Hong Yun sent a voice transmission to Great Immortal Zhen Yuan. "Poor East King Duke. The luck of the Head of Male Immortals has scattered quite a bit this time. After this, it'll be hard for everyone to take him seriously."
Great Immortal Zhen Yuan replied, "Only you, Hong Yun, are so honest. Among the male immortals of the Primordial Wilderness, there really aren't many who take that fellow seriously."
Hearing this, Hong Yun could not help suspecting that he was a fool. He looked at Great Immortal Zhen Yuan and muttered, "Zhen Yuan, even though you praised me for being honest, why do I feel like that wasn't a compliment?"
Great Immortal Zhen Yuan thought, *ε=(′ο｀*))) Sigh, this Hong Yun is such a pure fool. I'd better look after him more in the future.*
Looking again, Fuxi had already held out his hand toward Taiyi. Fuxi said, "Fellow Daoist Taiyi, East King Duke clearly had the upper hand over Zhunti just now. Otherwise, Jieyin would not have stepped in to help him. Mm, one Fusang Fruit, please."
Taiyi looked at Yun Ting. "You started this wager, so you have the final say. Did East King Duke win, or did Zhunti win? They didn't even finish fighting before everyone started interfering. It's hard to settle the accounts..."
Yun Ting thought for a moment. "Mm, that's true. How are we supposed to count this...?"
Tong Tian looked at his deep-thinking son and said, "Fellow Daoist Fuxi, Fellow Daoist Taiyi, neither of you is short on those two fruits. Just treat them as a meeting gift for my son and pretend this wager never happened. After all, they didn't fight fairly to the end, so it's hard to judge..."
Taiyi burst out laughing. "Then so be it. East King Duke is still being stomped into the ground right now. He can't exactly get back up and fight again."
At that moment, the system suddenly issued a mission. "Mission issued: Trick Zhunti. Strike Zhunti once with Primordial Sword Qi. Reward: the Law of the Sword Dao increases by one level."
Yun Ting shouted, "Zhunti, you call yourself a fighter? You couldn't even fight properly and had Jieyin help you, ruining my wager! Take a sword from me!" With that, he gripped the Hun Yuan Sword. Sword light flashed as the Law of the Sword Dao drove the Hun Yuan Sword, and he slashed out with a strike already carrying the power of the peak Great Luo realm.
Zhunti chuckled at the sight. Seven-Colored Treasure Light surged around him and blocked the attack. "Nephew, if you keep attacking, I'll have to fight back."
As soon as he finished speaking, hazy radiance flickered around Yun Ting. Then sword intent rose from his body, and the Law of the Sword Dao broke through directly. Sword cries rang out around him. He raised a finger and said, "Uncle Zhunti, I struck you once and gained another breakthrough in the Law of the Sword Dao. Take another sword from me—Sever Bodhi!" As he spoke, another powerful sword qi slashed toward Zhunti.
Facing Yun Ting's sudden eruption of sword qi, Zhunti did not dare be careless. Seven-Colored Treasure Light surged around him as he tried to block Yun Ting's attack. However, Yun Ting's sword qi contained a powerful Law of the Sword Dao, and the might of this strike far exceeded Zhunti's expectations. With a boom, Zhunti was struck by the sword qi and staggered back three steps, each one leaving a deep footprint in the ground.
This left the observing great powers unable to remain calm... Mm, Yun Ting struck Zhunti twice and broke through in the Law of the Sword Dao. If I gave Zhunti a few hits too, would I also break through...?
Great Immortal Zhen Yuan poked Hong Yun. "You gave up your seat to Zhunti before. It shouldn't be a problem if you go up and hit him a few times. Why not try it? Maybe you'll break through too..."
Hong Yun shook his head. "Forget it. Yun Ting cultivates the sword dao, but I don't. What if I fail to break through and just hit Fellow Daoist Zhunti twice for nothing? That wouldn't be appropriate."
Of course, good old man Hong Yun would think that way. But... Taiyi was different. The Golden Crow lineage was naturally a little impatient—well, it was reasonable enough for fire-tempered Golden Crows to have hot tempers. Seeing Yun Ting break through after attacking Zhunti, he immediately decided to try it himself.
With that thought, Taiyi opened with the Chaos Bell. Duang, duang, duang! Three bell chimes rang out, most of their power pressing directly down on Zhunti. Then Taiyi grabbed through the air and hurled a mass of True Sun Fire at him.
Before Zhunti could react to that chain of attacks, the Chaos Bell sent him flying. Then the True Sun Fire surrounded him and burned him fiercely, leaving him in a far more sorry state than when he had fought East King Duke. He cursed, "Fellow Daoist Taiyi, why did you suddenly attack me?"
Taiyi scratched his head. "Yun Ting broke through after hitting you just now, so I wanted to try it too. But..." Before he could finish, Taiyi suddenly closed his eyes as hazy radiance flickered over his body.
Seeing this, Zhunti immediately transformed into a streak of light and fled. He thought, What the hell... you can't play like this.
Well, Taiyi had not broken through because he beat up Zhunti. Rather, when he was about to say that beating Zhunti had not worked, A Certain Lady in the system space had poked through his bottleneck for him.
At that, the assembled great powers made up their minds. Later, they would find Zhunti and practice on him. Mm, what if they broke through? And if they did not, beating Zhunti up still would not be a loss. That guy did not have many friends anyway, so they could just treat it as a bit of fun.
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