402 A Simple Hack (1/2)
Chapter 402: A Simple Hack
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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.
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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 sturdy 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.
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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 quantity 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.
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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.
He believed that Ning Que would hesitate when their weapons were about to touch.