Novel Full Chapter 355 The Fall of Lu Xiangyuan
Chapter 355 The Fall of Lu Xiangyuan
“I… I can still win!”
He muttered through gritted teeth.
He forced himself to rise, qi crackling furiously, body trembling with both speed and fury. Another attack-another chance.
Bai Zihan stood unmoved, hands behind his back, expression serene.
Lu Xiangyuan’s next strike, no matter how fast, was doomed to meet the same fate.
SLAP!!!
Lu Xiangyuan wasn’t willing to give up easily. He stood up again, ready to change his tactics and try another method to bring down Bai Zihan.
Lu Xiangyuan tried to utilize every experience, trickery, sword technique- however, everything fell apart before Bai Zihan.
And to make matters worse, those who knew Bai Zihan also knew that Bai Zihan had yet to utilize Sword Intent, an overwhelming power that could make a huge difference, just showcasing how easily Bai Zihan was taking this whole fight.
Another strike! Another humiliation!
Lu Xiangyuan staggered to his feet again, legs wobbling, face swollen with overlapping red palm marks. His hair was disheveled, his robes torn, his breathing ragged.
“BAI ZIHAN!!” he roared, voice cracking. “I’ll kill you! I’ll—!!”
He didn’t finish.
Because Bai Zihan moved.
WHOOSH-!
He appeared before Lu Xiangyuan in a flash.
CRACK!!
A clean kick swept his legs from under him.
Lu Xiangyuan collapsed sideways, hitting the ground with a choked grunt.
Before he could even think of rising-
THUD!!
Bai Zihan’s foot pressed lightly onto his chest, pinning him down as if subduing an unruly dog.
This didn’t look like a fight between two geniuses but rather a bully on the street, bullying a powerless person.
This also made all those watching realize: Bai Zihan had not taken Lu Xiangyuan seriously at all.
From the beginning to now, Bai Zihan had many opportunities to end the fight or at least deal significant damage to Lu Xiangyuan, but he seemed more focused on humiliating Lu Xiangyuan than winning the fight.
And there was a shocking discovery that they made-Bai Zihan was in the Spirit Severing Realm.
Because Bai Zihan was still holding back, it was hard to gauge and be certain about his Cultivation Realm.
However, looking at everything, anyone could tell that Bai Zihan wasn’t in the Soul Formation Realm but rather the Spirit Severing Realm.
Otherwise, how can he toy around with Lu Xiangyuan who is in Peak Spirit Severing Realm.
This was a realm that even a genius like Bai Xueqing, the Champion of the Dragon and Phoenix Competition-who was also older than Bai Zihan-had just reached.
“Bai Zihan… he is in the Spirit Severing Realm?”
“There is no way he isn’t in the Spirit Severing Realm. Otherwise, how can he beat Lu Xiangyuan like that?”
“But isn’t that fact even scarier than Bai Zihan beating Lu Xiangyuan? Bai Zihan is not even twenty! Heck, he still has two more years to go before he hits twenty”
“Damn! Just what kind of monster is he?”
Disciples began to discuss, and the more they thought about it, the more insane it seemed.
Soul Formation Realm itself was considered difficult and rare to enter for those under 20-but Spirit Severing Realm? There was no such precedent in the
history of the Desoaltea Heaven Empire.
Well, almost none-if they excluded Bai Xinyue, who received the Immortal Emperor’s Inheritance and became Spirit Severing Realm even younger than 18.
However, everyone knew that it was because of the Immortal Emperor’s
Inheritance.
But Bai Zihan managed to do so without the Immortal Emperor’s Inheritance, which in itself spoke of how talented he was.
“If Bai Zihan helps our faction, Elder Wu and others wouldn’t be able to gain too much influence from the disciples.”
“But Bai Xueqing already declined, and it’s well-known that the Bai Clan doesn’t like to interfere with the Sect.
The Sect Leader Faction couldn’t help but feel convinced, and more than ever wanted to have Bai Zihan join their faction.
With Bai Zihan, there wouldn’t be many disciples who would dare to go against them that itself was influenced.
And if Bai Zihan was thought to be in the Sect Leader Faction, many disciples would be inclined to join them.
After all, if someone messed with a disciple of their faction and Bai Zihan stepped up to defend them-with him being invincible among disciples-who
would dare oppose them?
That alone would make people think twice before joining a faction that directly opposed Bai Zihan.
With what Bai Zihan was displaying, anyone could tell that becoming enemies with him was not a very good idea.
So, Sect Leader Faction Elders knew that they had to do everything to try to bring Bai Zihan in their faction.
Lu Xiangyuan blinked, dazed, choking on dust and blood as Bai Zihan’s foot
pressed into his chest.
His limbs twitched pathetically, like a puppet with its strings cut.
But the moment Bai Zihan lifted his foot-the moment that tiny pressure. vanished-Lu Xiangyuan snapped.
Not in defiance. But in terror.
Bai Zihan had refrained from using powerful techniques and finishing him off
when he could.
He thought that with Bai Zihan underestimating him, he could try everything he could and only needed a single win.
However, who could have thought that before his body was destroyed, it was
his mind that shattered first?
There was no more trying to fight back. No more pride to defend. All he
wanted was to escape this hell.
He scrambled backward on all fours, palms slipping against the broken tiles,
breath hitching in panic.
“D-Don’t-!”
He gasped, voice hoarse.
He kept crawling, kicking wildly, retreating like a cornered animal.
Bai Zihan didn’t pursue him.
He simply stood there, hands behind his back, looking almost bored. As if he
were watching a stray dog scamper away after receiving a kick.
Lu Xiangyuan looked too pathetic for Bai Zihan to chase and beat, which somehow made it even worse.
Because Lu Xiangyuan was running away without even looking back-if he did,
he would’ve realized Bai Zihan wasn’t chasing him, and there was no need to crawl and run away so desperately.
So him crawling and running despite no one chasing him looked worse than if
Bai Zihan had actually chased.
He crawled several meters before finally managing to scramble to his feet.
Every few steps he twisted his head around, expecting Bai Zihan to appear like
a phantom and slap him back into the ground.
But Bai Zihan didn’t move. Not even once.
Lu Xiangyuan only looked back after he thought that he must have managed to escape, and realized that Bai Zihan wasn’t even chasing him.
And what he felt when he realize that was-
Relief.
His chest seized, his knees nearly buckled, and tears pricked at the corners of
his eyes-from fear, from exhaustion, from sheer mental breakdown. He didn’t even care about the thousands watching him flee like a beaten dog.
He didn’t even think about his ruined reputation. Or that he looked pathetic
crawling and running away like a coward.
He didn’t care that the disciples were whispering in pity or mockery.
He didn’t care that his faction was watching their supposed genius flee without
dignity.
He was only relieved that Bai Zihan wasn’t chasing after him.
The Anti-Sect Leader Faction’s faces were dark.
It was the complete opposite of before this fight began.
Elder Wu Heng’s hands clenched so hard the veins bulged out of his skin.
He trembled-literally trembled with rage.
His voice burst out, shaking with fury.
“LU XIANGYUAN!! This fool!”
He couldn’t help but curse and blame Lu Xiangyuan, who had seemingly ruined
everything he had planned and achieved.
For the past few weeks, they had tried to implant the idea that those from the
Anti-Sect Leader Faction were powerful and strong.
The disciples from their faction would go around defeating those who weren’t
in their faction but still had considerable influence.
They had achieved much of their plan when Lu Xiangyuan managed to win
against Chu Ziyan.
This fight would have completed the plan if Lu Xiangyuan won-letting all the disciples know that the strongest disciple is from Heaven Sword Sect.
But all of that changed when Bai Zihan, who was supposed to have been an
easy opponent, ended up overwhelming Lu Xiangyuan with ease. Their plan had failed, and despite hoping for another outcome, Elder Wu Heng
knew that Lu Xiangyuan stood no chance against Bai Zihan.
That alone wouldn’t have been too bad-just a delay, with their plan being
perhaps only 95% complete.
However, now that Lu Xiangyuan had lost his mind in fear and was acting like
this…
It shattered the image of Lu Xiangyuan-and, in the bigger picture, the image of the Anti-Sect Leader Faction’s disciples being tough and powerful.
A simple loss would have been far better. But this? With how cowardly Lu Xiangyuan was acting, and with Bai Zihan’s nonchalant
attitude, it became painfully clear who the strongest disciple of Heaven Sword Sect was.
This single scene had undone all the effort and achievements they had made over the past few weeks.
This completely enraged Elder Wu Heng who worked hard to achieve this.