Chapter 40: Various Factions Vie for Power

  Qing Shan closed his eyes, and the disciples below the stage all began to worry about him. After all, San Jie Er Xian was the hope and good feelings of the entire sect, and they were also the hot favorites in this competition. They did not want Qing Shan to be defeated like this.

  Suddenly, Qing Shan's eyes snapped open, shooting out two golden rays of light that blasted onto the already shattered stage, creating two deep holes. Then, his figure slowly began to blur as the surrounding air currents converged towards Zhou Yun, condensing into a massive sword shadow that enveloped Qing Shan. The sword aura grew increasingly sharp, its tip pointing directly at Cui Feng, and then shot towards him.

  "I've said it before, you're not good enough! Body turns into a sword!" In the front of the martial arts stage, some high-ranking members of various sects who were watching the competition stood up in shock. It's worth noting that apart from the Yu Jian Men, other sects would have some sword cultivators, but without exception, these sword cultivators were unable to achieve great success. However, Qing Shan was able to turn his body into a sword at the Hua Yuan boundary, which is extremely rare even in the Yu Jian Men.

  Cui Feng had long been frightened by this situation and was at a loss for what to do. This sword had already exceeded his own endurance, and he couldn't block it. The life-or-death blow Cui Feng had struck earlier was directly deflected by Qing Shan's sword tip when he approached him. Now he could only watch as Qing Shan charged towards him. Just as the sword edge was about to strike Cui Feng, he already felt the sensation of the sword tip piercing his body.

  "Hum..." Suddenly, an old man appeared in the arena, stretching out his fist and striking against the sword momentum of the blue-shirted figure. Where their fists and swords met, a large deep pit appeared. Then, the blue-shirted figure was seen flying backward, while the old man opposite him also retreated several steps, revealing a shocked expression. The blue-shirted figure lay stiffly on the ground before slowly getting up, looking at the old man in front of him.

  "What? Are you going to break the rules?" The man in green robes said calmly, with a hint of blood at the corner of his mouth.

  Everyone only then saw clearly this old man was who, precisely was this martial arts platform's referee, however the green shirt fundamentally did not fear this old man, although this old man's real ability was very strong, but the young generation's matter, the older generation fundamentally could not intervene. Even if intervening, the green shirt also must let the person who intervenes know, the sword repair also is not good to provoke!

  "No, as a judge, how would I break the rules? You've already won, just don't take his life. If your opponent had endangered your life earlier, I would have intervened too. This is the order of our sect leader. You are both the future hopes of our school, and we don't want you to suffer losses like this. So, as judges, we're not only supervising the match but also protecting your lives. Of course, you win this round!" Then he took away Cui Feng, who was severely injured. Cui Feng wasn't seriously hurt at first, but the aftershock of that last blow had left him severely injured.

  This duel ultimately ended with Sword Gentleman Qing Shan's victory, but due to the previous collision, Qing Shan also suffered a not-so-light injury.

  As it was two matches being held at the same time, on the other side was Nangong Xiner competing against Chen Yong, and the match had already ended early, with Nangong Xiner emerging victorious and Chen Yong defeated.

  Lu Yu Feng walked towards another direction, where Xiao Bao Wang was about to start his match against Bi Xian Zi, and Kuang Dao Sun Cheng was about to fight against Feng Chen. Lu Yu Feng had originally wanted to watch the battle between Xiao Bao Wang and Bi Xian Zi, as both of them were figures among the Three Heroes and Two Sages, and their match would definitely be very exciting. However, Lu Yu Feng still walked towards the arena where Feng Chen was competing, after all, Feng Chen's relationship with him was not ordinary, so he had to go and cheer for his senior brother Feng Chen.

  "Come on, senior brother!" Lu Yufeng came over just as Feng Chen was about to go on stage, so he said a word of encouragement to him.

  "Don't worry, young brother. Although the opponent is Crazy Blade Sun Cheng, my Fulong Cudgel is not to be underestimated." Fengchen finished speaking and jumped onto the stage with a bound.

  "Are you Feng Chen? Your strength is quite good, I heard that ten years ago you were seriously injured in the sect's resource war? I really admire you, what you said back then was absolutely right!" Kuang Dao Sun Cheng walked up with a large knife and said to Feng Chen.

  "Master brother is overpraising, Master younger brother is ashamed and dare not accept!" Feng Chen also politely said.

  "Alright, let's begin. I'm called Crazy Blade because of this sword and my swordsmanship. I don't cultivate martial skills; from the start, I've only cultivated swordsmanship. So, be careful." Sun Cheng finished speaking and charged towards Feng Chen with his large sword. When he arrived in front of Feng Chen, he swung his sword down at Feng Chen's head. Feng Chen didn't hold back either, raising his Fulong staff to block Sun Cheng's sword. Sun Cheng was indeed a fierce fighter; taking advantage of the momentum, he knocked away Feng Chen's staff and pointed his sword straight at Feng Chen's face. Feng Chen had no choice but to quickly retreat and dodge Sun Cheng's sword.

  "My swordsmanship is quite agile, watch me defeat my enemies with a thousand knives!" Although Sun Cheng didn't cultivate any battle techniques, he indeed cultivated his knife skills to the extreme and even created his own fighting style based on his experiences, which was extremely fierce.

  Only to see the wind and dust around, a number of big knives appeared, chopping towards the wind and dust. The wind and dust saw that there was nowhere to hide, directly raised the Fú Lóng stick, "Sweeping across the world!" The cold stick wind directly shattered all the big knives that Sun Cheng had transformed into.

  Sun Cheng didn't give Feng Chen a chance to catch his breath, and again pressed forward, entangling himself in battle with Feng Chen. Feng Chen had no choice but to raise his Fulong staff and fight Sun Cheng, but Feng Chen's staff techniques were not as refined as Sun Cheng's knife skills. After colliding several times, he began to appear somewhat clumsy. Feng Chen dodged Sun Cheng's entanglement with a flash of movement, taking advantage of the momentum to launch a move called "Tai Shan Press", pressing down on Sun Cheng with his staff. The over one-meter-long staff head was firmly locked onto Sun Cheng, but Sun Cheng did not retreat. With a loud shout of "You've come!", he raised his long knife and clashed with Feng Chen.

  "Cut!" Sun Cheng shouted loudly after exchanging a few moves with Feng Chen. A large knife split into three, slashing towards Feng Chen in three directions. Feng Chen countered with a horizontal sweep, dispelling Sun Cheng's attack and feeling grateful in his heart.

  "It's a good thing I often spar with Fengfeng, so I'm extremely familiar with the fighting methods of swordsmen. Otherwise, today would be a disaster." After dodging Sun Cheng's attack, Fengdun counterattacked with his staff, using the momentum from his previous sweeping strike to overpower Sun Cheng.

  Sun Cheng also felt stifled, usually when he fought with others, he relied on his sharp knife skills to overpower his opponents, but this time he was unexpectedly overpowered by someone else, all because his own knife style and Lu Yufeng's were too similar, and Feng Chen had already become extremely familiar with this style, which led to this inevitable outcome.

  "Ah!" Sun Cheng let out a loud shout, and the realm of Huayuan Dazheng burst forth from his body. It seemed that he wanted to rely on his cultivation being slightly higher than Fengchen's to turn the situation around.

  Sun Cheng's surrounding air currents rapidly rotated, then he leapt up, pouring all his true yuan into the long knife. "Let's settle this with one knife!" He tightly locked onto Fengchen and slashed at him, forcing Fengchen to engage in a fierce battle.

  "Alright, let's settle this with one move." Feng Chen's entire body was surging with true yuan, his cultivation which was originally at the late stage of Foundation Establishment, had directly reached the peak of Foundation Establishment.

  "Mount Tai crushes the top!" Feng Chen chose this heavy and powerful battle technique, pressing down on Sun Cheng's incoming large blade.

  "Hum...!" All that could be heard was the sound of clashing blades, as a deafening roar echoed out from the point of impact. The martial stage couldn't withstand the collision of their powers and had been completely flattened, not only that, but it had also been pressed down several feet. Then, both figures were shrouded in the smoke and dust that was blown up, and the people below the stage couldn't see who won or lost for a moment.

  The smoke and dust gradually dispersed, and only then did it become clear that both of them were standing in the huge pit that had been blasted out. Sun Cheng was using his long knife to prop himself up on the ground, while Feng Yun was also using his Fulong stick to prop himself up on the ground, standing not far from Sun Cheng. It seemed that both of them were seriously injured and no longer had the strength to fight again. Now it was just a matter of seeing which one of them could make it out, and push the other down.

  "Kuangdao is indeed Kuangdao, I lost!" In the puzzled eyes of others, Fengchen admitted that he had already lost. Because Fengchen knew that he had used a secret method to suddenly raise his cultivation from Huayuan's later period to Huayuan's Great Perfection, and under such circumstances, he was able to fight Kuangdao to a draw. He didn't believe that someone like Sun Cheng would not have any secret methods backing him up. Anyway, it was a loss, so why not admit it frankly.

  "Shi Di is also good, from now on, there will probably be four greats in the school!" Sun Cheng had already accepted Feng Chen in his heart.

  "Heh heh... Four Chivalrous Heroes? Are they really the Four Chivalrous Heroes?" Feng Chen thought to himself as he turned his head to look at Lu Yu Feng.

  Lu Yu Feng saw the dust and wind look over, a smile of mutual understanding. After a while, the two people in the pit caught their breath and walked out hand in hand, waiting for the judge's verdict.

  "This round, Sun Cheng wins!" The referee said and walked away. Sun Cheng also left after the referee, although this injury will not be fatal, but still needs to be nursed back to health.

  "Senior brother, you're amazing! You actually fought Crazy Blade Sun Cheng to a draw." Lu Yufeng said to Feng Chui after Li Cheng left.

  "Junior brother, don't mock me anymore. Others may not understand, but surely junior brother understands my current state? I used a secret method, and for the next four rounds, I'm afraid I won't have the chance to participate." Feng Chen said with a downcast face.

  "Senior brother doesn't need to worry too much, Sun Cheng's cultivation was originally above yours. When you reach the Great Circle of Yuan Transformation, I believe senior brother will be able to defeat Sun Cheng, or at least not lose." Lu Yu Feng said with a serious face.

  "This I do know, but it's not easy to achieve the Great Perfection of Yuan. Never mind that now, let's go, Shidi, and see who will get the last spot." Feng Chen pulled up Lu Yu Feng and they went to watch the final battle.

  "Master, don't you need to go back and rest for a bit?" Lu Yufeng was worried about Fengchen's injuries.

  "This injury is nothing, I just exhausted my true yuan after using the secret method, and can't use it for a while. It's not a big deal." Feng Chen and Lu Yu Feng walked towards the largest arena in the Martial Arts Hall, where a chaotic battle was about to take place. At the same time, on the other side of the arena, Xiao Ba Wang Yu Cheng and Bi Xian Zi Bi Yun were also competing, but unexpectedly, after just a few symbolic moves, Xiao Ba Wang Yu Cheng conceded defeat.

  Actually, everyone knows that the strength of the Three Heroes and Two Saints is almost the same. If two people fight with all their might, although one person will win, the remaining person will not have the power to participate in the final melee. So Xiaobao Wang simply admitted defeat and went to compete for the last spot.

  After all, apart from the Three Heroes and Two Saints, the young generation left in the sect didn't enter into Small Tyrant's eyes. This last quota, Small Tyrant was very confident of getting it.

  Moreover, facing Biyun such a beautiful woman, Yucheng would not possibly take drastic measures!