Destiny is ashes

Chapter 415 Five Elements Injury and Sword Qi (23)

That’s all I have to say. As the starting gong sounds, the battle begins.

The moment the gong sounded, Nian Quan drew his sword and slashed out waves of sword energy that were as surging as the sea tide.

The reason why sword cultivators are praised as "the best in fighting" is that under the blessing of sword intent, even simple spiritual power released will be blessed into sword energy comparable to high-lethality magic, and also has a certain ability to break magic. Not only that, the speed of its release is also extremely fast. If ordinary cultivators are not prepared, they will be suppressed by sword cultivators the moment the battle begins.

Nian Quan's sword energy is like the endless flow of a river in the sky. As long as the opponent cannot completely eliminate his sword energy, his subsequent sword energy will draw strength from the previously dissipated sword energy.

Facing Nianquan's attack, Yan Chengju lost the initiative and could only summon the 'Green Water Talisman' to deflect the sword energy with the swirling blue water waves - at the same time, he also began to control his other three magic weapons, with the tripod suspended above his head and a brown-yellow phantom 'Solid Rock Wall' erected, while Chi Ruyi and Bai Fuchen began to automatically cast spells like machine guns, and low-level gold and fire spells such as 'Scorching Wind', 'No Thorns', 'Five Metal Poison Evils', and 'Water-Dividing Flame' fell on Nianquan like rain.

But all this was within Nianquan's expectations. The last time he faced Yan Chengju's magical suppression, he chose to counterattack with attack, using his sword energy to cut a path. But in the end, he lacked spiritual power and was unable to break through Yan Chengju's last stage of defense, the 'Brown Earth Cauldron', and could only be defeated regretfully.

This time, Nian Quan was more seriously injured and had even less spiritual power. He no longer had the capital to fight head-on, so he used his armor-piercing power and gathered all the spiritual power in his body, as if he was going to fight to the death.

Yan Chengju noticed that a vast amount of water spiritual power was gathering in the direction of Nianquan. He thought that this was the move that was most likely to break his defense by Nianquan - his "Five Directions and Five Instruments" were not perfect, and he could not deflect attacks that exceeded the upper limit of the instruments. But since he had anticipated this, he would not be stupid enough to let Nianquan attack.

'Phantom body', Yan Chengju secretly pinched the magic formula, and spiritual mist spread from his four magic weapons. A moment later, five figures of Yan Chengju appeared on the stage, and they were constantly moving quickly. The mighty sword energy that burst out from Nian Quan's armor-piercing true energy instantly penetrated all the low-level spells and swallowed up one of the figures of Yan Chengju, but that was just an illusion created by Bai Fuchen.

At the same time, Yan Chengju also used his extremely skilled spell to perform a compound spell - the blazing golden lava turned into an enormous fireball, and the golden lava fire that was extremely similar to the self-destructive drone smashed towards Nianquan.

It has to be said that Yan Chengju might not be a very good person, but he has strong enough strength. At the Qi Refining Stage, he can control four spiritual instruments of different attributes at the same time, and with a single spiritual root, he can control complex multi-attribute spells, which is enough to prove his talent in instrument cultivation and the Five Elements.

Golden lava fire fell to the ground and Nian Quan's figure was swallowed up. Huo Qingdu stood up from the audience and asked the referee loudly why the game was not stopped. The power of this magic was close to the high level of Qi Refining, enough to burn a house in an instant. Even if Nian Quan had the sword energy to protect his body, he would not survive.

"Don't worry, Nianquan hasn't lost yet."

But An Jing was very calm. He pulled Huo Qing down, and just when Huo Qing looked at the stage in confusion, he discovered that Nian Quan had appeared in the corner on the other side of the ring at some point and was not hit by Yan Chengju.

[It's an illusion! ]

The commentator on the stage also said excitedly: [This is an illusion that contestant Nianquan has never performed before! Yes, everyone, look, contestant Nianquan’s eyes are not ordinary blue pupils, but a kind of spiritual pupils! ]

[Contestant Yan Chengju didn't know when he was caught in an illusion, and his spell didn't hit contestant Nianquan! ]

At this moment, the light of Cangbo Xin's pupils shone brightly in Nian Quan's eyes. The real ability of this pair of spiritual pupils was not illusion, but as the evolution of true spiritual pupils, it could also perform some of the most basic illusions.

However, the power of the golden lava fire was too great. Although he hid aside to avoid a direct attack, his exposed skin was also burned. The golden flames attacked Nian Quan's internal organs, and he had no strength to launch a counterattack for a while.

“You actually managed to dodge it?”

Yan Chengju was extremely surprised at this moment. He did not hold back. If the referee hadn't stopped him, this blow would have been enough to kill any Qi-refining cultivator who was not a body-refining cultivator. But it didn't matter. Nian Quan had used his armor-piercing strength and was injured by the aftermath. He had indeed lost his resistance, and his spiritual power was also a little scarce. He raised his hand and condensed a [Rock Pillar] out of thin air, trying to knock Nian Quan out of the venue before he admitted defeat.

But at this moment, Nianquan smiled. "So that's it, this is the energy of injury and illness, the rotation of the five elements..."

At this moment, Nian Quan's body contained the initial wood evil energy, as well as the injuries from the subsequent gold flame water battles. And just now, the hot earth energy that was the main body of the gold lava fire supplemented the last bit of earth energy.

He raised the sword, and at the moment when the rock pillar was about to hit him, Nian Quan moved. His face suddenly turned pale, so pale that there was no blood at all, like ice. And in his body, which should not have had much spiritual power, a trace of Tianhe sword energy suddenly led the way, sweeping across the meridians and forcing out the stagnant five elements of injury and illness energy.

Suddenly, five dark colors turned into spirals on his sword, condensed into a point, and then rushed out, smashing the rock pillars, and blasted towards Yan Chengju, who had a look of astonishment in his eyes!

“There’s also this kind of usage!”

At this moment, even An Jing in the audience opened his eyes wide - although he was the creator of the Injury Sword Qi, who told him that he was rarely injured, and he had almost never fought with a master of magic like Yan Chengju? He had never had multiple attributes of Injury Qi in his body, so how could he be like Nianquan, who was obviously a Heavenly Water Spiritual Root, but used the Injury Sword Qi to perform the Five Elements Mutual Generation Method?
In his expectation, Nianquan would indeed rely on his injury sword energy to make a comeback, but Nianquan's means of turning the tables were too brilliant - you know, even his opponent Yan Chengju hadn't completed the Five Elements Perfection!
"what!"

Yan Chengju's expression also changed drastically. He had never expected that the enemy, who had completely lost the ability to fight back, would suddenly burst out with a strong sword energy, and this sword energy also vaguely constituted the rotation of the five elements!

In a hurry, he repeatedly activated his magic weapons and put up shields, but the sword energy of injury was too fast and too unexpected. The moment the shields were put up, these spiritual shields were all broken by the higher-level five elements sword energy, like a hot knife cutting butter. Yan Chengju was hit by the five elements injury energy that contained his own attack power. He spat out a mouthful of blood and flew out of the ring in an instant.

"Won!"

Huo Qing on the side stood up and shouted with joy, while An Jing on the other side clenched his fists excitedly: "Although it is a pure Tianshui body, it uses its own body to feel the spiritual energy of other attributes, and then uses the sword energy of injury to control and promote it..."

"In this way, I can borrow the power of others, correct my water body, and perform the Five Elements magic!"

At this moment, An Jing was indeed inspired: "Although I may not be able to withstand these injuries, what about the other way around? If I strengthen my body enough, and let other friends seal their power into my body - then at the critical moment, can I use my own strength to use a move that everyone attacks together?"

"As expected of Nianquan, what a genius, what great ideas! As expected, everyone has something worth learning from!"

At this point, An Jing also understood why there were so many great masters in ancient times who spread their heritage to the public - were they not talented enough? Of course not, millions of ordinary people could not surpass their thinking, but sometimes, walking too fast, walking too straight, or missing some key tributaries may lead to not going far enough.

It is necessary to supplement others' specious ideas and temporary creations based on one's own situation. Just like reading a drama, the author's original intention is clear, but a thousand people have a thousand different understandings of the plot. If you want to truly strengthen a sect's heritage, make it prosperous and have many tributaries, only in this way can the foundation be solid and the sect as a whole can go further.

Even if we just gather a group of people with similar ideas within the sect to discuss and research with each other, it is better than working in isolation.

“Those who truly create a path have absolute confidence in themselves, or absolute faith in this path. They either do not believe that others can surpass them, but instead learn from the knowledge of those who come after them to make themselves stronger. Or, for the sake of their own path, it does not matter if they are not the strongest, and they welcome and even encourage those who come after them to constantly surpass their predecessors.”

An Jing now looks back and thinks with emotion: "The pioneers gathered the wisdom of the masses and initially looked for fellow travelers from their own bloodline. This is the origin of the family. The reason why the sect exists is because one family is not enough, and more people are needed to join the same path and deduce the future together!"

"And the current school system has completely abandoned the family and is open to the whole society." An Jing looked at No. 1 Middle School and No. 3 Middle School in front of him - although there are some problems with the competition within the school, the system itself is good: "This is also a kind of evolution of inheritance."

(End of this chapter)