Chapter 402 (1/2)
Chapter 402: A Simple Hack
Everyone watching the fight was stunned by the thunder and wind Liu Yiqing's sword had made .
Silence lingered in the air; the audience was left speechless .
How could such a simple stroke of the sword have such power?
Amongst all the cultivators gathered, only one truly understood this move of the sword: Cheng Lixue, the Priest of the Revelation Department in the West-Hill Divine Palace .
He realized how powerful and scary the move would be as soon as Liu Yiqing stuck his sword out . He was silent, his right hand holding on to the window ledge .
A seemingly simple move, yet it embodied his willpower, his persistence of waiting for a hundred days, and it even resembled the sword style of Liu Bai!
Simple, yet so formidable .
Everything was the same, including Haotian Divine Light .
Cheng Lixue was still holding the ledge . The terrifying sword style made him wonder what he would do before it . He would not be able to parry and his only option would be to run from it until he had nowhere to go . Only in this way would he have the slightest chance of making an escape .
Even Prince Long Qing, when he was alive, would choose to escape and risk being hurt when facing such a powerful sword style, considering the thunder and wind it summoned . Certainly, he would suffer great injury if he attempted to kill his opponent .
If it was the Tao Addict, would she be able to block Liu Yiqing's sword?
He remembered what happened at the West-Hill and added silently; he was referring to the powerful Tao Addict before her journey to the Wilderness .
Immediately afterward, he changed his mind .
Even the Tao Addict before the Wilderness would not block the sword . Instead, she would attack him expressionlessly . She would see her enemy die before she would die .
And so she would not die .
She could handle Liu Yiqing's attack .
The thunder and wind surged together with the overwhelming sword style .
Facing this powerful move and dangerous situation, Ning Que closed his eyes .
Someone who would close their eyes at this moment must want to commit suicide .
But he didn't want to kill himself . Rather, he hacked forward whilst closing his eyes .
He knew very well that with his
current realm in cultivation, he could not parry this attack . He also would not try to kill his enemy first in the way Ye Hongyu would choose .
Hacking was simple, simpler and requiring less skill than stabbing with a sword .
His podao was also simpler than the sword .
Swords were manmade . They were used for killing or making a salute .
Swords could only be used to kill people, and nothing else .
But podao were sharp things people found in nature, and they were first used for hunting .
They can be used to kill people, but can also cut many other things, like wood .
Holding the hilt of his podao, Ning Que felt the movement in the air when the blade cut forward . He found a feeling of excitement that had been lost for a long time, returning to his body .
He had not used his podao for a long time . He missed it a lot .
Yet still, he was very familiar with the moves, even with his eyes closed .
His moves were so refined they seemed graceful .
His movements were so fluid that they made you feel relaxed .
Only Liu Yiqing felt threatened by the blade, because it was pointing at him .
As Ning Que cut forward, the Great Spirit in his body moved along the hilt and poured into the blade . Holding such powerful Great Spirit, even the most st.u.r.dy podao in the Palace would shatter .
But this one didn't . After being thoroughly tempered by Sixth Brother, it had the combined power of three podaos . So when the Great Spirit poured into the blade, it started shaking at a speed so fast that it couldn't be seen by the naked eye . It looked like it would break at any moment, and yet it did not .
The sound of metal clanging against metal reverberated in the air!
When Liu Yiqing demonstrated his move, the ground paved with dark bricks remained very clean . But Ning Que's podao brought the dust hidden between the seams of the bricks out into the open .
The audience was made up of average people, so they didn't know what had happened . All they saw was that Liu Yiqing's sword was about to go into Ning Que's forehead, and Ning Que hacked down with his ordinary looking weapon .
Only the advanced cultivators could sense the strong Qi of Heaven and Earth circling around the podao in Ning Que's hand . The quant.i.ty and purity of it was more refined and scary than that of Liu Yiqing's Sword of Wind and Thunder .
Cheng Lixue held the window ledge with both hands . He was very shocked, his body was frozen in place .
He Mingchi was standing next to his carriage . Seeing this image, he raised his head and held a wheel with his right hand .
Leaves were crushed by the powerful move of Liu Yiqing's sword . But Ning Que's podao turned the powder into nothing .
A flower poking out from a seam of stones in the distance vanished .
Ning Que's podao met Liu Yiqing's sword .
The tremendous power of the podao suppressed the thunder and wind on the tip of the sword, making it tremble as if it were a candlelight attacked by a gust of heavy wind .
Liu Yiqing was shocked .
He didn't expect him to be so brilliant at cultivation . After all, he was the weakest among all students of the second floor in the Academy, and even the Tao Addict called him the shame of the Academy .
But he didn't want to avoid his attack . Instead, he kept moving his sword and rushed forward .
After meditating for three months at the side gate of the Academy, he was fully prepared . He had thought about all the situations that could happen during this fight, including the current; that Ning Que had rocketed to a new level of cultivation after his penance .