My Evil Imperial Wife is Too Arrogant

Chapter 52

On the only battle platform currently in use, Lou Mu Yan stood with indifference and calmness, while Gu Yan Ran stood opposite her with a cyan longsword in her hand.

In this world, cultivators were all called Sword Masters, so naturally, as Sword Masters, the Spirit Tools they used were related to the sword.

The colours of the swords with different attributes were also different. For example, Gu Yan Ran held a cyan longsword which meant that the Elemental Energy she comprehended was the wind attribute.

Lou Mu Yan had a longsword before, but it wasn’t suitable for her, so she wanted to refine her own Natal Magic Treasure after reaching Foundation Establishment Stage. If she was given a choice, then she would definitely only choose the one that suited her best. If it wasn’t to her liking, then she’d rather fight with bare hands.

“Lou Mu Yan, even if you aren’t trash, I’ll still defeat you today.” Gu Yan Ran wore pink clothes, with a deliberate expression of softness and beauty, but the hidden cruelty in her eyes destroyed the gracefulness and softness quite a bit.

Lou Mu Yan sneered, “Winning or losing isn’t determined by talking about it. Yi Nuo screamed louder than you, but what ending did she have?”

“I’m different to Yi Nuo.” Seeing Lou Mu Yan’s indifferent look that didn’t regard her highly, Gu Yan Ran wanted desperately to go up and tear apart that face that was more beautiful than hers.

“You two are indeed different, so the gift I’ll give you won’t be worse than Yi Nuo’s.” Lou Mu Yan chuckled softly, and her beautiful eyes revealed a sense of anticipation. It had been a long time since she had a good fight—she hoped Gu Yan Ran wouldn’t let her down.

Gu Yan Ran clenched the longsword in her hand tighter, but she deliberately spoke with tenderness, pretending to be generous, saying: “Lou Mu Yan, I didn’t want to hurt you, but you forced me today.”

“You can stop being noisy with that disgustingly sweet voice. If you want to fight, then let’s fight, if you don’t want to fight, then get lost.” It wasn’t that Lou Mu Yan didn’t like delicate and beautiful women, but she really couldn’t appreciate Gu Yan Ran’s fake delicateness.

“You’re courting death.” Gu Yan Ran no longer pretended. Against such a person like Lou Mu Yan who didn’t play by the rules, nor understood what gentleness was, Gu Yan Ran was also helpless. It was like punching cotton, she just wanted to vent even more.

Gu Yan Ran’s cultivation base was already at Peak-Phase Great Sword Master Stage. With one fortuitous opportunity, she could breakthrough to Sword Spirit. In addition, her talent was indeed superior, that’s why she was called the number one person in the Earth Class.

She channelled wind attribute Elemental Energy to her foot, and her body instantly lightened. Using the wind attribute, she flew into the air and looked down at Lou Mu Yan.

She admitted that Lou Mu Yan’s fire element condensation was indeed powerful, but she had long prepared ahead. As long as she could beat Lou Mu Yan in speed, then it’d be difficult for the condensed fire lotus to hurt her.

Lou Mu Yan’s battle experience was far more abundant than anyone present, so she naturally saw through Gu Yan Ran’s plans. A faint expression of ridicule rose on her lips—she didn’t only know how to use fire Elemental Energy condensation.

“Wind blade, go.” Gu Yan Ran quietly condensed the wind element attack the moment the referee announced the start of the battle.

At this moment, she applied the wind energy on her cyan longsword, and with a strong wave of her hand, numerous sword aura wind blades, glowing cyan, flew in Lou Mu Yan’s direction.

Yi Nuo had comprehended the ice attribute Elemental Energy, so Lou Mu Yan’s fire attribute Elemental Energy perfectly suppressed it, but it wouldn’t have any effect on her wind attribute.

Lou Mu Yan didn’t take out any Spirit Tools, and only stood on the spot, looking up to watch the groups of cyan light attack her.

“Did Lou Mu Yan become an idiot? Why isn’t she moving?” Someone in the audience below asked the person beside them upon seeing Lou Mu Yan still standing in her original position, with the same posture, and without any intentions of retaliating.

The person beside also looked up at the upright and elegant purple figure on the platform, “Just keep watching and we’ll know.”

Everyone couldn’t figure out why Lou Mu Yan didn’t make a move. Could it be that Gu Yan Ran’s wind blade frightened her? But that didn’t seem likely!

But before the people on the stands could react, the masses of wind blades fell on her.

“AH!” Someone had been too focused, and couldn’t help yelling when the wind blades landed on Lou Mu Yan. But the scream only just rose when their mouth immediately shut and stared at the battle platform blankly.

All everyone saw were the wind blades passing through Lou Mu Yan’s body, but when the wind blade’s energy landed on one of the corners of the battle platform, Lou Mu Yan’s figure on the battle platform had disappeared.

“How’s that possible?” The slight pride in Gu Yan Ran’s expression changed—how could Lou Mu Yan escape her wind blade. Where is she?

“Here.” Lou Mu Yan’s figure suddenly appeared in mid-air behind Gu Yan Ran, stretched out her hand and lightly struck Gu Yan Ran’s left shoulder.

Gu Yan Ran’s pupils constricted, but she was too late to guard herself. Pain struck her left shoulder, as if something was corroding it, and she stumbled back. If it weren’t for the wind attribute Elemental Energy support beneath her feet, she would’ve fallen to the ground.

“How fast!” With Yun Jin’s cultivation base and eyesight, he could naturally see that the wind blade didn’t hit Lou Mu Yan at all, but was instead quickly avoided by her.

But even he could only barely see the afterimages flashing a few times before vanishing, and the next thing he knew, he discovered Lou Mu Yan appearing behind Gu Yan Ran.

“Lou Mu Yan, you dare to sneak an attack on me?” Gu Yan Ran’s expression darkened, and her left shoulder suddenly felt extreme pain.

Lou Mu Yan raised an eyebrow: “There’s no such thing as a sneak attack on the battlefield. It’s because you’re inferior to others.”

Gu Yan Ran glared at Lou Mu Yan and quickly tapped the acupoints on her left shoulder to relieve the pain. There was irritability in her heart, and she channelled wave after wave of Elemental Energy into her cyan longsword.

The cyan longsword in her hand made a ‘buzzing’ sound and spontaneously flew before Lou Mu Yan, stopping her from her plan to advance. Then the longsword immediately scattered, transforming into ten phantoms that surrounded Lou Mu Yan.

“Now this is slightly interesting.” Lou Mu Yan casually glanced at the ten wind attribute sword auras. Gu Yan Ran’s sword aura couldn’t condense but this was a prototype of a Sword Array composed by sword auras.

“Kill!” With Gu Yan Ran’s low growl, the ten sword auras instantly levelled out flat, and pierced towards Lou Mu Yan.

Lou Mu Yan sneered, then used her Flash Step to manoeuvre incessantly in the air. Her ring hand wasn’t idle either as she flexibly drew a talisman in the air.

Those ten sword auras kept chasing her footsteps, and while she was extremely fast, the moment she dodged one, the other nine immediately followed.

The sword aura brushed past her relentlessly. As she kept waving her fingers in the air, chains of yellow characters leapt out and reflected in the eyes of the audience.

“Break!” Lou Mu Yan stopped drawing talismans in the void, her red lips slightly opened, the ‘Break’ character crept out of her mouth, and immediately blended in with the yellow talisman incantation in the sky.

The translucent yellow talisman incantation rose in the air and gradually grew larger. When it turned into a giant talisman incantation, it slammed downwards, destroying the ten sword auras that surrounded her with much ease like crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood1.

After the sword aura collapsed, she joined two fingers together on her right hand, drew a few circles in front of her, and before the yellow talisman incantations disappeared, they suddenly became the size of a palm and shot towards Gu Yan Ran at lightning speed.

Gu Yan Ran’s expression changed, quickly took out a Spirit Tool to guard her chest, but the yellow talisman incantation directly penetrated the shield Spirit Tool, and instantly entered her body.