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Heavy waterfall continously fell from the top of the mountain into the river below.
"Hmph," wei long threw a heavey punch, hitting the sword's tip but at the next moment the sword turned into mist and scattered as if it were an illusion.
"That too was an illusion.? No wonder it's called "nine extreme illusion swords." Wei long thought as he pulled backwards dodging another sword attack. "But up until now she only used two illusion swords while attacking me with her real sword, she likely hasn't mastered all nine illusion swords."
As Wei long kept retreating Xiao Mei yue unleashed multiple sword thrusts.
"His footwork are excellent, I didn't read his "diamond clad dragon fists" martial art but from his footwork I can see it's a complete martial art." Xiao mei yue felt a little envious after seeing wei long display a good footwork.
She had been trying to perfect her footwork since it's the core foundation of her "nine extreme illusion swords"
"It's my turn to attack now sister xiao mei yue." As he said this wei long took a huge step forward launching a heavey punch right at xiao mei yue's belly, even though he didn't put much shrine qi into his punch, much of the force came from his stable stance.
Xiao Mei yue reacted quickly, holding her sword upside down in front of her belly.
She managed to block wei long's punch with her sword but was pushed few inches back.
"Wei long's "diamond clad dragon fists" heavily relies on offense and defense but its movements are also fluid." Wu Jin who was sitting nearby on a rock thought as he watched wei long and Xiao Mei Yue exchange few blows.
Xiao mei yue thrusted her sword, aiming to impale wei long, but he grabbed it in the middle of his palms but immediately afterward the sword between his palms turned into mist.
"Sister Xiao mei yue, your nine extreme illusion swords truly lives up to it's name." Wei long said as he retreated.
"I could say the same thing to your "diamond clad dragon fists."
Both wei long and Xiao Mei Yue weren't giving it their all, wei long mastered "diamond fist" and Xiao Mei Yue mastered "sword mist." They were both concealing the full power behind their techniques.
Although all four of them agreed to train together. They didn't want to reveal their trump cards lest there be a conflict between them.
And they were also sparing so that each of them could get a better understanding of their own martial arts and improve. But behind this light sparing was also a probing.
"Should we go now?" Hao Jun said as he looked towards wu jin with shining eyes.
"Alright, let's spar." Seeing Hao Jun's desperate eyes to improve his martial arts Wu Jin agreed, but he was also excited deep in his heart, he knew cutting bamboo trees wasn't enough to improve. If he really wanted to completely master his martial arts, the best way to do it was through real combat experience.
"Wu Jin, you're also excited aren't you?" Hao Jun said as he prepared his zither.
"The reason why i spent a fortune and traveled all the way from my village was so that I could learn martial arts and see the world, believe you and I share this common goal."
Hearing hao jun, wu jin couldn't help but nod in agreement. "That's right, i guess i don't need to tell you why I'm learning martial arts."
Wu jin believed that martial arts was the path to freedom, having grown up as a slave wu jin naturally yearned for freedom like any other human being would. He saw martial arts as something that could help him escape that life. And after risking his life and entering yu feng sect. a door to that freedom that he always wanted finally opened up for him.
"Ok enough talk let's begin" wu jin drew his saber sword and immediately leapt toward hao jun, his footwork were refined, not a single step he took was out of place. He swung his blade horizontally at hao Jun's waist. But his sword stopped midway as if it was being held back by some kind of invincible threads.
"Is this "Elastic Sound Harmony's defense?" Wu Jin jumped back after failing to cut through.
"Every martial art has its own set of unique combat system, especially completed martial arts, seems like hao jun has mastered the defensive side of his martial art, it seems none of us were slacking off."
Any martial art that had offense, defense and movements was considered a completed martial art.
This was what wei long and wu jin learned from their martial arts manuals, except for hao jun and xiao mei yue who were already aware of this fact.
"This time, i will put more qi into it." Wu jin directed his mind toward his shrine, a breath later a white luminous substance started covering his blade under his precise control. this was the refined earth qi which martial masters kept inside their shrine for later use, he charged again sending a combination of horizontal and vertical slashes, his blade made a whistling sound as it went to cut hao jun into pieces.
Countless sword sparks scattered between his blade and the space before it. once again he could feel his blade being held back by something as it could not reach hao jun.
"I can feel my blade hitting something but at the same time there's nothing there."
"Is this not "elastic sound Harmony's defense after all?" Wu jin pondered as he kept attacking.
He decided to take a different approach and inquired "Hao Jun your control over your musical instrument is truly outstanding, did you already excel at musical instruments?"
"Hmm?" Hao Jun frowned as the veins on his forehead bulged. Hao Jun was prideful. he did not like it when people pried into his personal life.
"But he still decided to answer wu jin. "Yes, you guessed it right my village is well known for its music, every year we hold a music festival where kids from multiple villages compete."
From this wu jin understood why he chose such a unique martial art, hao jun already had some experience when it came to playing musical instruments.
"Agh.." after that short sentence a sharp pain assaulted wu jin's ears
"I see, this is not elastic sound Harmony's defense aspect but rather a sound wave attack." After multiple sword slashes wu jin's face flashed with light as he understood why his attacks weren't landing.
He guess it right "Elastic Sound Harmony" was a sound based martial art and it's user could send sound wave attacks using their shrine qi.