"Round seventy-one, An Siyan."
Sword-light flashed by, piercing through a young girl's throat. The three jade slip magical equipment embryos beside her lost their spiritual light and, along with the corpse, fell to the ground.
Jiang Ding did pay special attention to these three magical equipment embryos.
Their defensive and offensive capabilities were not particularly outstanding; it seemed they had another purpose, all their abilities were used to amplify computing power, and he killed her easily.
"You have entered the top three."
"There is only one person left."
Jiang Ding murmured to himself, his gaze shifting toward the silver-haired girl appearing on the distant sea surface.
Affiliated High School of Beidou University Taoist Department, Jin Lingfeng, the daughter of Immortal Yueling, also the strongest second-order war commander of Beidou University's affiliated high school.
She had delicate features and a cute, innocent charm.
"A beautiful and lovely girl, who knows how many people's dreams she will become in the future..."
The Azure Flying Sword soared in the sky, the terrifying Sword Intent of Destruction spreading in all directions. In an instant, it pierced through layers of shields, nearing the girl's throat.
"Just right to die by my sword!"
"Round seventy-two, Jin Lingfeng."
Jin Lingfeng, hearing the words of praise, revealed a modest smile. Just as she was about to say something, her expression froze.
She cried out fiercely.
Behind the girl, suddenly a cluster of feathers appeared, red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple—seven colors, each color of feather in a set of seven, making a total of forty-nine feathers.
All of them bore the aura of magical equipment embryos!
At her sharp cry, the feathers clanged, brimming with killing intent, transforming into rainbow lights that rushed forward, clashing with the Azure Flying Sword.
Indeed, a set of pure offensive magical equipment embryos rarely seen among the Xianmen cultivators!
"This set of magical equipment embryos is no ordinary thing."
Immortal Dinghai scrutinized the forty-nine seven-colored feathers and said solemnly, "Immortal Yueling must have spent an unknown amount of materials on it for her daughter, and it's said that they've killed more than seven Nascent Soul Stage beast demons."
"Just speaking of the basic material, it's better than my defensive artifact, and in the future, it should be able to combine with Air-Space Warplane missiles and battleship's artillery shells."
"It's also quite good-looking."
"It's just that this young man's mental state seems a bit abnormal."
Immortal Dinghai remarked.
What kind of sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy wants to kill a girl just because she's pretty?
"He's very normal, most sword cultivators from the Great Sun Sword Pavilion are ."
Immortal Huangmao sneered.
On the sea's surface,
Killing intent pervaded the air, with the sound of clinking incessantly in the ear.
The Azure Flying Sword, imbued with the Sword Intent of Destruction, dimmed the spiritual light of several seven-colored feathers with each touch, nearly causing them to fall from the sky, crushed under the might of the Sword Intent.
Jin Lingfeng tilted her head slightly.
Despite having prepared multiple contingency plans, being directly confronted with this specialized Divine Soul structure caught her off guard for the first time, and the Divine Sense Brands that had long been cultivated on the tool embryos showed signs of shattering after a few contacts.
"Pity, your flying sword isn't good enough."
"And the quality of your True Qi is too low!"
She taunted, pointing a finger, as the red and green feather groups whistled past, fire aiding wood, their spiritual light greatly intensified, slashing toward the youth in blue clothes not far away.
As expected, the Azure Flying Sword, which had been continuously destroying the feathers and was about to break through the core defensive line, turned and struck the red and green feather groups, repelling them.
Seizing this chance, the seven-colored feathers, which had been successively destroyed, quickly restored their spiritual light and rejoined the battlefield.
The material of the seven-colored feathers was even better than Xu Jianian's stone steles; he couldn't simply sever them with a single sword strike, and momentarily disrupting the Divine Sense Brands embedded within them wasn't very effective.
Mainly because his own body was too weak, he couldn't allow any attack to reach him.
he didn't think it was a mistake to then go learn body refining or refine any shield or defensive artifact.
The only reason, of course, was that the sword wasn't strong enough yet!
He wasn't strong enough to directly shatter his opponent's defenses without revealing the Magic Arts-Breaking Immortal Gold.
There was no other reason.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Streaks of seven-colored plume feathers whistled past, forming a second-order killing array that wove into a net.
Deadly intents came one after another; even though they were constantly shattered by the Flying Swords imbued with the Sword Intent of Destruction, they managed to alternate between the front and back, reorganizing the offense and steadily advancing the battle line.
If the battle line reached close to Jiang Ding, just a casual stir from the seven-colored plume feathers would be enough to grind him into mincemeat.
"Is Brother going to be done for?"
Jiang Yuan asked worriedly.
By now, you didn't need to search specially to see Jiang Ding's image on Xianmen television programs.
They even came with commentators highly knowledgeable in Immortal Path and professional level, who were yelling something with all their might.
Lin Wanqiu and the other adults watched the television intently, not answering her question.
The outcome of the confrontation between the two would directly decide this year's melee weapon champion.
Xianmen single subject champion!
Even if one's academic performance was not ideal, and they only managed to enter an ordinary Cultivation Department, it was still a glory that could shine brightly for eighteen generations, an unprecedented event in Rongcheng City!
Immortal Huangmao was somewhat excited: "To deal with such a pesky sword cultivator, if you can withstand his attack, there's nothing to be afraid of. If you can't, just directly blast his origin with cannons, explode him with nuclear bombs!"
"These fragile chickens are very delicate!"
Immortal Dinghai silently took note of the elder's words; this was priceless experience gained through bloody battles.
Sword-light and feather plumes interwove, spiritual light collapsed and regenerated ceaselessly, and the occasional stray strand of Sword Qi neatly slashed open the sea for dozens of meters, with the Sword Intent clinging to it, taking a long time to recover.
Three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred and fifty meters...
The distance was getting closer and closer.
Jin Lingfeng's talent far surpassed that of Li Qingyun and others, with a Divine Sense range that was more than triple that of his peers, truly a prodigy seen once in a billion people every thousand years. Otherwise, Immortal Yueling would not have invested so much in him.
The seven-colored plume feather killing array approached a dangerously close distance of a hundred meters.
Jiang Ding glanced at her and dived into the sea, disappearing from sight.
Only the silver-haired girl remained on the sea surface.
Jin Lingfeng let out a hum of laughter.
In melee weapon combat, Xianmen cultivators have never excelled.
Second-order War Commanders!
The core of this profession, the Electromagnetic Induction Wave Motion Technique, the essence of Xianmen tactics, everything done just to find the enemy's traces.
"Electromagnetic induction waves..."
Layers of spiritual electromagnetic induction waves spread in all directions, penetrating the sky, earth, deep into the sea, and even seeping into the depths of rocks.
"How could there be nothing?!"
Jin Lingfeng felt the urge to burst out swearing.
A Xiantian Martial Artist, able to hide his presence from a Second-order War Commander, wasn't that a bit too much!
"Xianmen scouting infantry?"
Soon, she recalled the specifics of the information collected about the opponent and started feeling a headache.
Inside the ship of Dinghai Control,
The two fell into silence.
"This... The combination of a Xianmen scouting infantry and a sword cultivator does seem to be quite a fit."
With some difficulty, Immortal Dinghai managed a dry laugh under the other's gaze.
"Luckily for our generation."
Immortal Huangmao said solemnly: "Great Sun sword cultivators have always adhered to a philosophy of fighting if you don't agree and dying if you can't win. Even if they wanted to develop concealment abilities later on, they couldn't achieve anything comparable to Xianmen scouting spells in a short time."
"You've personally given such abilities to a sword cultivator."