Huo Yuhao pinched the sword between two fingers and gently moved it away slightly. He turned his head and said awkwardly, "Woodhead, I... I never said I wanted to fight you..."
"You just agreed."
Ji Juechen said coldly, sheathing his longsword, its tip pointing to the ground, his fighting spirit blazing.
Huo Yuhao frowned, quickly took a few steps back, and shouted, "Hey, you blockhead, you're being unreasonable! When did I agree to that?"
Ji Juechen answered, but he kept his long sword tightly in his hand, the sharp sword energy constantly cutting through the surrounding air, making Huo Yuhao's cheeks a little itchy.
"You just asked me to help you down, which means you agreed to it, so let's fight."
Huo Yuhao vehemently denied it, saying, "No, no, no, I only asked you to help me down, how could that be agreeing to a match with you? What kind of logic is that?"
Ji Juechen raised his longsword, squatted down in a bow stance, and assumed a sword posture. His eyes flashed with a cold, sharp light as he said, "You haven't refused, so please enlighten me."
After saying that, Ji Juechen slowly closed his eyes, and six Soul Ring slowly emerged beneath him.
Yellow, purple, black – the best Soul Ring combination.
As the Soul Ring flickered, the rough longsword in Ji Juechen's hand, forged from extraterrestrial meteorite iron, immediately emitted a faint light.
A sharp intent swept over Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao's face immediately turned panicked, and he shouted loudly, "Hey, hey, hey, you... you're called Ji Juechen, right? I never agreed to fight you!"
Jing Ziyan, who was in the distance, also heard Huo Yuhao's shouts and felt a sense of foreboding.
She hadn't expected that Ji Juechen had taken action without Huo Yuhao's consent.
No wonder she felt something was off, and she was wondering why Huo Yuhao wasn't making a move.
Jing Ziyan dared not linger and immediately ran towards the two of them, shouting at Ji Juechen, " Juechen! Ji Juechen! Stop!"
However, Ji Juechen, immersed in his own sword intent, was completely focused and had no other thoughts. At this moment, he only recognized Huo Yuhao as his opponent.
Suddenly!
Ji Juechen's eyes snapped open, his sharp gaze like two swords piercing straight into Huo Yuhao.
Huo Yuhao immediately felt a powerful aura lock onto him.
Sensing this unique sword energy, Huo Yuhao's interest was piqued.
To be honest, in all these years, he has never encountered a master swordsman.
Seeing the sword aura emanating from Ji Juechen, Huo Yuhao actually wanted to try his hand at it.
Immediately, Huo Yuhao's eyes turned slightly purple.
bass!
The sound of swords echoed through the sky.
The air was instantly sliced apart by this sharp sword strike, and the lake water beside it was also directly split apart, as if it had been cut open by an invisible sword.
The sword tip pierced straight towards Huo Yuhao, its momentum unstoppable.
From a distance, Jing Ziyan felt that the surrounding space seemed to fall silent the moment Ji Juechen drew his sword.
Immediately following, there was a loud thud!
The leaves of the trees on the bank looked as if they had been sliced by a sharp weapon, leaving only neat cut surfaces on the entire canopy.
Huo Yuhao, who was originally on the bridge, was instantly thrown off the stone bridge by this terrifying sword strike.
Ji Juechen frowned, feeling a strange unease in his heart. He felt that his sword strike just now was odd.
But seeing Huo Yuhao fall from the stone bridge, the fact felt so real.
Ji Juechen simply gave up thinking about it and decided to review it later.
He suddenly took a step forward with his left foot, and the moment his left foot landed, the entire stone bridge emitted a deep, muffled thud, and the bridge surface trembled violently, as if it might collapse at any moment.
The already turbulent water surface was now covered with large, fine ripples, with layers of splashing water.
Jing Ziyan, who was standing on the shore, stumbled and almost fell to the ground due to the force of the impact.
Ji Juechen leaped into the air, twisting his body mid-air, his sword tip pointing downwards, and thrusting straight at Huo Yuhao on the water below.
With incredible speed, an invisible aura instantly enveloped the black sword, and Ji Juechen, with his sword and man as one, transformed into an invisible giant sword that plunged straight into the water.
Boom boom boom!
In an instant, water burst forth, and under the powerful sword intent, dozens of water columns erupted from the lake surface, suddenly exploding in mid-air.
As their view was blocked, both Jing Ziyan and the teacher who was still monitoring Huo Yuhao in the distance were startled!
Beneath the water's surface, Huo Yuhao gazed at Ji Juechen's all-consuming sword Ji Juechen above his head, a smile playing on his lips.
Actually, he wanted to make a move when Ji Juechen used his first sword, but he couldn't act freely because there were other people around.
One can only roughly judge Ji Juechen's skill level by observing his posture and the angle at which he draws his sword.
In his opinion, Ji Juechen's swordsmanship was quite good, with a strong momentum, a focused and selfless swordsmanship, and a very fast speed.
However, Huo Yuhao immediately saw at least ten flaws and two openings in Ji Juechen's body the moment he drew his sword, and also considered the hundreds of ways he could kill Ji Juechen in an instant.
This was Huo Yuhao's first encounter with a local master swordsman, and his interest led him to observe Ji Juechen's sword techniques.
In the instant that Ji Juechen, Huo Yuhao dodged to the side at a speed invisible to the naked eye of Ji Juechen and the others, directly avoiding his straight thrust.
Then, he leaned back, and in the process, he brought his two right fingers together and transformed them into a sword. In an instant, he lightly swept a finger away from the direction where Ji Juechen had drawn his sword.
With a splash, it landed on the water in one smooth motion.
As Ji Juechen's longsword pierced down from the sky, Huo Yuhao subtly made another slash with his right hand, and the surrounding water surface instantly exploded. Several water columns burst forth, turning into a dense mist that obscured the details of the two.
Just to be on the safe side, the moment he touched Ji Juechen's longsword, he immediately sank to the bottom of the water.
In Ji Juechen's eyes, his sword pierced Huo Yuhao directly into the water.
His entire body was instantly enveloped by the lake water, and Ji Juechen felt his swordplay falter, the power of the longsword in his hand instantly diminishing by more than half.
He immediately sheathed his longsword, and with a few slashes in the water, two or three invisible sword energies broke through the water and attacked downwards fiercely.
Its speed was so great that it even created several vortexes.
Ji Juechen did not relax at all. He steadied himself in the water, his Soul Ring flashing around him. He slashed his black longsword in the water, and sword energy shot out from his body. The dense sword energy directly transformed into a sphere that enveloped him and then spread outward, separating the surrounding lake water.
At the bottom of the water, Huo Yuhao casually dodged Ji Juechen's sword energy, calmly resting on the bottom. He picked up a dead branch from the mud, and with a slight flick of his right hand, blocked the sword energy ball.
Immediately afterwards, the lake water was separated by the sword energy, and Huo Yuhao's figure reappeared in it.
Without the slightest hesitation, Ji Juechen slowly swept the Heavenly Meteorite Iron Sword towards Huo Yuhao Huo Yuhao, while simultaneously rushing towards him.
Ten meters away, a ravine several meters deep appeared on the muddy ground, and it continued to extend and deepen as Ji Juechen slid along!
Amidst the splashing mud and water, Huo Yuhao also moved, turning his body halfway and thrusting the withered branch in his hand forward.
It didn't come with any Soul Skill, nor did it use Soul Power; it was just a single sword strike.
As the jet-black longsword finally swept across, Huo Yuhao's body also turned around, and his simple, unadorned withered branch collided suddenly with the tip of the meteorite iron sword from outer space.
The next instant, a figure burst out of the water and slammed hard onto the shore.