Chapter 198 - Killing Lei Qianjue With a Blade (2/2)

“Chen Beixuan, have you gone mad?”

Lei Qianjue was startled by the development, disbelief was written all over his face.

He thought that Chen Fan was going to die with him.

He sprung up and unfurled the misty wings on his back. The powerful True Energy that propelled Lei Qianjue upward pressed hard on the lake surface and created a deep depression. The misty wings enabled Lei Qianjue to launch himself into the air and he flew backward.

“Kaboom!”

The giant blade hammered down at the lake where Lei Qianjue was standing, creating a temporary chasm that was thirty meters wide. Emerald colored water was pushed to both sides and formed giant rollers around the chasm.

Lei Qianjue’s white hair fell loose over his shoulders as he fumbled to get out of harm’s way. He evaded the attack, but not the water that slashed out with the waves.

He looked toward Chen Fan and saw Chen Fan was still under his giant crystalline net. Chen Fan ignored the net that was closing in on him and closed his fingers to form a fist.

“Blade, arise!”

Numerous explosions erupted on the lake as countless columns of water rose into the sky. Just like last time, these water sprouts converged and formed a large blade, however, this time, the blade was a bit shorter than the last one.

Lei Qianjue fumbled to dodge the attacks.

“The third attack!”

“The fourth attack!”

“The fifth attack!”

Chen Fan struck at his opponent five times in a row and the violent commotion had turned the otherwise clear lake water a muddy soup. Although each time Lei Qianjue was able to escape by a hair’s breadth, exhaustion was slowly claiming him. A few more attacks, he was bound to slip up.

However, Lei Qianjue suddenly stood still and was no longer on the run. He let out a peal of laughter.

“Chen Beixuan, you thought that you could kill me before my Qi Net of the Thousand Trickeries closed in on you. Well, think again.”

Everyone was stunned by his announcement. They looked toward Chen Fan and noticed that the previously giant net was reduced to the size of a bird cage, encasing Chen Fan in its hollowed belly.

“Close!”

Lei Qianjue commanded with a deep growl.

The crystalline net let out a peal of cracking noise like ice being crushed and compressed as it shrunk in size. The strands of ice that made up the net were gaining more ma.s.s and strength by the second. Everyone knew that even an Immortal State martial artist would be crushed into the pulp inside the formidable death trap.

This was the real coup de grace, the killing blow that Lei Qianjue had been perfecting over the decade on the tundra.

Although he didn’t get to use it on what it was intended, to be able to kill an Immortal State cultivator such as Chen Fan with it was not a waste of its power.

“sigh”

Facing the shrinking web of frigid crystals, Chen Fan let out a sigh. He let go of the water sword still hovering above the lake and lowered his hands. It looked like he had given up.

“Chen Beixuan, I have to say that you are one of the most ingenious and talented opponents I have ever met. Even Ye Nantian could not compare with you while I fought him seventeen years ago.” Despite Lei Qianjue’s praise, his gaze only grew colder. He was not going to let the young man live.

He knew that at his level, pity and sympathy could be a deadly thing.

“What a shame, if he waited ten more years, he could definitely kill Lei Qianjue.” Chen Jiuyang shook his head and heaved a sigh.

His sentiment was shared by many other martial artists. Chen Fan’s rise to power was swift and stunning, yet his fall was even quicker and more spectacular.

“Let’s go now.”

Grandmaster Du patted the giant snake under his feet and was ready to leave.

Zhang Yumeng and her friends heaved a sigh of disappointment. Compared to the white-haired one, they liked Chen Fan much more due to their similar age.

“Ten meters, five, three…”

In a blink, the net had turned into an ice ball that was devoid of any openings. No longer could people see Chen Beixuan, and they wagered that they would never see the boy again.

Suddenly, m.u.f.fled laughter drifted out from the ice ball

“Lei Qianjue, is this your trump card?”

Everyone was startled by the voice and they looked at the ice ball again. They saw a pair of hands that reached out of the ball through a small opening, they grabbed hold of the edge of the opening and tore at it.

“Sssth-Wack!”

The ice cage was torn open by Chen Fan’s bare hands. The layers upon layers of hardened crystals were shattered into pieces like papers.

Under Lei Qianjue’s terrified watched, Chen Fan stepped out of the cage languorously.

There was no trace of Dharmic Powers about him, but he seemed to have become the one with Heaven and Earth, he wove his essence into the very fabric of reality.