by Feng Yise
The momentum of Spear Shadow Carnage was too hard to amass.
"Heh heh, you know that you can't avoid this hit so you gave up on resisting? But I won't show mercy!" Zhao Chenggan said with a cold laugh in his heart.
Right at this time, Ye Yuan suddenly opened his eyes. A majestic aura undulated out with him as the center!
"Are you trying to force me to have a head-on confrontation with you here? Fine, as you wish!" Ye Yuan's calm voice entered the ears of everyone present here.
This voice was so composed that it made people feel hard to get close to as if Ye Yuan was a person from another world!
"This . . . This is Heart Like Still Water! That's right! This is absolutely Heart Like Still Water! The heart realm that even Zhao Chenggan is unable to comprehend, this boy actually comprehended it at the Crystal Formation Realm!" Shangguan Wenrui who had been calm the entire time finally showed an astonished look.
"Truly unbelievable! He's only sixteen. Heart Like Still Water, there might not even be one in a hundred million martial artists that can comprehend it! How on earth did he do it?" Xue Hongfei said with a vicissitude of emotion.
Under anticipating eyes, Ye Yuan's two palms was gradually brought up from the sides. Two distinctly different essence energy attributes extended out from his two palms!
A miniature whirlwind was held in the palm of his left hand. The whirlwind was currently expanding rapidly, gradually taking on the features of a wind dragon!
A small cl.u.s.ter of pale yellow flames was held in the center of his right hand. The flame grew increasingly vigorous as it blazed, gradually forming a fire dragon!
Ye Yuan was currently mobilizing heaven and earth essence energy frenziedly right now!
Half-step Sea Transformation could only mobilize heaven and earth essence energy in an extremely small radius area. But to Ye Yuan, Half-Step Sea Transformation was already enough to let his affinity towards heaven and earth essence energy reach an exceptionally terrifying extent.
Ye Yuan entered Heart Like Still Water State in order to maximize this affinity to muster even more essence energy!
At this instant, Ye Yuan was also already staking it all on one last throw!
Zhao Chenggan's momentum was still in the midst of rising rapidly!
Right then, Zhao Chenggan's aura finally rose to its peak!
"Tyrant Martial Howling Cloud Spear, Glimpse . . . of . . . Heaven!" Zhao Chenggan gave a low cry.
A spear pierced out, sweeping along with boundless heaven & earth essence energy; violent to the extreme!
Where it passed by, sand and stone were flung all around! The entire stage was already pulverized to dust by his one spear!
At the same time, Ye Yuan's palms pushed. Two small dragons gushed forth, instantaneously tangling together!
"Wind-Fire Violent Blaze Transforming Dragon!" Ye Yuan roared.
In the process of the intertwining, the two small dragons actually gradually merged into one, becoming a colossal dragon of wind and fire!
The gigantic dragon roared as it swept over towards Zhao Chenggan. It actually gave off a series of dragon roars!
Xiao Changfeng's expression changed abruptly, and he yelled out, "Quick! Quickly dodge!"
Actually, no need for him to shout. Everyone below the stage already noticed something off.
These two people's moves were overly terrifying. Once they clashed together, they completely dare not imagine what would happen!
Current, the entire platform had already turned into fine powder. Blast waves rolled out in all directions wave after wave!
Looking at the distinguished guests on the stand, they had long left their seats.
While the audiences were thrown into confusion, the two people's attacks collided together!
Rumble!
An explosion sound which reverberated through the skies sounded out, shocking until everyone's eardrums hurt.
A dazzling light spread out like the sun, blinding the people until they could not open their eyes at all!
"Quickly run! Ahh!" A martial artists thought that he had retreated to a safe distance. But he quickly discovered something wrong and was sent flying by the enormous air blast.
"Arggh!"
"Arrhhh!"
. . . . . .
Miserable cries rose after one another. Only to see martial artists being sent flying by the enormous air blast one by one.
The power of a single attack was utterly appalling!
"What . . . What on earth happened? What the hell did those two people do?! Ouch! So painful!"
"Is this freaking hell the battle of Sea Transformation Realm martial artists? When were Sea Transformation Realm martial artists powerful to this extent?"
"What happened to those two people? Who in the world won?"
"Don't know. I completely can't see at all! That blinding light has already persisted for over a dozen breaths and actually hasn't dissipated yet!"
Many people squinted, wanting to see what happened inside that bundle of light. But they only saw a vast expanse of white light and could not see anything at all.
Several more breaths passed. The white light finally dissipated slowly. The first thing that reflected in the eyes of the audience was a stretch of ruins.
The platform had already disappeared entirely, and what replaced it was a huge pit!
In the huge pit, Zhao Chenggan stood with his spear. That appearance was very intimidating.
And opposite him, Ye Yuan was struck out over a hundred feet away, his clothing tattered, and injuries all over his body, looking very alarming.
Once Xiao Ruyan saw, her eyes immediately turned red!
She pulled down the head veil with a grab and rushed in front of Ye Yuan like flying. Propping Ye Yuan up, tears flowed down with a pitter-patter.
Ye Yuan's eyes were tightly shut, his complexion pale white, looking feeble to the extreme.
"Young Master Ji, a-are you alright?"
Chapter 432 - Recruiting Disciple!
Ye Yuan had an anguished look and did not react in the slightest to Xiao Ruyan's words.
Xiao Ruyan was very anxious and was at a loss on what to do for a moment. Hugging Ye Yuan, she cried extremely heart-brokenly.
"Little Junior Brother!" Shi Haoran also panicked when he saw the situation and hurriedly ran in front of Ye Yuan.
Shi Haoran hastily searched for Ye Yuan's pulse. Only seeing that Ye Yuan just fainted for the time being did he feel relieved and heaved a long breath.
"Rest assured. Little Junior Brother just received a huge impact and fainted unconscious," Shi Haoran said with Xiao Ruyan.
Concern led to panic. Xiao Ruyan herself was also an alchemist. Earlier, she actually forgot to read Ye Yuan's pulse.
"Al-Alright? That's really great!" Xiao Ruyan cried from joy.
But Shi Haoran frowned and said, "Alright? Does he look alright to you? This injury of his, he probably has to lie in bed for a period of time!"
At present, Ye Yuan looked very miserable. Ignoring external wounds, his internal organs suffered a tremendous impact too.
If there were no medicinal pills to assist in healing, a single mishap and he would die. How could he possibly be fine?
Shi Haoran's gaze involuntarily looked towards Zhao Chenggan hatefully. It was only to see that Zhao Chenggan was staring dead straight at Ye Yuan currently; his expression was without a modic.u.m of joy.
"Sigh . . . Ji Qing lost in the end! I even thought that the number one throne of the capital would be displaced today. Who knew that His Highness, the Seventh Prince, is actually powerful to such an extent already."
"Ji Qing is still unable to create a miracle in the end! But for him to be able to perform to this step, it's already very heaven-defying! Give him another one or two years, and he'll surpass His Highness, the Seventh Prince, in all aspects!"
"This battle, Ji Qing had a moral victory! That final blow from Seventh Prince, even Soul Sea Realm martial artists might not be able to re
ceive it! Ji Qing is just a Seventh Level Crystal Formation Realm martial artist, but he fought to such an extent with Seventh Prince! In my heart, he's the victor!"
Strong people always garnered people's respect. Ye Yuan's performance had already obtained the recognition of the vast majority of the people present.
In their hearts, for Ye Yuan to lose out slightly to the Seventh Level Sea Transformation Zhao Chenggan with strength a major realm lower, he did not count as a failure no matter what.
Xiao Changfeng came close and took a look at the heavily wounded Ye Yuan, and looked at Zhao Chenggan again. For a time, he did not know how he should announce the results.
"This match, Seventh Prince . . ."
"Cough, cough, cough . . ."
Xiao Changfeng said halfway but was interrupted by Ye Yuan's violent coughing sounds.
Xiao Ruyan was overjoyed seeing the situation and said, "Ji Qing! You finally woke up! Y-You scared me to death!"
As she said, Xiao Ruyan cried again.
Ye Yuan smiled dryly and said, "G-Good disciple, d-don't cry anymore. Bawl your eyes out, and you won't look pretty anymore! W-What Master promised you . . . is all accomplished!"
Xiao Ruyan had a doubtful face as she said, "J-Ji Qing, you clearly already lost!"
"H-Haha, I said that I was going to pummel him. H-How can I lose to him?" Ye Yuan's laughing affected his wounds, hurting him until he contorted his face in agony.
Ye Yuan's voice had yet to fade when the expression of Zhao Chenggan opposite changed. With a puff, a large mouthful of blood spewed out, and he fell down backward!
This scene was too sudden. Everyone was caught unprepared!
"This . . . What's going on here?"
"Didn't His Highness, the Seventh Prince won? Isn't this plot reversing too quickly?"
"Can it be . . . Ji Qing really created a miracle and became the number one person among the capital's junior generation from here on forth?"
"My God! With his present realm, who can surpass him in the future?"
All at once, the entire plaza exploded. Sounds of exclamations rose and fell.
This scene was too inconceivable!
Ji Qing was clearly already beaten until heavily injured and dying. In a twinkle, the Seventh Prince could not make it anymore. Instead, Ye Yuan laughed happily. Although he looked very tragic, he was not fearful for his life.
And this match, as long as Ye Yuan won, he would be the right and proper capital's number one person!
The future position of wind emperor was without a doubt his!
Such glory was not even worth mentioning to Ye Yuan. But to the Fierce Gale World martial artists, it was paramount!
In everyone's understanding, the Wind Emperor would surely be born between Shangguan Lingyun and Zhao Chenggan, the two of them.
But now, Ye Yuan appeared and utterly upset the entire arrangement!
Under Xiao Ruyan's aid, Ye Yuan consumed a medicinal pill that he refined himself. His injuries took a turn for the better very swiftly.
While he was still unable to stand up, his complexion already became rosy, and his essence energy was also in the midst of gradual recovery.
Such recovery speed made everyone exclaim in shock again.
"Family Head Xiao, announce the results!" Ye Yuan urged.
"This . . ." Xiao Changfeng looked at the Zhao Chenggan lying on the ground and did not know what to do for a moment.
Ye Yuan said with a slight pant, "His dantian is already damaged by me. It will be hard to have any advancement in this lifetime. So . . . you can announce the results now!"
"What?! Dantian damaged?!" Xiao Changfeng nearly jumped up.
Another thunderbolt out of the blue!
The insufferably arrogant Seventh Prince actually became a cripple?
This . . . Once His Majesty, the Wind Emperor knows of this matter, how enraged would he be?
"Ji . . . Ji Qing! Y-You're framing me up, digging a pit for the Xiao Family!" Xiao Changfeng stomped in a rage.
But Ye Yuan did not care a hoot as he said, "With my Qixia Mountain backing you up, what are you scared of? Oh right, there's still something I forgot to tell you."
As he said, Ye Yuan looked at Xiao Ruyan and said with a faint smile, "Good disciple, come . . . I, Ji Qing, in front of the many heroes in the capital today, take you in as a disciple! Acknowledge Master now!"
"What? A-Acknowledge you as her master?!" Xiao Changfeng felt like his brain was a little lacking.
When did the agreed upon spouse finding martial competition suddenly become acknowledging master?
Xiao Changfeng stared fixedly at Ye Yuan and was so furious that his entire body was trembling.
This move from Ye Yuan was thoroughly cutting the Xiao Family away from the royal family!
Henceforth, the Xiao Family would have to depend on the Qixia Mountain lineage. Or else, they would die without a burial ground!
"What? Does Family Head Xiao think that I, Ji Qing, can't teach your daughter?" Ye Yuan said coolly.
Xiao Changfeng looked at Ye Yuan and was speechless for a long time. Only after a long while did he wave his hand and said, "Forget it, forget it! My Xiao Family swore fealty to His Majesty, the Wind Emperor, for generation after generation. Who knew that when it reached my, Xiao Changfeng's, hands, it actually fell to such a plight! The story is played out, and the wood has become a boat. What else do I have to say? Ruyan . . . acknowledge . . . acknowledge him as your master then!"
Xiao Changfeng took a deep look at his daughter and was filled with a vicissitude of emotions.
He never would have thought that today's spouse finding martial competition would actually develop into such a conclusion.
Obtaining her father's permission, the final trace of kink in Xiao Ruyan's heart also vanished like mist and smoke. At once, she bowed solemnly towards Ye Yuan.
"Master is high above. Receive disciple Xiao Ruyan's bow!"
Ye Yuan laughed and said, "Haha! Good disciple! To think that my, Ji Qing's, first disciple, is actually a girl as exquisite as a flower! Master's present strength is meager and doesn't have anything good to give to you either. This jade slip is used as your master acknowledgment gift. Take it!"
As he said, Ye Yuan passed Xiao Ruyan a jade slip.
Chapter 433 - Identity Exposed!
Xiao Ruyan received the jade slip hesitantly; her expression was rather vacant.
She agreed to acknowledge Ye Yuan as her master with ulterior motives, and it was not to really learn something.
She did not think that Ye Yuan really prepared a master acknowledgment gift for her.
"Take a look. Master prepared a set of soul cultivation incantation and two sets of refining arts for you. You have to study them well in the future," Ye Yuan said with a faint smile.
Xiao Ruyan sunk her divine sense into the jade slip as told and started to browse.
This scene looked extremely comical in everyone's eyes.
Ye Yuan's divine soul realm was more or less the same as Xiao Ruyan's; both High-Rank Alchemy Grandmasters. Now, Ye Yuan wanted to take a girl whose strength was relative to his as his disciple. No matter how one looked at it, it was somewhat odd.
"What do you guys Ye Yuan is playing at here? Xiao Ruyan is one of the capital's dual absolutes. Furthermore, you all look at that concerned look of Xiao Ruyan's when Ji Qing was injured just now. Clearly in love with him. He actually . . . only took her in to be a disciple?"
"Aggravating me to death! Xiao Ruyan is my goddess! Ji Qing is already the capital's number one now, and he actually dares to trample on my goddess's dignity! I . . . I want to duel him!"
"Screw off you! With that strength of yours, it isn't even enough to fill the gaps between his teeth! Still want to duel! However . . . Ji Qing's action is really unimaginably weird. He himself is just a high-rank Alchemy Grandmaster. How is he going to teach disciples?"
"In my opinion, this Ji Qing thinks too highly of himself! Even though he's Sovereign Star
Abyss's disciple, to talk about giving pointers in alchemy to the Alchemy Grandmaster Xiao Ruyan who is his peer, he probably isn't qualified enough yet, right? I'm very curious though, about what are the things inside his jade slip."
"Heh heh, what can there be? Simply his own cultivation methods and refining methods. Just that these things, his comprehension is already slightly stronger than Xiao Ruyan, right?"
Master teaching disciples was not a simple imparting of cultivation methods. It was more so to clarify doubts for disciples and give pointers to various problems encountered during the process of cultivation.
Especially alchemy skills. It was deep and profound; hard to learn and hard to be proficient.
Everybody knew that Ye Yuan's was amazing at alchemy. But regardless of how incredible he was, he was only an Alchemy Grandmaster. Regarding higher realm things, how much could he comprehend?
Imparting soul cultivation methods and refining methods a little and being someone's master was truly a bit too child's play.
And currently, Xiao Ruyan's brows were slightly furrowed, and her expression gradually becoming solemn.
"Ji . . . Ji . . ." Xiao Ruyan was clearly not yet used to called Ye Yuan master.
"Call Master!" Ye Yuan said coolly.
Xiao Ruyan s.u.c.k.e.d in a deep breath and called out, "Master, this . . . Master's acknowledgment gift is too precious! I . . ."
"Haha. You're my disciple. Giving pointers in your cultivation is within Master's duty, what precious? From today onwards, you'll cultivate the soul cultivation method on the jade slip. But you must promise master that this method absolutely mustn't be divulged! Only you alone can cultivate it! Otherwise . . . even its flouting teachings, Master . . . will clean the household!" Talking until the back, Ye Yuan's voice became extremely stern.
Actually, what Ye Yuan gave Xiao Ruyan was the Thousand Augmenting Soul Incantation as well as the Yin-Yang Separation Flow Technique and the Tri-Origins Samsara Art cultivation skills.
But what he gave Xiao Ruyan was only the first five levels of the Thousand Augmenting Soul Incantation; enough for her to cultivate to Peak Alchemy Sovereign!
Moreover, in the jade slip were extremely detailed annotations about the Thousand Augmenting Soul Incantations and the two types of skills. They were all Ye Yuan's notes of his understanding.