The Fifty-Eighth Life-or-Death Duel

  Honestly, Tang Yan really didn't want to engage in a formal duel with him. He had originally planned to kill the guy at the tavern, then slaughter his thousands of soldiers and walk away with a clean slate. But unexpectedly, the old man from the Nangong family forced Tang Yan to engage in a formal duel, not giving him any choice. After all, it was the Emperor's orders; if he were to displease him, Tang Yan didn't dare think about what would happen next, so he had no choice but to comply.

  Before going on stage, Xuan Yuan Yue instructed Tang Yan to be careful of Dong Fang Yu's martial skills. Xuan Yuan Yue was concerned about Tang Yan and said that he had saved her after all. Tang Yan didn't expect that Nangong Xiangxue would also say the same thing, telling him to be careful of Dong Fang Yu's martial skills. Two women from noble families with double surnames both said this. Tang Yan thought to himself: "Is Dong Fang Yu's martial skill really that terrifying? Or have they already fallen in love with me?"

  Nangong Xiangxue wouldn't care about him, and since she said so, Tang Yan knew that Dongfang Yu had some fearsome martial skills. However, before the fight began, Tang Yan really wanted to know which family Dongfang Yu belonged to - was it a secular one, a hidden one, or perhaps an ancient Eastern family? Otherwise, if he killed him, he might provoke the Emperor and get pursued by old guys above the Douzong level, which would be troublesome.

  The last time I hid in the mountains, those days were really not easy to get through. Although I was squeezed into a small stone cave with two beauties, it had a bit of an aphrodisiac meaning, but the smell of urine inside was really not very good.

  "Are you from the Eastern world's noble or mundane family?" Tang Yan asked without drawing his sword.

  "Kid, are you scared? Let me tell you, I'm from the Hidden World Family. Haha, if you're afraid, kneel down and kowtow three times to me, leave Nan Gong Xiang Xue alone, and I won't pursue the matter of you killing the City Master. How about it?" Dong Fang Yu laughed loudly at Tang Yan.

  Hehe, it's not that he won't pursue the matter of Tang Yan's murder, but rather what Nan Gong Bo Ya said earlier, that Tang Yan is a guest of the Purple Dragon Empire, and in this regard, he can't intervene. At most, he can only feel sorry for the master of Ningyang City for provoking someone he shouldn't have!

  "Hidden world family? Hehe. Not bad, another third-generation ancestor who relies on his family to prosper. Come on, aren't you eager to get rid of me?" Tang Yan said with a smile.

  "Hmph! Pighead, give me a chance and you make the first move." Dongfang Yu hummed to this rival.

  "Since you won't make a move, fine! I'll take the initiative then!"

  Tang Yan finished speaking, his right hand placed on the back of the snowy blade, a sly smile floating at the corner of his mouth. Dongfang Yu, who had not yet regained his senses, felt a surge of powerful energy gathering. He immediately mobilized the Dou Qi in his body, and then his body was struck by a powerful force, leaving a long sword mark on his chest, his clothes torn apart, with faint frost and snow forming on top.

  "You..." Dongfang Yu retreated twenty steps in a row, staring at Tang Yan with an incredulous gaze, not daring to believe that Tang Yan's attack speed was so fast. In his heart, he thought: "Damn it, is this his power? If I hadn't used the protective aura just now, I would have really been killed by him."

  "Clang!" Again.

  This time, Dongfang Yu didn't use his body to block Tang Yan's attack, but instead used the sword in his hand. The result was the same, and he retreated over a dozen steps in a row. With each step, the stone slabs underfoot cracked, making Tang Yan unable to believe that this guy could see through his attacks. He thought back to when several Dou Ling strongmen were hit, and they didn't even know what happened.

  "Damn it, this kid really has some skills!" Tang Yan thought as he struck out with three swords in a row.

  "What's wrong, didn't you chop it off? Damn it, you chopped my sword to pieces! I've decided, I'm not going to cripple you, I'll kill you!" Dongfang Yu saw his subordinate being scolded in front of him and thought to himself: "Damn it, if he chops a few more times, Young Master's hands will be ruined!"

  "On you, three generations of ancestors!" Tang Yan said, staring at him with slightly trembling hands.

  "Rise of the East!" This time, Dongfang Yu would no longer let Tang Yan attack. One move: Rise of the East, a sword aura after another enveloped Tang Yan.

  "Knock on the door in the snow!"

  Tang Yan also used his martial skills: Dian Xue Xun Men Jian Fa, which also transformed into hundreds of sword shadows, covering an area of fifty meters in diameter, and collided with the thirty sword shadows of Dong Fang Yu. One Dian Xue Xun Men sword shadow couldn't break through Ri Chu Dong Fang, so he used dozens more, and the sword shadows collided with each other, consuming its energy. The sword aura of Ri Chu Dong Fang was very strong, and Tang Yan needed twenty sword moves to break it.

  "Rise of the East!"

  Dongfang Yu didn't expect Tang Yan's martial skills to be so terrifying, instantly breaking through his thirty sword auras. Dongfang Changhong unleashed a massive sword shadow, merging with the sword to strike at Tang Yan's heart. Tang Yan was not to be outdone, consecutively executing twenty swift sword draws, each one landing on the massive sword light. Each sword strike made Dongfang Changhong tremble, and the sound of explosions echoed through the square, sending stone blocks flying everywhere, leaving twenty holes in the ground.

  "Alright, alright, not bad!" Dongfang Changhong was also forced to a stop by Tang Yan.

  It wasn't that Dongfang Yu wanted to stop, but his hands were numb and he could hardly hold onto the sword. If he didn't stop, his long sword would be shaken off, and without a sword, his fighting ability would greatly decrease. As for Tang Yan's shadowless draw, honestly, Dongfang Yu really didn't dare to use his hand to block it. Blocking one or two times was still okay, but blocking several times would definitely render him useless.

  "You're not bad either!" Tang Yan said with a large amount of exhausted Qi.

  "Rising Sun of the East!"

  Dongfang Yu made another move, also called Dongfang Xuri, looking at the long sword with many gaps in his hand slowly floating in front of him, and patted a few times on the hilt of his treasured sword. A large amount of Dou Qi poured into Dongfang Yu's long sword, constantly rotating faster and brighter, like a rising sun, shining red and bloody.

  "Damn, no wonder Nan Gong Xiang Xue told me to be careful of his martial skills. It turns out they're so powerful! A noble family is indeed a noble family! Tang Yan's martial skills are just those two moves, the thirty-eighth route of the Fist Gate can deal with small fries, but against high-level opponents, it's far from enough. As for the thirty-two routes of swordsmanship he created himself, one move is already settled, how can the swordsmanship that took him a few days to calculate compare to others' swordsmanship that has been repeatedly practiced for decades or even hundreds of years?"

  After the Oriental Sunrise was formed, Nan Gong Xiang Xue, who was not far away, began to tense up. As a one-star Dou Wang, she didn't dare underestimate the Oriental family's move. Moreover, Tang Yan was only a Great Dou Shi, which made her worry about him even more!

  "Give you a chance, kneel down and beg me right now!" Dongfang Yu said to Tang Yan before discovering the attack.

  "Damn you."

  Tang Yan finished speaking, retreated thirty meters, and slashed out several sword auras towards Dongfang Yu. Unexpectedly, when the sword aura approached Dongfang Yu, it was absorbed by the rising sun in front of him. Yes, it was absorbed away, just like Tang Yan's devouring power, after absorbing Tang Yan's sword aura, it transformed into thousands of sword auras, each about two fingers wide and twenty centimeters long, dense like threads of sunlight.

  Nan Gong Bo Ya and the two elders did not make a move, they only saw Tang Yan put away the Blowing Snow in his hand and retreat into the spatial ring, then escape towards the outside of the square at high speed, twice as fast as Dong Fang Yu's martial skills. Twice as fast, what's the use, this sword was too dense and Tang Yan couldn't dodge it, who knows if he would be killed by being hit.

  Of course, Tang Yan can use Xue Xun Men Wu Ji to break it, but that would be a waste of Dou Qi. As a Grandmaster, his Dou Qi is far inferior to that of a Dou Ling strongman. Otherwise, Tang Yan wouldn't have needed thirty sword auras to break through just one of his, which shows just how powerful the Dou Ling's sword aura is.

  Sweat!

  Everyone saw Tang Yan fleeing in disarray, with a big sweat on each face. Many people scolded Tang Yan for being shameless, and the duel actually ran away. Especially Dongfang Yu, who controlled the wheel of the sun behind him, chased after Tang Yan while scolding him as a cowardly ghost. However, Tang Yan still ignored him. The old man in the dragon ring had told Tang Yan that if he couldn't defeat his enemy, he should escape. A great man can put down his pride and pick it up again when he becomes stronger, and then bully others back.

  For Zilan and Xuan Yuan, Tang Yan doesn't need to worry about them. With three Dou Huangs and one Dou Wang, he believes no one dares to touch them. However, Lei Lao's face didn't look so good. He was impressed by Tang Yan's speed in his heart, but escaping during a decisive battle made Lei Lao somewhat despise him.

  "Don't think about running away!" Dongfang Yu was furious as he chased after him.

  "If you can't catch up, then don't chase! If you don't chase, I won't run!" Tang Yan cursed at the guy behind him.

  "You're useless!" Dongfang Yu cursed.

  "I'll let you sister give birth to a child for me, and see if she can give birth to one or not!" Tang Yan also scolded.

  "You, I'm going to kill you, kill this rascal!" Dongfang Yu heard Tang Yan scold his sister too, and Dongfang Yu was so angry that he almost exploded.

  Yes, Dongfang Yu has a younger sister named Dongfang Wan'er, who is 20 years old and the darling of the Dongfang family. Tang Yan scolded him for wanting to mess with his sister, this brother would be strange if he didn't get angry, but unexpectedly after Tang Yan finished scolding him for messing with his sister, he cursed again: "If you chase me again, I'll even mess with your mother!"

  Yes, Tang Yan was very afraid of his strength. Originally, he thought that at most, they would just fight to a draw, but he didn't expect Tang Yan's moves to be one stronger than the last. It wasn't as simple as dealing with the leader of the Tianying Sect. He should escape, run through some small alleys, but of course, being scolded by Tang Yan and Dongfang Yu's mom, he chased after him instead. He was furious, almost exploding with rage.

  "Quickly go and take a look!" Lei Lao said to Nan Gong Bai Ya.

  "What's there to be afraid of? You've seen it for yourself, if he were to run away, Dongfang Yu wouldn't be able to catch up to him. Haha, this kid really has a lot of tricks up his sleeve, his speed is almost as fast as the Flying Swallow Sect!" said Nan Gong Bo Ya.

  "Yes, this young man is indeed talented. If he's given a few more years, I'm afraid he'll soon surpass us!" said another elder of the Nan Gong clan.

  "Damn it, you guys aren't chasing, I'll chase! If he gets away, I'll have taught him the Thunderbolt Technique for nothing!" Lao Lei cursed.

  "What's there to fear, his little junior sister is here, can't he just run away?" They spent a few days together and found that Tang Yan really liked Zi Lan, taking great care of her. Just now, after hearing what Nan Gong Xiang Xue said, this time the incident occurred because the city lord's wife bullied his little junior sister, not only beating the city lord's wife severely, but also killing the Ningyang City Lord, with an attitude that feared neither heaven nor earth.

  They were not worried, but Zilan and Xuan Yuan Moon were already worried to the point of tears, especially Zilan Xiaojie. She knew that Tang Yan would never retreat when facing an enemy. Now retreating meant that Tang Yan couldn't defeat him, otherwise Tang Yan would have killed Dongfang Yu long ago. With Tang Yan's personality, no matter who his opponent was, as long as he could win, he would kill them.

  Of course, Tang Yan could have let the old man in the Dragon Ring take action, but Tang Yan didn't do so. It wasn't because he was afraid that the old man would fall asleep again, but rather because he felt it wasn't necessary. If they couldn't win, they could always retreat. Tang Yan didn't believe that Dongfang Xuan's move could last for several hours.