Translated by BerryBunz
Battle in the Ice Cold
Su Yun leapt backwards and dodged till he reached the side of the stage, he watched the icicles that were gradually slowing down, then raised his hands and pointed ahead of him. A black light formed on his fingertip, following that, the sky turned dark, dark clouds gathered above them and formed a vortex, then a pitch black dragon sword descended from within.
Cleaving the heavens, Beheading the Dragon!
Su Yun, with his peak first stage Spirit Master Cultivation, was able to unleash 'Cleaving the heavens, Beheading the Dragon' that was even more powerful than when he first used it. The gigantic dragon sword howled and descended, its imposing might made it feel that a dragon god had descended onto the mortal realm.
Booom!!!
The dragon sword landed on the ground, causing the earth to tremble, but what surprised everyone was that the position in which the dragon sword landed was not on Han Yue Xin, but at the end of the icicles, perfectly blocking the icicles for Su Yun.
The snow and wind that was fanatically blowing after the icicles was immediately blocked by the dragon sword's blade and returned towards Han Yue Xin.
"This guy saw through me, he saw that my technique was not to attack him, but to use the wind and snow to affect him, who knew that he would even use it against me." Han Yue Xin thought to herself. Blinking her clear eyes, she removed the icicles and took her sword up and pounced forward.
When she got near Su Yun, she turned her body like an ice butterfly fluttering in the air, but following this ice butterly was an extremely ice cold and terrifying sword image. Han Yue Xin's sword was not fast, maybe she could be compared with Shen Wu Ya in terms of speed, but compared to Li Chang Zai, her sword was too slow.
Su Yun stared at the ice sword amidst the chaotic dance, then raised the Immortal Mystical Scarlet Blood Sword and thrusted it in the center with the intent of hurting Han Yue Xin… But a startling scene occurred, just when the scarlet sword was reaching Han Yue Xin, her sword suddenly released a large quantity of Cold Qi! This Cold Qi was stunning, it immediately froze the scarlet sword and the terrifying Frigid Aqua Spirit Qi actually flowed along the sword, towards Su Yun's body!
~Han Yue Xin knew that she cannot win against me in speed, thus deliberately used a sword technique in front of me to lure me in to attack her, then counterattacked! This woman is truly insightful!~
Su Yun's heart turned cold. Activating Monarch Occult Force, his Spirit Essence immediately produced True Divine Spirit Qi, causing the layer of ice around his body to shatter, followed with a shrug of his shoulders, he forcefully broke through Han Yue Xin's ice power and ferociously stabbed at her chest.
"True Divine Spirit Qi? So you train in this Spirit Qi!"
Han Yue Xin frowned. Su Yun used a sword and swordsman who focused on speed and sharpness in their Spirit Qi most likely cultivated in Swift Wind Spirit Qi… Furthermore, the main elements of Spirit Qi had corresponding Spirit Qi that contrasted against it or assisted it and cultivators who cultivated in True Divine Spirit Qi was not suitable to cultivate Swift Wind Spirit Qi! Conversely, with the same reason, logically, Su Yun should not have those two types of Spirit Qi.
Han Yue Xin remained calm, lightly pressing her middle finger and thumb on her left hand together and moving in a circle, she congealed an ice shield at her chest. The scarlet sword struck the ice shield, and was unable to break through it. Han Yue Xin took the opportunity and brandished her sword, but she did not slash towards Su Yun, instead, she gradually pulled the distance between Su Yun and her.
Her sword was like a glow stick in the night sky, forming many bright ice crystals while moving back and forth, it was a beautiful scene.
The ice crystals flew in all directions, forming a strange ice barrier around her body. When a large number of ice crystals were formed, Han Yue Xin's expression became serious and thrusted her sword at Su Yun.
Crack!!!
A gigantic ice blade flew out from the tip of her sword, flying straight for Su Yun.
This was no ordinary ice blade, the inner ice was congealed out from the ice formed completely by Frigid Aqua Spirit Qi, it was durable and sharp, while the exterior of the ice blade was formed from multiple layers of her Spirit Qi, each layer carrying an astonishing destructive force.
~I can't take it on directly, otherwise, I'll definitely be injured.~
Su Yun thought and immediately dodged to the side.
Boom!!
The ice blade smashed into the barrier of the Snow Jade Space and exploded. What caused people to be horrified was that after the ice blade exploded, it actually formed tens of thousands of minute ice shards that shot out in all directions like bullets, the sudden change caught Su Yun slightly off guard, he immediately activated True Divine Spirit Qi to cover his entire body, strengthening the areas covering his vital parts.
Ding ding ding ding ding
Sparks were formed all over Su Yun's body, the powerful destructive force seemed to have engulfed him! Although the ice shards were incapable of breaking through the armor formed from True Divine Spirit Qi, it still left shallow marks on Su Yun's skin, revealing the force of the ice shards. Furthermore, when the ice shards struck his body, it would be reflected and bounced onto the light barrier of the Snow Jade Space, then recoiled back to him, this caused a continuous attack on Su Yun.
The spectators outside could only see sparks being formed inside the Snow Jade Space, which scattered everywhere continuously.
~If this goes on, the strange ice shards will break through my defense.~
Su Yun growled, he then activated the Monarch Occult Force again, transforming the Spirit Qi in him into Scarlet Star Spirit Qi, he suddenly waved his sword, unleashing a thousand swords in a second, causing the blazing Scarlet Star Spirit Qi to blast all around him like a ferocious beast opening its big mouth and swallowing everything.
Zzzi Zzzi Zzi Zzzi
The Ice shards were engulfed by the powerful Scarlet Star Spirit Qi, transforming into water vapor and soon dissipated.
"Scarlet Star Spirit Qi?"
Han Yue Xin revealed a look of astonishment: "You cultivate mainly in Swift Wind Spirit Qi while concurrently cultivating in True Divine Spirit Qi and now comes a Scarlet Star Spirit Qi? A cultivator that cultivates three types of spirit Qi? Su Yun, are you not afraid of your Spirit Qi becoming chaotic causing you to die from the implosion of the Spirit Essences in your body?"
Su Yun did not reply, Han Yue Xin did not know that he had a treasure that was capable of synthesizing the attributes of Spirit Qi, and allow the user to have the five main types of Spirit Qi flowing in his body.
If the Monarch Occult Force was revealed here in the Ultimate Martial World, it was still a remarkable treasure. Seeing that Su Yun was not planning to reply her, Han Yue Xin frowned, she turned and spun with her sword in hand.
Whoosh!
A sparkling and translucent ripple dissipated out with her at the center. The speed of the ripple undulating outwards was too fast, preventing Su Yun from reacting fast enough and was struck by the ripple… But this ripple did not have any destructive force contained within it, when it blew past him, it was like the spring wind blowing
"Huh?"
Su Yun sensed that something was amiss, if such a ripple was formed but did not create any disturbance, most likely it was the indication of a mystical technique.
As expected!
In front of him, the Frigid Aqua Spirit Qi around Han Yue Xin suddenly scattered, the bright ice pieces that had dissipated and revealed Han Yue Xin started to converge in front of her. She held her sword with both hand and closed her eyes. After exhaling, she slashed forward.
"Ten thousand blades of a thousand ice!!!"
Whooosh
The sword slashed into the ice shards in front of her
Bang!
The space between the sword tip and ice shards exploded, producing a large quantity of ice blades that shot towards Su Yun like rain. There were more than a hundred of the ice blades! Previously, the ice blade was shattered into many ice shards and with so many of these ice shards, it could occupy the entire Snow Jade Space!!!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom
10 of these ice blades flew at Su Yun, upon being shattered, it gave rise to a thick ice mist, causing Su Yun's figure to be shrouded. All of the ice blades that missed Su Yun struck the barrier of the Snow Jade Space, which shattered the ice blades and gave rise to even more ice shards which filled the entire space.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
This continuous flow of ice blades being shattered and producing countless of ice shards, which flew all around, causing many explosions that made the entire Snow Jade Space become misty, preventing the spectators to see clearly. Moreover, the number of explosions occurring inside was even more concentrated than rain hitting the roof of a house in a downpour.
This terrifying technique caused everyone's heart to jump and their skins to turn numb.
"So powerful, is this even a power that a Spirit Master cultivator can produce??"
Xiao Zi Ru was dumbstruck, Han Yue Xin's technique was so powerful that it made Xiao Zi Ru unwilling to even challenge her.
"I am afraid that even with us four attacking together, we will not be able to withstand that technique! Han Yue Xin's cultivation already surpasses us, I am afraid that the champion of this competition is most likely her!!!"
Liu Gu said.
"Will Su Yun survive that?"
"I am afraid he won't even have any breath left."
"Is Su Yun going to die like that? It is truly a pity!"
"Heh, lucky I bet on Han Yue Xin winning, I said it earlier, Su Yun got someone to bet 1 million cultivation coins on himself, hehehe, he is truly confident of himself, did he think that Han Yue Xin is an ordinary participant? Now, he's the one who has fallen! He has lost all of his cultivation coins and even his life!"
"Who asked him to force Han Yue Xin to become anxious."
"Han Yue Xin was hiding her fighting strength from the start, no one even knows what cultivation she is at, most likely she has an extremely profound cultivation! The way I see it, Su Yun has already lost."
The spectators were all discussing amongst themselves, but even more people were immersed in Han Yue Xin's horrifying killing technique: 'Ten Thousand Blades of a Thousand Ice', it had left a deep memory in the hearts of countless of people.
Han Yue Xin stood inside the Snow Jade Space like a fully blossomed snow lotus, she quietly observed Su Yun, who was engulfed in the mist and ice, with her eyes focusing greatly on him. For some reason, her heart had an uneasy feeling.
"It's too quiet, Su Yun isn't some normal person that will just stand there and withstand my attack, he should be retaliating against me, why isn't he doing anything yet?" Han Yue Xin thought to herself.
Suddenly, she seemed to have thought about something, she waved her hand, causing the ice and mist that had covered the area where Su Yun was to disperse, drift into the air and form a semi-circular case.
An astonishing scene appeared right in front of everybody, under the ice case, there was a grayish Qi barrier, where Su Yun stood inside, holding onto a flag, quietly watching Han Yue Xin calmly.
"Imperial Equipment?!"
Han Yue Xin revealed a look of surprise.
But very quickly, she was shocked: ~My technique isn't something any ordinary Imperial Equipment can defend against! How was Su Yun's Imperial Equipment able to withstand it so easily? Is his Imperial Equipment's grade extremely high?!~
Right then, Su Yun stabbed the Immortal Mystical Scarlet Blood Sword into the ground and let go of the sword.
"Initially, I didn't want to use this, but your strength exceeds my expectations, If I continue hiding it, I would truly be underestimating you!"
While saying that, Su Yun's one hand held onto the Seventh Tier Imperial Equipment, while his other hand started to form hand seals… And while his hand was forming seals, the sword sheath on his back started trembling!
Seeing that, Han Yue Xin immediately became cautious.
Translated by BerryBunz
Possession
There was no doubting Su Yun's strength and she definitely would not doubt this apparent Group D participant that fought his way up and displayed surprising strength that caused others to fear. Han Yue Xin stared at the sword sheath that was trembling more and more, finally, she could no longer hold back. She swung her sword, causing all the ice shards in the Snow Jade Space to smash at the Imperial Equipment.
~No matter how strong your Imperial Equipment, I do not fear you, watch as I destroy your Imperial Equipment!!!~
Han Yue xin gritted her teeth she as thought in her mind, but right when the ice shards were flying towards Su Yun, the Imperial Equipment protecting his body suddenly disappeared.
"What?!"
Han Yue Xin was startled.
~To remove your Imperial Equipment at this time, are you trying to die?~
Suddenly!
Sou sou sou sou
A large quantity of sword images exploded out from behind Su Yun, following that, countless of sharp swords danced and revolved around Su Yun. They formed to what looked like a tornado, spinning fervently with Su Yun at the center. What was even more terrifying was that every sword body was in flames as dense Scarlet Star Spirit Qi started to turn the tornado into a blazing storm.
Upon touching the high temperature, all of the flying Ice Shards instantly turned into vapor, the entire Snow Jade Space was completely purified, revealing brown soil, the gales were absorbed into the storm, the snow dissolved, as though the sky and weather were abruptly changing.
When the last bit of ice shards disappeared, Su Yun formed hand seals, causing the revolving swords around him to fly back into the sword sheath, with sets of sword sounds arising from the sword sheath. After a moment, everything returned to normal, the Snow Jade Space started to snow and form winds again.
But at that moment, the snow and winds were no longer important, everyone inside the competition grounds stared at the man in the black cloak inside the Snow Jade Space in shock, all of them were completely convinced of his abilities!
"Th-that was act-actually a technique that destroyed Han Yue Xin's technique! What mystical technique did Su Yun use? Or was that a treasure? T-that's too outrageous!"
Liu Gu stammered.
Xiao Zi Ru's face was white then red, every time she put out solemn evaluations, Su Yun would use an even more shocking action to slap her in her face. Unknowingly, Xiao Zi Ru realised that she hated Su Yun! Su Yun was too mysterious, and she hated it! Every action that he made had unknowingly made Xiao Zi Ru loathe him even more.
"Brother Su, how strong are you exactly? To actually be able to dispel such a terrifying technique? It's impossible… A-am I dreaming?" Lu Zhan Yuan muttered to himself as he stared at the Snow Jade Space, his expression somewhat in a daze.
Like everyone else, Han Yue Xin, an extremely reputable genius was an existence that he looked up to. He found out about her through conversations on the streets and bars, which became a face that he saw frequently through the conversations, it was already considered a blessing of a three lifetimes for him. Such a Spirit Cultivator was destined to be a major figure and to such a person, he should feel respect and reverence to her, but at that moment, this said person was actually repelled by his own friend, completely suppressing the emotions he had towards his idol, this was a matter that he had never thought possible.
"Brother Su, when can I be as strong as you?" Lu Zhan Yuan muttered under his breath.
Inside the Snow Jade Space.
"Su Yun, are you wearing a treasure that disguises your fighting strength?" Han Yue Xin stared at Su Yun coldly, and said.
"No." Su Yun replied.
"Then why? With your strength, why were you were placed in Group D?"
"You have to ask the organisers about that." Su Yun replied.
Even he was not clear on the matter.
Han Yue Xin frowned slightly, her complexion became gloomy. She did not ask further as she let out a 'humph', she raised her sword and rushed towards Su Yun. A terrifying ice cold power pervaded and followed her movements, as though a gigantic sun enclosed in ice was being summoned.
Inside the distinguished guest private room off the stage.
A young man dressed in a gold jade gown with combed pitch black hair that reached his shoulders held onto a cup of tea and quietly observed the intense battle on stage.
The battle was exhilarating, there was no doubting Han Yue Xin's strength, but Su Yun's performance was even more surprising! His sword techniques, speed, power and techniques did not lose to Han Yue Xin. Although Han Yue Xin was stronger, everyone could tell that it would not be easy if she wanted to win against Su Yun.
The Young noble dressed in gold and jade gown lifted up his tea cup and sipped a mouthful, then spoke: "Are you sure you did what I told you to?"
"Reporting to Young Noble, this subordinate did caution Su Yun, it is just that this subordinate did not realize that Su Yun, would be an idiot, to actually dare make such a move." The man standing beside him bowed and cupped his fists, then continued respectfully: "But rest assured Young Noble, maybe Su Yun does not want to lose too miserably, and thus initiated this kind of retaliation, maybe in no time, he will obediently let Miss Han Yue Xin defeat him."
"Is that so?" The Young Noble turned and glanced at Su Yun who was on stage, then his eyes landed on Han Yue Xin who was dancing with her sword, his calm eyes instantly revealing a passion that seemed to be uncontrollable.
"Han Yue Xin is a beauty, moreover, she has a special physique, her Frigid Aqua Spirit Qi is able to intoxicate others, she is the most suitable dual cultivation companion! If I am able to have her, my trip to this New Deer City can be considered to be fruitful!"
"Young Noble, rest assured, Young Miss Han is already Young Noble's possession."
"Yes."
The Young noble nodded his head, his eyes continued to stay on the Snow Jade Space.
"Hallucinatory Demon Mirrors."
Han Yue Xin spoke out coldly while waving the sword in her hand, causing a large amount of Frigid Aqua Spirit Qi to surge like a huge wave out from her sword towards Su Yun.
But when this ice wave was close to Su Yun, it suddenly congealed and transformed into multiple flat mirrors that surrounded Su Yun completely. The mirrors were rhombus in shape and reflected huge projections. Su Yun could only see countless reflections of himself being produced due to the reflections.
Han Yue Xin leapt up and landed on the top Demon Mirror. She formed hand seals with her eyes closed, chanting some kind of spell, causing the reflected 'Su Yun's to reveal cold glares in their eyes that were fixed onto Su Yun's real body! Like wild beasts, they held onto their 'Immortal Mystical Scarlet Blood Swords' and rushed over.
All of these reflections were identical to Su Yun with powerful techniques as well, actually wielding 30% of Su Yun's sword wielding speed. When they approached Su Yun, 20 of these reflections starting waving their swords as many red beast mouths formed and pounced on Su Yun.
The sword images filled up half of the Snow Jade Space… However, fakes were ultimately fakes! Facing the all rounded attacks, Su Yun did not panic, instead, he dodged all of the swords that approached him with ease and with an even quicker movement speed, he sprung at the closest mirror and slashed down with the Immortal Mystical Scarlet Blood Sword.
Puchi!
The sword cut through the mirror and directly reflection's shoulders.
The reflection did not seem to have any pain, instead, Su Yun felt a pain in his right shoulder, as though something had lacerated it. He turned and looked, only to see that his right shoulder was covered in blood and a long wound had appeared.
"What?" Su Yun frowned.
"All of these reflections are based on you, although their strength cannot compare to your own, you are unable to attack them, otherwise, their injuries will become your injuries." Han Yue Xin spoke indifferently to Su Yun: "Su Yun, you are strong, but, I have to defeat you today!"
While saying that, the young lady's eyes were filled with dense determination! To be able to defeat a powerful genius was the best reward for her bitter struggles in battles, Han Yue Xin had become intoxicated with the taste of victory!
Hearing that, Su Yun's mouth arched into a smile, he raised his head and looked at Han Yue Xin who was above the mirror. He suddenly leapt up and swept towards her! Han Yue Xin seemed to have predicted his move, she immediately dropped down and landed amongst the mirrors, with a wave of her hand, the mirrors suddenly produced many reflections of her.
Su Yun had thought about what Han Yue Xin had said, and immediately attacked the reflection inside the mirror, but as he thrusted his sword at the mirror, a 'clang' sound came out, as though something had held onto his sword. He looked again, his sword was completely encased with ice, while Han Yue Xin's reflection was unharmed.
~The Ice mirror is Han Yue Xin's mystical technique, she can control it with ease to attack or defend, seems like breaking it will not be easy.~
Su Yun thought to himself.
"Kill!"
Just then, Han Yue Xin's voice came out from the air and immediately, the Han Yue Xin and Su Yun reflections inside the mirrors all turned their heads, staring at Su Yun like wild beasts, they rushed at him and slashed fervently.
The Immortal Mystical Scarlet Blood Sword and Ice Swords in the reflections all struck at Su Yun! Although Su Yun was fast, the mirrors all over unleashed too many attacks, even with his speed, he could not defend against all of them!
~If this continues, I will definitely lose, if I can't break these strange ice mirrors, I am afraid they will just cut me down.~
Su Yun's expression became serious, while dancing with his sword at a very fast speed, he observed the mirrors.
~Without a doubt, to break this mystical technique, I need to uncover the real Han Yue Xin, all of these reflections are preventing me from finding her real self.~
"Blizzard Field!"
Just then, another technique was called out, hail started to descend from the sky! Every hailstone that were enveloped with Spirit Qi weighed over a 100 kg. Falling from the sky, they were like bombs.
Su Yun groaned in his mind, he the activated the Scarlet Star Spirit Qi and threw it into the air, the blazing Spirit Qi immediately dissolved the hailstones, causing water to fall and drench him. Su Yun was not afraid against such attacks!
~Hold up!~
Right at that moment, he realized something. He immediately looked around and unknowingly, the attacks from the reflections had slowed down, their actions seemed clumsier, and were not as sharp as before.
~What's going on?~
Su Yun thought to himself, he looked at the reflections and realized that the ice mirrors had melted slightly!
~Could these ice mirrors be afraid of Scarlet Star Spirit Qi?~
Su Yun thought to himself, he looked at his surroundings and suddenly grabbed onto the Immortal Mystical Scarlet Blood Sword, then he activated the Monarch Occult Force and conjured the terrifying Scarlet Star Spirit Qi, then he swung it ferociously at the ice mirror.
Whooosh!!!
The intense Blazing Spirit Qi instantly dissolved the ice mirror, causing the reflection to disappear as well.