by Feng Yise
When powerful martial artists were fleeing, they would conceal the scent of their soul. Hence, the use of the Soul Guiding Incense was not great. In his past life, Ye Yuan only found it fun, so he researched it a bit.
But Lin Tiancheng evidently did not know how to hide the scent of his soul. It was useless no matter where he fled to.
. . . . . .
Ye Yuan's performance truly astonished Lin Tiancheng. Seven to eight Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm martial artists were defeated just like chopping vegetables.
Although he did not believe Ye Yuan could really defeat him, at the very least, Ye Yuan already possessed the power to fight with him!
Lin Tiancheng was one of those typical examples of people who bullied the weak but feared the strong. So he chose to run away.
Ye Yuan had already wholly overturned the General Affairs Department. As long as the instructors found out about this matter, he would definitely be expelled. Hence, he had no need to fight it out with Ye Yuan.
Right now, he was going to the back of the mountain to tattle to the instructor!
"What a brainless fellow! So what if he's a genius? Isn't he still screwed over by me, Lin Tiancheng?" Being pleased with himself, the smile on Lin Tiancheng's face could not be concealed no matter what.
Lin Tiancheng who was gloating did not notice that a wisp of green smoke spun a few rounds above his head, which then disappeared.
The next moment, Lin Tiancheng's smile froze on his face. That was because his path ahead was blocked by someone. And that someone blocking him was precisely that hateful Ye Yuan.
How was this possible?
How did he know that I was here?
Ye Yuan just stood in front of him coldly without even hiding his killing intent.
Unknowingly, fear started to take place in Lin Tiancheng's heart as he looked at Ye Yuan's expression.
"Ye Yuan, don't push me too far! Do you really think that I'm scared of you?" Lin Tiancheng was livid, trying to use this to cover up his guilt.
"Aren't you the one who forced me? Congratulations. You've succeeded in infuriating me. And the price for that is your life!" Ye Yuan spoke slowly without any trace of emotion.
"Haha! You really don't know the immensity of Heaven and Earth! Don't tell me that you forgot what this place is? The Dan Wu Academy has never tolerated students killing students. Violators are sentenced to death! Do you wish to go against the academy's rules with your own strength?" Lin Tiancheng guffawed.
Ye Yuan shook his head and sighed as he said, "You're really the same as that guy in the medicine garden, treating the academy's rules as your protective talisman! It's because something like the academy's rules that you guys dared to touch my people, right?"
Hearing Ye Yuan's sigh, Lin Tiancheng suddenly felt a chill arise from the bottom of his heart, and the ominous feeling in his heart would not go away.
"W-what did you do to Zhang Heng?"
"Don't you know the answer already?" Ye Yuan replied calmly as if he did something not even worth mentioning.
Lin Tiancheng was like a cat whose tail was stepped on, and cried out in shock, "Y-you really killed Zhang Heng? You really dare to kill people?! Are you insane? You'll be put to death! Hahaha! You are dead, Ye Yuan!"
Ye Yuan let out another sigh and said, "So weak. All you talk about is the academy's rules. No wonder you kept failing the Earth Rank Advancement test. It's because . . . you don't have the heart of a powerhouse!"
Lin Tiancheng trembled. Ye Yuan's words directly struck his trauma and exposed his weakest area!
"You think that you're very exalted being the head student of the General Affairs Department. In reality, it's displaying your weakness! How many of the students who passed the Earth Rank Advancement test came out of there? I came to kill you, but you made your subordinates become your fodders. Finally, you flee without fighting. You don't even dare to fight once. You want to tell the instructor that I'm causing a commotion at the general affairs, right? You are basically a coward! Someone like you would never become a true powerhouse!"
Ye Yuan's words were like a heavy hammer, striking Lin Tiancheng's spirit one blow after another, leaving him short on breath. In the raw it says "Ate the heart of a bear, and the gall of a leopard."
Chapter 80 - Battling Lin Tiancheng!
"Shut up! A puny Sixth Level Essence Qi Realm dares to talk crap about being a powerhouse in front of me? What a joke!"
Lin Tiancheng finally lost it and dismissed Ye Yuan's words.
"Is that so? Then what are you scared of? Quickly come and finish off me, this puny Sixth Level Essence Qi Realm!" Ye Yuan words were filled with countless mocking.
"Humph! You think I can't detect such a low level goading action? Fine! I will do as you wish today, and let you witness what are a true expert is!"
Finishing, Lin Tiancheng's half-step Spirit Condensation Realm aura was released and smashed towards Ye Yuan.
Lin Tiancheng was not stupid. His biggest advantage was cultivation realm, so he obviously had to make good use of it.
A Spirit Condensation Realm could rely solely on his realm's pressure to make an Essence Qi Realm's essence energy slow down and become stagnant. Although his half-step Spirit Condensation Realm could not fully unleash the pressure of a Spirit Condensation Realm, it already had quite a bit of power.
Spirit Condensation Realm, was actually compressing the essence energy within the Dantian to its limits, achieving the realm where the acc.u.mulated qi becomes liquid; it was a one-time advancement of the body's essence energy.
Hence, regardless of whether in terms of quantity or quality, a Spirit Condensation Realm's essence energy greatly surpassed that of normal essence energy!
Wanting to defeat a Spirit Condensation Realm with the strength of essence energy was an extremely tough thing to do. One either required extremely powerful martial techniques to bridge the difference in cultivation realm or use heaven-defying medicinal pills to compensate for the difference in power.
But regardless of the method used, the prerequisite was that this method was able to compensate for the difference in power between an Essence Qi Realm and a Spirit Condensation Realm!
The so-called half-step Spirit Condensation Realm meant that the martial artist was in the process of liquefying their acc.u.mulated qi and already partially had the power of a Spirit Condensation Realm!
The power of a half-step Spirit Condensation Realm was already sufficient to crush any Essence Qi Realm martial artist.
Lin Tiancheng was pretty talented. He could have broken through to the Spirit Condensation Realm long ago but had always suppressed his strength at half-step Spirit Condensation Realm for the Earth Rank Advancement test.
However, his comprehension was still a little lacking, so he had been unable to advance his martial technique's mastery. Hence, he had no way of jumping ranks to defeat the five black-clothed Spirit Condensation Realm martial artists.
After all, he was only half-step Spirit Condensation Realm. There was still a very large gap compared to a true Spirit Condensation Realm.
Seeing Lin Tiancheng used his cultivation realm's suppression to deal with him, Ye Yuan laughed coldly.
"Trying to use cultivation to suppress me? It's a shame that your cultivation realm is too low!"
If a Third Level Spirit Condensation Realm and above used this move to deal with him, it would really be troublesome. But a half-step Spirit Condensation Realm doing it was basically trying to scratch an itch through one's boots.
Ye Yuan fully released the essence energy in his body right then, and his aura soared, pushing Lin Tiancheng's aura back!
Only an instant had passed, and these two people's auras were matched with each other's. Neither of them was able to do anything to the other!
This was originally a noisy place, and now, many students gathered to gawk. When they saw that Ye Yuan's aura was evenly matched with Lin Tiancheng's aura, they were stunned speechless.
"No way. Is that
Ye Yuan really only at the Sixth Level Essence Qi Realm?"
"Absolutely! He can actually be evenly matched with Senior Apprentice Brother Lin under the suppression of cultivation realm. This is too sick!"
"Doesn't this mean that his power's no less than a half-step Spirit Condensation Realm?"
"That should be it theoretically. But doesn't that mean that even though Ye Yuan is only at the Sixth Level Essence Qi Realm, the thickness of his essence energy was already not inferior to a half-step Spirit Condensation Realm? I-isn't this too ridiculous!"
Of course, this was not a joke. The thickness of Ye Yuan's essence energy was really terrifying!
Since the start of First Level Essence Qi Realm, the essence energy that Ye Yuan consumed during cultivation was several times of others.
Under the acc.u.mulation of so many realms, the density of Ye Yuan's essence energy was already pretty impressive. That was why he could stand up to Lin Tiancheng in terms of aura.
The density of essence energy was not about having a large reserve, but rather, having the purity of essence energy, which greatly surpassed that of the same realm.
As an example, Ye Yuan and some other Sixth Level Essence Qi Realm executed the same martial technique. Other people required one unit of essence energy, while Ye Yuan only needed one-third of a unit or even a fifth!
This was why Ye Yuan was powerful!
Seeing Ye Yuan not losing in terms of aura, Lin Tiancheng's expression became extremely ugly.
Since he could not suppress Ye Yuan using cultivation realm, Lin Tiancheng could only fight directly with him!
However, Ye Yuan knew an abnormal martial technique like the Stacking Waves Layered Palm. A moment of lapse, and it would be serious injuries, possibly even death!
At this moment, Lin Tiancheng naturally would not naively believe that Ye Yuan would have any qualms about some rules.
This was a life and death match!
"Humph! So what if your aura is strong? Today, I will let you witness just what a half-step Spirit Condensation Realm is! Thunderous Fist!"
Lin Tiancheng's punch struck towards Ye Yuan. There were even traces of electricity on the fist. It was precisely a superior-grade Tier 1 martial technique which Ye Yuan saw in the Scripture Library, the Thunderous Fist!
The power of a superior-grade Tier 1 martial technique unleashed by a half-step Spirit Condensation Realm was truly terrifying.
Although this punch did not smash towards them, the surrounding students similarly felt enormous pressure, let alone Ye Yuan who was receiving it directly.
"Senior Apprentice Brother Lin's Thunderous Fist is really scary. I'm afraid it's already trained to the great success stage."
"Yeah. Even though that punch wasn't aimed at me, I still feel short of breath now. He's really worthy of being the strongest in the Earth ranking. How frightening!"
"Ye Yuan's really straining himself! At any rate, Senior Apprentice Brother Lin is a half-step Spirit Condensation Realm. How could he be defeated so easily?"
"Listening to their conversation just now, it's actually a deathmatch. Just what kind of deep hatred do they have with each other? Even if they really killed the other party, they also can't escape the academy's punishment!"
"Why do you care so much? Since there's a show, just watch. It won't implicate you anyway."
Ye Yuan also felt the pressure coming head-on while facing Lin Tiancheng's lightning-attribute martial technique.
A Half-step Spirit Condensation Realm was indeed powerful!
Ye Yuan did not choose to clash head-on with Lin Tiancheng but decided to evade instead.
Ye Yuan's feet shifted and executed Instant Flash, vanishing in a blink of an eye, leaving behind an afterimage where he was initially at.
Lin Tiancheng's punch was halfway there when he saw this. He laughed coldly and said, "Afterimage? Humph! Paltry tricks! Seven-Star Steps!"
Lin Tiancheng also disappeared halfway.
"Low-grade Tier 2 martial technique, Seven-Star Steps! Ye Yuan's in danger!"
"That's right. Tier 2 martial technique is too much of a bully!"
The crowd exclaimed in shock.
Seven-Star Steps was a low-grade Tier 2 martial technique, while Instant Flash was only a middle-grade Tier 1 martial technique. The difference between the two was enormous!
Tier 2 martial techniques were mostly used employed with Spirit Condensation Realm's essence energy. The effects were naturally different from Tier 1 martial techniques which were activated with essence energy of the Essence Qi Realm.
Even if Ye Yuan's Instant Flash had already transcended the boundaries of Great Circle stage and reached the Breaking Illusion stage, it was still inferior to a Tier 2 martial technique. After all, the grade of Instant Flash was too low.
Ye Yuan revealed himself, and at the same time, sensed an extreme danger coming from the back.
Having no time to think, he used Instant Flash once more and vanished on the spot.
However, that sense of danger did not fade and kept latching on him like a parasitic maggot.
Only now did Ye Yuan realize that he underestimated Lin Tiancheng. The strongest among Earth Ranks was not for a laugh. His power was already bordering close to Heaven Rank and was much stronger than the average First Level Spirit Condensation Realm!
Judging based on the Illusionary Spirit Tower's standards, Lin Tiancheng could most likely finish off four black-clothed martial artists with only a narrow margin away from passing the test.
Chapter 81 - Unfavorable Situation!
"Come on! The General Affair Department's head student, Senior Apprentice Brother Lin, and that genius Earth rank student who's recently in the limelight, Ye Yuan, started fighting. There's going to be a great show to watch!"
"Ye Yuan? Isn't he only at the Fourth Level Essence Qi Realm? Senior Apprentice Brother Lin was already at the half-step Spirit Condensation Realm a long time ago. How could Ye Yuan possibly be his match?"
"Are you stupid? Didn't Ye Yuan enter a closed-door seclusion a few days ago? He exited seclusion and is already at the Sixth Level Essence Qi Realm!"
"W-what? Closed-seclusion for a few days and Sixth Level Essence Qi Realm? That fellow is seriously a freak! But even if he's at the Sixth Level Essence Qi Realm, he couldn't possibly be Senior Apprentice Brother Lin's match, right?"
"Who knows? I also just heard from other people. There seems to be some great enmity between the two of them, which provoked Ye Yuan so much so that he wants to kill Senior Apprentice Brother Lin even knowing the academy's rule!"
"There's such a thing? Come! Let's quickly go look!"
The news of Ye Yuan and Lin Tiancheng's deathmatch quickly spread throughout the entire Dan Wu Academy. Two students debated over it for a while in a corner of the academy and then they rushed over to watch the show.
But their discussion reached another person's ear. Wan Yuan just happened to be nearby, and when he heard these two people's conversation, a hint of a cold smile flashed across his face.
He did not think that Lin Tiancheng was so daring, to actually directly provoke Ye Yuan to violate the academy's rules!
Now, no matter whether it was Ye Yuan who killed Lin Tiancheng or Lin Tiancheng who killed Ye Yuan, he could sit there and enjoy the fisherman's gains!
Previously, he let Liu Ruoshui goaded Lin Tiancheng on, and that fellow really fell for it.
Lin Tiancheng was narrow-minded. Just by sowing discord slightly, he became jealous and hated Ye Yuan.
Wan Yuan was still having a headache these two days as Ye Yuan's improvement became increasingly faster. Not only was he reaching Wan Yuan on the Martial Path, he completely crushed him on the Alchemy Path.
Who would have thought that Lin Tiancheng directly provoked Ye Yuan?
After listening to the two people's conversation, Wan Yuan was excited but was also shocked.
Ye Yuan went into seclusion and was at the Sixth Level Essence Qi Realm after coming out!
He could pass through the Black Rank Advancement test at the Fourth Level Essence Qi Realm. Didn't that mean that Ye Yuan could already completely crush him with his current strength?
Just a month plus!
A month plus, and Ye Yuan and his position had totally flipped over.
A month ago, he could easily crush Ye Yuan. A month later, Ye Yuan was already an existence that he looked up to.
Preposterous! Just what the hell happened?!
Wan Yuan was so aggrieved. Nothing made someone sadder than being stepped underfoot by somebody they looked down upon.
Bringing along this grievance, Wan Yuan also headed over.
He really wanted to watch the sight of Ye Yuan being killed by Lin Tiancheng or Ye Yuan killing Lin Tiancheng, and then being sentenced to death by the academy.
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Lin Tiancheng's Seven-Star Steps was already trained to the small success stage. It was just a little bit faster than Ye Yuan's Instant Flash!
Currently, Ye Yuan was already forced into a perilous situation by him. If he were careless and got hit, then there would probably be no chance for victory!
The Thunderous Fist belonged to the lightning attribute martial techniques category. It similarly leaned towards attack power and even had a numbing effect.
The moment he got hit, Ye Yuan would basically no longer have the strength to retaliate!
In terms of speed, Ye Yuan could not shake off Lin Tiancheng. In terms of attack, Ye Yuan had already lost the initiative now.
He was currently in an extremely defensive situation.
"Haha! Run! Keep running! I love this sort of cat catching mice game the most! Overconfident punk, I thought you were very powerful. So you only have this bit of ability?" Lin Tiancheng laughed wildly as he chased Ye Yuan.
Lin Tiancheng seemed like he had the strength to spare!
Ye Yuan appeared once more, and Lin Tiancheng appeared beside him at almost the same instant. The Thunderous Fist directly struck Ye Yuan's c.h.e.s.t!
However this time around, Ye Yuan unexpectedly did not run away. He raised his right hand like lightning, and essence energy in his palm spread out.