I Have A Sword

Chapter 691: Invincible

Chapter 691: Invincible

A delay effect!

Yuanshi had to admit that he was surprised. He never thought that Ye Guan's sword had a delay effect and that he couldn't sense it at all. What kind of sword technique is that?

While he was engrossed in his own thoughts, the sword light reached him before he realized it.

Yuanshi roared, and a terrifying divine light erupted from within him.

I'm blocking it! Yuanshi dared not confront Ye Guan's mysterious sword technique head-on and chose to block it instead.

Boom!

The divine light around Yuanshi trembled violently before Yuanshi himself was blasted away. As always, another sword light was already making a beeline for him before he could even do anything.

One attack after another! Ye Guan had no plans of giving him any time to breathe at all.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Yuanshi was forced into a corner and could only defend himself as the divine light around him dimmed gradually.

Swoosh!

Ye Guan suddenly vanished. Instead of using that mysterious sword technique, Ye Guan decided to manipulate spacetime itself. However, the sword was still present because the one he had unleashed was delayed—combining the future with the present! Ye Guan had just come up with this idea, and it seemed to be pretty effective as Yuanshi's face changed drastically. Yuanshi raised his fist and punched out, sending a wave of golden light toward the oncoming sword.

Boom!

Both Yuanshi and Ye Guan were blasted away.

Just then, a ray of sword light suddenly appeared to Yuanshi's right. However, it posed no threat to him because it was too far away. Yuanshi's eyes narrowed at the sight, and he was starting to understand Ye Guan's attack pattern.

The core of Ye Guan's flurry of attacks was prediction! Yuanshi was being suppressed because Ye Guan was accurately predicting the former's movement.

If Yuanshi could predict Ye Guan's prediction, then... a determined glimmer flashed in Yuanshi's eyes, and his confidence surged crazily.

Ye Guan's sword technique was terrifyingly strong, and it even contained a horrifying spacetime power.

Unfortunately, Ye Guan's sword technique was not really a threat to Yuanshi as long as he avoided confronting Ye Guan head-on.

Ye Guan came to a halt and closed his eyes.

Yuanshi sneered at the sight and said, "There's no use. I've figured out your attack pattern..."

And that was when Ye Guan opened his eyes. With a will on his end, thousands of sword lights surged, but they inexplicably vanished as soon as they appeared.

Yuanshi frowned, finding it strange.

However, Ye Guan merely stared at Yuanshi without saying anything.

Rumble!

A rumbling noise echoed all of a sudden as thousands of sword lights manifested around Yuanshi!

Fuck! Yuanshi's face turned ashen. He's not trying to predict me anymore! He's going for an overwhelming assault! A blanket attack!

This kind of attack couldn't be employed by an ordinary cultivator. After all, even though harnessing one's sword intent and harnessing the power of spacetime could be done continuously, one needed an infinite amount of spiritual energy to do so. Unfortunately for Yuanshi, it was an issue that didn't exist for Ye Guan. He had a ton of Ancestral Veins, so he wouldn't run out of spiritual energy even if he wanted to exhaust it.

Yuanshi was stunned by the dazzling and terrifying sight. However, he recovered quickly and gestured with his hands, summoning a myriad rays of divine light.

His surroundings were instantly engulfed in a chaotic clash of divine lights and sword lights, generating fearsome shockwaves.

Swoosh!

All of a sudden, Ye Guan vanished into thin air.

A terrifying sword light streaked across the skies, slicing through the chaotic zone of sword lights and divine lights.

Boom!

A deafening explosion echoed across heaven and earth, and a mighty shockwave swept across everything nearby, destroying everything in its path.

It was an earth-shaking battle!

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Ye Guan swung his sword nonstop in an all-out battle against Yuanshi.

This was Ye Guan's first time fighting a cultivator with seventy percent divinity. Astonishingly, Ye Guan was keeping up with such a powerhouse even without the support of his bloodlines and Ao Qianqian. He relied on nothing but his mysterious sword technique.

Yuanshi was being completely suppressed by Ye Guan; he couldn't handle Ye Guan's mysterious sword technique at all. At first, he thought that predicting Ye Guan's prediction was enough\, but his plan went up in smoke when Ye Guan employed an indiscriminate, blanket attack on him, which left him utterly bewildered.

Meanwhile, Ye Guan was growing more and more excited with each strike. He was refining his sword technique in the middle of the battle. He had been working on it for a long time inside the tiny pagoda, but he had overlooked something important during his training, which was the fact that real growth could only be experienced through real combat. There was a massive difference between real combat and practicing by oneself.

Ye Guan attacked nonstop, seemingly expending a ton of energy, but he was studying Yuanshi's attack pattern and style at the same time. Of course, it was exhausting, but Ye Guan could barely feel the exhaustion, as it was just too much fun.

This was the beauty of real combat! A sparring could simply be a mere competition of raw strength, but a real battle demanded the usage of one's brain as well.

Unbeknownst to the two, there were two people enjoying the battle in the shadows.

One of them was Madam Chu from the Chu Palace, while the other was a white-robed young man.

They had arrived long ago, but they had chosen to remain hidden and watch from the sidelines.

Madam Chu was unwittingly transfixed on Ye Guan as she asked, "What are your chances against him in a fight?"

The white-robed young man was quiet for a while before he finally replied, "Zero."

Zero? Madam Chu frowned and turned to look at the white-robed young man.

The white-robed young man explained, "Grandmother, his sword technique is extremely bizarre. I've been observing it closely, but I can't sense nor predict the trajectory of his attacks... It's scary."

Madam Chu stared at Ye Guan again and calmly said, "His sword technique is indeed very interesting. However, Yuanshi is simply too weak. He has seventy percent divinity, but he's too weak to even stand against a cultivator of our Chu Palace with just fifty percent divinity."

The white-robed young man nodded slightly and remained silent.

Madam Chu added, "He is indeed a monstrous talent. Given time, he could become the second 'First God...'"

The white-robed young man's curiosity was piqued. "Grandmother, how would the First God fare within the Chu Palace and the Primordial Spirit Land? I'm talking about during his peak."

"He'd be invincible."

"Invincible?"

"Yes, invincible. Otherwise, do you really think that he'd be paired with the Saintess of the Primordial Spirit Land? You have to know that the people from that place are incredibly proud. Even though the God Clan, the Zhen Clan, and the Ancient Wilderness are considered top-tier powers, they're like clowns in the eyes of the Primordial Spirit Land. In fact, the First God wasn't well received during his first visit to the Primordial Spirit Land."

"What happened then?"

"He defeated the young elites of the Primordial Spirit Land; not a single one of them was his match. In the past, our Chu Palace was equally proud; we had no regard for anyone as well," Madam Chu said. Then, she shook her head slightly and said, "When one's strength reaches a certain level, one will inevitably become arrogant. Unfortunately, arrogance will only lead to one's downfall."

The white-robed young man nodded and said, "Why did the First God choose to self-destruct?"

Madam Chu scoffed and replied, "Because of love..."

The white-robed young man was bewildered.

Madam Chu closed her eyes and said, "It's a pity that he gave his affection to a woman who had chosen the Great Dao. In the face of the Great Dao, romance is not even worth mentioning."

The white-robed young man remained silent.

Indeed! True powerhouses rarely cared about relationships. What woman could a true powerhouse not obtain? Once one had access to as many women as one wanted, then one would eventually realize that women were nothing special. The majority of them had a price, so harboring romantic feelings for them was simply absurd. Of course, there were exceptions like the First God, who treated romance seriously, but people like him were extremely rare among true powerhouses. It was the reason Madam Chu scoffed. In her opinion, the First God was foolish for choosing to self-destruct for the sake of a woman. Madam Chu genuinely thought that way despite being a woman herself.

One had to surpass the Great Dao to become truly immortal. Everything was ephemeral and fleeting on the ruthless path to the summit of cultivation.

Live long enough and one would become indifferent to anything...

The white-robed young man shook his head slightly and said, "I am in no position to judge such an exceptional figure."

Madam Chu looked at the white-robed young man with a tinge of pride on her face. She was afraid that the white-robed young man would become arrogant and look down on everyone.

When the Chu Palace was at the peak of its power, their disciples were all proud and haughty, while the Primordial Spirit Land was extremely patient and low-key under the leadership of the Primordial Nan King.

Madam Chu couldn't but sigh at the thought. The Palace Master of the Chu Palace at the time couldn't compare to the Primordial Nan King at all when it came to intelligence and foresight.

Just then, the white-robed young man said, "The battle is almost over."

Madam Chu retracted her thoughts and looked into the distance. Yuanshi was covered in sword wounds as he retreated nonstop. He hadn't been able to fight back at all.

To make matters worse, Ye Guan was getting even stronger as he fought, and his mysterious sword technique was also becoming more and more unpredictable.

Yuanshi truly couldn't keep up.

The white-robed young man asked, "Grandmother, should we intervene?"

Madam Chu shook her head. "No."

"Why not?"

"He's not simple at all. Someone very powerful must be backing him up—someone with ninety percent divinity."

"Really? How did you reach that conclusion, Grandmother?"

"It's all because his sword technique contains a mysterious spacetime power that I've never seen before," Madam Chu said sternly. Her words couldn't be taken lightly at all, as she had seen many things but had never seen anything like Ye Guan's mysterious sword technique. Shockingly, the spacetime power that Ye Guan was harnessing made Madam Chu feel threatened, even though she was a cultivator with eighty percent divinity.

In addition, her divinity was not something that Zhen Tian or Shen Qi could contest against, as they hadn't been through a divine tempering. In other words, they couldn't be compared to her at all.

The white-robed young man took a good look at Ye Guan in the distance before asking, "Are there any forces stronger than the Primordial Spirit Land or the Chu Palace?"

Madam Chu was silent for a moment before she replied, "Even if there aren't, we must act as if there are. Only by doing so can we remain always vigilant."