"How did you do it?" Bing Ling's face was pale. The ice crystal formed by all of her zhen Qi had been shattered, and the remaining zhen Qi in her body was less than five percent. Not to mention threatening Ye Chen, even a normal Clasping Yuan Realm warrior would be able to beat her easily. Therefore, she had already lost, and she only wanted to know how Ye Chen had done it.
Putting his Star Scar Sword back into its scabbard, Ye Chen said, "Your ace attack is not perfect, that's all."
He was telling the truth. Bing Ling's ace attack looked powerful and unstoppable, but it was not perfect. There were a lot of flaws in it. Perhaps for others, those flaws were not even flaws at all, because she was moving so fast that it would be hard for her to block it out. Finding the flaws and attacking would be suicide. However, Ye Chen was different. His soul power was powerful enough, and his senses were extremely sensitive. Not only did he see through Bing Ling's weakness, but he also attacked it with his extremely fast sword speed, winning the battle instantly.
"Not perfect?" Bing Ling seemed to be thinking about something.
Ye Chen did not plan to hide it from her, so he said, "The second you performed the Ice Crystal Fist Art, there were obviously a few important zhen Qi routes on your right arm. Normally, these few zhen Qi routes could be hidden and protected by the ice crystal on the outside, so there would not be any flaws or weaknesses. However, I could tell that you had just learned this attack not long ago, and had not mastered it yet. The zhen Qi routes were quite obvious, and the ice crystal defense was only connected to your forearm. I only needed to cut off one of the important zhen Qi routes, and the Ice Crystal Fist Art would be broken on its own."
Hearing Ye Chen, Bing Ling gasped. She was not shocked by the weakness of the Ice Crystal Fist Art, but by her opponent's attack. As one of the top three ace attacks of the Ice Breaking Fist Art, the speed of the fist was extremely fast. Even if there was a weakness, normal people would not be able to compete with it. However, Ye Chen had not only seen through the main zhen Qi routes of the Ice Crystal Fist Art, he had also cut one of them with only one sword attack. How fast would it take to do that, and how much control would it take?
Looking at Ye Chen, Bing Ling shook her head, "No, I did not lose because of the weakness of the Ice Crystal Fist Art. I lost to you."
She had known about the weakness of the Ice Crystal Fist Art since a long time ago. In fact, all martial arts that had not been trained to completion would have weaknesses. It was common knowledge in the true spirit continent, and she knew about it. However, before she met Ye Chen, she did not think that anyone would be able to defeat her by seeing through the weakness. At most, they would be able to beat her with brute force. Therefore, she did not need to worry or be scared. Who would have thought that in this year's Hidden Dragon Rank competitions, there would be a monster like Ye Chen. He was so good at seeing through weaknesses, with such a fast sword speed and control. He was almost a perfect sword artist.
Ye Chen did not say anything. What she had said was pretty much the truth. It did not matter whether he had seen through that weakness or not. The key was whether he could hit it or not. If he could not hit it, then what was the point of seeing through the weakness? As for why he had to cut off his opponent's zhen Qi route, wouldn't it have been better to hit her body? At that time, she was almost defenseless. However, if he had done that, although he could have killed Bing Ling, the Ice Crystal Fist Art would have landed on his body as well. Even if he did not die, he would be disabled. Plus, it was just a competition, not a battle of life and death. There was no need to fight to the death and ruin the other person's hope.
Before she got off the stage, Bing Ling turned around and said, "Thank you for holding back!" Cutting off the zhen Qi route on her right arm was no different from cutting off her right arm. Ye Chen had chosen the method that would cause the least damage to her. No, that sword attack did not hurt her at all.
Ye Chen touched his nose, "No need to thank me. Cutting off the zhen Qi route was my limit."
"Really?" The corner of Bing Ling's mouth twitched. Until now, Ye Chen was still hiding his power. Did he really think that she would not notice?
Whooo!
Letting out a breath, Ye Chen was quite surprised by Bing Ling's power. She had even forced him to use his fast sword attack. Now, he had one less ace up his sleeve.
'Whatever, if I have to expose myself, then so be it. Even if I have to expose myself, there would not be one more person who would be able to dodge this sword attack. It would still be those few people.'
As for the fast sword attack that was derived from the Lone Peak Kill, Ye Chen was quite confident. Up until now, the Lone Peak Kill was no longer just a simple Lone Peak Kill. It contained a lot of things, such as the completed poetic perspective of the Lone Peak Kill, the fast sword perspective that was derived from it, and the slow sword perspective that he had not fully understood yet. Plus, he had learned some things recently, which made this attack quite complicated. It could be used separately, and each of them had their own advantages and disadvantages. It would not be any weaker than the Lone Peak Kill.
For example, the fast sword perspective, he had already trained it to the point where he could not even see the sword light. If he used it alone, it would still be a killing sword attack.
If he could learn the slow sword perspective, then not only would his attacking power increase drastically, the fast sword perspective might even reach a higher level under the stimulation of the slow sword perspective.
Why would the Lone Peak Kill become more and more complicated and more and more powerful? Before, Ye Chen could not figure it out no matter how hard he thought about it. But later on, he realized that it was because of the sword intent.
The Lone Peak Kill was the combined sword movement of the Lone Peak Thirteen Swords, and Ye Chen's sword intent originated from the poetic perspective of the Lone Peak Thirteen Swords. The connection between the two was extremely complicated. With the improvement of the sword intent, the Lone Peak Kill's sword movement and poetic perspective had both reached the completed realm. It would not be able to increase anymore, but it did not mean that the power would not increase as well. Because sometimes, things were not just one-sided, but multi-sided. For example, when a person's potential had reached its limit, it would be impossible for him to increase anymore. At that moment, if you gave him a more powerful weapon, would his power still be the same? Obviously, that was not the case. With a more powerful weapon, his power would continue to increase. It was the same reason why the Lone Peak Kill had created a lot of powerful poetic perspectives. The Lone Peak Kill was the main body, and the fast sword poetic perspective and the slow sword poetic perspective were temporarily attached to it. They were one. Once the fast sword poetic perspective and the slow sword poetic perspective had improved, the power of the Lone Peak Kill would naturally increase as well.
One day, when the fast sword poetic perspective and the slow sword poetic perspective had reached completion, it would be able to break away from the Lone Peak Kill's poetic perspective and become one. It could also be combined to form an even more powerful ace attack.
Compared to the Lone Peak Kill's poetic perspective, the Sky Shattering Clouds' poetic perspective seemed to be a lot purer. Up until now, there were only the poetic perspectives of the clouds and thunder. Plus, the thunder and the clouds already had a huge connection, so it was not like they were attached to each other. It was just a reference.
Because of this, Ye Chen had more or less understood the sword intent above the completed sword intent. The Battle King's sword intent had not disappeared for five hundred years. Obviously, it could not be achieved with just the pure sword intent. There must be something deeper within it, but Ye Chen had not reached that level yet.
All of these thoughts had passed by in just a couple of blinks of an eye. Bing Ling had just walked off the stage. Putting away his Star Scar Sword, Ye Chen looked at the judge.
"Ye Chen wins!"
The original group three judge came back to his senses and hurried to announce the result.
"Do any of you know what happened? Can you tell me?" Over at the audience seating, people started to discuss and ask questions could be heard everywhere.
"How would I know? Why would I ask you?"
"Could it be that Bing Ling did not know how to use that movement, and lost the battle herself?"
"Impossible. Didn't you hear what Bing Ling said? Ye Chen had already shown mercy. The question now is, how did Ye Chen make his move? How did he show mercy? There was no trace at all."
"Bing Ling was already very powerful. She had used all of her ace attacks. Unfortunately, her opponent was Ye Chen. Up until now, he had not lost even once."
"Yeah. Not to mention what had just happened, the fact that he could beat Bing Ling, who had hidden her power quite well, was enough to prove his power. There is no doubt that he is one of the top young warriors."
"Ah, we are also Clasping Yuan Realm warriors. I can't believe that we have become outsiders at this moment. This is really killing us."
"What can we do? Battles between sword artists have always been like this. In the ranking competition, Ye Chen and the 'Heartless Sword Artist' Li Daoxuan would definitely have a battle. I think that battle would be even more mysterious. Both of them are top sword artists at the same level. If they were to fight with all of their power, I am afraid that even people would faint."
The more they could not understand how Ye Chen had made his moves, the more people were interested in Ye Chen. Humans' curiosity was always uncontrollable, just like how mysterious powerful warriors were unforgettable, and young girls were easily attracted by mysterious men.
Li Daoxuan took a deep breath and stabilized his emotions. Ye Chen's fast sword attack had made him lose his focus slightly. For a sword artist, it was a very serious problem. A sword artist would have to be absolutely calm at all times. Even if the sky was falling, they would not even frown.
"Ye Chen, this battle between you and me, bring out all of your power! Only your fast sword attack is not enough to beat me. "This time, Li Daoxuan did not hide his sword intent at all.
In the audience seating, feeling Li Daoxuan's sword intent, the leader of the Heartless Martial School's frown disappeared. He then looked down at Ye Chen, the young sword artist who had surprised him quite a bit.
As a powerful Sea of Souls Realm warrior, the leader of the Heartless Martial School had seen all kinds of powerful sword artists. But at the Clasping Yuan Realm, people who had learned one or two powerful sword art mentalities were not that rare. And up until now, Ye Chen had already performed four different sword art mentalities. There was the cloud mentality, the thunder mentality, the illusion mentality, and now the fast sword mentality. Four in total.
Among the four, the cloud and thunder were the most common ones. Although Ye Chen could increase their power to a very high level, he still could not go beyond that limit after all. The illusion mentality was extremely rare, and he was sure that normal sword arts would not be able to create such a horrifying sword art mentality. It should be something that he had figured out himself. Judging from this, he was even more powerful than Li Daoxuan. As for the last fast sword mentality, it had shocked him even more.
As everyone knew, the simpler something was, the harder it would be to study it. Fast and slow were two extremes. Normally, a fast sword art would not be able to create the fast sword mentality, because most of the fast sword arts were not advanced sword arts. Even the ones that could reach the low-rank Earth Realm were rare, so how could they contain anything special? At most, they could increase the sword speed through the use of zhen Qi and the posture of the sword attack. However, Ye Chen was different. What he had learned was the poetic perspective of fast sword. It was a poetic perspective that had gone beyond the surface. It was no longer limited to the usage of zhen Qi and the posture of throwing out the sword. Instead, it was a more mysterious way of increasing the speed of the sword, reaching one limit after another.
This was extremely horrifying!
"The Heartless Sword Art is a top rank Earth Realm sword art. The emotionless mentality that it has created is extremely horrifying. Combined with the emotionless sword intent, it would be even more powerful. This is Daoxuan's advantage. I hope he can use this advantage to its limit." The leader of the Heartless Martial School still thought that Li Daoxuan had a higher chance of winning, but he did not want Li Daoxuan to be careless, so he had to give it his all.
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