Chapter 472: Void Mirrors
As the lightning approached, the sword tip began to glow with a brilliant light.
The light formed a taijitu but the colours weren’t black and white.
Rather, they were a strange combination of purple and yellow.
"Duality of violence and gentleness." Yu Nianzhen muttered under his breath.
At the same time, the purple-yellow taijitu expanded and its diameter reached one metre.
"What’s that?" A spectator couldn’t help but wonder.
"It looks like a yin-yang symbol but..." A female cultivator said and frowned.
"Why is it purple and yellow?" Someone concluded.
"Is it a shield?"
"I have never seen anything like it."
"Neither have I."
"We will soon know."
"Look..., fellow Daoist Gong’s lightning is about to touch the strange symbol." Someone exclaimed excitedly and everyone turned to the martial stage.
"That strange symbol looks flimsy and definitely can’t block the blue lightning."
"I also think..."
However, the spectator didn’t finish his words.
This was because the blue lightning had already reached the purple-yellow taijitu.
Initially, everyone expected the taijitu and lightning to collide violently.
However, the reality was beyond everyone’s expectations.
When the two met, the taijitu began to spin.
Simultaneously, the blue lightning was sucked into the purple side of the taijitu and soon after, yellow strands of light began to flow from the purple side to the yellow side.
’It’s working.’ Yu Nianzhen thought excitedly.
However, he couldn’t help but feel a little worried.
Initially, the purple-yellow taijitu only contained his power and was about one metre wide.
While absorbing the opponent’s blue lightning, it was expanding rapidly and was already close to two metres in diameter.
’At most, I can support five metres. If it expands past that, I will lose control and the released qi will explode.’ Yu Nianzhen thought with a solemn look on his face.
’What can I do?’ He wondered and forced his heart not to panic.
At this time, Gong Han noticed his opponent was distracted and couldn’t help but feel angry.
"Arrogant." He shouted in an angry voice.
At the same time, he swung his sabre and three bolts of lightning cantered towards Yu Nianzhen.
Seeing this, the swordsman momentarily forgot about the taijitu and hastily erected a sword intent barrier around himself.
"I must admit that you are an accomplished swordsman but you can’t win against me. Why don’t you surrender?" Gong Han said with a mocking smile on his lips.
While speaking, he frantically attacked the sword intent barrier and Yu Nianzhen frowned.
"Mountain master Yu has been cornered." A spectator sighed.
"He held on for longer than I thought he would." Another said.
"If he was only dealing with the blue lightning, maybe he would find a way to escape."
"That blue lightning is too strange."
"I envy fellow Daoist Gong, he is about to get a lot of reincarnation stones."
"Don’t envy him." Someone said and pointed at the cultivators gathered beneath the main martial stage.
"You are right. He is only at the third level of the reincarnation realm; he won’t be able to keep his winnings."
"Fellow Daoist Gong is a cultivator from the Seven Thunder Mountain which is affiliated with the Heavenly Purple Lightning Mountain. Even if he won’t be able to keep the most important origin source stone, he should be able to keep some of the loot."
"Whatever the case, it has nothing to do with us." One of the spectators said bitterly.
"Maybe there will be a bigger fight for the origin source stone." Another said excitedly.
"I think there will be. I can’t wait to see it."
While the spectators were speculating, Yu Nianzhen’s taijitu was dangerously close to the five-metre mark and his sword intent barrier was full of cracks.
"There is no time to think about it." He suddenly muttered and hurriedly moved his sword in a strange shape.
"Void mirror." He shouted.
At the same time, two silver mirrors appeared.
One mirror was below the taijitu and the other was behind Gong Han.
When Gong Han saw this, his brows creased and he prepared to retreat.
However, the attack was faster than he expected.
As soon as the silver mirror appeared, it began to pull strands of purple and yellow qi from the taijitu.
The purple and yellow qi disappeared into the mirror but soon reappeared in the mirror behind Gong Han.
Before Gong Han could react, purple-yellow swords emerged from the mirror and launched themselves towards him.
"This..." Gong Han shouted and frantically used his sabre to block.
"Have you comprehended the space dao?" He roared angrily.
However, Yu Nianzhen didn’t answer but his face turned solemn.
In the Nine Treasures secret realm, he spent a lot of time in the space area and got many space treasures.
Inadvertently, this created a good foundation for the space dao which gave him an advantage when he encountered a space-related sword intent in the sword tower.
When Yu Nianzhen was comprehending the space annihilation sword intent, he realised many offshoot arts.
One of those arts was the void mirror.
Using the void mirror, he could within ten metres, transfer an attack from one place to another.
However, space dao was not Yu Nianzhen’s natal dao and the toll of using it was a lot higher than using sword dao.
This was especially so because he had to keep shifting the void mirror to keep up with the opponent’s movements.
’The last of the blue lightning has been absorbed.’ Yu Nianzhen thought and heaved a sigh of relief.
However, he didn’t relax for too long.
Although the blue lightning was gone, maintaining the void mirror was extremely difficult and his body was already shaking from exertion.
Fortunately, he didn’t need to maintain the mirrors for too long.
When all the excess qi was absorbed by the void mirrors, Yu Nianzhen broke the taijitu and the void mirrors soon followed.
"I will kill you." Gong Han shouted angrily.
When he stepped onto the main martial stage, he didn’t expect to be injured by a rat in the first level of the reincarnation realm.
What was more disconcerting was that he had used his most powerful Inevitable Catastrophe attack but the rat was still not defeated!
Thinking of this, Gong Han felt ashamed and a murderous intent filled his heart.
’It’s time to end this.’ Yu Nianzhen thought and his eyes narrowed.
Although his expression didn’t reveal anything, Yu Nianzhen knew he was at the end of his rope.
Not only was his qi almost exhausted, but his sword intent was almost bottoming out.
In his current state, he couldn’t withstand more tossing so he had to end everything in one strike.
"Fellow Daoist Gong, let’s end it in one strike." Yu Nianzhen said and most of the spectators gasped.
They expected Yu Nianzhen to be defeated in the previous attack.
Unexpectedly, not only did the man survive, but he also injured Gong Han who was a third-level reincarnation realm cultivator.
"This mountain master Yu is not simple." Someone said with a hint of worship in his voice.
"When I heard about the challenge event, I thought he was a frog who doesn’t know the height of the heavens. I didn’t expect mountain master Yu to be so capable."
"Don’t get ahead of yourselves, the fight isn’t over. It’s not certain that he will win." A spectator sneered.
"It doesn’t matter. Even if he doesn’t win, everyone will know about him. After this fight, mountain master Yu will become one of the legends in the Reincarnation World."
"I agree. There aren’t many first-level reincarnation realm cultivators who can go toe to toe with third-level cultivators."
"You are forgetting that fellow Daoist Gong’s cultivation has been restricted. He isn’t using his full strength so this duel doesn’t count."
"Mountain master Yu is barely one thousand years old while fellow Daoist Gong has cultivated for thousands of years. Even if his cultivation is restricted, he has a clear advantage in this fight."
Hearing that, several spectators fell silent.
On one hand, they couldn’t help but admire Yu Nianzhen but on the other, they resented him.
After all, Yu Nianzhen was so young but had achieved so much.
If nothing happened, Yu Nianzhen would soon become a leading figure in the Reincarnation World and the Cangxing Mountain would prosper.
On the martial stage, Yu Nianzhen and Gong Han were staring at each other.
One had a calm expression while the other’s face was red from anger.
"Mountain master Yu is underestimating me too much." Gong Han said but didn’t back down.
Since his opponent wanted to end the fight in one strike, Gong Han would oblige him.
From another perspective, using one strike to defeat the opponent who injured him was a way to redeem his dignity.
"Just what I want, let’s end it in one strike." He shouted as lightning began to flicker on the blade of his sabre.
After hearing that, Yu Nianzhen nodded and began to inject his qi, sword intent, and soul power into his wooden sword.
’Let’s end this.’ He thought.
