by Feng Yise
Before it started, Yang Shen's aura had long already risen to the peak, dormant above the nine heavens.
As long as the announcement was given, he would give Yi Qingxiang a lightning blow, and absolutely not give him any chance to admit defeat.
Below the stage, the disciples all had solemn expressions.
"So strong! Turns out that this is Yang Shen's true strength!"
"In the past, no one could force him to use his true strength at all. Now, it was forced out by Ye Yuan!"
"Separated by the protective grand array, I even feel that I almost can't breathe! Similarly Second Firmament Celestial Deity, why is the disparity so great?"
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Different from Ye Yuan's calm and collectedness, wispy and etherealness, the feeling that Yang Shen gave people was unparalleled domineeringness!
"Begin!"
Du Rufeng's voice had just landed when Yang Shen's entire person was like an arrow that left the strong, brandishing his saber and hacking towards Yi Qingxiang.
Under Yang Shen's peerlessly daunting world power and tyrannical law of saver, Yi Qingxiang was virtually unable to move.
Yi Qingxiang's brows furrowed, feeling tremendous pressure.
But he did not admit defeat straight away.
Because he knew that Yang Shen definitely had something else up his sleeves!
Although this level was strong, it was not strong enough to the extent of making him unable to concede defeat.
One had to know, similarly Second Firmament Celestial Deity powerhouse, wanting to make the other party unable to even say 'I admit defeat', three words, that was extremely, extremely difficult.
Suddenly, Yi Qingxiang's pupils constricted. He felt that everything around slowed down!
Even when he wanted to open his mouth to speak, he became extremely, extremely slow, as if in slow motion.
The entire world, only Yang Shen alone was moving!
"Time law!"
Yi Qingxiang was incomparably shocked in his heart.
"Eh, what's wrong with Yi Qingxiang? Has he been frightened silly?"
"Yang Shen's blade is already in front of his face, why is he still not moving?"
Below the stage, the group of disciples was totally uncertain what it meant, completely not understanding what happened.
In their view, Yi Qingxiang already became an idiot who did not know how to move, reaching his head out for Yang Shen to chop.
Bang!
A tremendous rumbling sound came over, Yi Qingxiang's body flew out backward.
"I … admit … defeat!"
Yi Qingxiang's body was in midair but spat these three words out of his mouth.
"Damn it! How can you possibly block it?! How could it be blocked?! I'll kill you!"
Yang Shen bellowed, rushing over toward Yi Qingxiang once more frenziedly.
But right at this time, a surge of powerful world power appeared out of thin air, directly blasting him flying.
"He already opened his mouth to concede defeat, so you mustn't harm his life! This time, it's just a warning. The next time you commit it again, kill without mercy!"
Du Rufeng's voice was very calm like he was stating a very normal thing.
Yang Shen crawled to his feet, his face having an extremely reluctant look.
At this time, Du Rufeng's voice sounded out once more: "This fight, Yang Shen wins."
Yang Shen's expression was grim until it was about to drip water, his face not having any joy after winning.
His objective was to kill and not to win.
The emotions that Yang Shen acc.u.mulated for half a year was to erupt in this fight.
But he actually failed!
This outcome, he was completely unable to accept it.
Just now, at the last critical moment, Yi Qingxiang actually released divine essence out of his body, manipulating his sword to block the certain-kill blow.
His time law could slow down the flow of time around Yi Qingxiang, but there was one thing that he could not slow down, that was divine essence!
Of course, this was because Yang Shen's time law skill was lacking.
Otherwise, Yi Qingxiang would be hard-pressed to escape death too.
Ye Yuan's figure floated up, arrived beside Yi Qingxiang, and fed him a medicinal pill.
The current Yi Qingxiang did not have an intact spot on his body from head to toe, his appearance even more miserable than the last time.
But he did not die!
With the medicinal pill entering the abdomen, Yi Qingxiang's injuries improved slightly very soon.
"I really didn't expect that this guy's trump card was actually time law!"
Mentioning this, Ye Yuan also had lingering fear in his heart.
Time law was the same as spatial law, both being supreme laws. They were extremely hard to comprehend.
Apart from Heavenly Empyrean Immortal Grove, it was still Ye Yuan's first time seeing time law.
Just one look and Ye Yuan discerned it.
This time law was indeed extremely difficult to deal with.
Under time law, everything was beyond one's control.
Just now, Yi Qingxiang did not have any strength to retaliate at all, and could not even speak!
"H-Huhu, this … half a year of special training was indeed … not in vain!"
Yi Qingxiang did not have any dejection but was rather excited instead.
For him to be able to avoid this calamity, it was entirely because of Ye Yuan's half a year of training.
It was also precisely because of this training that the three of their strength all made substantial improvement.
This half a year, they cultivated under the horror of death every day.
It was also precisely because of this training that they knew just how strong Ye Yuan was!
Chapter 1833 - Disjointed Generation
In this half a year, Ye Yuan only unleashed one sword against them every day.
This sword was peerlessly powerful, sufficient to take their lives.
At first, including Baili Qingyan, they could not even move a muscle.
If Ye Yuan had the intent to kill, they would have long died until they could not be any more dead.
One could say that this half a year's time, they would tour the gates of hell once every day.
When it just started, Yi Qingxiang and Jiang Xueyan's spirits were virtually about to collapse.
Under such a swift and fierce sword, they did not have the strength to resist at all.
That kind of powerlessness put them at a loss on what to do.
Ever since entering the sect, they had always been proud children of heaven, regarding themselves being head and shoulders above over others in all respects. When had they thought that they would be so powerless when facing a peer?
But as time passed, they were already numbed.
They already got accustomed to Ye Yuan's might and began to try finding ways to crack it.
Ye Yuan's objective was very simple, as long as they could have a chance to concede, it would do.
Today, Yi Qingxiang did it!
In reality, this half a year's time, their strengths also soared by leaps and bounds. It was just that they did not detect it.
Yang Shen stood on the stage, furiously until his entire body was shaking.
Ye Yuan slaughtered half of their High Clarity Sect's people already, but he could not even kill a single one.
This sense of humiliation made him virtually about to go mad.
"ARGHH!!"
Suddenly, Yang Shen raised his head to the sky and howled. Glaring at Ye Yuan, he said, "Next time, you guys won't be so lucky!"
Ye Yuan looked at Yang Shen and said coolly, "Although time law is powerful, it's just a pity that your skill is still lacking. You can't kill a single one."
Finished talking, Ye Yuan brought the heavily injured Yi Qingxiang and slowly left.
"Time law! It's actually time law!"
"No wonder, no wonder Yi Qingxiang seemed to be da
zed just now, turns out that it's time law!"
"My god, spatial law, time law, these two supreme laws appeared at the same time in the Bamboo Groove Martial Conclave!"
"It's just a pity that Yang Shen still failed to kill Yi Qingxiang. This Bamboo Groove Martial Conclave, the High Clarity Sect really suffered heavy losses."
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Following Ye Yuan uttering a sentence, the crowd exploded all at once.
They did not perceive just now that what Yang Shen used was time law.
Because time law was only targeted at Yi Qingxiang, changing the flow of time within his proximity, so it was very hard for outsiders to detect.
Of course, people who were extremely s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e toward Heavenly Dao could detect it.
Such as Ye Yuan.
Yang Shen's grand and heroic words ended in failure in the end.
Although his injuries were extremely severe, when the next round started, Yi Qingxiang returned to the ring, like he was completely fine.
His re-appearance caused another uproar.
Now, everyone all knew that there was an incomparably powerful alchemist behind the Shadowmoon Sect.
And this alchemist was precisely Ye Yuan!
As long as you could not kill the Shadowmoon Sect's people, in the next round of the competition, he would appear in front of you alive and well.
The other sects' disciples were already envious to the extreme towards the Shadowmoon Sect's disciples.
Presently, everyone would not feel that the Shadowmoon Sect only managed to stay in Upper Groove Court because they were lucky. They really had this strength.
Or they should say, Ye Yuan absolutely had this qualification to stay in Upper Groove Court.
In terms of Martial Dao talent, he comprehended spatial law.
In Alchemy Dao, he could even refine extremely powerful rank five divine pills.
Such a person, even a genius like Yang Shen also paled in comparison in front of him!
Luck?
It did not exist!
In the 40th round, Ye Yuan faced off with the High Clarity Sect's number three figure, Wei Yuanfei.
This Wei Yuanfei was a late-stage Second Firmament Celestial Deity, his strength rather formidable. He even had the qualifications to be ranked in the top five.
But before this fight, Yang Shen repeated exhorted that he must definitely concede defeat.
It was just that when the battle started, the development of the situation far exceeded Yang Shen's imagination.
This time, Ye Yuan changed his earlier style. The moment he came up, he unleashed incomparably swift and fierce attacks.
One move stronger than the last, one move faster than the last, suppressing Wei Yuanfei until he found it hard to even breathe, let alone concede.
Ye Yuan utilized the advantage of spatial law and unleashed speed to the extreme.
More importantly, Ye Yuan's divine essence was incomparably thick, his breath drawn-out, and was best at protracted fights.
But Wei Yuanfei was different, he finally still revealed a flaw under Ye Yuan's coercion.
In the end, he was killed by Ye Yuan with one sword!
That instant when Wei Yuanfei was killed by Ye Yuan, everyone was stunned.
If one was to say those people being killed previously were all because the opponent was too weak, then killing Wei Yuanfei absolutely displayed Ye Yuan's formidable to the extreme strength!
High Clarity Sect's elder and Yang Shen's hearts were dripping blood. Eight disciples came, after more than half a year, there were actually only three people left.
One of them was even the most useless He Yuan.
This was simply a devastating blow to the High Clarity Sect.
If there were no accidents, Yang Shen and Chen Tianlin would both enter the temple.
This was also to say that High Clarity Sect's future pillars of society were directly hacked finished by Ye Yuan!
This way, the High Clarity Sect would definitely produce a disjointed generation of talents. The impact on the entire sect was extremely far-reaching.
This move from Ye Yuan was too ruthless!
After this, Yang Shen exchanged blows with Jiang Xueyan and Baili Qingyan respectively.
Each time, Yang Shen would muster everything up, wanting to kill people.
But sadly, he failed to kill a single one.
In fact, Baili Qingyan actually even exchanged a few blows with him before being defeated.
Among the three people, Baili Qingyan's talent was clearly the highest. Her improvement was also the fastest.
And Ye Yuan's training also made Baili Qingyan's win rate increase a lot.
At present, among all of the 64 disciples, she was actually ranked sixth, only a step away from fifth place.
Finally, at the 53rd round, Ye Yuan and Yang Shen, these two great geniuses, met!
This fight was anticipated by all.
Hearing that spatial law and time law appeared at the same time in this season, quite a few temple disciples also came to watch the fight. It even attracted quite a few elders.
"Baili, Ye Yuan and Yang Shen fighting, who do you think has a higher chance of winning?"
Before the great battle, Jiang Xueyan actually had a rare moment of nervousness.
Presently, she was overwhelmed with gratitude toward Ye Yuan.
This one year's time, Ye Yuan refined many medicinal pills for her, making her strength advance by leaps and bounds.
Furthermore, Jiang Xueyan knew that the medicinal pills Ye Yuan refined, the impact was absolutely not just for a day or two. It would have a tremendous impact on her future cultivation.
This kind of impact was sufficient to change her life!
Of course, Baili Qingyan and Yi Qingxiang were the same too.
Baili Qingyan also appeared rather nervous as she said, "I can't say for sure either. The two can be said to each have their forte. Ye Yuan's might lies in laws fusion. But Yang Shen's time law similarly can't be underestimated. This fight, 50-50 chance I guess!"
Although very much hoping for Ye Yuan to win, Baili Qingyan had exchanged blows with Yang Shen before and was deeply aware of Yang Shen's might.
The sense of oppression that these two people brought her was virtually on par.
Hence, she also could not say for sure who was stronger and who was weaker.
It was also precisely because of this that she appeared somewhat nervous.
Yi Qingxiang said, "Relax, there's no way Ye Yuan will lose! This guy gives people surprises in all respects and never seems to have a limit!"
When the other two heard it, they deeply felt that way too.
Chapter 1834 - Divine Vestige Realm
On the stage, two powerful auras gushed out.
One was tyrannical, one was proud!
Yang Shen's aura was peerlessly domineering, while Ye Yuan's aura was unmoving like a mountain.
This battle was a showdown between the High Clarity Sect and the Shadowmoon Sect, and also a contest between two great supreme laws.
Such an opportunity could not be casually encountered.
"Ye Yuan, hope that you don't concede defeat! Today, let's fight to the death. Do you dare or not?" Yang Shen's gaze was heated as he stared fixedly at Ye Yuan.
Can't kill the others, he might as well directly have a deathmatch with Ye Yuan.
Yang Shen had absolute confidence in himself. There was no way he would lose to Ye Yuan.
Ye Yuan had a calm look as he said, "As you wish."
Yang Shen laughed loudly and said, "Hahaha, Ye Yuan, the humiliation that you brought to my High Clarity Sect, I'll wash it all clean today! You are dead for sure!"
Ye Yuan's expression was calm as he said, "That will depend on whether you have this ability or not!"
Yang Shen sneered and said, "You have a supreme law. But I have a supreme law too. In fact, I'm two minor realms higher than you! What do you have to beat me with? Today, I'll let you take a look at my true strength! Wh
at my High Clarity Sect has to become the number one sect!"
Facing Yang Shen, Ye Yuan's biggest disadvantage was his cultivation realm.
Ye Yuan was currently merely initial-stage First Firmament Celestial Deity, while Yang Shen was peak Second Firmament Celestial Deity. It was equivalent to being two minor realms higher than Ye Yuan.
These two minor realms did not seem to be much in the initial stages of Divine Dao. But at the Celestial Deity Realm, these two minor realms were sufficient to be deadly.
Even for a genius like Baili Qingyan, breaking through two minor realms step by step also required several hundred years. The gap could only be imagined.
"Kill!"
With a fierce cry, Yang Shen hacked over toward Ye Yuan with a matchlessly overbearing saber blow.
This saber pressed forward with an indomitable will!
What was even more frightening was that Yang Shen's world power was extremely strong, overbearing until it seized all of the space as its own, not giving Ye Yuan any place to survive at all.
In front of this saber, Ye Yuan appeared too weak.
At this time, Ye Yuan moved too.
The Frostcounter Sword swinging, Ye Yuan's figure cut through space, welcoming Yang Shen's saber.
This Frostcounter Sword was a celestial deity mystic treasure!
After the Junyi Sword shattered, Ye Yuan had no convenient weapon all along.
After Ye Yuan broke through to rank five, Ye Yuan finally opened up the Purple Extreme Hall's second layer space, obtaining the treasure trove inside.
He chose a celestial deity mystic treasure from among them, it was this Frostcounter Sword.
At the same time, dense blue patterns revolved around Ye Yuan.
One sword unleashing, it actually directly broke through the heavy blockade of Yang Shen's world power, charging in front of Yang Shen without any obstruction.
Clank! Clank! Clank!
Horrifying power of laws roamed about on the stage, giving off a series of rings.
In a blink of an eye, the two people exchanged more than ten moves, power of law surging endlessly.
Evenly matched!
Yang Shen's pupils constricted. His realm was clearly much higher than Ye Yuan's, but his world power was actually unable to affect Ye Yuan in the slightest.
What in the world was that blue pattern?