Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Mo Tianqiong attacked without holding anything back. He wanted to kill Jiang Chen with a single strike, because it would get him more voice in the fight over the divine palace later on.
Moreover, since Jiang Chen wasn’t using the Dragon Punch Technique, he was courting death challenging Mo Tianqiong.
The Heaven-Rending Palm arose once again and was about to tear Jiang Chen to shreds. But it was at this critical juncture that Jiang Chen drew his sword at a high speed that exceeded anyone’s imagination.
The merciless sword tore apart the Heaven-Rending Palm, and, as its cold light flickered, the body of Mo Tianqiong who was behind the Palm came to a stop as if it had suffered a hit from a lightning bolt. He stood motionless, still wearing a sneer across his mouth. It was quite odd!
HISS!
At this moment, all the startled people in the crowd sucked in their breaths, which gave rise to a sound similar to the noise of a windmill.
It could be seen that Mo Tianqiong was falling. The gash inflicted on his left side was as smooth as the surface of a mirror, and no one could see any blood flowing from it.
A second-rank apex expert had been cut into pieces by a single sword strike.
“This is impossible!” Chang Wei couldn’t help but cry out. He had expected that Jiang Chen’s performance would be outstanding, but he still didn’t expect that he would be this strong.
Even when Jiang Chen used the Dragon Punch to defeat Chong Meng, he had ended up wasting some time doing it. But now, he had managed to kill Mo Tianqiong right after he unsheathed his sword casually.
If Chang Wei hadn’t witnessed this absurd matter with his own eyes, he wouldn’t have believed it.
If even a person such as Chang Wei had this extreme reaction, the other people watching were incredulous.
“The first rank?” The crowd couldn’t help but have such a thought.
But the three ranks had clear realm level divisions, and a person must have reached the peak of the Martial Emperor Realm before getting into the first rank. It was only the peak-stage realm level power that could let one become unchallengeable by people from lower realm levels.
Jiang Chen was only an intermediate-stage Martial Emperor, and thus this matter seemed unreasonable.
However, these people didn’t realize that these rules had been made by the Divine Martial Arts Realm, and it was foreordained that Jiang Chen couldn’t be judged with commonsense rules like these.
“He has surely gotten the divine palace’s secret techniques and extreme martial technique. It’s only due to this that he has become so strong.”
As the crowd was feeling overwhelmed by Jiang Chen’s display, a voice echoed suddenly, transmitted through a person’s power.
Upon hearing these words, an odd look appeared on people’s faces, and their gazes became zealous. Greed would usually make people take risks and provoke them to crazy actions.
As the crowd reflected that they could also get such power upon getting the divine palace, they didn’t move back by even a single step.
Jiang Chen curled his lips and looked at Mo Fan. After his divine soul had awakened, he had become able to discern who was speaking, regardless of which method was used to transmit a voice.
This graceful white-clothed swordsman couldn’t help but reveal his ugly side while confronted with unpleasant facts.
“Do you want to fight me?”
Mo Fan couldn’t believe Jiang Chen could discern that it was he who had spoken, and he clasped his hands behind his back, while wearing a prideful look. His attitude hadn’t changed due to Mo Tianqiong’s miserable death.
“I have said that I will pay you back for that sword strike,” Jiang Chen said coldly.
“I still think that you don’t have the skill to achieve it,” Mo Fan spoke apathetically.
Jiang Chen shook his head. Saying anything further would be only a waste of breath.
“Returning Full Moon!” Mo Fan was also aware of this, which was why he quickly attacked.
Moon-Canvas Sword turned into a magnificent bolt that charged forward and went after Jiang Chen.
“It turned out that it’s like this.”
When Jiang Chen had faced Mo Fan’s sword attack last time, he had found it swift, ferocious, and unstoppable. But, as he looked at it now, he became able to discern that it had the Wind Rule’s Murderous Will and the Metal Rule’s Penetrative Will, while Mo Fan’s Supreme Will had reached the second level. This was why the Moon-Canvas Sword’s power approached a pseudo-immortal sword.
Moreover, Mo Fan’s realm level was at the late stage. Regardless of how one observed him, it would seem like he deserved fully a genius’s title.
But it was a pity that he had run into Jiang Chen.
As Jiang Chen faced such an unstoppable sword strike, he raised the Heavenly Fault Sword and waved it.
“Well?”
Such a seemingly simple movement contained within it the whole world’s power. The lightning, fire, and wind rules’ power flowed out, while the Sword Energy’s power became as vigorous as a towering mountain’s power.
“How could three forces fuse so perfectly with a Supreme Will? This is impossible!”
At such a moment, Mo Fan became bewildered and confused. Once a Sword Doctrine reached the Supreme Will’s formation level, it wouldn’t be impossible to forcefully fuse worldly energy, but this was a bad usage. The correct method of carrying out such a matter has turned those forces into one of the sword technique’s essential elements.
Heaven Destruction and Startling Heaven Sword Moves that were created by Jiang Chen had inadvertently applied such principles.
“An extreme martial technique! This is an extreme martial technique!”
Mo Fan, who had detected that the sword’s power was only becoming greater, figured out everything, and he was so scared that his face turned pale. But he was still mistaken.
This wasn’t an extreme martial technique. It was just Blue Lotus Sword Canon’s primary move.
BANG!
A crisp sound echoed all around, and it was similar to the sound made by a flying stone that had been shattered by an iron club.
When the Heavenly Fault Sword struck the Moon-Canvas Sword, it had turned into a bolt and sent the Moon-Canvas Sword flying, with marks gouged out of it.
“HUMPH!”
Even though Mo Fan was startled, he still sneered. The Returning Full Moon Technique’s crux lay here.
The flying Moon-Canvas Sword streaked across the air and left an arc in it, before its power rose drastically, while its speed rose by several fold. It was like a cold luminous speck that was flying around at high speed.
DING!
Meanwhile, the sound of a hit echoed again, as the Heavenly Fault Sword struck the Moon-Canvas Sword once again and sent it flying.
“Why is he so quick?” Mo Fan’s expression finally changed drastically.
The Moon-Canvas Sword didn’t require anyone’s control and its movement scope was great. It could fly through tricky angles that would catch people off guard. This was why innumerable people had ended up killed by the Returning Full Moon Technique.
But now, it couldn’t deal with Jiang Chen.
“What kind of monster is this guy?”
Upon witnessing this outcome, the white-clothed woman was scared. Only several days had passed since the last time she had seen him, yet Jiang Chen’s transformation was already so great.
“Die!”
It wasn’t as if everyone was just watching the battle. There were some people able to fight who took advantage of the fact that Jiang Chen was confronting Mo Fan to launch a crazy attack.
“Contemptible!” Duan Yun cursed them.
Swordsmen should concentrate fully on their confrontations, and this was why it was a great taboo for onlookers to disturb them, let alone mount such a sneak attack.
However, they still had underestimated Jiang Chen’s speed.
“Instantaneous Sword!” Jiang Chen used a Swiftness Concept along with his Ksana Sword Method to form a new sword move at the last moment.
As electrical arcs flickered in the air, Jiang Chen managed to reach Mo Fan in the twinkling of an eye. He didn’t just evade the other people’s encirclement, he also depended on his sharp sword to corner Mo Fan.
“Sword Dipper Protection!” Mo Fan’s eyes widened, and, at such a critical moment, he used a defensive lesser magical technique.
This was Protective Dipper Energy that contained a Sword Doctrine’s principles. It was firm, hard, and sharp. It could block an enemy’s attacks and also injure them.
CRACK!
However, the Sword DipperProtection was shattered upon slight contact and Jiang Chen’s sword penetrated it and struck his target’s chest. A bloody hole immediately appeared in Mo Fan’s chest, while he was pushed backward by a tremendous force.
COUGH! COUGH! COUGH!
Mo Fan managed to come to a stop only after he was sent flying for more than 10,000 yards. He ended up coughing up blood intensely. The Sword Dipper Protection had still played an important role, and, if he hadn’t had it, he would have lost his life.
“Kill him!”
The other people, whose attacks had hit thin air, didn’t give up, and they charged once again at their target. They encircled Jiang Chen from all directions.
Jiang Chen faced endless attacks with ease, while both he and his sword flickered like stars. He couldn’t be affected or controlled by anything.
Every time Jiang Chen thrust his sword, someone would end up dead.
“He’s too, too strong!”
The onlookers were dumbstruck, and it was difficult for them to get over this and accept it.
