Chapter 488: The Ten Swords of Horizontal Ink
"Bai Zhou, who is that girl? Do you know her?"
As the two were preparing to compete in battle, a student watching the battle curiously asked the young man holding the sword.
"I don't know her, but she looks quite powerful." He could tell that the girl in front of him was around Sequence 5.
"Lao Gu actually didn't let you go first to test her level. Don't be like that girl before, who came to Lao Gu for evaluation, and refused to leave after losing, which made Lao Gu quite embarrassed."
"Haha, that time, Lao Gu had to contact her school and let her classmates take her away."
"Since then, when someone comes to take the assessment, Lao Gu seldom goes himself. He always lets us do it for him. Anyway, he can see the level of the evaluator and pass it depending on the situation."
"How about you now, Bai Zhou?"
"Me? Let me think about it. Last month I asked Lao Gu how my current strength could be rated."
"He patted me on the shoulder and said that if I work harder, I can be an expert in two years."
"That's very strong. Generally speaking, experts in a certain field are all in their 30s."
"Hehe." The boy touched his head embarrassedly.
"But Lao Gu is really a genius. Don't be fooled by his decadent uncle appearance now. He entered Sequence 7 at the age of 38. Now he is only in his forties and in his prime."
"It is said that Lao Gu was cheated of his feelings by a girl when he was young, and then he became decadent. Then he became extremely passionate about swordsmanship, and then his strength improved by leaps and bounds, and he broke through Sequence 7."
"Aha, what version of the legend is this? I heard that he was too lazy. He broke through Sequence 7 only because the Federation has generous subsidies for master-level figures, so he worked extra hard."
"Probably both. Let's not talk about it for now. They started."
In the field, Gu Fangzheng stared at the beautiful young girl in front of him. Even with a harsh eye, the other party was a girl with a perfect figure and temperament. If he was 20 years younger, he would probably want to pursue her.
But now, what interested him more was the other party's condensed sword intent.
Sword intention, knife intention, spear intention, whatever you want to say, is actually a kind of self-affirmation gradually formed by the extraordinary after they are particularly good at a certain skill. They are determined and confident, and will not easily give up. This allows them to maximize their own strength in battle, and will not be distracted by various emotions. This quality is extremely important in the ever-changing battle.
After waiting for a few seconds, seeing that the girl did not take the initiative to attack, Gu Fangzheng did not wait any longer.
"Gu Xiao Lei Yin!"
The iron bar in his hand stabbed out instantly, leaving several residual images in the air. The sword body trembled, and the sound waves caused were bound by a strange force, like an invisible sword attacking the girl opposite. To others, the sword whistled, but to Tilan, who was facing it, it was like facing a thunder.
The whistling sound waves came in an instant. If the will was not strong, it would probably be shocked by the sudden thunder, and the consciousness would be blank, and it would be pierced by the sword before it could react.
"Bluebird's Ordinary Inheritance: Xiatian Dyeing Jade Sword"
When Gu Fangzheng swung his sword, Tilan also took action. She didn't know what swordsmanship or attack method the other party would use. The sword technique she started with was not a strong offensive sword technique, but an auxiliary sword technique with special secret techniques.
The sword light was dyed green. When it was swung out, the surrounding light and scenery were also coated with a layer of light glow, blue and blue. Then the sudden attack of the Sound Whistle Sword was immersed in the light glow, and the extraordinary effect attached to it was filtered out, becoming ordinary, just like an ordinary sound wave passing through, slightly lifting the hair on the side of her ear, without any other effect.
"What kind of move is this? Is it also considered swordsmanship?" The people around had never seen this method of defense, but the two people in the field had no time to explain, and the battle was still going on.
Seeing Tilan easily eliminate the moves he had used, Gu Fangzheng felt quite fresh. This method of using the sword was only used by some ancient sword schools. They often integrated various secret methods into swordsmanship, which was more convenient to use and replaced the skill of chanting spells and drawing formations.
"Thunder Roaring Thousand Birds!"
He leaped and his body split instantly. Each figure held a sword and attacked suddenly, suddenly swooping down like a bird of prey. The sword was swift and fierce, and one person was like a thousand troops.
"Oh, Lao Gu actually used a trick." The people on the side were surprised. This trick was very formal. Even if Lao Gu didn't use his full strength, none of them could take it.
Is it similar to the secret elf butterfly transformation technique? The girl watched the opponent attacking and guessed in her heart.
Just as Gu Fangzheng separated his body and attacked from all angles, Tilan also shook and split into a group of identical sword-wielding girls, each facing the opponent.
The swords crossed in the air. In just a few seconds, the figures crossed each other, the swords collided, sparks burst, and then the two exchanged positions and returned to peace.
Falling from the air, Gu Fangzheng stood with his sword in hand. He turned around and stared at the girl opposite again.
In the sword fight just now, he had already used 50% of his strength, but the opponent was still at ease and completely took his attack.
It seems that this girl is indeed a genius. No wonder she was arranged to take the first sword rating.
"I'm going to use all my strength. Let's see how much you can catch." He called out, and then the magic power was infused. The iron bar in his hand became as black as ink, and even gradually widened, as if it was more convenient.
Two seconds later, a dark long sword was held in Gu Fangzheng's hand. The originally decadent temperament became particularly solemn. When the black ink sword was swung, it was like a mountain, giving people an extra sense of heaviness.
"I understand." The girl nodded and held the sword upright in front of her. She closed her eyes slightly and slowly stroked the sword with her left hand. The complex phoenix pattern appeared on the snow-white blade, and then a blue phoenix feather pattern was reflected between her eyebrows.
Then she put her hands down, and a pair of wings appeared behind her. The light red glow instantly covered the sky behind her.
'Xiatianyanbi Sword·Haitianzhixia'
Facing the girl's momentum, Gu Fangzheng no longer held back, but took the initiative. He strode forward and swung the heavy black sword down, like splitting a mountain. Tilan swung the sword to block, but the silver sword edge faced the black sword, and it seemed to be broken into pieces under heavy pressure. She also retreated again and again until the blade in her hand was completely broken into pieces.
In this regard, Gu Fangzheng did not pursue the victory, but gave the opponent a certain amount of reaction time. He believed that the girl would not sit and wait for death.
Sure enough, when Tilan retreated, her fingers loosened, and the broken sword in her hand spun in the air, and then sucked in the surrounding red glow like a whale sucking water, and then condensed into a brand new emerald long sword, and then the glow beside her turned green.
Xiatian Ranbi Sword, this set of swordsmanship came from the upper door "Ninglu Ranbi Shop", and was famous for its graceful posture. Maybe the battle is not outstanding, but the various auxiliary effects of changing the environment make the user flexible when facing various opponents, so as not to have obvious shortcomings.
Since the opponent's swordsmanship is known for its heavy weight, she can only break it with force.
In the subsequent sword-blade confrontation, whenever the two swords collided, the surrounding glow merged into the sword body during the sword swing, making it more powerful in the collision. Even as the glow spread, the emerald long sword in Tilan's hand became more and more powerful. Not only did it no longer break, but when it collided with the opponent's heavy ink sword, the force became stronger and stronger.
It's not good. Gu Fangzheng felt the green glow beside him. He was fighting in the water. The sword swinging and moving consumed a lot of energy. However, the opponent was becoming more and more flexible and swinging the sword more and more.
Knowing that the effect would only get worse if he continued to fight like this, Gu Fangzheng retreated and separated from Tilan. Then he concentrated his mind and calmed down, holding the sword in both hands, and suddenly shouted.
"Ten Swords of Horizontal Ink·Cut the Mountain!"
The ink sword in his hand was swung down heavily, like a mountain pressing down on his head. A huge virtual sword body was also swung down, slashing directly at the girl in the middle. The strong pressure brought about swept away the glow in the field like a gust of wind.
After that, he didn't care whether the sword hit the opponent or not. He raised the ink sword in his hand, jumped into the sky with the person, and then swung the sword behind his body.
"Ten horizontal ink swords: the sword grid is like a cage!"
The four ink swords swung out were like the Chinese character "井", dividing and isolating the venue and space below, making Tilan in the venue feel like she was trapped in a cage, temporarily blocked by the walls formed by the sword marks on all four sides, and even spatial displacement could not be achieved in a short time.
Then Gu Fangzheng, holding the sword in both hands, pointed vertically to the sky, and a black magic light column shot up into the sky, and then reversed downward. He held the sword in both hands and stabbed straight down, rushing straight to the imprisoned girl below, without any intention of holding back.
"Ten horizontal ink swords: the power of heaven is like darkness!"
Like the collapse of the sky, black silk fell from the sky, washing the imprisoned square below. The girl in it felt a real danger, a danger that could kill her.
This was difficult. If she only used swordsmanship, she had no particularly good way to deal with it. If she used other means, it would be out of the scope of the swordsmanship assessment.
She could only use the Withering Sequence to delay the situation. Even if there was no way out in the end, she would still have time to react.
"Bluebird's Orthodox Sword Technique: Flowing Wind Painting Shadow"
swam, leaving silver-blue afterimages, and then these afterimages held swords and rushed forward, constantly attacking the falling black heavy sword, trying to weaken its power, while Tilan's true body was hidden in the shadows below.
The falling black heavy sword smashed the silver-blue afterimages that attacked one after another, and fell with unabated momentum. Faced with such a scene, Tilan calmed down and held the sword in both hands.
You can't always think of taking shortcuts, sometimes you can only go head-on and go all out.
The blue magic power gathered and rose, and a long sword like a gorgeous blue crystal was held in her hand. This was the condensation of her magic power, with a complex network of silk threads, like some kind of circuit board, engraved with complex brand patterns.
Annihilation, Ice, Sharpness, Freeze.
Multiple high-level enchantment effects gathered on it. She held the sword in both hands, the blue in her eyes was like a burning flame, and then she rushed up, and the blue crystal sword in her hand slashed fiercely on the falling black heavy sword. The crystal sword body shattered, and the blue fragments collapsed, dispersing part of the imprisoned pressure, and the heavy sword that was originally falling straight also tilted a little, allowing Tilan to avoid it.
After a few seconds, the sword cage that was originally covering it dissipated, and a huge pit appeared in the venue, and there were cracks all around. Gu Fangzheng stood in place, on one side was a black sword that was taller than him, and on the other side, Tilan was a little embarrassed to hold the broken ice crystal sword, with many scratches on her arms and cheeks, and a little blood.
"Hahahaha~ Very good, very good!" Gu Fangzheng laughed.
"You passed the test, but you're still a little behind me. After all, you're only Sequence 5. If you had the strength of Sequence 6, you could fight me normally and wouldn't be so embarrassed."
At the last moment, he stopped a little, otherwise Tilan would be seriously injured.
"What's the rating?" Tilan stood up, and she gradually recovered her breath.
"I wanted to give you a master rating, but I don't have the final say. I need the other old guys to come together."
"Now I can directly give you an expert rating."
"In terms of skills, you are already very strong, but you lack a certain amount of strength and experience fighting high-level extraordinary people. You are only a freshman now. After a few years, when you graduate, you should be able to tie with me." Gu Fangzheng gave a very high evaluation. "
Oh, no way, she is so powerful?" The people watching nearby only saw the two people covered by black marks. They could not react to what happened and did not feel it deeply.
"Such an evaluation is too high."
"Lao Gu was a genius who amazed Academy City back then. Even so, he had to be in his thirties to reach the realm of a master. How old is she? At most, he is in his early twenties. By this calculation, isn't he ten years earlier than Lao Gu?"
"But her performance just now was really amazing. At least I can't see through her strength at all. If we fight, I guess she can't hold out even a single move."
"What about Bai Zhou? What do you think?" They asked the companion with the best talent and strength in the crowd.
"Me? I can't see much either, but the opponent is indeed stronger than me." The young man looked at the girl who was talking to Gu Fangzheng in the field with some admiration.
Whether it was the various novel and amazing swordsmanship used by the opponent, or the speed, skills, reaction, etc., he couldn't catch up. No wonder Lao Gu didn't let others go at the beginning. It turned out that he had already seen that this girl was extraordinary.
In the field, Tilan asked the opponent some questions about swordsmanship and the last sword.
"I didn't expect you to block the last sword. I just wanted to see how capable and resourceful you are. If you can't hold on in the end, I can control the giant sword to only hurt your body and not kill you."
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"It's normal to get hurt. Medical care in Academy City is well developed and convenient. There is a hospital next door. I am confident that I can save you, so I won't hold back."
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"If you hold back every time you fight and consider various issues, then if you do it too many times, you will damage your sword intention and become less decisive, and react slowly and hesitantly."
"Since you easily dealt with the previous few moves, I believe you must have some tricks up your sleeve. This is the intuition of a master." He answered confidently and firmly.
Yes, Tilan does have a lot of trump cards. Whether it is the means of the singer or her own space or time talents, they can help her get through danger, but these are not in the category of swordsmanship, and she generally doesn't use them easily.
After asking, Tilan only felt that Gu Fangzheng was bold in front of her, or the other party could judge that she still had the means to deal with it based on Tilan's reaction, so he was so bold.
"Thank you for your guidance, Mr. Gu." She nodded.
"Don't be so polite. Bring your identity chip over here. I'll verify it for you." He waved behind him and asked someone to bring the instrument he used for certification.
With his authorization and approval, Tilan was rated as an "expert" in the field of swordsmanship, because Gu Fangzheng could only give such a high rating.
"If you want to get a master-level certification, I suggest you apply formally after Sequence 6. If you are ready to keep a low profile, it's not too late to apply when you are Sequence 7."
"Thank you." Tilan nodded again.
At this time, many people came over to watch. Many people were curious about the girl's name and which school she came from.
"This..." The girl thought for a while and decided to say it directly. It was no secret that she was in Academy City.
"My name is Tilan, and I go to Golden Flame Flower Academy." It sounded like she was just an ordinary student.
"So it's classmate Tilan." When the others heard the name, they hurriedly wrote it down. Then the girl waved her hand and her figure quickly disappeared into the open space.
"Why is she walking so fast?"
"Ah, she's gone now."
"Stupid, haven't you reacted yet?" Someone on the side couldn't help but speak.
"She is one of the four singing girls in the Golden Flame Flower Rebirth, Heshia Tilan."
"Oh, this." Many people opened their mouths in disbelief.
"Isn't it said that most singing girls are not good at fighting and are very delicate?"
"Is she Heshia? But judging from her temperament and dress, she doesn't match at all."
Someone recalled the album photo of Tilan not long ago. In the album, Tilan was wearing a dark Gothic dress decorated with dark red or blue roses. She was mysterious and beautiful, totally different from the youthful and sporty image seen today.
"Great, I've decided." Bai Zhou's eyes were full of admiration.
"What have you decided?"
"I've decided to become a loyal fan and follower of Miss Heshia, and I want to practice swordsmanship to be as gorgeous and powerful as her."
"Oh, then you have to work hard, kid." Gu Fangzheng came over.
"That girl is one of the Five Phoenixes of the East, the eldest daughter of the Five Veins of Qingluan. She knows so many swordsmanship that you may have never heard of it." As a master in the field of swordsmanship, Gu Fangzheng naturally knew those ancient factions in the East. After all, many swordsmanship schools today originated from those big sects.
"Work hard. If possible, you can work under her in the future with the help of today's meeting."
"You will have to work in the future anyway, and work for a company. It's better to find a singer. If you share the same ideals as hers, you may be able to achieve something in the future. This is much better than living a muddle-headed life in the workplace." Gu Fangzheng leaned against the railing and talked about his life experience.
"Okay, continue practicing swordsmanship. After watching the sword fight today, you should also be able to gain something. Tomorrow I will explain to you the cleverness of Miss Tilan's swordsmanship."
(End of this chapter)
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