Legend of the Heavenly Fruit
Eps. 147 — Imitating Techniques
Xiao Rou was able to quickly slash through the four water snakes without any difficulty, Ling Yan did not attack again instead clapping his hands.
"Miss Xiao, I heard a lot of your big name who is a talented genius in the academy, it seems that the rumors are indeed true..." Ling Yan was not surprised to see that his snake attack was easily destroyed because he had already guessed Xiao Rou's ability.
Xiao Rou did not reply to Ling Yan's words but instead directly ran towards him, the girl was intending to finish this match quickly.
Ling Yan immediately put on a serious expression looking at Xiao Rou without answering a single word directly intending to attack her.
When Xiao Rou was a few steps away with Ling Yan, he could feel his feet wet. Ling Yan turned out to have made the arena floor filled with puddles of water.
The water released by Ling Yan came from the sole of the young man's feet.
Xiao Rou leaped high when a water tentacle was about to catch his foot, he again took some distance with Ling Yan.
Not much different from Fang Ao, the water element technique Ling Yan used was a high level water type change technique.
Ling Yan could manipulate the water around him like his own body part, if the arena was already filled with puddles like now then the place was already within Ling Yan's power.
"It seems like you don't like to talk, as the rumors say, then we'll sort this out now."
Ling Yan again moved his hand, making water tentacles appear near Xiao Rou's feet.
The girl moved quickly dodging any tentacles intending to touch her body, occasionally she cut them off if it was not possible to dodge.
The speed of Xiao Rou who was moving at high speed made Ling Yan a little difficult to catch the girl with her water tentacles
Ling Yan changed his attack, he made a shark with its water element to attack the girl. The shark immediately targeted Xiao Rou as if it was chasing its prey.
The movement of Xiao Rou was increasingly limited with the presence of sharks and water tentacles making it only able to continue jumping.
"Until when can you survive and jump around like that..." Ling Yan certainly did not stop there, he again made another water shark.
Seeing the situation increasingly unfavorable, Xiao Rou did not dodge anymore, when he was in the air, a shark jumped at him.
Xiao Rou took the opportunity to attack him, he poured a sizable amount of deep power into his sword and then swung it strongly.
A sharp sword wave was created from Xiao Rou's sword swing that led to the shark then split it in half.
Ling Yan was surprised, he formed the shark using great deep power, should the sword though would not easily destroy it.
Xiao Rou did not actually stop there, he released the next wave of sword and aimed at the second shark, the shark immediately split after the wave of sword passed through his body.
"Can't be allowed to..." Ling Yan did not want to lose in the preliminaries, he came from the Lin Family which was a great noble, falling out at the start of the tournament would put his family to shame.
Lin Yan again changed his water this time forming a dragon, this was the strongest technique he had with his water element.
The audience held their breath and were stunned to see the legendary animal, even though it was only a form of a technique but still impressive to see.
"Imagination, how can he form water as he pleases?" Yifei asked, as a fellow element user he cannot do such with his fire element.
"It is difficult to explain but in short all elements have their own characteristics..." Zhou Yuan smiled gently. "For example, the fire element has the nature of a change of type that burns, ice is frozen, lightning is propagating, including water, has a liquid nature."
Yifei looked puzzled, Zhou Yuan then continued his explanation. "Because the element of water has liquid properties that in a sense it is easily formed into any form, it is, including animal and other forms while dense soil elements cannot do so unless they are trained in earnest."
Zhou Yuan smiled awkwardly as Yifei still did not understand, he could have explained at length until the girl understood but it would take a long time, moreover Zhou Yuan wanted to watch Xiao Rou fight.
In the arena, Ling Yan was moving his water dragon to attack Xiao Rou, the dragon could move in the air as well as float making it difficult for Xiao Rou to dodge it.
Ling Yan moved the water dragon from a distance, his breathing had already started to become irregular due to using too much inner power.
After a few minutes of continued dodging, Xiao Rou suddenly sheathed his sword back, confusing everyone who was looking.
Xiao Rou began to move his hands exactly as Ling Yan did, not long after that another water dragon began to form exactly like Ling Yan's dragon.
"He, he's imitating my water dragon style?!"
Not only Ling Yan, the Four Emperors, Xiong Bian as well as the spectators, even Zhou Yuan was also shocked to see him.
Zhou Yuan already knew of Xiao Rou's monstrous impersonation ability even when the girl was ten years old, such imitation ability was still within reach of the human intellect back then yet now, everything is clearly beyond human reason.
Xiao Rou not only imitated but understood the basic way the water technique worked.
Zhou Yuan knew that imitating and understanding were two different things, one might be able to imitate quickly but if one understood, they needed a long time let alone comprehending a martial technique was very difficult to do.
Zhou Yuan could see now that Xiao Rou's water element ability did not differ much from Ling Yan in terms of mastery.
The water dragon that Xiao Rou created even looked much more perfect compared to Ling Yan who formed it.
"I'm giving up..."
Ling Yan already had no hope of winning to fight against a human figure like Xiao Rou.
He already knew the difficulty of his water technique which required a dozen years of training in his mastery, seeing that Xiao Rou could master it for just a few minutes made Ling Yan realize his opponent's abilities.
Besides admitting defeat, Ling Yan also did not want his Family's water element techniques to continue to be imitated by the girl.
Xiong Bian coughed softly, he did not expect that in the martial world there were warriors who had such terrifying talent as Xiao Rou.
No longer waiting for Xiao Rou to be announced as the winner, the second opponent as well as the third opponent who was about to face Xiao Rou locked up their intentions after seeing the talent imitating the girl, they immediately gave up before the match happened.
The participants of the tournament also began to take into account Xiao Rou's strength, they had originally considered the red-haired girl a swordsman but now they had to repeat the assessment.
Xiao Rou clearly entered the Main Round and the girl's match was also the end of the Preliminary Round on this second day.