The world of martial arts, the immortal swordsman in the mortal realm.

Chapter 119-134, Fierce Battle with Li Qiushui! There's Hope for Inheriting Lingjiu Palace! [Seeking Monthly Tickets!]

Li Qiushui's disfigurement is quite tragic.

But Lu Chen really couldn't feel any sympathy for him.

Because she brought this all on herself.

When Tong Lao was twenty-six years old, she had mastered her divine skills and could have grown up again.

As a result, while she was practicing her martial arts, Li Qiushui shouted loudly behind her, startling Tong Lao into going into a state of demonic possession and completely losing any hope of growing up again.

Li Qiushui was eighteen years old at that time. This was not a childish prank. She was a martial artist herself and knew the taboos of cultivating internal energy. Yet she still did such a thing. It was clear that she had planned it all out and was deliberately trying to harm him.

Given this, it's no wonder that the old woman later retaliated by disfiguring her.

"Senior sister, you're saying I'm the one who falsely accuses you? But if you hadn't bullied me so often back then, would I have resorted to such a tactic?"

"I bullied you? How did I bully you?"

"You are clearly a child, yet you still like Senior Brother Wuyazi. You know I like him too, yet you still compete with me. As the senior sister, you don't even give way to your younger sister. Isn't this bullying me?"

"you……"

The old woman was so angry that she trembled all over, but she was not as eloquent as Li Qiushui, so she could only curse her as a shameless wretch and a vile woman.

Lu Chen was speechless.

However, upon closer reflection, Li Qiushui really is the kind of person who only focuses on her own feelings and believes that the whole world should revolve around her—when she liked Wuyazi, she would even murder her fellow senior sister to compete for him.

When she was angry with him, she would gather countless handsome men to flirt and have fun in front of him, and she could even seduce Wu Yazi's disciples.

After her scheme was exposed, she conspired with Ding Chunqiu to plot against Wuyazi. When she grew tired of Ding Chunqiu, she abandoned him and her daughter, and ran off to Xixia to become a royal concubine, never to be heard from again for many years.

Li Qiushui's actions reveal her philosophy: everyone must consider her feelings, otherwise they are betraying or bullying her.

She can wrong anyone; as long as it satisfies her own needs, she can do anything with a clear conscience and a sense of entitlement.

But no one should ever let her down.

So she could do evil and ruin her senior sister's life, but her senior sister could never take revenge on her.

If someone retaliates and ruins her prized appearance, then that person will be her mortal enemy.

Just then, Li Qiushui said softly:
"My feud with my senior sister has lasted for decades and is now irreconcilable. Young Master Lu, Young Sister Huang, have you thought this through? Do you really want to oppose me and continue to protect her?"

Although Li Qiushui seemed very approachable, Lu Chen shook his head and reminded her:

“Senior, we’ve been working against you for a long time. We killed your daughter Li Qingluo and your former lover Ding Chunqiu.”

"..."

What he said made perfect sense, and Li Qiushui was speechless for a moment.

Lu Chen then said:

"If Senior Li wants to avenge Li Qingluo and Ding Chunqiu, he can do it now."

"Okay, you're very good."

Li Qiushui's voice remained gentle and soft, but her eyes were already so cold they were almost frozen:

"You really think that knowing the Lingbo Weibu (a martial arts technique) and a few sword skills can stop me, Li Qiushui? Today, I will finish you off along with this dwarf!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Li Qiushui raised her hand and unleashed a palm strike that hurtled towards Lu Chen from a distance. However, just as it was about to reach Lu Chen, it suddenly curved and veered away from him, striking Huang Rong behind him instead.

Lu Chen retaliated with a palm strike, a "Dragon Tail Swing," unleashing a palm strike that struck the palm strike that had circled behind him with a loud bang.

The two palm strikes collided, unleashing a surging shockwave that sent sand and gravel flying and dust billowing across the ground.

"That bitch actually mastered the White Rainbow Palm Technique!"

The old woman exclaimed in surprise:
"Be careful! Bai Hong's palm strikes are unpredictable and difficult to defend against. Don't fall for that bitch's sneak attack!"

Huang Rong chuckled:
"Don't worry, Granny Tong, my brother Lu Chen won't give her a chance to plot against me."

As the two were talking, Lu Chen had already swiftly moved in front of Li Qiushui, unleashing his longsword and launching a series of rapid sword strikes at her.

Li Qiushui wielded her crystal dagger with dazzling speed, parrying and deflecting attacks. The dagger clashed repeatedly with the snowflake-patterned iron sword, scattering brilliant sparks like fireworks.

"it is good!"

Lu Chen let out a low shout, and the speed of his thrust suddenly increased. His forearm instantly became a phantom, and his longsword was as fast as a stream of light. Amidst the howling sound of the wind cutting through the air, he swung his sword faster and faster than the last, one sword chasing after another. The dazzling sword light followed one after another, and the layers of sword shadows overlapped, eventually converging into a long river of sword light that rushed towards Li Qiushui without end.

Li Qiushui's eyes changed slightly, and she stepped lightly on the water, trying to avoid Lu Chen's direct attack.

However, Lu Chen's "Sword Shadow Step" followed her like a shadow. No matter how Li Qiushui moved, even if she changed three times in an instant or swept several feet in one leap, Lu Chen could always keep up with her and the long river of sword light always enveloped Li Qiushui.

clang clang clang clang...

The sound of metal clashing was as dense as rain. Li Qiushui used her short dagger to execute swordsmanship, and for a time she managed to defend herself completely, intercepting all of Lu Chen's surging, continuous sword light.

Even so, Li Qiushui was not happy at all.

Because even though her skill level was higher than Lu Chen's, she was forced to retreat repeatedly, getting further and further away from Tong Lao, and was only able to defend herself, unable to even find a chance to retaliate.

Seeing that Lu Chen had launched a fierce attack, forcing Li Qiushui to retreat more than ten feet, Tong Lao couldn't help but exclaim in amazement:

"Young Lu is incredible! Even Grandma has never seen such amazing swordsmanship!"

Huang Rong said smugly:
“My brother Lu Chen is known as the ‘Heavenly Divine Sword’. His swordsmanship is unparalleled in the world. With his sword in hand, even the most skilled masters with superior power cannot defeat him.”

Tong Lao curled her lips and thought to herself, "When I was at my peak, Li Qiushui still had to give way. If I recover to my peak, no matter how strong Lu boy's swordsmanship is, can he still beat me?"
Even if you can't break his swordsmanship for a while, or even if you are forced into a disadvantageous position, you can wear him down with your skill.

Of course, she's currently powerless; if she jumps up, she can only land a punch on Lu Chen's chest, enough to tickle him, so there's no need for her to be stubborn.

the other side.

Lu Chen launched a rapid sword attack, but his swordsmanship suddenly changed, becoming ever-changing and unpredictable.

Sometimes, a seemingly light sword strike can suddenly unleash a powerful force, like a giant iron cone, when Li Qiushui parries it.

Sometimes he moves with effortless ease, seemingly unrestrained and powerful slashes, the sword wind howling like a hurricane, yet the sword feels light and weightless, causing Li Qiushui to repeatedly misplace her strength when parrying, her force missing its mark several times, almost disrupting her posture and footwork, and even causing her true energy to go astray.

Sometimes the longsword would twitch and bend like a serpent, launching a fierce attack from an unbelievable angle; other times the sword light would appear and disappear, as if traversing the void and teleporting, catching Li Qiushui off guard and putting her in grave danger.

Li Qiushui's skill level is higher than Lu Chen's.

But she is not invulnerable or indestructible.

Even a single stab from a longsword imbued with true energy would injure her, or even kill her.

Her lightness skill was not superior, her weapon was inferior, and her swordsmanship was not as good as Lu Chen's.

His skill level wasn't high enough to ignore the difference in technique and forcefully crush Lu Chen.

As a result, she was firmly suppressed by Lu Chen. Nine out of ten moves were defensive, and she could only find an opportunity to counterattack occasionally.

However, his counterattacks using short daggers and sword techniques were completely ineffective against Lu Chen.

He could always spot the flaws in her moves. Even if she could use her skill and reflexes to make up for them in time, her follow-up moves would often be interrupted, and she would be unable to execute any of her hidden moves. In fact, as they exchanged more and more blows, he seemed to become more and more familiar with her martial arts, and his ability to spot and attack her flaws became more and more precise and skillful.

She, however, had absolutely no idea how he used his swordsmanship.

All I could feel was that every sword strike from Lu Chen was unrestrained and spontaneous, completely unbound by any set pattern, yet absolutely in accordance with the principles of swordsmanship. Each strike could adapt to any situation and generate countless exquisite variations at any time.

After exchanging over a thousand blows, Li Qiushui was astonished to discover that Lu Chen had never used a single sword move repeatedly!

Each sword strike is a move that has never been used before. Sometimes, the moves may seem like repetitive, but the application of force and the subsequent changes are completely different, or even opposite.

Such swordsmanship made it impossible for Li Qiushui to rely on her martial arts skills to gradually see through Lu Chen's swordsmanship patterns, devise a way to counter it, and slowly turn the tide.

"At such a young age, he possesses such divine swordsmanship... How can there be such a prodigy in the world? A divine sword from beyond the heavens... Is it truly a divine sword?"

Li Qiushui was deeply shocked.

She was now forced to stay at least thirty feet away from the old woman.

Normally, this distance could be covered in a few leaps, but today, Lu Chen was like a strange peak, a divine sword, standing between her and Tong Lao, turning this short distance into an insurmountable chasm!
Li Qiushui was unwilling to accept this.

Having finally timed it perfectly and seized the opportunity to make the Child Granny young again, how could she easily give it up?

"I don't believe your power is inexhaustible! By forcibly suppressing me like this, your power consumption is definitely greater than mine. With my power, I can outlast you until you're completely exhausted!"

Li Qiushui hardened her heart and tried her best to hold on, attempting to use her superior skill to wear Lu Chen down—this was something she had thought of the same way as her senior sister, Tong Lao.

In the past, this idea wouldn't have been considered wrong.

Lu Chen's power was indeed not limitless. In the past, he used his movement techniques and swordsmanship to suppress experts with stronger power throughout the entire process, but he also consumed more energy than his opponents.

But now he can "shift the stars"!
When Murong Fu faces an opponent whose skill surpasses his, he can at most redirect the force of the opponent's attack to another location to avoid injury. However, he cannot use the opponent's force to counterattack. This is because his meridians are not strong enough. If he were to absorb the opponent's force first and then forcibly reverse and rebound it back, his meridians would be injured after going back and forth twice.

However, thanks to the damage-absorbing ability of his "sword body," Lu Chen could even borrow the strength of opponents stronger than himself, and could even charge up his power multiple times and release it in layers.

Therefore, out of his ten moves, three of them did not use his own strength, but rather borrowed strength from Li Qiushui when the weapons clashed.

I don't expend any energy myself; I use the enemy's strength to counterattack. The enemy, in turn, has to expend energy to defend against the attack launched by my own energy.

With each inflow and outflow, the body's own consumption is reduced by more than 30%.

In addition, his super regeneration also gives him an energy recovery speed that is beyond that of ordinary people.

Li Qiushui wanted to wear him down with her skills, but she saw no hope for at least a day and a night.

Li Qiushui had already sensed that something was wrong.

After a thousand moves, and then another thousand more, Lu Chen was still full of energy and vitality. His movements and footwork remained as fast as a ghost, without the slightest slowing down. His swordsmanship was still ever-changing and unpredictable, as if he hadn't expended any energy at all.

Li Qiushui's heart gradually grew cold.

She felt she had lost all hope of bringing down Lu Chen.

But she was still unwilling to give up.

This might be her last chance to finally settle things with the Child Granny; if she missed it…

Li Qiushui gritted her teeth and, taking advantage of a rapid teleportation opportunity, suddenly threw out the short dagger in her hand.

The crystal-clear dagger transformed into a streak of light, striking towards Lu Chen's heart like lightning. As Lu Chen parried with his sword, Li Qiushui unleashed a barrage of palm strikes.

A torrent of white, rainbow-like palm strikes erupted, hitting directly at the face, striking the ribs from the sides, diagonally at the shoulders and neck, striking downwards at the legs, circling around the back of the head, and even upwards at the jaw...

Li Qiushui displayed the unpredictable and ever-changing nature of Baihong's palm strikes to the fullest. Although she was standing still and unleashing a series of palm strikes, the chaotic palm strikes seemed to be from seven or eight masters surrounding Lu Chen and attacking him from all directions at the same time.

Li Qiushui's palm strikes are also unpredictable in nature, ranging from scorching and fierce like flames to icy and cold like ice, from gentle and silent like shadows to explosive and violent like gunpowder.

This is precisely the wonder of the Lesser Formless Skill: it can simulate all martial arts moves in the world, as well as any kind of force!
Seeing that Li Qiushui had actually used such a method that consumed so much of her true energy, even Tong Lao was taken aback:
"Oh no! Li Qiushui is trying to overpower Lu boy with her internal energy!"

Huang Rong remained calm and composed:
"Don't worry, Granny Tong. Even if my brother Lu Chen's skill level is not as good as Li Qiushui's, his swordsmanship is not so easy to bully."

As he spoke, Lu Chen's longsword trembled, and with a clang, a more than one-foot-long azure sword light burst forth from the tip of the sword!

Sa——

A sudden gust of wind arose, and Lu Chen wielded his sword like the wind. The azure sword light hummed and trembled, fluctuating erratically. Wherever it passed, invisible palm forces exploded in mid-air.

No matter what kind of palm force it was, it could not penetrate within four feet of Lu Chen; all of them were repelled by the azure sword light!

Li Qiushui poured out nearly half of her true energy in one breath, and seeing that Lu Chen was still unharmed, her heart sank to the bottom.

Her face turned ashen, and without uttering a word, she suddenly darted backward.

Lu Chen did not give chase—Li Qiushui's martial arts were too high. To keep her, he would have to use his ultimate sword technique, one that consumed a large amount of his true energy. After that, his true energy would probably be almost depleted.

The people from the Thirty-Six Caves and Seventy-Two Islands are nearby. If several hundred of them rush over before he can catch his breath, Rong'er alone might not be able to withstand them.

Furthermore, Li Qiushui is the enemy that Tonglao hates the most. It's better to wait until Tonglao recovers her strength and then go and take revenge on Li Qiushui herself.

The gains from this battle were also enormous.

Not only did he learn the various sword techniques that Li Qiushui had used, but he also figured out the energy flow path of her "Xiao Wuxiang Gong" - Lu Chen's jurisdiction is now getting wider and wider, no longer limited to sword techniques themselves.

Just as Murong Fu used his sword to perform "Star Shift," which was then learned by Lu Chen, Li Qiushui used "Xiao Wuxiang Gong" to activate various sword techniques and fought him for more than two thousand moves. As a result, not only did he learn her sword techniques, but Lu Chen also figured out her Xiao Wuxiang Gong's breathing techniques perfectly.

Of course, this is also because Lu Chen himself knows the Lesser Formless Skill.

If it were any other opponent at the same level, trying to figure out the fundamental techniques of the "Xiao Wu Xiang Gong" would take more than two thousand moves, probably more than twenty thousand.

At this moment, Lu Chen compared the Qi circulation method he had figured out with what he had learned, and he discovered that Kumārajīva's method was incomplete.

"The conditions for the Great Wheel King to go mad have been added again..."

The missing part will not actually lead to qi deviation; at most, it will prevent the Lesser Formless Skill from reaching its peak and its power from being maximized.

However, Kumārajīva's situation was very special; lacking this part of the practice would have a significant impact on him.

While pondering the method of practice.

Then they heard Granny Tong laugh:

"Rong'er, Lu boy, you not only saved Grandma's life today, but also drove away that bitch Li Qiushui. Hmm, you even brought me news of my junior brother. Grandma is very happy. Tell me, what reward do you want? Gold, silver, and treasures? Divine martial arts manuals? Grandma has it all!"

Huang Rong said with a smile:

"Grandma Tong, how about you let me become the Palace Master of Lingjiu Palace? You'll still be the Heavenly Mountain Grandma, essentially an emperor emeritus, and I'll become the Palace Master of Lingjiu Palace. How about you reward us with that?"

"..."

The old woman was speechless, then laughed and scolded:

"You're too greedy, girl! Ha, if you want to become the master of Lingjiu Palace, first learn the Tianshan Plum Blossom Hand and let your grandma see your comprehension."

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