Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 145 — Voice Illusion
Linxia's opponent was a girl who had shoulder-length hair and had two swords on her waist. Like Linxia, the girl was extremely talented and also famous.
"Look, isn't that Xie Jin, the girl who has the nickname death sword."
"No way, that girl is taking part in the tournament as well then she will be the champion of this tournament!"
"According to rumors no one has ever been able to match Xie Jin in her swordplay, Miss Yue looks like she will lose in this tournament."
Zhou Yuan frowned, he did not expect Linxia's opponent in this preliminary round to directly face a warrior who was no less talented.
Hearing how the audience rated the woman named Xie Jin excessively showed that the girl's ability was indeed taken into account in this tournament.
"Is Miss Yue going to win?" Yifei felt worried that Linxia would lose after hearing the story from the audience.
Zhou Yuan did not answer him because he could not know the opponent's abilities to what extent. Zhou Yuan turned to the arena where the whistle had now sounded.
"I heard you have a unique sword technique, I want to see to what extent is your sword ability?" Xie Jin pulled out his two swords.
"There's nothing special about my swordplay, it's all just technique." Linxia drew his sword.
"Oh, this is so interesting..."
Xie Jin chose to be the first to attack, he moved quickly and suddenly appeared near Linxia while swinging his two swords.
Linxia calmly held back the swings of the two swords, within a short time the two began to exchange attacks.
Xie Jin had the ability of a fast sword technique as well as there were two swords in hand so that it made his position advantaged in contrast to Linxia who only had one sword.
Xie Jin continued to attack Linxia continuously, not allowing the girl to breathe for even a moment.
Although Linxia's defensive position was not in a desperate state, he continued to withstand every attack of his opponent's girl calmly.
"Wouldn't Miss Yue's position be defeated if this continues?" Yifei asked Zhou Yuan because the young man was very understanding of swordsmanship.
"I'm not too sure but Xia'er seems to be planning something." Zhou Yuan observed the fight more clearly.
Basically, technique is not the only thing needed by a swordsman to win the fight, tactics and plans are also no less important for the swordsman.
High ability without having a plan or tactic in a fight would usually be easily trapped by the opponent so Zhou Yuan could not guess whether Linxia was indeed in a disadvantage or he was doing something.
"Do you just want to stay like this, it turns out I'm too high looking at you?" Xie Jin exerted a deep energy on his body before performing the moves from his sword technique.
"Storm Dance!"
Xie Jin's attack pattern suddenly turned into a dance, Linxia frowned and clasped his sword tighter after realizing his opponent's technique was quite high.
Within the next minute Linxia received dozens of attacks towards him, Linxia moved quickly to fend off and dodge the attacks but on the other hand his position became increasingly cornered.
"Not bad, you turned out to have enough ability to withstand my techniques." Xie Jin did not stop there he returned using a different attack. "Then what if this attack..."
Xie Jin this time used a change of type with profound energy on both of his swords, the girl's sword was instantly enveloped in a burning fire.
Linxia could feel every time his sword clashed then there were sparks that were pointing at him as well as Xie Jin's attacks getting stronger.
The two continued to exchange attacks, Linxia had to move backwards every time Xie Jin's sword almost hit his body.
"If you continue to be in this position you can fall out of the arena, you know it's more embarrassing than giving up." Xie Jin smiled mockingly.
"You don't really know anything about me!" Linxia smiled faintly before then starting to counterattack, this time he used the sword technique he had.
Xie Jin's face bent as the attacks from Linxia began to slow down his attacks even to the point of turning his position upside down.
"You, don't tell me?!"
Xie Jin finally started to understand from the start Linxia was surviving his attacks as it was observing the swordplay patterns of his opponent and the girl was finally able to grasp his attacks quickly.
Linxia smiled faintly. "You can realize it, too bad it's too late."
Xie Jin clenched his teeth. "I can't believe you can read my attack!"
Xie Jin used all of his sword abilities to suppress Linxia.
Linxia shook his head slowly before starting to drain his inner power, this time the girl used the Sound Sword Technique.
"It... Isn't that girl's weird technique?"
"It's really amazing, even I didn't hear any sound even though the two girls exchanged sword attacks."
"If I hadn't witnessed it firsthand I probably wouldn't have believed there was such a great technique!"
The spectators started to feel astonished as well as astonished by the sword technique Linxia was doing, they simply did not understand the workings of the technique even the four emperors sitting on the special seats were stunned to see it.
"Didn't he come from your empire, I didn't know there was a sword technique like this?" Guan Ning, the Earth Emperor, asked towards Jiang Long.
"Actually I was also surprised to see her just now, but all I know is that the girl is the granddaughter of Yue Jian." Jiang Long answered him with a faint smile.
"Ah, I've heard that Yue Jian's name, if it's not wrong he is the number 1 swordsman in the Moon Empire instead..." Guan Ning nodded.
"No wonder he became the number 1 swordsman if his sword technique turned out to be this great." Qiusui Bao argued while clucking in admiration.
Only the Sun Emperor seemed silent at Linxia's swordplay, his hands clenched violently as well as his emotions were a little turbulent yet he immediately held back all that.
Almost no different from the Sun Emperor, his son Liu Yuwen also reacted the same when watching the soundless sword technique.
Liu Yuwen was more and more ambitious to learn techniques from Linxia, he seemed to have to do his plan sooner than he should.
Above the arena, as the disturbing silence made Xie Jin's position even worse.
Not only did his silence disturb his concentration but Linxia's swordplay was also agile and unpredictable, the longer the two exchanged attacks the more scratches on his body.
"Sound Sword Technique — Illusion Tone!"
Linxia exerted a deep force on his sword before using the technique, this time when his sword collided with Xie Jin's sword, a loud buzzing sound rang out in Xie Jin's ears.
Xie Jin jumped back because of the buzzing sound, he closed his ears for a while but when he looked back towards Linxia, Xie Jin found Linxia's body had already become two.
Xie Jin did not know which one was the real one when Linxia started moving towards him with his shadow at once.
The girl attacked one of Linxia's bodies but it turned out that it was his shadow. Xie Jin received a wound back on his body.
The spectators began to stare in astonishment at Xie Jin as the girl repeatedly swung into the empty air. Xie Jin seemed to be attacking something that was not really there.
"Why is that girl, is she possessed or what?"
"It looks like he has a disease that makes his vision become hallucinated."
Zhou Yuan chuckled at the astonishment of the spectators, perhaps only Zhou Yuan was currently aware of Xie Jian's situation being exposed to the illusion of Linxia.
One of the advantages of the illusion that through the middle of the sound is that only the victim can see the illusion while others around him can not see it.
Zhou Yuan could see that now that Xie Jin was facing the illusion that Linxia had created, the Sound Sword Technique had another advantage besides being able to absorb the surrounding sounds that he could create the illusion of the sword technique.