Chapter 149: Out of Control
The sword travelled in an arc from left to right, and a transparent barrier appeared in front of him.
Unlike before, this barrier shimmered in the setting sun.
It looked like flowing water but still had a sharp aura that made the surrounding air feel dangerous.
Soon after it formed, the fire phoenix arrived.
It touched the barrier, and the barrier turned alive. It wrapped around the fire, and the phoenix was consumed in less than a breath of time.
"How is this possible?" Lin Huang was flabbergasted.
This was not the first time her fire failed to damage an opponent, but all previous opponents were qi transformation realm cultivators.
She didn’t expect a cultivator in the origin forging realm to extinguish her fire, and she wasn’t reconciled.
Her beautiful eyes turned ablaze, and another fire phoenix began to condense around her.
’The barrier is not perfect, but it’s enough to deal with her.’ Yu Nianzhen thought and prepared to erect the barrier.
Like before, Lin Huang’s phoenix was strangled and extinguished.
When she saw that, her face turned pale, and she panicked a little.
The fire phoenix was one of her most powerful attacks, and it was the one she used most often.
If it didn’t work against Yu Nianzhen...
Her eyes narrowed, and she jumped several metres back.
"It’s my turn now." Yu Nianzhen stated, and a silver light flashed in his eyes.
At the same time, silver light coated his sword. A sharp feeling emanated from the sword and spread to every inch of the battle platform.
Although she was metres away from her opponent, Lin Huang couldn’t escape the sharp feeling.
She felt like millions of sharp needles were pricking her skin, and she hurriedly layered her body with phoenix fire.
After doing this, the sharpness on her skin lessened, but she still felt very uncomfortable.
’What’s happening?’ She wondered.
Facing the sword shining with a silver light, she felt an unprecedented crisis. She felt like she needed to run away, but she had a phoenix origin.
The phoenix was a proud divine creature and couldn’t accept being threatened in this manner.
While she was hesitating and unable to make a decision, the fire around her flared. It looked alive, and in the blink of an eye, a humongous phoenix formed behind Lin Huang.
It was about five metres tall, and each wing was two metres wide.
"This..." Someone in the audience exclaimed.
"How can she manifest so much phoenix fire qi?" Another asked.
Although Lin Huang could casually release fire qi, all the previous manifestations were at least four times smaller than the current manifestation.
No matter how the audience thought about it, Lin Huang shouldn’t be able to manifest so much qi at the origin forging realm.
"Look at her face, something is wrong." Someone observed.
Everyone looked at Lin Huang and saw her face was extremely pale.
As a cultivator of the fire attribute, her complexion was predominantly rosy and would only turn that pale when she was severely injured.
At this time, Yu Nianzhen also realised that something was wrong.
From where he stood, he could see that Lin Huang seemed to have lost control of her phoenix fire.
However, the fire was still growing in size, which meant that something was uncontrollably drawing qi from her dantian.
Although Yu Nianzhen didn’t know a lot about the cultivation of beast people, he knew this was not a good thing.
If all her qi was drawn out, her dantian would be damaged, and this was not the result he wanted to see.
’What to do?’ He wondered.
He couldn’t stop his attack because he would be vulnerable to her phoenix fire.
In that case, there was only one thing to do.
With a determined look, Yu Nianzhen swung his sword, and a silver light flew toward the girl. The light was half a metre wide, and it arrived in front of Lin Huang in the blink of an eye.
As if sensing danger, the fire phoenix leapt from behind Lin Huang to in front of her.
It created a shield using its wings and tried to block the silver light, but Yu Nianzhen knew it was useless.
This silver sword light was the improved sword intent he realised in the past several months. It carried a majesty that didn’t allow other existences to stand above it.
Even if it was a cultivator in the early stages of the qi transformation realm, they would find it difficult to counter this move.
’She will be saved this way.’ He thought as the sword intent tore through the phoenix shield.
A moment later, Lin Huang fell to the ground, and blood gushed out of a diagonal slash on her chest.
Without delay, Yu Nianzhen leapt across the platform and stuffed a pill into her mouth.
"What are you doing?" A roar sounded from outside the platform.
Yu Nianzhen turned around and saw a young man standing at the edge of the platform.
"What did you feed her? The beast king will never let you go if you dare to harm her."
Yu Nianzhen didn’t bother with the man and instead looked at Lin Huang. His brows were tangled as if he was facing a huge dilemma, and indeed, he was!
’How do I get her out of the platform?’ He wondered.
If he had a life-or-death grudge against her, he wouldn’t hesitate to kick her out of the platform.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, they didn’t have such a grudge, and he felt kicking her was a little too much.
However, he didn’t want to touch her.
It wasn’t just because he disliked touching people other than Jiang Yue, he worried touching her would result in unpredictable outcomes.
After all, she was a princess of a foreign territory.
She was also the kind of beast woman who liked keeping a harem, and he didn’t want to be entangled in such matters.
’It seems I will have to wait for her to wake up and leave by herself.’ He looked at her and lamented.
Although he had fed her a rejuvenation pill, she was severely injured.
The last move had overdrawn her qi, and even if the sword injury recovered, it would take a while to wake up.
With those thoughts in mind, he retreated to the opposite corner of the platform and sat cross-legged.
"You..., what are you doing?" The young man shouted again.
"Sitting." Yu Nianzhen answered.
The young man wanted to scream in anger.
Of course, he could see Yu Nianzhen was sitting, but why was he doing that?
"Send her out." He said.
"I don’t want to touch her."
The young man couldn’t control his anger when he heard that. He attacked the platform boundary, but the people who created the formation were meticulous.
As soon as the attack landed, the force doubled and rebounded on the young man. He was flung several metres back, and his body landed on a jutting stone.
The stone pierced his thigh, and he took a few moments to put himself together before he could stand up again.
After that, he walked back to the platform boundary and glared at Yu Nianzhen.
"Are you worried that sending her out will open up the platform for challenges?" The young man asked.
When others heard this, they were enlightened.
As long as Lin Huang was in the arena, even in an unconscious state, a third person could not enter the platform.
"How despicable." A young woman said and glared at Yu Nianzhen.
"He has already defeated the opponent but still wants to use her to block challenges."
"This is the first time I have seen something so shameless."
Such comments resounded around the platform, but Yu Nianzhen didn’t care.
Initially, he saw the young man cared about Lin Huang and wanted to explain that he had fed her a rejuvenation pill.
However, after the reckless comments, he decided not to bother. The competition would end in minutes, and Lin Huang wouldn’t die in that short time.
After putting the matter behind him, he turned to the second battle platform.
At an unknown time, Jiang Yue had moved to sit at the corner directly facing the first platform. He was still playing the pipa with a smile on his face.
When Yu Nianzhen saw him, his breath hitched.
Everything around them disappeared, and he felt like they were the only two people in the world.
With the orange sunset behind them, Yu Nianzhen seemed to see a beautiful vision that spread from this moment to eternity.
"He is so beautiful." He muttered, and his eyes subconsciously softened.
On the other side, Jiang Yue saw him looking, and his smile widened.
His eyes were filled with happiness, and Yu Nianzhen understood that the other knew why he had challenged Lin Huang.
"You are mine alone." He mumbled as he looked at the other.
As if he heard what Yu Nianzhen said, Jiang Yue nodded, tilted his head and continued to strum the pipa.
