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Chapter 427: Chapter 60: Taiqing Xuanmen’s Intangible Sword Qi
 

“What’s the matter?” An Zhisu, with a fierce aura, raised her willow brows and said impatiently.

“Just waiting for my junior brothers and sisters to come watch the fight,” Fayuan Zhi said proudly.

Ling Yunpo was speechless; this Senior Brother Fa’s mannerisms were clearly imitating Qiu Changtian.

When playing the role of Qiu Changtian, Fayuan Zhi had been quite familiar with him and had been very polite in their conversations, but who would have thought he was a fan of mine in private, tsk tsk.

However, even if you do want to make a name for yourself, you need to be sure you can defeat Senior Sister An…

The first to come and watch the fight were the Shushan disciples, and gradually more Kunlun disciples arrived, apparently having received the news and come to see Senior Brother Fa show off his skills.

Ling Yunpo even saw Xu Yinglian; Junior Sister Xu came up to the fourth floor quietly from the opposite staircase and found a quiet corner, her gaze crossing the railing and looking down at the field.

Finally, seeing that all the junior brothers and sisters had arrived, Fa Zhiyuan thought it was time to show off his skills and loosened his muscles with a gesture, then burst into laughter,

“Sorry for the wait, let’s begin.”

An Zhisu had been growing impatient and, at his words, drew out the Flying Smoke and Harsh Cold Swords, executing the Cloud-Parting Eight Trigrams Step with just a shimmer of her feet, covering several zhang in an instant.

Fayuan Zhi hadn’t yet reacted when he saw An Zhisu’s figure shimmer again, and she had already rushed to his front, the Flying Smoke Sword slashing down at his head!

Surprised gasps rippled through the crowd outside the arena, as it was generally assumed that when fighting against a Shushan Sword Immortal, everyone would be watching for your Flying Sword to strike, either countering with a Flying Sword of their own or defending with a Magical Treasure.

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But An Zhisu used a stepping technique, a concept so antiquated for the audience that it gave them the illusion of a dream journey back to the ancient times of Body Refinement.

The spectators were simply amazed, but Fayuan Zhi, in the midst of the field, was secretly finding it bitter, because the sudden explosive power of this stepping technique was far faster than the speed of the Flying Sword, so much so that his eyes simply couldn’t keep up!

He had no choice but to use his right hand to control his Flying Sword to intercept, while his left hand secretly curled his fingers, flicking them rapidly.

Taiqing Xuanmen’s Intangible Sword Qi!

This secret technique was as easily wielded as one’s own limbs, and its attacking power was almost on par with that of the ordinary Flying Swords. However, its advantage lay in being colorless and intangible, silent and quiet, undetectable even to the Divine Sense.

Unless one possessed a Magical Treasure offering a 360-degree defensive barrier, there was simply no way to block it. It made for a covert sneak attack… no, more accurately, it was an exquisite secret technique for exploiting vulnerabilities.

Under Fayuan Zhi’s control, that Intangible Sword Qi took a detour and attacked An Zhisu from behind.

An Zhisu saw him fluttering his fingers from the corner of her eye, as if he was controlling a sword, and she instantly got a jolt in her heart. Immediately, the Harsh Cold Sword circled behind her and found itself precisely in the path of the oncoming Intangible Sword Qi.

Fayuan Zhi turned pale with shock on his side and couldn’t pull back in time, causing the Intangible Sword Qi to clash with the Harsh Cold Sword, instantly dissipating into nothingness.

Right after, the Flying Smoke Sword was chopping down again.

This time, Fayuan Zhi’s response was half a beat too slow, because just a half-beat earlier, he had been busy controlling the Intangible Sword Qi.

Seeing that it was already too late to call back his Flying Sword for defense, Fayuan Zhi gritted his teeth and quickly activated the Talisman Scripts on his body.

A Talisman Script from his waist was triggered, forming an invisible wall in the air that blocked the strike from the Flying Smoke Sword.

At the same time, Fayuan Zhi’s hands shook frantically, as if plucking at invisible strings.

In that instant, he had launched twenty streaks of Intangible Sword Qi, attacking An Zhisu from twenty different directions.

You might have been lucky blocking one before, but this time there’s no way you can luck out against twenty!

Ling Yunpo, watching from outside, was getting anxious and nearly blurted out, “Unleash the Daoist Magic!”

He knew all too well how troublesome the Invisible Sword Qi of the Taiqing Xuanmen was. If there were only three or five strands, it was possible to block them by whipping out one’s Flying Sword in a rapid, chaotic defense (in short: the frantic random blocking method). But once the number exceeded ten strands, a complete defense was nearly impossible.

“If Qiu Changtian were here, a single flick of your fingers would be all the incentive I need to use the fastest Immortal Capital Thunder to kill you before you could react,” he mused.

However, Senior Sister An’s attack had been blocked by the Magical Treasure, allowing for the Invisible Sword Qi to be unleashed. At this point, one could only resort to using the Sword Dao Techniques for widespread assault…

No, that’s not right!

Ling Yunpo suddenly realized that An Zhisu was too close to Fayuan Zhi, the distance too short. Before the Sword Dao Techniques could be activated, fear was that the Invisible Sword Qi would already be piercing through her forehead!

Just when he was on tenterhooks, he saw that An Zhisu had reacted once again.

She did not initiate her Sword Dao Techniques. As Ling Yunpo belatedly understood, at such a close distance, the Sword Qi was faster than the Daoist Magic.

She merely shot the Harsh Cold Sword into the air and surrounded herself with the Flying Smoke Sword, swinging it around in a flurry resembling a fierce tempest. Although it seemed as if she was striking at the air, the strikes made a sound like shattering glass.

Did she block it?

In the stands where the high-ranking delegates were seated, many Shushan Disciples were still unclear about what had happened, but the more experienced ones could tell that the Kunlun Cultivator was using some kind of Intangible Sword Qi.

And all these strands of Sword Qi were blocked by the Weed-Cutting Sword Immortal!

Judging by the frequency of the sounds, there were no less than twenty!

How did she do that?

Ling Yunpo’s breathing also halted for a moment, his mind swirling with incredulity.

“It’s the Innate Sword Heart,” the Green Duckweed Sword sighed with profound emotion. “The true Innate Sword Heart…”

“Didn’t her Innate Sword Heart awaken a long time ago?” the Kunlun Mirror asked in surprise.

“Yes, but she was reluctant to use it against her favorite Junior Brother,” said the Green Duckweed Sword somberly. “Watch closely, Sword Master…”

“…That is the true power of the Innate Sword Heart…”

Once again, An Zhisu swung her arms, the Flying Smoke Sword and Harsh Cold Sword, one red, one blue, intertwining to form a net. Regardless of how Fayuan Zhi unleashed the Invisible Sword Qi, it shattered and disintegrated beneath this impervious sword net.

It was as if… she could see the Invisible Sword Qi of the Taiqing Xuanmen!

Fayuan Zhi hastily retreated half a step, flooded with disbelief. However, there wasn’t much time left for him.

Since the Invisible Sword Qi could no longer achieve its stealth effect, the capability for a sneak attack… the ability to exploit weaknesses had also been nullified.

Fayuan Zhi certainly had more tricks up his sleeve, intended for the struggle over the twelve seats of the White Jade Capital. Revealing them too soon would only make him a target of subsequent opponents, but…

Surely, one couldn’t be eliminated in the very first round!

He took a deep breath, feeling all the True Yuan within his Dantian surging forth.

They spun furiously within his Qi Sea, then erupted from the meridians in his limbs and body, transforming into countless strands of Invisible Sword Qi, bombarding everything ahead in a sweeping assault.

The Invisible Thousand Swords Art, a plain-sounding name, but as its literal meaning suggested, when the quantity of Invisible Sword Qi exploded to over ten thousand, any pure swordsmanship response lost its significance, because this was an attack on the level of Daoist Magic.

And an attack at the level of Daoist Magic could only be countered by equally ranked Daoist Magic. This was exactly the advantage of Kunlun Cultivators, and the weakness of Shushan Sword Immortals, for there was a significant gap between their capacities of True Yuan…

Such a thought had just crossed Fayuan Zhi’s mind when immediately afterward, his vision was engulfed by a bright, intense red light, completely obscuring all sight.