Chapter 260: Head Disciple
“Get lost!”
Ning Qi hovered in the air, his voice resounding throughout the plaza.
Everyone stared at him and Ye Chen, their expressions becoming extremely colorful.
Most people had a look of enjoying the show, after all, Ye Chen had only the title of First True Disciple and the identity of a Ye Family member, just these two things worth paying attention to.
Ye Chen was always high and mighty toward those below him, and if there were no interests involved, it was really hard to support such a person.
Only the Ye Family members felt as if they themselves had been insulted, their faces filled with resentment, and Grand Elder Ye Qingtian on the high platform also had an extremely ugly expression.
However, this was a contest between True Disciples right now, so even if he wanted to intervene, the other elders and the Sect Leader would suppress him.
He could only remain silent for the time being and plan slowly afterward.
Not to mention, for this True Disciple ranking, he had already prepared a killing move for Ye Chen.
Ye Chen on the throne of the First True Disciple was scolded to get lost in front of so many people, which was absolutely the first time in his life.
His face changed again and again, sometimes green and sometimes pale, his eyes seeming to spew fire.
Actually, there was no high-and-mighty tone in Ning Qi’s words, not even any emotions, just a statement.
But in Ye Chen’s ears, it was particularly piercing!
Ye Chen recalled being defeated and locked by Ning Qi a year ago, a trace of fear still in his eyes, but in the next moment, anger still took the upper hand.
He stood up directly, his tall figure in green robes shooting into the air like a bolt of purple lightning, standing opposite Ning Qi.
“Junior Brother Ning, isn’t this too much of not putting me, Ye Chen, and the Ye Family in your eyes?”
Ning Qi glanced faintly: “You’re overthinking it.”
Ye Chen was stunned, and so was everyone else.
They only heard Ning Qi continue:
“True Disciple ranking, the able rise and the mediocre fall, that’s all.”
“The able rise and the mediocre fall?”
A denser sinister intent surged in Ye Chen’s eyes, he muttered lowly, then suddenly roared:
“Then let’s see who is able and who is mediocre!”
As Ye Chen’s words fell, he suddenly struck first.
His two spiritual swords were taken by Ning Qi last time, and now he didn’t know when he had found two magic swords of the same attribute, low-grade magic treasures.
Ye Chen controlled the magic swords, rushing toward Ning Qi together.
Above the sky, everyone’s eyes blurred, only seeing wind and thunder flash by, and Ye Chen had already appeared in front of Ning Qi.
Compared to a year ago, Ye Chen’s strength had obviously progressed rapidly as well.
Although the realm was still the same, his mastery of spells had subtly advanced another level.
Two magic swords crossed in an X shape, grasped in the nascent soul giant hand that Ye Chen condensed, with surging spiritual energy, and on the cloudless sky spanning ten thousand li, two layers of clouds suddenly formed.
One green and one purple, the green layered cloud contained fierce gales inside, and the edges seemed to even tear space.
The purple layered cloud had purple lightning densely branching like trees, flashing with heart-stealing thunder light, accompanied by rumbling thunder, with a heaven-shaking momentum.
In an instant, the sky above the plaza changed, as if a tornado and thunderstorm had appeared.
And that tornado and thunderstorm both pointed toward the white-robed figure ahead.
However, that figure didn’t even lift an eyelid, his body standing tall in the sky, like an unchanging immortal stone since ancient times.
Ye Chen’s face lit up with joy, Ning Qi was too arrogant.
His two nascent soul giant hands pushed the tornado and thunderstorm forward, the two crossed magic swords could both attack and defend.
In an instant, the tornado and thunderstorm fused into one, about to envelop Ning Qi.
Rumble!
The thunderstorm exploded, gales rampaged, and the sky above the plaza completely fell into a chaos thunder cloud.
Ning Qi’s figure was no longer visible.
But Ye Chen’s figure, the congregation could still spot it.
Seeing Ye Chen’s spell, everyone naturally understood that he had gone all out right from the start.
He probably knew that holding back was useless, purely wasting spiritual energy and primordial spirit power in vain.
At this moment, Ye Chen seemed to have hit some barrier, his figure in the high air unexpectedly unable to advance.
But the chaos thunder cloud formed by his attack ahead persisted without dispersing, all the energy colliding and exploding within, almost invisible to the naked eye.
Everyone below involuntarily used their spiritual sense to scan inside.
Although many people didn’t like Ye Chen, this move of his lived up to the First True Disciple, many disciples admitted they absolutely couldn’t resist this move, they would be blasted to powder before it!
Just as everyone was on tenterhooks, a beam of five-colored divine light suddenly rose from the chaos thunder cloud.
That five-colored divine light started as just a wisp, but in the blink of an eye, it was like the morning sun breaking through, illuminating and breaking through everything in the world, revealing itself in the thunder cloud.
Dust exhausted, light born, illuminating mountains and rivers with ten thousand flowers!
Ye Chen’s face changed drastically, “How is that possible!”
This strike had been pointed out by Grand Elder Ye Qingtian, anyone in the Nascent Soul Realm encountering it, if not hit, fine, but if hit, they would definitely perish and dao dissipate!
But now…
Why did Ning Qi inside have such a change?
Even if he was strong, even if not perishing and dao dissipating, it was impossible for him to be unharmed inside.
Not only did Ye Chen think so, many elders below were also stunned in a daze.
Vice Sect Master Cang Wanhe nearly plucked out his beard, he thought to himself: “Ning Qi boy’s performance probably has a bit of Void Dao Realm strength.”
Of course, it was just an exaggerated expression, there was a gulf-like gap between Nascent Soul Realm and Void Dao Realm.
Ye Qingtian was like being choked, he hadn’t forgotten what he said to the junior Ye Chen, now the words hadn’t come true, wasn’t it slapping his old face?
As for the other True Disciples, all were dumbfounded, exclaiming godlike in their hearts.
As the five-colored divine light emerged, Ning Qi inside became even more otherworldly like an immortal, standing in the chaos thunder cloud, invulnerable to myriad dharmas.
Not only that, his five-colored divine light was even dissolving the thunder cloud.
Like a thousand-year dark room, one lamp shining, darkness completely gone.
Second True Disciple Jiang Qingxue watched the scene in the sky, her chest heaving unsteadily.
She couldn’t do this, even using her trump card she couldn’t!
What made her feel even more powerless was that a year ago, when Ning Qi dealt with Ye Chen, he had used the five-colored spiritual light giant hand and the five-colored sword qi erupted from the Golden Sun Spirit Sword.
And now?
Ning Qi merely relied on the five-colored light emitted from his own mana to easily withstand and dissolve all of Ye Chen’s attacks.
In the past year, these Top Ten True Disciples had desperately cultivated to maintain their status and to go to the Profound True Secret Realm, progressing rapidly.
But their self-proclaimed rapid progress in front of Ning Qi seemed like the difference between a mortal’s arrow and a cultivator’s flying sword.
Before they could sigh, new changes occurred above the sky again.
Ye Chen saw the five-colored divine light around Ning Qi step by step pushing away the chaos thunder cloud, reaching out toward him.
A fierce light flashed in his eyes, and he fiercely threw out the two magic swords in his hands, even though they only advanced two inches, they were fixed outside Ning Qi’s five-colored divine light.
Ye Chen’s figure had already retreated a hundred meters.
“Explode!”
Two heaven-shaking giant blasts boomed in the sky, surging spiritual energy tides and magic sword fragments splashed, forming ring-shaped ripples that shook the sky into ring-shaped clouds.
Ye Chen actually detonated two upper-grade magic swords at once to deal with Ning Qi.
Although magic swords were magic treasures, not spiritual treasures, the explosive power was not to be underestimated?
Even someone who had just stepped into Void Dao Realm, encountering it at close range, would be in a sorry state, even lightly injured.
Most people on one hand sighed at Ye Chen’s ruthless methods, not hesitating to self-detonate magic swords to win against Ning Qi, on the other hand sighed it was too wasteful.
The vast majority of True Disciples didn’t even have an upper-grade magic treasure in hand, this spendthrift just detonated them like that? Have you considered the feelings of the poor?
But sighs aside, everyone’s attention was always on how Ning Qi would respond.
What they didn’t expect was that Ning Qi facing the magic sword self-detonation was just like the previous chaos thunder cloud.
The killing damage from the self-detonation hit the five-colored divine light on his body surface, from afar it seemed like blowing a breath on an oiled torch, how could it be extinguished?
Seeing this, Ye Chen was also stunned.
Even though he was from the Ye Family, self-detonating two magic swords was very painful, and even more painful was that it didn’t even cause a ripple!
A nascent soul giant hand suddenly separated from Ning Qi’s body, grabbing toward Ye Chen with thunderous speed.
Ye Chen controlled wind and thunder, purple and green colors accompanying him, dodging quickly.
But more and more nascent soul giant hands grabbed toward him, in the blink of an eye densely covering the sky.
He was like a fly in the sky, being swatted and chased by giant hands one after another!
Even though he had the Wind and Thunder Spirit Body, proud in speed, at this moment he realized that continuing like this, he would eventually be caught.
Ye Chen gritted his teeth, and suddenly an exotic treasure leaped out beside him again.
It was shaped like a conch shell, the conch shell opened its mouth, revealing an object inside, unexpectedly a piece of scale armor.
This was the incomplete mid-grade spiritual treasure given to him by the Ye Family, something that couldn’t be used to search for Nascent Soul Realm fundamentals.
Even a genius like Ye Chen, to use it, had to nurture and communicate with primordial spirit and spiritual body, spending massive effort to comprehend before he could use a bit of it.
To ensure his position as First True Disciple, the Ye Family had indeed invested heavily.
After all, Ye Chen’s performance related to the Boundless Sword Sect’s next Sect Leader selection!
Ye Chen reached into the conch shell and took out that piece of scale armor.
The material was like scales from some existence, yet made into scale armor style.
It flickered with green light, not intense, but with its own divine charm.
While dodging the giant hands coming from Ning Qi, Ye Chen pressed that piece of scale armor to his chest!
Thump thump!
Thump thump!
The sky trembled, Ye Chen’s heartbeat amplified, everyone could hear it, like beating immortal drums.
“Ning Qi, I don’t believe this move can’t defeat you!”
His words had just fallen when a nascent soul giant hand grabbed him, dragging his body back in front of Ning Qi.
Ning Qi curiously looked at the now pulsating Ye Chen all over, and said faintly:
“What other moves do you have, hurry up.”
Blood surged to Ye Chen’s face, unsure if it was from being angered by Ning Qi or the effect of that scale armor.
The spiritual energy and primordial spirit power in his body were being absorbed by that scale armor, the scale armor began emitting bright green light, and automatically grew pieces of scales covering Ye Chen’s whole body.
Roar!
Ye Chen let out an angry roar from his mouth, the air waves transmitting across the sky, revealing white trails.
Even the five-colored divine light on Ning Qi’s body was blown to sway.
Suddenly, Ye Chen actually broke free from the nascent soul giant hand grabbing him, his body full of green hurricanes, crashing into Ning Qi.
A green light in the air crashed into the five-colored divine light, leaping dozens of meters, that green light seemed unable to crash through and then curved to stop on one side.
The congregation below all widened their eyes, staring at the current Ye Chen.
At this moment, Ye Chen had actually transformed into a green giant dragon, gradually stretching his body in the air.
That body was entirely composed of spiritual energy and primordial spirit power, lifelike, just gazing at it felt quite offensive.
Unexpectedly, the incomplete mid-grade spiritual treasure Ye Chen took out was dragon scale!
Almost every world had dragon legends, and in the Mountain Sea Realm, dragons were at least Void Dao Realm beings at their weakest.
Some elders stared at Ye Qingtian, not knowing what dogshit luck the Ye Family had to obtain this exotic treasure.
Ye Qingtian didn’t show any smugness, his eyes never leaving the high air, even though Ye Chen used this exotic treasure, his heart was still a bit uneasy now.
Only because Ning Qi was too much of a prodigy!
Ning Qi took Ye Chen’s strike after using the dragon scale and erupting, and wasn’t injured, merely knocked back a distance.
He stared at Ye Chen with interest, guessing what existence used the mid-grade spiritual treasure he used, that scale armor, and what it would be like if complete.
Ye Chen didn’t dare waste time, using this spiritual treasure, every breath was like burning his life.
Transformed into a green giant dragon, wind surged around him, if he himself didn’t have the Wind and Thunder Spirit Body, he fundamentally had no qualification to use it.
Raising his head and roaring again, the thirty-zhang-long green giant dragon swept through the long sky, in the blink of an eye using its massive dragon body to surround Ning Qi within.
At the same time, the green giant dragon opened its giant mouth, biting toward Ning Qi in the center, its four claws also grabbing at the same time, a casual swipe could tear the void.
That wasn’t all, the green giant dragon’s massive body was also tightening and squeezing, its dragon tail like a mountain range, sweeping horizontally toward Ning Qi.
Even more terrifying was that many people seemed to sense a trace of the illusion of the Wind Rule from it, but it hadn’t truly formed.
This scene was shocking enough, the dragon body stirring, even one of the central group peaks of the Boundless Sword Sect, facing this strike, would be completely annihilated.
The True Disciples below watched in shock and fear, only wanting to know how Ning Qi would respond.
When all the green giant dragon’s attacks were about to land on Ning Qi, changes finally appeared on Ning Qi’s body.
Within the five-colored divine light around him, suddenly two more colors appeared, one green and one purple.
In the blink of an eye, they drilled out from behind him, transforming into a pair of massive wings!
The wings were interwoven with green and purple colors, yet the two wings were different.
One wing had green as bone, the bone emanating wind qi, purple as feathers, feathers birthing thunder, the other wing was the opposite, thunder as bone, green wind as feathers.
It was the supernatural power comprehended a year ago—Wind Wings Thunder Feathers!
The wings reached the sky like clouds, from the moment they emerged from Ning Qi’s body, they soared straight up.
The wings flapped, like a pair of sharp scissors, clipping the approaching green giant dragon into multiple segments, scattering into the void.
Ye Chen’s figure fell out from the green giant dragon, plummeting straight down.
Ye Chen glared with a pair of unwilling big eyes, staring fixedly at Ning Qi, never expecting this outcome.
He had used all his means, even deploying the incomplete mid-grade spiritual treasure, yet he lost even faster instead!
Why?
What made him even more frustrated was Ning Qi’s final move!
Ning Qi looked down at him, the remnants of the green giant dragon actually turned into strands of spiritual energy gathering on the Wind Wings Thunder Feathers behind him.
Everyone present was shocked, what did they see?
“Senior Brother Ning is known as the Five Elements Sword Lord, why didn’t we see him use Five Elements Sword Qi?” someone said in confusion.
Someone responded bitterly, “Is it important to dwell on that now? Didn’t you see Senior Brother Ning used wind and thunder power?”
“Yeah, defeating the Wind and Thunder Spirit Body with wind and thunder power, this… I even want to cry for Ye Chen!”
“Senior Brother Ning is too much of a prodigy, now I finally understand why Zi Yang Grand Elder said he is an immortal seed.”
True Person Ziyang, Cang Wanhe and other great powers glanced at each other, excitement in their eyes.
Their Boundless Sword Sect had produced a disciple like Ning Qi, there would definitely be great gains in this Profound True Secret Realm.
Ye Chen smashed onto the plaza below full of frustration, instantly piercing a big pit.
He lay at the bottom of the pit, still gazing at Ning Qi, seeing him retract his mana and sit on the First True Disciple throne that originally belonged to him.
At this moment, Ye Chen felt as if in a dream.
“Damn it, what are you doing, are you going to lose all face of our Ye Family? First is gone, there’s still second!”
Grand Elder Ye Qingtian’s cold shout resounded in Ye Chen’s mind, Ye Chen narrowed his eyes, as if the fierce sun in the sky stung his eyes.
A layer of mist covered his eyes, blinking away, his whole person shot into the air, taking a deep breath.
Ye Chen looked at Jiang Qingxue sitting in the Second True Disciple position, his face gloomy, then said:
“Junior Sister Jiang, please advise!”
Ye Chen’s voice was much lower, before his battle with Ning Qi, the face and Ye Family he mentioned seemed completely forgotten, only one heavy word left in his heart: defeat.
Jiang Qingxue didn’t say much, directly soaring into the air, standing opposite Ye Chen.
Strands of chilliness surged around her, a layer of ice armor covered her body surface, her spiritual sword hovering, covered in white frost.
Ye Chen looked down at the dragon scale on his chest, injecting all the power in his body into it again.
Defeated by Ning Qi, he couldn’t lose again!
He wanted to vent all the frustration of defeat onto Jiang Qingxue.
The green dragon reappeared, and Ye Chen didn’t know if he should thank Ning Qi.
After all, Ning Qi defeated him quickly, leaving him with strength to still use this scale.
Ye Chen didn’t hesitate, the green dragon swept horizontally around his body, attacking Jiang Qingxue with the same move.
Jiang Qingxue in the center sighed slightly, the frost-spewing spiritual sword hovering before her was gripped in her right hand.
On her left hand, within the slender white fingertips, suddenly appeared a hexagonal frost crystal.
Jiang Qingxue pressed that hexagonal frost crystal to her forehead, strands of frost power immediately surged out from her body like a great sea reversing upward, while also spreading flat.
Vaguely, an ice frost giant sword seemed to pierce straight into the sky, freezing the void.
The green giant dragon’s open giant mouth, waving dragon claws, swinging dragon tail, all were frozen, and shattered by the ice frost giant sword!
If not for the scale armor covering Ye Chen’s body, Ye Chen probably wouldn’t escape heavy injury.
With one sword, Ye Chen lost again, his True Disciple sequence directly dropped to third!
Ye Chen nearly spat blood from anger, but was helpless.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Qingxue also had an incomplete mid-grade spiritual treasure.
His mentality was already unstable, two consecutive defeats really struck Ye Chen hard.
Fortunately, the others among the Top Ten True Disciples had no intention of challenging him.
After all, Ye Chen hadn’t lost combat power, whether Ning Qi or Jiang Qingxue, both were quick battles, stopping after one defeat.
Plus the incomplete mid-grade spiritual treasure in his hand, no one went up anymore, not to mention the Ye Family behind him.
Challenging him now, not to mention success, even if unsuccessful, he would probably hold a grudge.
But with no one challenging, the thoughts in everyone’s hearts became much more active.
Ye Chen and Grand Elder Ye Qingtian remained silent, their faces as ugly as could be, not even glancing at the congregation.
Probably knowing that many on site were secretly mocking.
Next, some disciples challenged True Disciples, including fights among the lower-ranked True Disciples.
Until the sun slanted westward, before sinking behind the mountains, the Boundless Sword Sect’s True Disciple ranking finally came to an end.
Ning Qi became the well-deserved First True Disciple, also the youngest and strongest First True Disciple in Boundless Sword Sect history.
Now he had become the Senior Disciple Brother of all Boundless Sword Sect disciples, with even higher prestige than before.
All the Five Elements Peak disciples present were honored, their chests puffed out especially proudly.
The True Disciples scanned the Top Ten True Disciples, Five Elements Peak actually occupied three positions, especially upon seeing Qin Minghao in eighth place, many who had once mocked him regretted it deeply.
Qin Minghao thereby earned the label of having sharp eyes and a clear heart.
Afterward, Sect Leader Jiang Baichuan personally awarded rewards to the ten True Disciples.
Void Dao Purple Gold Pills were distributed on the spot, then the top three True Disciples went to the Boundless Sword Sect treasury, to select sect rewards of magic treasures or spiritual treasures.
This time led by Vice Sect Master Cang Wanhe.
Ning Qi as First True Disciple, rewarded with one low-grade spiritual treasure.
Jiang Qingxue and Ye Chen followed, their second and third place rewards were one tier lower magic treasures, neither cared much, after all, they had even brought out incomplete mid-grade spiritual treasures in the previous battles.
The two casually picked one and left directly.
Before leaving, Jiang Qingxue congratulated Ning Qi and said she would go to Five Elements Peak to exchange in the future, Ning Qi agreed.
Ye Chen truly became silent, ignoring everyone.
Thus, only Cang Wanhe and Ning Qi remained in the treasury.
“Congratulations, Ning Qi boy, this battle of yours probably excited many old guys.”
“Why does Vice Sect Master say so?”
“Of course it’s your performance, making them feel there will be great gains in this Profound True Secret Realm.”
Ning Qi was neither humble nor arrogant, saying: “I will do my best.”
Cang Wanhe patted his shoulder, laughing: “The Sect Leader said, for the spiritual treasure rewarded to you, I will help you reference, select the best one, do you have anything you want? Try to be usable in the Profound True Secret Realm.”
Ning Qi’s eyes flashed, immediately having an idea.
With his comprehension, ordinary low-grade spiritual treasures couldn’t enhance his strength at all, better to select a spiritual sword, preferably the one with the densest Sword Rule Imprint, this way more beneficial to the main body.
