"Wind Rises!"
Almost at the very instant the wall of Sword Qi shattered, Tang Yan, standing on the eastern side of the Golden Scale Platform, suddenly shouted and gave the horsetail whisk in his hand a powerful flick.
"Whoosh!"
In an instant, fierce winds raged across the vast Golden Scale Platform.
Under the sweep of Tang Yan's whisk, the savage gale, suffused with a green glow, roared toward Third Prince Chu Yinan like a flood bursting through a breached embankment.
"Shing!"
With a ringing cry, the longsword in the third prince's hand burst from its sheath, becoming a keen streak of silver sword light that cleaved the gale in two, sending the wind roaring past on either side.
Seeing this, Tang Yan suddenly swept the broad sleeve of his other arm, scattering over a hundred beans from within it.
To the astonishment of the cultivators in the surrounding stands, the beans all transformed into armored soldiers the instant they hit the ground.
Lifted by the howling gale, these several hundred soldiers roared and hurled themselves at the third prince in the blink of an eye.
At the sight, the third prince remained unhurried, merely forming a series of seals with his hand and reciting an incantation before stamping his foot hard against the ground.
"Bang!"
Amid the tremendous tremor, ripples of light suddenly shone beneath the third prince's feet.
Then, with a thunderous boom, a surging wave lifted the third prince while swallowing the hundred-odd armored soldiers charging toward him.
In an instant, half the Golden Scale Platform beneath the third prince's feet became a vast expanse of water, while the other half was occupied by the gale stirred up by Tang Yan's whisk.
This exchange had ended in a draw.
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