Chapter 161: Out

  "What a bold move! But I'm curious, how should we divide the secret recipe?"

  "You and I each get half, the other half is stored in our own minds, how about that?"

  "Alright, it's settled then."

  The original form of the horizontal eagle flashed, avoiding the interval between the earth fire, and a true energy eagle burst out from outside, covering the platform above with leaves dust.

  Seeing this, Zhuang Fei knew that the other party had agreed and didn't dare to slack off. The true energy in his meridians was operated to the limit, causing the virtual shadow of the mountain peak to condense and solidify, like crystal. His palms slapped out a river-like palm energy, which merged with the majestic eagle's true energy, surging out fiercely.

  "Today you two must leave something behind before leaving."

  Dead leaves did not retreat or evade, a sharp and fierce aura burst into the sky, as if an extraordinary treasured sword was about to be unsheathed, ready for bloody slaughter.

  "Give me a split!"

  Under the impetus of the mighty sword intent, the scarlet flames on the iron spear suddenly extended outwards, infinitely compressed and stretched, finally forming a scorching scarlet fire sword. The fire sword sang a long song, heavily slashing at the weak area between the True Energy Eagle and the surging Palm Qi.

  Whoa!

  The sound of fabric tearing echoed, the crimson fire sword's power was so mighty that it broke through the original joint attack of Yuan Heng and Zhuang Fei with a single slash.

  The original horizontal eagle color changed as soon as it stood on the platform, and Ye Chen's strength was beyond his expectations. With a gun instead of a sword, he could withstand the joint attack of the two men. If there were inferior treasure swords, they wouldn't even need to fight.

  Fortunately, a gun is just a gun and can never become a sword.

  "Zhuang Fei, you don't have to hide anymore. Don't use your last resort, it's absolutely impossible to kill him. We might even put our own lives in danger." As he spoke, the original Horizontal Eagle's feet slightly parted, and a dark green aura burst out, forming a pair of gigantic eagle claws on either side of his body. The claws were dark with a hint of black, emitting an ancient, eerie, and evil aura that made one's heart skip a beat.

  "Water overflowing from the mountains!"

  Upon hearing this, the mountain peaks outside Zhuang Fei's body suddenly collapsed and turned into a torrent of water. The water shadow formed a spiral shape around Zhuang Fei, rushing forward ceaselessly, with an astonishing momentum, as if it would burst out at any moment, submerging everything in sight.

  The original mountain and water technique, apart from having both offense and defense, can also transform into full offense or full defense. Full offense is 'water overflowing the mountains', converting the power of the mountains into a surging flood that crashes towards the enemy. However, although full offense is formidable, its defense is relatively weak, not much stronger than an ordinary practitioner in the initial stages of the Embracing Origin Realm, making it easy to suffer unexpected attacks. As for the full defense technique, Zong Fei has yet to successfully cultivate it, which requires practicing the mountain and water technique to the ninth level before one can barely achieve it; otherwise, Ye Chen's single spear strike would have shattered his defense earlier.

  Rumble!

  The two men did not hold back at all and suddenly launched their strongest attack.

  Only to see the huge eagle claws tearing through the air, with a demonic aura grabbing towards Ye Chen, followed by a surging palm force, turbulent and majestic, more powerful than before.

  Boom, boom, boom... The iron spear in Ye Chen's hand was two meters three long, and with the extension of the crimson fire sword, it had a total length of four meters. As his arm swung, the crimson fire sword transformed into a trail of residual shadows, slashing onto the giant eagle claws and the pounding palm strength, bursting out countless sparks.

  For a moment, Ye Chen suddenly shook open the eagle's claw with a gun, and the red fire sword on the iron gun fell off, shooting towards Zhuang Fei like a meteor.

  "Despicable."

  Zhuang Fei was enraged, and this was the moment when his defense was at its weakest. If he were to be hit, he would undoubtedly die. Without time to think carefully, he hastily slapped out two powerful palm forces to meet the fire sword.

  Wow!

  Wow!

  ...the palm strength was pierced continuously, the fire sword also collapsed, turning into a fierce flame wave that engulfed Zhuang Fei, burning fiercely.

  Yuán Héng Yīng took advantage of the dust storm to deal with Zhuāng Fěi, just as he was about to launch a fierce attack. Suddenly, an explosive force came from under his feet, almost sending him flying. Fortunately, his true energy had already been mobilized to its limit, and he stomped his foot to extinguish the explosive force.

  "What a close call." Yuan Heng's heart still had lingering fear, the explosive force indeed couldn't hurt him, but it could blow him off the platform. Below the platform were all mechanisms, and with just a bit of carelessness, he would be engulfed in the surging flames, either dying or being transmitted out of the Tian Meng War Temple. Neither outcome was what he wanted to see.

  Ye Chen couldn't help but feel a pang of regret, the secret technique he had obtained from the Butcher's hand, "Exploding Heaven Shock", was actually of a lower grade. In the early stages, it had been a great help to him, but now it could only provide a faint and negligible auxiliary effect, completely unable to counter the Earth-grade martial art that protected Yuan Hongying's body.

  Hmph!

  The flames were torn apart, and Zhuang Fei walked out of them, except for some scratches, he didn't suffer any harm. However, as the fight went on, they became more and more frightened. The current Ye Chen was incredibly powerful, and with one against two, he still firmly held the upper hand. If it weren't for both of them having a trump card, it would be questionable whether they could hold on or not. Simply wanting to defeat Ye Chen like this was almost impossible now.

  At this moment, Ye Chen's feet did not leave the ground, and he made his final move with the Surprising Clouds Sword Technique.

  "Too shocking for the heavens!"

  The right hand holds an iron spear vertically and chops down silently, lightly floating without a wisp of smoke or fire, as if gently brushing aside clouds.

  Crack!

  A deafening thunderclap!

  This shot seems light and fluttering, but it bursts out with extremely terrifying power, as if a thunderbolt suddenly strikes under clear weather, creating an extreme contradictory illusion.

  Zhuang Fei and Yuan Heng didn't even have a chance to dodge, they were swept by the crimson gun tip, their protective true energy shattered instantly, each spitting out a mouthful of blood as they flew backwards, falling towards the platform below.

  A burst of white flames erupted from the ground, and in an instant, the two figures vanished.

  On stage.

  Ye Chen shook his head, this earth fire originally wouldn't kill people, it would only transport them away. But that's good, now isn't the time to strike and kill two birds with one stone. The current Flowing Cloud Sect can't take on this responsibility yet. After all, Tianying Fortress and Feicui Valley are both seventh-grade sects, their strength is unmatched, if a talented disciple under them gets killed, the higher-ups will definitely not let it go easily.

  The light gate in the green rainbow opened again, and two figures flew out.

  "Down with Japan!"

  "Zhuang Fei!"

  The elder of Tianying Fortress and the elder of Feicui Valley called out in unison, but when they saw that the two had injuries with a large amount of fresh blood flowing from their mouths and noses, they were stunned.

  "Xiang Ying, what's wrong? Who hurt you?"

  The Great Elder of Tianying Fortress had a gloomy expression and asked.

  "Great Elder, let's talk about it when we get back." Yuan Heng didn't want to reveal the truth in front of everyone, as it was too embarrassing. Two top-ranked experts from the Dragon List were beaten by a rising star until they spat blood and nearly lost their lives. No matter how you put it, it was an unglorious thing that would greatly affect his reputation.

  On the other hand, Zhuang Fei also did not mention this matter.

  Xie Xue Zong's position, Ju Wu Xue was shocked to see him severely injured. Originally, Huang Ying's strength was not inferior to his, and Zhuang Fei was also a high-ranking expert on the Hidden Dragon List. How could he have been seriously injured? Could it be that they had fought each other, both suffering heavy losses? This explanation seemed the most reasonable.

  "I wonder who will get the remaining treasure?"

  Dove has some regrets now. If he had known that there were only two people, he might have been able to fight for it and get one or even both of the other two treasures.

  The light gate opened again, and another figure emerged.

  "Who?"

  "Is there anyone else inside? The young masters of the Hidden Dragon Rankings should all be out by now!"

  "Could he be the real culprit who injured Yuan Heng and Zhuang Fei?"

  The various sects' elders were discussing and speculating, while the elders of Heavy Mountain Sect stared with wide eyes, hoping it was the missing Hong Qianjun.

  Liu Yunzong and others were very clear in their hearts, the last one was 100% Ye Chen, as for Hong Qianjun, he had been killed by Ye Chen long ago, and there was no such person.

  Whoosh!

  A figure stood on the sand, wearing a long white robe with cloud patterns unique to the Flowing Cloud Sect on its sleeves.

  "Disciple of Liuyun Sect!"

  Except for a few people, others felt inexplicable and had all sorts of speculations, but they never thought it would be a relatively unknown disciple of the Flowing Cloud Sect. Before this, they didn't know him at all, nor had they heard of his name.

  No!

  He was the last one out, that is to say, he passed all the tests, participated in the competition for the three treasures, and transmitted safely.

  So were Yuan Heng and Zhuang Fei injured by this person?

  It shouldn't be possible! Some of the sect's elders shook their heads, they didn't believe that the two young masters from the Dragon List would fall at this person's hands, and even if you beat them to death, they wouldn't believe it.

  The elder of Chong Yue Men flashed a cold glint in his eyes, unknown what he was thinking.

  "Ye Shidi, you're out." Luo Hanshan let out a sigh of relief. The competition for the three treasures was not like before, and he needed to contend with the remaining people. He really feared that Ye Chen would fall in there.

  Ye Chen nodded slightly and suddenly appeared at the location of the Flowing Cloud Sect.

  The old man looked at Ye Chen and smiled: "Nothing's wrong, is it?"

  Ye Chen glanced at Zhuang Fei and Yuan Hengying, saying: "Nothing's wrong, let's retreat completely."

  "Alright, as long as nothing's wrong. By the way, it was you who injured Zhuang Fei and Yuan Hengying." Actually, the Great Elder didn't quite believe it either, but asking made him feel better.

  Hesitated for a moment, Ye Chen nodded again.

  "Is it really you who was injured?" The other elders of Liuyun Sect took a cold breath.

  Luo Hanshan smiled and said, "Yue Shidi has entered the Bao Yuan realm, his strength has increased rapidly, one-on-one, it's not surprising that he heavily injured Zhuang Fei or Yuan Hengying, if he can't beat them then that would be strange."

  He thought Ye Chen had defeated Zhuang Fei and Yuan Heng separately, and he didn't think much of it, feeling that the elders were making a big fuss over nothing.

  The old man was slightly surprised, but his mood quickly calmed down. Thinking about it, it made sense that Ye Chen had grasped the sword intent and entered the realm of embracing the origin, so his strength had skyrocketed. It wasn't surprising that he defeated the top player from the previous Hidden Dragon Ranking. Without a doubt, in a year and a half, at the next Hidden Dragon Ranking competition, Ye Chen would definitely have a place among the top players, and no one could stop him.

  "Hmph, young one, have you ever seen me, Hong Qianjun, the eldest disciple of Mount Requiem?"

  At this time, a voice came over, it was the Great Elder of Chong Yue Gate. He saw Ye Chen come out last and had a great suspicion in his heart, thinking that Ye Chen was highly suspicious. Suddenly, he took step by step towards Ye Chen, releasing a strong aura from his body.

  Lu Hanshan's face changed color, something bad has happened!

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