhirou had a carefree personality. Knowing that Ye Yuan was not angry, this matter was directly filtered out by her.
Nanfeng Zhirou became that unruly little princess once again.
“About that . . . It’s a divine soul mystic art, the God Stunning Spike. It can make people lose focus for a short period of time,” Ye Yuan did not have any intention of hiding it and said it directly.
“Divine soul mystic art! You actually even know divine soul mystic arts!” Nanfeng Zhirou exclaimed in astonishment.
“This is just the shallowest type of divine soul mystic art. What’s there to get excited about?”
Not that Ye Yuan was posturing, but this God Stunning Spike was really the crudest one among the divine soul mystic arts he knew.
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The God Stunning Spike was just a simple way of using soul strength to attack the opponent’s divine soul. It was not all that profound.
If Su Yishan were prepared beforehand, Ye Yuan would not even have succeeded.
After all, Ye Yuan only had middle-rank Alchemy Master soul strength; it was roughly the same as Su Yishan.
This attack of his took him by surprise.
Of course, divine soul mystic arts were not much to Ye Yuan. But in mortal countries like the State of Qin, it was absolutely an exceedingly rare existence.
Even if it was the crudest type of divine soul mystic art!
When the State of Qin’s martial artists fought, they would not even think of the other party using divine soul mystic arts, because this thing was too rare.
Hence, martial artists who possessed divine soul mystic arts tend to succeed in sneak attacks.
It was just that too few people knew it; so scarce that there simply wasn’t any need to be on guard against it. There was no need to go so far as to be on guard against the opposing party’s divine soul mystic art every time one fought a battle. Being distracted like that was, on the contrary, a big taboo.
“Yeah, I should have thought of it long ago. Other than divine soul mystic arts, how could Su Yishan have made this kind of low-level mistake?” Nanfeng Zhirou muttered.
Ye Yuan turned to go. Nanfeng Zhirou quickly recovered and hurriedly chased after, grabbing hold of Ye Yuan and said, “Ye Yuan, teach me this divine soul mystic art, okay?”
But Ye Yuan shook his head and said, “Not okay!”
Seeing Nanfeng Zhirou’s face change instantly, Ye Yuan quickly said, “Right now, your matter at hand is to cultivate the Water Defying Incantation. Wasting time on other matters would only delay your cultivation. After your Water Defying Incantation is completed, I’ll teach you an even stronger one!”
Only now did Nanfeng Zhirou’s rage transform into joy as she said, “You were the one who said it! If at that time, you don’t teach me, I will . . . I will . . .”
Nanfeng Zhirou said “I will” for a long time and could not think of an even better threat.
Ye Yuan’s strength was already no longer beneath he
rs. What could she threaten Ye Yuan with?
“Relax. I have plenty of divine soul mystic arts. As long as you can cultivate to a sufficient realm, I have as many as you want! Let’s go!” Ye Yuan said very generously.
The previous life’s Ye Yuan virtually gave up on the Martial Path but had researched quite a bit in terms of divine soul. Therefore, he also cultivated many divine soul mystic arts.
Of course, the aim of him cultivating the divine soul was still for alchemy. These divine soul mystic arts helped Ye Yuan to better understand the divine soul. He naturally enjoyed it tirelessly.
. . . . . .
A day later, Ye Yuan brought Nanfeng Zhirou and Yuan Fei to the Gray Pine Forest to harvest the Pine Yang Fruit.
This place obviously also had powerful demonic beasts to guard it. However, it was merely a Tier 2 demonic beast.
Ye Yuan released Yuan Fei, and that demonic beast immediately started quaking. It did not reveal the slightest hostility from the start till the end.
The hierarchy in the demonic beast world was more stringent. When a Tier 2 demonic beast faced a Tier 3 demonic beast, there was only the word ‘submission.’
Obtaining the Pine Yang Fruit effortlessly, Ye Yuan and the rest rushed to the Blackwater Ravine. It was also the habitat of the Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python.
The Blackwater Ravine was to the east of the Crimson Summit Ridge, roughly over a thousand miles away. It was six hundred miles from the borders of the Endless Forest and also an extremely perilous land.
But to the current Ye Yuan, it was not all that dangerous.
With a Tier 3 demonic beast following by his side, he could go anywhere he wanted to in the thousand mile radius of the Endless Forest.
However, Ye Yuan normally would not let Yuan Fei follow by his side, but made him stay inside the spatial artifact.
Not only there were many students participating in the trial inside the Endless Forest, but there were also even more demonic beasts hunters. If they encountered anyone, they could only silence them permanently.
Ye Yuan did not wish to murder innocents, so it was better to lay low.
Also, Ye Yuan had the intention of tempering himself when he entered the Endless Forest. If he made Yuan Fei take the front for everything, it would lose the meaning of tempering.
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