True Martial World - Chapter 394: Guanyin Flower Picking Hand

At the moment Yi Yun began cracking the array, a Yuan Qi voice transmission sounded out in Lin Ziyan's ear. It came from her master, a female elder of the Lin family.

"Yes, Master."

Lin Ziyan was not feeling pleased with the situation either. Originally, it had almost turned into a situation where no one from the Lin family showed up to crack the array. It would have been something that was greatly fulfilling, but with Yi Yun haphazard actions, the situation was now in a mess.

She glanced over at Yi Yun with resentment. One needed to have a mind as still as water when cracking an array. Now, Lin Ziyan felt that the state of her mind was in some turmoil. She took a few deep breaths to calm her mind.

Song Ziyue's array was not easy to crack. She needed to give it her all and be serious about it.

Lin Ziyan made her move. Both of her hands formed a lotus shape in front of her chest. Her palms were facing each other and with that, a rainbow light stream started twirling around her fingers. These streams of rainbow light condensed together into a rainbow in the air which then circled around Lin Ziyan. It made her suddenly appear like a goddess who had entered the human realm from heaven.

Lin Ziyan's fingers moved in unison and began moving faster and faster as it formed a series of shadows. Suddenly, beautiful lights flashed and golden lotuses filled the air as if the Heavens had landed in an auspicious manner. It was as if immortal plants were taking root in mid-air, blooming into a colorful lotus.

Lin Ziyan's sealing technique was so gorgeous that it made people gasp!

Beautiful sealing techniques did not necessarily mean that the technique was brilliant, but it meant a more complex energy control, and even greater energy intensity.

If one sealing technique set contained both complex and powerful aspects, then it could definitely not be a bad one.

Besides, for those at the Desolate Heaven technique tea session, a dazzling technique that was both complex and spectacular was expected.

"It is the Guanyin Flower Picking Hand!"

In the surrounding square, people let out amazed gasps.

The Guanyin Flower Picking Hand came from a Buddhist sect, the Daming Temple. The Daming Temple existed long ago. It was the world's biggest Buddhist sect and had four Great Monks, 18 Emperor Arhats, a million Buddhist sect disciples and a trillion believers.

However, affairs of the world are ephemeral. The Daming Temple eventually fractured and after it was besieged by a few large family clans, a lot of its heritage was either destroyed or lost across the world. The Guanyin Flower Picking Hand was one of those.

The legendary bodhisattva, Guanyin, had a thousand hands. What sort of feeling was it when a thousand hands picked flowers?

Hence, this name of Guanyin Flower Picking Hand described people who used such a technique. Their hands moved so rapidly that they appeared as a blur to people, just like a Thousand-hand Guanyin.

At the same time, the lighting effect generated from this technique was like a thousand flowers blooming at the same time. It was extremely beautiful.

The Guanyin Flower Picking Hand was extremely difficult to learn. Furthermore, the seals were complex. Just a tiny mistake would cause all the of seals to collapse and disintegrate.

Typically, at Desolate Heaven technique tea sessions, where bedazzling techniques were the norm, it was still very rare to see the Guanyin Flower Picking Hand used by juniors. Now, with the Guanyin Flower Picking Hand's appearance, it, of course, made the disciples of the Lin family very excited.

"Senior sister Ziyan is so awesome. She has been out training for many years and has actually managed to master such a technique!"

"It is marvelous. Senior Sister Ziyan should be able to break Song Ziyue's array. Once the array is cracked, we shall see how Song Ziyue can carry on flaunting himself."

The disciples of the Lin family found it a relief. Previously when Song Ziyue was being extremely arrogant, they had suppressed their fiery anger in their hearts.

Against Lin Ziyan's Guanyin Flower Picking Hand, Song Ziyue's expression turned solemn. Although he was confident in the traps he had set, Lin Ziyan was no normal person. Before Song Ziyue participated in this tea session, he had gained some understanding of the Lin family's younger generation. Lin Ziyan was one of the opponents whom he had paid close attention to noveltranslationweb.blogspot.com

Three years ago, before Lin Ziyan went out on a training expedition, she was already famous. Now, returning after three years, it was very difficult to tell how powerful she was!

"Dear nephew Nantian, what do you think of our Lin family's disciple's technique?" Lin Xintong's grandaunt said proudly beside Shentu Nantian. Lin Ziyan was one of her direct descendants, so she had always been proud of Lin Ziyan.

However, when Lin Ziyan was young, she had not been able to reveal much of her talent. Back then, she did not enjoy a lot of resources and was even worse off than Lin Xintong. This made the woman in palatial attire very unfriendly towards a young Lin Xintong.

"Very good! The Lin family has geniuses in every generation. It will only prosper with each day!"

Shentu Nantian went with the flow and praised Lin Ziyan.

The woman in the palatial gown was pleased as she glanced at Su Jie, "Elder Su, you sure did well by taking in this in-name disciple of yours. He is a rare stock that is almost impossible to get. At the Jade Bamboo peak, he spoke rashly without considering the age hierarchy. Now, at this tea session, in such a solemn scene, his brain went to mush and went on stage rashly. It really causes people to be dumbfounded! Thankfully Ziyan is here today, if not your disciple would have thrown the Lin family's face."

The woman in palatial attire mocked with a mean tone. She had never been on good terms with Su Jie. Back at the Jade Bamboo peak, she had already gone at odds against Yi Yun and was unhappy about it. Now, with this matter, Yi Yun had embarrassed the Lin family, while Ziyan had made the Lin family proud, so how could she not take the opportunity to flaunt?

As for offending Su Jie, she had already done so at the Jade Bamboo peak, so she did not care much.

Su Jie's expression sank. His character was originally of the proud sort, but now with the woman enumerating his faults in public, he became extremely pissed. However, since logic was against him, he had no right to retort.

"Hehe, the Lin family's disciples are so active. Elder Su's disciple should be praised for his courage!" Shentu Nantian said with a smile. He did not wish to offend Su Jie. After all, Su Jie was extremely important to Lin Xintong.

As for Yi Yun, Shentu Nantian completely ignored him. With his status, and in a situation where he was unable to recognize Yi Yun, he would not pay much attention to such a small fry.

"However… My Shentu family clan has even more heroes. Some of them might even exceed Grandaunt's expectations!"

Shentu Nantian turned towards the woman in palatial attire again. His words were full of confidence. He believed that the preparations the Shentu family clan had made would greatly surprise the Lin family. He was looking forward to that scene.

"Oh? Exceed my expectations?" The woman's interest was caught. "That would be interesting. Then let us see if Ziyan will also be able to surprise dear nephew Nantian!"

Against the woman's self-confidence, Shentu Nantian smiled without saying a word. He appeared inscrutable.

…

At that moment, on the square, as Lin Ziyan's forming of seals became even faster, layers of finger shadows began forming from her ten fingers. Runes after runes flew out like young swallows and into Song Ziyue's array.

And in the center of the group where Lin Ziyan was forming a seal was one of the wood-elemental desolate bones in Song Ziyue's array.

Actually, the Guanyin Flower Picking Hand leaned more towards the wood-elemental Yuan Qi energies. This piece of desolate bone was surrounded by Lin Ziyan's runic seals. People could clearly see lotuses, immortal grass bloom above the desolate bone.

This scene made people more and more excited.

True Martial World - Chapter 393: Yi Yun Makes His Move

Yi Yun's appearance was to sudden. Before the youths in the Evening Breeze Pavilion were able to react, Yi Yun had already disappeared. Lin Yuan only felt a gentle breeze blow past him.

The next second, Yi Yun, who was dressed in green, had already landed in the lake center's square. This scene alarmed many. What was he doing?

There was a conventional order of appearance for people in the Desolate Heaven technique tea session.

The tea session would begin with the juniors who were comparatively lacking. People like Shentu Jun and Lin Yue were such people, it could be seen from their status. When they went on stage, they would declare themselves as "direct disciples".

Direct disciples were one grade lower than personal disciples. Later on, people like Song Ziyue would appear, it would then be personal disciples or closed-door disciples.

After the juniors finished competing, then the showdown between the older generation, like Su Jie, would begin.

Yi Yun's status was barely enough to qualify him for the first few matches right at the beginning. However, he did not participate in the group match. Yet, now he had suddenly jumped into the lake center's square, which was an entirely unexpected turn of events.

"That rash fellow, what is he trying to do?"

Seeing Yi Yun suddenly appear, Lin Yuan and company were dumbfounded. Did Yi Yun want to challenge Song Ziyue's Five Elemental Bone Array?

At that moment, even the best personal disciples from the Lin family had to carefully weigh their options before going on stage. For example, no one from the Evening Breeze Pavilion dared to step forward. Hence, Yi Yun appearance onstage was extremely unexpected.

In the seats of honor, Su Jie was also in a daze. He had originally said that he would not let Yi Yun do anything. So now that Yi Yun suddenly jumped forward, he was completely caught off guard.

"Teacher. Yi Yun, he..." Lin Xintong knew very clearly that Yi Yun knew nothing back in the Desolate Human Valley two years ago. At that time, he had expressed an interest in learning the Desolate Heaven technique, but Lin Xintong had advised him against it. She did not want him to have any fantasies regarding the Desolate Heaven technique. Yi Yun however insisted, and because of that, she had reluctantly left Su Jie's notebook with him.

"I do not know. He probably knows himself well." Su Jie bitterly smiled, but on the inside, Su Jie did not have much confidence in Yi Yun.

Yi Yun was however not the only one from the Lin family who had flown onto the lake center's square. There was another young girl there as well, dressed in purple. Her hair was tied into a ponytail which hung down to her waist.

When Yi Yun stood up, this girl had also stood up at the same moment. As a result, both of them had jumped onto the central stage simultaneously.

"It is Lin Ziyan, Senior sister Lin!" Someone below the stage said. Unlike Yi Yun, Lin Ziyan was one of the best amongst the Lin family's younger generation. Her ability was on a completely different level from Lin Yuan’s.

Lin Ziyan had been accompanying her master in training expeditions for the past few years. She had only returned to the Lin family in recent months. There was no doubt of her strength, or her Desolate Heaven technique ability.

"You are..."

The purple-dressed girl did not know Yi Yun. Her life goals were centered on martial arts and to make her Desolate Heaven technique proficient. She was not concerned with small matters that happened within the Lin family's younger generation circles. Thus, she had never heard of Yi Yun. Two months ago, the matter of Yi Yun learning the Mystic Crystal Hand and completing more than 50 runic seals was a trivial matter. It had only spread amongst the Lin family disciples who had gathered around Yi Yun, and they all treated it as a joke of a newbie pretending to show off. It had never reached Lin Ziyan's ears.

"I am Yun Yantian." Yi Yun answered simply.

"Yun Yantian?" The purple-dressed girl's smoky eyebrows furrowed while she thought. Clearly, she had never heard this name before. Typically, the disciples whom she had never heard of were clearly those of low abilities. Now with the Lin family competing against the Shentu family clan on the Desolate Heaven technique, it was a matter regarding the Lin family's reputation. If a Lin family's disciple with extremely poor ability went on stage, they would no doubt be made into a laughing stock by the other family clans.

"How old are you? Who is your master?"

To confirm Yi Yun's ability, the purple-dressed girl asked.

"I am fifteen, Su Jie's in-name disciple."

Hearing Yi Yun's words, the purple-dressed girl was dumbfounded. This person was only 15 years old and was just Su Jie's in-name disciple? What the heck?

"Hahaha! This is really interesting. An in-name disciple is actually challenging me?" Song Ziyue roared with laughter, "Your courage is deserving of praise. I am okay with it. Since both of you came up together, then break the array together! I don't mind!"

Song Ziyue had heard that Lin Ziyan had some ability, so he would not be too careless with her. However, where did this Yun Yantian come from? It was as if he had come just to play the clown.

To let Lin Ziyan and this rash fellow break the array together, he actually had the additional intention of humiliating Lin Ziyan. A proud daughter of heaven and a rash fellow joining forces. Wasn't this mockery? After all, Song Ziyue had decided that it would be pretty impressive if this Yun Yantian did not end up making things worse by being up on stage.

Whatever Song Ziyue thought of, Lin Ziyan had also thought of. She did not want to do it together with Yun Yantian. It would end up with the bad label of going two against one, yet it would not really have the effect of two against one.

"Junior Brother Yun, why not go down first? After I break this array, you can come on up later regardless if I succeed or fail."

Lin Ziyan felt that she had said this very politely and had not questioned Yi Yun's abilities directly. She had given Yi Yun sufficient face.

However, Lin Ziyan never expected that, even though her intentions were so obvious, Yi Yun still paid no heed to her words. He minded himself and walked to the side of Song Ziyue's array and began analyzing the array technique.

The Five Elemental Bone Array was formed of a total of 12 smaller group arrays. Each small group array had a bone in it that held the array together at its core. This bone was not difficult to find. Yi Yun had chosen one of those.

It was the desolate bone of a general-ranked desolate beast and looked like a spinal bone.

This bone emitted hot air and was clearly a fire-elemental desolate bone.

The fire element was similar to pure Yang. The fire element in the five elements was just normal fire, while the pure Yang was the solar fire of the stars.

Yi Yun, who practiced the pure Yang laws, had considerable knowledge in the fire elemental laws.

With his spiritual energy interfacing with the Purple Crystal, and using the Purple Crystal's powers, he sealed the Power of Desolates in the desolate bone.

The Purple Crystal was pretty much the supreme law when it came to controlling energy. With the Purple Crystal, regardless of what type of energy it was, it would be impossible for it to explode outwards.

At that moment, the desolate beast's essence Qi within the desolate bone was completely suppressed by the Purple Crystal. It was powerless at resisting it.

Actually, with Yi Yun's ability, he could have just used the Purple Crystal's powers to violently extract the Power of Desolates and the essence Qi within the desolate bones at the same time. He could then use brute strength to forcefully refine them, regardless of array techniques or traps.

However, with so many people watching, if he had done all that with just his will power, it would be too shocking and there was no way for him to explain it.

Hence, Yi Yun decided to use the methods in the Desolate Heaven technique to make it seem like he was using the Desolate Heaven technique to break the trap and extract the Power of Desolates from the desolate bones.

Yi Yun opened up his energy vision and through it, the entire desolate bone turned transparent. Whatever Song Ziyue had done was clearly seen in Yi Yun's vision.

He could clearly see that there was a lizard-shaped desolate beast essence Qi locked within the core of the desolate bone.

And surrounding the essence Qi were runic seals. These runic seals were clearly set up by Song Ziyue. As long as Yi Yun injected his mental energy into it, the runic seals would detonate the desolate bone, causing the desolate beast essence Qi to explode outwards. It was like a clever igniting mechanism. What Yi Yun had to do now was to dismantle or seal off Song Ziyue's set up.

As long as he sent out a runic seal and broke Song Ziyue's igniting array, then Yi Yun would be able to dismantle the trap.

And with the Purple Crystal in hand, Yi Yun could perfectly control every runic seal he made. He could even destroy Song Ziyue's runic seal setup directly. It was extremely easy for him to do so.

Understanding this, Yi Yun began to form seals. Array patterns began appearing in Yi Yun's hands, but compared to the runic seal showdown from before, which were dazzling like fireworks, the runic seals Yi Yun sent out looked much more plain.

Seeing Yi Yun form runic seals, the surrounding people were dumbfounded. Seeing Yi Yun's motions and the runic seals he formed, wasn't he using the Mystic Crystal Hand?

Mystic Crystal Hand… Back when Yi Yun first reached the Lin family, in his first display and only display of his Desolate Heaven technique publicly, he had used the Mystic Crystal Hand.

Back then, people believed that Yi Yun had been in contact with the Desolate Heaven technique for a long period of time. Since he had learned the Desolate Heaven technique for so long, then it was impossible for him to have the Mystic Crystal Hand as his only sealing technique.

Back then, Yi Yun had said that he was a beginner, so using the Mystic Crystal Hand, which was a very common and simple technique, was considered normal. After all, this would make him 'appear' as a beginner.

However, now, at this Desolate Heaven technique tea session, in front of so many people, with the Lin family's reputation on the line, even if he could not break apart Song Ziyue's array he should not have used a one-size fits all technique like the Mystic Crystal Hand which lacked any technical skill.

The Desolate Heaven technique tea session stressed the need to captivate. The best was not needed, the hardest was. Using the Mystic Crystal Hand? Isn't this just going to make everyone laugh their heads off?

Seeing the scene happening before them, the Lin family's disciples felt their faces burn. They felt that Yi Yun was too thick-skinned. If it was them in Yi Yun's stead, standing in the square, they have long since wished to burrow into the ground to hide away.

As for the Shentu family clan's disciples, there were some who could not help but laugh. Song Ziyue gave an unashamed laugh, "Hahaha! When the Lin family organized this Desolate Heaven technique tea session, were they too worried about the atmosphere being too tense? Did they specially prepare an entertainment program? To let everyone laugh and ease the tense atmosphere?"

Song Ziyue mocked ruthlessly. This voice became even more piercing to the ear when it landed in the ears of the Lin family's disciples.

Many of the Lin family's Elders looked towards Su Jie.

Su Jie was now sweating furiously in his heart. He had specifically exhorted Yi Yun not to do anything rash at the Desolate Heaven technique tea session. Su Jie knew that Yi Yun had a feud with Shentu Nantian, but he should not have been this rash, even with a feud!

Su Jie also knew that Yi Yun was very talented in learning the Desolate Heaven technique, and his talent could even rival Lin Xintong's. However, he had only learned it for such a short period of time. Besides, Song Ziyue was no ordinary person. Even when Lin Xintong had been learning the Desolate Heaven technique for one to two years, it was still impossible for her to break the Five Elemental Bone Array.

Under these circumstances, Su Jie was even considering to go with the flow and admit to what Song Ziyue said, to say that Yi Yun was there to enliven the atmosphere...

"Ziyan, quickly make a move. Break as much of the Five Elemental Bone Array as you can. You need to regain some of the Lin family's face. If that kid carries on messing about, there will be no way to redeem the situation!"

True Martial World - Chapter 392: Desolate Bone Trap

Song Ziyue had already said that the Five Elemental Bone Array was designed by him. Logically, the person setting up an array holds the advantage, while the person trying to crack it has the disadvantage.

In a typical showdown, one side would set up an array while the other would try to crack it. If one could completely crack it, it meant that the person cracking it exceeded the person who set it up.

Song Ziyue did not take advantage of Lin Yuan in this aspect. He was proud and thought lowly of Lin Yuan. He had proclaimed that if Lin Yuan could extract more than 30% of the Power of Desolates from the array, then Lin Yuan would win.

30% of the Power of Desolates was considered very low.

Being looked down upon by Song Ziyue, Lin Yuan suppressed the raging flame in his heart, "Such shameless boasting. See how I break down your bone array!"

If a layman were to look at Song Ziyue's bone array, that person would not be able to see anything special about it. It was just like a child taking a bunch of beast bones and casually stacking them together.

However, when Lin Yuan entered the bone array, his expression turned serious. He could see that the desolate bones had been processed through some special techniques.

Desolate bones with the five elements, Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth corresponded to five elemental desolate beasts, and not any ordinary desolate beasts.

For example, the desolate bone in front of Lin Yuan was a general-ranked desolate beast's bone.

Lin Yuan could not tell what sort of desolate beast it came from. The bone looked very special as it was entirely smooth and round, like a glass bead.

"Song Ziyue may be arrogant, but he indeed has the ability. The array he set up is made from the combination of the bones from elite-ranked desolate beasts and general-ranked desolate beasts. The inner circle, where the array's core is, there are even bones from king-ranked desolate beasts. To crack this array, the first thing needed is to find the array's cores."

In the surrounding pavilions, people began to discuss. They never expected that this was how the Desolate Heaven technique showdown would be for the matches from Song Ziyue onwards.

However, this method required more technical skills than the clashing of runic seals. Also, it allowed one to keep on battling.

There might be consecutive failures of people trying to crack Song Ziyue’s array. This was what he relied on to challenge all of the young heroes of the Lin family in a tag-team battle.

"This bone should be the central point of the ten plus desolate bones nearby. It is also one of the cores of this array."

Lin Yuan had previously counted that this desolate bone array counted a total of 108 bones. There were 9 bones for the array core, and every 12 bones formed a group. Each group had a central bone and this central bone was where one of the array's core was.

If he could break apart this core bone, then this small array group would be broken.

Previously, Song Ziyue said that as long he broke 30% of the array, then Lin Yuan would win.

Although Lin Yuan was indignant with Song Ziyue's contemptuous words, he slowly held back his pride as he began examining the Five Elemental Bone Array. This array was not simple!

Regardless, winning was most important. If he could not even break 30% of the bone array, it would be too embarrassing.

"I only need to extract the Power of Desolates of 4 desolate bones and break apart 4 small group arrays to win."

With this thought in mind, Lin Yuan injected all of his mental energy into the smooth glass bead-like bone. This bone emitted a searing feeling and was probably a fire-elemental desolate beast's bone.

When Lin Yuan sank his perception into it, for some unknown reason, he suddenly felt faint. It was as if his perception had been absorbed into the desolate bone, entering a world that was filled with fire.

"Oh? This is!?"

Lin Yuan was alarmed. He immediately pulled back his perception and exited his consciousness, but at that moment, the round fiery glass-like desolate bone cracked!

"Boom!"

With a fiery explosion, a fire python, which was entirely red in color, appeared from the desolate bone. This fire python opened its jaws and bit at Lin Yuan.

"Ah!"

Lin Yuan let out a scream. Although it happened suddenly, and his soul had suffered a backlash, making his head hurt, Lin Yuan was still able to use all of his strength to send out a punch when the fire python threatened his life.

"Peng!"

With an energy explosion, the fire python was destroyed by Lin Yuan, but at the same time, the arm Lin Yuan had used to send out the punch dislocated due to the forceful clash with the fire python. His entire fist was now covered in blood!

Lin Yuan's body was also sent flying by the energy surge as he landed heavily on the square.

His face was pale while his body suffered from some spasms. Clearly, he was injured.

Actually, the injury on his arm was nothing. The most important thing was the damage to his soul. When he had used his mental energy to probe the desolate bone, he had suffered a backlash from the desolate bone, causing his soul to be injured.

Such an injury needed to be treated by an extremely good Soul Nurturing pill. He could not use his mental energy for at least half a month.

"What happened? What happened back there?"

Some of the Lin family's juniors were puzzled. A glass-like desolate bone suddenly shattered, popping out a fire python that injured Lin Yuan.

"It is an Essence Qi shadow left behind when a desolate beast dies!"

An old man from the Lin family said. He was extremely surprised that the junior named Song Ziyue had managed to master such a technique.

"That glass-like desolate bone is actually from a general-ranked desolate beast, it’s the Flaming Fire Python's 'brain stone' in its head. Song Ziyue managed to seal the Flaming Fire Python's Essence Qi into the brain stone when it was killed. Following that, he used the brain stone as one of the group array cores of the Five Elemental Bone Array!"

"The remaining Flaming Fire Python's Essence Qi inside the brain stone contained the resentment of being killed, so once it was initiated, it would break the brain stone and change into a Fire Python shadow that could kill. If the reaction of the person who probed it was any slower, he would have died on the spot."

Although many Desolate Heaven Masters were not good at fighting, they were proficient at certain killing techniques, such as setting traps in desolate bone relics.

This was how one could use the Desolate Heaven technique to kill.

With a trap set inside a desolate bone, even if the person trying to break the array knew that there was a trap, it would not be easily cracked. This was because to crack the array, one had to sink one's mental energy into the desolate bone, and once that happened, it would trigger the trap, causing the desolate beast's essence Qi to form a backlash to one's mental energy. The result after that was quite obvious.

This could only be avoided if one's Desolate Heaven technique was superb, to the point where one could undo the trap Song Ziyue had laid at the moment one's mental energy sank into the desolate bone. And Lin Yuan clearly did not have this ability.

Lin Yuan retreated back to the Evening Breeze Pavilion with his face pale. After consuming a Soul Nurturing pill, and readjusting his dislocated arm, he barely managed to regain some Yuan Qi.

"I was careless. Too careless. I accidentally fell into this fellow's trap. If I knew that there was a trap in the desolate bone, I would definitely not have turned out this way."

Lin Yuan, who returned to the Evening Breeze Pavilion, felt embarrassed facing his juniors. He had directed the battle previously and arranged the order in which people went up, making him seem like the leader of the Evening Breeze Pavilion.

However, the moment he went up he fell into a trap just as he attempted to extract the first desolate bone's energy. Thus he lost, even though Song Ziyue had said that just extracting 30% would give him victory.

He had not even managed to extract a single bit of energy. Having completely failed, it was too embarrassing!

"This kid first mentioned the 30% of energy to divert my attention, making me miss the possibility of there being a trap in the desolate bone. He is too cunning!"

As Lin Yuan gave some thought to it, he began to spout some unconvincing excuses. Not far away, Yi Yun shook his head gently when he heard him. In a showdown between Desolate Heaven Masters, it was all about using one's ability to create all sorts of obstacles for one's opponents. Setting a trap within a desolate bone was a very common practice.

Back when he first came into contact with the Desolate Heaven technique and was extracting the Lin Bone Gall, Luo Huo'er, who was unhappy with him, had set a trap in the Lin Bone Gall. She had hoped that he would cause it to explode when he injected his mental energy into it, drenching him in bile.

However, Yi Yun had seen through it, causing Luo Huo'er to succumb to the trap herself.

Of course, compared to Luo Huo'er's trap, that was just a mischievous prank, Song Ziyue's method of using a desolate beast's essence Qi was more lethal. It could kill.

"Anyone else?" Song Ziyue said on stage. He took out another piece of bone from his interspatial ring, placing it down in the spot where the Flaming Fire Python's desolate bone had been. This bone was not a fire-elemental desolate bone, but a water-elemental one.

This surprised people. Every time Song Ziyue set up the Five Elemental Bone Array, the arrangement of the desolate bones was different.

Such an ever-changing array was most troublesome as it would be much more difficult to figure out the rules. noveltranslationweb.blogspot.com

"As long as you a Desolate Heaven technique apprentice below the age of 18, feel free to challenge my Five Elemental Bone Array! If you can break 30% of it, you win!"

Song Ziyue was extremely confident. His provocation made many disciples of the Lin family angry. Song Ziyue was only 16 years old, yet he proclaimed that any Desolate Heaven technique apprentice below the age of 18 could challenge him.

However, though people were indignant about it, they knew that it was certain that the array set up by Song Ziyue was extremely hard to deal with. Lin Yuan, who was the personal disciple of the middle-aged man surnamed Sun, was quite outstanding in terms of his Desolate Heaven technique in the Lin family. Unfortunately, he did not manage to extract even a single bit of energy from the Five Elemental Bone Array. He lost instantly.

Lin Yuan said that he had been careless and fell for the trap, but everyone knew that Song Ziyue had set up an extremely profound, hidden trap. This caused Lin Yuan to be unable to discover it, if not, he wouldn’t have lost so miserably.

Under these circumstances, even if someone had told Lin Yuan that there was a trap in the bone, he would probably still have been unable to do anything about it.

Yi Yun looked at Song Ziyue and furrowed his eyebrows. His goal in participating in the Desolate Heaven technique tea session was very clear. He was here to mess things up!

Previously, when Lin Yuan attempted to send Yi Yun up to participate in the 64 people group match, Yi Yun lacked interest. Those who participated in the group match were a bunch of nobodies. Yi Yun would only waste his mental energy by going up, it would be meaningless.

He would only go on stage at such a moment when a top Desolate Heaven Master apprentice from the opposite side appeared. Only then was it time for Yi Yun to make a move.

Yi Yun stood up and, without a word, walked along the Evening Breeze Pavilion's edge.

The youths in the Evening Breeze Pavilion were curious about Yi Yun's action, but at that moment, Yi Yun silently leaped up and, like a feather, moved towards the center of the square...

And at the same moment Yi Yun leaped, a young girl flew up into the air from another small pavilion in the central regions of the lake, towards the square at the lake's center.

True Martial World - Chapter 391: Five Elemental Bone Array

What? No interest?

Lin Yuan nearly thought he had heard wrongly.

The purpose of the Desolate Heaven technique tea session was to showcase the skills of each family clan in the Desolate Heaven technique, and it was a stage for the young heroes to perform on.

If one excelled in one's performance, not only would it bring fame, one would also gain the attention of the upper echelons of the family clan. Then, one would be able to enjoy even more resources and have a prosperous future.

It was an opportunity many wished that they could experience, where they could display their skills. Yet, when Lin Yuan purposely prepared such an opportunity for Yi Yun, his reply was that he was not interested?

"Brother Yuan, ignore the kid. Since he does not dare to go, why not let me?"

A child of the Lin family laughed as he volunteered himself.

Lin Yuan nodded as he guessed that Yi Yun was lacking confidence and thought that he would shame himself if he went up. This really made Lin Yuan speechless. Back when Yi Yun was learning the Mystic Crystal Hand, he had acted with great pretense, but now, when push came to shove, he shrunk back. Such a person was someone everyone looked down upon.

"Alright then, you are up!"

Lin Yuan nodded towards the Lin family child who had volunteered himself. As such, four people jumped into the square from the Evening Breeze Pavilion.

The other pavilions also put together 28 people. As such, the Lin family also sent up 32 people.

With 32 against 32, the big chaotic battle kicked off.

The duels in the Desolate Heaven technique caused the scene to look extremely beautiful. Just two people competing in the Desolate Heaven technique would create a sight as beautiful as fireworks due to the flying runic seals exploding in the air.

Now, with 64 people bedazzling the square, various colors illuminated the sky, making it more beautiful than the morning glow of the sun’s rise in the East.

A lot of people in the surrounding seats, who were seeing a group Desolate Heaven technique battle for the first time, began sending out repeated praises.

At that moment, behind Shentu Nantian, a youth's lips began suffusing a teasing smile.

This youth was one of the three that followed Shentu Nantian to the seats of honor. His name was Song Ziyue, born from the Song family who had an alliance with the Shentu family clan. To be able to enter the seats of honor with Shentu Nantian clearly meant that his ability in the Desolate Heaven technique was good.

A while later, an outcome in the battle between the 64 people slowly emerged on the square.

In this large battle, runic seals exploded even more violently. The impact on one's mental strength was thus even greater. Those who were weaker would immediately be eliminated.

One disciple after another succumbed with pale faces, leaving fewer and fewer people left standing in the square.

Slowly the runic seals flying in the air became sparse, the light beams also slowly faded. The final result of this battle was a bit unexpected. In the end, there were two Lin family disciples still standing in the middle of the square. Although they did not have many runic seals left in their hands, they still won.

The young generation of the Lin family felt their spirits rise seeing such an outcome.

The Lin family won by a narrow margin!

"Well done!"

"Interesting!"

Even though the Shentu family clan's heritage in the Desolate Heaven technique was said to be stronger, the Lin family had now taken two battles out of three, this made winning this match even more valuable.

While seeing the youths from the Lin family cheer below the stage from the seats of honor, Song Ziyue calmly said, "Young Master Nantian, it is almost time. Now with us losing two rounds, we have shown our pleasantries. Let me end this pointless razzle dazzle."

The Shentu family clan had come prepared for this Desolate Heaven technique tea session. Not only were there people from the Shentu family clan, allies of the Shentu family clan had come as well. It could be said that there were also all sorts of heroes present. Besides, to refine the peerless Great Empress' ancient recipe, the Shentu family clan still had many hidden techniques. If they showcased these hidden techniques, then it would shock everyone. Under these circumstances, the Shentu family clan would no doubt shine in the Desolate Heaven technique tea session. And there was a 80-90% chance that they would get the matter of marriage settled by using this tea session.

Since the outcome was destined, Shentu Nantian did not mind letting the Lin family enjoy winning a bit, letting them think that their family clan's Desolate Heaven technique was comparable to the Shentu family clan's.

The benefit of doing so was that on the surface, the Shentu family clan had hunkered down and had purposely left the Lin family with some face.

Shentu Nantian stroke his chin and finally nodded slowly. "Yes."

Song Ziyue smiled and leaped onto the square like a floating cloud.

He was dressed in purple and stood straight in the middle of the square, "I am Song Ziyue, 16 years old this year. I am a child of the Song family, I am also the closed door disciple of the Shentu family clan's Thousand Hand Granny!"

As Song Ziyue spoke, people subconsciously looked towards the seats of honor. At the seats of honor, there was a silver-haired old woman holding a dragon headed cane. She was the elder sister of the Shentu family clan's current family head. She was the leader in matters regarding the Shentu family clan's Desolate Heaven technique and was known as the Thousand Hand Granny.

For this Desolate Heaven technique tea session, the Thousand Hand Granny had taken on a low profile. This was to allow Shentu Nantian to perform. However, even though this granny did not speak much, the Lin family's Desolate Heaven Masters, including Su Jie, were all wary of this old granny.

"This fellow is the Thousand Hand Granny's closed door disciple?"

When people heard this, they were taken aback. The Song family had always been friendly with the Shentu family clan. They were considered the younger brother of the Shentu family clan. When children of the Song family proved their talent in the Desolate Heaven technique, they would be taken in as disciples by Desolate Heaven Masters from the Shentu family clan.

And this Song Ziyue had gained the favor of the Thousand Hand Granny.

The so-called, "closed door disciple" meant that he was the last disciple of the Thousand Hand Granny. After taking in Song Ziyue, the Thousand Hand Granny would never again take in another disciple. Hence, Song Ziyue was the youngest disciple of the Thousand Hand Granny.

In the tradition of martial arts, there was a special significance to closed door disciples. In fact, it was no different than being the top personal disciple.

"Everyone!" Song Ziyue cupped his fists in the middle of the square as he made the gesture to the surrounding audience, "The Lin family's standard in the Desolate Heaven technique is indeed not bad, but compared to the Shentu family clan..."

Song Ziyue smiled and did not go on. However, his meaning was already very clear. Many people from the Lin family frowned upon hearing this as they did not find the words pleasant.

Who did he think he is? He's just a 16 year old kid, how could he have the right to give a review of the Lin family's Desolate Heaven technique?

Song Ziyue carried on, "The Shentu family clan has always been famous for their Desolate Heaven technique. And for this generation, it has attained an even higher peak. It just may be that some outsiders do not know so… Actually everyone knows that this Desolate Heaven technique tea session was held to showcase the Shentu family clan's abilities. I, Song Ziyue am a very direct person. Since it is to showcase one's ability, then I only have one sentence to say, I will beat down others until they are convinced!"

"Actually, this marriage proposal from the Shentu family clan is a great opportunity for the Lin family. Once it becomes a reality, the Lin family will gain a peerless Great Empress and will gain unmatchable benefits, however… it is unexpected that the matter has not proceeded smoothly. It has been dragged for two years, and till now, it seems like the Shentu family clan is pleading the Lin family. We have lowered our stance, yet the Lin family still looks at us with animosity. Even our Desolate Heaven technique is being questioned."

"Since you have your doubts, I shall still use that same sentence, beat down others until they are convinced! I shall stand here, so feel free to challenge me!"

After Song Ziyue finished saying these words, the words resounded throughout the square. People raged upon hearing it. This kid had not even grown out his hair, yet he is already this arrogant?

One had to know that one's mental strength was greatly expended in Desolate Heaven technique battles, so one could not battle against people one after another!

In a martial arts showdown, some people could win 4-5 matches due to their endurance, but in a Desolate Heaven technique showdown, just fighting two matches was already very difficult.

What gave Song Ziyue the right to say this?

"He is just someone from the Song family and his master is the Shentu family clan's Thousand Hand Granny. He is just a junior. How dare he speak those words with his status? Can he represent the Shentu family clan?"

Someone from the Lin family said with disdain, but someone beside him said, "Actually, he can. It is precisely because he is not from the Shentu family clan that he does not need to mince his words as he is both an outsider and a junior. What he is saying now is what the Shentu family clan is thinking. The upper echelons of the Shentu family clan are just using his mouth to say it..."

Many of them knew that the Shentu family clan was not satisfied with the current situation. The Shentu family clan wished that the Lin family would make their decision shortly.

"This kid is too arrogant!"

In the Evening Breeze Pavilion, Lin Yuan was the first person who could not take this sitting down. Song Ziyue was sixteen years old, the same as as him, so he could go up to do battle!

As if feeling Lin Yuan's gaze, Song Ziyue turned around and looked towards him with a smile. Song Ziyue's expression was calm and amiable, but his lips moved slightly as a voice transmission rang in Lin Yuan's ears.

"Come on up, trash."

What?

Hearing this, Lin Yuan felt anger consume his heart. Song Ziyue seemed to be perfectly alright on the surface, but the words he transmitted were insulting.

Lin Yuan's face sank as he jumped up onto the square.

"The Lin family's Sun Wanhai's personal disciple, Lin Yuan. 16 years old, let me see what abilities you have!"

The Lin family's disciples found Song Ziyue too domineering. Was he really thinking of challenging all of them alone?

There was no way for a tag team battle in a Desolate Heaven technique showdown, so where did Song Ziyue's confidence come from?

Song Ziyue gently smiled as he wiped his interspatial ring and took out a square disk array and a bunch of desolate beast bones.

These bones were divided into five different colors, golden, green, blue, red and dark yellow.

The five bone types exuded thick Power of Desolates.

"Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth. The powers of the five elements!"

Everyone present were experts so they could clearly feel that the Power of Desolates within these five types of desolate bones were the powers of the five elements.

Song Ziyue reached out his hands as the desolate bones flew in all directions, landing around Song Ziyue, with the disk array in the center. The desolate bones were arranged in a specific order, as if they were now a whole.

"This is my Five Elemental Bone Array. All of them are made by me. If you can extract more than 30% of the Power of Desolates from this bone array, then I will lose!"

The first step of the three steps of the Desolate Heaven technique was the extraction of the Power of Desolates from desolate bones.

Song Ziyue had used these desolate bones to form an array, but these desolate bones were still Desolate Heaven technique materials. Extracting energy from it was equivalent to cracking the array!

True Martial World - Chapter 390: I don't have much interest

Lin Yue's seals were similar to Shentu Jun as they began taking form and turning into various shapes.

These seals were sometimes like a flying eagle, while at other times, they were like galloping desolate beasts.

When Shentu Jun and Lin Yue's runic seals came close to one another, they would clash and burst into sparks.

"Peng Peng Peng!"

Many of the runic seals turned to smithereens after clashing with one another.

There was a number of ways for Desolate Heaven Masters to compete. It was not just simply seeing who could refine a higher quality desolate bone relic. For example, runic seal collisions determined whose runic seals were stronger, and that were determined by having better energy control and the use of higher-grade desolate bones.

Shentu Jun and Lin Yue's runic seals clashed with one another as neither of them let up, trying every trick they had.

More and more runic seals turned to dust as Shentu Jun and Lin Yue's faces were covered in cold sweat. Clearly, such a match greatly depleted their mental strength. Every annihilation of a runic seal was a hit to their soul.

It was understandable what sustained collisions would do to their mental strength.

Crackle!

Their runic seals bloomed like fireworks in the air and after about 30 seconds, a loud boom was heard as all the runic seals in the air exploded. Lin Yue took a few steps back and with his legs going weak, he fell to the ground.

Currently, his face was pale and he was covered in sweat. He clearly could not carry on any further.

As for Shentu Jun, he was no better than Lin Yue. He too was at his limit, but he had struggled with his final breath to not fall to the ground. This made it seem like he was more composed than Lin Yue.

"Haha, Junior brother Lin's energy control is not bad, you nearly exploded all my runic seals."

Although Shentu Jun was covered in sweat, he was smiling very proudly. He spread his hands and people could see that he still held two runic seals in them. Although these two runic seals were lacking in luster, and they were about to collapse at any moment, this still meant that Shentu Jun was slightly better than Lin Yue.

"Interesting!"

Outside the square, several Desolate Heaven Master apprentices shouted. These people were from the Shentu family clan or from the Shentu family clan's alliance.

As for the people from the Lin family, the upper echelon did not think much about it as it was just a competition between the juniors to see who could outshine the other. However, the Desolate Heaven Master apprentices from the younger generation of the Lin family were all holding back their anger. Seeing the runic seals in Shentu Jun's hands and his smug look, they felt even more indignant.

"Junior brother Lin Yue, such a pity!"

"Right, just missed by a bit!"

The juniors all pitied him. The performance of a Desolate Heaven Master apprentice was not stable. The degree to which Lin Yue and Shentu Jun competed meant that they were similar in strength. Sometimes, just a bit of luck was enough to decide the winner.

"Let me win it back." A youth named Lin Jun said and jumped onto the square.

"I am Lin Jun, the Lin family's Heaven Master Fusheng's direct disciple. I am sixteen years old! Is there any hero from the Shentu family clan who wishes to join me in performing on stage together?"

Every young hero who jumped on stage would announce their name, age, and their master.

The people who had come on stage were all direct disciples. Although direct disciples were slightly lower in status than personal disciples, they were not that bad.

Shentu Jun had left since he was too drained, so naturally, he could not stay in the square.

Facing Lin Jun was another disciple from the outer circles of the Shentu family clan.

Lin Jun indeed had the capital for he won the duel. Furthermore, Lin Jun won beautifully, he was not like Shentu Jun, who barely beat Lin Yue. After winning, Lin Jun still had some strength left. This allowed the younger generation of the Lin family gain back some dignity.

Actually, the young generation of the Lin family knew that the Shentu family clan's heritage in the Desolate Heaven technique was deeper than theirs; however, in a competition amongst the younger disciples, they actually might not lose.

"The Lin family's young generation sure is filled with crouching tigers and hidden dragons. This Lin Jun is not bad indeed." In the seats of honor, Shentu Nantian smiled saying that. His tone was that of an elder giving pointers to a junior, "This way of competition is too slow. Why don't we have a group battle?"

As Shentu Nantian spoke, he snapped his fingers. The Shentu family clan had already prepared a total of 32 young disciples aged from 13 to 18 years old people clan. They stepped forward and walked towards the square.

The 32 Desolate Heaven Master apprentices were all wearing a Shentu family clan uniform. They stood in a row on the square and gave a considerable visual impact.

"This…"

Seeing the Shentu family clan suddenly pull out so many young heroes, the Lin family's Desolate Heaven Masters suddenly felt at a loss.

With 32 people competing against one another, they would do it one on one, so 32 people from the Lin family were needed.

Many Desolate Heaven Masters immediately gave their orders to get their disciples to choose suitable people to compete with the Shentu family clan.

These 32 people were clearly not the elite of the Shentu family clan, and they were just relatively normal in strength.

If they sent an elite up, winning this group battle would not be a problem; however, the Shentu family clan still had many experts that had not gone up, so this would result in their utter defeat. noveltranslationweb.blogspot.com

In the Evening Breeze Pavilion that Yi Yun was at, Lin Yuan received a voice transmission from the middle-aged man surnamed Sun to take part in this group battle.

"These fellows aren't anything special. We do not need to send disciples with outstanding strength. We just need to send a few normal disciples who match their ages." Lin Yuan stood up and said in the Evening Breeze Pavilion.

After a group battle, a lot of mental strength would be depleted, so it would naturally affect the future competitions, so the real experts could not be sent out.

"Senior brother, do I need to go?" Little Lin Qing asked in both an excited but nervous manner.

Lin Yuan glanced at Lin Qing. Although Lin Qing's Desolate Heaven technique was not up to standard, she was still not bad compared to her age bracket as she was still young. After all, she was his junior sister and also, a personal disciple of their master. So to send her to compete in the chaotic group battle would be wasting talent on a trivial task.

"There's no need. You and I do not need to go on stage as it would be a waste of talent. Wait till a 13-year-old genius girl from the Shentu family clan comes on stage, then you can go up. Now, we just need to send some people who are relatively alright."

Lin Yuan looked at the people in the Evening Breeze Pavilion and weighed their strength before comparing their ages.

"You, you and you." Lin Yuan pointed a few people out as his gaze landed upon Yi Yun.

From the beginning of the tea session, the other Desolate Heaven Master apprentices of the younger generation would comment as they watched and as they compared with their own techniques while learning the merits of others.

However, Yi Yun was just sitting quietly in his seat. He did not say a word and it was not known if he knew anything.

Even with the group battle about to begin, he did not produce a single reaction.

Lin Yuan knew Yi Yun was Su Jie's in-name disciple. Although in-name disciples were considered to be at the rank of a medicine boy, it was after all Su Jie, so Yi Yun could probably make the standard.

"I intend to choose four people. Since the numbers are lacking, why don't you go up and fill the numbers?" Lin Yuan said to Yi Yun, thinking that this was an opportunity for Yi Yun to go on stage. One had to know that at Desolate Heaven technique tea sessions, most young disciples never had a chance to go on stage to compete.

With Yi Yun's strength, he may not get a chance to go on stage. And for the chaotic group match, even if his abilities were lacking, he would not lose too badly on stage, neither would it be too obvious. This was the best chance for the weak to go on stage.

"Junior Brother Yun, you seem to know some Mystic Crystal Hand sealing techniques. Although your completion progress is just lacking a bit, it will do. For this group match, just use your Mystic Crystal Hand. You just need to defend without going on the offensive.”

Lin Yuan gave some pointers to Yi Yun on the battle strategy. Two months ago, when Yi Yun first reached the Lin family, he had learned the Mystic Crystal Hand and Small Thousand Seal from Su Jie. He had obtained a perfect completion of slightly more than 50 runic seals during his first try at the Mystic Crystal Hand.

As a Desolate Heaven technique apprentice who had just come into contact with the Desolate Heaven technique for a few months, Yi Yun's result could be said to be a miracle amongst miracles.

However, no one believed that Yi Yun was a rookie who had just learned the Desolate Heaven technique for a few months. Everyone believed that Yi Yun was just bragging. This weirdo and the strange matter revolving him were only used in trivial conversations and usually, as a topic of ridicule. This was the repulsiveness most people had as mocking others tended to make one feel good.

However, no one cared about this matter after a few days. After all, a joke could only be used a few times. It would lose its flavor after being heard too many times.

Later on, Yi Yun went into reclusive training and it was as if he had disappeared all of a sudden, no one paid any attention to this in-name disciple Su Jie took in on a whim.

"This kid sure has good luck. Usually, a technique like the Mystic Crystal Hand is not something one would showcase. However, it would not be too eye-catching in a chaotic group match."

The other younger disciples silently agreed with Lin Yuan's assignment. To be able to showcase themselves on stage in front of so many masters in the Desolate Heaven technique tea session was a valuable experience. Many people wished they had such an opportunity.

However, no one expected that for this matter, Yi Yun actually casually shook his head and said nonchalantly, "You should find someone else, I don't have much interest…"

True Martial World - Chapter 389: Razzle Dazzle

Lin Xintong's appearance naturally became the focus of attention. Shentu Nantian stood up with a slight smile on his face, "Miss Lin, it has been a while since we met."

In such a situation, even though Lin Xintong did not have a good impression of Shentu Nantian, she still nodded her head politely.

Entering the seats of honor, Lin Xintong sat down at her seat and remained silent.

Shentu Nantian did not pester Lin Xintong. Other than the initial polite greeting, he did not cling on further.

Even some children of the Lin family, who did not like Shentu Nantian, could not resent Shentu Nantian's behavior and attitude.

Although the Shentu family clan was the one who had proposed the idea of marriage, Shentu Nantian did not give off the impression that he was begging the Lin family. His mannerisms were neither too humble nor too haughty, they were just perfect. Shentu Nantian did not overly pursue Lin Xintong, but neither did he snub her too much. Such a man was easily liked by girls. There were even some young girls of the Lin family who felt their heart flutter upon seeing Shentu Nantian.

A young hero with good looks, personality and strength was indeed the ideal partner to spend the remainder of their lives with. Although it was not possible to be the first wife, being a concubine was not that bad either.

The tea session proceeded in an orderly fashion as the bigwigs chatted and drank tea in the seats of honor. They chatted about the understandings of the Desolate Heaven technique, exchanging points of view, the session seemed amiable.

Su Jie did not speak much, while Lin Xintong only remained silent. Only Shentu Nantian attended to both sides like a fish in water.

Now, Shentu Nantian had several supporters in the Lin family. For example, Lin Xintong's grandaunt and 6th granduncle had the most engaging chat with Shentu Nantian.

The grandaunt, who was wearing her palatial gown, kept addressing him as "dear nephew Nantian" in a very affectionate manner.

"Dear nephew Nantian sure is exceptional. Not only is your strength outstanding, I have even heard that dear nephew Nantian's accomplishment in the Desolate Heaven technique is also great. Why not go on stage to perform a bit to broaden my horizons?"

Lin Xintong's grandaunt's face smiled like a flower.

"Grandaunt, you overly praised me. I only dabbled in the Desolate Heaven technique slightly." After the woman in palatial gown introduced herself, Shentu Nantian took it for granted to begin addressing her, using the same salutation as Lin Xintong, to appear closer. "The path of martial arts is fraught with thorns. Although my qualifications are slightly better than others, it is still a struggle. Practicing martial arts takes up too much of my time, so I do not have the energy to practice the Desolate Heaven technique. I only took some unorthodox shortcuts. Now, I can only do bone refining techniques like blood pills and relic formation."

Shentu Nantian spoke modestly. In fact, many favored children of heaven who focused on martial arts, such as Lin Xintong and company would dabble in elixir refinement techniques, Desolate Heaven technique and array techniques. This could broaden their horizons and would be of a great help to their future martial path. It was the same for Shentu Nantian.

At that moment, Yi Yun who was in the Evening Breeze Pavilion stared at Shentu Nantian from afar. His gaze turned gloomy.

Bone refining techniques such as blood pills and relic formation...?

Other than the desolate bones of desolate beasts being valuable, the blood of many desolate beasts were also of great value, and could be refined into blood pills.

However, for Shentu Nantian, the best material for refining blood pills was not the blood of desolate beasts, but the blood of the Desolate race!

How could Yi Yun forget that, a few months back in the Chu royal residence, Shentu Nantian had caught Jiang Xiaorou. The first thing he wanted upon her capture was for King Chu to provide him a elixir refining room so that he could refine Jiang Xiaorou's blood into blood pills!

Being questioned by so many people, Shentu Nantian used the techniques of blood pills and relic formations to flaunt his Desolate Heaven technique. After hearing this, killing intent surged up from Yi Yun's heart.

"Haha, the Desolate Heaven technique is so broad. Just being a master of one aspect is sufficient!"

An Elder from the Lin family echoed. Even the Elders, who were not supportive of the marriage between the Lin family and the Shentu family clan, were quite enthusiastic towards Shentu Nantian. After all, no one could guarantee what the future would be. Offending this future in-law was definitely not a wise option. noveltranslationweb.blogspot.com

Compared to the remote corners of the tea session, the upper echelons of the Lin family, in the seats of honor, constantly chatted with Shentu Nantian. With that, Shentu Nantian naturally became the focus of everyone's attention. Without a doubt, he could be said to be the main lead of this tea session.

On the Shentu family clan's side, some of the older generation from the upper echelons intended to give the stage to Shentu Nantian for him to flaunt his skills.

If the Elders of the Lin family acknowledged Shentu Nantian, then this marriage would most naturally be a success.

After one hour passed in the tea session, Shentu Nantian stood up and said, "Everyone. This Desolate Heaven technique tea session is firstly, for everyone to exchange their Desolate Heaven technique knowledge and improve on it together. Secondly, it is to prove to the Lin family that my Shentu family clan has passable Desolate Heaven technique standards. Since everyone have mostly eaten their fill by now, why not let some children from my Shentu family clan go on stage to perform some skills to add some fun!"

As Shentu Nantian said this, he signaled with his eyes, and a Shentu Nantian child sitting into the outer regions jumped up to the middle of the square. He looked about 16 years of age and was wearing the uniform of the Shentu family clan. He seemed to be in high spirits.

"All seniors and heroes, I am Shentu Jun and I am seventeen years old this year. I am the direct disciple of the Shentu family clan's Desolate Heaven Master Shentu Yanfei. Today, with all the experts gathered her for the tea session, let me venture forth to show some tricks, hoping to induce others to come forward with valuable contributions. Please excuse my shortcomings!"

As Shentu Jun spoke, with a snap, a desolate bone appeared in his hand like magic.

Everyone present were experts in the Desolate Heaven technique. From a distance, people could see that the desolate bone was just a normal desolate beast's bone.

To many 17 year old Desolate Heaven Master apprentices, controlling a normal desolate bone was a drop in their status. However, just controlling it to show something spectacular was still a feast for the eyes.

"Up!"

Shentu Jun shouted clearly and a Desolate Heaven technique disk array appeared from his interspatial ring. Following that, Shentu Jun began forming seals with his hands. One runic seal after the other was sent out by him, dancing in the air.

Immediately, the desolate bone's energy was rapidly extracted by Shentu Jun.

Shentu Jun was showcasing his speed. He could extract energy from normal desolate bones very quickly. It only took about 30 seconds before the desolate bone in his hand was completely drained off its energy!

This desolate bone turned grayish-white and was casually tossed away by Shentu Jun.

"Pa!"

With a snap, the desolate bone, which had lost all its essence, shattered like a ceramic tile falling onto the ground.

And at that moment, Shentu Jun carried on making more seals. After a short while, the Power of Desolates, that was dancing in the air, started to form into runes.

These runes were completely controlled by Shentu Jun, like a flock of birds flying in the sky.

"Together!"

Shentu June waved his hand and all of the runes began flying together, like a hundred birds following the wind.

"Split!"

Shentu Jun waved his hand again as the runes immediately split apart. It was like directing his own fists.

A bunch of runes began to move in a uniform manner, like a school of fish. It was a very beautiful sight.

"Good!"

"Awesome!"

In the surrounding pavilion, the Desolate Heaven Master apprentices from the Shentu family clan, and the family clans that were in an alliance with the Shentu family clan, began applauding and cheer on Shentu Jun.

Shentu Jun's method was clearly not the technique used for refining desolate bone relics. It was purely a way of showcasing his ability to control energy and his seal-forming techniques. It was purely form. Of course, to really refine a desolate bone relic, no one would control the runes with such flashy but ineffective moves.

In the seats of honor, the Shentu family clan and Lin family's upper echelons nodded their heads slightly as they were watching the performance.

However, Desolate Heaven Master like Su Jie and the middle-aged man, Sun, did not have such thoughts. This was a battle between the heritage between the two family clans. Furthermore, the Desolate Heaven Masters from both sides were always competing against each other, so none of them wanted to be inferior.

A Desolate Heaven Master Elder from the Lin family looked towards a pavilion on the outer circle and nodded. Following that a youth dressed in purple jumped onto the square.

He cupped his fists and said, "I am Lin Yue, the Lin family's Desolate Heaven Master Lin Fenglang's direct disciple. I am also seventeen years old. Seeing Brother Shen Tu's performance alone, it looks somewhat insubstantial, so as my fingers are itching, I decided to join you and hopefully bring a smile to everyone!"

As Lin Yue spoke, he took out a desolate bone he had prepared earlier. Using his fastest speed, he extracted the Power of Desolates from the desolate bone. Following that, he formed seals with both his hands and transformed the Power of Desolates into runic seals as a group of runes began to fly.

True Martial World - Chapter 388: Enemies Meet

The Tian Hua peak was one of the 18 main peaks in the Lin family's Jade Spirit Mountains. The Desolate Heaven technique tea session was held in the Tian Hua Garden on the Tian Hua peak.

In contrast to vast expanse of jade bamboo on the Jade Bamboo peak, the garden on Tian Hua’s peak reared all sorts of magical herbs. In addition, energy gathering arrays made it so that the Heaven Earth Yuan Qi in the Tian Hua Garden was extremely thick.

Every morning, there would be a thin mountain fog in the Tian Hua Garden, and due to the rich Heaven Earth Yuan Qi mixing with the fog, just taking a deep breath would make one's pores open up. It was extremely comfortable.

In the inner regions of the Tian Hua Garden, there was a lake with clear water. On the lake’s surface, there was a green building. In front of the building was a square, and surrounding the square were pavilions made of jade. This was the site where the Desolate Heaven technique tea session was being held at.

"You are Senior brother Yun?"

Lin Qing asked uncertainly as she looked oddly at Yi Yun's mask when he neared his seat.

The reason she asked was because the seats had been arranged for the tea session. When Yi Yun came to the Tian Hua Garden he was met by a receptionist. To enter, Yi Yun had to show his identity token, which had been made for him earlier.

Yi Yun nodded at Lin Qing and used his original voice, "It is me."

"Why are you wearing a mask?" As she had been forced to clean up Yi Yun's mess, Lin Qing's impression of Yi Yun was no longer as good as before. Now, Yi Yun was even wearing a mask, trying to act cool for the Desolate Heaven technique tea session.

Yi Yun's mask was entirely silverish-white in color. At the placement of the eyes there were two blood-red lines. It looked scary at first glance. In the Desolate Heaven Master circles, there were some people who pretended to be mysterious and liked to wear masks. They purposely gave off an enigmatic feeling, but in fact, their skills were not that great.

At that moment, Yi Yun saw the Shentu family clan's airship land by the side of the lake. Many of the Shentu family clan's Desolate Heaven Masters, and their younger generation, emerged from the airship. Crossing the rainbow bridge over the lake, they walked to the square in the center of it.

These people took turns to be seated. In the world of warriors, there was a hierarchical system. Those who sat closer to the center, where the seats of honor were, they were the important figures from the various large family clans and the top-ranked Desolate Heaven Masters from everywhere. And in the outer regions sat the children from normal family clan members and the disciples of many Desolate Heaven Masters.

Yi Yun naturally sat in the outer regions. As he was about to be seated, Yi Yun's footsteps stopped as his motions slowed down.

He saw that, by the lake, a man dressed in green was disembarking the Shentu family clan's airship. People clustered around him before he stepped onto the rainbow bridge on the lake.

The man held a folding fan in his hand and wore a headband. His green clothes were extremely simple. but since he was surrounded by many people, it was clear that he was someone important. His every move did not feel like he was showing off, and they were in fact gentle and charming. It made those who saw him feel extremely comfortable.

Shentu Nantian!

Yi Yun's eyes flashed.

Meeting Shentu Nantian now was no different from the first time Yi Yun saw him. Back then, Shentu Nantian gave one the feeling of a humble scholar.

Only when Jiang Xiaorou's identity was discovered by Shentu Nantian did he showcase his ferocious side.

"Young Master Nantian, it must have been hard on your to come all the way here."

On the rainbow bridge, a few custodians of the Lin family were responsible for receiving the important figures of the Shentu Nantian for today. Shentu Nantian, who could likely become one of the in-laws of the Lin family and the family head of the Shentu family clan, was naturally one of them.

"Young Master Nantian, this way, please." The Lin family's custodian was very attentive. Once Lin Xintong's terminated meridians were joined up, then as long as Lin Xintong wished it, she would taken over the helm of the Lin family in the future. As for Shentu Nantian, who would become Lin Xintong's fiance, his status would become even more important. Hence, the custodian had to do his best to treat him well.

"Well, thank you." Shentu Nantian said very politely as he smiled warmly.

Shentu Nantian slowly walked and behind him were three of the top Desolate Heaven Master apprentices from the Shentu family clan. They were all young and had little reputation. However, they followed Shentu Nantian all the way to the seats of honor. Although they did not sit in the first row, and sat in the few rows at the back, those seats were still only spots for outer Elders.

The custodian who was in charge of the reception did not feel good seeing them sit there as if a matter of course. The young generation of the Lin family, other than Lin Xintong, were all seated in the outer seats. The only person from the Lin family's younger generation who could sit in the seats of honor was Lin Xintong herself.

"These three are…?" The custodian asked somewhat awkwardly as he minced his words to indicate that they were not suited to sit there.

Shentu Nantian said without heeding, "They are the most outstanding Desolate Heaven Masters of the Tian Yuan world's younger generation. Shentu Feng, Shentu Hai are from my Shentu family clan, and this is Song Ziyue from the Song family."

The Song family that Shentu Nantian mentioned was a family clan the Shentu family clan had an alliance with. Although they were slightly lacking compared to the Shentu Nantian in terms of power, they were still one of the top family clans in the Tian Yuan world.

Since it was clear that the Shentu family clan was letting Shentu Nantian be the host of the Desolate Heaven technique tea session, the custodian in charge of receiving him decided not to speak any further.

"This Shentu family clan sure is arrogant."

On the Lin family's side, several younger disciples noticed this. The juniors of the Shentu family clan, who had the same qualifications of them, were blatantly sitting near the middle of the square. In contrast, they were all sitting on the pavilions surrounding the center of the lake.

This Desolate Heaven technique tea session was originally a competition between the Shentu family clan and Lin family's Desolate Heaven Masters, but before it began, the Shentu family clan had already suppressed them with their stance. How could the juniors of the Lin family agree to that?

"These bunch of grandsons of the Shentu family clan really think as if they are some big shots!"

Beside Yi Yun and Lin Qing, a Lin family junior swore. This person's name was Lin Yuan. He was a fellow disciple of Lin Qing as he was also a disciple of the middle-aged man whose surname was Sun.

Lin Yuan was slightly older than Yi Yun, so although it seemed like the Lin family was about to have marriage ties with the Shentu family clan soon, Lin Yuan still did not like the Shentu family clan. He never found the Shentu family clan pleasing to the eye.

"Junior sister, wait and see. When the tea session begins, I will show those bunch of grandsons what strength is!"

Lin Yuan patted himself on the chest as he spoke to Lin Qing. He liked this distant cousin that was a few years younger than him. Showcasing himself in front of her and gaining her adulation would definitely be a joyous matter.

Little Lin Qing nodded her head vigorously, as if she trusted this disciple senior of hers greatly.

And beside Lin Qing, a few 14-15 year old children echoed, "Haha, Senior brother Lin will definitely show his awesomeness and impress that bunch of Shentu family clan fellows!"

Lin Yuan's status amongst these children was very high. He could be regarded as the leader of this bunch of children.

The small pavilion that Lin Yuan, Lin Qing and Yi Yun were sitting at was called the Evening Breeze Pavilion. About a fifth of the Lin family's 13-16 year old Desolate Heaven technique apprentices sat at the Evening Breeze Pavilion.

Practicing the Desolate Heaven technique required a long period of time. For Desolate Heaven technique apprentices, one's skill was mostly determined by age under the situation where everyone's talent was similar.

The standard of the Desolate Heaven technique of 13-16 year old children was pretty limited. As Lin Yuan was the oldest amongst the youths in the Evening Breeze Pavilion, he was also the senior brother of the pavilion. As such, the other children who were lacking in the Desolate Heaven technique treated Lin Yuan as their leader. This did not mean that Lin Yuan was really a genius in the Desolate Heaven technique.

Lin Yuan knew how to play his role and quickly gathered the children together to discuss their battle strategy. Lin Yuan knew that the Shentu family clan was not easily handled.

At that moment, the Desolate Heaven technique tea session officially began.

Since it was called a tea session, there was of course tea. Pots of good spirit tea was served along with all sorts of pastries.

The materials used to make the tea and pastries were all treasures and their value was obvious.

In the seats of honor, the tea and pastries were even higher in quality. These things could normally only be exchanged for with the Lin family's family contribution points. This made many children of the Lin family feel unhappy. Such good things were being fed to the dogs.

When Yi Yun saw the teacup in front of him, he noticed that the tea was crystal clear, as if it was molten amber. The tea's fragrance was refreshing. With the Purple Crystal's energy vision, he could clearly see densely packed light dots in it. They were all made of pure Yuan Qi.

This was just tea normal juniors drank and was considered the lowest quality tea served in the Desolate Heaven technique tea session.

Even so, this tea cup shocked Yi Yun greatly. If this tea was in the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom, it was probably a tribute for the royal palace.

The Tian Yuan world was indeed luxurious. In such an environment, with all the top resources, and lands much bigger than the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom, coupled with even better family clan heritages and traditions, all of this gave rise to young elites that were higher than the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom’s by an entire realm or more.

This also made Yi Yun sigh. He went from the poor Cloud Wilderness, where he could not even eat his fill, to the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom. From there, he then went to the Tian Yuan world. He had really witnessed the world's great contrast in levels.

It was like in his previous life. The richest people in the poor mountainous regions, where vehicles could not even pass through, would probably not amount to a hundredth of the wealth of a commoner in Shanghai.

As Yi Yun was thinking, he noticed a white figure appear on a bridge above the lake. Yi Yun's mind stirred. Lin Xintong had arrived!