225. Sword Spirit challenge, Gai Nie bloodily tortures Chen Xin! Chen Xin is forced to use Dugu Jiujian! [Big Chapter]_2
What nonsense are you asking! Your own Sword Spirit was a gift from others, and you still ask if they have a Sword Spirit?! Have you gone mad!
Lin Yi nodded and continued, "Exert all your strength and have a contest with my Sword Spirit. If you can last for one minute under the attack of my Sword Spirit, you will have completed the challenge, and the quality of your Sword Spirit can be upgraded to senior."
"During the process, you will use a spirit form just like the Sword Spirit to ensure fairness. If the spirit form shatters, it means utter failure. Do you want to take up the challenge?"
Chen Xin swallowed nervously.
Ever since Gan Jiang became his Sword Spirit, it had indeed brought him significant enhancement. If Gan Jiang's quality could be upgraded to senior, it would certainly be a huge leap.
But damn it, why can't it just be upgraded directly!
Chen Xin thought with a dark expression on his face.
Forget it, how can one see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain? Challenge it is! A true man faces challenges head-on!
"I challenge you!"
Chen Xin said with a determined tone.
Lin Yi nodded again and made a "please" gesture to Chen Xin: "Please, take a seat."
"Wait a moment, senior, I would like to ask about the quality of your Sword Spirit... how is it?"
Concerned with the outcome of the challenge and the choice of rewards, Chen Xin felt it necessary to ask clearly in order to be mentally prepared.
"It's just a regular Sword Spirit, don't feel too much pressure."
Lin Yi reassured him.
Chen Xin smiled and nodded, immediately feeling relieved.
He sat down cross-legged as instructed by Lin Yi.
"Spirit out-of-body!"
Lin Yi raised his sword finger, and to everyone's surprise, a phantom shadow emerged from Chen Xin's body, following Lin Yi's guidance!
This phantom was none other than Chen Xin's spirit form.
Chen Xin turned to look back at his own physical body with a face full of surprise. Could this really be happening? Isn't this something that only happened in bedtime stories he heard as a child?
He hadn't expected Senior Lin Yi to have such ability!
Of course, it was the System's ability... Lin Yi was merely borrowing it.
"You have one minute to adapt to the spirit form state."
Lin Yi said.
After he spoke, he flung a sharp, blood-red broadsword forward. "Clang!"
The Asura Sword embedded itself heavily in the platform, with its chill and ferocity spreading outward, causing Chen Xin, in his spirit form state, to pale.
"The Asura Sword..."
He swallowed nervously, stepping back a few paces. Chen Xin, who had originally planned to use the Seven Kills Sword, also silently summoned his own Asura Sword.
Chen Xin was of course aware that his Asura Sword was a Martial Soul, while Lin Yi's Asura Sword was the Divine Artifact itself.
The next moment, the Asura Sword that was embedded in the platform began to tremble, and a white light floated out from it, transforming into a man dressed in plain clothes. The man, also in a spirit form, bowed to Chen Xin and said, "I am Gai Nie, at my master's command to initiate the challenge for you."
Chen Xin returned the bow, but his heart turned cold.
He could feel an unparalleled sharp sword intent emanating from the other.
Is this what the senior said was... just an ordinary Sword Spirit? You've got to be kidding me!
Lin Yi, watching the time, spoke up, "Begin, timing one minute."
Chen Xin immediately retreated, putting distance between himself and Gai Nie.
At this moment, standing between the two seated individuals, two spirit forms were facing each other, the atmosphere taut with tension.
The audience below couldn't help but hold their breath. They had never seen such a form of challenge before. But whether it was the people from Martial Soul Hall or from Tiandou, they all couldn't help feeling nervous for Chen Xin.
In their hearts, Lin Yi was like a god, and a Sword Spirit from a god, how could it be easy to deal with?
"Boom!"
Gai Nie stamped his right foot on the ground, and the Asura Sword that was plunged into the earth suddenly shot out, grasped in his hand.
A fluttering sound of robes could be heard as Gai Nie disappeared from his spot in the blink of an eye.
"Bang!"
Bloody light exploded towards Chen Xin's side. Chen Xin's eyes widened as he narrowly sidestepped, but the front of his garment promptly burst open, and his form too was sent flying backward by an overpowering sword intent.
Chen Xin's spirit form shot through his physical body like a cannonball and nearly fell off the platform.
Gai Nie controlled the force just in time, stopping the Asura Sword blade merely a millimeter from the surface of the stage with a "hum," not allowing it to land, because Lin Yi would not permit his venue to be damaged.
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The spectators were dumbfounded, holding their breaths as Chen Xin nearly had his spiritual body shattered from just one encounter—a failed challenge!
How could anyone fight this?!
Fortunately, the objective was just to hold out for a minute, not to achieve victory.
Chen Xin furrowed his brows, looking down at his chest where his torn clothes mingled with blurred flesh and blood. He had clearly dodged it, yet he was wounded by the sword's energy...
"Second Soul Skill, Asura Purgatory!"
"Seventh Soul Skill, Asura Real Body!"
"Sixth Soul Skill! Asura Cross Charge!"
"Roar——"
The stands were enveloped by a sanguine light, with desiccated hands stretching out from the ground and the wailing sounds of ghosts and wolves hovering nearby.
Within the Asura Purgatory, the attacker's attack power was reduced by twenty percent, with soul attacks making up eighty percent. Those with weak minds even risked falling into madness.
But Gai Nie's expression remained serene as he continued walking over as if unaffected by the Asura Purgatory.
At this moment, Chen Xin was engulfed by a layer of sanguine light; he lifted his Asura Sword as the pitch-black Sixth Soul Ring rose above him.
"Buzz! Buzz!"
Chen Xin brandished the Asura Sword, unleashing two intersecting sanguine sword energies forming a cross blasting towards Gai Nie.
It was an exceedingly powerful individual attack soul skill, with a hundred percent armor penetration effect, against which a Soul Master of the same level could certainly not withstand head-on!
The two sanguine cross-shaped sword energies swiftly approached Gai Nie, but he faced them fearlessly, lifting his Asura Sword with the tip thrusting forward, directly into the center of the cross!
"Bang!!"
The Asura Cross Charge violently shattered! It was so fragile against Gai Nie's counter-attack!
Chen Xin was shocked; he had not expected Lin Yi's Sword Spirit to be this formidable!
This is ordinary? Senior, you cheated me!!
He continued to maintain the real body state of martial soul, the Asura Real Body providing him with speed, strength, spiritual power, and reflexes he normally didn't possess.
"Eighth Soul Skill! Asura Illusion Kill!"
Chen Xin charged at Gai Nie, instantly splitting into more than a dozen figures that surrounded Gai Nie in the center.
Each figure wielded the Asura Sword, performing the same downward slashing motion, with the tips of their swords emitting bursts of sanguine light skyward, and a huge Asura Sword plunged from the clouds with a thundering roar.
"Boom!"
Gai Nie looked up, his pupils reflecting a sword blade, as he tossed his Asura Sword into the air, spinning the sword, which inflated and also shot upwards.
"Boom!"
The two massive broadswords collided with a loud noise, but the one that broke was Chen Xin's sword!
Gai Nie grasped his now-diminished Asura Sword, bent his knees on the spot, and delivered a simple yet powerful slash in Chen Xin's direction.
When the sanguine sword energy skimmed through the air, there was no sound, thin as a cicada's wing, yet Chen Xin felt the threat of death.
"Ninth Soul——"
Before even unleashing his Ninth Soul Skill, the blood-colored sword energy split Chen Xin's Asura Sword Martial Soul and sent him flying backward.
Rolling backward for several meters, Chen Xin looked up to see Gai Nie continuing to walk towards him. With only ten seconds left in the minute, Gai Nie was clearly getting serious.
As long as Chen Xin's spiritual body was shattered within this minute, the challenge would be deemed a failure.
The Asura Sword Martial Soul was shattered and could no longer be used.
Chen Xin gritted his teeth. Since he couldn't defeat Senior Lin Yi, he decided to let Senior Lin Yi defeat himself!
He slapped the ground with his right hand, flipping his body in mid-air to stand up again.
With a raise of his finger, the Seven Kills unsheathed, the ephemeral shadow of Gan Jiang flickered on the blade, captured by Gai Nie's gaze.
Gai Nie sneered, twirling the sword handle, preparing to deliver the final, fatal blow.
But at that moment, Chen Xin softly chanted.
"Lone Nine Swords Second Form, Sword Breaking Style!"
"Buzz——"
The Seven Kills Sword flickered in mid-air like a swift serpent, the sword shadows flashing, then suddenly tensed up, and countless sword flowers bloomed through the air.
Chen Xin's figure also seemed to become more ethereal.
If using the Asura Real Body before had filled him with a fierce and murderous air, now, he was so intangible that he seemed to blend into the surrounding environment.
ps. Thank you for following along.
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