Chapter 19: True Intent
The heaven and earth Yuan Qi stopped gushing, the wind died down, and the tables and chairs stopped moving.
Chen Mo Li was also the same as when he had entered this wine store in the beginning, and he could not feel any terrifying aura on his body.
However, his calm words continued to blow through these students like a gale.
Ding Ning frowned slightly before he would speak.
"Go out, so that you don't have to struggle to clean up if you mess things up later." But before he had the chance to say anything, Chen Mo Li was the one who faintly said this sentence again, and with a direct calm turn, walked out of the wine store.
Xu Heshan's face also became more and more ugly, but at the same time Chen Moli turned around, he did not follow at the first opportunity, but turned his head to look at Xie Changsheng and Nangong Cai Beans, and lowered his voice and said, "When you depress your realm, it has nothing to do with your cultivation."
The students present were all intelligent, and all of them understood the meaning of Xu Heshan's words.
With cultivation aside, the key to deciding victory or defeat often lay in experience against the enemy and fighting skills.
"I understand."
Xie Changsheng looked at Chen Mo Li's back and said coldly, "Saying that it's all about face, it's only natural that we should let the person within us who is the most skilled at fighting go into battle."
As he exited with these words, the gazes of all these students all stopped on Nangong Caiyang's body.
Within them all, putting aside the factor of cultivation, the one who was the most skilled at fighting was instead this young girl who looked the most delicate.
Nangong Cai Beans herself seemed to know this very well.
Her face grew solemn, and without saying any words, she was just the first to move her steps, walking at the front.
Chen Mo Li stood still in the street, he looked down at the ground and saw several weeds growing in the cracks of the stones by his boots.
He then thought of the Li Ling Jun that he followed, who was also like a weed tenaciously surviving in the cracks of the stones in this Qin capital.
After today, will the situation turn around?
His expression grew solemn.
He turned to look at Nangong Cai Beans, who had walked across to him, nodded his head in salute, and said, "Please!"
Nangong Cai Beans' eyes narrowed slightly, and he also nodded as he saluted, "Please!"
The voice was still echoing in the alley, but the sparrows on the surrounding sycamore trees suddenly flew up in surprise, and countless yellow leaves swirled out from around Nangong Cai Beans' body.
As the gusts of wind rose, Nangong Cai Beans sliced towards Chen Mo Li's center line in a purely straight line, bringing out a streak of residual shadows.
A fish patterned iron sword chopped out from her right hand, also in an unusually straight stance, toward Chen Mo Li's head.
The sword had only just come out, when the old force dissipated and a new force was born.
A stream of true qi continuously erupted, disappeared, and erupted on the sword.
A wave of qi continuously fluffed up in the cool air.
It was just an unusually straight sword, yet it gave the impression of countless swords.
This was the Liancheng Sword Technique of her father, the great general of Li Shi County, Nangong Broken City.
In the many recorded stories of battles with the Zhao Dynasty, Nangong Broken City had many experiences of flying several heavily armored chariots with one sword.
This was an extremely rigid sword momentum that was continuously and consecutively powered up through the control of true qi.
Chen Mo Li's eyes also had a strange light in them, he also did not even think that such a delicate young girl would strike out with such ferocity, and could even be said to be mighty!
Only in the face of such a fierce sword, his reaction was only a strange light flashing in his eyes.
He didn't even take a step back, and the air seemed to resound with a crane sound.
His sword was sheathed.
His sword's hilt was a clean white colored white jade, and the sword's body inside, surprisingly, was also a crystalline white, thin and slightly transparent, with shallow feather patterns, looking exquisite and fragile.
This sword, however, was unusually simple and rough as it crossed over, lifting upwards and smashing towards the fish patterned iron sword that was splitting from above.
There was a loud bang.
A circle of air waves exploded around the two men's bodies, and even the few soft weeds in the rock crevices at Chen Mo Li's feet were snapped by the powerful and sharp sword qi.
The eyes of Xie Changsheng and the others unconsciously narrowed.
No one had expected that the seemingly fragile white sword in Chen Moli's hand could also burst out with such power, and in such a short space.
The most crucial thing was that the white sword in his hand didn't even have any wounds at the moment, it was just constantly trembling.
However, the broad fish patterned iron sword in Nangong Caiyang's hand was already slightly bent.
Several strands of blood were flowing from her tiger's mouth to the hilt of the fish pattern iron sword.
Many scattered spectators had already come out from the alleys around Wutong Drop, they might not be able to see the subtlety of this kind of battle, what shocked them was that Nangong Cai Beans could burst out such power from such a small body.
A furious hiss that made one's eardrums explode spewed out from between Nangong Cai Beans' lips at this moment.
The soles of her boots made an almost explosive sound, yet she did not retreat a step.
She gritted her teeth and forced herself to endure the pain as her left hand stabbed at Chen Mo Li's belly.
In this instant, a small green-colored sword had already appeared in her left hand.
The surface of this small green sword had many naturally formed vine patterns due to casting, and as she stabbed upwards, the true qi that flowed out from this sword also made it seem as if there were many fine green vines growing in the air, making it impossible to easily see where the tip of the sword was pointing.
This was the Green Vine True Qi and Green Vine Sword Technique of the Green Vine Sword Academy.
Ding Ning's face also became grave.
No wonder even the proud Xie Changsheng would give up his position for Nangong Caixiang to fight, the difficulty of the Green Vine Sword Academy's Green Vine True Qi and Green Vine Sword Technique was the coordination, Nangong Caixiang was in the second realm and had already allowed the two to utilize such a power, it was indeed already a rare talent.
The sword intent greeted his belly, and just now, under the extremely fierce sword, there hid such a feminine sword, even Chen Mo Li's face changed dramatically.
He had an urge to unlock his true essence.
However, he still forcefully controlled his impulse, and in this flash of lightning, his left hand also moved.
There was no sword in his left hand, yet there was a scabbard, a flashy green sharkskin scabbard.
This scabbard suddenly turned into a spring water, covering the countless green vines growing upwards.
All the people only heard a soft clang.
That was the sound of a sword returning to its sheath.
All of the green vine-like sword Qi disappeared, and Nangong Caiyan's face turned snow white.
All the students behind her all sucked in a breath of cold air.
Her sword, returned to Chen Mo Li's sheath.
In the midst of the countless green vines, in such a rush, Chen Moli had accurately grasped the true shadow of her sword, and extremely accurately sheathed her sword with his scabbard.
And in the next instant, Chen Moli's movements did not stop there.
Chen Moli held the end of the scabbard and continued to swing his sword.
Spring Water continued to swing.
Nangong Cai Beans was finally unable to hold herself up, her body was first pried up like a stone, her back heel leaving the ground, in the next instant, her left hand holding the sword was shaken to the point that her five fingers were loosened, and the small, green-colored sword that she was holding was detached from her palm, and like a finch captured in a cage, it was still trapped in the green scabbard that Chen Moli was holding.
Xie Changsheng hung his head, his heart was cold and angry, but he knew that saying anything at this time was nonsense.
Xu Heshan and many other students' faces were also pale.
From the moment Chen Mo Li began to display his realm, they knew that this Great Chu Dynasty swordsman was strong, however, they did not expect that it would be this strong, even Nangong Cai Beans, who was considered by the many teachers of the Green Vine Sword Academy to be the most battle-savvy of all the students of the Green Vine Academy during the past few decades, was defeated so crisply that even the Green Vine Sleeve Sword was snatched away with a single scabbard.
Pfft...pfft...
With two soft sounds, Nangong Cai Beans landed on her feet, and two streams of smoke and dust escaped from under her feet.
She was, after all, a very young girl, thinking of the teachings of those teachers of the Sword Academy during the weekdays, and seeing the Green Vine Sleeve Sword that she regarded as her life being taken by the other party, she was so ashamed and angry to the extreme that she even wanted to cry.
Chen Mo Li glanced at her.
He retracted his sword.
The Green Vine Sleeve Sword flew out of his scabbard and landed straight in front of Nangong Cai Beans, and at the same time, his right hand's white jade-like long sword was steadily returned to its sheath.
This kind of posture was indescribably dashing and quiet and elegant.
"To be able to cultivate the Green Vine True Technique and the Green Vine Sword Technique to this level at this cultivation level, one can indeed be proud of oneself, and may be able to defeat me in the future."
He looked at Nangong Cai Beans seriously, and said with sincere appreciation without any pretense.
Nangong Cai Beans did not look at him.
She looked at the Green Vine Sleeve Sword in the stone crevice in front of her, she felt the helplessness and powerlessness of the Green Vine Sleeve Sword, her nose was slightly sour, feeling sorry for it.
She took a deep breath and rubbed her nose.
Then she drew up this little green colored sword, her face once again becoming extremely solemn.
A faint green light swept through, just like a vine leaf growing out of the air.
In the palm of her right hand, a shallow bloodstain appeared, seeping out several drops of blood.
"Please be sure to live well, Mr. Chen, I will definitely defeat you."
She held up her bleeding right hand while placing the small green-colored sword flat on her chest and said earnestly.
This was the sword oath of the Qin.
In her view, losing was losing and winning was winning, and whether or not there was something to be proud of and honorable about the process of winning or losing was not important at all.
The key was that as long as there was still life, then the loss had to be won back.
Chen Mo Li was silent for a few breaths of time.
Not because of fear, but because of respect and worry.
The Qin people have the hearts of tigers and wolves, even a young girl like Changling, everything she showed today is enough to make any Chu person wary.
It was just that the things that needed to be done in today's day absolutely could not allow this young girl and the students behind her to drag their feet.
So his divine countenance once again became calm and cold.
"Today's kind of competition is, in truth, also unfair, because after all, I also have more combat experience than you guys."
His gaze swept over the white palms of Nangong Cai Beans, over the faces of Xie Changsheng and Xu Mo Shan and all the others, then proceeded to slowly say, "I'm only twenty-seven this year."
Suddenly mentioning one's age solemnly at this time might be difficult to comprehend for ordinary people.
But these students were all cultivators.
Often, before they formally started cultivating, they had already read countless texts on cultivation and listened to many teachings.
So they were all well aware of the true meaning contained in Chen Mo Li's words.
