Chapter 516 Qi and Blood Martial Arts
Seven days later, Tiandou Palace.
In the central open space of the garden where hundreds of flowers bloomed, Ling Yi held a sword in his right hand and his left hand behind his back, standing there quietly like an ancient pine tree on a green mountain.
A few feet away, Xue Qianxun's face was solemn, and her white and tender little hand also held a two-foot small sword. Her eyes, like pomegranate flowers, stared at Ling Yi in front of her without blinking.
"Hu——"
A breeze blew past, as if a signal, Xue Qianxun's tense body suddenly moved.
I saw the golden wings behind her flashing, and her figure of only five feet seemed to blend into the ubiquitous sunlight. In just a blink of an eye, she crossed a distance of several feet and came to Ling Yi, thrusting the sword from bottom to top at Ling Yi's left shoulder.
Seeing this scene, Di Xiya, who was watching more than ten meters away, subconsciously grabbed the brocade handkerchief in her hand, and her beautiful face was full of concern.
You know, although the two-foot short sword is only carved from wood, the material is from the heart of the hundred-year-old "iron birch tree", which is no different from the ordinary fine iron sword!
On the other side, facing the sword tip stabbed by Xue Qianxun, Ling Yi's expression was indifferent, and his body remained motionless, just waiting for the sword to come.
When the tip of the sword was still an inch away from Ling Yi's left shoulder, Xue Qianxun's confident expression became panic, her body suddenly paused, and the short sword in her hand, which was originally unstoppable, also showed signs of turning back.
At this time, Ling Yi raised his eyelids, and his right hand disappeared from its original position in an instant. Almost at the same time, the long sword held in his palm slashed diagonally towards Xue Qianxun's arm holding the sword.
Facing Ling Yi's sudden counterattack, Xue Qianxun's little face did not panic at all, but her eyes curved and revealed a bright smile.
The golden wings behind her flashed again, her petite body swayed left and right like lightning, and her steps changed like a phantom, extremely smooth and free.
From afar, the guards standing at the entrance of the garden felt a flash before their eyes. At this moment, the eldest princess Xue Qianxun turned into three or four different figures out of thin air. Each figure had a different posture. The same thing was that each two-foot short sword turned into three or four golden meteors, dragging light golden light marks, flying towards Ling Yi who was close at hand.
"Good timing!"
Ling Yi showed an undisguised smile of approval for Xue Qianxun's improvisation and new round of offensive. The long sword that was originally handed out obliquely was gently shaken, and the sword tip cut through the air. The dark sword body drew a black circle in front of him.
"Ding Ding Ding...!"
The seemingly simple black circle was like an unbreakable shield, blocking all the dozens of sword tips stabbed by Xue Qianxun. A series of double sword collisions sounded like the beating of strings, as if playing a moving movement.
As the swords collided, Xue Qianxun's original hesitation was thrown behind her. The little girl felt that under the stimulation of Ling Yi's sword, the two-foot short sword in her hand became more and more handy, and gradually she even felt that the wooden sword had become an extension of her arm.
This made her fight with Ling Yi more and more intense, and the offensive and defensive momentum also changed from mutual attack and defense at the beginning to Xue Qianxun attacking more and Ling Yi defending more.
From the perspective of the spectators, Xue Ye, Di Xiya, Denise and others could see at a glance that Ling Yi's long sword was like a spider web. Every time he handed out a sword, Xue Qianxun's short sword was led to the angle where the little girl could exert the best force.
It seemed that Xue Qianxun was attacking Ling Yi, but she didn't know that Ling Yi was teaching the little girl how to attack him.
This scene made Di Xiya dazzled, Xue Ye looked a little cold, and Denise looked jealous.
The people on the sidelines had different opinions, and the confrontation in the field became more and more heated.
It can be seen that the long sword in Ling Yi's hand is more like a shield with magnetic attraction at this moment. No matter how fast the short sword in Xue Qianxun's hand is, or how tricky the attack angle is, he just draws a black circle obliquely in the air, just like a basalt back armor, blocking all attacks.
As time goes by, a faint golden fluorescence gradually emanates from Xue Qianxun's body. It is the power of light between heaven and earth gathered by her "Holy Feather Swan" martial soul's innate ability. With the increase of "First Soul Skill·Holy Light Blessing", each sword of the little girl at this time not only contains the burning holy fire of light, but also increases the power and speed of attack to about 1.5 times the original.
In other words, Ling Yi himself is not suppressed by the power of light, nor is he afraid of high temperature. If he changes to a dark attribute, or a soul master of the same level with water or wood attributes, his strength will be suppressed by at least 10%.
With one increase and one decrease, it is self-evident which side the balance of victory is more likely to fall to.
The fierce battle lasted for about two quarters of an hour. Xue Qianxun's face was red, and beads of sweat as big as small soybeans flowed down her cheeks and neck. The sleeves of her skirt that originally fluttered in the wind were wet with sweat and stuck tightly to her delicate skin.
Feeling that her physical strength was about to drop to the peak, the little girl danced a circle similar to Ling Yi with the short sword in her hand, blocking Ling Yi's sight. Her feet moved smoothly in an arc, while keeping a distance, and just avoided the sword tip that Ling Yi stabbed.
At this time, a circle of lavender halo appeared in Xue Qianxun's petite body, shining brightly under the shining sun in the sky.
"Hey! Ah——!"
With a cry, the small body soared into the sky, like a skylark soaring into the sky, and in an instant it arrived above Ling Yi's head, with golden wings spread out behind it, and the body hovered in the air. The two-foot short sword in her hand burst into dazzling golden light, and suddenly turned into a three-foot lightsaber. Hundreds of sword lights were like a downpour of raindrops, and like a rushing waterfall, they covered Ling Yi's head.
The second soul skill · Holy Light Guardian!
It comes from a "Light · Blue Silver Grass" with a cultivation of 1,100 years.
It is called Guardian, but it is actually a powerful gain state. During the soul skill, it can continuously convert sunlight into holy light energy with extremely high conversion efficiency. In addition, the holy light energy can also be converted into a semi-energy form by one's own thoughts. Whether it is transformed into defensive armor or a weapon for attack, it is all in a thought.
Looking at the purple soul ring circling around Xue Qianxun, unlike Dixia, who was worried and excited, Xue Ye and Denise became a little dazed.
A thousand-year-old second soul ring, a second-ring great soul master under the age of seven.
If these two points were placed on the Douluo Continent, it would be difficult to find one in the past thousand years, but now they appear in front of them.
Tang Yuehua's ten-thousand-year fourth ring certainly surprised all the forces on the continent, but considering Tang Yuehua's age when she broke through level 40 and the powerful foundation of the [Haotian Sect], everyone was just envious and jealous in their hearts, saying a few words "If I had these conditions, I could do it too."
But now Xue Qianxun has truly broken the conventional cognition of the current Douluo Continent soul master world.
Among them, the most important issue is the age issue!
The Xue Qianxun in front of him is not yet seven years old, and it is not wrong to say that he is six years old.
At this age, it stands to reason that even if the beast martial spirit greatly increases the physical strength, it will not allow a young child to bear the huge soul power of a thousand-year soul ring.
But now, Xue Qianxun has not only become a second-ring great soul master at the age of a little over six, but the second soul ring is a thousand-year soul ring that only those strong three-ring soul masters can have!
Xue Ye had a strange thought inexplicably in her mind: ‘What’s the difference between a six-year-old second-ring great soul master and a 20th-level innate soul master?’
Shaking her head slightly, she shook off the fantasy in her mind, and laughed at herself in her heart: ‘What are you thinking about? How can there be a 20th-level innate soul master in this world? It’s really a fantasy…’
If Xue Ye was so excited that her mentality was unbalanced, she wanted to shout to the sky at this moment: “My daughter Xue Ye has the qualifications for a peerless title!”
Then Denise’s eyes looking at Ling Yi at this moment, in addition to jealousy, were nakedly hot.
As the saying goes, the person who knows you best is often not a friend, but an enemy.
Denise is naturally not Ling Yi’s enemy, but since she entered the palace and was canonized as a concubine, she has regarded Queen Dixia as an enemy.
So, Denise knows very well how much effort Ling Yi has put into Xue Qianxun.
Whether it was the "Fourth Soul Skill·Holy Light Illumination" that Xue Qianxun used to cleanse her body when she was born, or the top-grade soul guide "Spirit Sealing Jade" that prevented the holy light energy from overflowing, or the body-building technique that was taught step by step, all came from Ling Yi, an outsider!
Therefore, although the mainstream ideology on the Douluo Continent currently believes that innate soul power depends more on the bloodline of parents and the talents of the awakeners themselves, in the eyes of many people including Denise, the priceless external conditions that Ling Yi created for Xue Qianxun definitely played a key role!
Not to mention, from the eight-hundred-year-old first soul ring that Xue Qianxun absorbed last year, which was far beyond the normal period, to the thousand-year-old second soul ring that broke the limit and absorbed a few days ago, it was also completed under Ling Yi's care.
Thinking of this, Denise glanced at Emperor Xue Ye beside her, and secretly disdained in her heart. Xue Qianxun has achieved what she has today, and her future prospects are even more immeasurable. Xue Ye, as a father, has nothing to do with her except providing half of the bloodline!
‘If Luo Shu can be trained by Ling Yi, maybe when his martial spirit awakens at the age of six, he will also have the qualifications of innate full soul power? ’
‘Add to that my "Storm Dragon Wolf" bloodline, then he will definitely have higher potential than Xue Qianxun! ’
‘Maybe, under Ling Yi's careful training, Luo Shu's first soul ring can absorb thousands of years? ! ’
Denise was imagining that just thinking about the scene, she felt an uncontrollable impulse, and her heart was burning.
At this moment, after she was sure that Xue Ye beside her was not paying attention to her, she looked at Ling Yi with eyes full of undisguised desire and longing.
At this moment, a series of harsh explosions came from the field, echoing over the garden where hundreds of flowers were blooming.
Ling Yi still stood still, his sword repeatedly drawing circles. His wrist did not turn fast, but it moved the sword in his hand accurately to the position where it should appear, intersecting with Xue Qianxun's three-foot lightsaber from the air again and again, emitting brilliant golden sparks.
Every time the two swords intersected, Xue Qianxun could use the force to turn back and float in the air, and every time the pair of golden wings behind her flapped, she swooped down and swung a stronger sword.
For a while, Xue Qianxun and Ling Yi, one in the sky, one underground, one moving like an eagle, the other motionless like a mountain, fought back and forth.
As the saying goes: If you defend for a long time, you will lose.
"Zuo Zhuan·Cao Gui's Discussion on War" says: The first blow is vigorous, the second is weak, and the third is exhausted.
In this unequal battle, Ling Yi, who has been on the defensive, will naturally not make mistakes.
On the contrary, after activating the second soul ring soul skill, Xue Qianxun, who burst out with her strongest power, became mentally unstable after being unable to gain victory for a long time. In addition, the soul power in her body was rapidly draining like a tide, and the muscle fatigue caused by the long battle made her movements become slower and slower.
Found that Xue Qianxun's sword power became chaotic, Ling Yi shook his head slightly, stretched out the long sword in his hand flatly, and easily placed it on the three-foot lightsaber with golden light flickering. With a shake of his hand, Ling Yi's long sword seemed to have an invisible suction force, firmly sticking to the three-foot lightsaber in Xue Qianxun's hand, and bringing the little girl down from mid-air to the ground.
"Hu——"
The golden wings behind her spread out, and the little girl stood steadily on the ground. The light of the three-foot lightsaber in her hand shattered and turned back into the original two-foot short wooden sword.
"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo--!"
Feeling the aches and pains all over her body and the empty soul power in her body, Xue Qianxun panted violently, sweating all over, her face flushed, and a faint white mist rose from her head.
"Stand still!"
Ling Yi shouted softly, and Xue Qianxun subconsciously put away the short sword in her hand, slightly separated her feet, squatted slightly, and took a round and smooth posture.
In just an instant, the breath of Xue Qianxun, who was still panting, became smooth.
In this process, it can be seen that the sunlight from the sky was attracted by the golden wings behind the little girl, and it sank into her petite body like a drizzle.
And in Ling Yi's mind, the blood and qi in the little girl's body were surging, and the golden light was like a thread, washing her flesh, skin, bones, and internal organs.
It must be said that although the martial soul is very clumsy in battle, it is a first-class convenience when assisting in cultivation.
Like Xue Qianxun's current state, if it were those soulless warriors in [Lingyun City], they would need to master the dark energy before they could practice carefully for about one or two minutes.
Ling Yi remembered that a few years ago, Yu Xiaogang was not very popular in the "Martial Soul Research Institute" at first, but later he made rapid progress in practicing "Beast Martial Soul·Xingyi Boxing", and was recognized by many people in terms of strength.
Well, purely in terms of the realm of physical training.
The physical training martial arts created by Ling Yi was divided into four levels of realms: bright energy, dark energy, transformation energy, and dan energy in the early stage.
Among the current members of [Lingyun City], only Ling Yi has cultivated to dan energy, and there are hundreds of people who have cultivated to dan energy, including Yang Xueli, A Yin, Liu Erlong, and A Rou; the number of dark energy has reached thousands!
Don't think that thousands are a lot. The huge [Lingyun City] has a population of more than one million. The number of combatants belonging to the Ministry of War is more than 50,000, but only a little more than a thousand people have mastered dark energy.
Yu Xiaogang is one of the more than 1,000 dark energy warriors.
Not to mention, when Yu Xiaogang broke through the dark energy, there were only more than 600 dark energy warriors in the entire [Lingyun City].
Given that the breakthrough of strength is too difficult, Ling Yi is now starting to open up a new path, preparing to follow the Qi and Blood Martial Arts of the ‘Yangshen World’ to re-organize the Douluo body forging path.
As for why it is not called ‘Human Immortal Martial Arts’, but Qi and Blood Martial Arts, it is because Ling Yi has not yet found a way to measure the acupoints of the human body, and it is also unclear whether there are ‘Zhoutian Acupoints’ in the human body of Douluo Star.
But in any case, the Qi and Blood Martial Arts before the Martial Saint is enough for the Douluo Continent worldview to use the Titled Douluo level.
‘By the way, there seem to be seven acupoints in the worldview of the cook next door? ’
‘I can study it later...’
Ling Yi looked at Xue Qianxun standing in a stance to comprehend the strength, and thought silently in his heart.
Seeing the state of Ling Yi and Xue Qianxun at this time, Xue Ye and others who were watching on the side could not come over to disturb them for a while, which made Princess Denise, who wanted to do something, quite disappointed.