Chapter 1316: A New Wager

Chapter 1316: Chapter 1316: A New Wager

Can Wan Qianli swing Sword Qi like that? Yes! But there’s no need! Against ordinary opponents, he can use far more time-efficient and effortless moves to defeat them! Against someone like Liu Xuanji, such moves are a joke and won’t have any effect. The move aside from its astonishing momentum has no substantive effect in Wan Qianli’s eyes. Does Pei Yan not understand the rationale, or is his Sword Qi so abundant that he can squander it?

No matter how shocked Wan Qianli was, Liu Xuanji on the field remained calm. Faced with such a dense Sword Qi attack, even he had to slow his advance. After being forced out of hiding by the Sword Qi, Liu Xuanji held the small Glimmer in one hand, navigating like a lone boat in a storm of Sword Qi, slowly moving forward. He only used the short sword in his hand to deflect or dissolve when encountering unavoidable Sword Qi obstructions or shattered Sword Qi vortices.

The fifty-step distance progressed slowly, but Liu Xuanji steadily advanced step by step. As he approached within twenty steps of Pei Yan, Liu Xuanji suddenly became aggressive, and Pei Yan responded.

Bam!

A gunshot sounded! Pei Yan, who was swinging his sword with his right hand, unknowingly pulled out his custom-designed Divine Artifact revolver and fired a shot at Liu Xuanji who was attempting to dash forward.

Liu Xuanji, keenly aware that this shot was something special, used the small Glimmer to separate the Sword Qi coming from the side, twisted his body, and managed to dodge the shot.

"Don’t use Source Power or talisman arrays to block!"

Feng Tianhe, who personally participated in creating this Divine Artifact, certainly knew its power. After shouting a warning, he immediately unfolded his defensive Magical Artifact to block.

Boom!

A violent explosion resounded inside the arena. Wan Qili looked in shock at the dent made by the explosion on Feng Tianhe’s defensive Magical Artifact. What kind of Divine Artifact was this! Ignoring the explosive power triggered by this small object, he just saw that this hit penetrated defenses established by Source Power, arrays, and talismans without obstructions. If Feng Tianhe hadn’t used his Magical Artifact to create a defensive wall at the last moment, wouldn’t this explosion have burst directly into the pavilion?

Breaking ten thousand techniques? Wan Qianli gazed at Pei Yan, for the first time paying serious attention to this young man whose defenses based on Source Power were ineffective!

"Heh heh heh, seems your disciple is quite pleased with his new Divine Artifact! He’s been wanting to find a chance to show it off, and today he finally found it," Lin Ruxue whispered teasingly in Lin Junzhao’s ear.

"You know his show-off nature, don’t you? Without the unique Power of Origin from the Bloodshed Realm counterbalancing, he has many limitations when using the Power of Origin I bestowed upon him. Calmness? For someone whose mind is so active, it’s too difficult. This Divine Artifact just makes up for his weakness; every time he only wraps a little Power of Origin around the bullet, which isn’t hard for him. With these two Divine Artifacts’ buffs, he can now battle the Summit of Heavenly Dao." Lin Junzhao appeared dismissive of Pei Yan’s performance, yet his tone had a touch of pride.

"Then let me see how many moves he can withstand from Liu Xuanji while standing still! The kid always loved making wagers, why don’t we gamble today too?" Lin Ruxue suddenly covered her face and chuckled as she proposed.

"Oh? Seems the older sister’s really happy today! How could the younger sister dampen your spirits? So what shall we wager?" Lin Junzhao sized up Lin Ruxue and, seeing from her eyes she wasn’t joking, thought for a moment and smiled in response.

"If I win, give me one of your two direct disciples! Don’t worry, when I say give, they’ll switch to me as their mentor, and I will naturally guide them attentively. If they wish to settle in their own realm later, I won’t block them. But when a mentor has a request, the disciple should appear and solve it for the mentor, right?"

Here it comes! The elder sister is playing a good hand! She didn’t blatantly ask for Pei Yan, but does it really make a difference? Pei Jin and Pei Yan are siblings! Pei Jin secretly protected him for over ten years for Pei Yan, and Pei Yan almost lost his life for his sister. Ask for one and the other would have to be tied to it. Lin Junzhao thought for a moment and laughed, "Fine! If I win, I’ll also choose one as a disciple from your direct disciples."

"Agreed!"

"Then elder sister should specify the number of rounds!"

"Thirty moves! What do you think? If it’s considered too much, we can discuss." Lin Ruxue probed.

"What elder sister says goes, thirty moves it will be!"

"Good!" Lin Ruxue said and then turned her head to high-voice shout into the arena: "Pei Yan, I wagered on your affiliation with your mentor. If you can survive thirty moves, your mentor will have a special reward for you. Xuanji! I’ve laid a heavy stake on this bet, don’t let me down!"

The two people on the field, upon hearing this, immediately felt that the originally rather relaxed duel turned tense! What? Wagering on my affiliation! Thirty moves? Lin Junzhao, you indeed think highly of me; Pei Yan secretly cursed in his heart. Liu Xuanji, upon hearing these words, also perked up his spirit, originally only aiming to win Wan Qianli, but now took up the hopes of the Spirit Emperor and had to exert his utmost effort.

"Pei Yan, I apologize!" Liu Xuanji, who had not made a single real move previously, once saying this suddenly attacked, the small Glimmer in his hand carving a path toward Pei Yan.

The traces of the short sword’s movement couldn’t be seen? Couldn’t even detect a hint of aura! When Liu Xuanji swung the short sword, even the light around him distorted, making Pei Yan completely unable to perceive the trajectory of his strike. Is this the effect of the Divine Artifact?

Not only the angle of the sword swing but even the Sword Qi initially targeting Liu Xuanji detached from his control at this moment, converging into the light whirlpool around Liu Xuanji.

Damn it! Too arrogant! Pei Yan raised his hand and fired another shot, blue light condensing at the gun muzzle, and in the next second, a dazzling beam shot out, one shot! Two shots! Three shots!

Aiming at Liu Xuanji’s location, he fired five shots consecutively. Although no other Origin characteristic was added, the full-power Plasma Cannon attack triggered by the Divine Artifact using abnormal powers plunged the bullet chamber into a two-minute cooldown.

But this attack’s effects were significant; Liu Xuanji, who was gathering Sword Qi for an attack, was once again forced out of his form to evade this powerful assault. Yet even in haste, he didn’t miss the opportunity, with his right-hand Glimmer swinging an unfathomable Sword Qi towards Pei Yan.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Successive violent explosions echoed in the array, and even Lin Ruxue couldn’t sit still anymore because after the first two explosions, evident cracks appeared in the hastily arranged defensive array of four Summit of Heavenly Dao experts. As the defense set-up, they couldn’t use the Power of Space to transfer because that would show favoritism to the attacking side, so they could only withstand it head-on.