Chapter 958: Jiang Chen Challenged (1/1)

After a half- Lords reco battles didn’t have any complicated rules The thirty-six cultivators currently on the Ranking of Young Lords each had three opportunities to challenge soan from the 36th ranked contestant The 36th ranked cultivator could challenge soet geniuses from ranks 35 to 33 in his first match

If he won the first bout, he would earn the right to challenge someone up to six ranks ahead Similarly, if he succeeded in the second bout, he could then proceed to challenge twelve ranks above him On the other hand, if he lost in the firstopportunities would be taken away, and he would be forced to stay in the Ranking’s last place No ed, he would have no part in them Moreover, the cultivators ere ranked ahead of the challengers could only be challenged once per day If a challenge was successful, then the challenger and the challenged would have their rankings swapped Soe would be perer’s spot, and there would be no further change to his ranking

Being defeated by a challenger was the autoulations of the Ranking, after a loss, their right to issue challenges would be taken away Take Gu Zhenshan and Zhuang Jie as an exa Chen, respectively The result of their losses had been evenof Young Lords Thus, a defending cultivator who couldn’t protect his ranking had no choice but to settle at the botto incorporated many considerations froenerally quite reliable One or two places’ difference was of course a surprise, but an error of three or six ranks’ difference was unlikely If soher lost to someone loith a three or even six-rank difference, then he could bla aside from his own inadequacy

The seven battles froh each initial challenge spanned only three ranks, there were no instances of success Following these initial battles, the 29th ranked genius challenged the 26th After a grueling battle, this challenge becae His opponent was uncereiven no opportunity to contest the result while the now 26th ranked genius had the privilege of continuing his challenge The second tie across six ranks The other contestants’ thoughts becauy had quite a few choices ahead of hie so ing other geniuses, Ji San and Pill King Zhen were two dark horses who’d coreater chance of defeating the matches, the common opinion was that they still lacked in both fundaainst them could work out If the now 26th ranked contestant could challenge either of thereat coup for him The result would be a climb that started from 29th place and ended at 21st, or even 20th It was a shockingly large gap to bridge For the Ranking of Young Lords, even the space of one or two ranks was exceedingly difficult to sur toYuan, hailing from Emperor Void’s faction He had a difficult choice ahead of hiZhen and was successful in his challenge, it would result in a larger outcry His final ranking would be a bit higher as well After so Yuan finally decided toZhen! It was the highest nu Zhen was ranked 20th

Jiang Chen was unsurprised at the challenge Chances like these were hard to coical that his opponent would want to maximize such an opportunity to its fullest extent He wasn’t afraid of battles His victory over Zhuang Jie had shown him the approximate depth of the heirs to the e Jie was at half-step emperor realm There was a sliver of difference between hi Yuan was at the sa Yuan and Zhuang Jie were nominally on the same level, there was aYuan to surpass Zhuang Jie in ter Chen had been able to defeat soe reale realm, he wasn’t optimistic about his new opponent’s chances But, it was a convenient excuse for him to test just how reat rewards froe realm The extent of his rewards’ benefits, however, was yet to be deterh actual co Yuan’s preferred weapon was a black spear forChen from afar The pressure the spear exertedZhen, I knoerful you are as an opponent Even so, I’ve worked lory I’ve accu to burn o all out today and show off the full extent of what this spear can do!”

MannersYuan probably wasn’t actually stronger than Zhuang Jie, he certainly surpassed the latter in terhtly, the look in his eyes heating up as well “Brother Fang, there is no need to speak of win or lose in the arena Seek only peace and satisfaction with yourself Please, go ahead”

Fang Yuan’s own eyes shi+fted rapidly He inclined his head in response “Then, as a lower rank challenging a higher, I willno further pretense or elocution With a shake of his ar spear Its projected point surged like a black serpent of lightning, al past the boundaries of space itself The weapon was in front of Jiang Chen in the next second Most importantly, the spear’s intent had no flair or flourish to it The action was simple rather than complex and showy Each and every detail and movement had been clearly displayed in this lethal spear-strike

Jiang Chen had given Fang Yuan his full attention froe He felt a sense of threat from the spear It was entirely instinctual, a kind of sixth sense shared between experts Thus, Jiang Chen reacted instantly to the attack with a flash of his oord He deflected it aside in a single s! Sparks erupted forth from the point of collision between his Pentecolor Sword and the spear’s head

The forward thrust of the spear carried terrifying power behind it, but Jiang Chen’s sword swing parried it with surprising facility Both co Yuan’s heart sank His attack had s would have been very different if his opponent had decided to evade or deal with the attack head on The ensuing flood of pressure from his spear would have swelled like the tide, each blowabout his spear Each for ever forward Additionally, each successive movement was accompanied by a sizable increase in power In this way, his opponents would be exhausted and disression

But this tied the attack or tried to take it with his tempered body head on Instead, he had deflected both the spear and the pressure behind it It had looked like a simple turn of the blade, and certainly that hat the audience thought There was no evidence whatsoever of the esture to the untrained eye Only true experts with an extremely keen eye could discern the truth As for the opponent hi Chen’s casual riposte directly disrupted the mo a string of future attacks at their knees

Whenever momentum was disrupted like this, the attacker had to build it up all over again All of Fang Yuan’s prior posturing and preparation asted,blow actually contained a lot of martial dao wisdoh to the attack’s substance? Fang Yuan was both dis his spear, Fang Yuan began to work up a storm once hty-one tihty-one thrusts transfor Jie’s wind constitution had granted hi YuanJie bit for bit in terms of speed Moreover, the haste of his movements were incorporatedChen’s eyes moved The Divine Pentecolor Swords split fro through the air “Reverse Heaven and Earth!” he cried Just like the Torrent of Ten Thousand Swords, this was also part of the Divine Five Thunderclap Sword Technique Though it wasn’t as flashy as the former, it possessed a subtle power all its own Five colorful streaks of sword light transfor the fabric of space itself, it sucked in all eighty-one strokes

The technique pitted sword against spear, and yet crushed its coested, ‘Reverse Heaven and Earth’ warped natural order itself It twisted space in such a way that no technique, whether offensive or defensive, could continue operate any longer wherever it went This was a technique that could rival an emperor realenius could barely grasp the basics of do Chen’s sword strike, on the other hand, possessed prototypical characteristics of an emperor realm technique In terms of how esoteric and arcane the ability was, ordinary emperor realm domains couldn’t hope to match up to it at all

Most of the time, emperor realm domains required an expert’s oer and the formation of a force field taken from that power They typically required a certain a Chen had demonstrated an emperor realm domain poith just a mere sword technique! All seven eht astonishment at this sudden turn of events