Chapter 617: Chapter 84: Another Victory

Yan Fei’s bursting method was also very simple, Divine Skills!

Body Cultivation had three major styles: Martial Technique Type, Divine Ability Type, and Dharma Aspect Type, conveniently one more alignment than the Sword Cultivator’s Internal and External Sword technique.

Similar to Lu Qingshan’s dual expertise, Yan Fei cultivated all three styles as well.

He had already demonstrated the Vajra Dharma Aspect and Arhat Fist Martial Techniques, and next, he demonstrated his Divine Ability — Dark Water.

The Divine Skills of Body Cultivators were simply categorized into three types: offensive, defensive, and supportive.

The Dark Water Divine Ability that Yan Fei had awakened belonged to the category of supportive spells.

His right hand rapidly turned black, and black smoke even began to drift up from his hand, after which a whirlpool appeared in the palm of his hand, resembling a black hole with tremendous pulling force, drawing Lu Qingshan towards him.

This was a controlling technique specifically used to deal with slippery opponents like Lu Qingshan, who were extremely fast and agile in movement.

The only limitation of this Divine Skill was that it was only effective at short distances; the farther the distance, the weaker the pulling force became.

Ironically, due to issues with the realm of his Causality True Intent, Lu Qingshan could only see the Causality lines clearly at close range, apart from the fact that only the Dragon Sparrow, serving as the Sword of Causality, could sever the Causality threads.

The intense pulling force suddenly erupted, causing Lu Qingshan’s body to shudder, and he actually became unable to resist, freezing on the spot, before even his body leaned towards Yan Fei’s fist.

Yan Fei’s other seven arms immediately took action, weapons clanging as they bombarded towards Lu Qingshan.

Facing the dire situation, Lu Qingshan’s expression remained unchanged. As his thoughts moved, the Oblivion in the form of a flying sword that had drawn close with him, streaked past beside him, flashing to Yan Fei’s rear.

In the moment the flying sword swept by, Lu Qingshan’s figure had already disappeared from where he stood.

Yan Fei’s aggressive barrage of attacks ended up hitting empty space, and he hastily began searching around for Lu Qingshan’s location.

The light from the Oblivion River Sword paused, and Lu Qingshan’s figure emerged from the Sword Light.

Formless Sword Escape.

When he had moved close, he had brought Oblivion and Peach Blossom together, preparing for this moment to ensure he wasn’t caught unprepared.

Lu Qingshan knew that facing Yan Fei’s fierce offensive, mere physical evasion was impossible to manage deftly, and only by relying on an Escape Technique could he turn the situation around.

After changing his position, Lu Qingshan’s movements reached their limit in speed.

Seizing the opportunity, he wielded his sword again, gazing back at the moon, turning around to slash diagonally at a Causality line behind Yan Fei, which only he could see.

This was the thirty-sixth Causality line he had severed.

Perhaps because the Vajra Dharma Aspect was a continuous technique or because this Dharma aspect powered by spells was immensely powerful, Yan Fei’s Vajra Dharma Aspect had numerous Causality lines, and not just a single severed Causality line would disrupt it.

However, Lu Qingshan knew that every Causality line he severed was like scraping a layer off the Vajra Dharma Aspect.

Even Vajra, no matter how resilient, had its limits, and once that limit was surpassed, Yan Fei’s Dharma Aspect would resemble a breached dam, collapsing instantly.

What Lu Qingshan hadn’t anticipated was that the threshold of Yan Fei’s Dharma Aspect would come on the thirty-sixth Causality line.

As the Causality line split under the Dragon Sparrow’s sword edge, a profound and mysterious sensation transmitted into his mind.

“Nothingness!” Lu Qingshan uttered softly.

As if complying with the spoken law, just as the word ‘nothingness’ left Lu Qingshan’s mouth, cracks began to rapidly appear on the nearly invincible Vajra Dharma Aspect on Yan Fei’s body.

Then, the entire Dharma Aspect began to tremble rapidly.

Bang!

The cracks swiftly spread across the Dharma Aspect’s entire body until, under countless shocked gazes, Yan Fei’s six-armed Vajra Dharma Aspect that boasted dominance in the Nascent Soul Realm exploded like shattered glass, turning into specks of golden light, dissipating and fading into oblivion.

The Vajra Dharma Aspect was thereby Returned to Nothingness!

‘Eight-armed Vajra’, without the Six-armed Vajra, what was left?

Without the six arms, Yan Fei still possessed a pair of iron fists capable of crushing most Nascent Soul Cultivators.

Yet, Lu Qingshan clearly would not be among that majority.

He glanced at Yan Fei, who appeared rather disheveled due to his broken Dharma Aspect, swiftly increasing the distance, and began to maneuver his flying sword to harass Yan Fei.

The saying still held true, an exposed trump card is no longer a trump card.

Lu Qingshan, who had nearly suffered a loss, wisely created distance and deployed his Flying Sword to defend against Yan Fei’s Dark Water Divine Ability.

Yan Fei’s iron fists swung continuously, but as they say, fortune turns with time, and now it was his turn to find that two fists were hard put to match up against… three swords.

One cut after another appeared on Yan Fei’s body, each wound an inch deep and a foot long, with flesh turned inside out.

For those who practiced Body Cultivation, muscle damage was a minor matter.

However, the flame radiance from the Dragon Sparrow, the cold aura of death from Oblivion, and the Immortality of Peach Blossom, were not something Yan Fei could ignore.

Yan Fei had no choice but to tough it out.

Deploying the full extent of his Flying Sword’s offensive, which consumed a great deal of the Sword Cultivator’s Spiritual Power and Divine Sense, Yan Fei wanted to see whether he would succumb first or if Lu Qingshan would deplete his own Spiritual Power first.

In some competitive games, this is referred to by a more professional term: trading health for mana.

Yan Fei had ample confidence in his own body.

They say that without specialisation, achievement is unattainable. Sword Cultivators live by their swords, but isn’t it the same for Body Cultivators? They live by their body alone!

They concentrate all their energy on tempering their bodies, which they use as their Magic Artifact.

A Sword Cultivator might possess more than one Life-bound Sword, but a Body Cultivator has only one physical body. From this perspective, in terms of specialization, Body Cultivators are even more extreme than Sword Cultivators.

Lu Qingshan was well aware of Yan Fei’s choice.

After hundreds of continuous clashes, once Lu Qingshan confirmed that Yan Fei had grown accustomed to his rhythm of attack, he felt a slight stir in his heart.

He activated his third Primordial Intent, the Immortal True Intent.

The profound transformative power that emerged nurtured and increased the potency of his Perfection Realm True Annihilation Intent by over thirty percent.

He had refrained from using this strategy previously because it lacked the element of surprise.

The reason a trump card remains a trump card is because it should strike unexpectedly, when least anticipated.

And now, the conditions were ripe.

Yan Fei was naturally wary of Lu Qingshan’s Flying Sword, but he never imagined that the True Annihilation Intent, which already seemed to be at full force, could erupt further still.

This time, the opportune intervention of the Dragon Sparrow, rather than just causing inch-deep injuries by disrupting part of the Material True Intent and then stopping abruptly, carried further force as it continued to annihilate material and drove deeper.

Until the tip of the Dragon Sparrow Sword touched Yan Fei’s Dantian, and just as the Sword Intent was about to explode and blast Yan Fei’s Nascent Soul into bloody fragments, an inexplicable force suddenly descended, halting the Dragon Sparrow’s advance abruptly.

It was King Qing Mei who had intervened.

This also signified… the contest was decided!

Lu Qingshan and Yan Fei experienced a visual distortion, and by the time they looked back, they found themselves outside the small realm.

“The twenty-second Magical Combat, Eastern Domain, Lu Qingshan wins!”

King Qing Mei declared.

This time, in the grand competition among Cultivators, even Yan Fei, who was nominally the strongest, had been defeated by Lu Qingshan.

It was unexpected yet made sense.

Unexpected because theoretically, Yan Fei seemed to have every advantage in restraining Sword Cultivators and no reason to lose.

It made sense because, three Primordial Intents defeating two Primordial Intents, is indeed a just outcome.

In front of the Zhao Wall, all the Cultivators who had witnessed the entire battle trembled violently.

Their scalps tingled, yet they struggled to comprehend.

Finally, unable to restrain themselves, someone asked, “Can someone explain to me, Sword Definitive merely made a few swipes in the air, how did Yan Fei’s Dharma Aspect disappear? I don’t get it. Could it be that Sword Definitive also mastered that Body Cultivator’s skill of striking from afar?”

In the crowd, there was no shortage of vociferous individuals, and soon a Golden Core Sword Cultivator spoke up, “The swordsmanship of Sword Definitive, for you non-Sword Cultivators, is undoubtedly intricate and confusing…”

“What do you mean, do Sword Cultivators have some special doctrine? Share it with us to broaden our knowledge?” someone asked, frowning. Although slightly mocked, their curiosity prevailed over their irritation, and they pressed for an answer.

The Golden Core Sword Cultivator, looking quite pleased with himself, finally revealed, “Actually, even to us Sword Cultivators, the swordsmanship of ‘Sword Definitive’ is equally baffling…”

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