Chapter 214

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“Who is he? His innate talent in Sword Dao, could it be on par with our senior brother?”

Xu Yan nodded. The Grandmaster of the Seven-star Study Palace was not bad; he didn’t fly into a fit, nor did he feel humiliated. Once defeated, he admitted it without hesitation.

He proceeded to the higher level.

The eighth floor.

The one guarding the platform was a peak Grandmaster.

Xu Yan had been defeating the Grandmasters defending the platforms of the Seven-star Study Palace, always defeating them with a single palm strike. Now, the Seven-star Study Palace couldn’t sit still.

The defender of the eighth floor, among the peak Grandmasters of the Seven-star Study Palace, was one of the top ones.

“Sigh, it’s the great teacher, Ding Yan!”

The students of the Seven-star Study Palace exclaimed in shock.

“What, this Grandmaster is Ding Yan?”

The observing martial artists were also taken aback.

Even a youngster managed to cause the famed Grandmaster Ding Yan to step in for defense. This showed how stressed the Seven-star Study Palace was.

Being a famous teacher, Ding Yan was highly prestigious and renowned. Out of the peak Grandmasters across the Inner Domain, he ranked among the top thirty.

On the martial arts stage stood a man in a wide robe with large sleeves; a scholarly figure with three long beards. He held a three-foot long writing brush in his hand. It was a treasure.

“Young friend, do I have the privilege to invite you to spar with me on this stage?”

Ding Yan asked with a smile.

Xu Yan nodded, “Yes, you are the first one strong enough to invite me for a match on this platform.”

Ding Yan was very powerful, not much weaker than Yin Hong who was just half step away from Great Grandmaster.

But he was just a peak Grandmaster.

But in Xu Yan’s eyes, so-called half-step Great Grandmaster was just someone who was not strong enough to become a Great Grandmaster all at once and hence only managed a half breakthrough.

Such half-step Great Grandmasters were not very impressive to him.

Ding Yan was different. He was a peak Grandmaster and was currently sharpening his skills for a breakthrough to Great Grandmaster. With his Martial Arts foundation and strength, once he completed the refinement of his Martial Arts, he would certainly be able to break into the Great Grandmaster realm in one go.

Xu Yan stepped onto the martial arts platform.

The audience got excited, a big fight was about to start.

“Young friend, should I let you draw your sword?”

Ding Yan glanced at the precious sword hanging at Xu Yan’s waist and asked with a smile.

Xu Yan pondered for a moment, then answered earnestly: “If I unsheath my sword, you might not be able to take even one strike. Are you still willing to see me draw my sword?”

Hiss!

Although the crowd was getting accustomed to the boy’s arrogance, they still gasped in awe at his audacity.

That was Grandmaster Ding Yan!

Claiming that he couldn’t stand a single strike?

Looking at the Inner Domain, there may not be one person who could make such a claim among the Grandmasters.

Only a Great Grandmaster would have the qualification to say so.

Even Xie Tianheng, the sword lord of Sword Sage Cliff, did not dare to make such absurd statements when he was a peak Grandmaster!

What a proud young man!

Ding Yan was stunned for a moment, then he laughed, “If young friend is this confident, I would love to see for myself what sort of Sword Dao it is that I can’t even take one strike!”

Xu Yan looked up at the ninth level of the martial arts platform, the highest level. Once he got past that, he could almost browse through all the martial arts collections of the Seven-star Study Palace.

“Is the defender on that level a Great Grandmaster?”

Ding Yan nodded, “Yes!”

Great Grandmaster, huh? Xu Yan was a bit disappointed. With his current strength, he couldn’t pass through.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean he wouldn’t get a chance.

As long as the defender wasn’t a Great Grandmaster, wouldn’t that solve the problem?

These rules and restrictions were made to be broken by the strong.

So Xu Yan said, “1 can draw my sword, but if you can’t take one strike from me, then the ninth floor defender should not be a Great Grandmaster. How about that?”

“Instead of a Great Grandmaster, let there be ten peak Grandmasters. I’ll fight all ten of them and count it as a victory if 1 pass, alright?”

Ding Yan was stunned. The boy was arrogant, yes, but he knew he couldn’t defeat a Great Grandmaster.

However, he also wasn’t humble, as he was boasting about fighting ten peak Grandmasters!

The onlookers had grown numb to this boy’s arrogance, each time more outrageous than the last.

“The ninth floor is guarded by a Great Grandmaster, following the rules. Your suggestion, young friend…”

Ding Yan did not know how to respond.

He could not change this rule.

It belonged to the Great Grandmasters!

“I may not be able to defeat a Great Grandmaster now, but in not too long, I will. This is just a matter of time.”

“If you can’t take a strike from me, and I want to break through the ninth floor, let there be ten peak Grandmasters to replace the Great Grandmaster. Wouldn’t that be fair?”

Xu Yan didn’t want to wait to come back and try again after his breakthrough.

He wanted to pass this test in one go, to gain access to the Seven-star Study Palace’s martial arts collection.

Ding Yan could only shake his head with a helpless smile as he was about to refuse.

A figure appeared in a blink of an eye, also dressed in wide robes with large sleeves, holding an aged book, seemingly engrossed in its contents.

“As long as you defeated Ding Yan with one stroke of your sword, I will have a martial arts discussion and practice with you!”

Upon seeing the figure, Ding Yan immediately bowed in deep respect, saying, “Greetings to the Great Supervisory Teacher Fu!”

The students from Seven-star Study Palace were utterly shocked. Was this the legendary Great Supervisory Teacher Fu Yun Tian?

One of the five supervisory teachers of the Seven-star Study Palace.

“Greetings to the Great Supervisory Teacher Fu!”

The students of Seven-star Study Palace, all bow in unison.

Fu Yun Tian nodded, glanced at Xu Yan, and then continued reading his book.

Xu Yan’s heart pounded, a Great Grandmaster!

This Great Grandmaster was extremely powerful, much more formidable than the one his master defeated with a single palm strike.

A strong figure among the Great Grandmasters!

“With his strength, even if I reach great completion in the Innate Realm, I would not be able to explode him with one palm strike. Probably it would take a dozen or more palm strikes? Or several sword strikes?”

Xu Yan mumbled to himself.

Then he became elated and said, “No problem, he can’t withstand my one sword stroke. Can I read all the classics if 1 defeat the ten peak Grandmasters guarding the ninth floor?”

Fu Yun Tian looked up and laughed, “The classics of my Seven-star Study Palace, especially the classics of the ninth floor, cannot be read by anyone.

“Even if you pass the stages, you need some conditions to read them.

“For example, your identity, whether it is suitable to view the scriptures there, after all, the ninth floor involves a lot of things, only opened to those with a heart for martial arts.

“Young man, talk about reading the ninth-floor scriptures after you have passed.”

Xu Yan nodded. He didn’t feel wronged, the other party made perfect sense.

There are too many things involved, not anyone can enter.

“Brother Xie’s identity should work, right?”

Xu Yan muttered in his heart.

“Good!”

He looked at Ding Yan and said in a deep voice, “Are you prepared? I’m going to draw my sword!”

Ding Yan also got serious, although the young man looked arrogant, his strength was really strong, he dared not take it lightly.

Holding his treasure pen, he unveiled his peak Grandmaster’s aura without restraint.

“My friend, please!”

Zing!

The sword was drawn. In an instant, the audience felt a trance, as if they saw mountains and rivers emerging on the stage, and a dragon spiraling.

Roar!

A dragon roar came, and in an instant, everyone seemed to see a mountain and a river

At the moment Xu Yan’s sword was drawn, Fu Yun Tian moved his gaze from the book, struck with astonishment as he watched the young man. What kind of swordsmanship is it?

It seems to embody the mysteries of heaven and earth.

Was that a mountain and river? How could swordsmanship have the concept of mountains and rivers?

Once Xu Yan made his move, there were mountains and rivers, the dragon roared, in an instant, mountains and rivers appeared, and the dragon roared.

Ding Yan felt as if he was in a trance. With the dragon roar taking off, it seemed like he was entering a mountain and river, but he saw that the mountain river was desolate and murderous.

The vast mountain and river, suddenly turned upside down, as if they were going to destroy all life.

“Not good!”

His heart was astonished. What kind of swordsmanship was this?

Illusion? Mirage?

Boom!

The aura around Ding Yan’s body exploded as he drastically pointed his cherished brush, while swiftly retreating.

This retreat made it seem as if the mountains and rivers were receding.

Before he could breathe, as the mountains and rivers disappeared and he returned to reality, he felt a chilling sensation at his throat.

The sword tip was only an inch away from his throat

His earlier retreat seemed very far, but it also seemed like his body had not moved at all, only that he had retreated from within the mountains and rivers.

“I lost!”

In this moment, Ding Yan gave a bitter smile

He really couldn’t take even one sword strike!

Silence!

The surroundings fell into complete silence, everyone was aghast.

What kind of sword was that?!

Does such a sword Dao really exist in the world?

Even the Sword Zun Precipice, famously known as the number one Sword Dao Sect in the Inner Domain, doesn’t seem to have such an unfathomable sword Dao, right?

Cold Autumn stared with wide eyes, her heart surging with shock, what kind of swordsmanship was this?

Perhaps even her senior brother would not be able to take this sword strike, would he?