Chapter 469: Come Down
"Are you looking down on me?" The female demon queried; her eyes filled with anger.
With her unique charm, she dominated the Yin Demon world for more than one thousand years.
In that time, she derailed many male cultivators and even convinced some to kill their former lovers.
After being held up for so many years, she couldn’t accept that Yu Nianzhen didn’t regard her in any way.
"You can’t defeat me." Yu Nianzhen stated, his expression as calm as ever.
Hearing this, the female demon became more frustrated.
In her anger, her cold eyes became soft.
Her body also seemed to become more charming and many spectators couldn’t help but become enchanted.
However, Yu Nianzhen only sneered.
No matter how charming the female demon became, he could see through her disguise.
"Is the Cangxing mountain master completely immune to charm?" A spectator asked.
While speaking, he swallowed a heart-clearing pill, trying to calm the raging desire in his heart.
"He and the female demon are in the first level of the reincarnation realm. His soul power shouldn’t be enough to counter the female demon."
"If not soul power, why isn’t he affected?"
"Maybe it’s his cultivation technique?"
"The Cangxing mountain master Yu is a swordsman. His cultivation technique should involve swords."
"Who knows, maybe he has cultivated other techniques."
"I don’t think so. From his swordsmanship achievements, it’s clear he is a serious swordsman. Based on the typical characteristics of swordsmen, it’s unlikely that his cultivation technique doesn’t involve swords."
"Could it be a treasure?"
"I think this guess is reliable. There are quite a few treasures that protect cultivators against charm attacks."
"There is another possibility." Someone said with a solemn expression on his face.
"What possibility?"
"I have heard that the Cangxing mountain master and deputy master are soul-bound Taoist companions. From what I know, the strictest form of the soul-bound Taoist contract guards the Taoist companions against things like charm and love gu."
"I also know this but is it possible? Is there anyone stupid enough to form such a Taoist contract?"
"Both mountain master Yu and deputy mountain master Jiang are very talented. I don’t think they would form such a contract that limits their future."
"I also think so. Although husband and wife are birds of the same forest, they fly separately when disaster strikes."
"Who knows..." A female cultivator said with a distracted look on her face.
It had been five years since the challenge started.
In that time, neither the mountain master nor the deputy mountain master left their martial stages.
However, more than once, she had seen how they looked at each other.
Every so often, they would look at each other and smile, as if they were communicating a secret that was only known to the two of them.
When she saw such interactions, the female cultivator had no trouble believing that the two people might be the kind of stupid Taoist companions who signed the strictest form of the Taoist contract.
"Whatever the case, mountain master Yu is not affected by the female demon’s charm. This time, the female demon may have kicked the iron plate."
As the spectators were discussing, the female demon really did find that she had kicked the iron plate.
No matter what she tried, nothing worked against Yu Nianzhen.
For a moment, she even doubted that something was wrong with her ability so she focused her charm on the spectators to confirm.
However, her charm worked perfectly which meant the problem was with the Cangxing mountain master.
"Are you carrying a heaven and earth treasure on your body? Is it the treasure that is protecting you?"
Hearing this, Yu Nianzhen smiled.
He indeed had a treasure.
However, the treasure was incomparably more precious than a heaven and earth treasure.
Thinking of this, he turned to the first small stage and looked at Jiang Yue.
Coincidentally, Jiang Yue was also looking at him and their eyes collided.
Subconsciously, a smile curled their lips and both felt infinitely precious to each other.
’XiaoYue is more precious than anything in the world.’ He thought and turned to look at the female demon.
"Does it matter?" Yu Nianzhen said and raised his wooden sword.
A moment later, his aura became colder and the female demon couldn’t help but shudder.
’Unless I use talismans, I am helpless against this opponent.’ She thought and subconsciously narrowed her eyes.
Although she had many talismans and attack jades, the female demon couldn’t use them because they were not allowed in the duel.
In the early years, some opponents got frustrated and directly used talismans to gain an advantage.
Unfortunately, using external forces was attracting bad luck.
As soon as those people acted, the defensive formation activated and rebounded the attacks.
In most cases, the opponents were seriously injured and in others, they were directly killed.
However, no one could blame the Cangxing Mountain for this outcome.
After all, the rules were clearly detailed before the start of the competition.
If those people did not break the rules, they would not have encountered a fatal disaster.
’My attack can’t be too powerful.’ Yu Nianzhen thought as he swung his sword.
His goal was to injure the female demon but still leave a chance for her to escape.
If he injured her too badly, she may fail to escape and even if she did escape, she would be easily caught by other cultivators.
Considering that, Yu Nianzhen wanted to injure her just enough to give XiaoLan an advantage.
When the female demon escaped, XiaoLan would secretly find her and retrieve the origin source stones and other treasures in the woman’s storage ring.
"You can defeat me but can you defeat them?" The female demon spoke and proudly looked outside the martial stage.
At some point, hundreds of cultivators had gathered around the martial stage.
These cultivators ranged from the first level to the ninth level of the reincarnation realm.
However, Yu Nianzhen was not afraid.
When Jiang Yue arranged the martial stage formations, he restricted the number of cultivators who could enter each stage concurrently.
Unless the gathered cultivators found a way to change or break the martial stage formation, they could only enter one at a time.
Most importantly, the formation restricted the opponent’s cultivation.
If a third-level or higher reincarnation realm cultivator somehow entered the stage, their cultivation would automatically be restricted to the second level.
In this case, Yu Nianzhen had nothing to be afraid of.
As long as he fought normally, he wasn’t afraid that he would be unable to defeat all the opponents who stepped onto his stage.
"The fellow Daoist should worry more about herself." Yu Nianzhen said.
A moment later, a terrifying sword intent soared towards the female demon.
Seeing this, the female demon didn’t dare to be careless.
With the turn of her hand, a teleportation talisman appeared in her hand.
Although the martial stage restricted teleportation, her talisman was special and the formation couldn’t restrict it.
In the blink of an eye, the sword intent reached the female demon but her figure disappeared in place.
"She didn’t disappoint me." Yu Nianzhen muttered and a smile appeared on his lips.
Just now, his sword intent reached the female demon but the injury was not big.
With such an injury, the female demon wouldn’t find it too difficult to escape from other pursuers.
After thinking this, Yu Nianzhen turned to Jiang Yue.
Seeing the look, Jiang Yue nodded and an invisible XiaoLan flew away.
’There is nowhere you can hide.’ He thought and smiled.
Outside the stage, several cultivators became impatient when they saw the female demon’s escape.
"Cangxing mountain master Yu, come down to talk." Someone shouted in an extremely domineering voice.
Hearing this, Yu Nianzhen turned to the person but his expression didn’t change.
"If you want me to come down, you have to defeat me first." Yu Nianzhen said with a hint of mockery in his eyes.
At the start of the competition, he said he would only step down from the stage under two conditions.
The first condition was defeat.
If he was defeated three times and lost all three mines, he would naturally give up the martial stage.
Otherwise, he would step down from the stage after one hundred years.
"Cangxing mountain master Yu, the situation has changed. We must discuss the origin source stone." Someone said in a deceptively gentle voice.
However, Yu Nianzhen didn’t take it to heart.
"Nothing has changed for me. Everything depends on strength. If you are confident in your strength, come up and defeat me. When you defeat me, the origin source stone will naturally change hands." Yu Nianzhen said.
These words caused an uproar in the arena.
After five years, everyone vaguely understood Yu Nianzhen’s personality and strength.
Since he didn’t want to step down from the stage, no one could make him.
However, everyone felt he was naïve.
After all, he had only fought small shrimps and hadn’t encountered a truly powerful opponent.
When he encountered such a cultivator, the spectators didn’t believe Yu Nianzhen could continue to be arrogant.
