Who Let Him Cultivate Immortality

Chapter 169: Five Elements Technique Clash

“Dao Seeking Sect, Lu Yang.”

“Five Elements Sect, Bai Ming.”

Bai Ming, as if facing a formidable enemy, noticed the change in his master’s expression on the stands, yet no stop to the match was called.

This indicated that the Lu Yang before him was defying common sense but not breaking any rules or cheating.

Which was terrifying indeed.

Whoosh—

The sound of a long spear slicing through the air marked the beginning of the battle.

Bai Ming wielded a silver spear, gleaming under the sunlight.

He was the first to attack Lu Yang, who calmly responded, sidestepping to the right. The Qingfeng Sword slid across the spear’s shaft, sending sparks flying.

The Qingfeng Sword’s momentum undiminished, it continued along the spear’s shaft towards Bai Ming’s hands. Bai Ming flicked his wrist, the spear vibrated, deflecting the Qingfeng Sword’s attack.

The sword light poured like rain, turning into a river, rolling down incessantly. The spear was vigorous, moving with great force, not fearing Lu Yang’s sword technique, choosing to clash head-on.

In the exchange of sword and spear, victory was decided in an instant, dazzling onlookers. Disciples from the Five Elements Sect were shocked, having never seen anyone at the same level engage Bai Ming in weapon combat and come out even.

“Even?” Meng Jingzhou scoffed upon hearing this. From the start, Lu Yang had only used the most basic sword techniques in response, which were linked too smoothly for the Foundation Building disciples of the Five Elements Sect to notice.

Meng Jingzhou knew the prowess of Lu Yang’s swordsmanship best. Up to now, Lu Yang hadn’t even used his sword techniques.

Lu Yang rarely draws his sword, but that doesn’t mean his swordsmanship isn’t strong. As a sword spirit root, how could his swordsmanship not be formidable?

Peach Blossom Leaf watched Lu Yang on the field intently, thinking of another issue.

She was present when Lu Yang learned the “Tree Planting Scripture,” and she vividly remembered the distance between Lu Yang and his plant clone was only twenty meters.

Yet, the distance between Lu Yang on the stands and Lu Yang on the martial arts field was far more than twenty meters.

What Peach Blossom Leaf didn’t know was that after defeating the tiger demon, Lu Yang obtained a spell for commanding ghost servants, which, after learning, became an astral projection technique.

After acquiring the Bodhi Tree clone, Lu Yang astral projected into the plant clone, so he no longer had to worry about the distance between his body and the clone.

In other words, Lu Yang’s soul was now on the martial arts field, with the Lu Yang on the stands completely controlled by Everlasting Fairy.

On the martial arts field, Lu Yang seized an opportunity, flipping in the air, his right leg lifted high, concentrating all his strength on his right foot, stepping down on the spearhead of the silver spear. Bai Ming tried to withdraw his spear, but Lu Yang’s body was like a mountain, firmly pressing down on it.

Qingfeng Sword drew an arc in the air, piercing the sound barrier, aimed directly at Bai Ming!

The audience gasped, but soon, disciples from the Five Elements Sect regained their composure, “Don’t panic, don’t forget Brother Bai Ming’s strength lies in the Five Elements Techniques. His spear technique is just a distraction!”

Bai Ming released the spear, quickly retreating, forming a seal with one hand. A large earth snake rolled out from the ground.

The martial arts field wasn’t paved with stone bricks but made of special yellow earth, fixed with formations.

“It’s the Earth Dragon from the Five Elements Technique!” Long Xiang from the Five Elements Sect exclaimed.

The dragon form has a special significance in the cultivation world. At this stage, Bai Ming couldn’t transform earth into a dragon but could only manifest a large earth snake. Even so, casually summoning an earth snake wasn’t something ordinary Foundation Building cultivators could achieve!

Lu Yang seemed unconcerned, quietly uttering two words, passing through the earth dragon.

“Shrink Earth.”

Bai Ming’s pupils contracted. What spell was that? Was it one of the Five Elements Techniques?

He didn’t expect Lu Yang to also use Five Elements Techniques, and moreover, one of the extremely difficult to learn earth escape techniques!

Even he had only scratched the surface of the earth escape technique, not having truly mastered it!

Could it be that the opponent’s talent in spells surpasses his own?!

How could that be possible, when he, like the founder of the Five Elements Sect, was born with a Five Elements immortal body, naturally proficient in the logic behind the Five Elements Techniques!

Qiu Jin’an, witnessing this scene, couldn’t help but be moved: “No, that’s not the earth escape technique!”

He knew the Five Elements Techniques better than anyone, and the spell Lu Yang used didn’t match any he knew.

Another entirely new technique?!

“How was this created?” Qiu Jin’an turned to ask Everlasting Fairy.

Everlasting Fairy, expressionless, replied: “Learned it while studying ‘Shrinking Earth into Inches.’”

“Hm?”

Qiu Jin’an’s mind didn’t make the connection. Were these two techniques related?

At this moment, the situation on the field changed again. Bai Ming switched from defense to offense, forming a seal with his hands. The killing aura of Metal and Earth condensed in the arena.

Dozens of small knives flew out from his embrace, moving at his command.

“It’s the Metal Commanding Technique!” Fang Hao from the Five Elements Sect named the technique.

The Metal Commanding Technique allows one to manipulate all metal materials. If cultivated to a high level, it could even control the opponent’s magical weapons, which is terrifying.

Currently, Bai Ming could only control his own magical treasures, similar to Object Manipulating Technique but more focused on combat.

The dozens of small knives, like deadly weapons, surged from all directions, all aiming for Lu Yang’s vital points!

Faced with unavoidable attacks, Lu Yang pulled out a Golden Light Spell, placing it on his body. His body emitted intense bright light, forming a protective golden glow.

This was something he bought with three thousand contribution points rewarded by Dai Bufan after returning from Yanjiang County to the Dao Seeking Sect.

The knives, upon hitting Lu Yang’s body surface, were directly deflected.

Bai Ming sneered: “Heh, just a talisman, limited in uses and duration, merely a minor trick. How many times can you block?”

After hearing this, Lu Yang removed the Golden Light Spell.

Bai Ming continued to sneer: “Given up resisting…”

Lu Yang reapplied the Golden Light Spell, his body bursting with golden light, then removed and reapplied it repeatedly, causing the light to flicker intensely. The contrast was so stark that it almost blinded Bai Ming.

Bai Ming had never thought the Golden Light Spell could be used in this manner.

He had never encountered such a situation before, his eyelids instinctively wanting to close. Realizing that closing his eyes now would lead to Lu Yang’s attack, he struggled against his body’s instinct, squinting his eyes.

Just as he was fighting against his instinct, Lu Yang used the earth-traveling technique, suddenly emerging from beneath Bai Ming’s feet, delivering a powerful punch right to Bai Ming’s chin, knocking out a tooth!

“Golden Crow Flame!” Bai Ming used his strongest attack, aiming to determine the victor in one strike.

The fiery golden flames raged, with faint cries of the Golden Crow emanating from the fire. The heat was intense, instantly raising the temperature of the martial arts field by over twenty degrees, making the audience feel the oncoming flames!

The one who reacted most strongly to the Golden Crow Flame in the audience was Long Xiang, a water spiritual root cultivator. Since ancient times, water and fire have been incompatible. The appearance of the Golden Crow Flame gave him a feeling of oppression, even slowing the circulation of spiritual energy in his body.

“So this is the Golden Crow Flame that established Brother Bai as the number one in the Foundation Building stage, truly powerful!”

“I heard from the sect master that Brother Bai’s Golden Crow Flame is transforming into the higher Sun True Fire. Once Brother Bai forms his Golden Core, the Golden Crow Flame will smoothly evolve into Sun True Fire. Having true fire right at the beginning of the Golden Core stage is terrifying!”

Long Xiang turned his head, surprised to see Li Haoran, a fire spiritual root cultivator, showing no concern for Lu Yang, fully aware of the terror of the Golden Crow Flame.

“Aren’t you worried about Lu Yang?”

Li Haoran smiled, indirectly answering: “Senior Brother Lu once asked me to forge a flying chariot. We worked together for three days and finally completed it.”

“During the forging process, Senior Brother Lu was responsible for providing the flames. Do you know what kind of fire that was?”

“What fire?”

“Samadhi True Fire.”

On the martial arts field, Bai Ming, confident of his victory, suddenly felt a wave of unease as the Golden Crow Flame blocked his view, preventing him from seeing Lu Yang’s movements.

Suddenly, his expression changed.

He felt from Lu Yang’s direction, a fiercer and more domineering flame approaching.

This feeling… it’s true fire!

(End of the chapter)