Chapter 75 – Collapse the clouds (1/2)

Everyone from the Wen Shui Tang family knew that their young master was not good at long battles, not because he had no stamina, but because he got bored of fighting easily.

Tonight, Tang Thirty Six appeared to very bored of the fight. He stepped out with his right foot. The grass was being blown down by wind. Tang Thirty Six’s Wen Shui Sword carried the starlights and was thrusted at Qi Jian. The sword Qi broke the air and faintly, fire could be seen.

“Return of Night Cloud!”

Among the spectating crowd, there were people who knew this sword technique andwere calling it out.

Tang Thirty Six used all of his qi. The sword qi became more rampant as if it was actually burning under the sky.

Several clouds were slowly floating above the square. They were lit up by the sword and it looked as if they were burning too, like the crimson clouds at the sunset.

More terrifyingly, infinite sword spirits were hiding in the burning clouds — the sharpest sword spirits.

People were all shocked thinking that there was reason for this arrogant youngster to be so arrogant.

Gou Han Shi also became serious. He had thought that, when Tang Thirty Six left Wen Shui to xiuxing in Heavenly Academy for several months, he must have become stronger and was no longer just ranked 36th on the Honor Roll of Green Clouds. But he didn’t know that he improved this fast, and was on such high level already.

Above the sky, the clouds were burning. Sword Qi was thrusted at Qi Jian’s face. His skinny body was shaking and his little face became a bit pale but there wasn’t a hint of fear on it.

He shouted and placed his ruler horizontally in front of his chest, like two mountains slowly closing on a river, blocking out all of the sunlight!

Tang Thirty Six continued move up, fire came along his sword. As he walked, his sword got brighter and on its tip, a cluster of white and glaring light was formed!

The dark square was first lit up by clouds and then suddenly, it became as bright as day as if the morning sun had just risen or as if the falling sun was hoisted back up!

“Falling Back of the Setting Sun!”

The spectating crowd again surprisingly shouted!

It wasn’t until now could the elites finally ascertain that Tang Thirty Six had already fully learned the true meaning of the sword techniques of the Wen Shui Tang family.

Return of Night Cloud!

Falling Back of the Setting Sun!

A Sea of Maple!

The Wen Shui Three Movements!

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The Wen Shui Three Movements were the strongest sword techniques of the Wen Shui Tang family. This set of sword techniques only had three moves, but it could change the world!

Of course, with Tang Thirty Six’s current xiuxing stage, even if he learned this sword technique, he couldn’t fully express its power, but it was strong enough.

Even for someone as lazy as him, with four full years of xiuxing and his hard work in the recent several months, he finally mastered it. He was originally going to use it in the Ivy Festival, to destroy Tian Hai Ya Er or in the key moment when he was fighting against Zhuang Huan Yu, but he didn’t have the chance. Tonight, he had the chance to use it against Qi Jian.

The crowd was shocked again and began discussing.

Chen Chang Sheng was confused so he asked Luo Luo, “What happened?”

“The three movements are very powerful. It’s the burn to kill technique.”

Luo Luo said, “Besides this, people are shocked because they didn’t expect Tang Thirty Six to use his strongest methods at the very beginning.”

Chen Chang Sheng remained silent as he thought about what was wrong with it.

“No one does that.”

Luo Luo knew that her master lacked experience of xiuxing and fighting. She thought a bit and said, “This…. isn’t normal.”

It was certainly abnormal.

In the square, whether it was Priest Academy or Thirteen Division of Green Light, or the Southern sects such as Mountain Virgin, the elders were getting ready to analyze the details of the battle for their disciples, but how could they know that just as the battle began, Tang Thirty Six would use his strongest sword technique. The result would be out soon.

How would the teachers and elders of the schools and sects even have time to say anything. They could only sigh or be shocked and say nothing.

Xiuxingists rarely use their strongest technique right in the beginning of the battle, not because of temperament but because the strongest technique was the key to victory. Using it meant that the result of battle would be out soon.

Such scene would only occur in battles between people with obvious strength disparities.

Extremely confident elites would use this method or people who were losing and knew they couldn’t win would use the method.

Tang Thirty Six and Qi Jian had similar strengths. Normally, the fight would take much longer.

He didn’t have any reason to take the risk to see the result as the battle began.

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Tang Thirty Six wasn’t impatient or too confident and of course, he wasn’t unconfident either.

He knew that Qi Jian’s quantity and quality of qi were slightly higher than his own. Moreover, the sword technique of Li Mountain Sword sect was probably more sophisticated and stronger than that of Wen Shui Tang family. If he took the time to fight, then he would lose eventually.

He wanted to win so he had no choice but to get on the offense first.

Getting on the offense depended on who would impose his momentum first.

He unhesitatingly used the Wen Shui Three Movements. His Return of Night Cloud connected to Falling Back of the Setting Sun. The two powerful moves pushed towards Qi Jian like mountain and sea to directly shroud him.

This was the so-called momentum.

He had deeply analyzed the battle between Zhuang Huan Yu and Qi Jian two years ago. He knew Qi Jian’s weakness.

He believed that although Qi Jian must have become stronger and more mature after two years, he definitely didn’t completely fix his weakness.

Because after two years, a twelve year old child (actually 11 and several months) is still a child not even fully fourteen yet.

After all, a child is still a child.

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Children were too young, had too few experiences and most importantly, could not stand as much pressure as adults. Not everyone was like Chen Chang Sheng who had been living under the most terrifying pressure in the world since he was ten.

Qi Jian was the smallest disciple of the Li Mountain Sword Sect, but he was one of the two students who faced the most pressure in the Mountain Li. The other was Qiu Shan Jun.

He was not even twelve yet, but he could already fight against the strongest student in Heavenly Academy and although he lost, it still shocked the world. The most epic granduncle of Mountain Li who found out about this event while traveling had evaluated: As long as Mountain Li has this child, it will not fall for a thousand years.

Such high evaluation brought heavy pressure.

Qi Jian had been xiuxinging and studying under this high pressure. Although he was young, he became more and more reticent like a little adult.

But just as Tang Thirty Six anticipated, he was only a child.

Tang Thirty Six used the Wen Shui Three Movements as he first attack to try to trigger the pressure Qi Jian was facing.

He wanted to defeat Qi Jian by simply using this pressure.

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Besides Mao Qiu Yu and other elders, only Gou Han Shi immediately understood what Tang Thirty Six was trying to do.

His emotion became more and more serious. He knew that his junior was very talented, but because of his age, he always had a weakness. Two years ago, he lost to Zhuang Huan Yu. People all thought he lost because he lacked experience and didn’t xiuxing long enough but he knew that the youngest junior lost the battle because he was not determined enough.

The reason why he wasn’t determined was because Qi Jian felt flustered. He was flustered because he had too much pressure.

As if he expected it, facing the sword momentum burn like a cloud at sunset, facing the white light like a setting sun on the tip of Tang Thirty Six’s sword, Qi Jian remained calm. His Iron Rule was still stable and he didn’t look scared at all. The two invisible mountains were still slowly closing up and Gou Han Shi could see that. He began to become anxious.

Gou Han Shi frowned.

People would probably have thought that Tang Thirty Six’s idea of hiding in his sword spirit was shameless because he was tricking a child, but he didn’t think so. Like what he said before, as long as it’s one’s own strength, then people should use it. Since it was a battle, then regardless of one’s mind or capability of taking pressure, all should be attacked.

He just felt unfortunate because his youngster was stronger than the opponent but lost because of his mental state.

Tang Thirty Six already appeared in front of Qi Jian.

His Wen Shui Sword had already ignited all of the clouds on the sky. Even the grasses in the gap between the stones on the square were fully colored red.

Fire was everywhere and the setting sun shrouded the world.

Qi Jian looked determined. He placed the Iron Rule in front of him like a mountain defending the brook in his heart refusing to dry out.

Tang Thirty Six did not give him a chance.