Madam, please ascend.

Chapter 372 First Test of Skill
Yun Yi stood with his sword held horizontally. The square sword emitted a series of hums, its blade trembled, and a cold light flowed, reflecting the figure of the black-armored puppet that pressed down like a mountain.

He spoke casually, seemingly not finding the upcoming struggle particularly difficult. "Did you have your fortune told today?"

The fortune teller unconsciously fiddled with the abacus in his hand. He never expected that in just a short time since their last meeting, this kid would leap from the Void Returning Realm to the Dao Integration Realm.

Considering his young age, his achievements are second only to Song Xinci and Feng Mo of the righteous path, which is truly remarkable.

"Hehe, I can calculate heaven and earth, life and death and all living beings, but I don't calculate myself."

Why doesn't it count?

Why calculate it?

The two exchanged a few witty remarks, but the armored puppet showed no interest in participating.

The tall puppet's fists suddenly shone with a powerful light, accompanied by a fierce gust of wind as it crashed down. Even before the fists arrived, the ground beneath Yun Yi's feet cracked open.

He lightly touched the ground with his toes, retreated to avoid the sharp edge, and then, with the sword in hand, turned around like a dragon, slashing straight at the wrist joint of the black-armored puppet.

The sound of metal clashing against metal echoed across the lake, but the sword only left a small white mark on the surface of the armor, failing to injure any vital parts.

"Kan represents water!" Taking advantage of the opportunity, the diviner dialed his precious abacus, and the hexagram transformed into a towering wave that rose out of thin air from behind the Xuanjia puppet, then surged and fell towards Yun Yi.

Yun Yi remained unhurried, making a sword incantation with one hand and drawing a circle in the air with his sword in the other, instantly creating a peaceful space with the move "Drawing a Prison on the Ground".

The giant wave crashed into the sword energy as if it had sunk into a quagmire, and the water was shredded by the sword energy, turning into countless water droplets that scattered and fell.

The armored puppet used the water mist as cover, and suddenly its iron fist pierced through the water curtain and sword energy, aiming straight for Yun Yi's face!
At the critical moment, Yun Yi sheathed his sword and stood still, his aura suddenly receding like an abyss. The moment the fist's force reached his body, the armored puppet inexplicably stopped.

An enormous fist remained motionless within that small space.

Instead, Yun Yi lightly stepped forward with his sword, landing on his fist, looking down at the armored puppet with a smile on his face.

Just now, he used the Fangyuan Sword to leave some "insignificant" scratches on the other party's body, but now those marks are emitting bursts of white light, as if they have turned into a prison, controlling the puppet's every move.

Xuanjia was unable to speak or break free, and could only stand there dumbfounded.

The fortune teller was dumbfounded, never expecting that the Xuanjia puppet with the cultivation of the Dao Integration Realm was no match for the opponent.

The most bizarre thing was the ruler-like sword in Yun Yi's hand, and the Great Dao he had merged with.

As the saying goes, "Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will win every battle." It's a pity that the Divine Calculator never expected that a brand-new Dao Integration Realm expert would suddenly appear in Yixian Lake, and he was even more unaware of the opponent's strength.

So now they are constrained and restricted.

Although he suffered a slight loss in the first round, he couldn't afford to lose in verbal combat. He said, "This Xuan Armor Puppet was personally crafted by an Ascension Realm cultivator. Even if your Great Dao is incredibly strange, it can only trap it for a moment."

Yun Yi remained unmoved. "Then why don't you guess whether I can kill you before this puppet breaks free of its restraints?"

Suddenly, a sense of foreboding washed over the fortune teller. It seemed that if he didn't make a move soon, his opponent would gain the upper hand.

He quickly made a hand seal to change the divination result, and instantly the misty water condensed into countless sharp points, all of which pierced towards Yun Yi.

This move posed no threat to Yun Yi, and he easily broke it with a flick of his wrist. However, a wall of fire suddenly appeared in front of him, indicating that the Divine Calculator had changed his tactics once again.

Yun Yi remained unfazed, slicing through the flames with his sword and charging into the fire. When he reappeared, he was on the other side of the wall of fire. The Divine Calculator frowned, feeling the increasing pressure. In his haste, he grabbed several abacus beads and threw them all away.

This precious abacus was his natal treasure after he achieved Dao, and the fact that he is using it in this way shows that he has already sensed killing intent.

“Gen represents a mountain!” The abacus beads shattered, and a ten-zhang-high earthen peak instantly rose from the lake surface.

Yun Yi advanced instead of retreating, his sword drawing a mysterious trajectory in mid-air, and with a single sword strike, he cut the earthen peak that was blocking him and the Divine Calculator in two!

A flash of sword light came with wind and rain. The fortune teller lost the initiative and retreated step by step.

Sword cultivators at the Dao Integration Realm truly deserve to be called the most skilled killers in the world; among those who have ascended, these guys are the most troublesome.

However, in the blink of an eye, the Xuanjia puppet finally broke free from the shackles of Fangyuan Sword Intent, its towering body blocking the Divine Calculator and taking the full force of Yun Yi's sword strike.

The collision of the two great Dao essences caused hundreds of water columns to erupt from Yixian Lake, creating a sky full of splashes. Before these splashes could fall, they were activated by the Divine Calculator using the "Xun for Wind" hexagram, transforming into layers of deadly intent.

The Xuanjia puppet also suddenly launched an attack, opening its huge mouth, within which a sharp and incomparable sword aura condensed!

Yun Yi was startled. He hadn't expected that the sword energy he had struck the Xuanjia puppet earlier would not only be deflected by it, but also absorbed and used for his own purposes.

Yun Yi was naturally more aware of the terrifying power of the sword energy emanating from its mouth.

But in his haste, he was targeted and blocked by two attacks, and in his desperation, he had no choice but to withstand them.

"Keng!"

With a high-pitched sword cry, the Fangyuan Sword was so fast that it tore through space, its light flashing like a new moon.

When it touches the sword energy shooting out from the mouth of the Xuanjia puppet, it is like striking a snake at its vital spot, striking the weakest point of the sword light with each strike, instantly neutralizing the attack.

Immediately afterwards, the Fangyuan sword precisely pierced the gap in the Xuanjia puppet's breastplate, and the Xuanjia puppet showed surprise, its body suddenly stiffening.

This was because the sword "just happened" to strike the puppet's only weakness.

The sound of mechanisms cracking came from its chest cavity. It turned out that Yun Yi had used his sword energy to penetrate the core of the puppet and shred all the puppet threads that Po Jun had buried inside.

That wasn't all. Yun Yi flicked his sword finger, and the Fangyuan Sword drew endless sword intents, some round and some square, instantly enveloping the Xuanjia puppet.

Once the core was broken, its golden body defense also failed, and it was instantly cut into a large number of fragments, which scattered all over the ground.

Even if Po Jun wanted to use the Heavenly Puppet Dao to restart it, it would probably take some effort.

Seeing this, the Divine Calculator finally guessed the most bizarre aspect of Yunyi Dao: he could always find his opponent's weakness.

This includes techniques and the opponent's fatal weaknesses.

Yun Yi was enveloped in boundless sword intent, which blocked all the killing intent generated by the divination, preventing it from getting close.

He drew his sword and approached the retreating fortune teller, as if to say, 'You've calculated everything under heaven, but did you foresee this moment?'

Knowing he was in grave danger, the fortune teller immediately vomited a mouthful of blood, staining the abacus red. The jade beads began to crumble, simultaneously revealing the hexagrams "Qian" and "Kun".

The next moment, the world suddenly reversed, and the lake beneath Yun Yi's feet transformed into the sky. Moreover, the two began to compress and approach each other, determined to obliterate everything within them!
(End of this chapter)