Chapter 425
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With a thud, the sound echoed through the arena.
On the platform, Zhou Xuan, his chest pierced through, collapsed to the ground, lifeless.
From the start of their duel to its conclusion, it had taken merely four moves.
Four moves, and Ye Wushuang, at the sixth level of the Ningmai realm, had slain Zhou Xuan, who stood at the ninth level and was ranked tenth on the Tayan list!
In this moment, an oppressive silence enveloped the surroundings of the arena.
Sword Intent, achieved at a small level of completion!
At the age of sixteen, at the sixth level of the Ningmai realm, and having reached the Sword Intent’s small level of completion—such a feat had never been witnessed within the Qingyun Empire.
Indeed, never before.
Even Ye Wentian, the legendary figure from the Ye clan five hundred years ago, had only achieved this level of Sword Intent at the age of twenty.
Since then, the Qingyun Empire had not seen another talent of such caliber.
Five hundred years later, a descendant of the Ye clan had emerged, shattering the talent of his ancestor.
This was…
Too incredible to be true.
From a distance, Xiao Jiutian and Meng Yunhe, who had witnessed this scene, exchanged glances.
“Yunhe… this young man… do you think you could be his match?” Xiao Jiutian asked in astonishment. “I… probably not, right?”
As a prodigy of the Xiao clan, Xiao Jiutian had never felt such an overwhelming sense of pressure from anyone, except for the current number one on the Tayan list, Qin Wuxin.
But now, a second person had emerged to give him that same feeling.
Meng Yunhe replied bitterly, “If this guy were at the ninth level of the Ningmai realm, he could probably defeat me in one move, right?”
Xiao Jiutian, however, looked at his close friend seriously and said, “Do you think he needs to reach the ninth level?”
Meng Yunhe was left speechless.
At that moment, Qing Shihua, standing by the arena, was stunned.
“He… killed Zhou Xuan in just four moves…”
Beside her, Qing Shiyu waved her hand dismissively and said, “Sis, this is too normal…”
“What do you really know? What are you hiding from me?” Qing Shihua demanded sternly.
Qing Shiyu stuck out her tongue and said, “I’ve just been learning swordsmanship from Ye Wushuang lately. He’s really strange…”
Strange? How so?
“Every time he teaches me swordsmanship, he gets lost in thought halfway through. Later, I found out that he falls into some kind of enlightenment.”
“Do you know what enlightenment is, Sis?”
Qing Shihua nodded.
Of course she knew.
Whether in the practice of swordsmanship or in the cultivation of one’s realm, sometimes, under certain specific conditions, a martial artist would fall into a state of enlightenment.
In this state, a martial artist’s grasp of their own cultivation becomes incredibly intimate, and progress is made swiftly.
However…
Enlightenment only occurs in true geniuses.
Qing Shihua herself could be considered a genius, but in the nine years since she began cultivating at the age of ten, from the Lianqi realm to the ninth level of the Ningmai realm, she had only experienced enlightenment three times!
“Wait a minute!”
Qing Shihua suddenly said, “You mean he often falls into enlightenment?”
“Yeah,” Qing Shiyu replied directly, “about four or five times in the past half month!”
Qing Shihua was flabbergasted.
She grabbed her sister’s arm and asked, “Does Uncle the Emperor really fear him?”
“I think so…”
Qing Shihua furrowed her brows.
“Hmm?”
But the next moment, Qing Shihua was puzzled again: “You… have reached the seventh level of the Ningmai realm?”
Qing Shiyu smiled slyly and said, “Just lucky…”
“What’s really going on?”
“Well, I’m not quite sure either…” Qing Shiyu said with difficulty. “Ye Wushuang said I have a Pure Yuan Spirit Body, and that I could eventually ascend to become a Saint Body or even an Immortal Body in the future. I asked Father, but he didn’t know either. He said we should ask Uncle the Emperor…”
Pure Yuan Spirit Body?
Qing Shihua had never heard of it either.
“Ye Wushuang discovered that I have a Pure Yuan Spirit Body and taught me how to cultivate it. My progress has been a bit faster these days…”
At this moment, Qing Shihua realized that she couldn’t see through Ye Wushuang anymore, and even her sister had become an enigma to her.
In less than a month, just how much had actually happened?
