The Lord of the Gods of the Universe
Ch. 40 - Paras Li Yuwen

There was a considerable fire on Tang Lian's sword eyes that appeared out of nowhere.

“It ... energy change?” The existing cultivators knew what Tang Lian had just done.

“Does that mean the princess has already started to form her spiritual roots?” xiang Yong said.

Energy change was a stage where a cultivator could transform the Qi within their dantian into an element or element of nature to be used in various things, one of which was to be used for fighting.

The change in energy itself cannot be done if it does not activate the spiritual root because it is the spiritual root that will absorb the Qi from the Qi crystal stored in the dantian and turn it into an element, which is the spiritual root, a cultivator himself would truly become a cultivator when they had already successfully activated their spiritual roots within the dantian, and usually the spiritual root will be active at the stage when it will reach the level of a 1st class king.

For ordinary humans, the energy change itself was more familiarly mentioned as magic because indeed what the cultivators did was very similar to the magic told in the books, and that title was also often used by cultivators.

The spiritual roots are divided into five elements: fire, water, wind, earth, and metal. However there was actually still another special element like Yao Jun that had a lightning-elemental spiritual root, it was also what made him develop so quickly because most of the techniques present in the Lightning Sword sect were lightning-element.

Even so, someone who does not have a lightning-elemental spiritual root can still use it, but on the condition of combining the elements needed to remove it, such as combining the water element with the wind, it will produce the lightning element.

Aside from the quality of bones, the talent of a cultivator was also seen from the spiritual roots they had, the less number of elements from the spiritual roots they had the better. Yao Jun himself had a single elemental spiritual root that was the lightning element, that was also what made his lightning technique stronger than the other elders.

Because there was a requirement for the activation of spiritual roots, usually some large sects only accepted disciples whose spiritual roots were already active in order to more easily find out their original talents than just checking the quality of the bones alone.

There were two types of energy or magic changes, the first was to control it to the extent of combining it on an object like Tang Lian did, and the second was to release it just like when Yao Jun used the Earth-Snatching Lightning technique.

However in the second type a cultivator would need to use a special hand seal to do so, its function is so that the flow of Qi absorbed by spiritual roots can be transformed into elements without the need to focus on them. The strength of the weak element that is removed depends on how many hand seals are formed to issue the technique that will be used.

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“Mr daughter can use magic?” said Zhang Hao who had just entered the building with his grandfather.

The smoldering fire that appeared on Tang Lian's sword was hot enough for the people nearby because Tang Lian herself used quite a lot of Qi for it, she said, and without a second thought Tang Lian immediately attacked Li Yuwen using the heirloom sword covered by the fire.

‘This is a little critical...’ Li Yuwen's inner self while dodging any attacks directed at him.

Li Yuwen continued to struggle to avoid Tang Lian's sword attack, because if he held her back using the sword he had then it was inevitable that the sword would break and melt due to the heat from Tang Lian's sword.

Then without feeling over dozens of attacks that Tang Lian unleashed but none of them managed to land on Li Yuwen, Tang Lian then clucked in annoyance at it.

“Then do I have to accept your attack willingly? Of course it will burn my body.” Li Yuwen tried to dodge.

“You!” Tang Lian grew even more annoyed with Li Yuwen who always answered her without a burden.

Dozens of other attacks passed and now the end of the fight began to be seen with Li Yuwen's corner in the corner of the match arena.

“Now you can no longer dodge, I will slash your body to burn.”

“That's a little scary,” said Li Yuwen as he gulped because the girl in front of him did not show the tone of the person who was lying.

“It turns out that my students can also be defeated by people his age..” Yao Jun muttered to see Li Yuwen who was being cornered.

“Is this the end?”

“This is a landslide victory for the princess.”

The audience could also guess what would happen, after which Tang Lian released a slash at Li Yuwen who already had no room to dodge, after which, but Li Yuwen's words made him stop continuing his attacks that had almost touched Li Yuwen's body.

“I surrender!” li Yuwen said to Tang Lian.

Tang Lian who heard that then stopped attacking and felt a feeling of pleasure and relief in her heart for being able to defeat the person that kept her from twitching overnight, then the girl removed the fire from her sword after the second elder announced Tang Lian's victory.

But a shocking incident occurred before the second elder announced the victory. Before turning off the fire from his sword, the fire that Tang Lian had put out turned out to have burned the rope binding mask that Li Yuwen was wearing without him noticing.

Then the mask fell down and showed the face of a young man who was so handsome as a sculpture from heaven, everyone in the room became silent because they were too focused to see the face behind the mask.

There was only one person who exhaled after the mask that Li Yuwen was wearing fell, “It looks like my residence will become more crowded than usual.” Yao Jun said as he shook his head.

Li Yuwen, who noticed his mask had fallen down, immediately grabbed it and put it back on his face even though he held it back because the straps were already burned, after which he rushed down from the arena and left the building walking back towards the residence.

Not long after he left the building the whole woman and girl cried out hysterically for never seeing a human who had such a handsome face. Tang Lian also did not move from her place after seeing Li Yuwen's face, without her noticing her heart pounding at the thought of the face she had just seen.

“Sial .. why there are such men in this world,” said most of the men there.