Walking by the Abyss on Thin Ice

Chapter 98 – Carving a dragon

Confucian scholar Tong Xuan sneered coldly, and countless characters spread out behind him. He walked on the characters one step at a time, and each character leaped up and turned into a golden army with killing intent, rushing towards Su Yun!

His first divine ability had already attacked Su Yun before he could strike back!

Su Yun's starting posture turned into the starting posture of the Dragon's Roar, facing Tong Xuan's divine ability head-on!

This time, he wanted to create a myth, a myth of using martial arts to resist divine abilities!

Tong Xuan's first divine ability was a sword. Only by observing a thousand swords could one recognize the weapon. The most critical aspect of this divine ability was not the sword, but the weapon. However, Tong Xuan had not reached the level of recognizing the weapon. If he had, he would not need a thousand swords, one sword would be enough.

Above Su Yun's head, Little Yellow Clock suddenly rang out.

Dang...

The melodious bell echoed in the silent street. Besides the bell, there was only this team of burden-beasts running wild!

At that moment, the countdown began.

Above Su Yun's head, Little Yellow Clock's seconds hand moved steadily, and with its movement, his perception became strange. The time in his perception seemed to be divided into segments that progressed continuously.

The wind blowing from behind him became like fragments, and every time the burden-beasts lifted and dropped their legs, their muscles changed as if they were moving forward in a pause. The streets on both sides seemed to be extending backward bit by bit.

He did not look around with his eyes but used time as a ruler to measure the changes around him.

For a blind person, time has a scale. A blind person needs to calculate all changes around them with time as a ruler. Su Yun's spiritual divine ability, Little Yellow Clock, was developed under these circumstances.

Now, Su Yun covered his eyes and returned to a blind state, reproducing this situation!

Tong Xuan was too strong, and his divine abilities were varied. He needed to face Tong Xuan in his prime state!

In front of him, Tong Xuan's Confucian divine abilities began to change in his perception.

He mainly studied the Confucian classic "Wen Xin Diao Long," which explained the realm of saints and the realm of the original path.

The second chapter explained the realm of the quasi-saints, the realm of verifying the saint's supreme skill!

As for other realms such as Tian Xiang, Li Yuan, and Yuan Dong, they were more or less explained.

However, although "Wen Xin Diao Long" was a classic of saints, Tong Xuan was not a saint. His divine abilities reflected in Su Yun's perception were like one screen after another being intercepted, forming a series of blood and energy pictures that rushed towards Su Yun.

Any divine ability requires blood and energy to activate, and variation is difficult to deviate from its origin. Su Yun could discern Tong Xuan's divine abilities as long as he sensed the blood and energy.

Tong Xuan's divine abilities formed by characters, each movement, and each change in Su Yun's perception became traceable and clear, forming a series of attack methods with each sentence!

Su Yun could even calculate the future changes in Tong Xuan's divine abilities for the next three seconds or even longer!

This was the trend of divine abilities, and the trend's changes would not be so fast that it exceeded the perception of a "hurried" time scale.

If Tong Xuan's divine ability speed and variation speed could exceed the "hurried" time scale, then Su Yun would not be able to "see" any details of his divine abilities and could only wait to die obediently.

Unfortunately, Tong Xuan had not reached that level.In his "eyes", the trajectory and changes of every sword in the thousand blood swords flying towards him were clear and distinct.

Just as these blood swords were about to pierce him, a dragon's roar shook the air and a dragon from behind Su Yun stepped forward and coiled around him from bottom to top.

Ding ding ding!

The moving dragon scales collided with the flying sword light, with each scale perfectly blocking the tip of a flying sword and neutralizing its momentum before lying down and dissipating the power from the sword.

The thousands of swords were deflected by the dragon scales and shot backwards!

The power of the Jiao Long Yin martial art was used to its fullest by Su Yun, giving him a feeling of incredible skill!

Using techniques to their fullest extent was nothing short of divine!

Tong Xuan stepped on the words and walked on air while the words flew up from behind him, turning into an army of thousands of horses, with iron horses and golden spears, gods and demons dancing together, and the chaos of the heavenly phenomena. All kinds of divine beasts and saints surged forward, rushing towards Su Yun on the back of the beast!

This scene was like a battlefield of gods and demons fighting.

However, his wave of attacks collided head-on with his own thousands of swords!

Suddenly, divine powers exploded in the air, dissipating into qi and blood. Tong Xuan's divine powers were indeed as impressive as an army of thousands of horses, but after colliding with his thousands of sword divine powers, it immediately became apparent that it was all bark and no bite!

Any one of his divine powers was quite stunning, but when combined, they were like a pile of sand!

Tong Xuan hurriedly urged his folding fan, which reversed in the air and collected the divine powers below. Those divine powers fell into the fan and turned into words.

He was flustered and his divine powers were broken. They would turn into qi and blood, which was his cultivation. If all his divine powers were broken, it would be like exhausting his cultivation. The consequences were self-evident!

Just as he was busy collecting his divine powers, Su Yun stepped forward, stepping on Tong Xuan's words, attacking and defending, constantly attacking, while thirty-six golden apes attacked from all sides, breaking each and every divine power!

"Spiritual Alchemist, Article Oufu! This sentence does not mean to melt the spirit in the blacksmith's furnace, but to cultivate and strengthen the spirit with ingenuity and a great furnace!"

Su Yun dodged a rotating furnace that flew towards him, struck it with a punch, and exploded it with a loud bang, saying in a deep voice, "To observe the sun and moon, to resign from wealth and fame. Observation is not a mirror, but a perspective!"

A bright mirror shattered under the impact of the yellow bell, and Tong Xuan groaned, his blood and energy plummeting.

"You can understand the classics and have the six arts in your body. Your understanding of the six arts is completely wrong, and your six arts are not divine powers!"

"Your eight sounds are not in harmony, and your articles are difficult to write!"

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The sound of explosions kept ringing in their ears. Su Yun killed his way to Tong Xuan and fought him up close with martial arts. Various words flew in front and behind Tong Xuan, and he used divine powers at close range, constantly attacking him!

At such a close distance, the power of the divine powers was astonishing, but many of the divine powers that clearly looked like they could attack Su Yun were easily dodged by him, or he struck them in their weak spots and they exploded directly!

In close combat, Su Yun made no mistakes, and no negative thoughts interfered with his mind. Every judgment was precise, allowing him to avoid being trapped and giving him enough retreat options.Every move and technique he used was just right, not too much or too little, breaking through Tong Xuan's abilities.

Tong Xuan was getting more and more shocked as the fight went on. The "Wen Xin Diao Long" had fifty chapters, but his limited intelligence only allowed him to comprehend twenty of them.

And that was with many misunderstandings and speculations as a basis.

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To comprehend the "Wen Xin Diao Long" thoroughly, one would need a master to guide them. Su Yun and Hua Hu were able to understand it so well because they had the Wild Fox Master to lay a solid foundation for them.

But to turn the "Wen Xin Diao Long" into divine abilities would require a lot of effort, not just strong comprehension and talent, but also some luck.

For example, if there were divine beasts like dragons and phoenixes in the article, there would be nowhere to observe them.

Tong Xuan's cultivation was decreasing rapidly as Su Yun shattered his abilities and even his writing.

Suddenly, Tong Xuan slipped and lost his footing, and his writing disappeared in an instant. Su Yun used his yellow clock and Bi Fang to land on the head of a mountain beast, which was running alongside the other beasts towards the end of the street.

The two fought on the head of the beast, amidst danger.

"You misunderstood the purpose of climbing the heights!"

"That sentence is also wrong! The position of heaven and earth, the sacrifice to all the gods, the gods are the ancestors, Yan Huang Yao Shun, not the wooden sculptures in the temple!"

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Tong Xuan was hit by a move in the chest, and Su Yun's strength shook his bones. Although he managed to dispel the attack, he was terrified.

Su Yun had broken through his defense, which meant that he could no longer suppress Su Yun's abilities. If Su Yun broke through his other abilities, he could be killed.

Tong Xuan quickly jumped up, stepping on the words that fell under his feet, and caught up with the mountain beast in front of him. At the same time, Su Yun arrived with a storm-like attack, making him more and more panicked.

"Pray to the spirits for guidance, and point to the nine heavens as the right way! You also misunderstood the nine heavens!"

"Wrong, wrong! Your empty talk is ridiculous, and your virtue is corrupted. You've misinterpreted it!"

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Tong Xuan was hit several times, and his clothes were cut open by Su Yun's martial arts moves. He was both shocked and angry. This was the "Bi Fang Shen Xing Yang Qi" technique, which was the basic skill that his Tong family passed down to the official school!

He was almost hurt by such a shallow martial art!But what he felt more was fear and unease. His divine abilities had been broken too many times and his cultivation had fallen too fast. He was no longer able to protect himself from Su Yun's attacks.

What was even more terrifying was that Su Yun still had his eyes closed, and the ribbon on the back of his head fluttered in the wind.

Tong Xuan frantically fled, enduring two martial arts attacks from Su Yun, jumping from the beast's back to the second floor eaves of the street. But in the next moment, Su Yun's Qi and blood transformed into a screaming dragon, and thirty-six dragons landed on the eaves, chasing after him!

Tong Xuan turned around and saw Su Yun standing on the back of the beast running through the street. Behind him, various dragons moved around, suddenly turning into Biluofang, flying up and down, attacking him!

Tong Xuan defended himself for a few moves, but suddenly heard Su Yun's cold voice: "Your words are not clear and your writing is not coherent. Get down!"

Boom!

He was hit more than ten times in a row and was finally kicked in the chest by a golden ape, falling down to the ground below.

Tong Xuan turned over and jumped up, only to encounter Su Yun's palm. He was horrified to find himself on the back of the beast that Su Yun was on.

"Writing and drawing objects, as exquisite as sculptures. Sculpture, sculpture, it is not a word, but a combination of sculpture and painting!"

Tong Xuan was hit dozens of times in an instant, spitting blood from his mouth. His Qi and blood cultivation was unable to resist Su Yun's attacks, and he was suddenly hit and flew up. Tong Xuan hurriedly activated his remaining divine abilities and forcibly landed on the back of the beast in front of him.

He grabbed the reins with both hands, intending to control the beast to escape, but Su Yun, riding on the dragon, chased after him and landed behind him.

Tong Xuan quickly let go of the reins, gritted his teeth, and turned around to fight with all his might.

After a few moves, Tong Xuan was hit and flew out, falling on the back of the beast in front of him.

In a short period of time, the two fought their way through four streets and arrived on the back of the beast. Tong Xuan's injuries became more and more severe.

"Is your writing divine or not? Is it a dragon or not? Is it a phoenix or not? There is no formation in your writing, and no reason in your words! Tong Xuan, tell me, how do you use your writing to sculpt dragons?"

With Su Yun's shout, Tong Xuan fell down again, struggling to get up but unable to stand.

"I'm curious."

Su Yun stepped forward, slowly undoing the blindfold on his shirt, his gaze falling on Tong Xuan. His face was serious as he asked, "Which school did you learn your Chinese studies from?"

Tong Xuan spat out blood and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. His voice was hoarse as he replied, "The Shuofang Academy..."

"Fortunately, I didn't apply to the Shuofang Academy."

Su Yun breathed a sigh of relief, put the piece of cloth back into his pocket, and said, "Tong Xuan, I taught you this piece of 'Wen Xin Diao Long', which took a lot of effort and energy. I'll charge you one Qinghong coin for this lesson. Is that too much?"

Tong Xuan was stunned and couldn't believe it. "You're not going to kill me?"

Su Yun frowned, "Is one Qinghong coin too much?"

Tong Xuan was ecstatic in his heart, "He must be afraid of being retaliated against by my Tong family if he kills me. My Tong family is the number one family in Shuofang, deeply rooted not only in Shuofang but also in the capital. He's just a wild kid from the countryside, how dare he kill me?"

He hurriedly searched his body and finally found his purse, laughing, "Here you go! Don't worry, I'm a reasonable person. I won't pursue tonight's events. You can use the money to eat and drink..."

Su Yun opened the purse, took only one Qinghong coin, and threw the purse back at him. He shook his head and said, "My principle is fair trade. The lesson I taught you is not better than Master Shuijing's. He charges one Qinghong coin per lesson, so I can only charge you one Qinghong coin."

Tong Xuan held the purse, swaying unsteadily as he stood up, and said with a smile, "Your principle is very good..."

Swoosh.

A wooden sword pierced his chest, piercing his heart.Tong Xuan was stunned, following the wooden sword to Su Yun's hand, then looking up at Su Yun's face.

"Tong Xuan, it's only natural to charge you money, and it's the same to kill you."

Su Yun drew out the wooden sword, which quickly turned into a small wooden block and flew into his sleeve.

Tong Xuan's body shook and fell off the beast's back.

"That's two different things," Su Yun said calmly.

After a while, the calm rural youth became excited again, holding tightly onto the green rainbow coin. "I made money! I finally made money, and it's earned from my own knowledge! This green rainbow coin smells so good! It smells much better than the five green rainbow coins extorted by Master Tu Ming!"

He was so excited that he trembled a little. "And I can earn my second sum of money soon..."

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