Who taught him to practice swordsmanship like this?

Master Shi Yan was extremely curious about Su Baichen. He wanted to understand Su Baichen's lineage and also wanted to find an opportunity to make up for the deficiencies in his own swordsmanship. However, at this moment, he realized even more clearly that Su Baichen didn't have any fixed swordsmanship at all!

He activated "Suppressing the Mountain," but it couldn't completely stop the Qingxuan Sword Formation. It only slowed down the sword energy, allowing him to calmly swing his sword to defend. A touch of dark yellow appeared on the spirit sword's mountain-carved surface. This was a pure earth-elemental sword energy enhancement, entirely compressed into the sword by "Suppressing the Mountain," and had nothing special about it.

Yet, this very sword energy easily shattered Jian Liuli's Qingxuan sword energy one by one.

Seeing this, Jian Liuli quickly manipulated her sword energy to retreat, and then looked at Su Baichen's "turtle shell" without knowing where to start.

To be honest, even Su Baichen himself did not expect that the combined use of Earth Suppression and Earth Bearing, which he had comprehended, would be so overpowered. It was as if he had fully utilized his own stats!

Indeed, this is a skill similar to "Suppressing the Mountain," but the problem is that in actual combat, he also has to bear the pressure brought by the suppression! However, with the support of earth, he can reduce the pressure brought by the suppression of earth to a certain extent.

However, Su Baichen keenly sensed that this move was far from being perfected!

He was able to do this only because he obtained the true meaning of Nanshan and Taishan. There are still three of the five mountains in the world. What would it be like if he obtained the true meaning of all five mountains?

Su Baichen was filled with anticipation, feeling as if he were facing an unprecedented challenge.

So now, how should Jian Liuli break Su Baichen's "Zhenyue"?

Her idea was simple: as a sword cultivator who embodies the Five Elements, she also possessed the Five Elements within her heart.

And what restrains the Earth element is naturally the Wood element.

The Qingxuan Sword Qi in her hand was originally attribute-less, but as she slowly exhaled, it turned a woody green. Su Baichen's expression turned serious; he knew his challenge was about to begin.

The next moment, Jian Liuli gathered all the Qingxuan sword energy, using a single wood-element sword energy as its foundation, and slashed down fiercely towards Su Baichen. This sword strike already possessed the power to "break through all laws with a single sword."

Seeing that she had gathered all the sword energy she had separated into one place, Su Baichen followed suit and gathered all the suppressing power of "Zhenyue" into the Luanke Sword... At this moment, he felt as if he were wielding a huge mountain!

"Buzz!"

As the two swords clashed, the wood-elemental sword energy swiftly broke through Su Baichen's layers of earth-elemental spiritual energy, almost shattering the earth-elemental spiritual energy on the mountain carving, despite the opposing elements!

At this moment, he felt that the opponent's wood-elemental sword energy was like a wildly growing weed, quickly piercing through his defenses built with earth-elemental spiritual energy... and he was unable to resist it for a time.

In reality, Jian Liuli had completely outclassed him in terms of cultivation.

The other party had already cultivated all five elements and accumulated them for so many years, while Su Baichen had only just begun cultivating the earth element. The earth element spiritual energy that Su Baichen had generated in his internal organs was inferior to that of the other party in both quality and quantity.

Fortunately, just as the wildly growing wood-elemental sword energy broke through numerous obstacles and was about to pierce Su Baichen's body, a fire-elemental sword energy still surged from his heart.

This was the fire-elemental spiritual energy cultivated by the "Undying Flame of Nanshan," which used fire to overcome wood, barely managing to withstand the depleted wood-elemental sword energy. In truth, in this contest, Su Baichen still lost in terms of sword energy and swordsmanship.

The problem is that Jian Liuli was sent flying by his attack!

"How can you be so strong?!"

Jian Liuli landed and staggered back several steps, rubbing her throbbing wrist and asking incredulously.

She couldn't understand how Su Baichen, at such a young age, could possess such great strength.

The ancestral body-refining technique brought Su Baichen powerful numerical attributes.

So, even though Jian Liuli was superior in swordsmanship, she lost in terms of numerical value.

That's going too far.

Su Baichen had previously demonstrated his illusion mechanics, which even allowed him to become an "unselectable" being. Now, with these godlike stats... is he even human?

Su Baichen, who possesses both mechanics and numerical values, is like a monster, which is quite frightening. More importantly, he is still using the skills he has just mastered, and he is not particularly proficient in them.

Jian Liuli could no longer continue fighting, because she had already used all her secret techniques, and she might not be able to do better even if she tried again.

Just as she was about to raise her hand, Su Baichen raised his hand and said, "Oh dear, I admit defeat. Senior Sister's sword strike was too powerful. My meridians are damaged, and I need to rest and recuperate properly."

Jian Liuli was taken aback, then immediately understood, and said irritably, "I don't need you to give in to me!"

"Master, I've lost this time."

The Swordless Sword Elder nodded and said, "That's right. You didn't hold back with that sword strike just now, and although Bai Chen also went all out, he still had a trump card." Sword Glaze was not surprised by this.

Even none of the disciples of the Changchun Sword Sect found it strange.

What is Su Baichen's trump card?

Jian Liuli witnessed Su Baichen wielding the Soul-Suppressing Sword and killing a Nascent Soul cultivator!

Su Baichen, on the other hand, adopted a humble demeanor, repeatedly saying that he had already tried his best, and so on...

Jian Liuli wisely refrained from mentioning Su Baichen's need to go all out again. She had already tried her best but still failed to win, so why should she care whether others had tried their best or not?

Just then, Master Shi Yan suddenly said, "Young friend, I have witnessed the competition just now and have many thoughts to share. I would like to ask you some questions about swordsmanship..."

Su Baichen was taken aback when he heard this, but then he realized that they must be talking about "Zhenyue".

He didn't care about this, after all, in his mind his swordsmanship was far from perfect, and he hadn't even created a fixed set of moves yet.

Compared to matching sword moves with energy pathways, he found that matching true meaning with sword moves was the real challenge.

However, he quickly changed his mind... This is a rare opportunity! He can use the pretext of discussing swordsmanship to plot important matters!

He said, "You're too kind, senior, but since we're discussing sword techniques, shouldn't we find another place to talk about it later?"

Upon hearing this, Master Shi Yan realized his mistake and said, "That's absolutely right, we'll discuss this matter later."

After all, it's not just the Zhenyue Sword Sect that's watching the sword duel here; many sword cultivators and independent practitioners from Mount Tai have come to observe. Wouldn't discussing "Zhenyue" here reveal the essence of the Zhenyue Sword Sect?

Wu Feng Jian Lao also came to his senses. Seeing that no one else wanted to discuss swordsmanship, he simply ended today's activities and then invited Shi Yan Zhenren and others to stay as guests at the Changchun Sword Sect's residence.

In this way, one gains the crucial qualification for a deep conversation alone.

That evening, Su Baichen also participated in this in-depth discussion.

In fact, he was the protagonist from the very beginning, and he selflessly shared his understanding of "Zhenyue" with Master Shiyan from his own perspective.

Shi Yan thus developed an extremely positive impression of Su Baichen and Changchun Palace, and also shared some of the mysteries of Zhenyue Sword Sect with him, making their relationship incredibly harmonious.

As fellow sword cultivators, with their sword hearts clear, Shi Yan understood that these Changchun disciples had other concerns in their hearts.

So, having gotten what he wanted, Shi Yan simply took the initiative and asked, "I see you all look troubled. Is there anything I can do for you?"

Seeing that the other party was directly offering a ladder, Wufeng Swordsman sighed and began to talk about the Formless Ones...