Novel Full Chapter 455
Chapter 455: Chapter 88 I, Luo Yan, Ran Out of Mana Chapter 455: Chapter 88 I, Luo Yan, Ran Out of Mana If the Great Bright Fire is likened to burning mountains and boiling seas, then the Five Elements Divine Light could be described as bright as the sun and the moon, penetrating with clarity and brilliance.
Red, green, yellow, white, black-the five-colored Divine Light interwove like a shuttle towards An Zhisu, surging over like an overwhelming tide.
Even Senior Sister An, who loved offensive maneuvers, dared not to bravely withstand it head-on and had no choice but to execute the Cloud-Parting Eight Trigrams Step, dodging the Divine Light with swift changes in direction.
Luo Yan sighed inwardly, not knowing until he used it, that this step technique indeed provided great assistance to a Sword Immortal.
Not to mention anything else, if it weren’t for the step technique, one would have to rely on Sword Control for dodging.
But Sword Control consumed mental energy and required the use of a Flying Sword.
Moreover, its short-distance burst sprint speed was far inferior to the step technique, especially in such a limited range environment where the agility of the step technique became more apparent.
Luo Yan quickly formed Daoist formulas with his hands, and the Five Elements Divine Light surged once again, chasing and pounding towards the distant An Zhisu.
An Zhisu’s figure continuously swayed, her footsteps never ceasing, dodging from east to west like a ghostly apparition, narrowly avoiding the Five Elements Divine Light, passing by in hair-raisingly close calls.
Luo Yan discovered somewhat disappointedly that Senior Sister An’s mastery of footwork appeared to have surpassed his own…
Her rapid progress must be the result of the talent granted by the “Innate Sword Heart.”
If one were to use gaming terms, Innate Sword Heart boosted comprehension, agility, and perception, while Innate Sword Bone enhanced root bone, physical strength, and willpower.
It might seem like Innate Sword Bone has a higher battle potential, but most of the time Luo Yan had fought with ease, hardly ever encountering a crisis requiring a contest of root bone, physical strength, and willpower…
It’s not as good as Innate Sword Heart!
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If only he could switch with Senior Sister…
As Luo Yan was lost in his thoughts, he suddenly realized another problem.
He had been using the Five Elements Divine Light for too long!
???G0.??
He hurriedly ceased the Daoist formula, feigning a semblance of running low on True Yuan.
An Zhisu frowned slightly, her intuition telling her that Luo Yan hadn’t exhausted his True Yuan, yet why did he show such a tired demeanor?
Oh, tactical deception, is it?
Feeling a bit annoyed inside, An Zhisu suddenly created some distance and scanned the audience outside the arena.
No sign of the junior brother…
Where had he gone?
Why wasn’t he watching her battle?
With this thought, An Zhisu’s mood began to wane.
It didn’t matter why Luo Yan’s swordsmanship felt so familiar to her, she could figure it out later.
The battle had dragged on long enough, and she found herself missing her junior brother.
It was time to end it quickly…
Without another word, An Zhisu suddenly merged with the Flying Smoke Sword, transforming into a huge, soaring crimson Sword Light.
Man-Sword Unity!
Well done!
Luo Yan’s spirits also lifted.
If Senior Sister An hadn’t gone all-out and continued to drag things out with her Cloud-Parting Eight Trigrams Step, he would have had to pretend to be out of True Yuan and concede voluntarily.
Of course, conceding voluntarily had huge drawbacks.
Because to the spectators, it would appear as if An Zhisu hadn’t focused much on the fight and had just dragged Luo Yan to his demise.
This would undoubtedly be a great humiliation for Penglai Jade Pure, and even An Zhisu herself would become disliked by the people of Penglai.
With Senior Sister An’s emotional intelligence, she was already pitiable enough in Shushan, so why let Penglai also look at her unfavorably?
He couldn’t bear it!
Therefore, seeing Senior Sister An finally lose patience, Luo Yan too let out a sigh of relief and immediately spurred the Forbidden Law within the Huangting Kunwu Sword, chanting:
“Infinite Wilds, Gate of Boundlessness!”
In a flash, even with his robust True Yuan, he felt a significant drain.
In the void above, a small mountain descended, smashing onto the White Jade Capital square with a heaven-shaking, deafening boom.
The cultivators near the square were dizzy from the shockwaves.
When they came to their senses, they were stunned and confused.
An Zhisu’s crimson Sword Light collided directly against the small mountain and was bounced back outright.
The Sword Light dispersed, revealing a disheveled An Zhisu who spit out a mouthful of blood, clearly suffering internal injuries from the rebound force.
“What Forbidden Technique is that!” Lin Duanshan exclaimed in shock from outside the arena.
Duan Fenhai also had a solemn expression.
People from Shushan were all too familiar with the power of An Zhisu’s Man-Sword Unity.
Let alone a Life-bound Sword Artifact, even those with defensive Magical Treasures wouldn’t dare to receive it head-on.
If one’s rank or cultivation level was not sufficient, there was a high likelihood of being cleaved in two by her sword.
However, that mountain…
“Qingcheng?” Guan Shanyue murmured.
As everyone followed her gaze once more, they saw the facade of the small mountain had been split as if by an axe, with two ancient seal characters carved in dynamic strokes:
Qingcheng.
An Zhisu spat out a mouthful of blood, then, disregarding her severe internal injuries, she once again achieved Man-Sword Unity, with her sword light surging by threefold as she bypassed the small mountain and continued her onslaught!
Facing the rapidly approaching onslaught of sword light, Luo Yan only turned his head to look at the Kunlun True Person maintaining order at the scene and calmly said,
“I concede defeat.”
The red sword light abruptly halted, and An Zhisu landed on the ground, somewhat unsteady.
“You concede defeat?” The Kunlun True Person also descended, asking in surprise, “What about your Five Elements Ultimate Extermination Divine Light?”
If there was another use of the Postnatal Five Elements Great Extermination Divine Light, wouldn’t An Zhisu lose directly?
Why are you conceding?
“I’m out of True Yuan,” Luo Yan sighed and said, “In order to activate the Sword Forbidden Law, I’ve overdrafted every last bit of True Yuan.”
“You could take an elixir,” An Zhisu said with a frown.
Luo Yan: ???
Wait a minute, I am your opponent, Senior Sister An!
What are you even saying!
He shook his head again and said with a bitter smile,
“There’s no time.”
Afterward, Luo Yan’s form wavered, and he fell backward.
In order to act out the entire scene convincingly, he also instructed the Kunlun Mirror to cast an Illusion Technique, creating the illusion of a True Yuan exhaustion.
The Kunlun True Person immediately took three steps in two strides, stepping forward to lift Luo Yan’s head and then administered an elixir for him to swallow.
Before even half a moment passed, Elder Shi Ding hurried over to White Jade Capital’s square, urgently asking,
“Miaofa, my disciple…”
“His True Yuan is exhausted.” The Kunlun’s Miaofa True Person tossed the Elixir Bottle to Shi Ding, “Have him take this for the time being, and after resting for a few hours, he will be fine.”
Elder Shi Ding caught the Elixir Bottle, looked at it for a moment, then grabbed Luo Yan’s wrist and probed with his Divine Sense before slowly letting out a sigh of relief.
His True Yuan was indeed overdrafted.
Elder Shi Ding suddenly felt a sense of dejection because Luo Yan could have won this competition.
The reason he was forced to concede was due to the insufficiency of True Yuan; however, the root cause of the lack of True Yuan was the subpar Qi Refining Technique he had been cultivating.
Luo Yan had given his all.
Yet what held him back in the end was our own Heavenly Craft Workshop!
With this realization, Elder Shi Ding was resolute in his decision to procure an excellent Qi Refining Technique for Luo Yan.
As the critical foundation for Breath Cultivation, Qi Refining Techniques of higher grades were considered core heritages by their respective Sects.
How could they be easily obtained?
If you ask others to lend one, they’d want to fight you to death for it!
But if Luo Yan continues to cultivate the Three Flowers Gathering Spirit Technique, the capacity of his True Yuan will become his greatest constraint.
Without sufficient True Yuan, techniques like the Postnatal Five Elements Great Extermination Divine Light and the Sword Forbidden Law of the Huangting Kunwu Sword will become laughable halfway through their execution, won’t they?
Being the butt of jokes is one thing, but if he were to face the Demon Cult and be defeated, even lose his life, simply because his True Yuan gives out, that would be truly lamentable.
After much reflection on the pain, Elder Shi Ding decided that even if there was just a glimmer of hope, the Heavenly Craft Workshop would go all out-even if it meant going broke-to obtain a better Qi Refining Technique for him!