Chapter 44: Swordsmanship Competition

  Yan Zhen leaped down from the top of the platform with a single bound.

  The crowd on both sides had already given him a way, and everyone understood that his next goal was to challenge the champion of the swordsmanship arena, Fang Jingtao.

  Fang Jingtao, he is not a simple character.

  Three top masters among the outer door disciples - Song Ting, Yang Hu Xing and Fang Jing Tao, all three are equally famous.

  But in fact, Fang Jingtao and Song Ting, Yang Huixing are somewhat different.

  Song Ting is a 9th-level Qi Practitioner, and Fang Jing Tao is also a 9th-level Qi Practitioner. Although Song Ting's magical powers are slightly stronger by just a tiny bit, Fang Jing Tao's swordsmanship is much stronger than Song Ting's. Fang Jing Tao has fought against Song Ting before and emerged victorious.

  Yang Huixing's footwork is fierce, indeed above Fang Jingtao. But if Yang Huixing didn't escape, he was indeed not Fang Jingtao's opponent. In the Idle Chat Wine House, Fang Jingtao borrowed this to mock Yang Huixing with a sentence, and Yang Huixing had nothing to say.

  In fact, the first master of the outer door disciples is Fang Jingtao. It's just that there are three outer door disciples in the ninth stage of Qi refining, so they are collectively referred to as the three people.

  Fang Jingtao's temperament is also different from Song Ting and Yang Huixing.

  Fang Juntao himself is a true swordsman.

  Fang Jingtao gently stroked his sword, its length of three feet seven inches and width of one inch making it appear slender and long. This sword was called the Lonely Light Sword, carrying a sense of cold, desolate loneliness. His fingers lightly swept over the blade as he sought the strongest feeling of wielding a sword, adjusting his state. Once his state was adjusted, Fang Jingtao would become incredibly powerful. Everyone had their own way of adjusting their state; Yan Zhen's method was eating peanuts or bathing and changing into new clothes while burning incense and stroking his sword.

  He coldly looked down at Yan Zhen below him.

  Yan Zhen also jumped onto the swordsmanship arena.

  To challenge Song Ting, one must first lift a 400-jin stone lock. To challenge Yang Hu Xing, one must quickly pass through a two-zhang long rope. And to challenge the master of the sword arena, Fang Jing Tao, there are also conditions. Next to the sword arena, there is a willow tree.

  It's just springtime, willow leaves are already very long and hanging down, it's like a tree with emerald jade makeup, with thousands of green silk ribbons hanging down.

  The requirement of this stage is very simple - to stab a sword at the willow tree in an instant, and four willow leaves need to be stabbed with one sword. Although the willow leaves are now motionless, they are extremely small, making it not difficult to stab one piece with one sword, but it's extremely hard to stab four pieces. Not many outer disciples can do it.

  Yan's hand grasped the hilt of his sword, and with a flick of his finger, a virtual light shadow emerged from the scabbard. The sword seemed to have transformed into magic, shooting out in a straight line. In an instant, Yan Zhen sheathed his sword, and on the ground of the arena appeared four new willow leaves, having passed the test.

  Next, is the real showdown.

  Swallows fly in front of the stormy waves.

  Yan really put the Ding Guang sword back into its scabbard, Yan's hand grasped the hilt of the sword, and stretched out his left index finger, middle finger, and ring finger, with three fingers pointing to the sky. What does this mean? Some people understood the meaning, guessing that Fang Shengtang was the third person to be defeated by Yan Zhen.

  Fang Jiongtao didn't say a word, he stretched out his middle finger and pointed at Yan Zhen, then turned it downwards. Many people understood the meaning of this action, simply put, it meant that Yan Zhen was still far from being able to compare with him.

  ……

  Yan Zhen looked at Fang Jingtao's hand, carefully observing every move of his opponent. This was very important. While observing the opponent's right hand on one side, Yan Zhen was also thinking that this time he would make good use of the Splitting Sword Source. After all, he had never used this sword source in reality before, and if he didn't use it now, how could he get rid of his addiction to it?

  Yan Zhen only saw Fang Jingbang's figure standing awkwardly, but suddenly a sword came straight at him. This sword was one of the moves in the middle-grade Wind Slashing Sword Technique called Wind Slashing Sword Fast. The sword was very fast, like an arrow. Facing such a sword technique, Yan Zhen placed his hand on the hilt as if by magic, and saw the sword shadow appear in his hand. And countless illusions finally turned into a simple and neat sword, which slashed down straight.

  Yan Zhen's sword seemed to have infinite magical power, as if it had the supreme courage to disperse everything. With a direct slash, it dispersed Fang Jing's incoming sword with a loud "pa" sound. The enormous power caused Fang Jing's offensive to stumble and be disrupted, and his first attack was destroyed in this way.

  Yan Zhen only saw Fang Jing's complexion slightly move, he had already begun to organize the second attack. This second sword used a more confusing sword technique, "Blade Wind Chaos", this sword move, the sword style in the air was ever-changing, and eight sword shadows were transformed, making it impossible to distinguish which one was real and which one was fake, this sword should be able to make Yan Zhen look good.

  Yan Zhen's sword was straightforward and direct, with a simple yet powerful slash that seemed to cleave through everything. The sword suddenly struck the afterimage of Fang Jingtao's Guānguī Sword, shattering it and directly crushing Fang Jingtao's first attack, breaking his second-degree offensive.

  Yan Zhen saw Fang Jingtao's third sword using the Whirlwind Sword Style, which revolved around his opponent without stopping. Once his opponent couldn't keep up with the speed of the whirlwind, he would strike with one sword. It seemed that Fang Jingtao planned to use this move to entangle himself, but unfortunately, he had chosen the wrong opponent. Yan Zhen made a clever judgment and then struck with one move, once again dispersing Fang Jingtao's Whirlwind Sword Style.

  The battle continued, and Yan Zhen unleashed his fourth sword slash, dispersing Fang Jingtao's strange and unpredictable sword.

  Yan Zhen was still a simple slash, dispersing Fang Jingtao's complex and intricate sword.

  Yan Zhen was still a simple slash, dispersing Fang Jingtao's swift sword.

  The seventh sword, the eighth sword, the ninth sword, and the tenth sword were all the same, Yan Zhen easily dispersed Fang Jingtao's any sword move.

  Yan Zhen saw the incredulity in Fang Jingtao's eyes, clearly he couldn't believe that his sword technique was so easily dispersed by Yan Zhen. A cold smile flashed across Yan Zhen's lips, a pitiful insect who didn't know the source of the sword. Yan Zhen also noticed that Fang Jingtao's footsteps changed, and both hands grasped the sword, looking like he wanted to use the top-grade Yellow Rank's Storm Sword Technique. Fang Jingtao's Storm Sword Technique was absolutely better than Ouyang Song's, unfortunately, it was useless. The Storm Sword Technique was easily broken as well.

  Yan Zhen was thinking this way when he saw Fang Jingtao had already drawn his sword, this move was the "Violent Storm Descent" from the Violent Storm Sword Technique. Unfortunately, it was useless. Yan Zhen suddenly struck out and once again broke through the "Violent Storm Descent".

  Yan Zhen saw Fang Jingtao's eyes turn red, and he launched another violent attack. This move was indeed powerful, but what did it matter? Yan Zhen remained calm and simple, using a single slash to disperse his opponent's sword.

  Yan Zhen takes action, chops, chops again, and continues to chop!

  A simple-looking slash, but it completely overpowered the opponent's mid-tier swordsmanship, Wind Slashing Sword Technique and High-Tier swordsmanship, Violent Storm Sword Technique. This was an absolute crushing advantage. The source of the sword faced the sword move, and there was actually such a huge gap.

  This is Yan's true domineering aura!

  This is Yan's true strength!

  One slash and there is no opponent!