Chapter 248: Attracting Attention
On reflex, his body moved, and Yu Nianzhen barely managed to escape the sneak attack.
After avoiding the attack, he turned around, and his face immediately went black.
"Gu Changqing." He called.
The other looked at him with a smug look in his eyes.
It was a coincidence that he was on the same platform as Yu Nianzhen.
However, now that they were together, he wanted to take the chance to teach Yu Nianzhen a lesson.
Otherwise, Yu Nianzhen would continue to be arrogant and want to ride on his head.
"Do you regret it now? If you get on your knees and apologise, I will let you go with a minor injury."
Yu Nianzhen was extremely angry when he heard that.
He knew the participants sent by the sect wouldn’t do their best, but he didn’t expect them to hinder him.
At this time, Yu Nianzhen wanted to directly deal with the person but he didn’t want his master to lose more face.
He really didn’t want others to make fun of his master because Gu Changqing didn’t know what was what.
’I will deal with him later.’ He thought and took a deep breath to calm himself.
"Fellow Daoist Gu, could it be that you don’t understand the current situation?"
"It’s all the same, isn’t it? You are just a first-level origin tempering realm cultivator, it doesn’t matter if you leave early." Gu Changqing said and sneered.
"I hope fellow Daoist Gu can restrain himself." Yu Nianzhen warned, and a dangerous light flashed in himself.
"Or what?" Gu Changqing sneered and looked at Yu Nianzhen in mockery.
"Let’s stop here for the time being."
After saying that, Yu Nianzhen turned around and wanted to leave.
However, Gu Changqing didn’t plan to let him go.
He moved quickly and appeared in front of the swordsman.
"Does this mean that you won’t apologise?"
"Fellow Daoist Gu, don’t go too far."
Gu Changqing didn’t take the warning seriously and immediately released his weapon.
His weapon was also a sword, but it had a thinner blade than ordinary swords, and its tapered end was very pointed.
’Rapier.’ Yu Nianzhen observed.
Because he used swords, he had done a lot of research on the different kinds of swords.
The rapier was a sword that specialised in thrusting techniques.
If he was stabbed by the sword, an extra hole would definitely be opened in his body.
"Fellow Daoist Gu, do you insist on doing this?"
"Hurry up and take out your weapon."
Yu Nianzhen no longer hesitated.
Since the person was unreasonable, Yu Nianzhen didn’t need to think about the gains and losses.
He removed his sword, and his eyes filled with indifference.
Until now, Yu Nianzhen had not gone all out.
He always used thirty per cent of his power to deal with the opponent.
However, Gu Changqing kept touching his bottom line and Yu Nianzhen didn’t want to be merciful.
He mobilised forty per cent of his power and swung his sword.
Gu Changqing had watched Yu Nianzhen for a while and didn’t actually look down on his swordsmanship.
When he saw the attack, he also swung his sword wanting to parry the silver light that was rushing towards him.
Unfortunately, he still underestimated the opponent.
Yu Nianzhen had mentally calculated the best defence trajectory for the rapier.
When he made his move, he avoided the rapier’s best trajectory, and Gu Changqing discovered it too late.
His move only dissipated one-quarter of Yu Nianzhen’s attack while the remaining three-quarters rushed toward him.
In the blink of an eye, a diagonal slash appeared on Gu Changqing’s chest, and his body fell to the ground with serious injuries.
After that, Yu Nianzhen no longer cared about Gu Changqing, and he went to search for his next component.
While Yu Nianzhen was fighting, the spectators were going wild.
"It’s no wonder the Sea Cloud sect is going downhill. In our sect, a first-level origin tempering realm would never dare to mess with a core disciple."
"Aren’t you too biased? That Gu Changqing was the one who provoked trouble. Fellow Daoist Yu would be stupid to stand there and let himself be attacked."
"It doesn’t matter who started the trouble. Did anyone notice that Yu Nianzhen always one attack to defeat his opponents?"
"How is that possible? All the participants are geniuses from all over the Cangxing world. Is it the turn of a first-level origin tempering realm to defeat them using one strike?"
"I have been paying attention to him all along. You can watch him if you don’t believe me."
After the fight with Gu Changqing, a lot of people noticed that Yu Nianzhen had only been using one attack to defeat everyone.
The spectators were obviously excited and wanted to watch a good show.
However, the contestants couldn’t help but be angry.
They felt that Yu Nianzhen was looking down on them and couldn’t wait to deal with him.
"Senior brother, what do you think?" A young man asked and looked at another young man.
The young man who was questioned had flaming hair and a heroic demeanour.
If Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue saw him, they would recognise him as the young master they met in the Jin family’s stone gambling house in the Great Artisan city.
"The person feels a little familiar." Mo Tianxing said and frowned.
"Has senior brother met him before?"
When Mo Tianxing heard the question, his frown deepened.
His memory had always been excellent. If he had met the swordsman before, he would remember.
However, he couldn’t shake the feeling that they had met somewhere.
"I am not sure." Mo Tianxing answered.
"Senior brother, fellow Daoist Yu is defeating people using only one strike. How long do you think he can persist?"
Mo Tianxing didn’t answer right away.
Instead, he looked at the platform and observed the overall situation.
Of the original seventy-eight participants, only eighteen remained.
Including Yu Nianzhen who hadn’t suffered a single injury, there were several experts on the martial platform.
One of them was Lou Ping.
Lou Ping was the chief disciple of the sect master of the puppet sect.
From what Mo Tianxing knew, Lou Ping had at least five puppets at the origin tempering realm.
If he fought Yu Nianzhen, the swordsman would definitely be forced to use more than one sword.
Other than Lou Ping, there was also a monk who had a fire origin.
The monk’s fire was extremely pure, and the body of an origin-tempering realm cultivator could barely resist being burned to ashes.
When Mo Tianxing’s younger brother saw where his senior brother was looking, he immediately relayed the information he knew about the monk.
"His name is Xuan Dong. He is the disciple of the head monk and..." The junior brother didn’t continue until Mo Tianxing prompted.
"There is a rumour that he has a pure yang physique.
Mo Tianxing frowned when he heard that.
Bing Lan’s physique was an open secret.
Double cultivating with her could increase cultivation speed and help to stabilise the foundation.
However, her ice marrow physique had a major drawback.
Once in a while, especially when she was breaking through, her physique would explode.
If she didn’t use special means at this time, she would freeze and die.
Fortunately, the Ice Palace sect had a recipe for the ice-dispersing pill.
This pill could disperse her ice qi when her physique broke out which had saved her life many times.
However, the ice-dispersing pill was not omnipotent.
The effect of the ice-dispersing pill lessened with the increase in Bing Lan’s cultivation.
At the moment, her physique could only be relieved by double cultivating with a yang physique cultivator.
"Are you sure he has a yang physique?" Mo Tianxing asked.
"It’s what I heard."
Mo Tianxing took another glance at the monk and then continued to survey the situation on the platform.
Other than Yu Nianzhen, Lou Ping and Xuan Dong, there were three or four others that were doing exceptionally well.
"The game will end soon." He said and the junior brother nodded.
"I didn’t expect elder Yang’s disciple to be quite capable."
"He is capable but this is still the elimination round. After this round, there will only be one hundred cultivators left. It’s hard to say if he can maintain the momentum at that time."
"Senior brother is right. A lot of famous heroes have already passed the elimination round. They won’t be defeated using one sword strike."
"Senior brother has also entered the third round. I don’t believe you can be defeated using one sword."
When Mo Tianxing heard that, his hands clenched, and he looked at Yu Nianzhen more attentively.
Before he knew it, he watched Yu Nianzhen dispatch four contestants in a row.
As mentioned by his junior brother, elder Yang’s disciple, only used one move to defeat people.
Most importantly, Mo Tianxing noticed that the amount of power he used for each opponent was different.
’His ability to discern is terrifyingly high.’ Mo Tianxing thought.
