webnovel Chapter 562 - 180: Aftermath, Turmoil, Taming, Family Reunion
Chapter 562 - 180: Aftermath, Turmoil, Taming, Family Reunion
Li Yuan said, "Just a petty skill..."
Then he began to distribute the palace carriages.
"Ping’an, you and your family take this one."
"Yaojue, Huayin, Shuixiang, you will sit with me in the front."
Yaojue moved first, ran over, and looked at the lifelike puppet, exclaiming, "Wow, this is a Sixth Grade Puppet, right? Eight Sixth Grade Puppets, it seems the master has a significant influence on the Cloud Mountain Path."
But the others did not move.
Li Yuan slightly turned his head and said, "Ping’an, first take your wife and children to the carriage, don’t let them freeze. If you want to watch, come back down after sending them off."
With that, he threw the two sword boxes in his hand, one to Jing Shuixiang and the other to Cui Huayin. Then he smiled and said, "Huayin, step back for now, I’ll talk to you later."
Since Cui Huayin was already here, she was patient and quietly walked to the side, leaving the open space to Li Yuan and the petite elder in the black ceremonial robe.
Jing Shuixiang took out the slender red blade from the box, and the blade exuded a strange fluctuation. She looked at Li Yuan and said, "Convince me through battle! Let me go with you!"
Li Yuan said, "What kind of duel, martial or civil?"
Without waiting for a reply, Li Yuan continued, "Martial duel is direct confrontation.
Civil duel is about comparing whose wielded blade is more powerful."
"Martial duel then.
If I lose the civil duel, I would feel unwilling."
Jing Shuixiang raised the blade, the red glow flickered inch by inch along the blade, emanating a violent and destructive aura.
This blade was forged by Li Yuan, and he naturally knew the power within it.
Simply put, his three hundred years of lifespan forcibly split the "Withering and Flourishing" from Jing Shuixiang’s Source Blood into two, forming the "Withered Blade" and the "Rong Blade."
The Withered Blade can instill immense fear in opponents weaker than Jing Shuixiang, especially effective against those weaker than her. However, if facing someone stronger...
The Rong Blade is about recovery power, greatly enhancing Jing Shuixiang’s recovery, akin to the effect of Gu Yaojue’s Flying Blade.
Such a blade turned Jing Shuixiang into a "Battlefield Butcher."
Thus, Li Yuan looked around, picked up a grayish tree branch from the ground, and said, "Come on."
When he shouted "Come on," Jing Shuixiang and Cui Huayin, even Gu Yaojue, and the daughters-in-law sitting in the carriage all fell into silence.
Everyone knew that even the strongest master must be equipped with a good weapon.
Only Li Ping’an smiled bitterly and said, "Fourth Lady, my father is already powerful even with a tree branch."
Li Yuan did not hide from his family and directly said, "Actually, holding a blade or a tree branch is about the same for me, because my weapon is not external, the external... just slightly extends the length of my arm.
After all, if I don’t use this to extend the length, using other things... would be hard to control.
What Li Yuan referred to as "other things" was Sword Qi.
If Sword Qi was used, it would mean no holding back.
A tree branch or something similar would be much better.
Jing Shuixiang showed an expression of surprise, then she bowed with the blade, her fingers stroking the blade’s edge, and her eyes behind the slender red knife seemed to be imbued with a demonic and terrifying glow...
Anyone looking at her would only see those blood-colored eyes, generating endless fear.
Immediately, she stepped forward.
Step by step, one more step.
And during this stepping process, her opponent would be pulled out from the real world, perceiving themselves as a traveler on a desolate wilderness.
She would be the ferocious tiger in this wilderness.
Quickly, the ferocity of the tiger was mixed with a sense of "all things withering" and "all things dying," leaving one with the feeling that no matter the effort, it was in vain, and no matter how delightfully one lived, death would still prevail.
The mixture of fear and desolation made those blood-colored eyes even more demonic.
Fear came from the "Withered Blade."
The desolation was a technique from the "Withering and Flourishing Skill," named: Shocking Eyes.
Those who practiced the "Withering and Flourishing Skill" seemed to have peculiar abilities on the Divine Soul level, and "Shocking Eyes" was a power that leveraged such abilities. It’s a rare form of spiritual attack method. Once deployed, it causes the opponent to swiftly lose the will to fight, leaving them unable to exert seventy percent of their full power, especially effective when used unexpectedly at the same level, allowing one to crush the opponent directly.
The "Shocking Eyes" combined with Li Yuan’s "Withered Blade" make a formidable one plus one greater than two kind of power.
"Making the opponent lose will" and "instilling fear" combined to allow Jing Shuixiang to dominate beneath the Fourth Grade level, which was why Li Ping’an was beneath her.
You should know that Li Ping’an has extraordinary talent, already having reached the Fifth Grade Realm of Five Threads of Origin Blood, while Jing Shuixiang is at the Three Threads of Origin Blood Fifth Grade level...
In terms of realm, Jing Shuixiang was behind.
But because of the weapon and Jing Shuixiang’s own techniques, she firmly held the third position at the Divine Wood Hall.
Li Yuan looked at the "1860~13412" floating beside his Fourth Lady and nodded silently.
With such values, he dared not be overconfident.
Just then, everything before his eyes suddenly darkened.
The sky... turned black.
Li Yuan heard the "taptap" of footsteps and the sharp sound of a blade, like a seductive female assassin wearing high heels, dragging a blade down the alley outside the door, leisurely exuding an oppressive aura.
He looked up and saw those blood-red eyes.