Chapter 85: How Violent

Lou Mu Yan and her party quickly arrived at the Ice Ape’s cave marked on the map. Sure enough, they felt three Tier 5 Demonic Beast auras in the depths of the cave.

Outside the cave, groups of low-level Ice Apes were walking back and forth. Yun Lan made a gesture to the others with his hands, took out a longsword, then cut through the air.

The others also took out their Spirit Treasures one by one to sweep through the low-level Ice Apes outside and in only a short while, they made their way deep into the cave.

[ROAR!!] Their fight also attracted the attention of the three Ice Ape Kings deep in the cave that rushed out, beating their chests.

Lou Mu Yan looked at one of the Ice Ape Kings that was more than three metres high, and fighting spirit rose in her eyes.

After the Spiritual Force Body Tempering and advancing to a Sword Spirit, her body’s toughness also rose a level, and the Flesh Refining Technique rose a layer too. This Initial-Phase Tier 5 Demonic Beast was the perfect opponent for to practice against right now.

“Leave that shortest one to me.” Lou Mu Yan said as she rolled her fists.

“…” Xiao Zi Ang rolled his eyes at her and said: “That’s a Tier 5 Demonic Beast. Even if you did advance to Sword Spirit, you don’t need to be so wild and arrogant right.”

Lou Mu Yan glanced at him lightly, “It’s not like I’m an idiot like you.” After speaking, she didn’t wait for anyone else to say anything, and with a flash, she just raised her fist and charged over.

She leapt up and with bare hands, directly greeting the Ice Ape that charged towards her.

[BOOM BOOM!] The two collided. The Ice Ape stumbled back a few steps, while Lou Mu Yan was directly slammed into the wall opposite, shaking down a lot of rubble.

However, her face not only didn’t have the slightest discolouration, but instead, her fighting spirit grew more and more intense. Her exquisite and gorgeous face was dyed with a layer of faint red, then with a leap, she once again, in mid-air, punched towards the Ice Ape.

The Ice Ape King had already developed intelligence, so it was completely angered by such provocation from a human that was one stage lower than itself. It beat its chest and roared a few times, then similarly clenched its hands to greet that tender fist.

[BANG!!] The two fists met, but neither side was jolted back this time. They continued to fight using the most primitive physical combat method, throwing punches at each other one by one.

“Is Lou Mu Yan still a woman?” Xiao Zi Ang watched that petite and delicate woman collide and bombard that tall, thick Ice Ape, completely stupefied. And yet she wasn’t at a disadvantage at all. The traces of wildness, arrogance, and that domineering manner she revealed completely startled him.

Yun Jin couldn’t help but twitch the corners of his mouth. He stood beside Xiao Zi Ang with folded arms as his eyes revealed some interest: “How violent! But I like it.”

“…” Xiao Zi Ang held his forehead. Were there still any normal people around?

He glanced around—Yun Lan and Yun Luo were practicing against one, Lou Mu Bai faced another alone, Chi Yi Xuan was cleaning up the few low-level Ice Apes that they had missed, and Lou Mu Yan was just currently fighting gleefully.

He couldn’t help but poke Yun Jin’s arm and said: “Is it really fine for us to just stand here and watch the fight?”

“What’s wrong with that. Those who have the abilities do more work. Just let them fight first. Their hands were itching for a long time.” Yun Jin raised an eyebrow indifferently, “Even if we want to intervene, there’s nowhere to be of use right now, so just watch.”

Xiao Zi Ang also realised that Yun Jin’s words were reasonable, so he shrugged and continued to watch the battle. From time to time, he would even nit-picked Lou Mu Yan’s fight, but he couldn’t help but feel admiration towards her rise within him.

The fight developed into a completely one-sided battle. Lou Mu Bai easily beheaded the Ice Ape King he battled while Yun Lan and Yun Luo also killed the other Ice Ape without using their full strength.

Seeing that the other people’s battles were already over, Lou Mu Yan didn’t delay any more time either.

She took two steps back, moved her fingers, and one immediately saw thin red threads of Elemental Energy Condensation reveal itself from the Ice Ape’s thin fur, displayed in an octagonal shape.

This was the Fire Elemental Energy Array that she quietly buried on the Ice Ape’s body every time her body physically clashed with the Ice Ape’s. If she wanted to kill her opponent with her physical strength alone, she still couldn’t do it for the time being. Of course, if she could do another Spiritual Force Body Tempering, then she could do it.

Lou Mu Yan murmured a few phrases and activated the Fire Elemental Energy in the Array. The octagonal-shaped red threads began to move quickly and gradually tightened.

A moment later, the red thread firmly bound the limbs of the Ice Ape, trapping it in place for the time being. At the same time, the Eye of the Array lit up brightly in red, transforming into streams of light that shot out directly towards the centre of the Ice Ape’s eyebrows!

The Ice Ape wailed, then its huge body fell heavily to the ground, without a single breath remaining.

The few people that were originally merely standing, watching her fight were now all stunned—when did she arrange this trick? They didn’t notice it at all. They only knew the constant bombardment of bodies between her and the Ice Ape, but they didn’t expect that she had long planted a second means to win.

“Mu Yan, what was the matter with that trick you just used? Elemental Energy Condensation is really this powerful?”

Yun Jin watched Lou Mu Yan’s battle from start to finish but didn’t notice that she used Elemental Energy Condensation. The Elemental Energy Condensation of a sword skill was what made the Yi Clan famous, but it didn’t have such potent, silent, and obscure powers.

Lou Mu Yan collected her spoils, and didn’t conceal either, “This is an Array formed by Elemental Energy Condensation. Those thin red threads had long destroyed the meridians in the limbs of that Ice Ape. When I decide to kill it, it can also play a restraining role.”

She was most famous in the Spirit World not for her Alchemy skills, but for her Arrays. She had thoroughly researched all types of Arrays and were highly adept in them. If her strength allowed her, she could even personally arrange a few Ancient Great Arrays. Even if a Sword Sovereign expert entered, she could promise that they wouldn’t be able to exit.

Although at the cultivation base of a Great Sword Master, she could condense the Elemental Energy within their body, but it wasn’t that powerful. However, after entering the Sword Spirit Stage, she could use many different skills. An Elemental Energy Array could also be quietly assembled, making one hard to defend against it. It made fights a lot easier.

Except she was currently cultivating the cultivation skills of the Immortal Cultivation World, so advancing in the levels of a Sword Master just couldn’t allow her to use certain talents. Only when she established her foundation, formed a core, formed a nascent soul and so forth, like in her previous life, could she exhibit her strengths.

“Aren’t Arrays only able to be arranged with Array Flags and Array Tools?” Yun Luo asked in surprised.

“Most Arrays do require Array Flags and Array Tools, but they can also be constructed with Elemental Energy. But not everyone can use Elemental Energy to build an Array.”

Lou Mu Yan stretched out her hand and a red, octagonal Elemental Energy Array was easily constructed by her. She continued: “Building an Array with Elemental Energy not only requires one to do three things at once, but also requires the talent to enter a free and empty state at any time, and make a sketch of the Array in their heart.”

The Heart Array was a Secret Manual that had long been lost in the Ancient Times. She only knew it because she accidentally discovered it in an Ancient Cultivator’s cave. In the Immortal Cultivation World, there wouldn’t be more than ten people that could use Spiritual Energy to build an Array.

In a place like Tian’ling Continent where everything was lacking, it was probably even more impossible to find a second person who could use the Heart Array.

After listening to Lou Mu Yan’s explanation, Yun Luo and the rest were all speechless. In the end, wasn’t it that it required talent to be able to do it. They sure didn’t have the ability to achieve a free and empty state of mind at any time, nor do three things at once.

Lou Mu Yan was just specifically attacking them now. It only took a few months for her to advance from an Advanced-Phase Sword Novice to a Sword Spirit—this sort of speed really made them, who were the so-called geniuses, yet used more than a decade, feel ashamed.

She also only used the cultivation base of a Sword Spirit to defeat a Tier 5 Ice Ape that was equivalent to an Initial-Phase Sword King strength, and not only used Elemental Energy Condensation, but could also use Elemental Energy to build an Array to kill her opponent. These methods had never been heard of before.

She slowly revealed to them the edges of her talents, but every time they thought that her strength and the means she displayed had already exceeded their imagination, she could attack them again with reality…