“Humph! How overconfident. Don’t bite off more than you can chew!” Ouyang Ziyun flipped his wrist and a three foot long purple-red sword appeared in his hands. This was a high-grade human-step treasure.
True essence flooded the blade, and the purple-red sword began to turn the color of bleached bone. Ouyang Ziyun’s sword cut out, and noise of crying ghosts sounded out as his blade met Long Yun’s spear.
Peng!
As spear and sword crossed, a wave of true essence raged out, directly tossing aside several tables. Long Yun shuddered; he had felt a Yin cold drill into his body like a poisonous serpent. His right hand that held his spear instantly lost all feeling, as if it wasn’t his own.
Long Yun took a few steps, his face pale. Ouyang Ziyun was still quietly sitting there – not even the table behind him had been impacted in the least.
“Big Brother.”
“Senior-apprentice Brother.”
The two young men and the girl behind Long Yun hurried over to support him. However, as soon as they touched Long Yun, they instantly felt a chilling cold and were frightened.
Lin Ming had been watching everything from the side. What Ouyang Ziyun had used was the Life Severing Dead Bone Blade. He had personally experienced this technique from the hands of Zhang Guanyu and Ouyang Dihua.
Ouyang Ziyun had a lower cultivation and his true essence was less thick than Ouyang Dihua’s; but, in terms of controlling the strength of the Life Severing Dead Bone Blade, he was much more skillful than Ouyang Dihua.
“This Ouyang Ziyun, although his cultivation isn’t at the Pulse Condensation Period, his ‘Divine Acacia Power’ is at a higher level than Ouyang Dihua’s. He should be considered a genius who has his own pride.
Ouyang Ziyun laughed, “You can’t even take my sword? Those that come out from the 16 martial families are nothing but waste!”
“I think that your 16 families and 36 countries should hold their own Martial Meeting, and not come to the Seven Profound Valleys’ to embarrass yourselves. Otherwise, later you might not even be able to cross the mountain gate! You would all be a joke!”
“Haha, well said Brother Ouyang. This bunch of rat shits really ruin the soup pot. The Total Faction has raised their age limit to 22, and also lowered the threshold as far as possible. They have more than 200 people that come, and yet only little more than 70 can pass the mountain gate! With such a great effort, they came hundreds of thousands of miles here and still can’t pass through the gate, isn’t that just too funny?”
Listening to these unscrupulous people mocking him, Long Yun burned with anger. He gave a loud shout, and true essence surged within his body. His face turned a strange purple red, and a large crack appeared in the floor beneath his feet. Even the walls began to faintly tremble.
“Die!”
Long Yun’s figure blurred, and he rushed like a phantom towards Ouyang Ziyun. With both hands on his spear, he smashed downwards. A shining bloody light burst out from Long Yun just like a rising red sun; apparently, this was his ultimate ability.
Ouyang Ziyun’s eyes revealed an imposing color for the first time. He bit the top of his tongue and spat out a mouthful of blood that covered the blade of his sword. The cold and shining sword, after absorbing the blood, turned a dangerous blood-red.
“Soul Severing Blood Skull!”
Ouyang Ziyun gave a piercing roar as if his heart and lungs were being ripped out. A chilly wind blew through the entire restaurant, and vitality seemed to drain from the air. A red skull shot out from the blade of the sword, swiftly rushing towards Long Yun!
The skull opened its massive mouth. Long Yun shouted and thrust his spear directly into the bloody skull’s jaws. True essence erupted outwards. However, afterwards the blood skull actually swallowed all of Long Yun’s true essence and inflated like a balloon, then bit down on Long Yun’s shoulder!
“Ah—!”
Long Yun miserably screamed. It felt as if all of the blood vitality throughout his body was being drawn out by this blood skill. His right arm that was bitten by the bloody skull began to visibly wither, and that bloody skull which was absorbing his blood essence grew more and more red as if it were dripping blood.
“Big Brother!”
“Senior-apprentice Brother!”
The girl that was with Long Yun cried out. Obviously, the feelings she had towards Long Yun were very deep. Their relationship probably wasn’t as simple as apprentice brother and sister.
Ouyang Ziyun saw the girl’s reaction and a deviant light shined in his eyes. He wiped his mouth of blood, true essence restlessly roiling in his body. He paid a large price to use the Soul Severing Blood Skill. Without several days of time, he wouldn’t be restored to his peak condition.