Chapter 68: Carrying Out Heaven’s Might

In past years, once the youth division battles ended in the Sword Path Grand Competition, most of the excitement would disperse. After that, the junior sword cultivators drew far less attention and heat than before. But this year was different. Because Lin Yuchu had appeared out of nowhere and pulled such outrageous stunts that he had drawn the hatred of every sword cultivator present. As a result, every cultivator had turned their fire on him.

This year’s junior sword cultivator competition had, unprecedentedly, attracted the attention of every cultivator in all of Bright Moon Capital.

It was even more thrilling than the previous youth division.

After all...

Every cultivator in Bright Moon Capital was waiting for Lin Yuchu to capsize.

Once he lost, they would humiliate him, humiliate him, and still humiliate him!

It could be said that their intentions were extremely sinister.

“Hmph!”

On the Star Observatory.

Lin Yuchu and Gu Chun stood together at the entrance behind the arena, waiting in line to draw lots.

Standing in front of him, Gu Chun said in a worried tone, “It seems like everyone is waiting for you to lose now.”

“Once you lose, they can humiliate you, strike at you, and mock you.” Gu Chun’s tone was quite worried, and his gaze was full of concern as he looked at him.

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu immediately let out a cold snort through his nose. His fair, delicate face was expressionless as he said unconcernedly, “Impossible.”

Want me to lose? That was impossible. Even if he were beaten to death or jumped off a building, it would still be impossible.

“I won’t give them that chance.”

Lin Yuchu’s tone was light, but his words landed with force, full of power.

Hearing this, Gu Chun, standing in front of him, glanced at him. The expression on his face grew even more worried. He looked utterly anxious.

He looked like he wanted to speak but stopped himself.

Lin Yuchu glanced at him. Seeing him like this, he immediately frowned and said, “What exactly are you worried about?”

“You’ve been acting weird since just now,” Lin Yuchu said.

Hearing this, Gu Chun’s expression immediately collapsed.

He looked at him with a resentful gaze.

The expression on his face truly contained a thousand twists and turns, countless words left unsaid.

“...” Lin Yuchu.

That one look gave him goosebumps all over.

He felt uncomfortable all over.

His face immediately went cold, and he stared at him coldly. “If you have something to say, say it!”

He really could not stand Gu Chun looking like a wronged wife. Ever since just now, Gu Chun had seemed as if someone had put a curse on him.

Only after Lin Yuchu forced him with that cold voice did Gu Chun look at him with deep resentment and say hesitantly, “I’m worried you’ll break off our friendship.”

Hearing him suddenly say that, Lin Yuchu did not react at first. His tone was strange as he said, “Why would I break off our friendship?”

“...Of course it’s because, because, because what if I beat you?”

Gu Chun’s voice grew smaller and smaller as he spoke. By the end, he was speaking as softly as a mosquito buzzing. “If I beat you, will you get angry, ignore me, and break off our friendship?”

“...” Lin Yuchu.

Hearing this, he was instantly angered into laughter.

He looked at him deeply. “So this is what you’ve been struggling over all along.”

After saying that, Lin Yuchu gave a cold laugh. “You really dare to say that.”

“Defeat me first, then talk.”

Lin Yuchu looked unconcerned, as though he did not take him seriously at all. Even his tone was indifferent as he said, “With just you?”

“...” Gu Chun.

That... that was really infuriating!

Don’t look down on me!

Gu Chun glared at Lin Yuchu before him, who looked so calm, arrogant, and completely dismissive of him. Inwardly, he gritted his teeth. It’s over!

We’re done!

I’m definitely going to defeat you ruthlessly. Me, worrying about you? I’m practically an idiot!

The little boat of friendship flipped over just like that.

...

At last, it was Lin Yuchu and Gu Chun’s turn.

Gu Chun drew first, and Lin Yuchu followed right after.

The two of them glanced at the slips in each other’s hands. Gu Chun had the western arena, while Lin Yuchu had the eastern arena.

Seeing that he and Lin Yuchu had been assigned to two different arenas, Gu Chun immediately sighed in relief. Excellent.

Although Gu Chun had decided that he would properly teach the arrogant, conceited, and contemptuous Lin Yuchu a lesson, he did not want to face him so early.

Lin Yuchu was not surprised by this result.

Generally speaking, seeded contestants would not all run into one another during the preliminaries. If they did, then that would truly be wretched luck clinging to them.

Lin Yuchu felt he was not so unlucky as to run into Gu Chun in the preliminaries.

“Then...” He raised his head, looked at Gu Chun before him, and said, “See you in the finals.”

Hearing this.

Gu Chun lifted his head and looked at him.

A bright, confident smile appeared on his handsome face. He lifted his chin and said proudly, “When the time comes, I won’t show mercy.”

After hearing this, Lin Yuchu gave a cold heh. “Who needs your mercy? How self-important.”

After saying that.

The two of them turned around separately and walked in different directions, stepping onto their respective arenas.

...

Eastern Arena.

Lin Yuchu carried his sword and walked onto the arena. He stood there, lifted his head, and looked forward with a pair of dark, deep, bright eyes at his opponent.

A sixteen- or seventeen-year-old youth at the seventh level of Qi Refining.

When he looked at his opponent, that youth was also sizing him up.

After seeing Lin Yuchu, the youth’s face immediately showed surprise. He said, “So little.”

As if he was extremely surprised and had never expected his opponent to be such a young boy. No, he should say, almost like a child.

The youth looked at Lin Yuchu and asked, “Has the Sword Path Grand Competition finally gone mad enough to stretch its demonic claws toward little kids like you?”

“How old are you?”

He asked Lin Yuchu with great interest, “If you lose, will you cry?”

As the youth spoke, a troubled expression appeared on his face, but his eyes were eager, looking at him with quite a bit of excitement and anticipation. “I don’t know how to comfort little kids. If you cry, I’ll be very troubled.”

“...” Lin Yuchu.

He could not see where this person looked troubled at all.

Where had this weirdo come from?

Their eyes met. Confirmed: the other party was a weirdo.

“I don’t know how to comfort people either.”

Lin Yuchu’s voice was indifferent.

“Hm?”

The youth standing across from him made a strange sound. He looked at him oddly and said in confusion, “Why are you saying that?”

After hearing this, Lin Yuchu raised his head and looked at him.

His expression did not change. His face was expressionless, and his voice was still indifferent, calm and utterly without fluctuation. “If you cry, I won’t comfort you.”

“Hahahaha!”

Hearing this, the youth immediately burst into laughter, as though he had heard some hilarious joke. His face was full of uncontrollable amusement. He looked at Lin Yuchu, and only after a good while did he stop laughing. He said with interest, “You little kid really are fun. Your jokes are so funny! Hahaha, you’re killing me!”

“...” Lin Yuchu, who had not been joking.

Nor did he think what he had just said was funny in any way.

As expected, this person was a strange fellow.

“So cute.”

The youth looked at Lin Yuchu ahead of him with a smiling face. “It would be great if you were my little brother.”

“...” Lin Yuchu.

He felt this youth was ill and needed medicine.

“I’ve decided!”

The youth said this, then looked at Lin Yuchu before him. “If you lose, you’ll be my little brother.”

“...” Lin Yuchu.

And because they were itching unbearably, impatient to know in real time what sort of mischief Rain Emperor was causing in the Sword Path Grand Competition, and because they had no choice but to guard against him, unable to lower their vigilance for even a moment, the Immortal Lords of the Immortal Alliance, for justice! For the peace and safety of the cultivation world!

All of them filled with righteous awe!

In the council hall of the Immortal Alliance outpost, they had hung a Thousand-Li Mirror.

Within the smooth, bright mirror surface, the scene of Lin Yuchu at the Sword Path Grand Competition was reflected clearly.

This was definitely not spying, nor was it to satisfy their own selfish desires, meaning curiosity!

Inside the Immortal Alliance council hall.

The Immortal Lords watched this scene being broadcast live in the Thousand-Li Mirror. Immediately, the corners of their mouths twitched collectively, and they looked speechlessly at a certain youth standing before Lin Yuchu.

Their faces still bore calm, transcendent expressions, all immortal bearing and Daoist bones, but inwardly they were already roaring.

Liguang Sword Master, run!

The person in front of you is a great demon king who can seduce people and steal their hearts!

If you don’t run now, you’ll fall into his demonic clutches and won’t be able to escape!

“Why is Ye Li here?”

“He shouldn’t be appearing at this time.”

“He never appeared at the Sword Path Grand Competition in any of the previous times. Why this time?”

“Who moved his fate?”

“...”

“...”

Ye Li was the future Liguang Sword Master, who would become famous throughout the cultivation world alongside Taichu Sword Master Gu Chun and be known on the Sword Path as the revival of a sword god.

However, according to the established trajectory of fate, Ye Li should not have appeared in the Sword Path Grand Competition.

In every previous instance, Ye Li had never participated in this Sword Path Grand Competition. Although the Sword Alliance had indeed sent Ye Li an invitation, Ye Li ultimately had not narrowly won.

This Sword Path Grand Competition should have been where Taichu Sword Master Gu Chun seized first place in one stroke, using this as the opportunity to enter the Kunlun Sword Sect and begin his future path of becoming king and saint on the Sword Path.

In the end, not only had the great killing weapon that was Rain Emperor appeared out of nowhere in this Sword Path Grand Competition, even Liguang Sword Master was coming to stick his foot in?

It was simply... fantastical!

A silence fell over the Immortal Alliance council hall.

A deathly silence.

All the Immortal Lords stared expressionlessly at the two youths, one tall and one short, shown in the Thousand-Li Mirror ahead. They felt their throats beginning to feel uncomfortable again.

Who could have thought?

Who could have imagined this scene?

If this were placed in the cultivation world of the past, who would dare imagine that Rain Emperor, Taichu Sword Master, and Liguang Sword Master would stand on the same arena? Wouldn’t the cultivation world explode?

Sooner or later, it was doomed!

Their hearts full of bitterness, the Immortal Lords of the Immortal Alliance only felt their hearts sour and their noses twitch. They nearly shed tears.

What were they working so hard for?

And yet this garbage cultivation world could not be carried! It could not be saved.

Only after a long time.

The Immortal Lords finally calmed down and settled their thoughts.

One Immortal Lord stared at the Thousand-Li Mirror ahead and said in a deep voice, “Perhaps matters are not that terrible. Although Liguang Sword Master’s appearance was unexpected, his opponent is Rain Emperor.”

“Being assigned to the same group as Rain Emperor in the preliminaries will not affect the final result much.”

As soon as the other Immortal Lords heard this, they understood what he meant.

Although Liguang Sword Master was strong, whether it was him, Taichu Sword Master, or Rain Emperor, all three were existences beyond specifications.

If three beyond-specification, invincibly powerful existences gathered in the same arena at the same time, then this garbage arena would definitely explode.

But now, the unexpectedly appearing Liguang Sword Master had been assigned to the same arena as Rain Emperor in the preliminaries. King meeting king.

The two of them would definitely eliminate one another, leaving only one person to claim the eastern arena championship and enter the next round of finals.

In this way, only two beyond-specification existences would remain in the final arena.

This result was not too bad.

“Think on the bright side. Maybe Liguang Sword Master can eliminate Rain Emperor.”

One Immortal Lord found joy amid bitterness and said, “If he can eliminate Rain Emperor, everyone here will have to thank him.”

“...”

“...”

“...”

Hearing this, the Immortal Lords of the Immortal Alliance immediately felt—

Damn, what you said makes a lot of sense, but is that possible?

The Immortal Lords side-eyed him. Who gave you the confidence to say that?

The Immortal Lord being stared at by the group: “...”

He immediately gave an awkward laugh and said, “One should still have dreams. What if it happens?”

...

And the young version of the future Liguang Sword Master, Ye Li, who had been entrusted with the high hopes of the Immortal Lords of the Immortal Alliance and was destined to become famous throughout the cultivation world and shake the eight directions, was currently full of interest. Like some strange uncle, he was abducting the cute and innocent little shota Rain Emperor. “Be my little brother. I’ll treat you well.”

“Mm...”

Ye Li thought for a moment, then said to the child before him with a completely serious face, “Whatever you want, big brother will get it for you. If you do wicked things, big brother can cover for you too.”

“...” Lin Yuchu.

Hearing this, even someone as consistently calm and indifferent as him could not help the corner of his mouth from twitching.

I only want to defeat you, but you want to “pick me up”?

No thanks, no thanks. Big brother, no thanks!

And Lin Yunheng, seated in front of the arena, nearly exploded with anger at what he saw and heard.

His face was full of rage, his eyes wide, like a berserk beast that might go mad and overturn the entire venue at any moment. He glared fixedly at Ye Li, who was currently trying hard to hook up with Lin Yuchu on the arena ahead.

Where did this blind, stinking brat come from? He actually dares abduct my family’s child. Does he want to die?

Ye Li, who earlier had gone feral on the arena, skewering all his opponents with one sword strike, his sword wind vicious and ruthless like a wolf cub’s, was now speaking gently and kindly to his opponent. He was even... attempting to carry out some kind of improper abduction.

It instantly shocked everyone present so badly their eyes nearly fell out.

This... this, this, what was going on?

Had that Ye Li been poisoned by some gu?

And Sword Master Longquan, likewise seated in the chief judge’s seat before the arena, looked at Ye Li, who was working hard to hook up with Lin Yuchu in the arena ahead, and could not help laughing. He said, “This is rather interesting.”

Beside him, Lin Yunheng, the protective father who was practically about to die of rage and could go berserk at any second, immediately sneered. “What about it is interesting?”

“Since when can human traffickers with ill intentions step onto a Sword Path arena?”

Hearing this, Sword Master Longquan turned his head and looked at him in surprise.

He seemed to find such an excessive reaction from him strange, but he did not think too much about it. Instead, he continued with the matter at hand. “This little Ye child subdued Liguang Sword not long ago. A divine sword recognized him as its master. But because the time has been short, the divine sword’s power is hard to control.”

“Moreover, it has affected the sword master’s mind and reason, causing the sword master’s temperament to become changeable and unstable.” Sword Master Longquan revealed this unknown secret and said, “Originally, Ye Li did not intend to participate in this Sword Path Grand Competition.”

“But...”

When he got here, even Sword Master Longquan could not help laughing softly. Only after quite a while did he stop smiling and continue, “But because Ye Li’s second brother, Ye Yang, placed a bet on that Lin Yuchu’s opponent to win first place, for the sake of security, he persuaded Ye Li to enter the competition.”

Hearing this, Sword Lord Nanming, seated to the side, immediately said strangely, “Ye Yang bought Lin Yuchu’s opponent to win. Why would he persuade Ye Li to enter?”

It was not as if he had bet on Ye Li winning.

Sword Lord Nanming also did not understand.

Hearing his confusion, Sword Master Longquan could not help laughing. Only after a good while did he continue, “That is something you do not know.”

Then Sword Master Longquan recounted the whole story, beginning from when Lin Yuchu first appeared at the Immortal Guest Inn, went against everyone else by refusing to bet on Qin Chuan or Bai Luozhou to win and instead insisted on betting on Lu Qingyuan to take first place, and mocked the cultivators for poisoning the milk...

All the way to the end, when Lu Qingyuan persuaded the gambling house owner to open a betting pool for this year’s junior sword cultivator competition. Because Lin Yuchu’s earlier arrogance and smugness had angered all the cultivators, they retaliated by placing bets, and every cultivator bought his opponent to win.

“Ye Yang is precisely a firm believer in Qin Chuan taking first place. Lin Yuchu’s actions naturally angered him and made him fly into shame and fury. He simply could not stand seeing Lin Yuchu win first place. So not only did he bet on Lin Yuchu’s opponent to win, for the sake of security, he specially dragged Ye Li, who had originally been in closed-door cultivation, out and had him fight Lin Yuchu in the arena,” Sword Master Longquan said.

But even Ye Yang probably had not expected Ye Li and Lin Yuchu to meet so quickly.

Lin Yuchu’s first battle in the arena was against Ye Li.

This was no good thing.

Sword Master Longquan looked at the arena ahead, at the two youths who were still tugging and entangling with each other, mostly Ye Li entangling Lin Yuchu one-sidedly, and thought: Needless to say, Ye Li, who could subdue the divine sword Liguang and make a divine sword recognize him as master, was no ordinary person. That youth surnamed Lin also seemed extraordinary. No matter which of these two was released outside, he would be a top young genius.

In the end, the two of them had met in the preliminaries.

When two tigers fought, one must fall. What a pity.

Thinking this, Sword Master Longquan had already ignored the fact that among those able to stand on this arena, which one was not a young talent? Which one was not a standout among people?

For Sword Master Longquan to have such thoughts, separating Lin Yuchu from the others and placing him alongside Ye Li, master of a divine sword, as an equal.

That could only be because Lin Yuchu’s actions and bearing, or perhaps his entire demeanor, revealed his extraordinariness. It made Sword Master Longquan and the others regard him differently.

This was very rare.

Doing nothing, relying only on one’s own bearing, words, and actions to make others submit.

No wonder the Immortal Alliance had once said that Rain Emperor’s charm was unstoppable.

...

After hearing Sword Master Longquan’s words, Sword Lord Nanming was immediately rendered speechless.

Only after a long while did he say, “What nonsense!”

He raised his head and stared at the two youths on the arena ahead. His gaze landed on Lin Yuchu, and his brows furrowed slightly.

This youth...

He had some impression of him. On that day, hadn’t the ones who came to report the fake road passes being sold outside the city been him and another youth?

Compared with Sword Lord Nanming’s thoughtful expression, Lin Yunheng, who had heard Sword Master Longquan’s words as words of praise, was full of joy and pride. He nodded repeatedly, joining in to boast and praise him. “That’s right. My son...”

Lin Yunheng, who almost let it slip, immediately changed his words and said, “Lin Yuchu, that youth called Lin Yuchu, truly appears extraordinary. He has a heroic bearing, is a young genius, brave and resourceful...”

The following hundred words were omitted.

As expected of an experienced son-con, Lin Yunheng praised and bragged about Lin Yuchu without changing expression. Those praise words were so embarrassing they would make someone blush, yet he managed to say them without the slightest pressure.

Sword Lord Nanming, who had originally been deep in thought, heard his words and immediately had the corner of his mouth twitch. He was utterly speechless inside.

He glared at him.

Is your face made of city walls?

And Sword Master Longquan, seated beside Lin Yunheng, turned his head and looked at him thoughtfully.

As if he had thought of something. That youth also had the surname Lin and also came from Cloudridge. Could it be...

Add to that Lin Yunheng, an unorthodox grandmaster of talismans and alchemy Dao, insisting on butting in and sitting as a chief judge of their Sword Path Grand Competition.

Thinking of this, Sword Master Longquan became almost certain of his guess.

So that was it.

Sword Master Longquan looked at Lin Yunheng, who was wildly praising Lin Yuchu, and understood inwardly. If that was the case, then it made sense.

Having figured out the reason, Sword Master Longquan looked at Lin Yunheng, who was still wildly praising Lin Yuchu, and a trace of amusement could not help entering his eyes. The smile at the corner of his mouth was intrigued.

Lin Yunheng praised Lin Yuchu, praised him, praised and praised...

After he finished praising him.

His face still looked as though he wanted more, and he turned his gaze back toward the arena ahead.

He just happened to see Ye Li entangling Lin Yuchu, tugging and dragging at him, and his entire face instantly turned black. Even his voice sank as he said unhappily, “So that Ye Li is doing it on purpose? Pretending to be close to Lin Yuchu, then turning on him and stabbing him in the back?”

“How sinister and vicious!”

“Too malicious!”

Sword Lord Nanming and Sword Master Longquan, seated beside him: “...”

Hearing this, the corners of their mouths immediately twitched.

The smile on Sword Master Longquan’s face also froze. He looked speechlessly at Lin Yunheng before him and thought, So after I said so much just now, other than the parts related to Lin Yuchu, you didn’t hear any of it?

In a helpless tone, he said, “Ye Li only subdued the divine sword recently. The divine sword is unstable, and his temperament and reason are also affected by the divine sword, making them unstable.”

“So it is normal for his behavior to be somewhat abnormal and skewed.”

Hearing this, Lin Yunheng immediately looked enlightened. “In other words, my son...”

“Lin Yuchu!”

He immediately changed his words at top speed. “Lin Yuchu has been entangled by a madman!”

“...” Sword Master Longquan.

Hearing this, the corner of his mouth twitched even harder.

Only after a long while did he say, “If you put it that way, it isn’t wrong.”

He thought inwardly, This is truly a grave sin!

Son-cons could not be reasoned with. Such a fine young talent, yet in his mouth, he had become a madman.

...

And at this moment, on the arena.

Lin Yuchu had also begun to realize something. The youth before him, who was clinging to him and refusing to let go, insisting on recognizing him as a little brother, seemed to...

He looked thoughtfully at the youth before him, who could not be reasoned with no matter what was said, who insisted on his own set of ideas and kept clinging to him while calling him little brother over and over. Lin Yuchu thought, It seems there’s something wrong with his brain.

This was not an insult, but a factual statement.

Realizing this, Lin Yuchu immediately changed his strategy too.

There was no reasoning with a madman. He could only go along with him.

So Lin Yuchu looked at the youth before him and said, “Fine.”

The youth, who had originally been clinging to him and chattering nonstop, immediately paused at those words and stopped.

He lifted his head and looked at him.

Only after a good while did a bright smile appear on his face. He said to him, “Little brother, you agreed!”

Lin Yuchu did not correct his form of address. Instead, he said, “If you win.”

“I will win!”

The youth immediately said. He looked at Lin Yuchu before him, the corners of his mouth curving slightly upward, his smile bright and unrestrained like a blazing sun.

“I definitely will win!”

“So...” The youth looked at Lin Yuchu before him and said, “So, little brother, from now on, you’re mine!”

Lin Yuchu looked at him and did not comment.

He would not lower himself to argue with a madman. In any case, he could not win.

Lin Yuchu thought that although he did not have any obsession with victory and defeat, and simply believed that he would not lose and disliked losing, at this moment, he had never yearned for victory, never wanted to win, as much as he did now.

He definitely did not want to become his little brother!

Lin Yuchu looked at the youth before him and thought so inwardly.

Having received Lin Yuchu’s agreement, the youth, who had already one-sidedly decided that Lin Yuchu was his little brother, smiled brightly and enthusiastically as he clung to Lin Yuchu and asked, “Little brother, what’s your name?”

“Big brother is called Ye Li.”

Ye Li said to Lin Yuchu with a smile, then looked at him expectantly.

“...” Lin Yuchu.

Facing his enthusiastic and expectant gaze, Lin Yuchu was silent for a long while before finally spitting out three words. “Lin Yuchu.”

“Oh, little brother, you’re called Yuchu!”

Ye Li said with a smile, “What a nice name.”

Inwardly, he secretly thought: If it had the surname Ye in front, Ye Yuchu, it would sound even better!

Decided. The next goal was to have little brother take my surname!

Having found his battle objective, Ye Li’s heart instantly filled with fighting spirit. The aura around him continuously climbed, climbed, and climbed!

Lin Yuchu, standing before him, immediately sharpened his gaze.

His gaze turned stern and full of wariness as he stared at him.

Although this was indeed a madman, this madman’s strength was extremely powerful. Terrifyingly powerful!

At this moment.

Lin Yuchu, standing on the arena and facing Ye Li, whose fighting spirit was surging and whose aura was rising step by step.

Became certain that this time, he had drawn the ghost card.

He had been blessed by the goddess of misfortune.

This youth...

His strength was clearly enough to take first place!

In the preliminary round, in his very first battle, he had run into a terrifying opponent with the strength to win first place.

Lin Yuchu also raised his sword. Inwardly, he made up his mind that after he finished this match and went home, he absolutely had to go to a temple and worship the gods!

He held his sword in one hand. Silver-white sword qi continuously gathered on the sharp, thin blade, winding around it.

Around his body, a cold sword qi barrier also appeared.

Entering battle readiness!

And Ye Li, standing before Lin Yuchu.

Was no longer the clinging youth from moments ago. His aura was astonishing, and his entire body was wrapped in rainbow light.

So bright it was shocking!

If someone unaware saw him, perhaps they would even laugh out loud, point at Ye Li, covered in seven-colored rainbow light, and giggle, saying he had come here to be a hilarious Tom Sue.

But at this moment, Lin Yuchu could not laugh.

Not only was it not funny, he found it terrifying!

That brilliant, gorgeous rainbow light was not the harmless, beautiful, resplendent rainbow after rain, but—

Sword light!

Terrifying sword light, so powerful it made one suffocate and shudder all over!

Lin Yuchu’s gaze fixed on the sword in Ye Li’s hand. It was a silver-white sheathed sword that looked ordinary and unremarkable, no different from countless long swords, without anything outstanding about it.

Only the sword guard was inlaid with a five-colored gem.

But Lin Yuchu did not dare truly look down on it.

Liguang Sword!

These three words surfaced in his mind.

This was a divine sword forged by a god of the past, who took rainbow light to temper meteoric iron from beyond the heavens and forged it in the blazing flames of the falling sun.

Divine sword, Liguang.

And this person—

Lin Yuchu lifted his head and looked at Ye Li before him.

He thought, He is the sword master who subdued Liguang Sword.

This really was...

Lin Yuchu thought, Did I draw the trump card?

Such a powerful and terrifying opponent!

But—

Was that not what made it interesting?

Lin Yuchu raised his head and stared straight at Ye Li ahead, who held the divine sword Liguang. On his expressionless face, his lips curved up for an instant, revealing an excited smile that could almost be called twisted and perverse.

“This is what makes it interesting!”

Lin Yuchu stared at Ye Li and said, “Only this version of you is worth defeating!”

Hearing this.

As if surprised, Ye Li’s face showed astonishment. He looked at him and said, “Little brother, you really are perverted.”

Hearing this.

Lin Yuchu immediately gave a scoffing laugh.

“Aren’t you ashamed to say something like that?”

Lin Yuchu said mockingly, “The smile on your face is even more twisted and excited than mine, big brother—”

And Ye Li, standing before him, after hearing the final words “big brother,” unsurprisingly became even more excited!

So excited that his whole body shuddered.

The rainbow light around him surged.

The sword qi was stern and powerful, like the frozen North Pole, a ten-thousand-li expanse of ice beneath the aurora!

Ye Li’s face was full of excitement. The smile at the corner of his mouth was almost twisted to the point of collapse. His fervent gaze fixed on him, and even his voice was filled with trembling excitement. “Sure enough, such a sweet little brother really is lovable. He makes people... want to defeat him!”

“A little brother who falls down, has no strength, and lies soft all over in big brother’s arms will definitely, definitely be even cuter!”

Saying such twisted, sick words.

Ye Li gripped Liguang Sword tightly in his hand. His feet moved in rapid, small steps as he rushed forward. With one sword swing, he stirred up fierce, powerful sword wind all around him and struck viciously toward Lin Yuchu ahead.

Within the wind, brilliant rainbow light flashed.

And Lin Yuchu, standing in the middle of the storm, pressed his lips tightly together. His fair, delicate face was icy, and his gaze was like winter frost.

He raised the sword in his hand, pointed it at the sky, and silently chanted a sword art under his breath, standing there without moving.

Not dodging, not evading.

He allowed the wild sword wind and sword qi to attack him.

“What is he doing?”

“Why is he standing there without moving?”

“Could he have been locked onto, suppressed, and made unable to move?”

A commotion came from below the arena.

Almost everyone’s eyes had been drawn over by the intense, powerful battle on this arena.

Strong. Too strong!

Ye Li’s strength had already surpassed those other junior sword cultivators.

He could even fight an adult sword cultivator.

Ye Li, holding the divine sword Liguang, was simply a cheater with his golden finger fully opened!

Who could fight him? Who could block one sword strike from him?

“I can!”

Standing amid the sword storm, unmoving as a mountain, his expression stern and noble, Lin Yuchu said this with resounding force.

I can!

My sword cannot, but I can.

“The sword in that Lin Yuchu’s hand is only an ordinary spiritual sword. It cannot block Ye Li’s Liguang Sword at all,” Sword Master Longquan said. “If he resists head-on, Lin Yuchu’s sword will break.”

“If a sword cultivator’s sword breaks and he has no sword in hand, then he has lost,” Sword Master Longquan said. Then he looked at the arena ahead, at the youth standing tall within the divine sword Liguang’s storm of sword wind, and murmured, “How can his sword be so ordinary?”

Those words...

Hearing them, Lin Yunheng, seated beside him, immediately had the corner of his mouth twitch hard. Inwardly, he was annoyed. Miscalculation.

Lin Yuchu’s sword was something he had casually bought from a weapons shop for one hundred spiritual stones.

He did not care much about these external things. Even with a sword, his only requirement was that it be handy and usable. Just like this, carrying a spiritual sword worth one hundred spiritual stones, he had come to Bright Moon Capital, gone up the Star Observatory, and stood on this arena.

Facing the sword master of the divine sword Liguang.

When we get back, I’ll replace my son’s sword!

Lin Yunheng made up his mind inwardly. When they got back, he would spend a fortune to seek out a divine sword or immortal sword!

...

An ordinary spiritual sword that could not stand against the divine sword Liguang head-on, a fragile sword that would break on contact. It did not even have the ability to resist directly. That youth, Lin Yuchu, would lose without a doubt!

Sword Master Longquan thought so inwardly.

And the cultivators below the arena, although they did not know that the sword in Ye Li’s hand was the divine sword Liguang, could tell just by looking that the sword was extraordinary.

Set against Liguang Sword’s brilliant rainbow light and sharp, powerful sword edge, the sword in Lin Yuchu’s hand was as dim as an iron sword.

Could such a fragile iron sword block that brilliant, sharp divine sword?

He was going to lose!

That Lin Yuchu was going to lose.

What a pity.

Everyone shook their heads inwardly. Although they truly did not want Lin Yuchu to win, since that youth had already been arrogant enough earlier, and if he won again, wouldn’t that be unbearable?

But they also had to admit that this youth’s luck was too poor. His first opponent, his very first battle, was against such a powerful opponent.

If the one he met had not been Ye Li, perhaps he could have fought for a place in the top three.

The top three junior cultivators could enter the Kunlun Sword Sect, the number one sword sect under heaven!

That was a path straight to the heavens!

What a pity, what a pity!

Everyone felt such regret and pity inwardly, as if they were witnessing the fall of a genius.

Probably only...

Only inside the Immortal Alliance, where the Immortal Lords stared at the live broadcast in the Thousand-Li Mirror before them, was everyone calm and composed at this moment.

More than calm!

This was simply expressionless indifference dot jpg.

Watching Rain Emperor in the Thousand-Li Mirror, trapped in dire straits, in imminent peril, looking as though he was doomed, the Immortal Lords of the Immortal Alliance not only were not worried, not regretful, and not sorry, they even wanted to sneer.

A routine. It was all a routine!

They had seen this sort of thing far too many times in the past. Rain Emperor was best at this trick.

It looked as though he had been forced into a desperate situation and was doomed.

However—

The Immortal Lords stared fixedly at the Thousand-Li Mirror ahead. Their gazes fell on the long sword raised in Lin Yuchu’s hand. With their sharp eyes, they saw—

It was lightning, firelight!

They saw that on the cold, silver-white sword tip of the long sword Lin Yuchu had raised, pointing straight toward the sky, purple lightning and crimson firelight flickered.

“It’s here!”

“It’s coming!”

“As expected!”

The Immortal Lords of the Immortal Alliance, who had long seen through Rain Emperor’s routine, immediately shouted when they saw this scene.

Sure enough—

On the Star Observatory.

In the arena.

They saw that in the sky overhead, a bolt of purple lightning rumbled and struck straight downward toward Lin Yuchu!

Everyone was instantly horrified.

This...

What was going on?

What had happened?

Where had the lightning come from?

Just as everyone was confused, what happened next was even more shocking.

That lightning did not strike Lin Yuchu’s body. Instead...

It landed on his sword!

In an instant.

The sword in Lin Yuchu’s hand was filled with the power of lightning.

Purple lightning and silver arcs of electricity intertwined, winding around the entire blade!

Only then did a faint smile appear at the corner of Lin Yuchu’s mouth. He reached forward and swung his sword.

In an instant—

Countless bolts of lightning spread and surged forward.

“Rumble—”

A sound rang out.

It seemed to be thunder.

No, that was the cry of a sword.

The lightning covered the rainbow sword qi. In an instant, the sword qi storm that had originally attacked Lin Yuchu was struck apart by lightning!

It dispersed.

Vanished into nothing.

Lin Yuchu raised the sharp long sword made of lightning in his hand and said to Ye Li ahead in a deep voice, “This way, we are evenly matched. That is fair!”

Hearing this.

Ye Li stared at him. On his handsome yet fierce face, the corners of his mouth instantly lifted, revealing an excited, trembling smile. “Little brother, you really didn’t disappoint me.”

“You’re very strong!”

“Only you are worthy of me, worthy of being my opponent!”

Hearing this, Lin Yuchu immediately sneered. “You really are perverted!”

As soon as the words fell.

The two of them attacked at the same time, clashing fiercely in the arena.

No matter which of them it was, their figures were so fast that no one could grasp them.

All that could be caught were afterimages, the constant clang of weapons meeting in the air, and...

As far as the eye could see, there was brilliant, sharp rainbow sword qi and the might of silver-white and purple lightning.

These two were like executors of heaven’s might.

Displaying the power of heavenly gods in the mortal world.

Terrifying. Too terrifying!

Even more terrifying was that the ones possessing such frightening power were only two youths.

Given enough time...

Qin Chuan, Bai Luozhou, Lu Qingyuan, and Lou Qianxue, seated below the arena, stared fixedly at the arena ahead. No matter who they were, every one of their faces was solemn.

Perhaps, in the future, they would become their most troublesome opponents.

At this moment.

Qin Chuan and the others, gifted elites who had always been the ones envied by others for their talent, could not help feeling envy arise in their hearts. What terrifying talent.

A sense of urgency and crisis could not help welling up in them.

If they did not work hard, if they did not break through, then perhaps one day in the future...

They might be surpassed by the junior youths whom they did not place in their eyes today, whom they had taken lightly.

This was truly...

Terrifying beyond measure.

And just as everyone’s thoughts were all different.

The situation in the arena changed once more.

They saw—

Lin Yuchu thrust one sword strike forward, carrying lightning and electricity that filled the sky, stabbing straight toward Ye Li ahead.

And Ye Li stood in place and sneered.

He did not move. He did not dodge this sword strike.

Instead, he chose...

To resist head-on!

He likewise swung out a sword strike, straight toward Lin Yuchu’s sword, colliding with it!

The rainbow-light sword and the lightning crashed into each other in midair!

“Boom—”

With one sound!

Countless brilliant rainbow lights and lightning that filled the sky burst forth in an instant.

The light was so dazzling and bright that everyone present had no choice but to narrow their eyes.

Only after a long while.

When everyone opened their eyes, what they saw was...

“The sword broke...”

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