Heaven-Expanding Mountain
On the arena, Li Hong, wielding a long staff, approached Yi Yun step by step, his aura rising with each step.
"What's wrong? Isn't your sword very fast? What other hidden sword techniques do you have? Show them all! Once I've blocked all your attacks, it will all be over!"
Li Hong was extremely confident in his own defense.
A cold glint flashed in Yi Yun's eyes.
He slowly turned the blade. In fact, Li Hong was right about one thing— Yi Yun had been practicing martial arts for so long, but what he lacked most was real combat experience!
Li Hong himself had fought countless battles with wild beasts in the Divine Wilderness, which greatly benefited his staff skills and combat experience.
Even the other, weaker scions of noble families, as newcomers, did not fight many wild beasts, but they often sparred with their peers as they grew up.
Real combat is always the best way to hone Martial Skill.
On the other hand, Yi Yun has only experienced a handful of major battles so far. Apart from his sparring with Lin Xin Tong, fighting against ferocious beasts in the Barren Human Valley, the Brocade Dragon Guard selection, and this newcomer ranking competition.
Yi Yun takes every battle very seriously now, especially evenly matched ones. These are tests for him and the best way for him to hone his swordsmanship.
"Since you want to see my sword techniques, then so be it!"
Yi Yun stepped forward, his inner energy surging, flowing through his meridians according to the trajectory of the Thirty-two Sword Dao Characters.
King's Reign Over the World!
Yi Yun, wielding the Thousand Army Saber, slashed diagonally, unleashing a burst of Mysterious Jade Color blade light, like a bright crescent moon, charging towards Li Hong with unstoppable momentum!
Li Hong roared, and his earth-yellow True Qi surged forth. His entire body's scales bristled.
Yi Yun's blade struck Li Hong heavily.
"Boom!"
The explosion was so violent that the scales on Li Hong's body shattered violently. The blade's light was so intense that Li Hong was sent flying!
Li Hong's body slammed heavily against the wall next to the Divine Desolation Stage. The strong tremor knocked over the weapon rack on the other side of the wall, scattering swords, spears, and halberds all over the ground!
Seeing this, everyone subconsciously swallowed hard; Yi Yun's blade was indeed incredibly powerful!
"Hehe... Nice knife!"
Li Hong sat half-sitting in the corner, his entire body covered in scales. Yi Yun's blade had slashed down from his chest to his waist, leaving a cut more than two feet long. The scales around the cut were completely shattered.
However, after cutting through the scales, the power of this strike was almost exhausted, and it ultimately failed to completely break through Li Hong's Protective Vital Energy, only causing Li Hong a minor injury.
Li Hong wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and stood up. The scales on his body were rapidly repaired as the earth-yellow energy surged.
"Your swordsmanship is impressive. Unfortunately, your vital energy is insufficient. A little less and you could have wounded me. I was just testing the defense of the <Heaven-Expanding Merit>; that was your only chance to harm me..."
"Enough with the nonsense." Yi Yun frowned. Li Hong's defense was indeed strong. He had actually withstood the moves that Yi Yun had comprehended from the Thirty-two Sword Dao Characters without dodging!
"You can be smug once you've withstood my second strike!"
Yi Yun Thousand Army Saber, unleashing a terrifying killing intent. Swords are weapons of slaughter, and in mortal realms, swords are forbidden but not swords. Swords are ceremonial objects; emperors, gentlemen, and Scholar would all choose to carry them. But swords are different; those who carry swords are those who truly need to kill!
The owner of the Blade Tomb also inscribed the killing principles of the sword into the Thirty-two Sword Dao Characters!
In an instant, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood appeared behind Yi Yun stood seemed to have turned into a blood pool hell!
Slaughter as the Heart!
As the Thousand Army Saber cleaved out, waves of blood erupted, and the entire Divine Desolation Stage seemed to transform into a blood-red world!
Seeing the blade coming at him, Li Hong's eyes blazed with intense fighting spirit.
"Come out, Heaven-Expanding Mountain!"
Li Hong slammed his long staff heavily onto the arena, and his earth-yellow energy surged into the Divine Desolation Stage like a tidal wave!
"Boom!"
The earth trembled, and a mountain rose from the ground beneath Li Hong's feet!
This mountain is majestic and towering, with a rugged and imposing shape!
These mountains and rivers were formed by Li Hong using the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, yet they are no different from real mountains and rivers!
"Huh!? What's this?"
Yi Yun's heart skipped a beat. How could he not be startled when a mountain suddenly appeared before him?
Although Yi Yun was alarmed, he still swung his Thousand Army Saber down without hesitation.
Kill!
A single slash unleashed a streak of bloody light that stretched for dozens of meters, yet this entire streak of bloody light was absorbed by the mountain!
Li Hong actually summoned the mountains and rivers to withstand Yi Yun's fatal blow!
"Snap!"
A piercing sound rang out, and the light of the Thousand Army Saber slashed into the mountains seven or eight meters deep, leaving a shocking gash, but it could not penetrate any further.
The sword's energy was exhausted, but the mountain still floated above Li Hong's head.
The mountain is over twenty meters high, and its base is also over ten meters in diameter. It doesn't sound very big, but it looks incredibly impressive!
Such a mountain is incredibly heavy. If it weren't for the power of the laws, Li Hong would never have been able to lift it. It is a true mountain-moving force!
The surrounding audience was stunned.
That's ridiculous! Using a small mountain to block Yi Yun's blade?
"It's the Earth Law! That's right, Li Hong's Yuan Qi was earth-yellow before, and earth-yellow Earth Yuan Qi is most suitable for the defensive <Heaven-Expanding Merit>! Integrating Earth Yuan Qi into Heaven-Expanding True Qi and then condensing it into scales can raise the defensive power to a whole new level!"
"To integrate the Earth Law into the <Heaven-Expanding Merit>, Li Hong is truly a genius. Many people can't even master the <Heaven-Expanding Merit -Heaven-Expanding Merit>, let alone combine their own laws with it!"
Li Hong, who ranked first among the two-year trial participants, is by no means an ordinary person.
Moreover, he is about to break through to the Origin Foundation Realm, and the Yuanji in his dantian has already taken shape.
This nascent primordial foundation gave Li Hong profound true essence, which was also the basis for him to use the earth's primordial energy to condense this small mountain!
Otherwise, if it were Chu Xiaoran instead, although she was quite skilled in the laws of ice, she could only condense a few dozen ice pillars at most before consuming a large amount of her vital energy. After exchanging blows with Yi Yun twice, she was exhausted.
This is the advantage of Purple Blood Peak, near- Origin Foundation Realm martial artist. The difference in cultivation level is difficult to overcome, even among equally talented individuals!
Looking at the massive, seven- or eight-meter-deep gash on the mountainside, Li Hong laughed. "How could a single blade possibly cleave through a mountain? Your blade is quite formidable, but unfortunately, you can never break through this mountain I've conjured!"
Li Hong picked up the long staff and condensed this mountain into existence, which greatly consumed Li Hong vital energy.
Heaven-Expanding Mountain is the manifestation of the Earth Law cultivated by Li Hong. Once it is condensed, Li Hong's combat power will also rise to its peak.
"So that's how it is, the Earth Law..."
Yi Yun narrowed his eyes, looking at the mountain peak in the sky. Indeed, Chu Xiaoran had mastered the power of the laws, Li Hong had stayed in Tai'a Divine City for a whole year, experiencing countless battles in the Divine Wilderness. How could he not have comprehended the laws?
As the top performer in the two-year trial, he always had something to offer.
"The power of laws—this is a power I urgently need to master right now," Yi Yun thought to himself.
"That's enough! I defeated you with Heaven-Expanding Mountain, you should be proud!"
With a thought, Li Hong swung his long staff straight down!
"Boom!"
The mountain trembled, the entire mountain range pressing down on Yi Yun, as if using a mountain as a weapon to attack?
The surrounding audience was all amazed.
A mountain formed from primordial energy—this was something that Thousand Army Saber could never possibly stop.
Yi Yun indeed had no chance of resisting.
He used his Subtle Movement Technique, and his figure flew away.
"Boom!"
The mountains crashed onto the Divine Desolation Stage, and everyone felt that the entire arena seemed to tremble noticeably, like a slight earthquake.
"If this mountain were to hit us, we'd probably die..."
Everyone held their breath in suspense.
In Tai'a Divine City, killing someone during a martial arts competition is punishable by imprisonment. However, at this moment, Li Hong was already blinded by rage and didn't care about imprisonment at all.
A sinister smile crept across Yang Dingkun's lips amidst the crowd.
As expected, Li Hong did not disappoint him. With the Heaven-Expanding Mountain summoned, Li Hong had taken control of the situation. He was actually looking forward to Li Hong smashing Yi Yun into mincemeat.
In that case, he would not only have won the Tai'a Sacred Law, but he would also have one less competitor whose talent was the envy of others.
In fact, Yang Dingkun would have preferred that all the geniuses in Tai'a Divine City, such as Qin Haotian, Li Xiao, and the Qiao Brothers, die during their training.
Heaven-Expanding Mountain hurled his attacks time and time again, but Yi Yun dodged them each time. Every attack seemed extremely dangerous, yet Yi Yun emerged unscathed.
Facing different opponents, Yi Yun was amazed by the variety of fighting styles that emerged.
Yi Yun's impression of Li Hong Yi Yun was that he was greedy and treacherous, but he never expected that Li Hong could use such methods on the arena.
Yi Yun knew that his path of martial arts had only just begun, and he might face all sorts of opponents in the future, some of whom were not even human.
They have all sorts of strange and unusual moves. If you don't hone your skills and broaden your horizons now, you might end up getting caught off guard and fail in the future.
The battle grew increasingly intense, and everyone stared wide-eyed, afraid of missing any exciting moment.
The audience gradually realized that Yi Yun's Movement Technique were too fast, while Li Hong's mountain was too large. Although it was propelled by the laws and moved very fast, it was difficult for it to hit Yi Yun.
Yi Yun seemed to share this idea, relying on his Movement Technique of the Subtle Movement Technique to dodge time and time again.
Moving mountains and rivers always consumes vital energy and cannot be sustained indefinitely.
At this moment, a sinister smile crept onto Li Hong's lips. "Trying to wear me down? Do you think Heaven-Expanding Mountain is that simple?"
With a thought, Li Hong pointed his long staff and shouted, "Divide!"
Boom!
With a thunderous roar, Heaven-Expanding Mountain exploded in mid-air, turning into countless large and small stones, like a sky full of stars, covering the entire Divine Desolation Stage!
These rocks, some as big as a washbasin and others only the size of a fist, were densely packed around Yi Yun, completely surrounding him.
"Is your Movement Technique Subtle Movement? How are you going to dodge this?"
...(To be continued~^~)