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

Chapter 184, page 199: Flying Martial Arts Showdown! Gods Clash!

To be fair, Li Yuanji's performance today was outstanding.

Even Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng thought that Li Yuanji's performance today was masterful, far exceeding his usual level.

However, Lu Chen's first move, which directly confronted the sharpness of the Xuan Tie spear with his bare hands, showed that his "indestructible body" was not just a rumor. In the end, he used only a single sword aura to knock away Li Yuanji's weapon, clearly demonstrating that his martial arts were more than one level higher than Li Yuanji's.

Li Yuan knew that Li Yuanji's brilliant performance was probably intentionally orchestrated by Lu Chen, who deliberately gave Yuanji the opportunity to shine.

If Lu Chen were to display the legendary ability to simultaneously parry Yin Hou's powerful attacks head-on while killing Qu Ao from behind, and to take Li Mi's head in just a few moves on the battlefield, Li Yuanji would probably not last more than two or three moves against him.

This martial arts competition gave Li Yuan a clearer understanding of Lu Chen's strength, and he couldn't help but feel even more fortunate for his wise decision.

He also completely abandoned any gambler's mentality and started thinking about how to strengthen his relationship with Lu Chen. If he could please Lu Chen and get him to willingly give the He Shi Bi jade to the Tang Dynasty, that would be the best outcome.

Li Yuan glanced casually at Li Xiuning, who was sitting next to Lu Chen and quietly congratulating him on winning the Xuan Tie Lie Ma Spear. He lowered his eyelids to conceal the change in his expression, then looked at Li Yuanji without showing any emotion. Seeing that Li Yuanji was still standing there, head down, fists clenched, looking resentful, he quickly gave Lu Chen a smile.
"Thank you for your mercy, Young Master Lu."

He then rebuked Li Yuanji:

"Yuanji, what are you standing there for? Why don't you thank Young Master Lu for his guidance?"

The last sentence was delivered with internal force, giving Li Yuanji's eardrums a powerful thud.

Li Yuanji shuddered, took a deep breath, suppressed his resentment, clasped his hands in a fist salute to Lu Chen, lowered his head to look at his toes, avoided Lu Chen's gaze, and said in a slightly stiff tone:
"Thank you, Young Master Lu, for showing mercy!"

Lu Chen nodded slightly:

"You are too kind, King Qi."

Li Yuanji let out a sigh of relief and returned to his seat. When he looked at Lian Rou again, he saw that Lian Rou didn't even glance at him, but stared intently at Lu Chen. He felt even more resentful.

At this moment, Yun Shuai, who had long been eager to try out Lu Chen's lightness skill and swordsmanship, suddenly stood up and said:
"Young Master Lu is the number one hero in the Central Plains. I am not very talented, but I have a small reputation in the Western Turks. I wonder if Young Master Lu would be willing to give me some pointers? So that I can also experience the brilliance of Young Master Lu."

"You're too kind, Imperial Preceptor."

Lu Chen, who had only attended the banquet because of Yun Shuai, was naturally overjoyed.
"I, Lu, also wish to experience the brilliance of the Imperial Advisor."

Lu Chen exchanged a smile with Yun Shuai and then said:

"The palace feels cramped. How about we, Grand Preceptor, go outside for a contest?"

Commander Yun laughed:

"That's how it should be."

After symbolically consulting Li Yuan, Commander Yun and Lu Chen immediately left the Liangyi Hall.

Li Yuan laughed heartily:
"We will also go out to watch the battle and witness the unparalleled martial arts of these two masters!"

With that, he rose from his throne and walked out of the palace, escorted by two skilled eunuchs.

The guests followed Li Yuan out of the Liangyi Hall.

On the plaza outside the palace, Lu Chen and Yun Shuai stood facing each other, ten steps apart.

Yun Shuai raised his right hand, and a strange weapon appeared in his palm, shaped like a crescent moon, entirely golden, neither quite a knife nor a sword. He smiled and said:
"Young Master Lu, my apologies!"

After speaking, he moved swiftly, appearing like a wisp of smoke in front of Lu Chen, and slashed at Lu Chen with his curved blade.

Yun Shuai's ultimate skill is called "Bright Sun Blade Technique," which consists of 1,003 moves, each with its own unique mental techniques, body movements, and footwork.

What's most special is that he can unleash ten consecutive strikes with each breath of true energy before needing to breathe again. Therefore, his swordsmanship is as swift as sunlight, and even opponents with greater skill often perish because they cannot keep up with his speed.

At this moment, Yun Shuai launched a preemptive attack, unleashing ten strikes in an instant, followed by another ten.

This incredibly fast swordsmanship, to the onlookers, seemed to be an endless expanse of brilliant golden sunlight, with no discernible path in front or behind, shooting towards Lu Chen like mercury spilling across the ground, penetrating every crevice.

When he drew his sword, Yun Shuai's figure was like a weightless wisp of smoke, constantly changing position.

He never stayed in one place for more than a moment, moving left and right, forward and backward, so fast that it was difficult for the naked eye to catch up. Even the sense of his energy became intermittent. From the perspective of an observer, most guests could not keep up with the rhythm of his lightness skill and blade technique.

Such unparalleled martial arts skills left everyone in awe.

Even Dugu Feng was captivated, realizing that her martial arts skills were probably inferior to Yun Shuai's.

This is not surprising, of course.

Yun Shuai was, after all, the number one expert in the Western Turks. He looked like a middle-aged man, and his personality was not at all old age. He was carefree and cheerful. In fact, he was over sixty years old. He had walked the path of martial arts for more than forty years longer than Dugu Feng. It was normal for his martial arts to be higher than Dugu Feng's at the moment.

But Dugu Feng also had confidence in herself.

Given her current circumstances, it won't be long before her martial arts skills catch up with Commander Yun's.

Bystanders all praised Yun Shuai's martial arts skills, and Lu Chen, who was in the midst of the battle, was also pleasantly surprised.

Yun Shuai's agility and swift swordsmanship are of great benefit to him, making him a rare and formidable opponent.

He roused himself, focused his energy on his sword, and attacked with speed. As he swung his sword, his arm created blurry afterimages, and the sound of the sword cutting through the air was continuous, like a howling wind and a rising tide.

Although the Qi sword was formless, it was as sharp and condensed as a real sword. When it collided with Yun Shuai's curved blade, it produced a dense, crisp, tinkling sound like rain.

Lu Chen's movements were as swift as lightning and as unpredictable as a phantom. He and Yun Shuai chased each other across the open square, flashing back and forth. Gradually, they created a series of afterimages, making it seem as if several pairs of opponents were fighting each other.

Yun Shuai was gradually using all his strength, his body constantly spinning and shifting, trying to find Lu Chen's weakness.

Lu Chen certainly has weaknesses; as long as one is still human, martial arts can never be without flaws.

Yun Shuai could also find Lu Chen's weaknesses, but no matter how fast his blade was, Lu Chen could always move the weakness to another place or turn it into a trap before Yun Shuai's lightning-fast blade, which could strike ten times in an instant, hit it. It was as if he had already seen through Yun Shuai's moves and was familiar with the changes of the "Radiant Sun Blade Technique".

"Anticipating the enemy's moves? The art of swordsmanship? No... the essence should be some kind of extremely keen perception and insight! And a profound understanding of the ultimate principles of martial arts, seeing one thing and knowing a hundred, seeing the beginning of a move and already having a complete grasp of all possible subsequent changes..."

The more Yun Shuai fought, the more alarmed he became.

Not only that.

At the beginning of their exchange, Lu Chen's fast sword was slightly slower than his Radiant Sun Blade Technique.

As the battle progressed, Lu Chen's swordplay grew faster and faster, gradually becoming as dense as a sudden rainstorm and as continuous as a flowing river. Yun Shuai's proud rapid attacks were gradually unable to suppress Lu Chen! "What kind of genius is this? In just a few hundred moves, his martial arts have improved again? No, wait, his Nine Swords in an Instant, why does it feel like it has the shadow of my Radiant Sun Blade Technique?"

Shocked, Yun Shuai used a clash of swords to suddenly leap into the air, covering ten zhang in a single bound, before swooping down again. His golden blade unleashed thousands of golden rays in mid-air, as if a bright sun had risen in the sky, radiating dazzling light. This caused the onlookers to squint and protect their eyes with their inner energy, barely able to look directly at the sky full of golden light.

Even so, they could not discern the changes in Yun Shuai's moves, nor could they tell which of the countless sun-like blades was real and which was fake, or which was in front and which was behind.

Watching Yun Shuai's aerial combo, which resembled "sunshine," and feeling the chilling wind that could split an ordinary person's skin as if they were being torn apart by a thousand knives, Lu Chen laughed heartily:
"Well done!"

With a leap, he soared into the sky against the cascading golden light, his sword energy resembling a rainbow shooting against the heavens, colliding fiercely with the golden light.

Bang bang bang bang bang...

A continuous series of explosive sounds rang out.

The residual force from the collision of sword energy and blade light rained down like a storm, cutting countless cracks into the white marble pavement of the plaza below, and sending up countless fragments and dust.

Using the force of the collision between sword energy and blade light, Lu Chen constantly adjusted his body in the air. As he rushed upward, he circled around to avoid being directly below Yun Shuai where the sharpness was at its peak, and flew around to Yun Shuai's flank, where he thrust his sword forward.

Yun Shuai also made a bizarre move.

With a flick of his arms, his sleeves billowed as his rapidly swooping figure suddenly stopped and turned like a hummingbird, flying diagonally to avoid Lu Chen's sword energy. At the same time, he made a sharp turn in mid-air, flying in a V-shaped trajectory to Lu Chen's back, and then slashed out with his sword.

Lu Chen flicked his sword finger with his backhand, his fleshy finger striking the golden blade from top to bottom. With a clear and resonant clang, Lu Chen used the force of the impact to leap upwards, soaring five or six zhang high, reaching above Yun Shuai, before swooping down like a hawk.

Yun Shuai had not yet exhausted his true energy. Facing Lu Chen who was rushing down, he flapped his arms like a bird flapping its wings, his robes billowing as if inflated, and suddenly flew diagonally away.

Avoiding Lu Chen's diving direction, he slashed at Lu Chen again as Lu Chen passed by him.

Lu Chen flicked his sword, parrying Yun Shuai's attack. Yun Shuai quickly used the force of the collision to catch his breath, then spun around behind Lu Chen and unleashed a series of golden slashes.

Lu Chen remained upside down as he clashed with Yun Shuai, who was standing upright in mid-air. Amidst the booming sounds of their clashing energies, the two used each other's strength to chase each other in the air, sometimes high and sometimes low, engaging in an unbelievable aerial battle!

Logically, after taking off from the ground, the energy should be quickly depleted, but the existence of "true qi" allows the energy of levitation to last for a long time. In fact, true qi alone is not enough. Even with Yun Shuai's extraordinary lightness skill, if he relies solely on his own true qi and has nowhere to borrow strength, he will still have to land to breathe when his true qi is exhausted.

But at this moment, Lu Chen and Yun Shuai can borrow each other's strength. With their lightness skills, as long as they borrow a little bit of strength when they breathe, they can generate new strength and continue to fly.

Yun Shuai was having a great time fighting and flying even more freely.

Although his lightness skill was impressive, allowing him to make sharp turns and leaps without using any leverage, and to fly higher and farther by flapping his arms, there was a limit. Once he ran out of his inner energy, he would have no choice but to land helplessly.

Unfortunately, today I encountered an equally skilled opponent, and through mutual support, we have created this aerial battle scene that resembles a clash between eagles.

If we don't encounter an opponent like Lu Chen again, this scene will never be repeated.

Therefore, Commander Yun decided not to stop until his true energy was exhausted, and wanted to fly to his heart's content.

Lu Chen was also very happy flying.

Not only did he learn the essence of Yun Shuai's Radiant Sun Blade Technique, but he also gradually discovered the essence of his lightness skill through repeated mutual support and mutual improvement. He felt as if he had grown wings and could truly fly flexibly.

The crowd in front of the hall looked up at the aerial battle, seeing that the two had soared to a height of over twenty zhang (approximately 33 meters) and at a height of five or six zhang (approximately 33-4 meters) above the ground, and had not touched the ground for a full quarter of an hour. A thought inevitably arose in their minds:
Gods are fighting!

This is in the Twin Dragons World, a world teeming with experts, possessing numerous extraordinary skills and even legendary tales of "shattering the void."

If this were a low-level martial arts world, Lu Chen and Yun Shuai's performance would truly be regarded as a battle of gods, and onlookers would have to bow down in worship on the spot.

Li Xiuning tilted her long, slender neck back, her eyes fixed on the aerial battle that had lasted for more than half an hour. Her beautiful eyes were filled with shock, a feeling of witnessing a legend come to life, and a new understanding of personal power.

Lian Rou's chest heaved, her eyes sparkling with excitement. She was both thrilled and proud of her father's phenomenal performance today, and deeply moved by Lu Chen's performance, which seemed even more miraculous than the legends.

Dugu Feng crossed her arms over her chest, holding up the large fruit hanging from the slender branch. She looked up at the sky, and although she had witnessed Lu Chen's magic more than once and had followed him to kill Wang Pojun more than once, her eyes still couldn't help but overflow with pride and honor.

In Xiao Feng'er's mind.

Lu Chen is currently only like a god.

One day, he will become a true god.

The aerial battle between Lu Chen and Yun Shuai lasted for nearly fifteen minutes.

However, the consumption of true energy by not landing for so long far exceeded that of normal combat. After a quarter of an hour, Yun Shuai's true energy was almost exhausted, and Lu Chen's was also greatly depleted. So, after a clash of swords, the two were thrown apart and slowly landed.

After landing, the two of them burst into hearty laughter.

"The Imperial Preceptor's lightness skill is unparalleled; I, Lu, admire him greatly."

Lu Chen bowed respectfully. He was never stingy with kindness and politeness towards opponents who could provide him with friendly exchanges and benefit his martial arts path.

Commander Yun returned the greeting and laughed heartily:

"Brother Lu, I have taken the liberty of calling you brother. Your lightness skill is something I have never seen before in my life! Today, you and I have created a legendary tale together!"

He not only had a great time flying today, but also benefited greatly from the competition.

Consciously digesting what he had gained today, he was in a great mood. His lightness skill and martial arts, which were already extremely difficult to improve due to his high level of martial arts, had been greatly enhanced. He found Lu Chen pleasing to the eye no matter what. If it weren't for the large age gap, he would have wanted to become sworn brothers with Lu Chen.

"You two have truly broadened our horizons today!"

Li Yuan clapped his hands and smiled in praise:

"If we hadn't witnessed your martial arts demonstration today, who would have imagined that such extraordinary lightness skills existed in the world?"

The guests echoed their agreement and praised the gesture repeatedly.

It was already dusk, and after watching two exciting martial arts performances, it should have been time for the banquet to reach its climax.

However, Lu Chen had first obtained the Xuan Tie Spear and then had a great battle with Commander Yun. His interest was exhausted, so he took the opportunity to say goodbye.

Li Yuan tried to persuade him to stay a few times, but seeing that he was determined to leave, he did not dare to force him to stay. Instead, he instructed Li Xiuning to escort Lu Chen out of the city.

As Lu Chen and Dugu Feng boarded Li Xiuning's carriage, just as the driver was about to set off, the beaded curtain of the carriage moved, and a fragrant breeze wafted in. It was Lian Rou who lifted the beaded curtain and entered the carriage.

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