Fighting the Supreme Realm

But despite this, the aftermath of Zhongchi's fighting spirit still hit Zhen Jian's chest. Zhen Jian was thrown far away, spitting blood from his mouth, and curled up on the ground unable to get up.

First, he forcefully performed the sixth move and suffered a backlash from his fighting skills, and then received a heavy blow from the aftermath of Zhongchi's fighting spirit. Zhen Jian was extremely seriously injured at this time. Fighting energy was scurrying around in his body like thousands of ants eating his heart, and his internal organs were in turmoil. He was in unbearable pain. .

But what are the injuries on his body compared to his despair?

Although Zhen Jian has not mastered the sixth form of the "Nine Emperor Swords" at all. What he just performed was only the incomplete form of the sixth form. There is still a big gap between it and the real sixth form, but its power is far greater than the fifth form. There were so many that Zhen Jian even regained hope of defeating Xiao Yan. But Zhen Jian didn't expect that he would be defeated by Xiao Yan in one blow!

Zhen Jian's eyes were straight. He felt that the pride that belonged to him before was simply a joke. At this time, he was completely despairing, and all his unwillingness turned into powerless despair.

Let me ask you, if you can't even defeat the patriarch of a family affiliated to the Zhen family who is also a four-star peak fighting emperor that you don't even want to look at, how can you deserve the glory of a "peerless genius"? How can he have the nerve to become the future successor of the head of the Zhen family? Zhen Jian only felt that his sword heart, which he had practiced hard for many years, was shattered, everything became meaningless, and the colorful picture of life turned into gray at this moment.

"Master, Master, are you...are you okay?"

The guards on Zhen Jian's side ignored all the shock and quickly gathered around, supporting Zhen Jian and stuffing high-level healing elixirs into Zhen Jian's mouth. His eyes were full of worry.

Zhen Jian didn't appreciate it at all. He spat out the pill and struggled to get up. Without looking at his subordinates or paying attention to Xiao Yan who was standing not far away, he staggered towards the original path. However, due to the serious injury, he only took a few steps and fell heavily to the ground, scattering a little dust.

But he supported his body with both hands and swayed a few times before standing up again and continuing to move forward. The whole person became a lot more vicissitudes at this moment.

The guards stared blankly at Zhen Jian's back, their eyes even more worried, but they didn't know what to do. a long time. Then one of the guards seemed to remember something and shouted to Zhen Jian: "Master, you haven't taken your Hao Jian yet!"

Zhen Jian turned a deaf ear and still staggered forward with empty eyes.

The guard was stunned for a moment. Picked up Hao Jian from the ground and chased after him. He handed it to Zhen Jian respectfully - "Master, your sword."

"Hahahaha." Zhen Jian did not reach out to take the sword. He looked up to the sky and laughed wildly, with tears streaming down his face. "I have been immersed in swordsmanship since I was a child, but today I have been defeated again and again. How can I wear this sword again?"

"This..." The guard muttered, but he dared not answer the question, and had no choice but to watch Zhen Jian's lost figure fade away.

"Put away the Haojian. Let's catch up. If something happens to the young master, none of us will survive."

Another guard who seemed to be quite prestigious among the crowd looked back at Xiao Yan with an unusually complex expression. He waved his hand and led a group of people to catch up.

The mountain road became quiet again, and the mountain wind blew up the dust on the ground and dispersed it in the air, adding a touch of depression to the dusk sky.

Xiao Yan had been watching this scene silently with an expressionless face. No one knew what he was thinking at this time.

"The murderous aura that burst out from your body just now scared me. I thought you would actually kill me!" Jing Wuchen stepped forward and patted Xiao Yan on the shoulder, his eyes full of admiration, "You can kill me in this way!" You can control your emotions when you are furious, and you can also use your moves in a life-and-death fight. Brother Xiao, I really admire your calmness and exquisite control of fighting skills. "

"That Zhen Jian is so ungrateful. He kept pushing me even though he was obviously inferior to others. I did have the urge to kill him just now." Xiao Yan said with a gloomy face, "But you and I both know that unless it is absolutely necessary, this It’s better not to kill Zhen Jian.”

"However, even though I didn't kill him, he was no different than useless."

A smile gradually appeared on Xiao Yan's lips.

"What's the meaning?"

Although Zhen Jian was seriously injured, he had many subordinates to protect him. As long as he took the healing elixir and recuperated for a few days, he would definitely not have any sequelae. Why bother talking about it? Jing Wuchen didn't understand it, and Long Yi didn't understand it either.

"I also guessed it from Zhen Jian's Luotuo expression just now." Xiao Yan raised his eyebrows slightly, "Zhen Jian is regarded as a peerless genius in the Zhen family because of his excellent talent. He has always set his sights above others and has never experienced any setbacks. Such a person may appear gentle and courteous on the surface, but deep down he must be extremely arrogant. It is difficult for him to accept defeat, and even more difficult for him to accept defeat at the hands of someone with a huge disparity in status like me.”

"It can be said that today's defeat is definitely the biggest shame in his life. With his character, this may become a shadow that he will never get rid of in his life. He is proud of his sword all his life, and the heart of the sword is his motivation for continuous improvement. The source of power is the root of his rapid progress in cultivation. Now that he has abandoned his sword, his sword heart has been broken, and I am afraid that it will be difficult for him to make any further progress in the way of swordsmanship in this life.

"Haha, this is the best. This is better than killing him!" Jing Wuchen gave Xiao Yan a thumbs up, but he soon thought that Xiao Yan might offend the Zhen family because of this, and couldn't help but remind him He said, "But Brother Xiao, Zhen Jian will definitely hold a grudge after receiving this blow. I'm afraid he will specifically target you in the future, so you have to guard against it."

"It doesn't matter." Xiao Yan smiled disapprovingly, "If he can't solve the problem himself, who can blame him? If you are the head of the Zhen family, do you think that the Zhen family is a useless person? Is Zhen Jian more important, or is it a subordinate family? "

"It seems I've been worrying too much." Jing Wuchen took out two roll leaves and lit them, gave one to Xiao Yan, and took a nice sip himself.

Xiao Yan took Juan Ye and sighed softly: "Oh, I didn't expect that it would be so simple for a genius's halo to change from dazzling to dim. It seems that on the road to fighting the emperor, talent is not the most important, perseverance Perseverance and an attitude of becoming more courageous despite setbacks are more important.”

"Yes." Jing Wuchen nodded as if he had some understanding, and suddenly lowered his voice and asked. "You said that Soul Shadow is definitely not nearby? Did you also see the scene of your conflict with Zhen Jian?"

"I don't know." Xiao Yan's eyes suddenly shrank when he mentioned the troublesome guy Hun Ying Jue. "If I could know the whereabouts of that bastard, I wouldn't have to be careful all the time."

Xiao Yan looked at the scarlet blood moon in the sky, thought for a while and said: "However, I think the possibility of him being close is not very high. After all, he can only block the detection of soul power, and it is still difficult to detect it within the range of vision. Hiding his figure, there were a lot of people here just now. If he was watching the battle at close range, he would be easily noticed, so I think he should not be nearby. If I were Hun Ying Jue, I would definitely stay away from everyone's sight when I saw Zhen Jian and the others coming. Just wait and see what happens. Because the road ahead is blocked, there is no need to worry about losing us. You can just sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight. "

"It makes sense." Jing Wuchen and Long Yi nodded at the same time, Jing Wuchen asked. "That's what you say. Hun Ying Jue won't launch a surprise attack on us just yet?"

"Well, I don't think so. He has made several consecutive sneak attacks to no avail. Knowing that we must have heightened our vigilance, plus the fact that I defeated Zhen Jian just now, he will definitely be more cautious due to our strength."

"Then do you think he will give up because he thinks we are too difficult?" Jing Wuchen asked Xiao Yan excitedly.

Hearing this, Xiao Yan was slightly stunned, and then smiled bitterly: "You are thinking of good things! He will not give up, kill me. Maybe it is his mission to enter the illusion. We have made him miss many times before, this is for him who almost never fails. It is definitely a huge shame, so I guess that he will take fewer and fewer shots in the future, but once he does, it will definitely be a shocking kill! In other words, if we are attacked again, we will be more powerful than before. Dangerous!”

"This Soul Shadow Jue is really annoying!"

Long Yi had no way to vent his pent-up anger, and angrily thrust his thunder spear into the mountain road.

Jing Wuchen also threw Juan Ye to the ground and said bitterly: "That's right, I know he is hiding in a dark place nearby, but I can't find him. It's so damn frustrating."

Seeing the depressed looks of his two companions, Xiao Yan calmed down and encouraged his morale: "Don't worry, there will always be a way to deal with him when we get to the inner circle. Do you have so little confidence in me? I'm still thinking about it What about the treasure on his body that can block the detection of soul power?"

Xiao Yan's teasing made Jing Wuchen and Long Yi feel a lot better. Jing Wuchen said angrily: "But we don't even know how to get into the inner circle!"

"You don't have to worry about this." Xiao Yan leaned against the cliff lazily, blowing out a few beautiful smoke rings from his mouth. He waited until the smoke rings slowly dispersed before he said, "So many people have gone in. Let's be careful." Keep an eye out and you'll definitely find the entrance."

When they came to the end of the mountain road again, there was still mist and mist below, and greenery loomed. Xiao Yan and the other three quietly observed.

Gradually, the night fell, and the blood moon in the sky looked even colder. Long Yi's eyes, which occasionally flashed with golden lightning, began to feel a little irritated. Jing Wuchen couldn't help but mutter: "I've been looking for it for a long time. , why can’t I still find the entrance?”

"Haha, you have become impatient after just a short while?" Xiao Yan looked down and said, "We have to learn the strengths of our opponents. You see, Hun Ying Jue, in order to kill me, has been patiently tracking us for so long. If you don’t show up, you won’t have any improvement in your patience?”

"When I think of Hun Ying Jue, I feel like a thorn in my side. How can I have the energy to learn patience?" Jing Wuchen played with the flying knife and curled his lips, disapprovingly.

Xiao Yan smiled and said nothing more.

The night is getting darker, the cool breeze is blowing, and the mountain road is even more lonely.

Just when the patience of Jing Wuchen and Long Yi was about to run out, the white mist covering the shield under the mountain road suddenly billowed and slowly dispersed to both sides, revealing the translucent shield. At the same time, the blood moon in the sky suddenly became brighter, and a beam of light was projected from the blood moon and just landed on the shield.

When illuminated by the light beam, the shield melted like ice and snow meeting an open flame, forming a round hole about five meters in diameter, with a faint light coming from it.

"Look, look!" Jing Wuchen jumped up happily, pointing at the round hole and shouting wildly, "This must be the entrance to the inner circle, it must be! Let's go in quickly!"

"Don't worry." Xiao Yan stretched out his hand to stop Jing Wuchen's impatient steps. He sucked a round shield on the mountain road into his hand with a breath, then flicked his wrist, and the round shield drew an arc through the blood moon. The beam of light fell into the round hole.

This time, the round shield did not break into pieces like the previous spear, but fell into the round hole without any damage and fell downwards.

Jing Wuchen and Long Yi listened for a long time, but did not hear any sound. It seemed that there was a bottomless pit under the round hole.

"Should we be able to go in?" Jing Wuchen asked Xiao Yan.

"Well, I just attached the power of my soul to the round shield and sensed that there was a huge space below. Now the round shield is still in the air and has not yet reached the ground."

Xiao Yan smiled, then stepped out, stood in the pillar of light of the blood moon, and fell towards the round hole.

"This beam of light will not harm anyone. You can come down now." Xiao Yan greeted Long Yi and Jing Wuchen in mid-air.

The two of them immediately jumped into the light pillar.

As soon as the three people's figures landed at the round hole of the shield, the space around them became distorted, and a mysterious force enveloped the three people and fell into the round hole...

............(To be continued...)

ps: In the new year, Wen Ling wishes everyone all the best and wishes you all a happy New Year.