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Chapter 849: Chapter 0849: Seeing the Grim Reaper Beckoning
Yuan Ming before him suddenly seemed like a different person, his body didn’t exude any intent to kill, but the somber and desolate sense emitted was unsettling enough to send shivers down one’s spine!
Especially the lifeless look in his eyes, as if all things before him would wither away!
Feeling the change in Yuan Ming, Ye Xunhuan’s heart lurched inexplicably, and his body hair stood on end at this moment.
At this moment, Ye Xunhuan felt as if he was facing a ferocious beast, that desolate and cold aura as if it came from the ancient past!
Right now, Ye Xunhuan only felt that if he did not give it his all, there was a very real possibility that he would fall here today.
Damn it, what kind of move is this Seven Stars Break that it posesses such a terrifying momentum before even striking?
In an instant, Ye Xunhuan was enveloped in an unprecedented state of heightened alertness!
"Seven Stars Break, the first move—Seven Stars Slash!"
As soon as the word "slash" was uttered, the crimson blade in Yuan Ming’s hand immediately emitted a dazzling light, like a rising sun emerging from a blood pool, radiating a blinding and eerie glow!
The next moment, a red beam of light, like a laser, roared towards Ye Xunhuan, pulverizing the weeds it passed and the intense Sword Qi cut through the surroundings, making the already disordered ground even more unbearable!
Seeing this, Ye Xunhuan’s expression changed drastically, and he swung his sharp blade in a hurry, executing a move: "Xuanqing Stab!"
"Swish!"
The next moment, Ye Xunhuan’s blade emitted a dazzling white glow, like the silver moon cascading down, rising from the ground as a giant scythe, colliding with the laser-like Sword Qi.
"Bang!"
"Boom!"
A muffled sound followed by a deafening noise burst forth as if it were thunder from the nine heavens.
The collision of the two fierce Sword Qi’s dispersed the air currents around them, and the ground was showered with flying debris.
"Seven Stars Break, the second move—Dazzling Moon!"
"Seven Stars Break, the third move..."
At this moment, Yuan Ming truly brought out his full power, leaving no room for mercy.
Each sword strike was like thunder, as if a calm sea suddenly surged with a tsunami, the momentum extremely terrifying!
Luckily there was no one around, otherwise, if someone had witnessed this, they would have been scared out of their wits, and if they blabbered about it, they might even end up in a psychiatric hospital for treatment.
After all, what was unfolding before them was truly beyond human understanding, just like the martial arts world in the television!
Although Yuan Ming’s attacks were fierce, each one displaying lethal power, Ye Xunhuan was no less formidable; the combination of the White Hair Tai Xuan Technique and Yin-Yang Swordsmanship thwarted Yuan Ming’s assaults completely.
After warding off Yuan Ming’s six moves, both Yuan Ming and Ye Xunhuan appeared to be gasping for air, their complexions extremely pale, and their clothes were completely soaked with sweat at this moment!
Six moves, not many by the sound of it, but each one carrying intense Inner Strength, every strike almost as exhausting as drawing the strength from their bodies.
Once a person’s strength is exhausted, they will undoubtedly become weak and even face death!
Both Ye Xunhuan and Yuan Ming were now in this very predicament.
This kind of all-out Inner Strength contest could swiftly settle a battle, but the consumption was also shockingly huge.
"Ye Xunhuan, I never expected that you could withstand my six moves!" Yuan Ming said breathlessly.
"I can block your seventh move just the same!" Ye Xunhuan’s complexion also appears deathly pale: "Once I block your seventh move, it will be time for me to send you off to the west!"
It’s not that Ye Xunhuan doesn’t want to kill Yuan Ming before he unleashes his seventh move, but rather that he can’t.
He truly can’t kill him; this guy’s Seven Stars Burst is just too terrifying, to the point where even Ye Xunhuan feels that if he were just a bit weaker, he might already have become a cold corpse by now.
And even if he wanted to make a move, would Yuan Ming give him the chance?
Without even thinking, one knows that Yuan Ming would definitely bring out his seventh move.
"Ye Xunhuan, did you just use the Bai Shou Tai Xuan Jing of Kunlun?" Yuan Ming asks, looking fixedly at Ye Xunhuan.
In the exchange with Ye Xunhuan just now, Yuan Ming was able to clearly make out that three of Ye Xunhuan’s sword moves resembled those from the Tai Xuan Sword of the Bai Shou Tai Xuan Jing.
But he still wasn’t certain!
"That’s right, it’s the Bai Shou Tai Xuan Jing!" Ye Xunhuan exactly admits it openly.
Hearing Ye Xunhuan’s admission, Yuan Ming’s heart suddenly skips a beat: "You... what is your relationship with Kunlun?"
The Bai Shou Tai Xuan Jing is the treasured legacy of Kunlun, known to some, but not to many, and for someone of Ye Xunhuan’s age to be able to practice the Bai Shou Tai Xuan Jing to such extent is even more unheard of!
Moreover, isn’t the Bai Shou Tai Xuan Jing incomplete?
How could this guy practice it to such a formidable level?
And furthermore, who exactly is he, and how did he learn the distinguished martial art of Kunlun?
Ye Xunhuan doesn’t possess the Mind Reading Technique, thus he can’t discern Yuan Ming’s inner thoughts and astonishment, but he also doesn’t tell Yuan Ming what his relationship with Kunlun is!
"What do you think?"
"Could it be that you are the closed-door disciple of someone from Kunlun?" Yuan Ming boldly conjectures: "But if Kunlun had a young genius like you, they would have surely declared it to the world long ago!"
"That’s my affair, I see no reason to tell you, do I?"
Ye Xunhuan is not foolish; now that Yuan Ming mistakenly believes him to be a person of Kunlun, he might as well let him continue to believe so.
Moreover, if that’s the case, even if he can’t kill Yuan Ming today, and Yuan Ming manages to escape, then in the future, both Yuan Ming and Shu Mountain would probably dread him greatly, right?
After all, if Ye Xunhuan really were a person from Kunlun, then killing Ye Xunhuan would certainly mean a full-scale war with Kunlun!
One must realize that a monster talent like Ye Xunhuan appears only once in a hundred years. Now that he has grown, if Shu Mountain were to exterminate him, could Kunlun simply let it be?
What Ye Xunhuan wants is to leave Yuan Ming with no confidence in his heart.
"However, even if you are a disciple of Kunlun, I will not let you go because of it. The people of Shu Mountain are not ones you can simply claim to kill!" Yuan Ming says with a dark expression and gritted teeth: "Now, take my seventh move!"
"Seven Stars Burst, Seventh Form - Seven Stars Continuum, Execute!"
At the word ’execute’, Yuan Ming immediately swings out his blood-red sword, and then a massive shadow of the sword appears in mid-air, hurtling towards Ye Xunhuan at breakneck speed.
The illusory sword shadow swells with each moment it advances, within the blink of an eye ballooning to be a dozen feet larger than before, like a demonic blade emerging from the depths of hell, charging forth!
Seeing this sword move, Ye Xunhuan’s complexion grows even more intense than before.
In this moment, Ye Xunhuan only feels death closing in on him.
He even sees the Grim Reaper beckoning to him, summoning him to leave this world and join him.
