Chapter 179 : Chapter 179
Chapter 179: Are You Coming Back for Dinner?
News of a spectacle spread incredibly fast.
The plaza quickly gathered more and more people.
Li Mu also gave his opponent the respect he deserved. After all, the other party was a Profound Rank expert.
He tilted his head, reached a finger into his ear, and pulled out the Ghostface Cudgel.
The surrounding crowd scattered with a roar, retreating far away.
Only Luan Ziye remained in the field.
Luan Ziye had a tall, slender figure and handsome features. He was born with the face of a novel’s male lead.
He raised his hand slightly, and a simple, ancient-looking longsword immediately flew out of the void.
The instant the longsword fell into his hand, Luan Ziye moved.
The might of a Profound Rank expert erupted. The ground around him trembled slightly the instant he acted.
Every spectator within several dozen meters felt their breathing freeze.
It was as if they had been struck hard by an ultra-powerful subwoofer.
Luan Ziye’s figure traced out afterimage after afterimage. It did not look like power that belonged to a human at all!
When a Martial Artist entered the Profound Rank, there were two major defining traits.
The first was that, after attaining the Profound Realm, their True Qi could trigger various resonances in the surrounding Spiritual Energy.
This was called “Profound Might.”
For someone like Deputy Commander-in-Chief An Xing, the moment he stirred his True Qi even slightly, the surrounding temperature would plummet.
That was the real pressure brought about by Profound Might.
This was also why, when many Profound Rank experts became even slightly angry, it felt as if the entire domain was under their control.
Profound Rank Martial Artists could fly through the air with the help of certain special Cultivation Arts for the same reason: Profound Might.
The second trait was “Profound Transformation.”
Generally, it involved the Profound Transformation of the ability that the Martial Artist relied on most.
It could be any one of the five senses, bodily functions, a Cultivation Art, or a Talent Trait.
Usually, Profound Transformation emerged from a Talent Trait, because a Talent Trait was something outsiders had no way of knowing, and it was often a person’s strongest trump card.
Profound Transformation, combined with Profound Might, along with a bellyful of rage!
Luan Ziye had already been extremely furious that the Wanren Military District had not immediately agreed to him competing for the Head Instructor position.
He had even felt that Wu Tailin bringing people here to “exchange pointers” was unnecessary.
There was no need to give the Wanren Military District a smiling face at all!
Therefore, he did not hold back in the slightest. He sought to defeat Li Mu in one move, and the more miserable Li Mu’s defeat was, the better!
However, Li Mu did not dodge or defend as Luan Ziye had imagined.
Instead, he stood motionless in place.
He watched Luan Ziye’s attack with an interested gaze.
Everyone from the Instructor Department broke into a cold sweat!
Lin Yue in particular instantly clenched the clothes in her hands tightly.
Tang Meiying cursed Luan Ziye inwardly for being an absolute bastard!
He had challenged the Military District’s Head Instructor, which was itself an act of disrespect, even a slight provocation against the Military District’s authority.
Yet he had come in so full of killing intent, showing not the slightest mercy. He was clearly aiming to make the Military District lose all face.
However, in the next instant, a golden “Lin” character suddenly appeared in front of Li Mu.
The Three-Character Dao-Pattern Seal activated, and Luan Ziye’s longsword stabbed fiercely several centimeters into the Lin character.
The next moment, the Lin character shattered, and a “Dou” character blasted out with terrifying power.
Its speed was so fast that there was no way for anyone to react, much less Luan Ziye, whose sword strike had not yet exhausted its force.
However, the instant the Dou character erupted, Luan Ziye actually left an afterimage behind in place, while his entire body flashed sideways to the right!
He was so fast that it was almost teleportation!
Li Mu’s eyes lit up.
Good kid. He came with Flash?
The Dou character missed. After dodging, Luan Ziye actually slashed at Li Mu’s waist and abdomen again.
It was blocked by the Lin-character shield again. The Dou character struck out, and Luan Ziye once again left an afterimage behind while his true body flashed out of thin air.
Every dodge and every attack he made was completely free and effortless!
Luan Ziye could even ignore inertia in the middle of a sword strike and suddenly reverse his slash or evade.
The power was also far from ordinary.
Li Mu roughly understood. Luan Ziye’s Profound Transformation was precisely this kind of “forced flexibility” that ignored all conventional rules.
As a result, one simply could not use common sense to judge the angle of his attacks.
As long as his speed and reactions were faster than yours, then your attacks would never be able to touch him.
In a single short instant, Luan Ziye slashed four consecutive times from the same direction!
This would have been extremely difficult for any Martial Artist. The faster one’s speed, the greater the inertia. Once blocked, one would be rebounded by kinetic force.
But Luan Ziye could ignore that kinetic force.
However, while Luan Ziye was fast, Li Mu’s Dao-Pattern Seals were even faster. Every attack was instantly blocked.
And Li Mu had not moved once from beginning to end.
Luan Ziye was shocked by the terror of Li Mu’s defense. Although his weapon was a sword, and its special effects were not flashy enough, that was precisely what made it terrifying. This simple, ancient-looking longsword was a Rare-Grade Weapon, and its greatest characteristic was returning to simplicity. He had once beheaded a Profound Rank monster with a single slash!
Luan Ziye drifted backward, then slashed out streak after streak of Sword Qi from his original position.
When ordinary people released Sword Qi, they slashed one sword strike at a time.
When Luan Ziye released Sword Qi, the instant each streak flew out, his motion only needed to complete one-third of its path before he could leave an afterimage behind and slash the next strike.
At first glance, without exaggeration, he looked like he was convulsing in place.
It was somewhat comical.
However, the streaks of pure white Sword Qi were extremely dense, almost connecting into a continuous chain!
Even a wall of copper and iron would be cut through by this sequence of Sword Qi.
Unfortunately, Li Mu still did not dodge!
The Sword Qi was fast, but the Lin-Character Seals were even faster!
Dozens of Lin-Character Seals appeared one after another as if bugging out, and every single one precisely blocked an attack.
“Senior Brother Luan, no blind spots!”
At this moment, among the people from Thousand Victories Military Academy behind him, a long-haired girl shouted coldly.
Luan Ziye’s eyes suddenly lit up.
Li Mu being able to block all his attacks was indeed formidable, but all of them had come from the same direction.
Moreover, Li Mu had stood still the entire time.
He must have been relying on extreme mental focus to control these golden-character shields!
He was an iron-shelled turtle!
Then Luan Ziye would scatter the attack angles and launch a no-blind-spot assault. Let us see whether you can still defend against that!
With this thought, Luan Ziye very flamboyantly raised his left hand and snapped his fingers.
SNAP!
Luan Ziye’s entire body suddenly seemed to be shaken apart.
In an instant, he split into countless overlapping afterimages.
Luan Ziye charged at Li Mu again, only to scatter in every direction. Some afterimages even stepped through the air, swiftly surrounding Li Mu from every angle!
Then they launched fierce attacks at the same time.
More than a dozen afterimages swung their white-glowing longswords and slashed simultaneously, producing an exceptionally astonishing momentum.
The Wanren Military District soldiers watching from the surroundings were stunned!
Was this what a Profound Rank expert was like? Too terrifying!
Each of those afterimages was not something any one of them could withstand.
Just sensing a bit of that sharp Sword Qi made their rear ends clench.
“He really does know Shadow Clones!”
“Holy shit. What kind of method is this? He alone could act as an entire Squad, right?”
“What kind of terrifying Talent is this?”
Seeing Luan Ziye’s move, everyone from Thousand Victories Military Academy relaxed at the same time. The girl who had shouted a reminder to Luan Ziye also smiled with cold confidence.
The gaze she directed at Luan Ziye was filled with admiration and worship.
This was a favored son of heaven. This was...
a torn sack...
The pupils in her admiring gaze abruptly constricted!
Because on the field, every attack from every angle by Luan Ziye had not only been blocked by Li Mu’s Lin characters, but Li Mu had actually moved while defending.
Among countless afterimages, when no one could distinguish which one was Luan Ziye’s true body, Li Mu gripped the long cudgel in his hands. The end of the cudgel actually tapped against the ground as he assumed a baseball-batting stance!
Then he swung the Ghostface Cudgel fiercely at one of the afterimages!
Along with a shrill sound like the scream of a vicious ghost, everyone who heard it felt a chill run down their spine.
Luan Ziye also realized something was wrong. He forcibly stopped his attack motion and tried to flash sideways!
Unexpectedly, Li Mu had no respect for martial virtue!
As the Ghostface Cudgel in his hand swung out, the golden cudgel afterimage it carried expanded wildly in the wind!
In a flash, the golden cudgel shadow became more than ten meters long and as thick as a car!
Its upper end swept over heads while its lower end scraped the ground!
Forget flashing sideways—Luan Ziye would not have had time even to drop flat!
Immediately afterward, Luan Ziye was blasted away by Li Mu’s cudgel like a torn sack!
He only had time to leave behind a mouthful of blood mist before his entire body flew in a parabola toward a spot several dozen meters away!
Everyone present turned their gazes in unison, following Luan Ziye as he flew into the distance.
From among the surrounding Wanren Military District soldiers, a cheeky shout rang out.
“Are you coming back for dinner?”