Chapter 228 – Heavenly Mandarin Sword

Today, was the tenth day of the qualifying battle.

Early in the morning, the sky has not yet brightened, the fifth to eighth place qualifying battle has been unfolded on the sword discussion platform, participating in the battle Ling Feiyu, Water Wushuang, Xiao Bershou Lei, Burning Jiebi, although they are all losers of yesterday’s eight-position battle, but can enter the eight-position battle, they are already today’s younger generation of deservedly supreme geniuses.

Although Xiao Maniac Lei was cut by Xia Qingyue yesterday with thirty-three swords, but they were all very shallow external injuries, and collapsed on the spot only because his meridians were sealed by ice, so today there is basically no big problem, but Burning Jiebi, however, lost his own blood yesterday, and because of the despicable sneak attack, he was seriously injured by Yun Che, so he didn’t take part in the battle of the fifth to the eighth position today, and even if he was intact, he was also not an opponent to the other three, so whether or not he participated in the battle didn’t affect the result in the least, but it also preserved him to a certain extent. Whether or not he participated did not affect the outcome in the slightest, and to a certain extent, it also preserved the last vestige of his face.

Due to the absence of the burning wall, the original four matches were compressed into three. In the first match, Shui Wushuang defeated Xiao Maniac Lei, in the second match, Shui Wushuang defeated Ling Feiyu with great difficulty, and in the third match, Ling Feiyu defeated Xiao Maniac Lei.

At this point, Shui Wushuang’s personal ranking was fifth, Ling Feiyu’s personal ranking was sixth, Xiao Maniac Lei’s personal ranking was seventh, and Burning Jade Cliff’s personal ranking was eighth, and the power rankings of the Xiao Sect and Burning Sky Sect had also been decided ahead of time……. The Xiao Sect was ranked fourth, and the Burning Sky Sect was ranked fifth, and it was the first time that they had fallen out of the top four for hundreds of years.

The fundamental reason for this was Yun Che’s emergence as a super dark horse.

The sky was slightly fluffy with white clouds, and it was only nine o’clock when the qualifying battle for the fifth to eighth positions ended. The daylight in the morning was somewhat feeble, but the excitement of everyone on the Sword Controversy Stage was even higher, because the semi-finals of this qualifying battle had finally arrived.

Before the qualifying battle, there had long been many people predicting the final ranking of this qualifying battle, Ling Yun’s name had already shaken the world, his first position was undisputed, under Ling Yun, there were many different versions of speculation, but also basically centered around a fixed number of people …… Ice Cloud Immortal Palace’s Shui Wushuang and Mai Xuexin, Heavenly Sword Villa’s Ling Feiyu, Burning Ashes of the Burning Heavenly Sect, and Xiao Xiao’s Scholarship of the Burning Heavenly Sect, all of which were in the final. Burning Ashes of the Heavenly Sect, and Xiao Berserk Thunder of the Xiao Sect ……

However, of the four people who entered the top four positions, apart from Ling Yun, none of the other three were expected, and none of them were core disciples of the sect that they I had been informed of a long time ago, and not many people even knew their names, and even Ling Jie, who only had the name of being the son of the Heavenly Sword Villa’s Villa Master, no one had ever thought that he would have the strength that would make Ling Feiyu concede defeat without a fight… …After all, his age was simply too young, and everyone assumed that he had come to participate in the battle merely for the sake of practicing.

What was even more astonishing was that apart from Ling Yun, the other three were only seventeen years old at the oldest.

This was an unprecedented first in the history of the qualifying battle!

In the second match of the semi-finals, Ling Yun’s match against Xia Qingyue had a predetermined outcome in everyone’s eyes, and even if Xia Qingyue was even more talented, it was impossible for her to create a second outcome. Thus, what attracted the most attention was the first match between Yun Che and Ling Jie.

A person who had killed his way into the top four at the True Xuan Realm’s Xuan Power, and a person who had killed his way into the top four at the age of sixteen, whichever one of them had created an incomparably astonishing precedent, it was not an exaggeration to say that the two people, both of them, were super geniuses that were rarely encountered in hundreds of years.

After yesterday’s battle between Yun Che and Burning Jabi, no one dared to easily make the judgment that he would lose to Ling Jie. When he fought against Burning Jade Wall, although he had first revealed his shocking true strength, it still didn’t seem to be his full strength, whereas Ling Jie was able to make Ling Feiyu directly admit defeat, proving that he hadn’t even displayed his true strength since the beginning.

This was undoubtedly a historic duel full of suspense – a duel between the lowest Xuan power and the youngest age in the history of the qualifying battle!

Yun Che stood on the Sword Argument Stage early, and then, Ling Jie also walked up slowly, standing in front of Yun Che at a distance of twenty feet, and playfully greeting him, “Hey, Boss, good morning.”

Ling Jie’s voice wasn’t loud, but it was enough to be heard by Ling Wulin. He was just about to prepare to announce the names of the two sides and the forces they belonged to when at first he heard Ling Jie address Yun Che, his entire body shook and his legs went limp, barely missing one knee on the ground.

“Phew! You still know that you should call me Boss ah, I thought you’d disown me.” Yun Che clasped his hands on his chest and smirked.

Ling Jie turned his nose up and said with a spirited voice, “I, Ling Jie, am a real man, I say what I say and never go back on my words, it’s only a dog bear that would renege on a debt.”

“Is that so?” Yun Che looked at him with contempt, “I’ve been living in the mountain villa for more than ten days, and you, as a junior brother, actually didn’t even visit once. This junior brother of yours is also too incompetent, right?”

“Eh …… “Ling Jie glared, his voice also lowered, and said in a small, noisy voice, “I ……I but I want to go, but big brother said that the impact of that would be bad, it really doesn’t concern me.”

Knowing that he quickly changed the topic, he raised his head and said, “But boss, you really didn’t let me down. When all those people laughed at you in the beginning, I knew that you would definitely make them regret it. Hehehe, as expected from me, Ling Jie, can someone who can make me have to admit defeat as a junior be an ordinary person?

“Hm? Chance?”

“Yeah yeah yeah!” Ling Jie grinned, “Even though I’m not at all badgering you for calling you boss, there’s still that little bit of insubordination in my heart, after all, you only caught three of my swords in the first place, it’s not like you defeated me. To be the boss, at the very least, you should be more powerful than your little brother, isn’t it?”

“So?” Yun Che tapped his chin with his hand and smiled faintly.

Ling Jie reached out and wiped his hand on his spatial ring, picking up a sword case carved out of white jade……. That’s right, it was a white jade sword case, not the Earthly Xuan Sword that he had been using in the previous matches. Hands caressed on top of the polished sword case, Ling Jie’s smile began to take on a sharpness that made it difficult for people to look at him: ”If I can enter tomorrow’s match, I will never be big brother’s opponent, so in this battle, I will completely use my best efforts! Let everyone in the world remember my Ling Jie’s demeanor! If you want me, Ling Jie, to willingly be your little brother, then defeat me at full strength on this Sword Discussion Stage! If you defeat me, you will be my boss from now on, if you lose …… well, I can consider taking you as a little brother oh.”

“Good!!!” Yun Che directly nodded his head, and his eyes also became grave and serious: “If I can’t even defeat you, I certainly don’t have the qualifications to be your boss. Since that’s the case, come out with your sword, I’ll show you your true strength!”

Ling Jie’s hand gently made a mistake, the white jade sword box was opened, and with the flash of an orange light, a slender sword that was orange and yellow in color and about five feet and five inches long flew into Ling Jie’s hand.

Clang ……

The orange sword was now dusty, suddenly spontaneously released a long sword sound, a sword momentum also quietly spread out, the sword momentum was not strong, nor harsh, but with an incomparably amazing penetration, in just two breaths of time, it completely covered the entire Sword Discussion Stage, and everyone sitting at the edge of the Sword Discussion Stage felt a gentle sword momentum quietly enveloping them, making their minds and gazes inexplicably pulled under the couldn’t help but focus on that orange colored sword. If one looked closely, one would notice that the space around the orange sword was slowly distorting in small increments.

“What kind of sword power is this? It’s simply unheard of… …… Wait a minute! The orange sword, could it be ……”

“Heavenly Mandarin Sword!!!”

“That’s right! It is indeed the Heavenly Mandarin Sword, one of the three Heavenly Xuan Divine Swords of the Heavenly Sword Villa! It is said that Ling Yun conquered the Heavenly Mandarin Sword at the age of seventeen… He is only sixteen, and he has actually subdued the Heavenly Mandarin Sword!”

“Heavenly Sword Villa is truly full of geniuses, Ling Yun is already a stunning talent, but I didn’t expect that Ling Jie would be even better! For Ling Yuefeng to have two sons like this, it’s enough to comfort his life.”

“It seems that in this battle, if Yun Che wants to defeat Ling Jie, who can manage the Heavenly Mandarin Sword, it is basically impossible.”

Yun Che had not heard of the Heavenly Mandarin Sword, but when the Heavenly Mandarin Sword was revealed, Yun Che sensed its absolutely extraordinary and astonishing sword power, and the flurry of murmurs around him that were filled with deep astonishment also made him understand even more about the extraordinary nature of this sword. Without a doubt, this was a Heavenly Xuan Sword that had shaken the heavens!

This qualifying battle also finally saw the appearance of a Heavenly Xuan weapon for the first time!

With the Tian Yuanyuan Sword in his hand, Ling Jie’s entire aura also abruptly changed, his entire body seemed to have transformed into a sword, his entire body swirling with an overriding sword aura, and his eyes no longer had any trace of playfulness, but instead, they were releasing a sharp and cold aura that was like that of a sharp sword.

Yun Che took half a step back, and with a swing of his right hand, the thick, heavy, and bladeless Overlord Giant Sword descended from the sky, and with a loud boom, it stood in front of him, with half of the sword body sinking deeply under the ground. Yun Che grasped the hilt of the sword with both hands, and with a slight force, the Overlord Giant Sword whistled up in the midst of the flying debris, and its mountainous, heavy and domineering aura rushed straight at Ling Jie.

But the Overlord Giant Sword is after all only an Earth Xuan Artifact, and the Heavenly Mandarin Sword has a gap in realm and level, its domineering aura did not suppress the Heavenly Mandarin Sword’s aura by much, but instead was sliced apart by the Heavenly Mandarin Sword’s gentle sword aura.

The difference between a Heavenly Xuan Artifact and an Earthly Xuan Artifact was like steel versus grass, above the weapon, Yun Che was at an absolute disadvantage. However, his aura was not weakened, and with a swing of his heavy sword, the wind whistled, “Come on.”

“Battle of the Four Ranks Game 1: Cangfeng Royal Family Yun Che versus Heavenly Sword Villa’s Ling Jie …… Battle Begins!!!”

“Not only did Jie’er directly light up the Heavenly Mandarin Sword, but even then he didn’t half slacken on his aura, it looks like he’s placing a lot of importance on this battle with Yun Che.” Ling Yuefeng looked at the two people on the sword discussion stage and slowly said.

“Hmm.” Ling Yun nodded, “After all, Yun Che is the only person that Xiao Jie has truly convinced his heart in this world besides me. Half a year ago, Yun Che used his True Xuan Realm Level 3 Xuan power to block Xiao Jie’s three swords, causing him to be greatly impressed and continuously chanting for a long time, but at that time, Yun Che’s overall strength was far inferior to Xiao Jie’s. During these half a year, Xiao Jie’s strength has skyrocketed, and if he was defeated by Yun Che this time around instead, then he should be completely convinced that he …… might even outperform me in terms of degree.”

Ling Yun’s words caused Ling Yuefeng’s brows to twitch, and after silently pondering for a while, he suddenly said, “If that’s the case, in this battle, we must not let Yun Che win. Yun’er, in case Jie’er is at a disadvantage, use the Heavenly Ducks Sword to help him!”

Ling Yuefeng’s words caused Ling Yun to be stunned, then he understood something and gently nodded, “I understand.”