First Encounter with Spiritual Skills

  With this, Liu Bo's overall performance increased greatly, his movements becoming even more elusive and swift, already reaching the standards of a second-rate master. His swordsmanship also became even more ferocious and sharp, although still far from the standards of a second-rate master, but had reached the standards of a first-rate master.

  Liu Bo couldn't understand the subtlety of Liu Hui's swordsmanship, so naturally he couldn't break it down from the moves. But now Liu Bo was simply using brute force to overcome the technique, no matter how exquisite your swordsmanship is, I will break it with force.

  It's easy to say that one can break through a law with force, but it's not actually that simple. The more profound and mysterious the law is, the more power one needs to exert in order to forcibly break through it.

  Liu Bo's overall strength increased several times with the assistance of Po Tian's first strike, and he already had such conditions. Therefore, under his strong attack, although Liu Hui's swordsmanship was extraordinary, it was still forcibly broken, and could no longer occupy the upper hand, but was instead forced by Liu Bo's swordsmanship to become disordered, making it difficult to maintain coordination between sword moves, and its power suddenly dropped greatly.

  "The Five Elements Mind Sword" is so powerful because the coordination of sword moves can exert the effect of the Five Elements Formation. Now, Liu Hui's sword move was strongly broken by Liu Bo, and it was difficult to connect them together, so naturally, he couldn't exert the power of the Five Elements Formation. This set of swordsmanship could only be reduced to an ordinary Condensing Mind Period swordsmanship.

  In such a situation, Liu Hui could no longer resist Liu Bo's strong attack, which had increased several times in strength, and was defeated by Liu Bo in just a few moves.

  Liu Hui, who had high hopes for his own swordsmanship, was disheartened after his defeat and felt that all his years of hard work and study were still not enough to surpass Liu Bo, a mere youth.

  The onlookers were also extremely surprised, especially the elders who understood the power of the "Five Elements Mind Confusion Sword".

  "'Wu Xing Mi Xin Jian' was actually forcibly broken, I didn't expect that Xiaobo's previous matches hadn't been exerting his full strength at all, looking at him still with a relaxed expression, it must not be the method of stimulating potential. Apart from stimulating potential, to achieve the effect of increasing power several times, there is only Po Tian Ji. Has Xiaobo already mastered the first move of Po Tian?" Liu Tianwei asked Liu Tianxiong with both surprise and astonishment.

  "Could it be that Xiaobo has actually managed to integrate the Breaking Heaven Strike into his footwork? If so, then Xiaobo's comprehension is truly astonishing." Liu Tianxiong was momentarily unable to decide.

  Liu Bo withdrew from the competition, Liu Hui rested for a while in the arena and then continued with her next match against Liu Yan.

  As for Liu Yan's actual strength, Liu Bo had always been very curious. Liu Yan was the family-recognized fifth-generation first genius and was usually a cultivation madman, so Liu Bo rarely saw him, and therefore did not have a clear understanding of how strong Liu Yan's abilities were or how exceptional his talent was. This time, the trial between Liu Hui and Liu Yan gave Liu Bo an opportunity to fully understand Liu Yan.

  As a genius nurtured as a family secret, Liu Hui had not made any public moves for several years. Although he was already familiar with the name of Liu Yan, this was actually his first time facing him in person.

  Both were very cautious and didn't dare to underestimate each other. As soon as they started fighting, they both displayed their unique skills without any reserve or concession.

  Liu Yan had just witnessed Liu Hui's mysterious swordsmanship and thought that there was no other way to break it, so he could only learn from Liu Bo's method and use brute force to break through.

  Liu Yan's palm technique is a set of fierce and powerful moves, each strike unleashing a surge of energy with the momentum of overturning mountains and seas. It should also be a secret technique in the condensing spirit period. Just looking at the ferocity of the palm technique and the thickness of the true energy, although Liu Yan has only been practicing for two years after advancing to the ninth layer of Qi Refining, he is not inferior to Liu Hui at all, but rather surpasses him slightly.

  Liu Yan's palm technique was powerful, although it exceeded Liu Hui's by a lot, but it still hadn't reached the level of breaking through with brute force, and he couldn't shake off the restraints of Liu Hui's swordsmanship. If Liu Yan didn't have any other tricks up his sleeve, even if he won in the end, it would be very difficult.

  Liu Yan was able to gain great fame among the dozens of fifth-generation descendants in the Liu Manor, and Liu Bo believed that he must have even more powerful means, and it was absolutely impossible for him to only show his current strength.

  It wasn't long before Liu Bo's guess was proven correct.

  Liu Yan, after a long period of brewing, finally unleashed his most powerful attack at the moment, "Chiyan Huo". A crimson flame burst forth from Liu Yan's palm, shooting towards Liu Hui.

  Liu Hui saw a piece of crimson flames rushing towards her, and hastily deployed the defensive formation from "Wu Xing Mi Xin Jian", trying to hold back this piece of flame. This piece of crimson flame looked unimpressive, but its power was extremely astonishing, Liu Hui's dense sword net couldn't trap it at all. In the blink of an eye, this flame not only broke through her continuous interception, but also directly burned towards Liu Hui's surroundings.

  "This 'Crimson Flame Fist' is a common attacking method of the spiritual technique 'Crimson Flame Palm', its power has already exceeded the realm of ordinary martial techniques, even among warriors in the Condensing Spirit stage, it is extremely powerful, and most Condensing Spirit stage warriors are unable to withstand it."

  Ling techniques are different from martial techniques, ordinary people cannot cultivate them. Only cultivators with a spiritual root can start practicing after advancing to the Condensing Spirit stage. The grading of ling techniques is slightly different from that of martial techniques, with the lowest grade being first-rate, and there is no ordinary stage without a foundation in martial techniques.

  Liu Hui's "Wu Xing Mi Xin Jian" was also a very high-level condensed mind sword technique, and its actual power was not inferior to Liu Yan's "Chi Yan Palm". However, Liu Hui was only at the Qi Cultivation stage, and her understanding of the Five Elements Array was still shallow, making it difficult for her to exert the true power of this sword technique. Although she was extremely intelligent and had a natural talent for this sword technique, her current level was only close to that of a first-rate master. On the other hand, Liu Yan's "Chi Yan Fire" was already at the first-rate master level as soon as it could be displayed, and its attacking power was extremely strong, making Liu Hui no match for him.

  As the red flames were about to engulf Liu Hui's entire body, just as they were about to fall on her, they suddenly turned a corner, only burning a piece of her sleeve into ashes, which fell to the ground beside her. In an instant, the ground was burned into a sheet of semi-transparent glass.

  "Thank you, Xiaoyan, for showing mercy. I didn't expect you to grasp the spiritual technique so quickly, it seems your soul strength is far beyond mine, no wonder you're the number one prodigy of our Liu Manor, I admit defeat with a humble heart." Liu Hui said in shock.

  "Hui's five-element formation is indeed impressive, I really had no way to break it, so I resorted to brute force, but in fact, I've already fallen into a lower level." Liu Yan said humbly.

  The presiding judge comes out and announces that Liu Yan has won this round. After a one-minute rest, the final round begins.

  At this time, the onlookers outside the arena were all shocked by Liu Yan's skillful moves, and a heated discussion erupted.

  "What kind of martial arts did Brother Yan just use? How come it's so powerful?" Liu An was extremely curious.

  "Today was really an eye-opener, no wonder you didn't know, the move Xiao Yan performed is a rare and powerful spiritual technique that even those in the condensing stage rarely see, its power is enormous." Someone exclaimed excitedly.

  "Isn't it that only those in the lowest level of spiritual concentration can perform spiritual techniques? How is it that you're saying that even those in the Qi-refining stage can already perform spiritual techniques?" Liu An was puzzled.