Chapter 409 - 260: Sword Hum (Part 2)

Chapter 409: Chapter 260: Sword Hum (Part 2)

A serpent of light, born from a spear’s gleam, came into view. It was a clear manifestation of Gang Qi, its form so vivid it seemed alive with a viper’s vicious cunning, poised to strike and devour.

Behind it, three pure and condensed streams of Sword Qi followed, each imbued with a different Sword Intent, all of them sharp and swift.

Other attacks converged from all directions, encasing Yu Fei layer by layer.

He understood that this was merely a casual volley from the people around him, yet the intensity of these attacks was already on par with the ultimate techniques of an ordinary Gang Qi Martial Artist.

Yu Fei was being treated as a pushover. These people didn’t even give him a second thought after launching their casual attacks.

His Inner Qi Realm was his greatest weakness. At this level, he could only be a freshman or a sophomore.

In everyone else’s eyes, he was a little rookie who hadn’t even finished learning his basic Cultivation Techniques. Forget being a prodigy—who here wasn’t a prodigy?

He glanced into the distance. Lu Bufan was already engaged with a four-person Gang Qi squad, and they had just exchanged a round of blows.

This part of the battlefield was the most crowded and chaotic. In just a brief moment, he saw out of the corner of his eye that the Grandmaster acting as referee had already teleported several people out.

Yu Fei took a deep breath. His heart began to beat slowly. A slight ripple crossed his incomparably vast Qi Sea. In the center of the Qi Sea, his Inner Qi had condensed into a tangible, special core. Countless streams of Inner Qi circulated and churned within, while an immeasurable amount of new Inner Qi was generated from the void to join the cycle.

He had finally mastered the fourth stage of the All Things Return to Origin Scripture’s Inner Qi Chapter. His Inner Qi had reached the state of Infinite Ruins.

The moment he achieved this realm, he knew he would never again be troubled by a lack of Inner Qi.

The state of Infinite Ruins forms a Returning Ruins Spiritual Source within the Qi Sea.

Very few people had ever managed to cultivate to this stage. As soon as he broke through, he immediately discovered its wonders.

First, an endless stream of pure primal energy constantly surged from the Returning Ruins Spiritual Source, converting into his own Inner Qi. Each cycle was powerful enough to refill ten percent of his Qi Sea’s total reserves. This meant that even if Yu Fei exhausted all his Inner Qi, he could fully recover within a minute.

The second ability of the Returning Ruins Spiritual Source was that when his Qi Sea overflowed, it would continuously refine and compress his Inner Qi, forming peculiar, mist-like crystals. Absorbing these crystals could strengthen his physical body and enhance his soul.

Amazingly, he found that this strengthening effect seemed to have no upper limit, enhancing both his body and soul in a balanced way.

Only with two such abilities could it be worthy of the All Things Return to Origin Scripture’s reputation as an ancient Cultivation Technique.

This was the power of a late-game Cultivation Technique.

Facing the combined assault, Yu Fei changed his original plan of hiding his strength through hit-and-run tactics.

Everyone here was a hero of their generation. His own journey from a martial arts novice to where he stood today had been fraught with difficulty.

Yu Fei wanted to make his voice heard—to make it heard openly and with pride.

He carried the expectations of Ye Shuping, and Yan Sea had once taught him with great care. And now...

He would draw his sword and test its edge.

A crisp sword hum rang out as the Flowing Silver Frost Wind Armor erupted in brilliant light.

The Radiant Armor trait had been activated for the first time!

Radiant Armor: In combat, the armor emits a dazzling radiance that enhances Inner Qi output and strengthens defense.

With his current strength, the enhancement to his Inner Qi output wasn’t much, but the boost to his defense was quite substantial.

In an instant, Sword Qi rained down like a bizarre lotus flower blooming. A dense, layered waterfall of Sword Qi expanded outward in all directions.

The snake-like spear gleam, the giant beast formed from saber intent, the scattered flecks of Sword Intent...

...were all submerged in the tidal wave of Sword Qi. Yu Fei’s effective control range for his Sword Qi was only fifty meters; beyond that, he couldn’t control its trajectory.

But through his recent training, Yu Fei had mastered numerous Sword Intent techniques—some as scorching as fire, some with the enduring resilience of plants, some with the profound weight of the earth, and some as fast as lightning... and more.

Under the enhancement of the Void Clearing Mirror, these streams of Sword Qi, imbued with Sword Intent, carved bizarre trajectories through the air, striking out in all directions according to the principles of the sword.

The Martial Artists around him had no time to react. Whether they were attacking, defending, or trying to flee, they were instantly swallowed by the torrent of Sword Qi.

Zhao Yuanpeng waved his hands repeatedly, managing to safely teleport twelve of the prodigy Martial Artists out of the Sword Qi’s attack range.

Farther away, the Martial Artists in the path of the Sword Qi abandoned their fights with each other and fled for their lives. Only a few managed to escape the frenzied tide of Sword Qi.

It was only because the density of the boundless Sword Qi decreased with distance, and its trajectory became simple after leaving Yu Fei’s control, that they were able to escape.

Even so, a few made the mistake of trying to resist and were defeated and eliminated.

A single stream of the boundless Sword Qi wasn’t top-tier in terms of destructive power. But when the number grew to tens or hundreds, it was like facing the concentrated fire of a hundred Gang Qi Martial Artists at once. With all escape routes sealed—no path to heaven or earth—how could they not be defeated?

The section of the battlefield where Yu Fei stood fell into a brief, stunned silence. Only Lu Bufan remained unfazed, continuing to defeat the four-person Gang Qi team before him with his sword.

"What is this?"

"Fuck..."

Many swore under their breath, unable to hide their shock!

Yes, they were all prodigies, but no prodigy was *this* overpowered.

At the center of the sword lotus stood a man in silver armor, leaning on his sword like a pillar. A silvery radiance flowed across his armor, with a wolf-shaped Qi Jin swirling around it and cloud patterns slowly shifting.

"Who are you! State your name!"

Someone asked in surprise. A person with this kind of power couldn’t be a nobody. Over time, the prodigies from the seven great institutions had become familiar with one another, but none had ever seen Yu Fei’s techniques before.

Yu Fei slowly opened his mouth, his voice as clear and resonant as a sword’s hum.

"Shenhan, freshman. Yu Fei!"

The man stared at him, stunned. "A freshman... Brother Yu Fei, you’re fucking incredible! You’re definitely going to be famous..."

He wasn’t wrong. The circle of prodigies from the seven great institutions was notoriously arrogant. To make a name for oneself here meant that, as long as you didn’t die prematurely, you were destined to become a hero of your generation.

As an Inner Qi Realm cultivator, Yu Fei had eliminated more than a dozen prodigies with a torrent of Sword Qi. These weren’t freshmen ’kids’—in fact, there were few sophomores among them. Most were third-year prodigy Martial Artists.

There were no weaklings among them, but to be defeated by a junior... the implications were self-evident.

"Brother, that move of yours was powerful, but you’re merely in the Inner Qi Realm. Can you even use it again? You just unleashed thousands upon thousands of sword streams. Can your unpurified, qualitatively unchanged Inner Qi sustain that kind of consumption?

"With your strength, if you had been more low-key and just laid low until the end, you might have secured the final victory. But you revealed your hand too early!

"Still a little inexperienced. Today, this senior will teach you a lesson! Hehe~"

In an instant, the man moved like a bolt of lightning. His long saber flashed as he closed the distance to within ten feet of Yu Fei, so fast that some people present didn’t even have time to react.

"BANG!"

Zhanming rose to meet it. Yu Fei steadily blocked the saber strike. The azure Inner Qi surrounding it was shattered and dispersed, but he held Zhanming with his own unparalleled strength, having no difficulty at all.

"Not bad!"

Du Kai was inwardly shocked. He was a third-year, and though he was just an average prodigy, his Gang Qi Realm was genuine. The fact that Yu Fei could block his sneak-attack-like strike meant his strength could not be underestimated.

’This guy... he must be the combat class monitor for the freshmen,’ Du Kai mused. ’But even for a combat monitor in the Celestial Pride Class, this level of strength is off the charts!’

"How about this, then?"

Du Kai gave a wicked smirk. His figure split from one into eight, surrounding Yu Fei as countless, impossibly sharp saber glints slashed down.

In the Void Clearing Mirror, he could see that these saber glints were all real, and so were the figures.

’How surprising,’ Yu Fei thought. ’This person actually modified the Void Wind Shadow Sword, turning it into a saber technique. He’s altered and elevated its principles to create such a swift and deadly saber style.’

He lifted Zhanming slightly, alternating between light and heavy intent, and activated his two speed-type talents: Electric Arm and Startling Flash.

Sparks flew in all directions. Yu Fei blocked every single attack completely, making it look almost effortless.

Du Kai’s assault was fruitless, and he was forced to stop and recover his Qi.

Yu Fei asked coolly, "Is that it? What’s next?"