Chapter 84 - The Tournament - Round of 32 - Day 4 - Part 2 (1/2)
Xia Qingyue was completely trapped from all sides within this formation of sword lights. But whereas someone else would panic, she stayed completely calm. Waving her crystal ice sword around, several ice lotuses blossomed around her. Each lotus was several times bigger than the previous one, and the coldness released from the lotus coagulated the air. The surrounding temperature dropped at a frightening pace.
”Eh?” Ling Yuefeng originally calm face suddenly changed. More than ten gigantic ice lotuses appeared at the same time. This was definitely not something that someone level 8 Spirit Profound Realm was capable of doing. Ling Yun did not release all his strength previously, but obviously, Xia Qingyue hadn't either!
The numerous sword beams gathered together and attacked the ice lotus. Some of the sword beams shattered immediately while the others were sealed with ice within the petals of the lotus flower, unable to proceed on any further. Previously, Ling Yun could shatter the ice lotus with the wave of his sword. Now however, the gigantic ice lotuses had already been attacked by thousands of sword beams, yet not one flower withered. In the blink of an eye, each ice lotus was with sealed sword beams and the sword beams that had not been touched by the ice lotuses all gathered and stopped around Xia Qingyue.
This was a scene no one had expected. Ling Yun was even more shocked by this. Previously, he had exchanged several hundred moves with Xia Qingyue. However, he did not want to let her lose too quickly and become embarrassed, hence, he did not use his full strength. Originally, he was fully confident that he could end the battle quickly. Never did he expect his move to be completely blocked by his opponent.
Ling Yun's reaction was extremely fast. Seeing his sword beams being sealed in ice, he rushed forward like lightning. Grabbing the air around him, the Celestial Yuan Sword returned into his hands. In that instant, a cyan light flashed from the Celestial Yuan Sword as he instantaneously vanished from everyone's line of sight and in a stream of cyan light flashed past. Ling Yun, as a cyan light, immediately appeared next to Xia Qingyue and clashed swords with her.
CLANG- CLANG- CLANG- CLANG- CLANG- CLANG- CLANG....!!!!!
The ice lotuses and their sealed sword beams all shattered at the same time, filling the sky with ice crystals. Ling Yun's also appeared about 30 meters behind Xia Qingyuu. When everyone had finally refocused onto Ling Yun's new location, they were overwhelmed with shock. Other than a few strong elders and Mesa using his Sharingans, no one could figure out how he had gotten there. All they could see was a cyan light suddenly flashing past their eyes.
Mesa saw what happened there clearly. Using his immense speed, Ling Yun appeared next to Xia Qingyue and clashed swords with her. During this exchange, that only lasted for a couple of seconds at most, they clashed swords dozens of times. And it was one particular sword clash, were Xia Qingyue put in more strength that pushed Ling Yun back to his current location.
With his sword held horizontally to absorb the impact of that last sword clash, Ling Yun lowered it slowly and whispered: ”Please give up. Even though you are several times stronger than expected, you still aren't a match for me. I do not want to injure you, fairy…”
As he spoke, he slowly turned around. Just as he turned around to face Xia Qingyue, his voice was suddenly stuck in his throat and his was unable to say another word. His originally calm expression was suddenly stunned. Even his mind turned blank. Following a long cut, Xia Qingyue's right sleeve drooped, and it revealed half of her arm. But Ling Yun's sword did not only cut off half her sleeve.
In the wake of a cold breeze, Xia Qingyue's snow white face veil slowly floated down, and her originally covered face was revealed to everyone present. The entire Sword Discourse Arena instantly turned silent as everyone present became breathless.
For Xia Qingyue's face was so beautiful that it made everyone speechless who gazed upon her. Her beauty was so great, that it was unmatched. She was truly breathtakingly beautiful.
(A.N.: In the original, this went on for many pages describing just how beautiful Xia Qingyue is. I am not going to do that. So in one sentence, I will describe how beautiful she is.)
The ones that had the largest reactions were no doubt the young profound practitioners. They had been completely transfixed on her. Even those Young Masters, who usually did not lack beauties around them were also mesmerized as their eyes and mind could not leave Xia Qingyue's. Even those middle-aged men and the elders, whose hair and beard had already turned white, were awestruck and mesmerized.
Xiao Clan's Xiao Kuanglei, Xiao Zheng and Xiao Nan all had the same expression; they stared at her as if they had lost their souls. Burning Heaven Clan's Fen Juecheng had unknowingly stood up from his seat and was awestruck.