Ji Yuan and Yang Batian were soon in the battle arena deep underground of the villa of Divine Consort Ding Jie'Er.
This was also the place where her female followers sparred or testes the profound power of their physical and spirit talismans.
At this moment, more than 1000 female spiritas had turned up in the speculator seats as they were interested to witness the duel between the two heaven-defying geniuses of the celestial race.
Ding Jie'Er, Sun Dingjun, Xiao Muhan, Chu Lixue and Destiny were all seated in the together in the VIP balcony of the speculator stands.
This was an epic duel because Ji Yuan was only 500 odd years of age and he was going to fight against a 8000 year old peaked great saint that had been through uncountable battles.
Although both were also peaked great saints but Ji Yuan was a sword cultivator and he did not have a strong cultivation foundation compared to an old freak like Yang Batian.
Xiao Muhan began to wonder aloud as he looked at Chu Lixue, "I wonder who is going to win this duel?"
Chu Lixue was looking quite nervous and even lost her divine smiles, "Are you asking me? Maybe you should ask the Great Oracle."
When she had said that, Xiao Muhan, Sun Dingjun and Ding Jie'Er were all looking nervously at the Goddess Destiny for an answer.
Destiny knows that everyone was looking at her for an answer but she reminded everyone by casually saying, "Remember I have exhausted myself today. Have some faith in Ji Yuan."
By saying so, if Ji Yuan has won then she would have earned credit for asking everyone to have faith in Ji Yuan. But even if she was wrong, she had an excuse as well.
Her true wish was actually this as she began to rub her long black rod and wished that Ji Yuan would die in this duel instead and then she would be freed from her slave collar.
Below the speculator stands, Yang Batian had already unsheathed his celestial-step divine sword and he was humming coldly to Ji Yuan, "I am Yang Batian, a peak great saint from the Azure Continent Fraternity!"
Ji Yuan had also taken out a celestial-step divine sword from 1 of his 9 divine swords that he had been keeping to be used as his flying swords while shouting loudly, "Sword Saint Ji Yuan, peak great saint of the Desolate Celestial Fraternity!"
The two of them had both displayed their profound aura and it was obvious that Yang Batian's profound aura was twice as dense as Ji Yuan even though they were both peak great saints.
It was obvious that Yang Batian had cultivated intensely for the past 8000 years.
Ji Yuan thought: This old freak isn't weak at all…
Yang Batian smiled as he channeled all his profound strength as profound power into his divine sword and he had displayed a forward stance.
"I am both a power and a defense cultivator. Ji Yuan, don't say that I didn't warn you first that your sword energies won't be able to affect me."
Ji Yuan looked a little startled but he had also displayed his sword spirit into his sword arm and he too, had also positioned into an attack stance.
The two of them were now appraising each other's profound animus for a weakness or an opening before they made their first attack move.
Chu Lixue had suddenly said, "It's not looking good for Ji Yuan. He needs to use his superior divine swords instead. This old freak must be an old master in his celestial fraternity. His offense and defense are not only twice as strong as Ji Yuan but is also perfectly balanced. If he scores a hit on Ji Yuan, his profound defense can also be used as an offense to deliver twice the profound power. Also, we don't know what profound arts or trump cards this old freak has too."
Sun Dingjun was also muttering, "I don't understand why Great Spiritas Hero Ji Yuan doesn't want to use his emperor-step divine sword? This can offset their profound power disparity a little."
Xiao Muhan was also frowning, "Isn't it obvious? He has totally underestimated his opponent…"
Ding Jie'Er was looking nervously at the two combatants and it was obvious that she was not rooting for her own champion to win in this fight.
"Yuan… Beluga, you can… win, don't you?"
Yang Batian said coldly to Ji Yuan, "In my celestial fraternity, I am the number 1 sacred saint and I am invincible. In fact, I have never been defeated in the past 5000 years."
Chu Lixue, Ding Jie'Er, Sun Dingjun and Xiao Muhan were all looking with a great astonishment at Destiny after hearing what Yang Batian had just declared.
Is this Ji Yuan's number 1 great calamity?
Destiny's divination is actually spot on!
This means that Ji Yuan is in trouble today!
Destiny was looking a little awkward when she saw that there were so many eyes looking at her; she actually did not mean that today Ji Yuan would meet his number 1 great calamity. The number 1 great calamity that she was referring to, was of course herself.
After she had removed her slave collar, she would then butcher Ji Yuan to become his number 1 great calamity.
Ji Yuan actually did not believe Destiny at the very start but he was slowly believing in her predictions.
He thought: This is my number 1 great calamity that she has mentioned?
Yang Batian displayed a savage light with his golden eyes as he said coldly, "As your elder, I am going to let you make your first move. Or the others will say that I've been bullying you."
Ji Yuan grinned, "You have said it so don't regret it!"
All of a sudden, he had flashed with a startling speed upon Yang Batian, surprising all the onlookers including Yang Batian himself.
Ji Yuan was simply too fast!
But Yang Batian was an experienced cultivator and he had instantly raised his divine sword to block off Ji Yuan's sudden attack and even with a single swing, he had knocked back Ji Yuan to fly backward with his superior profound power.
Ji Yuan was actually knocked back 20 steps backward and even with his sword spirit, he could only increase his profound power by 20%.
But as soon as he was knocked backward, he had swung his divine sword to deliver several bursts of sword energies that exploded upon Yang Batian.ραпdαs `n?ν?| сom
But Yang Batian did not even blocked with his divine sword as the sword energies bursts exploded harmlessly upon him, guarded by his formidable profound aura and leaving him without any wounds.
Yang Batian frowned coldly, "I've told you that your sword energies will not have enough profound power to hurt me. Are you even listening?"
When he had said that, even Xiao Muhan and many others were all groaning at Ji Yuan's foolishness.
But unknown to everyone, Ji Yuan was actually watching the minute flickering of Yang Batian's profound aura with his divine sense and he had quickly identified the possible soft spots to land his melee moves.
Yang Batian had suddenly exploded into a white energy light and he had flashed next to Ji Yuan with his divine sword, "Heavens Annihilation Force! Seventh Heavens Annihilation Sword!"
He had suddenly increased his profound power many times over with his internal profound art the Heavens Annihilation Force and his unique sword art the Seventh Annihilation Sword as he swept his sword in a downward arc, causing the entire ground to explode tremendously with a bright light and with the heaven-defying profound power of his sword profound art.
This sword art was impossible for Ji Yuan to evade completely as it covered a wide area.
Ji Yuan was also startled because this was the advantage of the superior internal profound arts and power cultivators could easily use it to power all their profound arts, including sword profound arts.
And Ji Yuan internal profound art was simply basic when compared to this Heavens Annihilation Force which could easily rival the internal profound arts of Ling Feiyue and Xue Qianxue.
Unless the Yang Invincible Profound Art counts.
But this was an internal profound art that was too demanding for Ji Yuan to master while he was still in the Empyrean Warrior Labyrinth.
Ji Yuan quickly displayed his Super Heavenly Light of the Coiling Dragon as he mustered all his profound strength into profound energies as he stabbed his sword upon Yang Batian while narrowing avoiding brutal profound power of the Seventh Annihilation Sword by flashing past the sword point in a blink of an eye.
Yang Batian's profound animus was burnt by the Super Heavenly Light of the Coiling Dragon as he flew upward before landing with a thunderous crash onto the ground.
As for Ji Yuan he had suffered some burning profound damage from the Seventh Annihilation Sword but it was not serious.
Yang Batian could not believe that this Ji Yuan could flash past his sword point at the exact same moment that he was displaying his Seventh Annihilation Sword and he could even make a strong counter-attack.
This type of reflexes was impossible even for Yang Batian to do as sword energies demanded both profound strength and profound power to charge up.
Moreover, Ji Yuan had used a heaven-defying sword energies that generated a long burst of sword pure energies that exceeded even his profound defense in such a short time.
What he did not know was that this Super Heavenly Light of the Coiling was used three times to kill Yin Wei, another peak great saint that had metamorphosis into a super cultivator.
At that time, Ji Yuan still required 3 to 5 blinks of an eye to charge up his massive sword energies and most of his opponents would be able to evade this build-up of sword energies.
But Ji Yuan's sword energy cultivation now was able to almost instantly display his Super Heavenly Light of the Coiling Dragon as long as his profound strength was not faltering.
This enhanced speed was possible due to his high cultivation in internal energy such as the Profound Energies Revelation and also because he has since mastered the Natural Instinct of his Divine Heart Recite and he could now easily combined the Three-in-One Reflex of his sword energies cultivation as the Heaven, Earth and Mortal as one.
This Divine Heart Recite could actually give him 10 more cultivation profound arts under a set of special conditions and Ji Yuan has unwittingly unlocked them due to his only focus in sword cultivation and speed.
And today he had displayed this Super Heavenly Light of the Coiling Dragon from a ranged sword energies attack into a melee attack, correcting the many flaws in a sword energies attack.
And sword energies attack actually required less profound power to tear apart a cultivator's profound defense.
Yang Batian simply could not believe that this Ji Yuan would actually be such a powerful sword energies cultivator.
Although he was not too seriously injured as he had a formidable profound defense and could still fight but Ji Yuan's profound attack had weakened his profound defenses, so he saw no point in continuing the fight anymore.
He got up weakly and sighed heavily, "You are the strongest sword energies cultivator that I've ever met and not any other sword cultivators. I have lost to you. You are indeed a Sword Saint."
"This is over?" Ji Yuan was startled; it was because he was just warming himself up for a fight and he had thought of overwhelming this Yang Batian's formidable defenses with his Ultrapowerful Heavenly Light of the Coiling Dragon.
Yang Batian ignored Ji Yuan and tossed him his 10 immortal jades as he walked with a heavy sigh away.
On the VIP speculator stand, Ding Jie'Er was giggling now and she said to the Goddess Destiny, "Great Oracle, so does this mean that Yuan Beluga's number 1 great calamity is over now?"
Destiny had a sheepish look that this opponent of his was a little weak and this Ji Yuan had not even displayed his Sword Domains yet.
But she quickly composed herself to say, "This isn't his number 1 great calamity yet but a foreshadowing of what it is to come."
She tried to make it sound as ominous as possible so as to awe her listeners.
And it worked.
Ding Jie'Er, Sun Dingjun, Xiao Muhan and Chu Lixue were all gasping softly and saying, "I hope that the Great Oracle is able to protect him from harm…"
Destiny whispered to them with a faint smile, "He got his lucky stars in the heavens to thank for having me around."
But in secret, she was cursing Ji Yuan.
In the meantime, Ji Yuan was feeling richer by 10 immortal jades as he kept his divine sword, having no idea what was being discussed at the VIP speculator stand.
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Author Note:
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