Chapter 80: What's this move of yours from a distance?
"Oh!" Hongying was standing close by, and when he saw Cai Haoshi coming up and pointing the sword towards Mu Fuyun's collar, he couldn't help but let out a cry.
The other people in the audience couldn't help but widen their eyes.
You know, the sword tip pointing at the female cultivator's collar is both a despicable attack and a naked provocation. Cai Haoshi has taken advantage of many of his fellow disciples with this style of tactics.
Cai Haoshi obviously also felt that Mu Fuyun was just a fledgling female cultivator. No matter how strong she was, she was still immature. Therefore, he did not really take her seriously. When the sword thrust out, a smug arc appeared on the corner of his mouth.
However, Mu Fuyun did not show any panic as he expected. Even his expressionless face remained calm. He did not move his feet, just waiting for his sword to approach.
Cai Haoshi was a little surprised, the curve of his mouth stiffened, but he continued to stab forward with gritted teeth.
Just when the tip of the sword was close, only two inches away, Mu Fuyun suddenly swung his sword and hit Cai Haoshi's sword with force.
The collision of metals creates a strong vibration.
Mu Fuyun naturally loosened his five fingers, and a beam of spiritual power flowed out from his palm, holding the sword and easily dissolving the vibration.
Cai Haoshi didn't have it so easy.
He took the blow, but his arm went numb from the shock, half of his body stiffened for a moment, and even his expression became ferocious for a moment.
This pause slowed down the movement, and Mu Fuyun quickly seized the opportunity.
With an expressionless face, she used her spiritual power to control the direction of the sword, then tightened her five fingers, gripped the hilt again, turned her feet, and flew into the air, flipping directly over Cai Haoshi.
Cai Haoshi missed his target and before he could retract his sword, he was attacked from behind. He had no choice but to turn around and block the attack with his sword without waiting for the numbness in his arm to pass.
Just when everyone thought the situation was about to turn around from here, Mu Fuyun did not launch a fierce attack as they expected, but continued to fight Cai Haoshi slowly and steadily as before.
Instead of feeling relieved, Cai Haoshi felt pent up in anger and was ready to deliver a fatal blow at any moment.
However, he had used up most of his strength several times, but when it came to Mu Fuyun, she easily resolved them all with her method of using a little force to achieve a great effect. It was clear that she was still using the Tianyan sword technique. In fact, because she had just started learning, she had not learned much yet. Most of the moves she used were from the three or four sets of sword techniques. But when she danced them in her hands, there was a sense of ease and comfort.
It was like teasing him, making every punch he made hit cotton.
The disciples watching below watched the fight go on for seven or eight moves and gradually felt something was amiss.
"Why do I feel like something is wrong?"
"Did she... do this on purpose?"
"Are you teasing Brother Cai?"
"Isn't this a bit too much? They are all from the same sect, and Cai Haoshi is Mu Fuyun's senior brother. How could she be so cruel?"
Zhan Yao didn't get a chance to compete in the first round, so she lined up at platform 2. Xu Huaiyan and the others stood with her near platform 2, waiting, their eyes fixed on the competition on platform 3.
Hearing these people's discussions, Yu Cen couldn't hold back and refuted: "That's not the case. Junior Sister Mu is not that kind of person."
Zhan Yao glanced at the Taiqing Peak disciple who had started making malicious speculations, and without caring about his status as a senior brother, he said coldly, "Not everyone is as unclean as you Taiqing Peak people."
The disciple was so angry at her blunt sarcasm that he stared at her in shock. Perhaps because he was afraid of Zhan Yao's innate aura, he stared for a moment, stammering but unable to articulate a single word in rebuttal.
However, the disciples from other peaks, upon hearing this, all looked at that disciple with disdain.
Few people in Tianyan are unaware of Taiqing Peak's notoriety.
However, after watching the good show, someone still asked: "Since you said she didn't deliberately play tricks on Senior Brother Cai, then what is she doing?"
"She--" Yu Cen opened his mouth to explain, but he stopped talking suddenly.
He knew that Mu Fuyun did this simply to prevent the spiritual power in his body from dissipating too quickly when he used his ultimate move.
She had defeated him using a similar method during the outer sect assessment.
Later, after entering the inner gate, he couldn't help but ask her privately. Although she didn't explain in detail, she gave him a vague idea. Combined with the circumstances of each trial and duel, he could more or less guess.
But this is her own business, and since he knows it, he should keep his mouth shut.
"Anyway, she's not that kind of person. Don't speculate. Just read on and you'll find out."
Everyone had hoped that he could give a good explanation, but they were very disappointed after hearing what he said, so they had no choice but to turn around and continue watching the fight.
Mu Fuyun maintained the same unhurried pace as before, focusing on defense with a few offensive moves thrown in. Cai Haoshi, who had originally intended to provoke his opponent, ended up being the one provoked and enraged.
Seeing that his moves, no matter whether they were roundabout or tricky, no matter whether they were feints or all-out attacks, were all easily resolved by Mu Fuyun in the end, he had no time to choose the angle as before, which made him anxious.
Mu Fuyun did not use any rare or difficult moves, and she did not even go beyond the two sets of sword techniques that a new disciple who had been in the inner sect for more than a year had learned. But she knew which move was the best to deal with his attack, and every move she used was so precise that it was frightening.
Everything came naturally to her, as if those sword techniques had penetrated into her bones.
In his impatience, Cai Haoshi's swordsmanship began to make mistakes.
The move of Piercing the Clouds and Chasing the Moon was supposed to pierce the opponent's heart directly, forcing the opponent to dodge, but when he drew his sword, the tip of the sword deviated from the direction and went towards Mu Fuyun's left shoulder.
He tried his best to adjust his direction, but accidentally lost his pace.
Mu Fuyun simply didn't even move his body, just like flying a sword, using his spiritual power to control the sword, and rushed towards the man's feet.
Cai Haoshi was startled and stared at the sword under his feet with wide eyes. A corner of his Taoist robe was cut off by the sword and immediately flew off the stage with the wind.
"——What kind of move is that?" His steps were already disordered, and he couldn't thrust out with his sword. He was a step slower, and he could only let Mu Fuyun, who had already moved closer, grasp the sword that had slipped out of his hand and put it neatly on his shoulder. "You new disciple hasn't learned how to fight in the air yet, right?!"
The heavy beat of drums rang out, and the instructor in charge announced loudly: "Lingshan Zemu Fuyun wins, this match is recorded!"
Cai Haoshi lost, but he insisted on staying on the stage, waiting for Mu Fuyun's answer. Others in the audience also whispered.
The so-called "air combat" means that when the sword is out of the palm of the hand, the opponent is completely controlled by spiritual power. This is something that most young disciples, especially those still in the Jindan stage, cannot do.
Mu Fuyun was stunned for a moment, and the movement of putting away the sword slowed down. He looked at Cai Haoshi in confusion and frowned, saying, "I haven't learned it."
"and you--"
"Do I need to learn this specifically? Isn't it similar to sword control?"
As the words fell, everyone gasped.
You know, to learn the art of wielding a sword, all a cultivator needs to do is input spiritual power into the sword body and control the sword to float steadily, moving forward and backward. This is a world of difference from the flexibility required for fighting in the air, as if the sword is directly held in the hand.
Not to mention that it is difficult for Jindan stage cultivators to do it, even Yuanying stage cultivators may not be able to perform it properly every time.
Mu Fuyun's reaction made people subconsciously think that she was showing off.
"Are you kidding me?" Cai Haoshi looked extremely embarrassed, as if he had been slapped in the face. "If it were that easy, wouldn't everyone know how to do it?"
After saying that, he didn't want to stay on the stage anymore, so he left angrily and went to another trial platform to queue up and continue the challenge.
Mu Fuyun frowned again, and after thinking about it for a while, he understood.
It must be difficult to fight from a distance. However, her sword-controlling skills were taught by Xie Hanyi, and she was already quite talented in controlling spiritual energy, so she didn't realize that this was a difficult task for most people.
It turned out that without realizing it, she had learned more than her fellow disciples at the same level.
She couldn't help but think of the ice sword that Xie Hanyi left for her in the lake of Lingshanze. He didn't even need to concentrate to fight with her.
To explain now would seem hypocritical, more like a provocation. She simply said nothing and waited quietly for the next disciple to come up and challenge her.
On the second stage next to it, Zhan Yao's first competition has already begun.
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