Chapter 1134: Swordplay or Shamelessness?
Facing the crowd treating him like this, Jiang Yifan sat on the sofa, took a deep drag of his cigar, and the faint smoke came out from his nostrils. He gazed at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle and slowly spoke: "Ah, once upon a time, I too was surrounded by people, once upon a time I had many fans too, but now... I’ve been overshadowed by a young lad."
"Cough." Liu Zixuan cleared his throat: "Uncle Jiang, the new waves will push the old, as they say, always pushing the old waves onto the sand. According to you, when you were in your prime, maybe I wasn’t even born yet!"
Jiang Yifan put down his cigar, suddenly looked up: "Liu Zixuan, I want a sword duel with you!"
"Compete in shamelessness?" Liu Zixuan raised his eyebrows: "Finished competing in shamelessness, now starting to compete in worthlessness?"
"Does sword fighting have anything to do with shamelessness?" Jiang Yifan asked with a solemn face.
Liu Zixuan scratched his head and looked at Jiang Yiyi beside him: "Shamelessness and worthlessness seem not so different!"
"Uh..." Jiang Yiyi frowned: "Dad, which ’worthlessness’ are you talking about?"
"Which ’sword’ could you possibly compete with!" Jiang Yifan grumbled irritably.
"I think Brother Fan might be talking about being worthless!" Monkey grinned playfully.
"Give up, I’m talking about the sword of the Golden Sword and Silver Sword!"
"Whoa, Uncle Jiang, your daughter is right here, competing in smut isn’t very appropriate!" Liu Zixuan said with an innocent face.
Jiang Yifan was really infuriated by these people, such a serious person, would he compete in such lowly things?
He was too lazy to explain anything further, pulled Liu Zixuan straight towards the backyard, stood on the open ground, and grabbed into the air, directly summoning a Soft Sword into his hand: "Get out your Nameless Sword!"
"So it’s this sword!" Liu Zixuan shrugged with a smile: "Seems I’ve misunderstood Uncle Jiang!"
"Scram, hurry and show your sword!" Jiang Yifan cursed.
Liu Zixuan shook his head: "I didn’t bring my sword, if we really are going to duel, how about borrowing one?"
"Damn it, a big battle is imminent, and you didn’t bring a sword!" Jiang Yifan cursed and shouted towards Monkey: "Give him a sword!"
"Got it!" Monkey, upon hearing that these two shameless ancestors were going to fight, couldn’t be more thrilled, ran to the side, and directly retrieved a sword to hand to Liu Zixuan: "This was bought early from an auction, you mustn’t ruin it for me, cost me eight thousand bucks!"
Liu Zixuan’s forehead immediately had a few black lines: "Eight thousand bucks, what kind of good sword could that be?"
"Looks nice." Monkey was just about to continue talking about this sword when he suddenly saw Jiang Yifan already attacking with the sword, quickly controlled his movement and retreated back.
He patted his chest: "My goodness, Brother Fan is really fired up today!"
Dang!
At the moment of drawing swords, Liu Zixuan blocked Jiang Yifan’s first blow!
Jiang Yifan slowly moved his steps, seemingly extremely slow, but the distance of more than ten meters was closed within a half breath, the sword’s edge paused, and a void sword intent swept through.
Feeling that void sword intent, Liu Zixuan’s pupils suddenly shrank, instantly feeling a suffocating sense of Taiyue pressing down.
At this moment, he clearly felt Jiang Yifan’s sword seemed different from any sword he had seen wielded by other sword masters.
Take the people from the Profound Sword Sect for instance, Sword Venerable Ling Xiao’s sword is primarily fierce, with a vast sense of slaughter.
And the Great Elder of Profound Sword Sect’s sword was a kind of softness, within the softness there was a penetrative force like silver thread.
But Jiang Yifan, his swordsmanship is casual, sword intent void, when arriving next to Liu Zixuan, that casualness, voidness, turned into a kind of indescribable heaviness.
In other words, the attack issued and the sword body’s sword intent are in complete opposition.
In a moment of realization, Liu Zixuan hurriedly manipulated his long sword to defend, but when extending his hand, he was pressed down fiercely by that void sword intent.
At this instant, he felt as if there was a large mountain pressing down on the sword in his hand, causing his arm to tremble.
"Can’t even bear this amount of weight?" Jiang Yifan remarked with meaningful laughter.
Liu Zixuan raised his eyebrows, sword intent? Gravity?
Immediately, he turned the power of the Dragon Vein within his Dantian, channeling it into his arm, a dragon roar suddenly emerged, violently repelling Jiang Yifan’s attack.
"Resorting to the power of Dragon Vein to handle a single sword intent, I’ve lost respect for you!" Jiang Yifan cursed.
Liu Zixuan furrowed his brow: "What do you mean by sword intent and gravity?"
"Watch this sword!"
Jiang Yifan did not elaborate further, paused his steps, and executed another set of swordsmanship, starkly opposite to before, his figure swayed, sword edged fiercely, sword intent soaring, seemingly provoking a dragon to turn at the sword’s tip, suddenly launching an attack directly at Liu Zixuan.
However, the attack became increasingly void within these several meters, near his face, it almost dissipated.
Yet Liu Zixuan felt a powerful aura approaching head-on.
Not daring to hesitate or slack, he hurriedly manipulated his figure to retreat backward, while dodging, the attack struck a nearby large tree.
An enormous tree that could not be hugged broke in half instantly!
What kind of power is this!
Liu Zixuan was increasingly puzzled, if the previous strike was converting gravity into sword intent, then what about this attack? Clearly appeared as extremely sharp sword techniques, yet during the attack, it transformed into void, unleashing a force even stronger than before.
Jiang Yifan laughed: "A sword, is a weapon, sword techniques are cultivation techniques, as for sword intent, whether heavy or sharp, are all attacks under your manipulation. Then tell me, when using a weapon to perform cultivation technique to attack an opponent, what’s the purpose?"
Liu Zixuan hesitated for a moment: "Naturally, to defeat the enemy!"
"That’s right, since it’s to defeat the enemy, then using a hundred sets of sword techniques to kill versus one move, which is more satisfying?"
"Naturally, defeating in one move!" Liu Zixuan answered.
"So do you understand now?" Jiang Yifan asked with meaningful laughter.
Liu Zixuan suddenly understood, like enlightenment.
Jiang Yifan’s duel with him held deeper meaning, and these two moves also carried deeper meaning.
Previously, Elder Qing had mentioned, Innate Emperor Realm Third Layer, is the momentum of double nine merging into one, meaning all techniques, cultivation techniques will converge into one, even possessing the Power of the Five Elements or Special Power, hence many Innate Emperor Realm Third Layer experts could conceal their aura, appearing as a normal person to outsiders.
Just waiting for all cultivation techniques to unify then train to the peak, is that mysterious realm!
And this, is Jiang Yifan’s guidance to Liu Zixuan, the reason Liu Zixuan outwardly appeared as Innate Emperor Realm Second Heaven, is because he hadn’t grasped the true meaning of double nine merging into one.
His strength is enough, but his inner state isn’t, missing this step naturally makes it difficult to fathom that mysterious realm.