1038: C1038 The Battle

C1038 The Battle

The next day, before the competition began, Grand Elder and Lingying announced a shocking piece of news. This news was very simple. Yun Ao, the Sect Master of the Cloud Heaven Sect, had suddenly made a breakthrough in his cultivation. He had already entered a state of seclusion.

Of course, it wasn't very strange for the Sect Master to enter a seclusion. Actually, it wasn't strange for anyone to enter seclusion. When one's strength reached a bottleneck, one would need to make a breakthrough in order to increase one's strength. One had to grasp onto a certain mysterious state.

But this state is not something that can be easily grasped. If one wants to stay in this state, one must carefully comprehend in a quiet place.

And this process was called closed-seclusion.

Generally speaking, closed-seclusion required more than a month to half a year's time. Of course, there were also many legends of powerful experts entering closed-seclusion.

For example, there was a legend that said that there was an eminent monk who obtained the Dao. He once went into seclusion in a cave for several hundred years in a short period of time. He had directly ascended in the daytime in the cave. After he ascended, his disciples went to the cave where he was in seclusion to take a look. They discovered that the place he was sitting at when he was in seclusion was because he had been sitting there for many years. His shadow had actually been left on the wall.

However, these were just legends after all. Generally speaking, unless one could cut off the secular world, the time of seclusion wouldn't last for too long. It would be because of various things that one had to come out and deal with.

But this time, Lingying told everyone. This time, Yun Ao's seclusion actually lasted for an entire two and a half years. In these two and a half years, all the big and small things in the Cloud Heaven Sect... The matters that were originally under the control of the Sect Master were handed over to her.

Everyone was in an uproar. Even the forces around the Cloud Heaven Sect became vigilant.

This news looked very ordinary, but it seemed to contain some other meaning.

The time of the establishment of the Cloud Heaven Sect could no longer be tested. There were also many sects around it that had been established for over a thousand years. However, when these sects were just established, the Cloud Heaven Sect was already standing there. In these thousands of years, people had discovered a strange thing in the Cloud Heaven Sect.

When someone in the Cloud Heaven Sect broke through to the Ninth Stage, no matter how young that person was, after that, he would disappear from the world as if he had vanished into thin air. Initially, people thought that those who had disappeared had left the sect to search for a new opportunity to break through, but later on, they gradually realized that this was not the case.

After these people left the sect, they would never appear again. There was even a time when the Cloud Heaven Sect was almost destroyed, but they did not see any traces of those people.

After discovering this pattern, their courage slowly increased.

Twenty years ago, when the Cloud Heaven Sect's double Sovereign was still there... They were afraid of the double Sovereign's strength and were respectful to the Cloud Heaven Sect. However, after the double Sovereign left, because of Yun Ao's matter, the Cloud Heaven Sect's strength kept shrinking. In addition, besides Yun Ao, there was no other expert in the Cloud Heaven Sect that could be brought up to the stage. Therefore, they became more and more impudent. They even frequently traded with the Cloud Heaven Sect. They would also pressure them to raise or lower the price.

But now that Yun Ao was suddenly going into seclusion, they began to become vigilant. They knew Yun Ao's strength, he was an Eighth Stage warrior. However, what they didn't know about Yun Ao's strength was exactly what realm he was at. How far away was he from the Ninth Stage?

Therefore, when Yun Ao went into seclusion this time, all of them became vigilant. If Yun Ao advanced to the Ninth Stage just like that, the gap between a Sovereign and an Eighth Stage warrior would be huge. They had no choice but to consider what they had done to the Cloud Heaven Sect over the years.

However, Yun Ao didn't expect that his seclusion would cause such a disturbance. He simply felt that his current situation was very awkward, and that was why he chose to enter seclusion.

On one side, the surrounding powers of the Cloud Heaven Sect started to be on tenterhooks. On the other side, Yang Xuan was very troubled.

He told Xingyun about his current situation, and told him that he wanted to improve his strength.

Xingyun agreed to his request very quickly. He also expressed that he was willing to bring Yang Xuan to the places in Central Province where he could improve his strength.

However, before this, he felt that Yang Xuan's combat experience was too little and his strength was too low. If he wanted to go there, he had to improve his strength first.

Initially, Yang Xuan was unconvinced, but after Xingyun easily defeated Yang Xuan with a wooden sword in his hand, Yang Xuan was in complete admiration of Xingyun.

In the back mountain of Cloud Heaven Sect, Yang Xuan was led by Yun Batian. Found a huge clearing. According to Xingyun's request, in the following month, Yang Xuan wanted to improve his combat experience and learn all kinds of combat techniques here.

Initially, Yang Xuan only wanted to do this secretly, but Yun Batian saw that Yang Xuan was looking for him for a place. He suddenly felt very strange and couldn't help but ask a few more questions. Yang Xuan didn't intend to hide it from him, so he told him what he really wanted to know.

Yun Batian was shocked at first. In his opinion, Yang Xuan's combat experience and mechanics were higher than his. How could he possibly need to learn more?

However, in the next two days, after he curiously came here to take a look, he was instantly shocked.

In the dense forest behind Cloud Heaven Sect, there was an open space specially arranged for this place. Yang Xuan and Xingyun were fighting on this open space.

Because of the heavenly tribulation, Xingyun couldn't fully display his strength. However, there was no need for him to display his full strength when fighting Yang Xuan. Even after he suppressed his strength to the peak of Fifth Stage, he could still easily defeat Yang Xuan with a single sword strike.

Yun Batian who was watching from the side felt that it was difficult for him to breathe. His combat experience was similar to Yang Xuan's, and both of them had the ability to advance and retreat. Each time he attacked, he could calculate what he should do next to ensure that he wouldn't be at a disadvantage, and that he would gain the most.

But even so, they were still far from being able to compare with Xingyun.0

If fighting was like playing chess, Yang Xuan and Yun Batian's strength would be the next two or three steps they could think of in the next two or three steps. Xingyun's strength was equivalent to an expert who looked at the whole situation. Of course, he couldn't figure out the next steps after the first step.

However, when he was fighting Yang Xuan, as long as Yang Xuan attacked first for the first time... * Hong Long...... * In his subconscious mind, Yang Xuan would walk step by step according to his plan. Perhaps he would have the upper hand in the beginning, but when he realized that he was at a disadvantage... He was firmly tied up by Xingyun and could not break free.

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