48 Celestial Star Formation vs. the Divine Rejuvenation Force (2/2)
Mei'Er could not resist asking, ”But a pity what?”
The old man replied, ”But what a pity with five equal attractive rare beauties, I don't know who I should I pick first tonight.”
Everyone was moved to teething rage!
Yi Ping clenched his fists in furious rage and helplessness. This old man was the most formidable opponent that he had met until now. All of a sudden, he remembered what his father had said to him, ”The Asper Divinity Horizon Hand requires eighty years of solid internal strength to use…if you manage to learn this forbidden skill, in three years' time…you will surely die!”
Yi Ping asked himself, ”Do I have eighty years of internal strength now?”
Until now, Yi Ping had never fight against a martial skill with a martial power that exceeded the Asper Horizon Hands till he witnessed the Big Dipper Hands today. If he had to fight on equal footing with the Big Dipper Hand then he had to raise his martial power to that level first…
Ding Yun interrupted his thoughts, ”Yi Ping…everyone….stay calm. Even though the Divine Rejuvenation Force is all-powerful, it does have a weakness.”
Everyone was startled as they regained some of their lost fighting spirit.
The old man was startled, ”Rubbish. My Divine Rejuvenation Force has no weakness whatever so…”
Ding Yun said calmly, ”If I am not wrong, maintaining the Divine Rejuvenation Force requires considerable mental effort. It has to be a purely defensive skill. That is why he is not moving forward to attack us or else he risks dissipating the Divine Rejuvenation Force. Or else why didn't he use it much earlier?”
The old man was secretly alarmed as he thought, ”She can tell?”
Yi Ping said excitedly, ”Yun, you are so brilliant!”
The old man said coldly, ”What are you waiting for? Are you waiting for me to get you first?”
Yi Ping had suddenly brandished the White Phoenix and the Divine Echo as he said quietly to everyone, ”The Celestial Star Formation. This is our only chance now.”
When he had brandished the white beaming blade of the Divine Echo, a resounding echo could be heard ringing from the sword and in the surrounding vicinity!
The old man was startled, ”This sword…”
Yi Ping did not want to brandish any weapons against an unarmed foe but this old man was simply too insolent and despicable. Moreover he had expended much of his martial power and could only depend on his swords now.
Yi Ping said aloud, ”Yu'Er and Mei'Er, attack with me. Lingfeng, Youxue and Yun attack together. Brother Gongsun, Brother Nangong and Brother Qiu attack together…”
All of a sudden, Lingfeng, Youxue, Yun, Gongsun Jing, Qiu Wufeng and Nangong Le were attacking the old man one after another!
Barely had the old man raised his hands at his attackers, they had retreated and replaced by another! He knew instantly that they were trapping him inside a deadly attacking formation!
Yi Ping had charged at the old man, displaying dozens of furious strokes with his double swords!
The old man was startled at Yi Ping astonishing attacking speed. He had barely raised his Big Dipper Hands to deflect Yi Ping's sword strokes, he was back again with another double strike, again and again!
The old man immediately mustered all his martial power to deal Yi Ping's a crushing blow with the Big Dipper Hand when he was intercepted by Yu'Er and Mei'Er who had stepped in front of Yi Ping as they displayed the Divine Emerald Force at the same time!
Yi Ping seized the opportunity to retaliate against the old man at the same time!
The most astonishing thing had suddenly happened!
Yi Ping had penetrated through the Divine Rejuvenation Force and had slashed the old man twice, on his arm and shoulder, drawing blood!
What startled the old man was not Yi Ping's astonishing speed but the Divine Echo itself. The Divine Echo seemed to have the ability to seemingly cleave through effortlessly through the inertia force that he had created with the Big Dipper Hands and the Divine Rejuvenation Force!
The old man thought alarmingly, ”This sword…is made with the metal of the Heavenly Relic? Impossible…other than the Heavenly Relic, there are no swords in the entire world that can dissipate martial force and harken as resounding…”
By the time he had exchanged more than thirty blows with Yi Ping and expecting his martial force to be completely drained by him; his Big Dipper Hands' martial force and his Divine Rejuvenate Force began to falter as the Divine Echo was dissipating his martial force with every strike!
The old man vision began to blur and he could no longer tell the twin sister from each other as they keep swopping places with each other!
He had barely stopped one flying scabbard by Ding Yun with his martial power when she threw another flying scabbard at him with startling speed!
He was now seeing red as the opponents were constantly picking up the flying scabbards and passing to Ding Yun again!
Nangong Le threw his sword scabbard to Ding Yun, ”Here!”
Gongsun Jing also threw to Ding Yun his scabbard at the same time, ”Here! He can't move from where he is standing. Use my scabbard to exhaust his martial power!”
At the same time, Lingfeng had just threw her Meteor Rain Needles, stopping short of displaying the 'Consecrated Meteor Shower' technique as she did not want this old man to identify her clan of origin; this old man seemed to be a highly experienced exponent that could identify the various martial skills.
When she had attacked the old man, she displayed a varying of martial skills to confuse him.
When the old man tried to retaliate against her, Lingfeng had suddenly displayed the powerful echoing might of the Aspire Horizon Hand, startling the old man. Even though she was forced back with her vital energies in erratic, the old man was genuinely surprised as he thought. ”This young maiden, she isn't as weak as I thought she is!”
Yi Ping lifted his spirit with the Absolute Spirits and revitalized his intricate energy with the Divine Revelation again and again as he struggled with his faltering strength to attack the old man, never ceasing his attacks!
Perhaps Yi Ping was trying very hard and was unwilling to allow his martial force to be drained by the Divine Rejuvenation Force or perhaps under the powerful influence of the Divine Rejuvenation Force as he bore the blunt of the old man's main attacks, his Divine Revelation attained a new staging, the Circular Rejuvenation of the Origin!
The Circular Rejuvenation of the Origin was one of the highest states of divinity in martial attainment. At this attainment, as soon as vital energies were used up to maintain martial power, unused martial power could also be revitalized back to vital energies. This attainment was also the nemesis of the Divine Rejuvenation Force, preventing the practitioner's martial force from being drained by external force as well!
The old man was now sweating heavily as he suddenly found his martial power draining at a rapid rate with every renewed attack.
He was already aware by now that he was fighting with three extremely determined strong exponents; the young man with the twin swords, the maiden that could use the Flying Sword Techniques of the Virtuous Palace and the yellow dressed maiden that could move around so quietly that he had to be extremely focus to be wary of her next appearance.
This yellow dressed maiden also seemed to have an inexhaustible martial force as she attacked him again and again with her full martial power. He was also aware that this maiden was protected by a similar inertia force and she also seemed to be trained in a type of internal strength that reduced the effectiveness of his Divine Rejuvenate Force.
Yu'Er said to her sister, ”Mei'Er, do you still remember the intricacy heart formula of the Dual Inertia?”
Mei'Er was in a daze as she said weakly, ”Sister…you still have the time to think of other matters. I have almost reached my limits!”
Yu'Er reminded her, ”The vital energy exchanges but not the body, the divinity exchanges but not the physical, the essence of the heavens and earth as my vitality, the divine state of heavens and earth as my divine state, the changes of heavens and earth as my changes. He tries to steal our martial force, why don't we try to steal from him too? Let's see who is faster and there are two of us here.”
Mei'Er laughed softly, ”Sister…that's a good idea. Let's do that!”
The old man freaked out when he had heard that and he had decided to do the most dishonorable thing that he had never done before. He ran away like a lightning bolt!
After making sure that the old man was really gone, the nine of them collapsed next to one another on the grass patch, groaning in agony and from sheer exhaustion.
Lingfeng wheezed, ”Unbelievable…we really…have won?”
Nangong Le muttered, ”This old freak is simply too formidable…no matter how many ingenious strokes that we have used on him, he still lives…”
Mei'Er was muttering unintelligently, ”He…is like a cockroach, unkillable!”
Youxue asked Yu'Er, ”You can really drain his martial power?”
Yu'Er laughed softly, ”Soon…almost…not yet there…”
Youxue smiled faintly, ”You…almost have me fooled…”
Yi Ping asked Yu'Er, ”That isn't real? Then why did he run?”
Yu'Er smiled tenderly at Yi Ping as she explained, ”His resolute was already weakening. I can sense it. I just helping to give him an extra 'push' in that direction.”
Yi Ping was grateful to her as he looked at her affectionately, ”Yu'Er, lucky for your quick thinking. I don't know if I can last a second longer…”
He paused for a while before saying, ”It is also lucky that we have been practicing the Celestial Star Formation. I say, we ought to practice more…”
He was startled that everyone had suddenly become motionless and had fallen completely quiet.