Cultivating Immortality Begins with Time Management

“So, you’ve been deceiving me all along, haven’t you?” She trembled as she lifted her gaze, only to find that her senior brother’s once-familiar face now seemed terrifyingly foreign.

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Chapter 64: I can fool my fellow disciples, but I can’t fool my senior sister

"Master Daoye?" Ling Yunpo was also shocked when he heard the name mentioned by Duan Fenhai and Sima Changyan.

Before participating in the Shushan Competition for the first time, when Lin Duanshan was explaining to him the many sword-fighting schools of Shushan, he also mentioned this person's name - Taoist Master Daoye's swordsmanship, which was very different from Su Jian's Seven Killing Swordsmanship.

The Seven Kill Swordsmanship emphasizes "striking first". As long as my sword is fast enough, I can quickly seize the initiative in the rhythm of the battle.

However, Taoist Master Daoye's Ziyuan swordsmanship follows the route of "striking first after being attacked", and its theory also has the mysterious style of kendo: if a sword immortal's sword moves are impeccable at a certain moment, then it must be when his sword is about to be drawn but has not yet been drawn.

In other words, if the opponent's sword is out before mine, his weakness will inevitably be exposed first, and then I can use this weakness to defeat the opponent... To defeat a move with no moves, to defeat all changes with the unchanging, this is the essence of Ziyuan swordsmanship.

Of course, if only the theoretical part is unique, it would not attract the attention of the sword immortals. Shushan has many more mysterious sword techniques.

The real problem is that it is said that in the contest between Taoist Master Daoye and Su Jian, he almost always won, without a single defeat, so much so that everyone said that the Purple Yuan Sword Technique restrained the Seven Killing Sword Technique... Of course, at that time, Su Jian was not yet the famous master of Qingluo Peak, and the Seven Killing Sword Technique was far from developing to the later stage of great perfection.

It was not until Taoist Master Daoye disappeared and Su Jian knelt in front of Immortal Changmei for seven days and seven nights that his swordsmanship began to improve by leaps and bounds. But these are all stories for later.

An Zhisu, Su Jian's direct disciple and biological daughter, had the calmest reaction among the four after hearing the name.

When the crazy old swordsman came walking on water from the miasma in the distance, her expression changed slightly.

The old swordsman was still far away, but he walked in front of everyone in a few steps, stretched out his hand to catch the flying Xinjin Huaqi sword, and said:

"You, you also think there's something wrong with my swordsmanship, right?"

Although everyone was confused, seeing that the old swordsman was becoming more and more ferocious and angry, Sima Changyan quickly spoke up:

"Senior's Ziyuan swordsmanship is the best in the world, and fellow Shushan disciples all highly respect your swordsmanship..."

"Then tell me, what is the second move of the fourteenth style of Ziyuan swordsmanship!" the old man roared angrily.

Sima Changyan: ???

He just stood there in shock, and then he saw the old man's face suddenly darken, and he said:

"You are indeed a liar. You also think that my Ziyuan swordsmanship is useless, right? Then I will show you the power of my swordsmanship..."

As he said this, he suddenly circulated his true energy and stabbed Sima Changyan with the Xinjin Huaqi Sword.

Sima Changyan hurriedly used his sword to block, and as expected, the flying sword was directly knocked away. Dozens of sword energies were generated from the collision of metal and iron, and concentrated towards him.

Fortunately, he also knew how to wield a sword with both hands, so he immediately controlled the second flying sword to shoot out, trying to block the sword energy. As a result, he saw the Xin Jin Hua Qi sword flying towards him from another direction.

Sima Changyan knew that he was no match for his opponent, and was planning to change the path of his flying sword to prioritize intercepting the Xin Jin Hua Qi Sword, but he saw a ray of black light coming in from the side and intercepting the Xin Jin Hua Qi Sword.

Ling Yunpo used the unity of man and sword, plus the hardness of the Qingping Sword and the natural sword bone, but he was still unable to contend and was directly chopped away by the Xinjin Huaqi Sword.

This attack also generated dozens of sword energies, which shot towards Sima Changyan who was closest to them.

Sima Changyan almost vomited blood. Although the other party was saving him with good intentions, it was really a lonely rescue...

He was too lazy to resist and simply flew backwards on his sword. Duan Fenhai's Cang Tie sword also shot out at the right time to intercept part of the sword energy for him.

Fortunately, these sword energies did not increase... The Xinjin Huaqi Sword paused slightly, and the old sword immortal turned his head, his eyes widened, and even bloodshot in the whites of his eyes, and shouted:

"Seven Killing Sword Technique? Great! Then let's compete!"

Before he finished his words, the Xinjin Huaqi Sword turned around and shot rapidly in the direction of Lingyunpo.

Ling Yunpo's expression remained unchanged, or rather, he had anticipated this result before he made his move.

"I have scanned and confirmed it." Kunlun Mirror said in the sea of ​​consciousness, "He is indeed left with only one soul and one spirit at this moment."

"Mortals have three souls and seven spirits. If there is only one soul and one spirit left, it is basically difficult to have normal sanity, so they will appear crazy."

"Yeah." Ling Yunpo said in a deep voice.

Taoist Master Daoye has reached the great perfection of the Golden Core Realm. If he can still maintain his normal sanity, then Ling Yunpo has no other way to deal with this man except to kneel down and beg Ajing for help in escaping.

However, Ling Yunpo and Wei Dongliu are different. The latter have no close fellow disciples, and Jiang Li'an and Wen Yang dare not ask any questions, so they can use the Ajing cheat in an emergency.

But exposing Ajing's abilities in front of Duan Fenhai and Sima Changyan is too risky - who knows what these two will say to Master Yujing after they return?

It would be better to just teleport away and let these two be silenced by the Crazy Sword Immortal.

Then what should Senior Sister An do?

In a split second, Ling Yunpo had figured out all the complicated relationships involved.

The most appropriate plan at the moment is to pretend to sacrifice oneself to lure away the Crazy Swordsman, and call on others to escape quickly.

As long as he left Duan Fenhai and Sima Changyan, he could use all the flexible means he had hidden in his mind, such as the Five Elements Divine Light and the Five Thunders Righteous Method. If it really didn't work, he would throw away his face and ask A Jing to open the divination again, use illusion to freeze the Crazy Sword Immortal, and then teleport himself away.

You can just make up a story later that he "escaped with his life after a narrow escape from death". As long as no one sees it, you can talk nonsense as you like... You can also win favor with Duan Fenhai and the others, and create a glorious image of someone who sacrifices himself for others. It's really killing two birds with one stone.

"I'll lead him away!" He shouted into the distance, while stepping on the Thunder Sword and retreating quickly, his expression tragic and resolute, "You guys go back to the mountain and get help!"

Duan Fenhai and Sima Changyan were about to come over to support, but they were stunned when they heard the words, then turned around and fled on their swords without hesitation.

Neither of them is the kind of person who would dwell on romantic relationships. A rational analysis would show that even if all four of them were tied together, they would not be able to defeat the insane Taoist Master Daoye.

Since Junior Brother Ling is willing to sacrifice himself, we certainly cannot let him down. We must report the whereabouts of Taoist Master Daoye back to Shushan, and then come back to rescue Junior Brother Ling (his body)!

Seeing the two of them turn around and leave, and seeing the synchronization value of the indomitable character rising rapidly, Ling Yunpo felt extremely relieved.

Great, my plan is perfect.

Turning his eyes slightly, he saw that An Zhisu and Feiyan Sword had merged into one. The sword light almost surged several times and rushed towards this side at full speed. Ling Yunpo's mood suddenly fell to the bottom again.

Tsk.

I seem to have missed something...

We have to think of a way to trick Senior Sister An away as well!

The Qingping Sword rushed back to rescue and chopped against the Xinjin Huaqi Sword again.

Although the sword body was safe and sound, the true energy and power on the sword were greatly different, so the Qingping Sword was directly shaken away again, and the power was not released until it was dozens of feet away.

At the moment of the clash, dozens of sword energies emerged from the Xinjin Huaqi Sword. They were as silver in color and as bright as pure gold. They shot towards Lingyunpo densely. Their speed was even faster than that of the Leizhi Sword that he was using all his strength.

Ling Yunpo was just about to activate the sword magic of the Leizhi Sword to perform a difficult mid-air block, but he saw An Zhisu, who had become one with the sword, had already arrived beside him. The Hanlie Sword shot out rapidly from his sleeve, turning into a clear and sharp frosty white light, which quickly blocked the sword energy and dispersed it.

"Senior Sister! (Junior Brother!)" the two shouted almost at the same time.

They looked at each other in bewilderment, and then they shouted in unison again:

"I'll hold him back, you go first! (You go first, I'll deal with him!)"