Chapter 156: Secret Soul Technique!

A terrifying sword intent also spread out, confronting Su Yishan's momentum head-on, showing no sign of weakness.

Su Yishan had a deep impression of this sword intent.

Back then, for Liu Ruoshui, Su Yishan was beaten by Ye Yuan until his hair was disheveled, struck by this very sword intent.

But now, the Azure Firmament Falling Sword Intent was incomparable to what it had been then.

Ye Yuan's realm of sword intent was extremely high, but he lacked the corresponding primal energy to match it.

Now that Ye Yuan had broken through to the Spirit Liquid Realm and condensed nine drops of spirit liquid, the power of Azure Firmament Falling Sword naturally soared several levels compared to when he was in the Primal Energy Realm!

The Nine Sword Style Ye Yuan executed this time was no longer arranged in a line, but rather nine very chaotic figures.

After completing the Nine Sword Style, Ye Yuan could now freely manifest these nine figures and control the timing of the sword beams at will!

Thus, the power of the Nine Sword Style increased greatly.

The sword beams from the nine chaotic figures were much harder to defend against than those arranged in a line.

Moreover, Ye Yuan could adjust the timing of the sword beams according to his opponent's condition.

This change in rhythm was the most difficult to guard against.

Unless the opponent was far stronger than Ye Yuan, just after defending against one sword beam, before new strength could be generated, the second sword beam would arrive—how could they defend?

This was the most powerful aspect of the Nine Sword Style he had created!

The powerful sword intent combined with the varied attacks allowed Ye Yuan's strength to soar again!

Su Yishan instinctively felt something was wrong, but now he was like an arrow that had to be shot.

Since he couldn't tell which figure was Ye Yuan's true body, he would just sweep his palm wind across!

With his formidable strength at the fourth layer of Spirit Liquid Realm, he would directly crush Ye Yuan!

Even if Ye Yuan had condensed nine drops of spirit liquid, the gap between them was still huge. If he didn't make good use of this advantage, he would have no chance of winning today.

The Heaven-Overturning Palm itself was immensely powerful, and among the second-rank martial skills of the Su family, it was top-notch.

After breaking through to the Spirit Liquid Realm, Su Yishan was confident that with the Heaven-Overturning Palm, he could crush martial artists at the fifth layer of Spirit Liquid Realm!

Su Yishan was indeed a genius, with considerable combat experience, not the kind of flower raised in a greenhouse.

Unfortunately... he had encountered Ye Yuan!

Just as he was about to unleash the Heaven-Overturning Palm, his mind suddenly went blank, and his soul fell into a dazed state!

However, Su Yishan quickly regained consciousness.

But in a duel between experts, this momentary hesitation was enough to be fatal.

Nine sword beams whistled out, arriving in front of Su Yishan in the blink of an eye. By the time he came to his senses, it was already too late to circulate his energy to defend.

Chi chi chi...

The nine sword beams struck Su Yishan solidly, instantly breaking through his protective primal energy and destroying his internal organs.

What just happened... was the last thought in Su Yishan's mind, but he would never know.

Nanfeng Zhirou swallowed a mouthful of saliva, feeling a bit parched.

What exactly had just happened? She also wanted to know.

At the very last moment, Su Yishan clearly hesitated. That single hesitation cost him his life.

But in a life-or-death moment like that, why would he hesitate? How was that any different from suicide?

Nanfeng Zhirou knew that Ye Yuan must have been behind it, but she had no idea what trick she had used.

Then again, after Su Yishan had broken through to the next realm, he was actually on par with her. Since Ye Yuan could kill Su Yishan, she naturally had the ability to kill her too.

Nanfeng Zhirou couldn't help recalling the scene two months ago when she had nearly killed Ye Yuan.

In just two months, she had already caught up or even surpassed her?

She, Nanfeng Zhirou, had always prided herself on being a genius, but in front of Ye Yuan, she was nothing!

"Senior Sister Nanfeng? Senior Sister Nanfeng?"

"Huh? Ah, what is it?" Ye Yuan called out twice before Nanfeng Zhirou snapped back to reality.

"It's getting late. We should go."

It had been five or six days since they entered the Boundless Forest, and Ye Yuan still had two medicinal herbs to collect.

Since matters here were settled, she naturally didn't want to delay any longer.

If it hadn't been necessary to break through to the Liquid Realm, Ye Yuan would have had Yuanfei kill Su Yishan long ago and not gone through all this trouble.

Nanfeng Zhirou followed behind Ye Yuan, looking somewhat dejected, completely unlike her usual self.

Along the way, the two were very silent, neither speaking.

Two hours later, Nanfeng Zhirou finally couldn't help but speak: "Ye Yuan, don't you have anything you want to ask?"

"If you want to talk, you'll talk. If you don't, asking is pointless." Ye Yuan didn't turn around, only replied indifferently.

Nanfeng Zhirou looked somewhat resentfully at Ye Yuan's back, pouted, and said discontentedly, "Tch, you clueless guy! Fine, I'll tell you! My father is Nanfeng Yi, my name is Nanfeng Zhirou, my aunt is Nanfeng Ruoqing, and my father is the ruler of the Qin Kingdom. Satisfied?"

"I already knew that."

"...I know you knew, but shouldn't you at least give me some reaction?"

"Knowing is knowing. What reaction do you want me to give?"

Nanfeng Zhirou was so annoyed by Ye Yuan's attitude that her teeth itched. She stomped her foot and stopped, shouting at Ye Yuan's back, "It was my aunt and I who were wrong to hide our identities, but we had our reasons. It would have been inconvenient for my aunt and me to enter the academy with our real names, so we concealed our surname. I had planned to tell you after we returned, but there was never a chance, right?"

Ye Yuan also stopped and turned around, looking at Nanfeng Zhirou. Suddenly he smiled and said, "Senior Sister Nanfeng, you're overthinking. If I really had any reaction, I would have left you behind long ago instead of standing here talking to you. No reaction is the best reaction."

Nanfeng Zhirou bit her lip and said angrily, "Then why didn't you say so earlier? I thought you were really mad."

"You didn't ask," Ye Yuan said innocently.

Nanfeng Zhirou thought about it and realized that she had been the one imagining things all along; she had never actually asked this guy.

Maybe hiding their identity was never a big deal to him?

"Fine, I was being presumptuous! Then tell me, when you killed Su Yishan, why did he hesitate?"

Nanfeng Zhirou was a carefree person. Knowing that Ye Yuan wasn't angry, she simply filtered out that matter.

Nanfeng Zhirou had turned back into that willful little princess.

"That... was a soul technique called 'Soul-Shocking Thorn,' which can cause a brief loss of focus." Ye Yuan didn't hide it and said directly.

"A soul technique! You even know a soul technique!" Nanfeng Zhirou exclaimed in surprise.

"That's just the crudest soul technique. What's there to make a fuss about?"

It wasn't that Ye Yuan was showing off; this 'Soul-Shocking Thorn' really was the crudest among the soul techniques he knew.