I Have A Cultivation World Chapter 2375: 1072: Epic Battle Round 1_3
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Su Taifeng's declaration caught Chen Mobai off guard.
Was it possible that someone in this realm possessed swordsmanship talent greater than his own?
No chance at all.
Remember, he had replicated Yu Baiguang's responses and mastered the twenty-four sword intents of the Immortal Sect Sword Art, each one attaining the fifth rank.
While he remained human, no Yuan Ying cultivator could possibly match his feats.
“The Supreme Palace stands as one of Central State's top three Holy Land Major Sects; it seems Brother Su originates from there. Yet you've got one detail completely wrong: regarding Sword Dao, I'm unrivaled in this realm!”
Such assurance stemmed from the confidence Yu Baiguang had instilled in Chen Mobai.
Even as a Nascent Soul Cultivator herself, she hadn't reached this Sword Dao pinnacle during her Yuan Ying stage, unlike Chen Mobai at present.
Chen Mobai refused to accept that anyone in the Tianhe Realm could outshine Yu Baiguang in swordsmanship talent.
Exceeding her meant eclipsing every sword cultivator across the entire Tianhe Realm!
“I'd love to witness you traveling to Central State for a sword clash with Yu Taiping and the duo from Qingwei Sword Sect, but regretfully, today you fall to my blade.”
Su Taifeng voiced this with a touch of sorrow.
Within Central State's Ten Great Holy Lands, Supreme Palace and Qingwei Sword Sect shine for their sword arts. Among Tianhe Realm's fifteen elite Deity Transformation True Monarchs, the famed “Two Swords” denote the patriarchs of these sects.
Supreme Palace's Taoist Child Yu Taiping attained Divinity Transformation a century ago, drawing even Ye Qing's respect.
Qingwei Sword Sect's Taoist Saintess, though never venturing beyond her sect, commands twin Sixth Rank Immortal Swords from the Upper Realm and is hailed as an emerging supreme sword cultivator.
“Central State… Maybe someday I'll cross swords with Yu Taiping; the pair from Qingwei Sword Sect haven't achieved Divinity Transformation yet, so I refuse to overpower them.”
Chen Mobai's remark silenced Su Taifeng completely.
Unsure if Chen Mobai's bravado was sincere or calculated, he pondered.
Su Taifeng had long viewed himself as boldly unrestrained, yet in this instant, facing the Turtle Immortal ahead, he appeared downright modest.
For one, he admitted his own shortcomings against Yu Taiping.
He'd also bow to Qingwei Sword Sect's two due to their Sixth Rank Immortal Swords.
“Save your arrogant ravings for the underworld!”
At first, Su Taifeng lamented ending the life of Chen Mobai, this matchless Sword Dao prodigy, but now he sensed that such a pompous figure would inevitably perish under a Deity Transformation True Monarch's strike if he let him live.
He decided to embrace the role of the antagonist right here.
Amid the humming vibration, the elongated pestle shaped by Su Taifeng's Mount Tai Seal commenced a deliberate spin.
As it turned inch by inch, Chen Mobai sensed the ambient gravity intensifying twofold each time, and in just a handful of breaths, the gravity enveloping their position surged a hundred times stronger.
Merely fluttering his eyelids now drained a vast amount of his True Qi.
Yet, empowered by this crushing gravity, the mountain giant beneath Su Taifeng's stance gained tremendous might; its force amplified a hundredfold, the freshly regenerated arm balled into a fist and slammed ferociously at Chen Mobai.
In that instant, the void appeared overwhelmed by the adversary's horrific might, with dark fissures cracking open along the mountain giant's fist path.
Against this void-rending blow, Chen Mobai at last turned grave.
From his rear, a translucent finger materialized out of the void, unveiling its complete form as an enormous palm with fingers extended wide; the five hues of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth flowed through it, as five fifth-rank Five Elements sword intents fused into a Five Elements Sword Killing Formation!
The mountain giant's fist crashed into the Sword Killing Formation unleashed by the Thousand Swords Dharma Body, and the already fractured void ultimately buckled, shattering entirely.
“Yi Yuan Dao Body!”
Spotting the avatar rising from Chen Mobai's back, Su Taifeng—who had learned of this potent spell from Mu Youyi—drew a bull-headed copper statue from his Storage Bag.
This proved to be a fifth-rank magical artifact.
The close Civet Power bared its jaws once more, ejecting a fifth-rank essence to help Su Taifeng ignite the artifact's full potency.
The bull-headed copper statue sprang to life in a flash, shifting into a Dharma Aspect of a bull-bodied, human-faced spirit beast that blended into the mountain giant's skull.
“Yayu?”
Chen Mobai swiftly identified this spirit beast Dharma Aspect's roots; much like Civet Power, it belonged to the Earth True Spirits, notorious in antiquity for feasting on humans when the Human Race remained frail.
Consequently, as humanity ascended, Yayu became all but extinct.
They surfaced only sporadically in the Ruins' deepest layers.
Drawing on his deep knowledge of artifact forging, he easily pierced the truth of Su Taifeng's bull-headed copper statue: crafted from a living fifth-rank Yayu and infused with a rare Sacramental Refinement Mantra, it could be called forth to bond with mountains and soil, unleashing its fifth-rank strength.
True to form, the mountain giant—its arm demolished yet again by the Five Elements Sword Killing Formation—upon absorbing the bull-headed copper statue, warped and molded like dough into a colossal Yayu.
“I believe I've pieced together your identity. Never imagined Yellow Dragon would lure in a talent like you.”
Chen Mobai recalled Ye Qing's prior mention of Central State's Ten Great Holy Lands' young Taoist Saintess; linking that with the signature spirit-handling technique of the Yayu copper statue, he had already inferred Su Taifeng's lineage.
“I follow the Earth Element Dao, just a single Divine Consciousness breakthrough from Divinity Transformation and Yuan Ying evolution. Whether Civet Power or Yayu, even the sect's gifted Fifth Rank Earth Loach and Zaratan—with their full True Spirit bloodlines—top out at Sixth Rank. In my position, I demand only the finest. Should Yellow Dragon's bloodline advance to its utmost, it could climb to Seventh Rank; hand it over now, and when I ascend to Seventh Rank True Immortal in time, I might honor this gesture by taking you as my disciple in rebirth, affording you a path to eternal life.”