Singing with a Sword

The following is the main text of the novel "{?$article_title?}" ({?$jieqi_title?}) provided by {?$jieqi_sitename?}. Please enjoy! Yi Ranxiao and Xu An arrived at a place far from Zhong Bugui's tomb, in a spacious grove of trees, where they stood facing each other. Yi Ranxiao flipped her hand and took out Zhong Bugui's green sword, while Xu An took out a silver-white spear.

"Let's begin!" Wen Erya took on the role of referee, and with a command, the competition commenced!

Yi Ranxiao immediately moved, unleashing the Misty Shadow Steps to its limit!

Whoosh~whoosh~whoosh~

A series of afterimages remained as Xiao rushed towards Xu An with incredible speed, as if flying through the air! This speed was definitely top-tier among Qi Condensation Realm cultivators! And Xu An, suppressing his Yuan Power, should be completely unable to keep up, right?!

Xu An was taken aback; this kid was damn fast!

call out!

Suddenly, a flash of azure light appeared, and the azure sword pierced towards Xu An from a tricky angle! Although Xu An suppressed his Yuan Power level, his reaction speed as a Transcendent Realm expert was still intact!

With a sweep of the silver-white spear, a flash of white light, and a clang, it blocked Yiran Xiao's sword! But Yiran Xiao immediately sheathed her sword, quickly changed position, moved to another tricky position, and thrust her sword at Xu An again.

Xu An swept his spear again, and with a clang, the green sword was blocked once more!

"Wow, he's really impressive!" Yi Ranxiao thought to himself. His sword strikes just now were all aimed at a dead angle, yet Xu An had blocked them all. So, what about next—

call out!

Yi Ranxiao appeared behind Xu An and thrust out his sword. The azure sword light seemed to merge with heaven and earth, and it pierced towards the back of Xu An's head with unstoppable force!

The state of harmony between humanity and nature!

This time, Xu An was truly shocked and broke out in a cold sweat. He knew that Yi Ranxiao had already comprehended the realm of the unity of heaven and man, but he never expected that this guy could use it so skillfully! He could use advanced footwork while simultaneously practicing the unity of heaven and man!

Puchi~

Xu An's spear was a step too slow, and he could only try to turn his body to let Yi Ranxiao's sword glide across his shoulder! With a "sizzle," blood splattered out!

Xu An is injured!

Seeing this, Xu Jingyi and his son couldn't help but smile with satisfaction. Yi Ranxiao's swordsmanship was impressive, but his footwork was even more astounding! Exquisite! Swift! Unpredictable! ...

Shen Fanba and Wen Erya, master and apprentice, frowned, thinking, "Would Xu An be defeated by this guy? That would be incredibly embarrassing."

Xu An glanced at the blood on his shoulder and smiled. "Looks like I underestimated you! But what's next—" Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly drew a circle on the ground with his spear, a circle ten meters in diameter that included himself and Yi Ranxiao.

"Huh?" Yi Ranxiao was startled, but then he realized that a clear water cover had enveloped him and Xu An, matching the circle on the ground, with a radius of five meters!

Without Xu An making any move, a lot of water flowed down the clear water cover, soaking the soil and making it muddy. Gradually, the muddy soil became even wetter, vaguely resembling a swamp.

Yi Ranxiao's feet sank into the swamp, and he immediately understood Xu An's intention! On this swamp, the effectiveness of the Misty Shadow Steps would definitely be greatly affected! Once he was out of the swamp, he would no longer be able to launch attacks from all angles with such ghostly speed as before!

Great idea!

"Boy, let's see what you can do now!" Xu An thrust out his spear!

Before Yi Ranxiao could dodge, the spear was already upon her! She held her green sword horizontally in front of her chest to block, but Xu An's spear tip shot out a stream of water, bypassing the green sword and thrusting fiercely towards Yi Ranxiao's chest!

With a "thud!", Yi Ranxiao was struck, and the tip of Xu An's spear followed immediately! Seeing that the situation was not good, Yi Ranxiao threw a punch with her left hand! A golden fist aura burst out.

boom!

Xu An and the spear retreated. "Good lad, he even knows martial arts!"

Yi Ranxiao grinned, then instinctively slammed his fist into the ground, intending to unleash a burst of energy from his fist beneath Xu An's feet. However, his fist sank into the swamp, and he was unable to unleash the Earth God Fist!

Seeing an opportunity, Xu An flicked his spear and thrust it at Yi Ranxiao with a "whoosh!" Yi Ranxiao slashed out with her right hand, wielding her green sword!

Clang!

The spear clashed with the green sword, bursting into dazzling sparks! However, Yi Ranxiao clearly felt that the green sword seemed to have been chipped by the spear. He pulled the sword back and saw that, sure enough, a small semicircle was dented in the blade of the green sword.

"Haha, Zhong Bugui's Azure Sword is still a bit lacking. It's only at the initial stage of Xuanbing. How can it possibly be a match for my mid-stage Xuanbing 'Great River Spear'?" Xu An said arrogantly. "Let me tell you, that guy Zhong Bugui is a useless piece of trash. Whether it's his cultivation or his weapon, he has nothing to offer!"

Yi Ranxiao was still slightly angry, but the truth was that her green sword was no match for the opponent's spear! However, Xu An seized on this point and frantically attacked Yi Ranxiao's green sword with his spear, as if he wanted to cut the green sword in half.

Yiran Xiao's footwork was not fully utilized, and he was forced into a dangerous situation, having no choice but to use his green sword to continuously block Xu An's spear!

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! ...

After being brutally struck by the spear, the green sword was riddled with dents! If this continued, the green sword would surely break! And then the keepsake left to him by his elder brother would be destroyed by his own hand!

Absolutely not!

However, he couldn't unleash the Earth Fist, nor could he use the Mysterious Shadow Step. Now, he could only use the Azure Sword to defend against Xu An's frenzied attacks! Oh right, there was also the Plum Blossom Hermitage Seal! Yi Ranxiao tried to fire a few, but Xu An easily dodged them all!

Xu An sneered, "Yiranxiao, is that all you've got? Haha, watch how I break the green sword Zhong Bugui left you!"

swoosh~

Xu An's speed increased dramatically as he charged towards Yi Ranxiao! Within the swamp he had created, his speed wasn't significantly affected.

"Whoosh!" The silver-white spear, like a lone dragon radiating white light, shot fiercely towards Yi Ranxiao.

For a moment, Yiran Xiao was at a loss and stood there dumbfounded!

Just then, Xu Jingyi's voice reached his ears: "Since we can't use footwork on the ground, let's use it on the water wall of his formation!"

These words were like a wake-up call! Yi Ranxiao immediately leaped into the water, her body sideways, her feet landing on the water's edge. She moved alternately, changing her position as quickly as if she were on flat ground, moving her body with incredible speed!

As a result, Xu An's spear failed to hit Yi Ranxiao once again! He'd used that damned footwork again! Xu An cursed inwardly. To be honest, he really couldn't keep up with Yi Ranxiao's movement speed! How could he possibly attack him?

Yi Ranxiao continued to move along the water's edge, thrusting his sword at Xu An again and again. Although Xu An couldn't keep up with his speed, he reacted quickly enough, his spear always appearing in front of him to block! Because of the spear's strength, Yi Ranxiao could only repeatedly retract his green sword!

"Haha, Yiran Xiao, your broken weapon is better off thrown away!" Xu An laughed heartily. "If you throw it away, I'll give you a new weapon that's definitely better than the one Zhong Bugui gave you! That Zhong Bugui has been stealing things since he was a kid. This Green Sword of yours was stolen from someone else's house by him!"

Xu An deliberately spoke ill of Zhong Bugui in order to affect Yi Ranxiao's speed. As long as Yi Ranxiao's speed slowed down, even for just a fraction of a second, he was confident that he could thrust out his spear and hit him!

However, Yi Ranxiao's focus at this moment was not on Xu An's words, but on the system in his mind! Just as Xu Jingyi was instructing him on how to use the elusive movement technique on the water wall, the system immediately transmitted a message:

"Congratulations, host, on completing the system task! And you completed the task within three days, so the system bestows upon you a double reward: a set of 'Divine Thunder Forbidden Scripture' and two 'Magic Treasure Advancement Pills'."

With just a slight guidance, the task is complete! And a reward will be given immediately! Even more exciting is that completing the task within three days will grant double rewards?! Divine Thunder Forbidden Scripture? Magic Treasure Advancement Pill? "What are these two things?" Yi Ranxiao asked.

The system explained, "The Divine Thunder Forbidden Scripture is a set of cultivation techniques. The Magic Treasure Advancement Pill can upgrade all of the host's weapons and magic treasures by two levels. For example, a weapon that is at the initial stage of 'Entry-level' can directly become the late stage of 'Entry-level' after the host decides to use an advancement pill!"

Upon hearing this, Yi Ranxiao was overjoyed. If he used this magic weapon upgrade pill on the Azure Sword, just one pill would be enough to upgrade the Azure Sword from a low-level Xuan Weapon to a high-level Xuan Weapon. Then, would he still need to fear Xu An's mid-level Xuan Weapon Great River Spear?

However, the system continued, "However, if the host accepts the double reward, then the Divine Thunder Forbidden Scripture cannot be learned immediately and the host will need to study and cultivate it on their own. If the host only accepts the reward of the Divine Thunder Forbidden Scripture, then the host will only be able to directly learn the first half of the spells in the scripture."

Yi Ranxiao was stunned for a moment. Sure enough, there's no such thing as a free lunch! With gain comes loss! But in the current situation, Yi Ranxiao wanted to use his green sword to cut Xu An's spear. He wanted to prove that his elder brother's sword was superior to Xu An's spear!

So, for the sake of his elder brother's honor, Yi Ranxiao did not hesitate to choose the double reward!

Immediately, two pills appeared in Yiran Xiao's mind. Yiran Xiao then chose to use one of the pills immediately—just one was enough! If Qingjian still couldn't defeat Xu An's Great River Spear later, then Yiran Xiao could use the other one later.

Immediately, a magical power surged into the azure sword in his hand. The azure sword shimmered faintly with azure light before dimming.

At this moment, a large amount of cultivation information from the Divine Thunder Forbidden Scripture also flooded into Yi Ranxiao's mind, but Yi Ranxiao had no time to look at this information and focused all his attention on the Azure Sword.

Sure enough, the blade of the Azure Sword faintly exuded an aura of even greater sharpness and hardness! Yi Ranxiao was overjoyed!

Because of his joy, he paused slightly, but Xu An, who was observing closely, caught it!

"Now!" Xu An thrust out his Great River Spear!

call out!

Still unable to dodge, he slashed out with his green sword!

When Xu Jingyi and his son saw Yi Ranxiao swing the green sword, they couldn't help but sigh. It seemed that the relic left behind by Bu Gui was going to be destroyed here. Shen Fanba and his apprentice, however, were secretly delighted. This strike would surely break the green sword. Without the sword in his hand, how could Yi Ranxiao be a match for Xu An? He would definitely be completely defeated by Xu An!

But the truth is always surprising!

Clang!

The Azure Sword and the Great River Spear clashed fiercely. It was thought that the spear would shatter the Azure Sword, but to everyone's surprise, the Azure Sword charged forward and sliced ​​the Great River Spear in two! The spearhead flew out!

"What?" Xu An's eyes widened!

"How could this be?" Both Shen Fanba and his apprentice were shocked!

"This...this..." Xu Jingyi and his son were so overjoyed that they couldn't speak!

"Xu An, your Great River Spear is nothing but a toy in front of my elder brother Qingjian! It's utterly useless!" Taking advantage of Xu An's moment of stunned silence, Yiranxiao thrust out his sword again!

call out!

A state of perfect harmony between man and nature! Xu An was still in a daze, after all, what had just happened was too unexpected for him!

Puchi~

Another sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh rang out as Xu An was stabbed in the chest! Fortunately, Yi Ranxiao showed mercy and did not aim for his vital organs, thus saving his life.

"Xu An, you have lost!" Yi Ranxiao drew his green sword, and with a flick of his right hand, the sword disappeared.

(This is the final chapter of Volume One. Also, the signed contract was sent out some time ago. Please continue to support me.)