Chapter 420: Chapter 292: Kongtong Sect’s "Yin Yang Mill"! Nine Yin Scripture’s "Ghost Prison Yin Wind Roar"! _2
But even at its slowest, it couldn’t match the "Kuihua Manual" of "Five-Star Geng Martial".
"Learning ’One-Star Geng Martial’ every day can rapidly solidify my martial arts foundation."
Yan Chuan was full of drive.
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In the blink of an eye, it was already the fourth day of the Sword Discussion.
The arena attack and defense had reached a stalemate, with the layout initially stabilized.
Ding Xiang’s body technique was termed Absolute, and with the third-rank treasure "Eight Diagrams Dragon Whisker Handkerchief" lent by Situ Fei in hand, she firmly held the "Xu Character" arena.
Cai Ru’an relied on the treasure "Five-Colored Stone", with a hundred shots and a hundred hits, making everyone fearful, and firmly held the "Shen Character" arena.
Gongyang Yu relied on the treasure "Binding Rope" to firmly hold the "Chen Character" arena.
Chen Pu relied on the treasure "Fire Dragon Flag" to firmly hold the "Yin Character" arena.
Four arenas!
Four treasures!
Without a method to resolve them for the time being, the four were as stable as Taishan.
Besides this, whether it was arenas occupied by renowned figures like Ban Xianfu, Wei Lingshan, and Situ Fei or those held by top two-list individuals like Tan Dou, Gao Changyi, and Chai Hongshun, they all couldn’t escape contention. Once this tired out the arena masters, the arenas were easily taken over.
The takeovers of these several arenas were frequent.
As for the "Hai Character" arena where Yan Chuan was located, as long as Wang Zhengyi’s "Mirage Pearl" couldn’t be broken and as long as Wang Zhengyi had the energy to activate the "Mirage Pearl", a change of control was impossible.
Until now—
"The only clear way to break the ’Mirage Pearl’ is the ’Wind Gourd’, which Qi Zhicai had put away, keeping his promise to never lend it out in gratitude for Yan Chuan returning the treasure."
"Ying Jifeng’s ’Three Yin Divine Lead Extinguishing Yang Bomb’ also had a high chance of breaking the ’Mirage Pearl’, but this Third Prince was too haughty to use such a treasure in the arena defenses, cutting off his opportunity, a waste of heavenly resources!"
"As for others, like Gongyang Yu’s ’Binding Rope’, Cai Ru’an’s ’Five-Colored Stone’, Ma Hongniang’s ’White Bone Banner’, Chen Pu’s ’Fire Dragon Flag’, and Liu Xin’s ’Chasing God Blade’, they deliberately avoided the ’Hai Character’ arena. It was obvious; even those with treasures were not confident in wielding them properly within the fog of Wang Zhengyi’s ’Mirage Pearl’, unwilling to easily attack the Hai Character arena."
"Ding Xiang, having benefited from Yan Chuan’s guidance, made breakthroughs in her movement technique, becoming Absolute. The ’Eight Diagrams Dragon Whisker Handkerchief’ she received from Situ Fei probably wouldn’t be aimed at Yan Chuan."
"Yan Chuan!"
"Wang Zhengyi!"
"Could it be that no one could overcome these two relying on the ’Mirage Pearl’?"
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Amidst the changing winds of other arenas, the Hai Character arena stood firm and unmoving.
Many wondered when the Hai Character arena would change hands and how the ’Mirage Pearl’ would be resolved.
All eyes were on it!
Everyone was eager!
Finally, as the fourth day of the Sword Discussion approached its end—
"Luo Qi is back!"
"The ’Barefoot Immortal’ returned with a zither!"
"Can this boorish man really play the zither?"
"Hahaha!"
There was a commotion under the arena.
It turned out that the ’Barefoot Immortal’ Luo Qi had returned.
Yan Chuan turned to look when he heard the noise, seeing Luo Qi carrying a seven-stringed zither. It was the first time Yan Chuan had seen Luo Qi since waking up. He had heard that after Luo Qi had his arena taken by the ’Magic Child’ Tan Dou, he retreated, supposedly to recuperate; who would have thought he would return with an ancient zither.
This zither was extraordinary, presumably a treasure.
"Ancient zither!"
"Sound attack?"
"Could it be—"
Yan Chuan had a flash of inspiration and turned to look at Luo Qi. Coincidentally, Luo Qi was also looking at him, their gazes meeting, confirming Yan Chuan’s speculation: "He really is coming for me!"
Sound attack!
Indeed!
To break ’Mirage Pearl’, it didn’t necessarily require a treasure; the sound attack technique was its nemesis.
For example, Yan Chuan.
When he encountered the power of Wang Zhengyi’s ’Mirage Pearl’ at the Jian Province Competition, he preemptively developed the "Lion Roar" to win the final battle.
Now, Luo Qi with this ancient zither was clearly targeting the Hai Character arena, targeting the Mirage Pearl.
Mirage Pearl!
A great danger looms!
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"I kindly request everyone to step aside this round. Luo has traveled day and night to Yanjing to retrieve this ’Ancient Sound of the Primordial World’ zither, intending to break the ’Mirage Pearl’ enveloping this ’Hai Character’ arena!"
Luo Qi placed the ’Ancient Sound of the Primordial World’ zither below the Hai Character arena, saluting the four corners, making no secret that he was here for the ’Mirage Pearl’, for the Hai Character arena.
"Palace Master Yan! Shall we assist?"
The Zhou Family Sisters approached the front of the arena, asking Yan Chuan.
Not just them.
All six other teams from Jian Province also stepped forward: "Professor Yan, feel free to command us."
In terms of arena attack and defense, they certainly couldn’t contribute; their strength was indeed too weak. But, along with the Zhou Family Sisters, a total of seven teams could lower Luo Qi’s odds of being drawn by participating in the Hai Character arena’s drawing.
If Luo Qi was unlucky, he might not get a chance to take the stage before all 21 opportunities to challenge had been exhausted by the Jian Province teams.
Twenty-one matches!
Twenty-one hours!
Nearly two days.
This was a delaying tactic, mostly reliant on luck.
But it was only a temporary fix!
Two days, and Luo Qi would eventually be drawn.
"Thank you all, but it’s unnecessary."
Zither sound?
Sound attack?
Yan Chuan smiled: "Just let him come at me."
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[Task Five]
[Research Project Name: Yin Yang Mill (Difficulty: Geng★)]
[Inspiration: 100]
[Complete the task to gain ’Experience +50,000’, ’Spiritual +50,000’]
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Yan Chuan woke up, conducted a martial arts lecture for a day, and effortlessly completed the development of "Yin Yang Mill."
He initially decided on the next item of ’One-Star Geng Martial’, but upon encountering Luo Qi with the seven-stringed zither attacking the arena, Yan Chuan adapted on the spot, immediately selecting a martial art of the same sound attack type from the backup task for development—
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[Task Five]
[Research Project Name: Ghost Prison Yin Wind Roar (Difficulty: Geng★)]
[Inspiration: 0]
[Complete the task to gain ’Experience +50,000’, ’Spiritual +50,000’]
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"Ghost Prison Yin Wind Roar!"
This is one of the Absolute Skills recorded in the "Nine Yin Scripture", belonging to the superior inner strength, a type of sound wave skill, that harms with sound. Once mastered, it not only harms with sound and snatches the soul but can also deploy Gang Qi with sound, possessing immense power. Its sound is like a hell ghost howl, with chilly Yin Wind, causing retreat without attack, seemingly cold out of fear.
Actually, if Luo Qi attacks with zither sound, Yan Chuan should ideally develop Huang Yaoshi’s "Sea Tide Sound Music" to compete in musical skill.
But Yan Chuan had limited energy; throughout his life of martial arts practice and research into various martial arts, he also had to delve into Daoist Scripture, Buddhist Scripture, and "Zhou Yi" among other texts, leaving no time to study ’sound rhythm’. Therefore, creating the "Sea Waves Raising Song" in sound martial arts was near impossible for him.
"Lion Roar."
"Ghost Prison Yin Wind Roar."
Roaring wildly was doable.
"Sea Waves Raising Song"?
Such elegance!
Like a butcher embroidering, Yan Chuan truly had no idea!
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"I must supplement!"
Although Yan Chuan had a method to counter Luo Qi’s sound martial arts, he realized his own shortcomings, and knew he must address them with supplementary studies. Moreover, he also had to analyze Luo Qi later; it was beneficial to gather additional information on strange martial arts involving sound attack and rhythm.
Therefore, Yan Chuan quickly instructed the substitute, Zhong Hui: "Search around Chess Stone Peak and see if anyone carries music scores or basic books on music rhythm, and ask if they can be borrowed for reading."
Then he instructed Su Ye: "Make a trip to Book Box Peak, go to Lord Tian Jing, Director of the Travelers Department, give my name, and also borrow such books, the more the better!"
"Yes!"
Both responded and got busy!
Wang Zhengyi looked at Yan Chuan, in disbelief: "Last-minute cramming?"
Will it be in time?
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