Immortality starts from the liver proficiency

Chapter 236 I'll Grant You One

Xu Yunfan subconsciously touched the Crimson Fire Dragon-Swallowing Mace on his back, feeling extremely surprised and delighted.

Unexpectedly, the Dragon Scale Armor and the Crimson Fire Dragon-Swallowing Mace, these two divine weapons, were born along with the dream. So...

Xu Yunfan's gaze toward the woman gradually became frivolous.

For the first time, the woman's expression turned somewhat surprised, and her previously dull gaze quickly became lively.

"There's something wrong with you."

"What's wrong?"

Xu Yunfan asked casually, but did not immediately enter the Lin character technique. Instead, he slowly walked towards the sword peak in front of him.

The woman said, "Your cultivation speed is too fast. In less than two years, you have already stepped into the sixth step of martial arts."

Xu Yunfan said in surprise, "So you can actually strike up a conversation. I thought you were just a blockhead."

Hearing Xu Yunfan's teasing, the woman was not angry at all. Perhaps because she had absorbed a lot of spiritual energy, she looked Xu Yunfan up and down.

"Your aptitude is so poor, only slightly better than that pig's. Your martial arts progress will only reach the fourth step at most before stagnation... Have you consumed some rare and precious treasures?"

Xu Yunfan's face darkened, and when he looked at the woman's extremely serious expression, which showed no hint of mockery, his eyes twitched slightly.

The other party was simply stating the facts objectively...

Faced with Xu Yunfan's silence, a faint glint appeared in the woman's eyes. After pondering something, she finally spoke.

"Defeat me, and I will grant you a position."

"Bit?"

This time things have changed. Instead of letting him off the hook, they've granted him a position.

Xu Yunfan was somewhat puzzled, and a thought suddenly occurred to him.

These ancient-level powerhouses tried every means to put themselves into slumber. The woman in front of them even found the extremely precious Ancient Jade Disc mentioned by Li Haomiao and sealed herself in order to transform into an immortal.

But something unexpected happened along the way, and his body changed, leaving him with only a skin containing the secret method of the "Lin" character.

Now, it seems to be slowly recovering thanks to him.

"What position? Explain yourself clearly."

Before Xu Yunfan could finish speaking, the woman stopped talking. Suddenly, her wide sleeves billowed like clouds, and she formed a sword with her fingers together. A wave of sword energy burst forth and surged toward Xu Yunfan.

The three-inch hairpin transformed into a seven-foot bronze sword in the wind, and the taotie pattern on the sword's spine even blew out frost under the moonlight.

"Bring on the mace!"

The Crimson Fire Dragon-Swallowing Mace shot up from behind him and pierced through the air. Xu Yunfan grabbed the dragon's mouth with his shoulder, and the patterns on the heavy mace lit up one by one, trailing streams of fire tails with his movements.

His scapula suddenly shifted, and a powerful force erupted from his flesh, bones, and muscles.

The unique bronze color of the Xuan Steel Hundred Forging Body spiraled up from under his ribs, the arch fascia of his feet trembled as if an earth dragon were turning over, and the black rock beneath his feet exploded with spider web-like cracks.

clang!
The moment the sword energy from the bronze sword collided with the heavy mace, nine spiraling forces exploded from the mace.

The woman's wide sleeves suddenly billowed like sails, and her slender feet lightly touched the end of the sword hilt, deflecting the shockwave that was powerful enough to split mountains and shatter rocks into the solitary peak beneath her feet.

The entire Sword Peak trembled violently, and countless rocks fell like a torrential rain.

Xu Yunfan's pupils suddenly shrank.

The opponent's technique for deflecting force was far superior to his Xuan Steel Hundred Forged Body's technique for dissipating force; it could be said to be a hundred times more sophisticated.

Mud horse!

He roared, and the crimson dragon's coiling power rose up his spine segment by segment, his mercury-like blood surging through his veins like lava.

The second strike, with the force of thunder and lightning, swept across the woman's lower body.

The scales on the waist and abdomen of the dragon scale armor suddenly stood up, and the scorching air waves it spewed out melted the icy sword energy emanating from around the woman into white mist.

However, in that instant, the bronze sword in the woman's hand strangely bypassed the mace's edge, its tip striking the mace seven times, each strike creating a ring of air. "Crack!"

Blood spurted from Xu Yunfan's tiger's mouth as the "Zhen" technique of the Nine Profound Dragon Mace was countered by the seven layers of superimposed soft force.

He stomped his heel on the rock, and the unique force-dissipating ripples of his Xuan Steel Body spread from the sole of his foot, instantly turning the rock surface within a radius of three zhang into dust.

With the aid of his dragon scale armor and the Crimson Fire Dragon-Swallowing Mace, his destructive power alone could easily reach a radius of ten zhang. However, to inflict harm on the mysterious woman before him, he needed to devise a method to concentrate his power without leaking even a fraction of it.
The woman gracefully retreated three zhang, and suddenly frost appeared on the sword's edge.

Sensing danger, Xu Yunfan unleashed thirty-six crescent-shaped scales from his Dragon Scale Armor neckplate.

Almost simultaneously, the cold glint of the bronze sword was already at his throat!
"Zheng!"

The sword's edge rubbed against the reverse scale, producing dazzling sparks.

The woman's eyes flickered slightly, and she finally looked at the armor Xu Yunfan was wearing with a hint of surprise.

The armor the opponent was wearing was quite unusual.

Using the momentum of his charge, Xu Yunfan twisted his waist and exerted force, slashing his heavy mace upwards at the woman's wrist holding the sword.

This move, "Dragon Raises Its Head," contains nine variations, but the thunder and fire of the mace are parried by the retracted sword blade before they can touch the fair wrist.

The sword's edge appeared as light as cotton, yet the sheer force unleashed when it struck the mace head was so powerful that even Xu Yunfan struggled to control it.

The two figures suddenly separated.

Xu Yunfan crashed into three reclining ox stones, shattering them. The scorching breath spewed from the dragon scale armor melted the shattered stones into glass.

The woman's wide sleeves were torn, revealing a red mark on her forearm where she had been grazed by a heavy mace. It was clearly a wound caused by the Nine Profound Dragon-Slaying Mace Technique.

I dealt damage for the first time!

Xu Yunfan was filled with excitement.

"interesting."

The woman smiled for the first time, her sword pointing towards Xu Yunfan's brow.

"With your talent, you have actually achieved such a level, forcing me to use 30% of my sword speed. You are the seventh person in two thousand years to do so."

Before the words were finished, the nine sword peaks suddenly resonated.

The moonlight condensed into a tangible frost on the sword's edge, and Xu Yunfan felt as if his blood was about to freeze, not even having time to think.

He frantically activated the Crimson Dragon Coiling Mountain Force, causing his mercury-infused blood and qi to surge and boil within his body. The white vapor spewing from the gaps in his dragon scales, along with the rising blood and qi, actually condensed into a faint phantom of a crimson dragon above his head.

Without the slightest hesitation, he placed his left hand across his chest, forming a hand seal.

"Pro."

When the "Lin" technique was pushed to its limit, his thoughts suddenly stopped, and the world in Xu Yunfan's eyes suddenly slowed down.

He discerned the dozens of frequencies at which the woman's sword blade trembled, and the Nine Profound Dragon Mace's Breaking Technique evolved accordingly.

The heavy mace, carrying molten blood and energy, crashed down with a deafening roar, the nine layers of shockwaves perfectly neutralizing the sword's trembling force.

"clang!"

The clanging of metal against metal stirred up waves ten feet high in the cold pool.

Xu Yunfan was shaken so badly that blood oozed from his seven orifices, but his eyes remained calm and composed. He further pushed his body to its limits, trying to unleash the full power of every cell.

His arms were bulging with muscles like pythons, and his body, forged from black steel through countless trials, far exceeded its capacity to withstand the strain, and for the first time, spiderweb-like cracks appeared.

The woman's swordplay suddenly accelerated, and the bronze sword created countless afterimages under the moonlight.

His eyes darted around frantically, trying desperately to catch the trajectory of the longsword.

But the real killer move is about to be revealed!
The sword's edge suddenly disappeared.

Xu Yunfan only saw the moonlight refracting into seven halos on the spine of the sword, and the chill had already penetrated his chest.

(End of this chapter)