160 Using The spear Instead of the Sword
“Give it to you? Just because you are the Emerald Childe?” Since his opponent had already used the deadly martial art on him without even seeing him, Ye Chen would not be gentle with him for sure.
A cold light flashed through Zhuang Fei’s eyes. Few months ago, I did not care for Ye Chen at all. But right now he has made some progress and became so arrogant because of it. However, I did not expect that soundless attack would fail to hit him.
“Give me the manual, and I will not give you a hard time.” Zhuang Fei said with a cold undertone, while secretly accumulating his zhen qi, preparing for his next attack.
“You want this manual? Maybe it will cost you your life.”
By this time, Ye Chen had already made it to the platform. He shook his iron spear; the tip of the spear was full of the sword intent which easily broke open the light ball. The manual within was called into Ye Chen’s hand.
Seeing this, a brutal killing vibe instantly appeared around Zhuang Fei.
Ye Chen did not care about it; he stood on that high platform, and opened the first page of the manual.
"Great Mysterious Art"
"Mid Earth Realm Martial Art"
"Eleven Levels"
The first and second level are the basic levels. Entering the third level, the warrior will then enter the palace. Every level after that, the warrior will increase the power and intensity of his zhen qi by thirty percent. When reached the highest level – the eleventh level, the warrior will be able to purify and produce a mouth full of Supreme Zhen Yuan, which can easily be fatal to other warriors.
Will be able to produce a mouth full of Supreme Zhen Yuan?
Ye Chen was sure then that this Great Mysterious Art was the one martial art he needed, and it was even better than what he had expected, which changed everything. Now, regardless the Emerald Childe Zhuang Fei wanted him to hand over the manual, even if it was a Late Clasping Yuan Realm warrior asking him for it, he was determined to make him bleed.
He knew this Supreme Zhen Yuan was something that only an Astral Reaching Realm warrior would be able to produce. Before reaching the Astral Reaching Realm, the warriors trained only zhen qi. Although the two had only one character of differences, but the power gap between the two was enormous. If a warrior was able to produce the Supreme Zhen Yuan before reaching the Astral Reaching Realm, then he would most likely be invincible. With one attack, he could probably even kill a Late Clasping Yuan Realm warrior.
Putting away the Great Mysterious Art, Ye Chen was very satisfied, and turned his body while preparing to leave.
“Since you don’t want to hand over the manual, don’t blame me for not giving you a chance.” After avoiding all of the white fire coming out from the floor, Zhuang Fei came under the platform. In a blink of an eye, he had already made it to the top.
Ye Chen did not move an inch. Since there were so many traps in this room and he would not be able to leave quickly anyways, there was no point for him to move, so he might as well just wait for Zhuang Fei to come up himself. Plus, Ye Chen was also interested in seeing how Zhuang Fei planned to get the manual from him.
“You used to be the leader of the young generation, I doubt it now. Let me be the one to trash your pride!”
Ye Chen did not mind at all that he did not have his sword with him. With his sword intent and the iron spear, he knew he would be able to bring out eighty percent of his true power, which was more than enough to beat Zhuang Fei. As for the reason why Zhuang Fei was so confident was probably because he did not expect Ye Chen to make more progress on his sword intent.
“You are looking for death…. Sky Emerald Palm!”
Zhuang Fei did not move his body, while he threw another palm attack at Ye Chen.
Without a sound, the huge light green zhen qi palm appeared in front of Ye Chen again, and this time it was aiming for Ye Chen’s forehead.
“Break!”
Ye Chen sneered, as his iron spear stabbed at the weakest part of that huge zhen qi hand like a poisonous snake’s fatal attack.
With a huge popping sound, the huge zhen qi hand disappeared again.
“He attacked the weakest part again.” Zhuang Fei had already realized something when his last palm attack was shattered. And now he was sure that Ye Chen had mastered a martial art that allowed him to find the weakness instantly.
“Let’s see how you are going to break this one! Emerald Shadow and Light!”
Zhuang Fei yelled as he pushed out his palms one after another. Countless huge emerald colored zhen qi hands attacked towards Ye Chen. Their attacking routes were unpredictable, and the palm attacks would even adjust their route in the air.
“No matter how genius your tricks are, I will break them all.” Ye Chen used his spear as a replacement for his sword. He shook his spear, and performed the most powerful move with the largest attacking radius – Clear the Sky!
The burning red spear went straight up into the sky. It shredded the air drastically as it moved, eventually creating a huge tornado by using the power of spinning. What was not expected was that because of the tornado full of fiery Yuan Qi, the whole tornado started to turn red. With the unbearable heat, it attacked towards Zhuang Fei.
The next second, all of those huge green zhen qi hands shattered completely. Although the tornado had been reduced to one size smaller, it kept roaring and attacking towards Zhuang Fei.
Whilst the two were fighting, it was also not peaceful on the Scorching Ancient Desert.
After Leng Wuqing and Mo Wuxue had been sent out of the Heaven Dream Battle Palace, the silence no longer existed between all those martial institutions. It was like someone had thrown a rock into a peaceful lake, and people could not stop talking about it. As for those senior masters from the Multiple Mountains Martial School, they all had a gloomy expression on their faces. One thing they were quite sure was that the possibility for Hong Qianjun to be still alive was almost zero.
“Who had killed Hong Qianjun?! Someone from the Hidden Dragon Rank?”
“No matter who it was, once caught by us, there is no doubt we will kill him.” The senior master did not purposely lower his voice when he said that, and people from all the other martial institutions had heard him perfectly.
“I can not believe that Hong Qianjun, who was ranked 69 on the Hidden Dragon Rank, was also killed! He was an Early Clasping Yuan Realm warrior! He was even able to compete with a Mid Clasping Yuan Realm warrior.”
“To be honest, I really want to know who actually killed him.”
“I think he was most likely to be killed by a young warrior from the Hidden Dragon Rank List. They were the only ones who had the power to do so. The three people with a rank higher than rank 60 are more likely.”
“You mean, Mo Wuxue, Xiao Heng and Yuanheng Ying?”
“Yes, think about it. Besides them, who else could have been able to kill Hong Qianjun? Even if the other warriors had the power to do so, they might not succeed.”
Over at the Sky Cloud Martial School side.
Luo Hanshan let out a breath, “Mo Wuxue is out, Leng Wuqing is out. Now that there are only brother Ye, Zhuang Fei, and Yuanheng Ying left in the Heaven Dream Battle Palace. Why is it taking them so long? Is reaching the Clasping Yuan Realm that hard?”
Zhu Mei and Xu Jing had both been thinking.
The headmaster suddenly thought of something, “Maybe they had passed all the tests in there, and started fighting for the three treasures?”
Zhu Mei said surprisingly,“Passing all the test? I remember there has not been anyone in the past one hundred years who was able to do so!”
“Indeed in the last one hundred years, no one had managed to do so. However, in these one hundred years, this generation is the best one. So it would not be impossible to finish all the tests, otherwise what else will keep them in there for so long? They should be out by now.” The fourth senior master who was on the side said.
Luo Hanshan nodded, then he said, “It is extremely hard to pass all those tests, so the three treasures in the Heaven Dream Battle Palace must be very valuable.”
The headmaster said, “Of course. The exclusive top martial art in our Sky Cloud Martial School is the Great Rudra Magical Art. And that martial art was indeed retrieved by the third leader of the Sky Cloud Martial School from the Heaven Dream Ancient Region one hundred years ago. No one is allowed to train unless it is the leader himself or his heir.”
“The Great Rudra Magical Art was retrieved from the Heave Dream Ancient Region?” This was the first time Luo Hanshan had heard about it. However, he had known about the power of the Great Rudra Magical Art. With the help of the zhen qi, the trainer was able to vaporize a whole river.
A couple of masters from the Purple Sun Martial School kept looking over Sky Cloud Martial School’s side. After seeing Luo Hanshan and the group had an indifferent look on their faces, they could not help but wonder.
“Is that little brat with the sword from the Sky Cloud Martial School still not out? Is he dead?”
“I am afraid it is not that simple. I have never heard of people being killed by the traps from the Heaven Dream Battle Palace. Once the traps are set off, they would be either be sent out, or stay inside successfully. Right now, he is still not here. The answer is quite clear, and it was my biggest fear – he has passed the tests.”
“After passing all the tests, three treasures would appear in the Heaven Dream Battle Palace. And these three treasure are all priceless. If somehow he managed to get one, I am afraid, it would threaten our Purple Sun Martial Palace. All the treasures from the Heaven Dream Battle Palace are the most valuable treasures, which would even be thirty percent more valuable than the treasures out here with the same rank. If it is a great weapon, then it is still okay, however, if it is a Mid rank Earth Realm manual, then it will be the top martial art a martial institution can have.”
The headmaster’s face looked gloomier and gloomier, “This boy had not fully grown up yet, and he had already been a threat to us. If we don’t kill him now, then the Purple Sun Martial School will face the biggest danger soon. It seems like we have to go and invite some of the leaders from the Assassin Group to make sure we can kill him with one attack.”
“True, Zhu Lieyang is useless now. I think even he will not be the opponent for that brat.”
…
Inside the Heaven Dream Battle Palace.
Zhuang Fei was really surprised. He did not expect his opponent to have this great power considering that he had lost his sword. How could this be? Is that sword intent really that powerful?
The red tornado was getting closer and closer. Countless spear lights kept flashing in front of him. Zhuang Fei’s killing intent was getting stronger and stronger. He had sensed a huge threat from Ye Chen which made him very uncomfortable.
“Break!”
The zhen qi broke through the sky, and a huge mountain-life shadow covered Zhuang Fei from above. He did not move at all, as he clapped his palms and a few visible palm power shoot out. It had the power of a running river, rich and continuous. The qi flow above the platform was cut through, which then ultimately broke.
“What kind of martial art is this? Mountain? Water? Is this the Mountain and Water Great Art?” Ye Chen had heard from the headmaster before that the first leader of the Emerald Valley had found a broken Mountain and Water Great Art manual from the ruins of the Mountain and Water Great Pavilion. It was a top rank Earth Realm art, and even with the broken manual, it still had the power of a Mid rank Earth Realm, from which it was not hard to imagine its true power. It should probably be more powerful than the Great Rudra Magical Art from the Sky Cloud Martial Art.
After the red tornado had been broken through, the endless palm power carried on attacking.
Ye Chen laughed, and could not care less.
“Shapeless Fierce Cloud!”
“Limitless Fierce Cloud!”
“Unforeseeable Sword!”
“Dimly Discernible Sword!”
Replacing the sword with his spear, Ye Chen stepped forward instead of backing out. He shook his spear and performed his sword attacks from the Sky Cloud Sword Art. Plus, with the sword intent’s help, his spear light was extra bright, and had not only cut open the palm power, it had also poked at the mountain-like shadow that was forming in front of Zhuang Fei.
The shadow was then broken; in front of Ye Chen’s nearly mastered sword intent, Zhuang Fei’s Mountain and Water Great Art was yet not able to finish building. After all, Zhuang Fei had only trained his Mountain and Water Great Art to its eighth level. Naturally, he was not able to bring out its true power. Also, right before that, Ye Chen had already broken Hong Qianjun’s mid rank Earth Realm Crack Ground Great Art, even though it was really hard at the time.
Puff!
After spurting out a chunk of blood, Zhuang Fei yelled, “Yuanheng Ying, I know you are right outside. Do you want to see us both badly wounded?”
Hehe…
A creepy laugh came out of nowhere, Yuanheng Ying appeared in the room, and said, “Zhuang Fei, I doubt you have the power to wound him.”
“I am afraid you don’t even have the power to block him!” Zhuang Fei accumulated his zhen qi, formed another mountain-life shadow which had temporarily blocked Ye Chen.
With a killing intent in his eyes, Ye Chen had already known that Yuanheng Ying was right outside. The reason he pretended to not know was because he was waiting to kill Zhuang Fei first.
Yuanheng Ying froze a little. To be honest, he was really not sure if he would be able to block Ye Chen. Ever since Ye Chen had reached the Clasping Yuan Realm, his power had increased at a horrifying rate. However, the stronger and faster Ye Chen grew, it made Yuanheng Ying want to kill him even more; he could not let him live and grow any longer.
“You mean…we should work together.” Yuanheng Ying probed.
Zhuang Fei said coldly,“It does not matter what you do as long as you achieve the goal.”
A cold light flashed through Zhuang Fei’s eyes. Few months ago, I did not care for Ye Chen at all. But right now he has made some progress and became so arrogant because of it. However, I did not expect that soundless attack would fail to hit him.
“Give me the manual, and I will not give you a hard time.” Zhuang Fei said with a cold undertone, while secretly accumulating his zhen qi, preparing for his next attack.
“You want this manual? Maybe it will cost you your life.”
By this time, Ye Chen had already made it to the platform. He shook his iron spear; the tip of the spear was full of the sword intent which easily broke open the light ball. The manual within was called into Ye Chen’s hand.
Seeing this, a brutal killing vibe instantly appeared around Zhuang Fei.
Ye Chen did not care about it; he stood on that high platform, and opened the first page of the manual.
"Great Mysterious Art"
"Mid Earth Realm Martial Art"
"Eleven Levels"
The first and second level are the basic levels. Entering the third level, the warrior will then enter the palace. Every level after that, the warrior will increase the power and intensity of his zhen qi by thirty percent. When reached the highest level – the eleventh level, the warrior will be able to purify and produce a mouth full of Supreme Zhen Yuan, which can easily be fatal to other warriors.
Will be able to produce a mouth full of Supreme Zhen Yuan?
Ye Chen was sure then that this Great Mysterious Art was the one martial art he needed, and it was even better than what he had expected, which changed everything. Now, regardless the Emerald Childe Zhuang Fei wanted him to hand over the manual, even if it was a Late Clasping Yuan Realm warrior asking him for it, he was determined to make him bleed.
He knew this Supreme Zhen Yuan was something that only an Astral Reaching Realm warrior would be able to produce. Before reaching the Astral Reaching Realm, the warriors trained only zhen qi. Although the two had only one character of differences, but the power gap between the two was enormous. If a warrior was able to produce the Supreme Zhen Yuan before reaching the Astral Reaching Realm, then he would most likely be invincible. With one attack, he could probably even kill a Late Clasping Yuan Realm warrior.
Putting away the Great Mysterious Art, Ye Chen was very satisfied, and turned his body while preparing to leave.
“Since you don’t want to hand over the manual, don’t blame me for not giving you a chance.” After avoiding all of the white fire coming out from the floor, Zhuang Fei came under the platform. In a blink of an eye, he had already made it to the top.
Ye Chen did not move an inch. Since there were so many traps in this room and he would not be able to leave quickly anyways, there was no point for him to move, so he might as well just wait for Zhuang Fei to come up himself. Plus, Ye Chen was also interested in seeing how Zhuang Fei planned to get the manual from him.
“You used to be the leader of the young generation, I doubt it now. Let me be the one to trash your pride!”
Ye Chen did not mind at all that he did not have his sword with him. With his sword intent and the iron spear, he knew he would be able to bring out eighty percent of his true power, which was more than enough to beat Zhuang Fei. As for the reason why Zhuang Fei was so confident was probably because he did not expect Ye Chen to make more progress on his sword intent.
“You are looking for death…. Sky Emerald Palm!”
Zhuang Fei did not move his body, while he threw another palm attack at Ye Chen.
Without a sound, the huge light green zhen qi palm appeared in front of Ye Chen again, and this time it was aiming for Ye Chen’s forehead.
“Break!”
Ye Chen sneered, as his iron spear stabbed at the weakest part of that huge zhen qi hand like a poisonous snake’s fatal attack.
With a huge popping sound, the huge zhen qi hand disappeared again.
“He attacked the weakest part again.” Zhuang Fei had already realized something when his last palm attack was shattered. And now he was sure that Ye Chen had mastered a martial art that allowed him to find the weakness instantly.
“Let’s see how you are going to break this one! Emerald Shadow and Light!”
Zhuang Fei yelled as he pushed out his palms one after another. Countless huge emerald colored zhen qi hands attacked towards Ye Chen. Their attacking routes were unpredictable, and the palm attacks would even adjust their route in the air.
“No matter how genius your tricks are, I will break them all.” Ye Chen used his spear as a replacement for his sword. He shook his spear, and performed the most powerful move with the largest attacking radius – Clear the Sky!
The burning red spear went straight up into the sky. It shredded the air drastically as it moved, eventually creating a huge tornado by using the power of spinning. What was not expected was that because of the tornado full of fiery Yuan Qi, the whole tornado started to turn red. With the unbearable heat, it attacked towards Zhuang Fei.
The next second, all of those huge green zhen qi hands shattered completely. Although the tornado had been reduced to one size smaller, it kept roaring and attacking towards Zhuang Fei.
Whilst the two were fighting, it was also not peaceful on the Scorching Ancient Desert.
After Leng Wuqing and Mo Wuxue had been sent out of the Heaven Dream Battle Palace, the silence no longer existed between all those martial institutions. It was like someone had thrown a rock into a peaceful lake, and people could not stop talking about it. As for those senior masters from the Multiple Mountains Martial School, they all had a gloomy expression on their faces. One thing they were quite sure was that the possibility for Hong Qianjun to be still alive was almost zero.
“Who had killed Hong Qianjun?! Someone from the Hidden Dragon Rank?”
“No matter who it was, once caught by us, there is no doubt we will kill him.” The senior master did not purposely lower his voice when he said that, and people from all the other martial institutions had heard him perfectly.
“I can not believe that Hong Qianjun, who was ranked 69 on the Hidden Dragon Rank, was also killed! He was an Early Clasping Yuan Realm warrior! He was even able to compete with a Mid Clasping Yuan Realm warrior.”
“To be honest, I really want to know who actually killed him.”
“I think he was most likely to be killed by a young warrior from the Hidden Dragon Rank List. They were the only ones who had the power to do so. The three people with a rank higher than rank 60 are more likely.”
“You mean, Mo Wuxue, Xiao Heng and Yuanheng Ying?”
“Yes, think about it. Besides them, who else could have been able to kill Hong Qianjun? Even if the other warriors had the power to do so, they might not succeed.”
Over at the Sky Cloud Martial School side.
Luo Hanshan let out a breath, “Mo Wuxue is out, Leng Wuqing is out. Now that there are only brother Ye, Zhuang Fei, and Yuanheng Ying left in the Heaven Dream Battle Palace. Why is it taking them so long? Is reaching the Clasping Yuan Realm that hard?”
Zhu Mei and Xu Jing had both been thinking.
The headmaster suddenly thought of something, “Maybe they had passed all the tests in there, and started fighting for the three treasures?”
Zhu Mei said surprisingly,“Passing all the test? I remember there has not been anyone in the past one hundred years who was able to do so!”
“Indeed in the last one hundred years, no one had managed to do so. However, in these one hundred years, this generation is the best one. So it would not be impossible to finish all the tests, otherwise what else will keep them in there for so long? They should be out by now.” The fourth senior master who was on the side said.
Luo Hanshan nodded, then he said, “It is extremely hard to pass all those tests, so the three treasures in the Heaven Dream Battle Palace must be very valuable.”
The headmaster said, “Of course. The exclusive top martial art in our Sky Cloud Martial School is the Great Rudra Magical Art. And that martial art was indeed retrieved by the third leader of the Sky Cloud Martial School from the Heaven Dream Ancient Region one hundred years ago. No one is allowed to train unless it is the leader himself or his heir.”
“The Great Rudra Magical Art was retrieved from the Heave Dream Ancient Region?” This was the first time Luo Hanshan had heard about it. However, he had known about the power of the Great Rudra Magical Art. With the help of the zhen qi, the trainer was able to vaporize a whole river.
A couple of masters from the Purple Sun Martial School kept looking over Sky Cloud Martial School’s side. After seeing Luo Hanshan and the group had an indifferent look on their faces, they could not help but wonder.
“Is that little brat with the sword from the Sky Cloud Martial School still not out? Is he dead?”
“I am afraid it is not that simple. I have never heard of people being killed by the traps from the Heaven Dream Battle Palace. Once the traps are set off, they would be either be sent out, or stay inside successfully. Right now, he is still not here. The answer is quite clear, and it was my biggest fear – he has passed the tests.”
“After passing all the tests, three treasures would appear in the Heaven Dream Battle Palace. And these three treasure are all priceless. If somehow he managed to get one, I am afraid, it would threaten our Purple Sun Martial Palace. All the treasures from the Heaven Dream Battle Palace are the most valuable treasures, which would even be thirty percent more valuable than the treasures out here with the same rank. If it is a great weapon, then it is still okay, however, if it is a Mid rank Earth Realm manual, then it will be the top martial art a martial institution can have.”
The headmaster’s face looked gloomier and gloomier, “This boy had not fully grown up yet, and he had already been a threat to us. If we don’t kill him now, then the Purple Sun Martial School will face the biggest danger soon. It seems like we have to go and invite some of the leaders from the Assassin Group to make sure we can kill him with one attack.”
“True, Zhu Lieyang is useless now. I think even he will not be the opponent for that brat.”
…
Inside the Heaven Dream Battle Palace.
Zhuang Fei was really surprised. He did not expect his opponent to have this great power considering that he had lost his sword. How could this be? Is that sword intent really that powerful?
The red tornado was getting closer and closer. Countless spear lights kept flashing in front of him. Zhuang Fei’s killing intent was getting stronger and stronger. He had sensed a huge threat from Ye Chen which made him very uncomfortable.
“Break!”
The zhen qi broke through the sky, and a huge mountain-life shadow covered Zhuang Fei from above. He did not move at all, as he clapped his palms and a few visible palm power shoot out. It had the power of a running river, rich and continuous. The qi flow above the platform was cut through, which then ultimately broke.
“What kind of martial art is this? Mountain? Water? Is this the Mountain and Water Great Art?” Ye Chen had heard from the headmaster before that the first leader of the Emerald Valley had found a broken Mountain and Water Great Art manual from the ruins of the Mountain and Water Great Pavilion. It was a top rank Earth Realm art, and even with the broken manual, it still had the power of a Mid rank Earth Realm, from which it was not hard to imagine its true power. It should probably be more powerful than the Great Rudra Magical Art from the Sky Cloud Martial Art.
After the red tornado had been broken through, the endless palm power carried on attacking.
Ye Chen laughed, and could not care less.
“Shapeless Fierce Cloud!”
“Limitless Fierce Cloud!”
“Unforeseeable Sword!”
“Dimly Discernible Sword!”
Replacing the sword with his spear, Ye Chen stepped forward instead of backing out. He shook his spear and performed his sword attacks from the Sky Cloud Sword Art. Plus, with the sword intent’s help, his spear light was extra bright, and had not only cut open the palm power, it had also poked at the mountain-like shadow that was forming in front of Zhuang Fei.
The shadow was then broken; in front of Ye Chen’s nearly mastered sword intent, Zhuang Fei’s Mountain and Water Great Art was yet not able to finish building. After all, Zhuang Fei had only trained his Mountain and Water Great Art to its eighth level. Naturally, he was not able to bring out its true power. Also, right before that, Ye Chen had already broken Hong Qianjun’s mid rank Earth Realm Crack Ground Great Art, even though it was really hard at the time.
Puff!
After spurting out a chunk of blood, Zhuang Fei yelled, “Yuanheng Ying, I know you are right outside. Do you want to see us both badly wounded?”
Hehe…
A creepy laugh came out of nowhere, Yuanheng Ying appeared in the room, and said, “Zhuang Fei, I doubt you have the power to wound him.”
“I am afraid you don’t even have the power to block him!” Zhuang Fei accumulated his zhen qi, formed another mountain-life shadow which had temporarily blocked Ye Chen.
With a killing intent in his eyes, Ye Chen had already known that Yuanheng Ying was right outside. The reason he pretended to not know was because he was waiting to kill Zhuang Fei first.
Yuanheng Ying froze a little. To be honest, he was really not sure if he would be able to block Ye Chen. Ever since Ye Chen had reached the Clasping Yuan Realm, his power had increased at a horrifying rate. However, the stronger and faster Ye Chen grew, it made Yuanheng Ying want to kill him even more; he could not let him live and grow any longer.
“You mean…we should work together.” Yuanheng Ying probed.
Zhuang Fei said coldly,“It does not matter what you do as long as you achieve the goal.”