Jiang Yong

Biodata

Power Progression

History

First Challenge Against Xu Yuan

Jiang Yong purchases the right to challenge Xu Yuan for 20,000 yuan, seeking an opportunity to take his B-grade cultivation room. He pays immediately and thanks Xu Yuan for suggesting that he first arrange to be challenged himself, thereby exhausting his weekly quota for receiving challenges. Confident in his fifth-stage cultivation, he laughs off Xu Yuan’s warning that he might lose 31.

Before the match, Jiang Yong pays another student to challenge him. Both fight seriously, so the arrangement is not treated as match-fixing. Many spectators support Jiang Yong because they resent the money Xu Yuan made selling them leather armor 33 34.

In the ring, Jiang Yong repeatedly fails to land a saber strike. Xu Yuan kicks him in the face to provoke a fiercer attack, but his mounting anger only makes his movements more disordered. Jiang Yong cannot exploit the openings Xu Yuan deliberately offers and is eventually knocked out of the ring by an elbow strike following Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike 35.

Jiang Yong suffers little physical injury, but the humiliation of losing to someone three stages below him leaves him furious. He immediately declares that the following week’s challenge belongs to him. Lin Yuan stops the spectators from mocking him, explaining that other fifth-stage students would have lost just as decisively 35.

Preparing for the Rematch

Jiang Yong opens the next auction at 20,000 yuan and ultimately pays 50,000 yuan after bidding against “Zhao Zhipeng,” an alternate account operated by Fatty at Xu Yuan’s direction. He correctly suspects that the account was planted to inflate the price. Nevertheless, he pays and calls the additional 30,000 yuan an advance payment for Xu Yuan’s injury medicine 37.

After reaching Skin Tempering Sixth Stage, Jiang Yong spends two days paying for practical combat training rather than cultivating at the base. He dismisses his earlier defeat as luck and becomes convinced that he can overwhelm Xu Yuan. His threats escalate from telling Xu Yuan to prepare second-tier medicine to explicitly warning that he will break his arms and legs 42 45.

Second Defeat

Jiang Yong enters the rematch silently, carrying his saber and staring at Xu Yuan. Teacher Kong senses his murderous hostility and warns both fighters that he can guarantee their survival, but not their safety from other injuries 47.

Jiang Yong opens with Cloud-Shattering Slash and follows his missed downward strike with a diagonal upward cut. Although his transitions have improved, Xu Yuan evades both attacks and uses a major-attainment Savage Bull Mountain-Treading Strike to break his left shoulder. Jiang Yong regains his balance and calls out Blood Mantis Sky-Rending Blade, challenging Xu Yuan to meet him head-on, but an elbow to his chest breaks several ribs and sends him out of the ring 47.

He loses consciousness after the beating. Teacher Kong confirms that his injuries are serious but not life-threatening, and base staff carry him away on a stretcher. Unlike after the first match, the spectators recognize that Xu Yuan’s exceptional ability—not simply Jiang Yong’s shortcomings—explains the result 48.

Personality

Jiang Yong is initially straightforward in financial dealings: he promptly pays his first auction bid and openly thanks Xu Yuan for useful advice. His confidence, however, rests heavily on his cultivation advantage, making defeat by a lower-stage opponent especially difficult for him to accept 31 35.

Pride and resentment drive his pursuit of a rematch. Public mockery strengthens his determination to recover his standing, while his suspicion of auction manipulation does not stop him from paying the inflated price. By the second match, his desire to win has escalated into explicit threats to cripple Xu Yuan 35 37 45.

Abilities & Skills

Saber Combat

Jiang Yong fights with a saber and supplements cultivation with paid practical combat instruction 35 42.

• His anger-driven second attack in the first match is over thirty percent faster than his opening slash, but exposes more openings 35.
• Before the rematch, other students report that he can hold his own against a Skin Grinding Seventh Stage opponent; this is hearsay rather than a demonstrated victory 46.
• His improved follow-up cuts and midair recovery are demonstrated during the rematch, though neither prevents his defeat 47.

Cloud-Shattering Slash

A tier-one saber technique that Jiang Yong uses in both matches against Xu Yuan 35 47.

• In the first match, he attempts it too late to stop Xu Yuan’s finishing attack 35.
• In the rematch, he opens with a forceful overhead slash aimed at Xu Yuan’s head 47.

Blood Mantis Sky-Rending Blade

A named saber technique Jiang Yong attempts after his shoulder is broken during the rematch 47.

• He calls for a head-on clash while preparing the technique.
• Xu Yuan strikes before it produces a demonstrated result; its tier and Jiang Yong’s proficiency are not specified 47.

Equipment

• Long saber — His primary weapon. Explicitly unsharpened during the first match; knocked from his grasp during the second 35 47.

Relationships

• Xu Yuan — Rival and twice his victorious opponent. Jiang Yong pays him a total of 70,000 yuan for two challenge opportunities, with his initial confidence turning into a determination to inflict serious injury 31 35 37 45 48.
• Lin Yuan — Referee of the first match. Defends Jiang Yong against the crowd’s ridicule and attributes the defeat to Xu Yuan’s exceptional combat ability 35.
• Teacher Kong — Referee of the rematch. Recognizes Jiang Yong’s hostility, checks his condition after the defeat, and authorizes staff to carry him away 47 48.