Reborn as a Mountain: I Defy the Heavens with a Smile-Chapter 62: Spectral Blades

Swoosh!

Ye Chen moved swiftly, thrusting his sword at Zhen Yunqi’s vitals. Just like her, he was ruthless; if she failed to defend, the spar would end here.

Zhen Yunqi couldn’t help but narrow her beautiful eyes at him. The attack came with lightning speed, and there was no time for her to dodge.

Nevertheless, her expression didn’t even change a little, and she calmly swung her sword against his.

Both of their attacks were normal without any martial skills; however, the strength behind them was massive, which made Li Mei and Lan Ming feel pressured at the distance.

They were even having trouble following their figures as they were too fast, leaving only blurs and shadows behind.

Bang!

A dull metallic sound rang out as the two swords collided fiercely, making the sparks fly in the air.

"You can’t defeat me," Zhen Yunqi stated once again, but this time with a provocative smile.

She suspected that he had given her the supreme ice lotus with impure intentions. How could she not teach him a lesson for this? It’s just that there wasn’t any chance for her to do this, but today Ye Chen dug his grave by himself.

This was the best chance to suppress his arrogance as well as give him a good lesson.

"Humph! We will see," Ye Chen snorted with a dissatisfied look and attacked once again.

Because his speed was swift, Zhen Yunqi couldn’t avoid it no matter what. Even with her movement skills, it was impossible unless, like Ye Chen, she used her spiritual qi to reach the limit.

But by doing so, she would overpower him; after all, her cultivation was high, and her spiritual qi wasn’t something that a Qi-gathering could handle.

In the end, she could only fight with him while waiting for his spiritual qi to exhaust.

But soon she understood how wrong she was.

’This brat! How heaven-defying is he?’ She muttered in complaint as she saw Ye Chen absorbing the spiritual qi while fighting with her.

It’s not like others can’t do it, but doing so was ridiculously hard and as well as distracting. Moreover, it was also dangerous, as any mistakes might lead to serious internal injuries.

Because of this, no sane person would try to use their cultivation when in a fight.

However, what she does not know is that Ye Chen wasn’t even trying to do this; he was just fighting honestly, and as for his cultivation technique running, it was fully automatic! It ran on its own, trying to recover the spiritual qi that had been spent.

Although the recovery didn’t compare to spending power, it was still significant, making Zhen Yunqi sigh in wonder.

Li Mei and Lan Ming were currently observing everything with a hard look.

All they could see were some blurs and sparks and hear sounds of swords.

"Sister MeiMei, I think their strength is equal," Lan Ming, who was able to see a few things, spoke.

In response, Li Mei could only nod helplessly while making a decision to get stronger.

Lan Ming was also the same; she didn’t want to drag her brother Chen back, so she also made a resolve to work hard from now on.

Boom! Bang! Boom!

The spar between Zhen Yunqi and Ye Chen continued without anyone getting an advantage.

Their strength was clearly equal unless they both used attack martial skills, or Zhen Yunqi decided to end it; the spar wouldn’t end for a while.

Ye Chen’s cultivation technique was divine grade after all; moreover, the spiritual Qi in his dantian rivaled the Qi-refining cultivator’s. Because of this, he was able to unleash his full strength without worrying about depletion.

But this was only for a short time, as within ten or twenty minutes his spiritual qi would be exhausted.

Zhen Yunqi noticed this, so she wasn’t in a hurry to end and sparred with him.

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’If not for the fact I have a Yin physique, it might have been troublesome,’ she muttered in her heart, feeling the scorching heat and coldness from the ice flame.

It was more terrifying than before as it combined with the strange glyphs from the fire crystal.

If someone at the ninth stage of Qi-refining were to encounter this, they would definitely lose unless they used martial arts skills or, like Ye Chen, fought with all they had.

’It wouldn’t take too long before he fights against qi condensation and foundation establishment cultivators,’ she concluded while becoming curious over what realm he will achieve this.

Just at the fifth stage of Qi-gathering, he was leapfrogging this far. What would happen if he reached the ninth stage, or what would happen after he entered the Qi-refining realm?

Zhen Yunqi couldn’t help but look forward to seeing him defy the heavens. As a cultivation freak, this excited her more than anything.

Ye Chen didn’t know her thoughts and focused on the attacking. He had already noticed that his divine resonance arts were running on their own; however, he didn’t care.

Currently, he was trying to hone his skills further.

Although he had rich battle experience, it was only with mortals. In front of cultivators, many of his tricks were flawed and even useless.

Hence, he didn’t hesitate and used all his main attacks to fix any flaws with the help of her.

Zhen Yunqi was quite surprised at his battle experience, but she didn’t care and gladly pointed out his mistakes.

This situation lasted for quite a while when suddenly they both separated and stood at a distance from each other.

"Let’s finish this in one move," Ye Chen said, grasping the hilt of the sword with seriousness.

His spiritual qi was almost exhausted, so it was useless to continue fighting; he might rather decide the outcome with one move.

Zhen Yunqi noticed his condition, so she didn’t deny it and nodded.

"You learned the sword technique, right? Then try it," she replied and became serious.

Currently, their strength was equal. If not for the fact that Ye Chen’s spiritual qi expense was high because of his low realm, the fight would have ended in her loss, as his spiritual qi recovery was something even she might have trouble dealing with.

Hearing her words, Ye Chen didn’t hesitate and prepared to strike with martial skill. Every time using a martial skill requires quite an amount of spiritual qi, and depending on the technique or grade, the consumption would be higher.

Like for footwork techniques, the consumption would be lower as the speed mostly depended on their legs and physical power.

But for sword techniques, palm techniques, or any others that required attacking, the consumption would be high. Hence why he didn’t use any sword techniques when sparring with her.

Swoosh!

Suddenly a sharp aura rose from Ye Chen, and the sword in his hand let out a faint cry.

He then lifted his sword. His actions looked slow, yet at the same time they were also swift.

Who knows when, but five projections of swords appeared in the midair, emitting an extremely sharp aura.

"This is the ’Spectral Blades,’ the seventh sword move from the hundred spectral sword technique," Lin Mei muttered with a pout as she recognized this move at a glance.

She was also learning this technique, but she had been stuck at the fourth move for a while. So, she could only see it when Ye Chen was performing.

’What a mysterious sword technique!’ Zhen Yunqi thought with a stunned look.

She had seen many martial art techniques, yet none of them were as mysterious as his. There were almost no flaws, and she was locked by those phantom swords, making it impossible to dodge.

Nevertheless, she wasn’t afraid.

"Go!" Ye Chen shouted, pointing his swords towards her.

In that instant, the phantom swords moved forward one by one with lightning speed.

Zhen Yunqi didn’t dare to take this lightly and also unleashed her own sword technique.

Unlike Ye Chen’s, there were no sword phantoms but countless rose petals flying around her.

"Thousand Thorn Whirl!"

She uttered, slashing her sword forward.

In that instant, the rose petals swirled around her and shot forward without any form.

Shing! Shing! Shing!

Metallic sounds rang out as the rose petals collided with the first sword before enveloping it directly. When the petals moved again, there was no trace of phantom sword left.

’What a powerful technique!’ Ye Chen muttered with a sigh as he saw his second and third phantom swords getting destroyed next.

But he wasn’t worried because the rose petals were losing their numbers as well as their strength.

When the fourth sword phantom was devoured, their speed also decreased.

Clang!

The rose petals finally collided with the fifth phantom sword! However, because they were already weak, it didn’t even take a second, and they were destroyed by the sword.

Li Mei and Lan Ming weren’t able to see anything clearly because everything happened too fast.

They only saw rose petals devouring the four phantom swords before ruthlessly getting destroyed by the fifth one, which was now heading towards Zhen Yunqi with a swift speed as well as terrifying sharpness.