Max-level imitation
In front of everyone, Huang Tianrong suddenly felt a chill over his body and instinctively clamped his legs together to cover his private parts.
Qin Yi seized the opportunity and whipped his sword across Huang Tianrong's face.
-Sword Qi accumulated 4 times!
After four successful accumulations of Sword Qi, the iron sword in his hand suddenly seemed to hold a ferocious beast about to break free of its cage.
The Chivalry state had been unlocked!
Without hesitation, Qin Yi immediately unleashed the third move, Green Lotus Sword Song.
In that instant, his entire body seemed to vanish, turning into five streams of Sword Qi that slashed Huang Tianrong in succession.
Realizing something was wrong, Huang Tianrong could only mobilize all his True Qi, shrouding his body in a protective defense.
This was also Qin Yi's first time using Green Lotus Sword Song against a person, and with his cultivation at the fifth level of Qi Refining, its destructive power was still limited.
Although it could shatter wooden stakes when it struck them, Huang Tianrong was at the ninth level of Qi Refining. Once he protected himself with True Qi, the five streams of Sword Qi could only lash his body like iron whips.
They merely left five crimson marks across his face, while the impact of the Sword Qi knocked him off the martial platform.
Even so, the winner had already been decided.
"From now on, I'm Emerald Bamboo Peak's eldest senior brother."
After the Sword Qi disappeared, Qin Yi reappeared where he had been and gracefully slid his iron sword back into its sheath.
"You... you..." Huang Tianrong landed sitting on the ground, naked from head to toe, furious and ashamed.
He wanted to fight Qin Yi again, yet feared that his wretched appearance would leave a bad impression on Junior Sister Yiyi.
Amid the awkwardness, the second senior brother suddenly stepped forward, took off his outer robe, and tossed it to Huang Tianrong.
Huang Tianrong caught it and gave him a grateful look.
Once he had dressed, he jumped back onto the martial platform. "That didn't count! I kindly went easy on you, but you took a mile when given an inch. Fight me again. I won't hold back this time."
Again?
Qin Yi was not worried about his abilities in the slightest.
After their exchange just now, he had a rough understanding of Huang Tianrong's strengths and weaknesses.
Huang Tianrong's strength was not low, and his Heavenly Secrets Sword Technique had reached the third stage. Among the Famous Sword Sect's entire new generation of disciples, he probably could not be considered weak.
But he was far too lacking in agility. As long as Qin Yi used nimble martial techniques against him, his Heavenly Secrets Sword Technique would be useless, no matter how strong it was.
Moreover, Qin Yi's system had granted him max-level comprehension, max-level imitation, and max-level creativity.
The Green Lotus Sword Song he had just used came from his max-level creativity,
but his exchange with Huang Tianrong had also happened to trigger his max-level imitation-he had completely mastered the moves Huang Tianrong had used earlier.
Furthermore, with the addition of his max-level comprehension talent, the moves he had imitated from Huang Tianrong had been upgraded through his comprehension. The blue drawn from indigo now surpassed the indigo itself.
"Since you still want to humiliate yourself, I can only oblige."
Qin Yi drew his iron sword again.
Huang Tianrong stared coldly at him and suddenly shouted, "The sword technique you just used isn't one of our Famous Sword Sect's techniques. You joined with prior training, yet you think you deserve to be Emerald Bamboo Peak's eldest senior brother?"
Joining a master with prior training was taboo in all the major sects.
In Wind and Cloud, Xiongba had always disliked Duanlang precisely because he had joined with prior training.
Gu Yiyi spoke up for Qin Yi. "Qin Yi didn't join with prior training. His Green Lotus Sword Song was bestowed on him innately when he touched the Dao Comprehension Stone."
Everyone present looked astonished at her words.
Bestowed innately? Didn't that make it an innate cultivation method?!
He actually possessed an innate cultivation method, just like Senior Brother Hua Yunfeng. No wonder his sword technique was so uncanny, knocking Huang Tianrong off the martial platform in a single exchange.
If Qin Yi himself had said this, the others would inevitably have questioned him.
But since it came from Gu Yiyi, no one had any reason to doubt it.
Huang Tianrong's mouth twitched twice. The more outstanding Qin Yi was, the angrier he felt. Just as he was trying to find an excuse to stop Qin Yi from using Green Lotus Sword Song, Qin Yi spoke first. "If you're afraid of my Green Lotus Sword Song, just say so. Since you're afraid, I simply won't use it."
Huang Tianrong felt a surge of delight. If he doesn't use his innate cultivation method, I won't have anything to worry about.
But aloud, he still refused to concede. "Afraid? I'd be afraid of you? It's just that your sword technique isn't one of our Famous Sword Sect's techniques, after all. Even if it's your innate cultivation method, you shouldn't bring it onto the martial platform to throw your weight around."
"Enough nonsense. I said I wouldn't use it." Qin Yi gripped his iron sword, his max-level comprehension allowing him to grasp the essence and key points of the Heavenly Secrets Sword Technique in a single second.
The moment the iron sword left its sheath, he poured his True Qi into it, and flames soon wreathed its blade.
A second earlier, Huang Tianrong had still been secretly delighted. As long as Qin Yi doesn't use Green Lotus Sword Song, what else can he use?
A second later, when he saw flames actually wreathing Qin Yi's iron sword, he was utterly dumbstruck!
Heavenly Secrets Sword Technique?
The third-stage Manifest Fire State?
"You, you, you..."
"What? This Heavenly Secrets Sword Technique is one of the Famous Sword Sect's techniques, surely? Don't tell me you're afraid of this too?" Qin Yi asked with a smile.
Huang Tianrong gritted his teeth in disbelief. "Where did you learn that? You only joined today. Master hasn't taught you yet. Where did you learn it?"
Qin Yi said, "Why do you care so much? In any case, you should have nothing to say if I use this sword technique, right?"
Furious, Huang Tianrong also summoned flames, which blazed fiercely over his iron sword.
When it came to the Heavenly Secrets Sword Technique, he had never feared anyone!
He immediately leaped up, pouncing forward like a ferocious tiger, and slashed his sword, sending three streams of flame sweeping in all directions.
[Heavenly Secrets Sword Technique: Three Stars Chase the Moon]!
Qin Yi's eyes were sharp and his hands quick. Whatever he saw Huang Tianrong do, he did as well.
Although he launched his move later, it could arrive first.
And his max-level comprehension made the same sword move even steadier and more lethal than Huang Tianrong's.
As Huang Tianrong slashed out three streams of flame, Qin Yi actually slashed out three streams of flame at the same time.
[Heavenly Secrets Sword Technique: Three Stars Chase the Moon]!
The same sword move, the same attack.
Everyone watched the martial grounds with wide eyes as the six streams of flame collided, a violent shock wave rippling outward from their center.
At that moment, however, Qin Yi realized that Three Stars Chase the Moon should have further variations.
He immediately struck again, cleaving forward with his iron sword and actually shooting out six streams of flame.
Like six enormous flaming pythons, the six streams of flame swept forward along the ground, unstoppable.
Huang Tianrong reacted a moment too slowly. One stream of flaming Sword Qi struck him, leaving his chest as though it had been scorched, and knocked him off the martial platform again.
This sight left everyone present utterly stunned.
Even Gu Yiyi's face was filled with shock. Her large, limpid eyes widened as she stared in disbelief at Qin Yi on the martial platform. "Qin Yi, how do you know Six Stars Across the Sky?"