The Supreme Being Against Heaven
Chapter Summary
The sect has the “Crouching Dragon Ranking.” The Danmai branch has the “Dan Dao Battle Ranking.” In addition, there is another set of rankings for alchemy skill: the Alchemy Battle Ranking and the Alchemy Talent Ranking. Even the Twelfth Elder himself was ashamed, thinking of his genius alchemy disciple who died because of an assistant!” “Today, we’ll see how Ye Ling avenges all twelve elders’ disciples!” “…” In everyone’s eyes, Tan Yun was far too arrogant! You think that injuring me once will ...
Ye Ling and Tan Yun now stood only ten feet apart, facing each other directly.
At that moment, Ye Ling’s eyes were filled with astonishment. Blood dripped from the corner of his mouth, and his right palm was a mangled mess of blood.
His right arm shook violently, blood spurting from the gaps between his broken fingers, flowing continuously down his fractured hand.
In contrast, Tan Yun remained calm. His right fist was only slightly red and mildly swollen.
He stared at Ye Ling, who was still unharmed, a faint half-smile appearing on his lips.
Over a hundred spectators, under the watch of the twelve elders, after regaining their composure, all shouted in shock.
“Oh my god! Senior Ye is injured!”
“How is this possible? Who exactly is that assistant? Only a seventh-level Primordial Mind, yet his skill rivals someone higher!”
“I-I-I understand now! It must be Tan Yun from the Lingshan Spirit Herb Garden! It’s because that shameless Senior Li killed him!”
“…”
Tan Yun ignored them, staring at Ye Ling with icy eyes, like stars sparkling, while sneering.
“Since you claim I called you trash, then now I will not only admit it, but I will say it again!”
“Ye Ling, you are praised as a genius by the Twelfth Elder’s disciples, but in my eyes, you are nothing but trash… no! To be precise, you are not even trash!”
Upon hearing this, Ye Ling’s face turned the color of raw liver. Rage surged in his chest, nearly exploding.
“You arrogant fool! If you are so insolent, then I, Ye Ling, challenge you to a death duel! Do you dare fight?”
“I dare fight!” These four words, filled with deep hatred, spread throughout the fifteen-li-diameter martial arena, like the tide in the surrounding mountains’ seas, lingering for a long time.
At that moment, tens of thousands of male and female disciples of the Danmai branch in the martial arena stopped moving. Upon hearing Ye Ling challenge someone to a death duel, they immediately mounted their flying swords and surged toward the sound.
Tan Yun may not have known Ye Ling’s great past, but the others did.
The sect has the “Crouching Dragon Ranking.” The Danmai branch has the “Dan Dao Battle Ranking.”
In addition, there is another set of rankings for alchemy skill: the Alchemy Battle Ranking and the Alchemy Talent Ranking.
Ye Ling’s name appeared in both main rankings for the medicine disciples.
In terms of personal strength, he ranked 18th among the 3,000 disciples of the twelve elders, and 16th in the Alchemy Battle Ranking.
Importantly, his alchemy skill was among the top three of all twelve elders’ disciples.
And in the Alchemy Talent Ranking, he reached 20th place! He was currently a Saint-level alchemist, just one step from becoming a Low-level Grand Alchemist.
Among disciples of the various elders, their prestige depended on their elder’s ranking: “Mother excels, child excels / Teacher honored, disciple prospers.”
Ye Ling was one of Lu Wu’s three personal disciples, so his status and position in the sect were extremely high.
Thus, his death duel challenge sent shockwaves throughout the martial arena!
When tens of thousands of disciples surged toward Ye Ling, they could not predict who he was challenging.
Suddenly, a hoarse voice, like thunder, cut through the sky:
“I, Tan Yun, will not hold back. If you seek death, I will not resist!”
The moment that voice echoed, tens of thousands of disciples on flying swords froze in shock. They immediately realized this was the assistant alchemist who had killed Li Zi’an half a month ago.
“Ha ha ha! This is going to be good! Looks like Tan Yun is standing up to the Twelfth Elder’s disciple!”
“Yes, this will be fun! Let’s watch!”
“Last time, when Tan Yun killed Li Zi’an, all the Twelfth Elder’s disciples felt insulted and humiliated. Even the Twelfth Elder himself was ashamed, thinking of his genius alchemy disciple who died because of an assistant!”
“Today, we’ll see how Ye Ling avenges all twelve elders’ disciples!”
“…”
In everyone’s eyes, Tan Yun was far too arrogant! Did he think that killing Li Zi’an made him worthy of Ye Ling?
In everyone’s minds, Li Zi’an and Ye Ling were completely in different leagues!
Above the vast sky:
“How could this kid accept a challenge without knowing Ye Ling’s true skill? Utter nonsense!”
The Sixth Elder, Shen Wentuo, rode his flying sword through the void in just a few breaths, then stood above the sea of clouds in the sky, over Mustard Seed Space-Time Pagoda No. 666, looking down at Tan Yun and Ye Ling—the rivals about to explode in a life-or-death battle!
“Senior Ye, kill him to avenge Senior Li!”
“Senior Ye, kill that assistant…”
Five hundred disciples of the twelve elders surrounded Tan Yun, their gazes pressing on him, shouting in unison.
“Don’t worry, I’ll handle this myself!” Ye Ling met their eyes with a solemn expression and said, “A sword cannot choose its target. Step aside!”
The crowd stepped back, opening a vast empty space, staring at the two on stage without blinking.
“Let’s see how Tan Yun will be eliminated!”
“Tan Yun, you arrogant fool!”
With mocking laughter, suddenly a cloud mass in the open area twisted into a tornado a hundred feet high. A terrifying aura of Ye Ling burst out from within the vortex.
At that moment, he stood atop the spinning storm like a godly giant, looking down at Tan Yun from the sky.
“And you are even more foolish! You think that injuring me once will make you able to fight?”
“You stupid trash, I’ll tell you, this battle is only just beginning…”
Before Ye Ling could finish speaking, Tan Yun raised a mocking smile and interrupted.
“Do you know who I despise the most? People like you. Always slow to act!”
“You think this battle has just started, but for me, it is already near its end!”
“Primordial Sword of the Ancestral Slayer!”
In an instant, all 11 of Tan Yun’s supreme spiritual swords—Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Lightning, Time, Space, Death, and Light—shot out from his cosmic ring like fireworks, ascending rapidly, surrounding Ye Ling atop the storm.
“A sword set?” Ye Ling watched in astonishment. Fourteen ancestral beams shot from the seven ancestral spirits in Tan Yun’s spirit pool, targeting the 11 swords between his brows.
Immediately, the 11 swords spun around Ye Ling, emitting ancestral light, exploding into the form of the Ancestral Slayer Sword Ring, 300 feet wide, enclosing Ye Ling within.
“Trash! You think with this sword set, you can kill Senior Li and then come for me? Ha ha ha! You’re just a foolish slave!” Ye Ling mocked, then shouted chillingly:
“Wind and Thunder Infinite: Hell of Wind and Thunder!”
Clearly, Ye Ling did not want to waste any more time, releasing the famous Wind and Thunder Limitless Technique from the Alchemy Battle Rankings.
In his eyes, Tan Yun had killed Li Zi’an with this sword set!
“Whoosh… whoosh… whoosh…”
The void roared like raging rapids. Thousands upon thousands of wind tornadoes, like spirit swords, surged violently at Tan Yun.
The most terrifying were the white lightning strikes, each thick as a barrel, possessing power to destroy high-level spiritual matter, piercing through the void.
Combined with the durable wind swords, it was like a hellish force set to annihilate everything, covering Tan Yun swiftly.
So fast that even with the Primordial Divine Step, Tan Yun could not evade in time!
At this magnitude, even Tan Yun’s body, tough as high-level spiritual matter, could not withstand it!
If he failed to evade the Wind and Thunder Purgatory, Tan Yun would be completely burned to ashes!
“That assistant is surely dead!”
“Senior Ye has gone too far. He used Wind and Thunder Purgatory from the Wind and Thunder Limitless Technique right from the start!”
--Translated by likesnovel--