One dark green, one silver white.
Two figures crossed on the platform like meteors.
"Clang—"
Under the sound of metal collision, sparks flew between the Seven Kill Sword and the Terror Claws. The rampaging sharp light directly tore through the air, causing air currents to spread in all directions.
"In a direct clash, you're no match for me."
A deep, muffled voice came from Qian Yuan's mouth.
Just as his bear palm was about to press down hard, "I know."
Wrist sinking, the Seven Kill Sword in his hand skillfully slipped out of the bear palm's pressure. With a withdrawal of force, Qian Yuan's body couldn't help but stagger.
And Chen Junting's figure disappeared from the spot.
Immediately after, a Seven Kill Sword wreathed in four different killing auras suddenly descended fiercely and silently from beside Qian Yuan!
"Swish—"
A blood line cut across, his body actually being torn open!
"So fast, so sharp..."
Before Qian Yuan could finish speaking, his expression suddenly changed. Because he felt a pressure from his bloodline, causing his martial soul to undergo obvious changes. It seemed to be...
Afraid!
His gaze swept over sharply, locking onto Chen Junting's left hand.
It turned out that at the moment of attack, Chen Junting had already extended his Dark Gold Terror Claw. With his cultivation growth, the current Dark Gold Terror Claw was no less than an external soul bone of thousand-year age. In other words, it carried the pressure of a thousand-year Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear.
As the overlord of bears, the king of bear species.
The Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear had immense pressure and suppression power over any bear-type soul beasts and bear-type martial soul soul masters.
Qian Yuan's current situation was exactly like this.
"This is a soul bone from a Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear!"
"Do you want to experience it?"
Left hand suddenly clenched, a Seven Kill Sword made of soul power was instantly grasped by Chen Junting. Dark golden light wreathed the sword body, transforming into a majestic dark golden dragon.
With sword wings flying, a sword shot straight out!
"Swish—"
Under the suppression of the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear's momentum, even though Qian Yuan blocked with all his strength, the leaping Seven Kill Sword like a dark golden dragon pierced straight into Qian Yuan's chest, sinking into his body.
Scalding blood seeped from the pierced wound.
The chilling killing intent spread from the flesh of the wound, drilling into Qian Yuan's body, continuously invading his frame.
At this moment, defeat was already decided.
After Cheng Gang announced the match result, the first words Qian Yuan said when the Douling team helped him off the stage were to Gu Zhujian.
"Captain, I've let you down."
"No, this isn't your fault."
Gu Zhujian slowly shook his head, looking at the fighting platform.
From the beginning, Gu Zhujian hadn't harbored any underestimation.
Because in the team battle, Chen Junting's performance was no less than any Soul King from Shrek's main team, and might even have surpassed them. Now Qian Yuan had also directly run into the gun barrel because of his Terror Claw Bear martial soul, so losing this match seemed completely normal to him.
He saw Gu Zhujian step forward, then leap up.
"The next match, I'll be your opponent."
Chen Junting stood with his sword planted, battle intent flowing in his eyes.
"With pleasure."
Under the referee's command, both sides retreated to their respective halves. With a "Match begin," both sides released their martial souls, and the battle instantly erupted!
Chen Junting's toes lightly tapped, like a drawn sword, charging toward Gu Zhujian's direction, a sword suddenly swung down!
"Ding!"
Gu Zhujian raised his right hand with the Purple Brilliance Bamboo, a staff swing blocking the sword aura that flashed instantly.
Then he reversed his hand and swung, accurately striking out.
Soul power transformed into a light whip, lashing out at Chen Junting. Then the Purple Brilliance Bamboo in his hand turned, and he thrust it into the ground.
"Fourth soul skill, Illusory Purple Bamboo Array!"
The moment Chen Junting slashed the light whip away, bulges appeared on the ground at the center of the fighting platform. The next second, countless Purple Brilliance Bamboos broke through the ground, turning the center of the fighting platform into a purple bamboo forest. The two figures were surrounded by the bamboo forest, and all the spectators on the viewing stands could only see sword light and bamboo shadows intertwining within the forest.
In the dense purple bamboo forest, mist suddenly spread.
Human perception was also obscured.
Just as Chen Junting looked around, a sound of wind breaking suddenly appeared, seemingly attacking from all directions. Almost instantly, alarm bells rang in his mind, and he tilted his head to the side.
A purple bamboo appeared without warning, suddenly attacking!
"Swish—"
The purple bamboo brushed past Chen Junting's neck, bringing up a drop of blood that shot straight into the ground, yet making no sound at all.
Without hesitation, several sword strikes followed!
Purple bamboo broke through the ground one after another, their sharp tops like spears, as if wanting to poke several holes in Chen Junting's body.
Sword shadows fell, the attacking purple bamboos were cut inch by inch.
They saw Chen Junting shuttling through the bamboo forest, but the purple bamboo in the forest seemed to come alive, constantly attacking Chen Junting.
With a graceful figure, the sword light of the Seven Kill Sword flashed like lightning. Each swing brought up a wave of sword aura, cutting down the purple bamboo one by one.
Seeing this, Gu Zhujian hidden in the shadows immediately intensified his attack. The purple bamboos transformed into Purple Brilliance Bamboos, their attacks becoming even more fierce. Chen Junting's figure continuously moved through the bamboo forest, sword light flashing. Wherever his sword tip reached, the Purple Brilliance Bamboos broke one after another. Chen Junting's sword skills became faster and faster, the sword light almost forming a sword net, blocking all of the Purple Brilliance Bamboo's attacks.
Suddenly, his gaze locked onto a position.
"Found you!"
With a loud shout, six sword auras fiercely slashed out!
A "kill" character shot straight to the sky, Purple Brilliance Bamboos falling wherever it passed. At the end of the "kill" character, it was unmistakably Gu Zhujian.
Seeing this, Gu Zhujian's body turned, the Purple Brilliance Bamboo transforming into a purple storm, attacking toward Chen Junting. But Chen Junting lightly tapped on a bamboo pole with his toes, his figure rapidly retreating, avoiding the attack.
Then he reversed his hand and thrust!
"Hum—"
The sword body suddenly emitted a brilliant sword light. Under the purple light's reflection, the Seven Kill Sword shot toward Gu Zhujian like lightning, before Gu Zhujian could even react.
Gu Zhujian's figure swayed, trying to dodge. But under the speed enhancement of the flying sword wings, the sword tip struck his arm.
For a moment, Gu Zhujian's arm was torn open, flesh splitting.
His figure paused, his expression slightly changing.
But Chen Junting quickly closed in, stepping on purple bamboo and swiftly attacking. The Seven Kill Sword continuously swung, its sword light seeming to transform into illusions, cutting down each Purple Brilliance Bamboo that Gu Zhujian sent forth.
Sensing the situation was bad, Gu Zhujian wanted to retreat violently.
But the ever-prepared Chen Junting directly took out a soul guide device from his storage soul guide device. The moment he threw it upward, several curved beams of light shot out from the side of the device, falling from above to the ground, directly forming a cage.
Trapping the two of them directly inside.
At the same time, Chen Junting's Seven Kill Sword had already locked onto Gu Zhujian, each sword swing forcing him to respond.
Thus...
"Third soul skill, Momentum Like Breaking Bamboo!"
Illusory purple-golden light tore through the air. Gu Zhujian, holding the spear-like Purple Brilliance Bamboo, arrived before Chen Junting.
At this moment, his momentum climbed to its peak!
Seeing this, Chen Junting's expression turned slightly grave.
The next second, the clear blue light of the Seven Kill Sword gradually faded, the sword body turning silver-white instead, its sharpness greatly increasing.
Before Gu Zhujian could notice the change, Chen Junting's wrist moved slightly. Cold light flashed on the Seven Kill Sword. Without using any soul skill, just a light touch of the sword tip, the tip of the Seven Kill Sword blocked the path of Gu Zhujian's Purple Brilliance Bamboo.
"Hum—"
Accompanied by trembling hums, a strange scene appeared—the powerful Purple Brilliance Bamboo was actually split in half by that single sword strike, transforming into two beams of golden light that instantly slid past Chen Junting's sides.
Gu Zhujian suffered backlash from his broken soul skill, his whole body stumbling forward a step, his ruddy complexion inevitably turning several shades paler.
But what shocked him even more, was how easily his soul skill had been broken.
And also that as a Soul Ancestor, his total soul power and recovery speed actually surpassed his own as a Soul King.
These two points undoubtedly made Gu Zhujian's heart sink.
He knew he couldn't continue like this.
If this turned into a prolonged battle, he feared he would surely lose.
So he took a deep breath, the Purple Brilliance Bamboo in his hand suddenly emitting a purple light, enveloping the entire purple bamboo forest.
Fifth soul skill, Ten Thousand Bamboos Reaching Clouds!
Terrifying momentum directly broke open the soul guide device cage.
Feeling the surging soul power, Chen Junting knew the time had come. So the Seven Kill Sword pointed straight to the sky, black light flashing past.
Fourth soul skill, Sword Domain Torrent!
In the sky above, the sword gate opened wide!
Countless sword rains poured down. Under Chen Junting's control, the rain gathered into a river, surging toward the greatly empowered purple bamboo forest.
At the same time, a soul guide device with multiple barrels, shaped like a turret, was placed on the ground by Chen Junting. After injecting a large amount of soul power into it, beams of soul guide light instantly erupted!
In an instant, the entire purple bamboo forest was covered!
"Boom boom boom..."
When the dust settled, the purple bamboo forest had been completely devastated. The figures of Chen Junting and Gu Zhujian appeared once again before all the spectators.
However, compared to the beginning, they now looked much more disheveled.
But their battle had not ended.
Just as Gu Zhujian wanted to continue attacking, Chen Junting suddenly swung the Seven Kill Sword in his hand. But compared to the previous sword aura's sharpness, this sword gave Gu Zhujian a feeling of sorrow.
Then, Gu Zhujian lost himself before everyone's eyes.
By the time he felt a cold chill at his neck, he snapped back to reality, only to find the Seven Kill Sword already resting on his neck.
What came into view was Chen Junting's face.
"You've lost too."
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