Chu Xiaoran contracted her pupils and she flew backwards to dodge the beam. Then, she stabbed her soft sword towards the beam.
All her body’s Yuan Qi also surged into the sword. This Yuan Qi was accompanied with an indescribable softness in it to meet the saber beam!
However, Yi Yun’s saber was much sharper than Chu Xiaoran’s sword!
With a “Chi Chi Chi” sound, the beam sliced through Chu Xiaoran’s sword Qi. All people could see was that the beam was travelling towards her face.
People could not help but exclaim!
Chu Xiaoran was a beautiful, young girl. If Qiuniu was slashed by the saber, it was alright. But no one could bear seeing Chu Xiaoran being slashed!
In a split second, just as Chu Xiaoran was about to be slashed by the saber, Yi Yun’s saber beam mysteriously shifted to the side.
Cha!
This slash eventually went parallel to Chu Xiaoran’s face, and it hit the purple tungsten ground heavily.
The solid purple tungsten stage quaked and a deep four feet long saber mark appeared on it!
Chu Xiaoran’s body fluttered thirty meters in the air before she landed softly on the ground, but…there were a few strands of hair that dropped down onto her cheeks…
What…happened just now?
The audience stared with their eyes wide open.
They were completely focused on the beam and they were afraid that they would miss an exciting moment. But even so, they could not clearly see what had happened during Yi Yun and Chu Xiaoran’s clash.
It was too fast and in a split second, the two were separated apart. Following that, the stage was slashed open by the saber beam. It made people breathless.
“I clearly saw Yi Yun’s saber beam in front of Chu Xiaoran. Why did he not fully slash downwards. Did Yi Yun feel tenderness towards women at the last moment and held back?” Someone asked.
“Don’t be silly” A veteran cultivator shook his head. “You think she is a frail maiden? This is the Hard-Soft concept. Chu Xiaoran used the Hard-Soft concept at the last moment to dissipate Yi Yun’s force, but…she did not manage to dissipate all of it…”
Some of the veteran cultivators, who were ranked around 2000 on the Earth ranking, could clearly see Yi Yun and Chu Xiaoran’s battle.
The Hard-Soft concept could dissipate many attacks, but if the difference in strength was too great, it still could not reverse the tide.
Many people noticed that a few strands of Chu Xiaoran’s hair had fallen off. It was Yi Yun who held the upper hand in their first engagement.
Yi Yun looked at his own saber and thought about the power from before. He was amazed that his saber could change directions against his will.
Yi Yun said, “Hard-Soft…It’s indeed amazing to use a weaker force to overcome a stronger force! But it is not enough to obtain victory with that. My first slash was just a probe. Following up, I will use all my strength!”
Probe!?
Hearing this, people turned speechless. Such a strong saber attack was just Yi Yun’s probe.
Many amongst them knew that they could not even resist this saber attack, nor did they know how to do so!
Previously, they knew Yi Yun was very strong. But they did not know how big the difference was. Now, they had an intuitive feel of the difference!
Now, it was no surprise that Qiuniu was defeated. They were not Qiuniu and did not know the pressure Qiuniu experienced when fighting Yi Yun. They would probably know the feeling if they were the one standing on stage.