Muscular Rabbits Legion: “No one can escape from the novice village!”
Chapter 298 - Chapter 298 Chapter 288 Fly-Swatting Sword Skill

Chapter 298: Chapter 288: Fly-Swatting Sword Skill Chapter 298: Chapter 288: Fly-Swatting Sword Skill The others also remained silent. Among everyone present, Xue Tianyan and Li Xuantian were figures on the Qianyun Continent’s Heavenly List of Martial Arts, while the strongest amongst the rest were only high-level figures of the Earth List. Since those on the Heavenly List had agreed, naturally, the others had no objections.

The wind blew through, shaking the entire forest and revealing countless pairs of eyes…

In the distant woods, more figures kept rushing over, gradually surrounding the village in the valley from afar.

Someone had secretly estimated that there were tens of thousands of people arriving this time!

And this number was rapidly increasing!

Tens of thousands of hunters for two or three people?

Such a scene had not occurred in the Jianghu for a very long time.

Moreover, there were many high-level masters from the Heavenly List, Earth List, and Human List here…

For a moment, many people felt their blood boiling. They didn’t care who they were hunting; what mattered to them was the spark that would be created when so many masters gathered together.

…

As everyone anticipated, Qu Mayi made his move.

Qu Mayi took a step and his figure seemed to move in three directions simultaneously, but Yi Zheng knew that it was an illusion. The opponent was using some sort of light-footed qinggong to confuse him!

Clang!

The sound of a longsword being drawn rang out, and simultaneously a golden sword light struck with a ‘clang’ right at Yi Zheng’s brow.

The speed of this sword was so fast that Yi Zheng saw it for the first time in his life!

-HP 80 million!

A single strike of eighty million, Yi Zheng was taken aback by this damage.

This guy was definitely the strongest player Yi Zheng had ever seen!

“What tough flesh!” Qu Mayi exclaimed upon seeing that an attack of eighty million hadn’t managed to break Yi Zheng’s body shield, and then excitedly said, “Again!”

Qu Mayi’s figure flickered, once again splitting in three directions, and the sword light appeared again.

“Hit!”

Qu Mayi’s sword arrived, and just when it was about to strike, the Little Rabbit in front of him slightly tilted his head, causing the longsword to miss, grazing past his cheek!

“He dodged it?” Qu Mayi was astonished. His swordsmanship wasn’t the fastest, but it was definitely the most deceptive. Normally, no one could dodge it.

“Again!”

Qu Mayi seemed very excited, the golden longsword suddenly moved like a serpent, extremely fluid. The tip of the sword split from one into two, two into three, and three into countless points, wrapping around Yi Zheng completely.

Yi Zheng knew he couldn’t dodge this, nor did he try to. The saber in his hand burst into flames with a ‘whoosh’!

“Hellfire Saber,” Level 4, S-rank Sword Skill!

Yi Zheng went all out with the skill for the first time in a head-on duel!

This sword skill didn’t have too many variations and valued sheer overpowering force!

With one slash, flames burst forth like a huge net, capturing all the scattered stars of sword light, and then brutally struck towards Qu Mayi.

Qu Mayi shouted in amazement, “What a sword skill!”

Then, all the stars converged into one, the golden longsword reappeared, and collided with Yi Zheng’s saber.

Clang!

With a loud noise, Qu Mayi felt an overwhelming giant power bearing down on him, utterly unblockable, and he rapidly retreated.

Boom!

Yi Zheng’s saber struck the ground, causing an explosion of hellfire that ignited everything within a hundred meters radius.

Standing amidst the flames, Yi Zheng’s whole body burnt with hellfire, looking like a demon that had emerged from Hell, exerting a huge sense of oppression.

Seeing this, Qu Mayi not only didn’t shrink back but became even more excited. He then transformed into a golden streak of light, charging at Yi Zheng from all directions.

Yi Zheng just stood there, his saber light flickering as it blocked all of Qu Mayi’s attacks.

Qu Mayi’s speed got faster and faster, his movements more and more complex. His qinggong was like walking through the starry sky, elusive, with his swordsmanship like a sky full of stars, his movement like the wind, his sword qi like rain, and the stars like thunder. When Qu Mayi’s speed increased and his sword qi became more furious like torrential rain, the stars transformed into thunderstorms, blowing the thick trees into dust wherever they passed.

The Rabbit became even more ferocious. He was like an evil ghost from Hell wielding an immense flyswatter. No matter whether it was torrential rain or thunderstorm, he treated them as mere flies to be swatted down, pulverized, and finally smashed into the mud.

Saber light, carrying a sea of fire and the scattered stars of sword light, clashed wildly, with explosions sounding incessantly and shockwaves billowing out in all directions, smashing the trees with a destructive force.

The Dayan Sword Sect disciples who had been hiding in the trees started screaming and escaping, those who ran slower either got their butts burned or a leg severed. Each ended up more miserable than the other.

By this time, Qu Mayi had realized that the Rabbit had long been aware of the people hiding in the woods. He was being dragged into forcefully helping him commit treachery!

“Retreat, all retreat!” Qu Mayi yelled out loud.

The Dayan Sword Sect disciples scattered, running several kilometers in one breath before stopping, looking back with lingering fear.

They then realized that the battleground had leveled an area of tens of thousands of square meters! In that clearing, two figures were still fiercely battling, with golden sword qi and raging flames tearing the sky apart, causing all who watched to shudder with fright.

“Is this what a True Disciple is? How monstrous must one’s attributes be to deal such damage?”

“Terrifying, truly worthy of being Qu Mayi, one of the top ten on the Heavenly List.”

At a distance, other players who were watching from the mountains were also profoundly shocked.

Isn’t every master on the Heavenly List superior to millions of others?

Either they have their own guild, or they have risen to the position of True Disciple within their Sect, becoming the first among players beneath the Sect Master. They can even issue missions to disciples and assist with the management of the Sect alongside NPCs.

An existence that even NPC elders have to give way to…

Many of these people don’t even need to take action themselves anymore.

As a result, many people are uncertain about the true strength of these masters on the Heavenly List, and some even believe they could fight them…

But only at this moment, after witnessing Qu Mayi’s Sword Light, did everyone understand that they were not opponents they could challenge; the gap was too substantial.

Li Xuantian and Xue Tianyan also had serious expressions on their faces.

As masters on the Heavenly List themselves, they were acutely aware of what kind of Cultivation Techniques the direct disciples wielded. When both parties possessed Cultivation Techniques of level 4 S-class, the competition came down to Attributes!

When there’s no gap in Attributes, the struggle comes down to one’s comprehension of their own Cultivation Technique and Moves, and their nimble responses during combat.

Now that they had seen Qu Mayi’s swordplay, both of them felt immense pressure; the opponent had broken free from the system’s set routines and started to deconstruct and use Moves at will.

This skill was also top-notch even among masters on the Heavenly List.

What shocked them even more was that Rabbit, a mere rabbit, was wielding a Flame Saber and was on par with Qu Mayi in combat; this was simply absurd.

However, what the two of them didn’t know was that at this very moment, Qu Mayi regarded Rabbit as an abnormal freak, sending chills down his spine!

He could clearly feel that the rabbit on the opposite side, in terms of Sword Skill, was a complete novice at the beginning, using nothing but the system’s routine moves. To put it bluntly, even someone who had never learned Martial Arts could execute a Move perfectly with just a thought if they learned the respective Cultivation Technique. There’s a lack of variability, and there’s almost no chance of a feint in the middle of a Move.

That’s a typical player for you: no variations, purely fixed routines, at best changing the order or recombining them to deal with different enemies.

A real master thoroughly understands the Moves and can dismantle and use them at any time, seeking the most efficient output and the quickest kill.

Rabbit at first didn’t understand, but after just a brief exchange, he seemed to have gotten it, starting to dismantle the Moves. Although the dismantling was brutal and lacked variation, it was like swatting flies with a saber.

But this was indeed the beginning of understanding Moves…

What was even more terrifying was that after a short exchange, he had moved beyond merely using his saber like a flyswatter; he even began to change how he swung it.

Such a rate of progress made Qu Mayi want to curse–one word: freak!

Because even for him, it had taken half a year to reach this level of comprehension…

He had a vague feeling that he was about to witness the rise of a monster.

“Damn it, it’s depressing to compare people to people, but when you compare a person to a rabbit, that’s when it’s time to throw in the towel!” As Qu Mayi cursed, he realized that competing in technique was already meaningless. His opponent’s technique, though cruder than his own, was precisely the straightforward sort that countered his style; continuing the fight wouldn’t change anything.

Thus, Qu Mayi’s eyes suddenly sharpened, and he shouted, “Rabbit, I’m going to speed up now!”

In the midst of speaking, Qu Mayi’s speed suddenly more than doubled, all the starlight in the sky vanished, and he rushed at Yi Zheng like a mad comet!

This sudden turn of events, he believed, would surely catch this rookie off guard and at a disadvantage.

However, little did he know, the novice in Martial Arts standing before him had a Grandmaster-level adaptability on the battlefield. The battles he had been in, those were on the scale of millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions, tens of billions!

So, the moment Qu Mayi accelerated, Yi Zheng caught on.

But Yi Zheng didn’t defend himself, he even actively prevented his Dark Moon Weapon from emerging from its hidden state to block the attack. Yi Zheng wanted to see what the pinnacle of a Qianyuan Continent master’s strike was all about.

The comet arrived in an instant, striking Yi Zheng squarely in the chest!

Bang!

-HP 160 million!

“Explode!”

As Qu Mayi roared, the sword light exploded, stars reappeared in the sky, and the multitude of comets reversed and slammed into Yi Zheng’s body, while Qu Mayi passed by Yi Zheng, his sword light stretching hundreds of meters away!

Boom, boom, boom…

A series of explosions sounded, and another set of numbers floated above Yi Zheng’s head.

-HP 100 million!

A single Move that inflicted a terrifying damage of 260 million had shaken everyone present.

“Is this the Combat Power of a True Disciple?” Those disciples still stuck as outer disciples had their eyes turn red.

Inner Sect Disciples felt the same. They once thought that stepping into the Inner Sect meant they had joined the ranks of the masters. Inflicting millions of damage in one hit was something to be proud of.

Now they realized they were nothing but trash!

Above the Inner Sect are the Direct Disciples, and above them are True Disciples.

There can be several Direct Disciples, but there can be only one True Disciple!

That is the difference.

As people were sighing at the horrific damage from the True Disciple, someone exclaimed, “It seems like the shield isn’t broken!”

The remark woke everyone up from their daze, and they turned to stare at Yi Zheng with wide eyes.