Chapter 44: Passing the Mystic Level Advancement!

"Alas, it seems Ye Yuan has no hope of creating a miracle. But to have come this far is already remarkable. He's only at the fourth level of Yuan Qi. The Qin Kingdom's Danwu Academy has finally produced another once-in-fifty-years genius."

Hu Yan Yong looked at the light representing Ye Yuan on the screen, which was growing dimmer, and couldn't help feeling a bit regretful.

But then he found himself amused. Ye Yuan's displayed strength was already astonishing enough. Pushing him to challenge the Mystic Level advancement at the fourth level of Yuan Qi was indeed a stretch.

Through this assessment, Hu Yan Yong believed that as long as Ye Yuan broke through to the sixth level of Yuan Qi—no, even the fifth level—he would be able to pass the Mystic Level advancement!

"Oh no, he can't hold on anymore! Ye Yuan can't hold on!"

"Alas, he has no chance now. He must be badly injured by now, right? It's impressive he's lasted this long."

"Miracles really aren't so easy to create! But Ye Yuan is already formidable. Back then, Senior Brother Long only passed the Mystic Level advancement when he was about to break through to the seventh level of Yuan Qi. Ye Yuan is only at the fourth level now!"

"Damn, I've been watching here for so long, and in the end, he still lost."

As the light representing Ye Yuan grew dimmer, the watching students began to murmur, many expressing regret over Ye Yuan's failure.

Wan Yuan looked at the screen, a cold smile flickering across his lips. Here, no one wanted Ye Yuan to pass the Mystic Level assessment more than he didn't.

"Overreaching! Having just broken through to the fourth level of Yuan Qi, he dares to challenge the Mystic Level advancement? Does he think the academy's assessments are mere decorations?"

Having watched for so long, Wan Yuan knew that Ye Yuan had broken through to the fourth level of Yuan Qi. After the shock came a deep sense of crisis.

Now seeing Ye Yuan about to lose, the pressure on Wan Yuan's chest finally eased a little.

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Inside the Illusory Spirit Tower, the Dream Tapir watched the battle group and felt something was off.

Right, Ye Yuan's defensive perimeter hadn't shrunk for a while!

What was going on?

Ye Yuan was clearly covered in wounds, so why hadn't his last line of defense collapsed?

Hmm? He's using his sword?

The Dream Tapir suddenly noticed an anomaly. From the beginning of the entrance advancement, Ye Yuan had never used that broken sword!

But now, Ye Yuan was actually using his sword!

The Dream Tapir recalled how indifferent Ye Yuan had been when choosing his weapon, thinking his sword was just for show, and his real killer move was the Overlapping Wave Heart Palm!

The Dream Tapir naturally knew the Overlapping Wave Heart Palm. It was already extraordinary that Ye Yuan had comprehended the second wave.

It was precisely because Ye Yuan had comprehended the second wave that he easily passed the Yellow Level advancement.

Thus, the Dream Tapir thought the Overlapping Wave Heart Palm was Ye Yuan's greatest trump card. It never occurred to him that Ye Yuan's swordsmanship was also so exquisite.

Ye Yuan was still on the defensive, like a leaf in a storm, yet he stubbornly held on, refusing to capsize!

The Dream Tapir also noticed that since Ye Yuan started using his sword, he had not been struck by the black-clad martial artists again.

The originally flawless sword formation now seemed faintly unstable.

Ye Yuan seemed able to see through the weaknesses of the sword formation. Though he was passively defending, each move and stance was destabilizing the entire formation.

Could it be that this Ye Yuan was also a master of formations?

The Dream Tapir felt its mind was struggling to keep up.

Ye Yuan's choice of weapon was not without reason. In his past life, he was indeed a master of the sword.

Of course, that mastery was relative to the lower realms. In the Divine Realm, many could trounce him effortlessly.

The sword technique Ye Yuan was using now was one he had created in his spare time in the Divine Realm, named the Falling Petal Drifting Sword.

Once, he was drinking and chatting with several friends in a sacred cherry blossom forest, watching the countless sacred cherry blossom petals fall, forming a rain of petals.

Inspired by the sight, Ye Yuan hastily created this sword technique and named it the Falling Petal Drifting Sword.

Among the friends present at the time was the Extreme Sword Divine King Kuang Tianming, a divine king who had attained the Dao through the sword, with extraordinary swordsmanship.

After Ye Yuan finished performing the Falling Petal Drifting Sword, he received great praise from the Extreme Sword Divine King.

Kuang Tianming said at the time: "Brother Qingyun has great talent; Tianming is inferior! If this sword technique can be perfected, it will surely shine in the Divine Realm in the future. If Brother Qingyun could devote himself to the sword, his future achievements would be no less than in the Dao of Alchemy!"

Unfortunately, back then, Qingyunzi had little interest in martial arts. Creating the Falling Petal Drifting Sword was merely a whim. After creating it, he cast it aside and never used it again.

Kuang Tianming's praise for the Falling Petal Drifting Sword was not because the technique was truly that powerful.

Although Qingyunzi's realm was high at the time, his immersion in martial arts was limited. Kuang Tianming meant that if Ye Yuan focused on martial arts and continuously deepened his understanding of the sword, the Falling Petal Drifting Sword would become an extremely fearsome technique.

The sword technique was powerful, but Ye Yuan's current realm was too low. Without the support of Yuan Qi, he could unleash less than half of its power.

However, the Falling Petal Drifting Sword emphasized lightness and ethereality, which complemented Ye Yuan's modified Flash perfectly, doubling their combined power.

Using Flash in conjunction with the Falling Petal Drifting Sword was barely enough to defend against the attacks of these five.

The five-man sword formation appeared immensely powerful, but in Ye Yuan's eyes, it was full of holes. He just needed an opportunity!

That opportunity, driven by his movement technique and swordsmanship, finally arrived!

These five were not real entities, so their coordination was flawless, but the sword formation itself was too simple—that was its fatal flaw!

In this sword formation, every few dozen moves, the five would launch a combined attack. This combined attack was immensely powerful. Earlier, Ye Yuan had narrowly avoided it with his movement technique but had still been badly injured.

However, this time, because of Ye Yuan's influence, one of the black-clad martial artists was a fraction slower.

Ye Yuan would not miss such a golden opportunity. Just before the five's combined attack landed, he pushed Flash to its limit and directly flashed out of the sword formation!

These five black-clad martial artists knew no fatigue. As soon as Ye Yuan escaped the battle circle, they withdrew their sword momentum and formed the sword formation again, ready to attack.

Ye Yuan would not give them another chance to encircle him. While leaping out of the battle circle, he mobilized all the remaining Yuan Qi in his body and struck with his palm before the five could attack.

Overlapping Wave Heart Palm, Fourth Wave!

Eightfold force erupted violently, and the palm wind, like a狂暴 storm, sent the five black-clad martial artists flying.

Ye Yuan knew it wasn't over. Mobilizing the little Yuan Qi left, he flashed with Flash to one of the black-clad martial artists, stabbed his sword into the heart, and the martial artist died, then disappeared.

This palm strike was powerful, but the gap in realm between Ye Yuan and the black-clad martial artists was too large, so it could only severely injure them.

Following the same pattern, Ye Yuan gave each of the other four a sword thrust, ending the battle.

After doing all this, Ye Yuan threw down his sword, sat down heavily on the ground, and panted heavily.

The Dream Tapir stared blankly at all this, unable to believe what had just happened.

"Hey, since I passed, shouldn't you heal my injuries? If this continues, I'll bleed to death. You can't expect me to tackle the next level like this, right?" Ye Yuan caught his breath and shouted at the Dream Tapir.