darknovel Chapter 18: I, the Grandmaster, am invincible!
Chapter 18: I, the Grandmaster, am invincible!
Yang Jiuli devised a plan, using himself as bait to lure the snake out of its hole.
Yang Xuan was greatly impressed by this plan, feeling that his son had some strategic acumen.
Yang Xuan was greatly encouraged by Yang Lin's exposure, feeling a sense of exhilaration as if he were in control of the entire situation.
But the snake he attracted was so big that he felt immense pressure, as if he had shot himself in the foot.
"Father, don't worry, we still have the strength to fight!" Yang Jiuli said.
"Still has the strength to fight?" Yang Xuan glanced at his son, muttering to himself, "Doesn't Jiu'er know how powerful a Grandmaster is?"
"Grandmasters possess incredibly keen senses and immense strength, far surpassing even ordinary masters!" Yang Xuan said earnestly.
"We'll go all out later, you can leave in the chaos!" Then, Yang Xuan glanced at Wei Wuji in front of him.
He tightened his grip on the short gun.
His gaze was cold and resolute, as if he were prepared to fight to the death.
Beside them, Tang Yuan and Qin Shisan also gripped their knives and swords tightly, their eyes sharp as blades, like lions poised to pounce.
Yang Mu and Yang Qin stood at the entrance of the mourning hall, surrounded by a group of Shadow Guards and Iron Guards.
"Archers, be ready to strike!" Yang Qin shouted.
Instantly, more than twenty archers, each wielding a medium-sized crossbow, aimed at Wei Wuji.
Crossbowmen also appeared on the houses and courtyard walls.
"Tang Yuan, Yang Xuan, Qin Shisan, I know your strengths by heart. In less than ten rounds, I will be able to cut you down with my sword!" Wei Wuji held his sword in his left hand and his right hand behind his back. His gaze was arrogant and his tone was cold.
He had arrived at Snowdrift Manor long ago.
With the perception of a grandmaster, he saw through everything that happened in the mourning hall.
The reason Wei Wuji did not act immediately was that he wanted to assess the strength of Tang Yuan and Qin Shisan.
Even though many of his men were killed or wounded, he did not make a move.
In his view, everyone below the level of a grandmaster is an ant, and as long as Wei Zhan is protected, that's enough.
"Three grandmasters can be slain in just ten rounds!" The martial arts figures at the entrance of the mourning hall gasped in astonishment.
Jiang Wei secretly glanced at Yang Xuan and the other two grandmasters.
The three men looked solemn and remained silent, like wary leopards ready to strike at any moment.
"I am a Grandmaster, invincible under heaven." Wei Wuji flicked his sleeve, took a step forward, and said domineeringly.
These words are like the judgment of death.
The fate of Yang Xuan and the others was determined.
The room fell silent upon hearing this.
Qin Shisan and the others all took a deep breath, seemingly acknowledging the strength of the Grandmaster.
"Considering the difficulty of your cultivation, those who surrender will not be killed!" Wei Wuji's expression was arrogant, as if he were a king ruling the world.
In the end, the words were like a thunderclap, shaking one's soul.
A powerful surge of sword energy erupted from his body.
Instantly, sword energy roared across the training ground like a tidal wave, forcing the ordinary martial artists to stagger backward.
Just now.
"Kill!" Yang Xuan shouted, leaping out like a tiger, wielding a short spear and thrusting it towards Wei Wuji.
A chilling aura burst forth from the short spear, condensing into a beam of light that shot out.
At the same time, Yang Xuan drew his left hand into a sword shape, his fingertips flashing with cold light, and used the "Frosty Jade Finger" technique to stab at Wei Wuji's eyes.
call out!call out!
Before the person even arrived, the spear and finger beams were already piercing like arrows.
Almost simultaneously, Qin Shisan and Tang Yuan also made their move.
Qin Shisan leaped into the air, soaring three zhang into the sky, and then slashed at Wei Wuji with his Autumn Water Sword.
A surge of sword energy erupted from the tip of his sword, flowing like water as it coiled around Wei Wuji, attempting to bind him.
This is the fifth move of the Thirteen Sword Techniques: Sword Subduing Dragon!
Tang Yuan, wielding the "Five Tigers Soul-Severing Blade," slashed at Wei Wuji's left neck.
This is the first move of the Five Tigers Soul-Severing Blade of Tangjiabao: Decapitation!
"An ant trying to shake a tree!" Seeing this, Wei Wuji remained unmoved. His eyes flashed, and he stomped his foot hard on the ground.
A vast expanse of purple sword energy erupted from Wei Wuji's body, transforming into a nine-foot-wide tornado around him.
The tornado was formed entirely from condensed sword energy, which was as fierce as a gale, and instantly shredded Yang Xuan's cold jade finger beam and spear beam.
The sword energy water dragon emanating from Qin Shisan's sword was shredded as soon as it touched the swirling sword energy gale.
Tang Yuan's slash, with its crisscrossing blade energy and the power to split mountains, was still shattered in an instant.
Not only that, but purple sword energy, like a leech, shot towards the three of them.
Using the recoil from the purple aura, Qin Shisan and Tang Yuan retreated backward.
Yang Xuan also used the momentum to retreat.
"Sword Qi Long Song... Purple Qi Comes from the East!" Wei Wuji suddenly murmured amidst the purple qi tornado.
He drew the Purple Cloud Sword from his left hand and slashed forward with it.
brush!
A sword is drawn.
The sword light flashed, dazzling the eyes, and illuminated the horizon as if it were tinged with purple clouds.
A purple sword aura, like a long river of sword energy, rushed towards Yang Xuan.
The sword energy was fierce, like a mighty river, unstoppable.
As Yang Xuan used the momentum to retreat, the sword energy surged towards him. He immediately transformed his left hand into a palm and struck forward.
Cold-Blooded Palm.
The murderous aura burst forth from his palm, condensing into a massive palm print five feet wide, blocking the oncoming river of sword energy.
The river of sword energy crashed into Han Sha's palm.
boom!
The two clashed in an instant; the river of sword energy shattered the Cold Fiend Palm and surged forward.
In the instant Yang Xuan used the Cold Fiend Palm to block, his body swayed and he leaped seven feet to the right, narrowly avoiding the impact of the river of sword energy. The river of sword energy pierced through and struck the pillar of the mourning hall behind him.
boom!
The pillars of the hall collapsed, the roof beams of the main hall cracked, and some green tiles fell off.
The martial arts practitioners in the vicinity dispersed to both sides early on, not daring to stay nearby.
"Rainbow Piercing the Sun!" Qin Shisan had already landed and stabilized himself. He then used the Autumn Water Sword to pierce Wei Wuji with "Rainbow Piercing the Sun".
Wei Wuji's gaze turned cold, and with a flash, he soared into the sky, causing Qin Shisan's sword to miss its mark.
"Sword splits mountains!" After soaring into the sky, Wei Wuji wielded the Purple Cloud Sword and slashed twice, transforming it into a cross shape as he slashed towards Qin Shisan.
Qin Shisan dodged immediately.
"Purple clouds fill the sky, sword shadows blaze!" The instant Qin Shisan dodged the sword, Wei Wuji's eyes flashed, and suddenly, purple energy surged from his body, turning into rolling mist that enveloped the entire training ground, making it impossible for others to see his body clearly.
Qin Shisan and the others were also shrouded in fog, making it difficult to see things a few feet away.
"This..." Upon seeing this, both Qin Zhixue and Tang Yifan's pupils contracted.
Wei Wuji is nowhere to be seen.
With his Grandmaster-level agility and speed, who could withstand a sneak attack?
In the training ground, Yang Xuan, Tang Yuan, and Qin Shisan were all on high alert, sensing their surroundings.
"Swish, swish!"
Just then, a purple light flashed in the sky.
One by one, Wei Wujis suddenly appeared, like fleeting glimpses of a startled bird, wielding swords to stab Qin Shisan, and then to Yang Xuan and Tang Yuan.
In an instant, it appeared as if more than a dozen Wei Wujis had appeared in the air.
Yang Xuan, Tang Yuan, and the other two immediately drew their swords, knives, and short guns to defend themselves.
After only two rounds of defense, Yang Xuan was stabbed in the right arm.
Tang Yuan's left hand was also stabbed.
Qin Shisan also suffered a slash to his right abdomen.
All three of them were on edge, carefully sensing the fluctuations around them, not daring to relax for a moment.
"What a magnificent sight of purple clouds filling the sky and sword shadows blazing!" Yang Jiuli murmured, his eyes flashing upon seeing this.
"If this continues, Dad will be seriously injured within three rounds!"
"The purple mist filling the arena now presents a perfect opportunity to strike. It's time to let our ancestor contribute his remaining strength!" Yang Jiuli thought to himself.
With a thought, he sank into his sea of consciousness, locking his divine sense onto a 'past life talisman'.
Next to this talisman, a row of numbers appeared: The talisman seed has been planted, awaiting activation.
Without the slightest hesitation, he transformed his divine consciousness into a finger and tapped the 'Past Life Talisman' to activate it.
"In the name of stone, with talisman as guide, I connect with the ancient past and illuminate the netherworld... I command all living beings throughout history, whether born from womb or egg... whoever receives this talisman seed, their spirits from past lives will obey my command... Yang Xiangru, soul, return!"
Within his soul sea, Yang Jiuli's divine consciousness began chanting incantations.
In that instant, the Three Lives Stone shone brightly, evolving into a vortex, within which a long river of time truly emerged.
Yang Jiuli's chanting voice transformed into countless talismans, disappearing into the long river of time.
Within that long river of time, faint points of light intertwined and coalesced into a transparent, blurry human figure.
Meanwhile, at the mansion halfway up the mountain.
Inside the coffin, a talisman appeared between the eyebrows of Yang Xiangru's corpse, and it evolved into a vortex.
This vortex seems to be connected to the Three Lives Stone in Yang Jiuli's sea of consciousness.
Inside the coffin, blood and qi began to flow from Yang Xiangru's body, disappearing into the vortex formed by the talisman between his eyebrows.
The next moment, in Yang Jiuli's sea of consciousness between his brows.
Within the long river of time connected by the Three Lives Stone, a tall and imposing man gradually materialized.
The man's body appeared somewhat ethereal, yet he looked exactly like Yang Xiangru, exuding the aura of a grandmaster.
However, this man had a "past life talisman" branded between his eyebrows.
With a thought, Yang Jiuli channeled a wisp of divine sense into the 'Past Life Talisman' mark between the man's eyebrows.
In an instant, his consciousness merged with the somewhat illusory body before him, and he gained control.
A surge of power welled up in his heart. He could feel that the dantian in this body contained a vast amount of cold, malevolent true energy.
In addition, Yang Jiuli felt the scene before him shift, as if he had traveled through time and space to more than a hundred years ago.
He saw a child, who was Yang Xiangru when he was young.
Then, his mind merged with the child's body, becoming one with him.
You started practicing martial arts at the age of seven.
He reached the peak of martial arts at the age of eleven.
He reached the level of a chivalrous knight at the age of thirteen.
He reached the level of a renowned master at the age of sixteen.
After mastering the light-footed skills "Treading Snow Without a Trace," "Stone-Shattering Palm," and "Floating Willow Sword Technique," he began to roam the martial world.
You reached the pinnacle of your martial arts prowess at the age of eighteen, your swordsmanship was unparalleled, and you became famous throughout the martial arts world.
After you turn thirty, you start to get married and have children, and your martial arts skills hit a bottleneck, so you begin to look for an opportunity to break through.
At the age of thirty-seven, your blood and qi will gradually transform into true qi, and you will enter the half-step Grandmaster realm.
At the age of forty-three, you transformed all the blood and energy in your body into icy true energy, entering the Grandmaster realm and beginning to cultivate the "Snowflake Sword Technique".