Chapter 538: Chapter 527: The Sword Cultivator Father
What are you, an Artifact Refiner, doing challenging a Magic Practitioner in a one-on-one duel? If there really is an irreconcilable grudge, can’t you just use an Immortal Artifact to employ an old monster at the Transcendance Tribulation Stage to settle it? Why insist on handling it yourself?
This is the most talented Artifact Refining Master recorded in the history of the Canglan World. If he were to meet his downfall like this, what a great loss it would be to the Cultivation World.
In fact, although most people support Ye Sheng, deep down nearly all of them are convinced that Ye Sheng is no match for Lin Shen. They just hope that the new Immortal Cauldron he forged can withstand the attack of the Black Flames!
"Ye Sheng, I have waited for this day for a long time," Lin Shen’s eyes revealed a crazed smile, looking at Ye Sheng as if he were looking at a dead man, "All along, everyone says I’m not as good as you. Today, let’s see the truth beneath our hands. It’s a pity that those people from back then can no longer see this."
Listening to his words, Ye Sheng’s mood didn’t fluctuate at all; he just calmly stated the facts of that year: "You say that others say you are not as good as me, but what I’ve heard is that I am not as good as you. Lin Shen, I admit those people had ill intentions. You killed them and I have nothing to say about it, but the fact that those words have affected you for so long shows that your temperament is not stable."
"Hah, as the sole son of the Lonely Swallow Sword Lord, of course, you can’t understand my feelings," Lin Shen said with a gloomy tone.
Ye Sheng felt there was nothing more to say to Lin Shen. Sure, he was his father’s son, but was Lin Shen’s treatment in the Tianyan Sect that bad?
His master is Master Wu’an, who would dare to slight him to his face? Which part of his cultivation resources is not the best?
Ye Sheng at least often goes out to complete tasks to repay the sect, what has Lin Shen done?
Just taking without giving back, and keeping others’ casual remarks in his heart for so long, seems to be too vindictive.
"If you want to fight, then let’s fight. All this chatter does not suit your style," Ye Sheng said very coldly. This face of his resembled Ye Qiu by eighty percent.
Upon hearing this, Lin Shen became even more infuriated, but he didn’t say anything more. He had no way out now; only by killing Ye Sheng could he break through his Heart Demon.
Because both had dripped blood onto the Life and Death Platform, the Array automatically activated as soon as they stepped up.
This platform has existed since Ancient Times, and it is unknown why it is there. Due to its special properties, some people, even if they have deadly feuds, seldom step up here, because once they do, it represents a fifty percent chance of death.
It’s not like other places where if you die, there is still a chance to escape with your Primordial Spirit and continue cultivation to find an opportunity to reforge one’s body. On the Life and Death Platform, when you die, you truly die, never to return, a complete annihilation of body and soul.
The two of them didn’t waste any words as soon as they arrived and directly unleashed their ruthless moves.
Lin Shen summoned two orbs of black and white energy, one on the left and one on the right, which quickly merged together into a pattern of Yin Yang Tai Chi.
"What is that?" the cultivators exclaimed in surprise, because Lin Shen had never used this move in the matches of the Thousand-Year Ranking, and it looked very dangerous.
"Yin Yang Tai Chi?" Young Master Feng stood up in shock, because there is a pool of such water in his family’s forbidden grounds, half black and half white, that could better purify the physiques of Feng Family Disciples. Only a thousand years ago, for some unknown reason, the source of the spring suddenly disappeared. Now the water is barely maintaining its original form, let alone its initial purification and cleansing properties. Despite being separated by an Array, he still felt the familiar aura, and he instinctively felt that Lin Shen’s move was related to the spring water in his family’s forbidden grounds.
The disciples of the Ji Family and Jiang Family also took notice of Young Master Feng’s shocked expression and then watched the platform with gravity. It seemed they had underestimated Lin Shen, thinking he only relied on the Black Flames, not realizing he possessed other formidable capabilities.
As Lin Shen launched the Yin Yang Tai Chi, Ye Sheng also unhesitatingly summoned the Dark Blue Ice Flame. The bone-chilling coldness made even those outside of the Array feel a bit of chill.
Decades have passed since these two moves clashed once again, yet both individuals are no longer those small cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Stage who could neither control their power nor withstand the explosive might.
Even at the Void Refining Stage, the power of the explosion is not to be underestimated. Amidst the crowd’s anxious gazes, the two didn’t dodge but instead met the attacks head-on, stringing one move after another as if they didn’t care about possibly getting hurt.
"Ye Sheng, where is your spiritual beast? Are you worried it might hold you back because it didn’t have enough time to grow and its level is too low?" Lin Shen cackled, "Your spiritual beast might not be presentable, but mine is quite different."
As he spoke, a pitch-black spiritual beast appeared beside him, with a horn atop its head, and its fluffy fur made its physique look even stronger.
"I actually thought you wouldn’t accept the challenge, and I was ready to reveal the reason why the merfolk had perished. Unexpectedly, you agreed so readily. But what a pity, even if I reveal the whereabouts of the merfolk now, you will have no chance for vengeance."
"What kind of spiritual beast is that? Its aura seems similar to those Black Flames!"
"Who could have imagined Lin Shen still had so many cards up his sleeve!"
"From what he said, does Ye Sheng have a spiritual beast as well? Is it a merfolk?"
While no one recognized Lin Shen’s spiritual beast, they were not unfamiliar with merfolk.
In the Cultivation World, where dragon phoenixes have vanished and no sign of Divine Beasts or Immortal Beasts is to be seen, merfolk are considered one of the top lineage spiritual beasts, highly favored by Artifact Refiners and Alchemists.
Unfortunately, due to merfolk having high defensive powers, cultivators of the same level find it hard to gain the upper hand against them. Therefore, merfolk have always been precious, especially since it seems like no merfolk have ascended for hundreds of years. Those left in the Lower Realm seem to have been hunted, and most cultivators have never seen one. If Ye Sheng really had made a pact with a merfolk, they would be lucky to witness it.
"As you wished." Ye Sheng was fearless. Even though when he first entered into a pact with Little Blue and Little Hai, they were both at the Foundation Establishment Stage, the growth of spiritual beasts takes time. But do not forget, fortuitous encounters are a thing in this world.
As soon as Ye Sheng finished speaking, two azure merfolk appeared beside him, one female and one male, with enchanting deep blue tails, but their upper bodies had black hair and black eyes, and their features were stunningly handsome, instantly drawing everyone’s attention upon their appearance.
"So beautiful!" the crowd exclaimed.
"But don’t be deceived by them. These adult merfolk could break all your internal organs with a flick of their tail."
Seeing the two merfolk, the black spiritual beast charged over without heed, its large eyes filled with a frenzied desire for battle.
"The fight has begun, it’s so fierce!"
"I really didn’t come in vain today. Who would have thought Lin Shen and Ye Sheng would be so powerful? Are the cultivators of this generation really so blessed with such extraordinary adventures?"
"Look, Lin Shen has taken out a long spear."
"Ye Sheng has also drawn his longsword, hey, isn’t that his father Ye Sheng’s Shenghong Sword?"