Chapter 80: Fame From A Single Battle
“How is that possible!”
“Can someone tell me what just happened?”
“Who on earth are those two?”
The spectators in the viewing area stared at the White Feather Gang limit apprentice who had been taken out. Their eyes were about to pop out. Even the experts like Hou Fei, who had made their names in the wilderness, were dumbstruck, unable to speak for a long time.
An intermediate apprentice being able to oppose a limit apprentice.
Although this was extremely rare in the wilderness, there were some examples. Some wilderness legends had even achieved such feats in their early days.
But someone like Yi Ye Fu Yun, who injured a limit apprentice with a single move, followed by that stunningly beautiful woman who then killed a limit apprentice with one strike, had never appeared in the wilderness.
Not to mention the way that stunning woman killed the limit apprentice.
She clearly carried a third sword on her back, yet at the critical moment it moved on its own, appearing right in the blind spot of the limit apprentice’s vision, chopping down from above. No one could understand how that stunning woman managed to make the long sword move as she wished.
It was as if that stunning woman had an invisible third hand.
If you did not know about this kind of attack method in advance, even a true martial artist who encountered it would likely face certain death.
“Sword control! That is the Sword Control Technique!”
“My god! Isn’t that the kind of means only immortals in novels possess? Is that woman an immortal?”
“Impossible, that is fiction. How could there be immortals in reality? That must be some kind of secret martial skill. Don’t forget some powerful martial artists can also attack from a distance. She most likely has mastered a similar method.”
The spectators stared at the celestial beauty Ye Qinglu, crying out in shock, thinking Ye Qinglu was the immortal from legends, while some well-informed experts suspected that Ye Qinglu had mastered some extremely powerful secret martial skill.
“So this is the foundation of the Phosphor Fire Gang?” Flo looked at the slain limit apprentice, unable to help turning toward Lin Qi in the distance, whose expression was indifferent. Flo became even more certain that the Gray Robe Gang was a major move laid down by the Phosphor Fire Gang.
“How can he be this strong? Did he hold back when he fought me before?” Fischer stared fixedly at Yi Ye Fu Yun in the death match area, still not recovered from Yi Ye Fu Yun’s stunning performance.
In the death match area, Sky Shattering Hammer Bot and Heavy Shield Atley both looked somewhat grim. They were clearly also shocked by the methods Yi Ye Fu Yun and Ye Qinglu had used to kill the limit apprentices.
Leaving aside that Yi Ye Fu Yun, an intermediate apprentice, could unleash power close to their own, Ye Qinglu’s sword control method alone was extremely difficult to deal with. No one knew in what way or at what time that third sword would strike. Especially since it was a B2-level weapon, A6-level armor was almost useless.
In fact, not only were Sky Shattering Hammer Bot and Heavy Shield Atley shaken, even Lin Qi, who knew Ye Qinglu well, had not expected Ye Qinglu to use the mental secret technique in such a way.
Using internal force to control a weapon was just like the legendary Sword Control Technique, only with much less power and range. But it could already be considered its prototype.
As internal force and spiritual power continued to improve, the power, range, and even the number of weapons would likely see a huge increase. By then, with a hundred swords unleashed together, as long as the weapon quality could keep up, no one would be able to block it.
While Lin Qi was marveling at Ye Qinglu’s application of the mental secret technique, Luo Wu Shang in the death match area clearly could not sit still any longer. She directly used the second level of Leopard Shadow Steps, Hunting Shadow. Her speed surged by thirty percent, surpassing the standard quasi-martial artist level, reaching 8 meters per second.
In less than two seconds, she arrived in front of a limit apprentice and thrust forward fiercely with the B2-level standard long sword in her hand.
Martial artist-level sword skill Point Star!
With Point Star at rank five, seventy-five percent proficiency, eleven silver streaks flashed forth. Lightning flickered at the same time, as if a thunder sigil blasted toward that limit apprentice.
This move was also the Point Star formed after Luo Wu Shang fused in Lightning Palm. Although its power did not triple like Spark, it still doubled her strength, and what it boosted even more was speed, directly reaching eleven-star level.
With twice the strength, her original 612 kilograms of power rose so that each thrust had 1836 kilograms of force, which was about the level of strength a limit apprentice could reach using apprentice-level martial skills.
“Trying to kill me? Not that easy!”
The limit apprentice also saw that Luo Wu Shang’s move was extraordinary. His footwork martial skill, Spirit Snake Steps, carried him as if shrinking the ground beneath his feet. In an instant he retreated two meters, moving beyond Luo Wu Shang’s maximum attack range.
But Luo Wu Shang seemed to have anticipated this. She twisted in midair, and the B2-level long sword in her hand swept through the air.
This time everyone saw that under Luo Wu Shang’s slash, the air seemed to be cleaved by a wave of force. It instantly struck the unprepared limit apprentice, pierced through his A6-level armor, ran straight through his body, and even left a sword mark twenty to thirty centimeters long on the ground.
The limit apprentice immediately spat out a mouthful of blood, his heart meridians severed, and collapsed to the ground.
“Sword qi!”
“That is sword qi!”
The many experts in the viewing area looked at the limit apprentice slain in two moves. Their breathing grew rougher as they stared at Luo Wu Shang as if she were a monster.
Sword qi is formless and intangible, so it cannot be blocked.
Normally, it could only be used by sword experts at the martial artist level who spent unknown amounts of time to master sword qi. For a high-level apprentice to display it now was simply unbelievable.
“Is this condensing internal force on the weapon, then releasing it outward?” Lin Qi, unlike the others present, understood very well that Luo Wu Shang’s sword qi was also a use of internal force. It just emphasized the destructive power of internal force more than Ye Qinglu’s control-focused style.
It had to be said that this usage method, unlike martial skills that required time to adjust one’s state, only needed the mind to mobilize internal force, gather it on the sword, and charge it up. It could be used in any state, and even injuries to the body would have little effect. Since sword qi could not be blocked, it was practically the best trump card.
With Luo Wu Shang killing a limit apprentice in two moves, on the other side the two high-level apprentices Fang Zhen and Li Ranxing were also fighting. Li Ranxing had just finished off one limit apprentice, while Fang Zhen was still tangled with another. But with Spark, he had already taken the advantage, and killing his opponent was only a matter of time.
“Still too slow.”
Li Ranxing glanced over, then directly charged toward the two teams led by Luo Wu Shang and Yi Ye Fu Yun, who were quasi-martial artist-level. He sighed softly. He had not expected Luo Wu Shang and Ye Qinglu to have applied the mental secret technique to this extent.
He himself had also developed a prototype. Once he used it, it would be mutual destruction and would definitely affect the subsequent killing of the boss, so he refrained from using it.
As for that, Li Ranxing could only helplessly turn to slay the other experts of the White Feather Gang.
In an instant, the White Feather Gang, who had been in an extremely favorable, almost certain-win position, became the weaker side. Of the four limit apprentices, three were dead and one was wounded. Even three high-level apprentices had died at the hands of a little intermediate apprentice girl.
Those girls held B2-level battle sabers. Facing high-level apprentices wielding A6-level weapons, each swing felled one. The A6-level weapons and high-level apprentices were all cleaved in two with a single stroke. The A6-level weapons were as fragile as paper, baffling many of the high-level apprentices present.
Although an A6-level weapon was far inferior to a B2-level weapon, under normal circumstances it should at least be able to block once or twice. Yet it could not withstand even a single slash from the girls’ B2-level battle sabers at all, as if those B2-level battle sabers were not B2-level but weapons of a higher grade.
Only Lin Qi saw it clearly. Xiao Yuan was using the mental secret technique, treating the weapon as part of her body, letting internal force flow through the battle saber so that each swing was tremendously enhanced, like a chainsaw. As long as something was not as hard as a B2-level battle saber, it could easily be sliced in two.
Aside from the dazzling performance of Xiao Yuan, the other intermediate apprentices present each displayed martial artist-level martial skills. Facing the White Feather Gang’s high-level and intermediate apprentices, who only grasped apprentice-level martial skills, they had an overwhelming advantage.
In less than two minutes of death match, the White Feather Gang’s fifty people were reduced to fewer than twenty. In contrast, of the fifty from the Gray Robe Gang, almost all of the dead were from the Green Sparrow Gang, and thirty-five still remained.
However, when it came to the brutal clashes between ordinary members of the White Feather Gang and the Gray Robe Gang, the spectators focused all their attention on the clashes between the top tier combat power.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Under their mutual cooperation, Sky Shattering Hammer Bot and Heavy Shield Atley were normally strong enough to wipe out a major gang ranked around one hundred. But at this moment the two of them were fighting several members of the Gray Robe Gang to a standstill.
“This boss is really cunning, actually coordinating together.” Twilight of the Gods held a spear and once again used Prairie Fire Spear Technique First Form: Spark.
With triple strength, he unleashed two thousand kilograms of force. But before Heavy Shield Atley, whose massive shield was as tall as himself, it was useless, simply knocked aside. Sky Shattering Hammer Bot took the opportunity to smash down with his great hammer.
But Zhang Qing Wei accurately slashed out, her Rippling Wave Saber colliding head-on with the great hammer.
Zhang Qing Wei’s more than 2400 kilograms of power only made Sky Shattering Hammer Bot’s hands go numb and halted his attack. Zhang Qing Wei herself was forced back three steps before she steadied her body.
“The base strength gap is too big. With the same martial artist-level martial skill, there is no way to compete.” Zhang Qing Wei looked at her trembling battle saber and could not help but sigh at the might of a limit quasi-martial artist.
A limit quasi-martial artist nearly had 1000 kilograms of strength. With about 2 times amplification, it rose directly to nearly 3200 kilograms. If not for the several of them working together, one-on-one they were no match at all.
“The two of them coordinating, one attacking and one defending, leaves us no options. Now we can only fight them with our lives. Otherwise we can kiss this reward goodbye!” Yi Ye Fu Yun looked at the two troublesome bosses and whispered, “Sis, in a moment, do not hold back.”
“Don’t worry, I definitely won’t hold back.” Ye Qinglu nodded.
As soon as Ye Qinglu finished, Yi Ye Fu Yun unleashed the Spiral Demon Spear Kill with no reservations against Heavy Shield Atley.
Luo Wu Shang, Zhang Qing Wei, and Zhao Hu exchanged glances and all launched attacks at Sky Shattering Hammer Bot.
“Useless. You are just going to be worn down to death!”
Heavy Shield Atley watched Yi Ye Fu Yun charge in and rammed forward with his shield again, directly knocking the spear from Yi Ye Fu Yun’s hands. But due to the spiral internal force, Heavy Shield Atley’s heavy shield stalled for a moment, and Yi Ye Fu Yun immediately followed with a Lightning Palm aimed at his chest.
“Overestimating yourself!”
Heavy Shield Atley did not take it head-on. He used a martial skill with one hand to deflect Yi Ye Fu Yun’s Lightning Palm.
Just as Heavy Shield Atley was about to smash Yi Ye Fu Yun to death with his shield, Yi Ye Fu Yun split into two halves, and a B2-level long sword slashed across Heavy Shield Atley’s unguarded head.
“You…”
Heavy Shield Atley was stunned. He had not expected the Gray Robe Gang to even sacrifice their own people just to create an opening to kill him.
At that moment, not only Heavy Shield Atley but also Sky Shattering Hammer Bot at his side was shocked.
As his hammer fell, expecting Zhao Hu to dodge, Zhao Hu instead hugged the great hammer. Zhao Hu died on the spot, but in his last moment, he stopped Sky Shattering Hammer Bot from swinging the hammer. Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qing Wei seized the opportunity: one chopped off the arm Sky Shattering Hammer Bot used to block, and one used sword qi so that together with Zhang Qing Wei’s strike, they took Sky Shattering Hammer Bot down in a single move.
The two from the Gray Robe Gang sold out their teammates without the slightest hesitation from beginning to end, like demons crawling out of hell…
