Chapter 1496 - 1495: Sixteenth Floor

Chapter 1496: Chapter 1495: Sixteenth Floor

Outside, atop that Thousand Zhang Giant Sword.

Buzz!

The light suddenly flared, and on that Thousand Zhang Giant Sword, the glow jumped from the fifteenth layer’s area up to the sixteenth.

"He broke through!"

Staring at the change on the Thousand Zhang Giant Sword, Beichuan Ye was also taken aback.

Peerless Sword likewise couldn’t help feeling a surge of emotion—the sixteenth layer, that guy had actually done it in the end.

"What, that kid actually made it to the sixteenth layer?"

The many Yingzhou experts who had previously not thought much of Ling Chen all showed expressions of shock on their faces.

Half a year—it had really only taken half a year, and Ling Chen had already refreshed his own record, achieving a brand?new breakthrough and reaching the height of the sixteenth layer!

It was simply unbelievable!

"What a terrifying height!"

Quite a few Yingzhou swordsmen felt their hearts quake—the record of the younger generation had once again been reset. It had only lasted half a year before being shattered again by Ling Chen himself.

"As expected of the young man who defeated Shang Quan Yi Xin."

No one present had actually witnessed Ling Chen’s battle with Shang Quan Yi Xin; they had only heard rumors. At first, they were somewhat skeptical, thinking Ling Chen most likely hadn’t relied on his own strength to defeat Shang Quan Yi Xin, that he very likely used some other method or borrowed external power. But now, they believed it. They truly believed that Ling Chen had defeated Shang Quan Yi Xin with his own genuine skill!

"Will the sixteenth layer be his endpoint?"

A bold thought suddenly flashed through Beichuan Ye’s mind. Although Ling Chen breaking into the sixteenth layer was already shocking enough, he nevertheless had a certain intuition—a feeling that told him Ling Chen was very likely to charge even higher, rather than stopping at this sixteenth layer!

"Master Gongben is guarding the sixteenth layer; it shouldn’t be that easy to pass..."

Peerless Sword likewise understood what kind of person Ling Chen was—the man would definitely not be satisfied with the sixteenth layer. Yet the one guarding the sixteenth is Master Gongben, reputed to be Yingzhou’s strongest swordsman. For Ling Chen to break past the sixteenth layer was not going to be easy.

Inside the Sword Prison, in the space of the sixteenth layer.

The instant Ling Chen stepped out from the Wind Eye, his vision was filled by a Great Waterfall. The waterfall before his eyes towered thousands of zhang high; torrents of water cascaded down at great speed from above, pouring into the pool below.

After just a sweep of his gaze around the surroundings, Ling Chen’s eyes fell upon the position opposite the waterfall. There, a withered, skinny figure sat cross?legged. The figure wore a dou li, with a thin frame and a wizened face, looking like an old man who was about to be buried.

"Isn’t the Gatekeeper of this layer supposed to be Master Gongben?"

Only then did Ling Chen recall that the Gatekeeper of the sixteenth layer seemed to be that peerless Two Sword Technique powerhouse, Master Gongben!

At that thought, Ling Chen’s gaze abruptly dropped to the old man’s waist, and his pupils shrank—sure enough, two Treasure Swords hung there. Though they were concealed quite well, one could still notice them upon careful observation.

"So the Master Gongben from the rumors is actually an old man?"

Ling Chen couldn’t help but be slightly stunned. In his impression, Master Gongben had to be a supremely dashing, peerless swordsman—his figure maybe not towering, but definitely straight and upright. Compared to that, the image of this old man who seemed one step from the grave was far too different.

This old man simply sat cross?legged opposite the waterfall, motionless as a boulder. Yet there was not the slightest hint of contempt in Ling Chen’s heart.

One had to know that the dwarfish old man he encountered on the thirteenth layer had likewise been white?haired, appearing on the brink of his grave, yet his strength had been terrifying.

Ling Chen pressed his right hand against his Treasure Sword and slowly approached the old man.

When the distance between them was still about fifteen steps, that old man finally moved.

They say if one doesn’t move, fine—but when one moves, it’s astounding.

Two streaks of red and blue light abruptly burst from the old man’s waist, flashing through the air. That terrifying edge cleaved the entire waterfall cleanly in two. Ling Chen’s field of vision was completely filled by those two crossing red?and?blue Sword Lights; he could no longer see anything else.

Seeing this, a tremor flickered through Ling Chen’s eyes. But he had already prepared his response. The instant those crossing Sword Lights howled forth, he also drew the Red Sky Sword and Thunder Sound Sword from his waist at the same time, crossing them to block before him!

Bam!

At the instant of collision, Ling Chen’s body was blasted straight back for several li; both his feet plowed a deep furrow in the ground. And just as Ling Chen managed to catch his breath for a moment, the old man had already appeared right before him, the red?and?blue Twin Swords in his hands slashing down from midair!

"So fast!"

Ling Chen had no time to think; his mind spun at high speed as he unleashed dozens of Flying Swords in that moment to guard his body!

Crack, crack!

A swath of Flying Swords was ground to dust, but they bought Ling Chen a precious breath of time. Facing this most famous Yingzhou swordsman, Ling Chen didn’t dare relax in the slightest. Gripping his swords in both hands, he met the attack head?on with a single Green Lotus Sword Song!

However, just as Ling Chen’s sword technique began to take form, the old man’s Twin Swords abruptly came together, hacking his sword technique into four pieces. When the old man struck, the movements of his two swords were identical, achieving absolute unity; one couldn’t find even the slightest difference between them.

Ling Chen noticed that the old man’s two swords weren’t entirely the same. The red Treasure Sword in his right hand was clearly thicker and heavier, while the blue Treasure Sword in his left was noticeably lighter and more agile. This wasn’t some casual pairing, but because everyone’s right?hand strength is far greater than their left. To attain complete balance and uniformity between the strength of both hands, since one couldn’t change the body’s innate traits, one could only work on the swords’ size and weight.

A person’s two hands are inherently opposed; ordinary people simply cannot make their left and right hands act in perfect unison, because that’s equivalent to making opposing things absolutely identical. Yet Master Gongben was the sole exception.

A blade technique of absolute bilateral unity—that was the Two Sword Technique.

Ling Chen’s eyes lit up, and he couldn’t help but feel a surge of wild joy. Wasn’t this precisely the swordsmanship he’d been longing to experience?

After fully blocking the old man’s Two Sword Technique blade technique, Ling Chen once again separated the Twin Swords in his hands and leapt back. Though he had previously crossed swords with Gongben Yeliang and was not entirely unfamiliar with the Two Sword Technique, Gongben Yeliang’s blade technique at best could be called Dual Blade Style—it was still far from reaching the Realm of unified opposites, so strictly speaking it didn’t count as true Two Sword Technique.

Whoosh!

The old man’s body looked terribly emaciated, yet his movements were preternaturally agile. Another sharp wind?splitting sound rang out, and the opponent suddenly appeared above Ling Chen’s head. Both hands turned into a tornado?like whirlwind, killing down upon Ling Chen from the Sky.

Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang!

Ling Chen gripped his Twin Swords, Gold light flashing ceaselessly in his eyes as he continuously unleashed Thunder Cut and Lunar Wheel, those two killing moves, barely managing to offset the raging force within the old man’s Sword Light. Yet before the true Two Sword Technique, Ling Chen’s Dual Sword Stream was clearly insufficient; he was quickly suppressed and driven into disadvantage.