Chapter 43: Seven Steps to Catch a Cicada, Eight Steps to Catch a Mantis

  "This time, I will be the one to win. And do you really think that my Six Steps to Chase the Cicada is limited to just six steps?"

  Yang Huo Xing's expression suddenly became extremely serious: "Actually, my true limit is not six steps to catch a cicada, but seven steps to catch a cicada."

  Seven steps to catch cicadas!

  The surroundings were quiet and still.

  Ling Chui's footwork is often able to take an extra step, which is more formidable than taking a few steps less. However, being able to take five steps to chase the cicada is quite rare, and most people can only manage three or four steps. Only Yang Huixiong alone can take six steps to chase the cicada, looking down on all others.

  Now Yang Huixing surprisingly said that his limit was not six-step hurry, but an even more extreme seven-step hurry, how can people believe this.

  Yang Hu Xing stood on one side of the arena, but just talking was useless, he also had to show his true strength and make Yan Zhen despair.

  Yang Huo Xing was like a leopard storing up its strength at this time.

  His figure is not tall and lean, but muscular. His muscles are tense, with a streamlined distribution, extremely beautiful.

  Yang Huo Xing suddenly moved. In an instant, he took several steps in the void, first step, second step, third step, fourth step, fifth step, sixth step. The previous six steps were something Yang Huo Xing had been able to do long ago, now the key was the seventh step. Yang Huo Xing suddenly took out the seventh step, still extremely fast. This seventh step of his had a feeling of cicada shaking its wings, as if his entire body was about to take flight. The seventh step of the Ling Cicada Step Technique had a name called "Cicada Shaking Its Wings", imitating the moment when a cicada shakes its wings before flying. This step was extremely difficult to master. But now, Yang Huo Xing succeeded.

  In an instant, within seven steps, he slid out a distance of three and a half zhang.

  Yang Hu Xing has really mastered the Seven Steps of Hurrying a Toad!

  Yang Hu Xing stopped his momentum, looked at Yan Zhen and said with a hint of mockery: "Yan Shidi, this is my footwork, it should be pretty good, right? Please point out one or two things for me, but not just empty words, I want you to use your real strength to point out. Let me tell you, wanting to surpass me in footwork is absolutely impossible." His words, combined with his Seven Steps Hurrying the Cicada, were imposing to the extreme.

  Yan Zhen nodded: "Yang Shixiong's Ling Chui step method is indeed practiced to a very high level, and Yan Mouren admires it. However, Yan Zhen also has a step method to ask Yang Shixiong for advice, and let Yang Shixiong understand that his step method is not good at all, and can't compare with mine."

  Yan Zhen stood on one side of the arena, starting to flex his muscles, his hands clasped together and rotating in mid-air, producing a faint cracking sound from his joints. His feet were firmly planted on the ground as he spun around with ease, loosening up his body before making his move.

  Exercising her body, Yan Zhen no longer made a sound. At this moment, the feeling that Yan Zhen gave people was like a sharp sword about to be unsheathed.

  The sword is out of its scabbard! No, it's Yan Zhen who has made a move.

  In an instant, it's the Ling Chui Step.

  First step! Second step! Third step! Fourth step! The first four steps are normal and many people can do it.

  The fifth step! Yan Zhen took the fifth step! Being able to take the fifth step, Yan Zhen's skill in footwork is not weak, no wonder Yan Zhen has the confidence to challenge Yang Hu Xing.

  Sixth step! Yan Zhen took the sixth step! Yan Zhen is also very strong in terms of footwork, even if not as good as Yang Huixing, but it's absolutely the second person in external door footwork. However, taking the seventh step should be extremely difficult. The seventh step, Cicada Vibrating Wings, isn't easy to master. Yang Huixing also took a long time to master it.

  Wait! Yan Zhen took the seventh step, and this seventh step of Yan Zhen's had a feeling of cicada vibrating its wings, as if his entire body was about to take flight. It was precisely the Cicada Vibrating Wings Step. Yan Zhen had actually mastered the Seventh Step of the Ling Cicada Steps! This shocked countless people! Many were secretly wondering in their hearts how he managed to achieve it.

  At this moment, Yan Zhen took another step forward. This last step had a flavor of floating like an immortal, riding the wind and leaving. If the previous step was "man about to fly, cicada flapping its wings", then this step was truly the feeling of man taking flight. As soon as this step was taken, all sounds ceased, and everyone understood that this step was the eighth step of the Ling Cicada Step Method, Eight Steps Chasing Cicadas. Few outer sect disciples had ever managed to practice this set of steps to the point of Eight Steps Chasing Cicadas, but now Yan Zhen had achieved it.

  Yang Hu's seventh step, Treading on the Seventh Step of Cicada's Wing Flapping, was indeed stunning. However, compared to Yan Zhen's eighth step - Eighth Step Rushing Cicada, it was undoubtedly far inferior. The halo was completely overshadowed by Yan Zhen's this one step.

  The position where Yan Zhen stopped was a full 45 feet away from the starting point.

  Yang Huo Xing's gaze was stuck, he simply didn't dare to believe his eyes. Yang Huo Xing had been renowned for his footwork in the outer sect for so many years, but he had only managed to cultivate the Ling Cui Footwork to the seventh step. Now, Yan Zhen had actually cultivated it to the eighth step, which was utterly unbearable.

  "How is this possible!" Yang Hu said in a nearly whispering tone.

  "It's impossible." Yan Zhen looked at Yang Hu Xing, this battle, he had a reason to win.

  This battle, of course, was won by Yan Zhen.

  ……

  A new storm was brewing in the Sword Fighting Arena, and many outer sect disciples were discussing it.

  Two young monks and two young nuns walked into the room. On the edge of each of their sleeves, a "qing" character was embroidered.

  In the Qingfeng Xianmen, there are outer disciples and inner disciples.

  The number of outer disciples is extremely large, with more than 800 people.

  The inner disciples, however, were only about two hundred people.

  Outer disciples cannot represent Qingfeng Xianmen. Although they wear the attire of Qingfeng Xianmen disciples in their daily lives, there is no emblem on it.

  However, inner door disciples can represent Qingfeng Xianmen and travel among the cultivation world. The clothes they wear every day have a "Qing" character embroidered on the sleeves. Fellow cultivators in the cultivation world will immediately recognize that this is an inner door disciple of Qingfeng Xianmen. Whoever sees such an inner door disciple will give them some respect.

  The four inner disciples were named Feng Zixing, Hua Shusheng, Ye Lingshuang and Ye Lingyue. Among them, Ye Lingshuang and Ye Lingyue were twin sisters, both with extremely beautiful faces, oval-shaped faces, light eyebrows, fair skin, high noses, bright red lips, and plump breasts. The young man named Feng Zixing had sharp eyebrows and piercing eyes, exuding a sharp aura. The young man named Hua Shusheng, on the other hand, had a refined and elegant demeanor.

  These four inner disciples together are called Feng Hua Xue Yue.

  As inner disciples, these four individuals were not cultivators of the Qi Refining stage, but rather lofty cultivators of the Foundation Establishment stage.

  Fengzi Xing was a man skilled in exquisite swordsmanship.

  Hua Shu Sheng is a person who likes to raise flowers.

  Ye Lingshu likes playing the sheng.

  Ye Lingyue likes playing the flute.

  These four people, each have their own interests and hobbies.

  And Feng Hua Xue Yue, the four of them arrived here today, also at the invitation of Luo Qingming and Luo Changlao. They came to show off the strength of the inner door disciples, making the outer door disciples envious, and then strive harder to rush towards the inner door disciples.

  When Feng Hua Xue Yue and the four of them entered this room, all four of them carried a hint of arrogance.

  They were four inner disciples, while the outer disciples were far inferior to them. Therefore, when facing the outer disciples, they had a condescending and superior attitude.

  It is also so at this time.

  After Feng Hua Xue Yue's four people sat down, Feng Zi Xing said somewhat arrogantly: "These outer sect disciples are nothing more than this, actually there is nothing worth watching."

  "The outer disciples are indeed too weak, they are just outer disciples." Hua Shusheng said nonchalantly. In fact, to be precise, this kind of arrogance is the norm. Inner disciples facing outer disciples are originally arrogant, and foundation-building cultivators facing qi-refining cultivators also have the qualifications to be arrogant.

  Ye Lingshu shrugged: "No way, Luo Changlao told us to come here and calm the scene, let the outer door disciples see the momentum of the inner door disciples." She sat down casually, and a extremely cold and icy aura burst into the sky.

  Ye Lingbing said casually, "Now the three strongest outer disciples should still be Song Ting, Fang Jingtao and Yang Houxing." Feng Huaxue is an inner disciple, but he also knows about the traditional three strongest outer disciples.

  Feng Hua Xue Yue's four people looked back, and it wasn't until they took a closer look that they realized something was off. Song Ting had been seriously injured, and Yang Hu Xing had been defeated. What was going on? It wasn't until they asked that they found out that among the outer sect disciples, a young man named Yan Zhen had risen to prominence with abilities similar to Hui Xing's. He had used his magical powers to defeat Song Ting, and his footwork had surpassed Yang Hu Xing's. Moreover, he had actually used the most profound eight-step "Hurrying Cicada" technique from the Ling Chui Footwork.

  This made the four proud inner disciples also involuntarily pause for a moment.

  Feng Zixing said casually, "This Yan Zhen is an outer door disciple, barely passable." Feng Zixing's casual evaluation was still somewhat generous. Indeed, the eight-step Hurrying Cicada that drove countless outer door disciples crazy only seemed so-so in the eyes of inner door disciples. Each of the four people from Fenghuaxueyue had long mastered the Lingcicada Step to the realm of Eight-Step Hurrying Cicada. The pride of the inner door disciples was naturally well-founded.

  Up until now, the four major inner door disciples of Feng Hua Xue Yue still didn't take Yan Zhen very seriously.