Chapter 451: Chapter 308: Hanging the ’Peace Token’ High! [Vote for Monthly Pass!]
If not for the Changes of the Golden Stick, it would be beyond human!
If not for the Golden Stick’s force being too fierce!
It’s feared that in the first round, Xin Huan with the stick would have died under Yan Chuan’s sword.
And now—
"Break! Break! Break!"
Yan Chuan continually broke the moves, cleanly, forcing the Golden Stick to bring Xin Huan to retreat step by step, using the arena’s space to exchange for survival space, just hoping to switch to a Spear Technique or Staff Technique that could restrain Yan Chuan’s Swordsmanship, breaking Yan Chuan’s formation-breaking momentum.
Yet, no matter how the Golden Stick changes through the eighteen Martial Arts techniques, Yan Chuan with one sword remains unstoppable!
"It’s over!"
Xin Huan retreated with every step, misstepped, and fell off the stage, his mind filled with immense resentment, unable to hide the decline in momentum.
Golden Stick!
Fierce might showing!
Sadly, it can advance but not retreat, dragged down by its holder, Xin Huan, repeatedly attacked by Yan Chuan who spotted the flaws in the Staff and Spear Techniques, achieving a great victory in one go!
...
"What kind of Swordsmanship is this?"
"How is this possible!"
"This can’t be!"
"Xin Huan’s use of the ’Azure Dragon Spear’ rivals mine, yet was easily broken by Yan Chuan! If it were me up there, would I also be easily broken?"
Gao Changyi and others were shocked beyond belief.
Xin Huan drove the ’Golden Stick’, imitating their Absolute Skill to perfection, almost indistinguishable, with a weighty force, its power under surprise weapon deployment not inferior to themselves.
Yet this heart-directed changes of the eighteen Staff and Spear Techniques were all cleanly broken by Yan Chuan with one sword?
Could Yan Chuan have been pretending to be weak all along?
Further, with Wang Zhengyi and Chen Ze’s transformation and strength nearing absolute, these two were jointly crushed by the ’Golden Stick’, with no power to counterattack.
In other words—
"Yan Chuan can break eighteen families of Spear and Staff Techniques, can break the ’Golden Stick’, and also suppress Wang Zhengyi and Chen Ze alone?"
"Could Yan Chuan be considered absolute?"
Upon this thought, Yan Chuan’s hidden strength is indeed too strong.
At Chess Stone Peak, regardless of the original holders of the eighteen Staff and Spear Techniques broken by Yan Chuan, or the spectators watching around, everyone was stunned by Yan Chuan’s Swordsmanship.
But in the sky, some among the Innate Grandmasters saw more—
"This Swordsmanship seems similar to what he used against Zhuge Zhen’s ’Centipede Bee Bag’ among the Centipede Bee Group before, but every sword move is different, with differences."
Hui Zhenzi, upon seeing Yan Chuan perform the ’Gun Breaking Form’, instantly thought of Yan Chuan’s earlier fleeting ’Arrow Breaking Style’, both Swordsmanships originating from the ’Dugu Nine Swords’, naturally similar in style, same lineage and origin.
But upon careful thought, there’s a difference.
The reason it gives a similar style and origin feeling is due to the same brilliance, the same—
"Purely offensive, no defense!"
Huang Wuniang, fond of the sword, upon seeing Yan Chuan’s twice deviation from the proper path, to the extreme Swordsmanship, instinctively compared, pondered, and finally discovered its peculiarity: "Whether before or this time, in Yan Chuan’s two sword techniques, all the changes are attacking moves, purely offensive without defense!"
Swordsmanship purely offensive without defense?
This is too dangerous, with a very low margin for error.
"All advance, no retreat!"
"Every move is an attack, forcing the enemy to defend, thus there’s no need for self-defense."
Hui Zhenzi, stroking his beard, chuckled: "Yan Chuan has absolute confidence in his Swordsmanship, otherwise he wouldn’t dare to use such techniques."
Qian Lingyi, without further comment on Yan Chuan this time, was engrossed in Yan Chuan’s recent Swordsmanship, a fleeting glimpse, causing a flash of inspiration: "Nothing is done without being possible, beyond doing, beyond entering, utterly forgetting all changes, it’s irrelevant, the more thoroughly forgetting during combat, the less constrained by original Swordsmanship."
This is—
"This is—"
A flash of lightning crossed Qian Lingyi’s mind, splitting Chaos, bringing him inspiration, his ingenuity flourishing in an instant, finally comprehending a higher layer of the Swordsmanship’s profound meaning—
"No Move beats a move!"
...
Qian Lingyi’s expression unchanged, yet in his heart continually developing all the changes in Yan Chuan’s sword moves and breaks, to prove his own understanding.
Meanwhile in the sky, all the Grandmasters still analyzed Yan Chuan’s Swordsmanship.
"The ’Golden Stick’ can suppress Wang Zhengyi and Chen Ze jointly, yet was broken by Yan Chuan, what tier does Yan Chuan’s strength fall to with this Swordsmanship?"
Deng Kunlun was bewildered!
Previously it was commonly acknowledged that Yan Chuan’s frontal combat couldn’t match the breakthrough Wang Zhengyi, perhaps even Chen Ze was better, purely relying on the ’Wave Riding Micro Steps’ to dodge and avoid battle, thus maintaining his position on the arena under the hands of peak masters like Ying Jifeng.
But in this battle.
The ’Golden Stick’ which suppressed Wang Zhengyi and Chen Ze was broken by Yan Chuan!
Is Yan Chuan’s direct combat capability actually surpassing Wang Zhengyi, surpassing Zhengyi, reaching the level of absolute, possibly even more absolute than absolute?
How strong would that be?
"No, no, no!"
"Yan Chuan isn’t that strong!"
Hui Zhenzi shook his head, seeing clearly, thinking clearly: "The truly strong aspect is that Swordsmanship, strong in preemptively anticipating the enemy. Yan Chuan is extremely familiar with each family’s Spear and Staff Techniques, no matter how the ’Golden Stick’s paths varied, it’s all within his expectations, able to observe cracks in the opponent’s moves, then attack in the gap, with one decisive move."
Huang Wuniang also noticed the clues: "Not only that, recalling Yan Chuan’s endless sword moves, each change unseen before, he dared not linger even briefly, his own Qi Power and Inner Strength were not as strong as Xin Huan’s ’Golden Stick’, any moment of pause for the stick’s giant power to strike would result in instant death. Therefore, Yan Chuan mustered all his breath, in one fell swoop knocked the opponent and ’Golden Stick’ off the stage. If there were even the smallest pause, Yan Chuan’s momentum would break, immediately defeated, even more completely than Wang Zhengyi, more thoroughly than Chen Ze!"