Chapter 46: Transformation Sea Great Perfection?

In a secluded mountain forest.

Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!

A succession of intense collision sounds rang out.

Duan Yunfeng's saber technique was executed to near perfection. His saber strikes flowed one after another, each one brilliantly dazzling, while his speed was unimaginably fast.

Su Xin, meanwhile, employed the Mountain-Sea Scroll, transforming into mountains and seas. Wielding his long sword, he rolled up layers of profound sword intent, successfully blocking the ceaseless onslaught of saber light.

Compared to before, Su Xin's swordsmanship was visibly steadier and far more substantial.

He had merely exerted fifty percent of his bloodline power.

Even though Duan Yunfeng had pushed his own strength to the ultimate limit, he still could not break through Su Xin's swordsmanship.

"I'm done, I'm not fighting anymore."

"Unless I unleash my ultimate move, even if my saber technique were thirty or forty percent faster, it wouldn't pose the slightest threat to you."

After the sparring match, Duan Yunfeng looked extremely depressed.

Su Xin's defensive swordsmanship was too bizarre, especially the soft and yielding technique that dissipated force layer by layer, which drove him utterly crazy.

Su Xin let out a soft breath.

In terms of strength, Duan Yunfeng was far stronger than Tang Xuan, and his saber technique brought much greater pressure. This sparring session gave Su Xin a deeper comprehension of the Mountain-Sea Scroll, though he still failed to achieve a genuine breakthrough.

Suddenly...

Both Su Xin and Duan Yunfeng raised their heads at the same time and looked off in a certain direction.

"Someone is coming, and there are quite a few of them." Su Xin's gaze narrowed.

"The two of us combined are practically invincible within this hunting ground. Even if we ran into that monstrous bald monk, neither side could do anything to the other. On this last night, it would be a wonder if we didn't go looking for trouble, yet someone actually dares to deliver themselves to their deaths?" A trace of ferocity flashed in Duan Yunfeng's eyes.

He was no benevolent soul; he was a thoroughbred malevolent star.

He hadn't gone looking to provoke others, yet someone had come to provoke him instead?

Before long, a group of exactly seven people appeared before Su Xin and Duan Yunfeng.

"It's him?"

Su Xin raised an eyebrow, recognizing the leader at a glance and understanding why the other party had come looking for them.

Xiao Mo was a genius qualified to contend for the top twenty in this hunt.

Furthermore, Su Xin knew from the start that Duan Yunfeng had snatched Xiao Mo's wife on the very day of Xiao Mo's wedding and had heavily humiliated him into the bargain.

"Haha, and here I thought who it might be. So it's you, the useless wretch who couldn't even keep his own wife." Duan Yunfeng immediately sneered and mocked him.

He had simply despised Xiao Mo's character.

Snatching Xiao Mo's wife was also because that woman had been purely coerced by Xiao Mo and was completely unwilling.

After snatching her away, he had simply let the woman leave.

"Duan Yunfeng."

Xiao Mo stared at Duan Yunfeng with venomous eyes. "Although I don't know what kind of background you have that makes even the family behind me dare not move against you, today, I will cut off your hope of entering the Heavenly Flame Palace."

"Attack!"

At Xiao Mo's command, one of the geniuses behind him immediately stepped forward and tossed a jade talisman into the empty space before them.

Hum... hum...

Instantly, waves of mighty energy spread outward.

"A formation?"

Su Xin's expression changed slightly.

Naturally, it was only a relatively low-level formation meant for temporary confinement.

As for extremely high-level killing formations or formations that provided a massive boost to one's combat power, unless one had created them personally, they were forbidden from being used during the hunt.

After all, the hunt relied on one's own strength.

"Preparing a formation? It seems they came fully prepared." Su Xin smiled faintly.

"Sorry, Su Xin, I'm afraid I've dragged you into this." Duan Yunfeng glanced at Su Xin.

Su Xin shrugged and smiled indifferently.

Since they were in the middle of the hunt, getting dragged into it meant getting dragged into it; he didn't care.

Besides, although the lineup of the seven people before them was formidable, if they intended to deal with both him and Duan Yunfeng at the same time, it was probably a bit too much to ask, wasn't it?

"Let's attack together. This Duan Yunfeng absolutely cannot be given any chance. What we must be careful of is his desperate counterattack in a cornered situation; don't let him take one or two of us down with him."

"Luo Xiu, leave that grand-completion Sea-Realm cultivator to you. Don't waste time entangling with him; kill him at the fastest speed possible, then hurry over to join forces with us to slaughter Duan Yunfeng." Xiao Mo instructed.

"Understood."

The genius named Luo Xiu nodded. Immediately, apart from the frail girl responsible for guiding the way, five of the seven members charged directly toward Duan Yunfeng.

Meanwhile, Luo Xiu lunged like lightning toward Su Xin.

"Only one person came to deal with me, and out of the six attackers, he's the weakest one. They really don't take me seriously at all." Su Xin smiled lightly.

Among the seven who had come to kill them, excluding the frail girl, the other six were all top geniuses recorded in the intelligence reports.

Only Xiao Mo, Fairy Luo, and Ba Jiu had greater fame and strength. As for the remaining three, their rankings on that intelligence report were extremely low. When Su Xin had briefly reviewed the intelligence earlier, he had merely glanced over them casually, and this Luo Xiu was clearly the weakest among them.

Although looked down upon, Su Xin didn't mind and met him head-on.

"Duan Yunfeng, you can't escape!"

"Today, you are destined to be eliminated!"

Xiao Mo's voice was frigid, echoing through the mountain forest. Fairy Luo, Ba Jiu, and the remaining two geniuses had already launched their attacks.

With the five of them joining forces, a series of formidable onslaughts bore down upon Duan Yunfeng.

"Hmph, do you think I'm afraid of you?" Duan Yunfeng showed not a shred of fear.

A layer of red light surfaced over his body, and even his gaze turned somewhat scarlet.

Swish, swish, swish...

A terrifying saber technique erupted.

The saber light was dazzling, resembling a river of stars, incomparably radiant and eye-catching in the night sky.

Though fighting alone, the saber technique he executed single-handedly fended off the onslaught of all five people.

"He truly deserves to be recognized as an peerless genius destined to break into the top ten of this hunt." Fairy Luo nodded inwardly, seeing the gap in strength between herself and Duan Yunfeng. Had it not been for the five of them joining forces, she would never have dared to seek trouble with Duan Yunfeng.

After a single round of exchange, the five prepared to strike again, but suddenly...

"Impossible!"

An exclamation abruptly rang out.

The five figures surrounding Duan Yunfeng subconsciously turned their heads and saw that the genius named Luo Xiu, who had previously charged at Su Xin, was currently standing there with wide-open eyes. Layers of white light had already enveloped his body, and moments later, he was teleported out of the hunting ground.

This...

Xiao Mo, Fairy Luo, and Ba Jiu were stunned.

Although Luo Xiu was the weakest in strength among the six of them, he was still a top genius recorded in the intelligence report as qualified to contend for the top one hundred in this hunt.

Yet how much time had passed from the moment they attacked until now?

The five of them had only exchanged a single round of blows with Duan Yunfeng. Luo Xiu had moved at the same time as them, and his clash with his opponent had likewise lasted only a single exchange.

Yet in just a single exchange, Luo Xiu had been wiped out and eliminated?

This grand-completion Sea-Realm cultivator...

The five of them subconsciously looked toward Su Xin, who was holding his sword in one hand. They could clearly perceive that Su Xin's spiritual energy fluctuation was indeed merely at the grand-completion Sea-Realm level.

Yet he could kill Luo Xiu in a single exchange? Was this a grand-completion Sea-Realm?

Such strength, even Fairy Luo—the strongest among the five of them—might not possess it!

"Haha, sending the weakest one to deal with my brother alone, Xiao Mo, you really are stupid enough." Duan Yunfeng laughed out loud, shouting at the same time, "Brother, come over quickly! The two of us will join forces and slaughter all five of them."

"No problem." Su Xin smiled and stepped forward.

"Fairy Luo and I will stay behind to entangle with this Duan Yunfeng. Ba Jiu, the three of you join forces and kill that grand-completion Sea-Realm cultivator first." Xiao Mo ordered.

The original plan with six people joining forces was definitely enough to keep Duan Yunfeng trapped completely.

Who would have thought that the grand-completion Sea-Realm cultivator they had completely disregarded beforehand possessed such formidable strength, forcing him to immediately alter his strategy?

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Instantly, Ba Jiu and the other two geniuses from the intelligence report charged toward Su Xin.

They could also tell that Su Xin possessed terrifying strength, so none of them dared to harbor the slightest bit of carelessness anymore, all three executing their attacks with full force.

"Three people, and among them is Ba Jiu, a genius from the intelligence report deemed sufficient to contend for the top twenty?" Su Xin raised an eyebrow.

His Mountain-Sea Scroll indeed boasted remarkable defensive capabilities; in a one-on-one fight, even Duan Yunfeng couldn't bring too much pressure upon him without unleashing his ultimate move.

However, if the three of them joined forces...

Su Xin immediately unleashed his swordsmanship, blocking the attacks of the trio.

"This Xiao Mo came for Duan Yunfeng, and I was purely implicated. Now that I've killed one for him and held down three others including Ba Jiu, I've done my part." Su Xin thought to himself with a clear conscience.

Of course, this was also because, after a few days of contact, he knew how terrifying Duan Yunfeng's true strength was—far beyond what the intelligence report described.

Relying solely on Fairy Luo and Xiao Mo to join forces, it was utterly impossible for them to deal with Duan Yunfeng.

Su Xin was even anticipating that the cooperation between Fairy Luo and Xiao Mo might force Duan Yunfeng to reveal his true trump cards.

For instance, the ultimate move Duan Yunfeng had mentioned earlier...

He wanted to witness it for himself.

Bang! Bang! Clang!~~~

Within the mountain forest, the fierce roaring collisions caused by the battle and the continuous sound of clashing weapons rang out endlessly.

The strength of Xiao Mo and Fairy Luo was indeed extraordinary.

Especially Fairy Luo; as a bloodline awakener, once her bloodline power was stimulated, every move and stance carried an astonishingly terrifying might. Combined with Xiao Mo's cooperation, they completely suppressed Duan Yunfeng in a short span of time.

However, it was merely suppression.

Wanting to truly kill Duan Yunfeng and eliminate him with just the two of them was still beyond their reach.

Xiao Mo could only hope that Ba Jiu and the others could quickly finish off Su Xin and come to their aid.

Yet the result was...

"Damn it, where did such a monstrous grand-completion Sea-Realm cultivator crawl out from? With the three of them joining forces, Ba Jiu still can't do anything to him?" Xiao Mo saw the situation clearly.

Ba Jiu and the others had already tried their utmost, especially Ba Jiu, whose momentum was boundless and frenzied. Yet facing this fierce storm of attacks from the three geniuses, that 'grand-completion Sea-Realm' cultivator appeared completely at ease.

His swordsmanship was too bizarre.

It was like a vast and boundless ocean, encompassing everything in heaven and earth.

The attacks of Ba Jiu and the two others landed on this 'ocean', merely stirring up ripples across its surface.

Clearly, Ba Jiu's trio could do nothing to that grand-completion Sea-Realm cultivator.

And the cooperation between himself and Fairy Luo could not kill Duan Yunfeng either.

"Could it be that I won't even seize this only opportunity for revenge?" Xiao Mo gnashed his teeth in anger.

Suddenly...

Without any warning, Duan Yunfeng, who had been suppressed by the combined efforts of Fairy Luo and Xiao Mo, suddenly erupted.

A dazzling blood-red light abruptly flared.

Beneath the night sky, this blood-red light appeared unimaginably tragic and beautiful.

Yet it carried a terrifyingly supreme speed and astonishing might.

"This saber strike!"

Su Xin, who was still entangled with Ba Jiu's trio using the Mountain-Sea Scroll swordsmanship, suddenly narrowed his eyes. The moment that blood-red light flared, he was involuntarily drawn to it.

As for Xiao Mo and Fairy Luo, seeing the blood-red light filled them with shock and fury.

This blood-red light was simply too fast.

So fast that they were utterly unable to block it.