Chapter 363: Eight-Steps Dragon Slaying (1)

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Boom!

Lightning streaked across the sea of clouds, and countless twisted lightning snakes spread in the sky.

The soybean-sized raindrops hit the huge black stele. The two figures standing on the left and right were as small as rice grains compared to the io,ooo-square-foot platform. At this moment, they became the focus of the entire world.

Tens of thousands of Jianghu martial artists focused on the two peak sabermen in front of the stone stele. When they heard the words ‘my saber is faster than Kuang Yazi’s’, no one laughed.

After all, martial arts was like this. People stepped on the shoulders of predecessors, using generation after generation of ‘disciples surpassing their masters’ to elevate the concept of martial arts to the extreme. There was no fastest, only faster, no highest, only higher. There had never been any strongest move that would never change since ancient times.

Everyone in Jianghu knew this logic, but it wasn’t so easy to do it.

Martial arts moves were like Go game records. Although it was said that there was no such thing as the same game in history, after thousands of years of inheritance, the past prodigies of Jianghu had already figured out the strongest path to the point where ‘one more Go piece is a burden, and one less Go piece is lacking firepower’.

Not to mention creating a peerless martial arts technique out of thin air, even if it were just innovating and slightly optimizing the methods of the predecessors to improve them a tiny bit, it was harder than ascending to the heavens.

Everyone’s gazes focused on Ye Jingtang, who had appeared in Jianghu for the first time. They felt that if he hadn’t innovated anything and surpassed Kuang Yazi, he probably wouldn’t have dared to say such arrogant words on such an occasion.

But Ye Jingtang looked a little too young.

Although 90% of the current generation’s One Immortal, Two Sages, and Eight Chiefs had reached the top before the age of 30, and being young wasn’t unusual, Ye Jingtang looked around 20 years old at most. A man’s physique wasn’t fully formed until he was 24 or 25 years old. He had yet to reach his peak at this age.

If he could surpass Kuang Yazi now, then his talent was already at the level of an immortal, and he might be able to shake Feng Guancheng in the future.

Xuanyuan Chao stood quietly in the rain. Facing Ye Jingtang’s arrogant words, he just replied calmly, “Talk with your saber.”

Splash!

The heavy rain fell, and the lake immediately fell silent.

After Ye Jingtang glanced at Xuanyuan Chao, he turned around and walked past the stone stele to the middle of Jun Mountain Terrace.

Seeing this, Xuanyuan Chao pulled out the Jun Mountain Saber, took off the leather shoulder strap from behind his waist, hung it on his back, and walked to the middle from the other side.

Tread, tread, tread…

Steady footsteps became the only sound in the world.

Qiu Tianhe was a little hesitant when he saw this. After all, if they fought in front of the stone stele, they would have a chance to jump out of the arena. According to the established rules of Jianghu, if someone fell off the arena, they would lose. If the winner jumped off the arena to chase after and kill the loser, it would be unacceptable behavior. Generally speaking, no one would do this.

Fighting in the middle of a io,ooo-square-foot platform was equivalent to a deathmatch in a cage. The weaker party had no chance of escaping from the arena. Whether they could survive depended on whether the winner would leave them alive.

Qiu Tianhe walked behind, hesitating to speak. He wanted to advise Ye Jingtang not to be so arrogant, but with tens of thousands of people watching, it was clearly not advisable to increase the opponent’s momentum and destroy his side’s prestige.

Daoist Xuanji, carrying a pile of weapons, looked much calmer. Her gaze was on Ye Jingtang’s back as she wondered how he could use his saber faster than Kuang Yazi.

Jun Mountain Terrace was too big. Countless Jianghu people were floating on the lake and were too far away to see clearly. Seeing outsiders walking onto the stage, some bold saber users jumped onto the edge of the platform.

Although standing on the stage carried the risk of being chopped casually and dying in vain and even being scolded, compared to watching a battle of this level up close, this risk was really nothing.

Tread, tread, tread…

Soon, the two of them arrived at the center of Jun Mountain Terrace, far away from the surrounding waves and boats, leaving only the sounds of the wind and rain between heaven and earth.

Ye Jingtang took off his bamboo hat, revealing his long hair tied up with a black ribbon. He stood in the rain with his hands hanging down naturally, and his gaze turned from sharp to calm. There was no longer any aura fluctuation, and he became a stone that had fused with the environment.

Qiu Tianhe was stunned when he saw this scene. After all, in the capital a few days ago, Ye Jingtang didn’t have this kind of Unity of Heaven and Man.

At this realm, Ye Jingtang couldn’t see through Xuanyuan Chao, and Xuanyuan Chao couldn’t see through him either.

For this reason, Xuanyuan Chao’s eyes became more serious. He threw the old and new enmities to the back of his mind, and his hands also hung down naturally. His mind was only on the saber as he stared at Ye Jingtang’s eyes.

The two sides were standing 100 feet apart. The dense crowd around Jun Mountain Terrace had their hearts in their throats.

A battle that would definitely spread throughout the world and affect the structure of Jianghu for decades to come officially began at this moment!

Boom!

Blue lightning streaked through the clouds, and thunder rumbled in the sky. A shrill saber cry sounded in the center of Jun Mountain Terrace.

Clang!

Ye Jingtang’s figure changed from stillness to movement without any warning.

The moment the thunder sounded, his entire body had already shot through the air, and the stone bricks under his feet all shattered. The dense raindrops were smashed into mist by his body and wrapped in the strong wind, turning into a long dragon-like white mist.

Boom!

Ye Jingtang erupted and unsheathed his saber at the same time. The moment the tip of the saber left the scabbard, the figure had already arrived in front of Xuanyuan Chao!

Not to mention the nearly 10,000 martial artists watching, even Qiu Tianhe was shocked by this astonishing speed. After all, he was 100% sure that even if he could see this saber clearly, he would definitely not be able to react in time. By the time the saber came out of its scabbard, his head would already be gone.

But Xuanyuan Chao was the Saber Chief who had dominated Jianghu for decades after all. Although he had reached the end of his peak, he was still at his peak. This shocking saber move didn’t cause his aura to fluctuate at all.

When Xuanyuan Chao saw the saber attack that was as fast as lightning, there was even a flash in his eyes, as if he were a lifetime ago..