Chapter 174 - 88: Jiang Xuan: What of the Daozi Courtyard? You Are the Challenger

Chapter 174: Chapter 88: Jiang Xuan: What of the Daozi Courtyard? You Are the Challenger

What they regretted wasn’t their failure to see through Jiang Xuan’s killing blow—the moment he revealed his two domains, they knew they stood no chance against him.

What truly tormented them with regret was that they should never have rashly provoked this unfathomable young man from the very beginning.

...

"CLANG!"

Jiang Xuan was oblivious to their thoughts. The instant they fell in death, a clear, sharp sword-cry suddenly echoed between Heaven and Earth. Tang Yinzheng had made her move.

As for why she waited until her subordinates were dead to act, it was simply because she’d had no opportunity before.

After revealing his two domains, Jiang Xuan’s gaze had locked firmly onto Tang Yinzheng.

Jiang Xuan also focused the endless chill of Winter is Coming and the terrifying suppression of his Gravity primarily on Tang Yinzheng.

Even the transparent Ice Blades condensed by his One-Nine Swordsmanship were locked onto all of Tang Yinzheng’s vital points.

With Gravity suppressing everything and the cold tides and freezing winds solidifying all matter, Tang Yinzheng, pinned by the two domains, saw her face instantly turn ashen. Her qi and blood roiled unstably within her.

Completely suppressed in both body and mind, Tang Yinzheng even felt a strange sense that the sky in her vision had turned dim and dreary. The surrounding chill was like the waters of an endless, icy abyss, rising from her ankles to submerge her body and soul.

As a chosen prodigy of the Rooster Daoist School, she also possessed a precognitive Technique—a type of Melody that would pulse as a warning whenever she sensed danger.

But now, that danger-sensing Melody was no longer just pulsing. It was shrieking ceaselessly like a demonic wail inside her body and Soul Spirit.

Under these circumstances, she didn’t even dare to breathe too loudly, let alone make a reckless move.

But her position as number one in the Rooster Daoist School was by no means an empty title. Seizing the brief opening while Jiang Xuan slaughtered her three subordinates, her fingertips fiercely plucked the strings of the zither-like Magical Artifact she carried, sending a sharp sword-cry ringing mightily through the air.

"CLANG!"

And this sword-cry was not just a sound.

As the mighty soundwave swept through the air, it actually shattered countless of the transparent, colorless Ice Blades that Jiang Xuan had condensed.

Seizing this opportunity, Tang Yinzheng abruptly began to burn her Magical Power, desperately trying to flee into the distance.

As she fled, realizing she had provoked the wrong person, she shamelessly cast aside all thoughts of face and shouted, "Qiao Yue, save me!"

"???"

The panicked cry for help made Qiao Yue, who was in the middle of hunting down Xie Hanyan, freeze for a moment.

’What’s going on? Isn’t Xie Hanyan the only expert left around here?’

Though confused, he still turned his head to look back.

Then, he discovered that the other members of his Daoist School were dead, and his greatest rival in the Rooster Daoist School, Tang Yinzheng, was fleeing toward him with a look of terror on her face.

And behind her, a young man with the presence of a mountain, wrapped in the boundless might of winter, was giving chase at an unhurried pace, his oppressive aura flooding the heavens.

...

The sight caused Qiao Yue’s gaze to darken, but after a moment of consideration, he decided to intervene.

’No matter how we compete on a normal day, we’re both from the Rooster Daoist School. If the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold. I can’t just stand by and watch.’

"CLANG!"

However, he wanted to leave, but Xie Hanyan had no intention of letting him.

It was not in her nature to be indebted to others. Moreover, she was no fool; she knew perfectly well that right now, she and Jiang Xuan were on the same side.

If Jiang Xuan were defeated, she too would not be able to escape destruction.

Therefore, she immediately attacked with all her might, pinning down Qiao Yue and refusing to yield a single step.

However, as she held back Qiao Yue, her gaze toward Jiang Xuan was also filled with boundless astonishment.

Clearly, she had never expected that this fellow disciple—who had previously followed her around, but whom she had never paid much mind—could be so absurdly powerful.

...

"VMMMM—!"

With Qiao Yue blocked, Jiang Xuan decided not to drag things out any longer.

Opening his Nether Abyss Dharma Eye, he extended his right hand and aimed it at Tang Yinzheng from afar. Then, from a distance of several dozen meters, Jiang Xuan took a deep breath, formed his right hand into a claw, and yanked it back forcefully.

[Celestial Orbit Star Guide]

This was a technique from an anime in his past life, one that Jiang Xuan had simulated using his Nether Abyss Dharma Eye.

For catching people, this move was extremely effective.

"VMMMM—!"

Tang Yinzheng, who was in the middle of fleeing, suddenly froze in place.

She felt a terrifying, formless, and intangible force lock firmly onto her body, forcibly dragging her backward.

This development greatly alarmed Tang Yinzheng, and she instinctively tried to struggle.

Unfortunately, the pull of the Celestial Orbit Star Guide was not so easily resisted.

What’s more, Jiang Xuan had also applied an upward gravitational pull on her, nullifying the earth’s gravity.

Weightless as if she were nothing, ready to float away at any moment, she naturally had even less of a chance to escape Jiang Xuan’s grasp.

"WHOOSH!"

However, just as Jiang Xuan was about to pull Tang Yinzheng to his side, his Celestial Heart Sensing was suddenly triggered. A heart-pounding sense of danger surged from the depths of his Soul Spirit.

"?!!"

At this, Jiang Xuan’s pupils shrank.

His pulling motion abruptly changed into a push.

"Repel!"

"BANG!"

A terrifying repulsive force erupted from Jiang Xuan’s palm. Even from over ten meters away, it slammed into the returning Tang Yinzheng, shaking her internal organs and causing her to involuntarily spit out a mouthful of blood.

But at the very moment Jiang Xuan sensed the crisis and pushed Tang Yinzheng away, the latter’s killing blow—one she had been brewing for what felt like an eternity—was finally unleashed.

"TWANG!"

As the string of her Magical Artifact snapped, a piercing, murderous soundwave bypassed the barriers of Jiang Xuan’s Flesh Body and Magical Power, exploding out of thin air directly within his mind and Divine Soul.