Chapter 420 - The Most Demanding Battle Since the Special Training! (2/2)
Qin Fen couldn’t see through what Fenghua Danyun was hiding in her smile for a moment. He only felt an icy sensation cruising down his back at high speed, as if it was a premonition for unfortunate events that were about to befall him.
Qin Fen looked at Ferrero in front of him, “Master, can we leave now?”
“Oh?” Ferrero nodded again and again, “Of course.”
As the group exited the housing building, the young martial artists of Building One twenty-two had already waited downstairs.
Today was the first battle after Qin Fen’s special training. This thing was not only known to the young martial artists of Building One twenty-two, but also to the other martial artists who were concerned about Qin Fen. They were also very aware of this matter.
The two heads who also wanted to accept Qin Fen as their disciple were there as well. With the help of the intelligence-savvy people in the Recruitment Department, the news was spread across the corners of the entire Sacred Martial Hall.
The young martial artists in Building One twenty-one also waited early for them downstairs.
As he walked along, Qin Fen found that more martial artists were gathering behind him. Occasionally, some might guess the outcome of today’s battle, wondering if Qin Fen could defeat his opponent as easily as chopping a vegetable. At the same time, the martial artists were also guessing the venue of battle chosen by the Sacred Martial Six-stars.
Going through a variety of buildings, a huge lake appeared in front of everyone. Ferrero also halted his movements at this very moment.
Next to the lake, the projections of the Sacred Martial Six-star were floating in the air. Alongside them gathered a number of martial artists of the Sacred Martial Hall.
At a glance, Qin Fen noticed the two longsword-wielding fourteen-star martial artists among the crowd. Those two must be his opponent for today.
Both the opponents were ordinary-looking men. If you were to dismiss the longswords on their backs that gave out a chilling aura, it would be hard to notice their presence in a crowd.
It’s certainly those two middle-aged and ordinary-looking martial artists. Qin Fen was one hundred percent certain that those two martial artists would be his opponent for today.
Both of these fourteen-star martial artists seemed to be restraining their powers from their body language, unlike the martial artists of approximately eleventh to twelve stars. But for Qin Fen, who had trained his craft into a state of mastery, could immediately notice the battle intent beneath the skins of those martial artists.
“Decent strength.” Qin Fen gently nodded. His face displaying an expression of a senior tutoring their juniors, “Keep practicing and they might be able to attain the state of mastery.”
Although Qin Fen’s voice wasn’t loud enough, he used a little of his true energy to send his message to everyone present by the lake in this quiet confrontation.
Both of the challenging fourteen-star martial artists displayed an uneasy frown. Their eagerness to challenge was mostly extinguished in an instant.
The onlooking audience also nodded their heads in agreement with what Qin Fen said.
The Sacred Martial Six-stars let out a trace of light from their eyes. Qin Fen might have given an ordinary speech, but his speech contained his powerful martial dao aura. As the words left his mouth, he was able to influence the crowd into an agreement and even waver the spirit of his opponents.
At a young age, he had managed to take control of the battlefield with only his words. Ferrero laughed with pride and happiness.
“Attaining a level of mastery doesn’t fully ensure that one can defeat other martial artists that haven’t attained the level of mastery.” Fiend Star from the Sacred Martial Six-stars slowly said, “If a battle was decided with only the state of mastery, then most of the conflicts in the world should be settled by now. The charm of martial dao lies in its unpredictable nature, such as winning an unwinnable fight. It is the very aspect of unpredictability that made up the charm of martial dao.”
Spoken with the same calmness as Qin Fen, except slightly slower, Fiend Star’s speech gave the onlookers the feeling of sudden realization, as shown from their expressions.
Both of the fourteen-star martial artists that were going to fight against Qin Fen had their frowns returning to calmness in an instant as their expressions radiating an aura of them being one with their power.
Ferrero saw slight dissatisfaction in the Sakra’s eyes, who was quietly standing in a distance. There was nothing wrong in Qin Fen giving a speech to his opponents to control the scene before the battle. But Fiend Star, being a non-combatant in this duel had played dirty by speaking up for those fourteen-star martial artists.
Sakra mustered a faint smile as he felt Ferrero looking at him. The smile was understood immediately by Ferrero; Sakra was giving the message that Ferrero didn’t have the right to criticize Fiend Star for playing dirty, as playing dirty was what Ferrero loved to do.
Ferrero shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly. He didn’t care since he had already tricked the Sakra into switching rooms with him. He didn’t believe that the Sakra would not return the favor in the future.
Qin Fen put his hands behind his back as he stepped forward slowly. He did not display any expression of blaming Fiend Star. His intention in controlling the scene through his speech was to test out his abilities. He was satisfied enough since it worked out well.
“Excuse me…” Qin Fen raised his hand and pointed to the lake that was touched by sunlight, “Is this the battlefield?”
Fiend Star floated out from the six-star ranks and said slowly, “This is the battlefield, but it hasn’t been completed yet. It will take some time for it to form completely…”
Just as the voice exited his mouth, a middle-aged martial artist in a silver warrior suit came flying in the air. His hair, eyebrows, beard, and even his pupils were white. From afar, he looked like an old man in retirement age. However, when observed closely, his age wasn’t that much older than Sakra.
There was only a single person in the Sacred Martial Hall with such a maverick figure. Even for those that never met him before knew of his existence.
The Sect Master of the Internal Affairs of the Sacred Martial Hall, the Frost Dragon King, Yan Riguang! He specializes in the training of a neo-martial art known as the Demonic Art of Frozen Nitrogen Compression!
Unlike the Little Dragon King, Yang Lie’s ancient martial art of Xuanming Ice Freezing Divine Art, which had a different form of meridian inside, Yan Riguang’s Demonic Art of Frozen Nitrogen Compression was able to freeze anything outside the human body. With only a strike he was capable of gathering nitrogens in the air to produce a chilling cold. He was also known for his tyrannical ability in freezing an active volcano and make an ice sculpture out of it.
Moreover, due to his constant practice of the Demonic Art of Frozen Nitrogen Compression, Yan Riguang himself was gradually taking on the appearance of a corpse frozen to death.
Floating mid-air, Yan Riguang was like an ice god from the legends. As he looked at everyone below him and waved his left hand, everyone felt the temperature dropping around them, some even instinctively shuddered. The previous lake filled with water and sunlight was covered with a layer of silver.
It was frozen! When Yan Riguang struck, he froze the lake!
Fiend Star let out a faint smile on his face, “Now the battlefield is formed completely. Today’s battlefield will be a battle on the ice. Whoever gets knocked off the lake surface, gets knocked down, surrender, or fall into the water will be counted as defeat.”
Qin Fen gently exhaled a visible heat flow before jumping to the side of the lake and leaning over to touch the frozen lake surface.
This is…? Qin Fen raised his eyebrows. This looked like a crystalline layer of ice on a lake. The thickness of the ice layer shouldn’t be as thick as imagined, as it was probably half an inch at most.
Fighting on this ice layer rendered him impossible to attack with too much power without risking breaking and falling into the ice. The Sacred Martial Six-stars evidently did their research on his past battles before choosing such a peculiar battlefield.
Qin Fen stood up again and turned to look at the two opponents with a slight smile. “Your martial arts should be the Magnetic Flying Sword of the magnetic martial art?”
The onlooking martial artists weren’t that surprised this time. Neo-martial arts really did have a geographical advantage in this terrain, especially for neo-martial arts like the magnetic flying swords that could provide long-range superiority in battle.
“Yes! Wu Ke, Lin Ming! The neo-martial art of the Magnetic Flying Sword Technique!”
The two men roared their voices and circled around the edge of the lake for a few hundred meters before stepping on to the unstable layer of ice.
Qin Fen nodded slightly. Both opponents were still exercising extreme caution and kept their distance even when they held a geographical advantage, “I finally understand why they chose you.”
Qin Fen slowly set foot on the ice layer that wasn’t very solid and stable. The moment he set foot on the ice layer, the ice below his feel gave out a slight ripple, as if they were protesting the weight of Qin Fen which could cause them to collapse at any moment.
Wu Ke, who had a slightly bigger stature extended his arms. The seemingly lone magnetic sword behind his back suddenly split into eight swords like a peacock displaying its feathers, as Wu Ke displayed the swords in a fan shape.
Clang!
One of the Magnetic Flying Swords was unsheathed and flew directly to his feet. Without sparing any moment to recover, the Magnetic Flying Sword had already launched him to a height of ten meters from the ground!
Wu Ke’s hands appeared behind him at the very moment, as Wu Ke looked down at Qin Fen on the ice. The scene resembled the myths and legends of the Shushan swordsman sect.
Magnetic Flying Sword technique!
Compared to ancient martial arts which required the mastery of the Wukong technique at fifteen-stars, the modern martial arts were aided with technology that allowed martial artists to easily attain a level unattainable by ancient martial arts.
Wu Ke looked down on Qin Fen with confidence in his smile. It doesn’t matter even if you’ve become a fifteen-star martial artist. Even if you mastered the Wukong technique at fifteen-stars, you still can’t keep up with the speed of my fourteen-stars technique – the Magnetic Flying Sword technique!
A fourteen-star martial artist bringing down a fifteen-star martial artist was almost impossible under normal circumstances. However, it didn’t mean that such feats were impossible.
Wu Ke was in the “right place”. He looked down at Qin Fen as he smiled calmly. He thought of a mythical legend where the swordsman of Shushan was constantly overlooking the mortals who were unable to fly.
Although stepping and looking down on the weaker ones felt good, how was it comparable to the feeling of Wu Ke winning and looking down on those that were supposedly stronger than him in star power?
Seven sharp flying swords emitted blue electric light visible to the naked eye and quietly floated around his body, the light of the swords gradually locking on to Qin Fen.