Imperial Cultivation

Chapter 912: Chapter 908: Coercion

Chu Zhiyuan shook his head.

This was indeed sheer luck.

It was because she suddenly lost control of her mind, wanting to take a desperate gamble to kill him, leading to a rush for success, thus giving him an opportunity.

Just as she was about to succeed, he suddenly struck with his sword, abruptly and unexpectedly, taking her off guard.

Although the tip of the sword was narrowly avoided by her, the sword aura still cut through her beautiful eyes.

Hu Yuni pushed her form to the extreme, hiding in the void, incredibly fast.

To avoid being tracked by Chu Zhiyuan, she even moved in an arc instead of a straight line.

Chu Zhiyuan shook his head, this was in vain.

As he shifted his form, four of the six flying knives flew back into his sleeve, leaving only two.

These two flying knives swiftly glided through the void, silently and invisibly, masking their presence.

They quickly caught up to Hu Yuni.

”Ding ding ding ding...”

Hu Yuni, while rapidly moving, swung her saber to deflect the incoming flying knives.

She closed her bright eyes, blood oozing from the corners, conspicuously vivid on her face as crystalline as white jade.

Yet, the Heart-Shining Saber in her hand accurately split the flying knives.

Despite the two flying knives being silent and hidden, they were still cleaved by the Heart-Shining Saber.

Though her eyes were closed, the Super Sensing Illumination showed her pupils were already damaged.

Yet the Heart-Shining Saber hit the flying knives precisely, as if seen with her own eyes.

Even more precise than seeing it with her eyes.

Clearly, closing her eyes due to eye damage did not hinder her vision.

He thought of that eye on her forehead.

It seemed she might also have spiritual power extended as eyes, similar to Super Sense.

Hu Yuni, with her bright eyes closed, swung her saber like lightning, moving with incredible speed, as two flying knives relentlessly followed, attacking fiercely like shadows.

Chu Zhiyuan was not far behind her, with his Super Sense constantly illuminating, trying to see inside and outside her body.

Unfortunately, the power from her forehead still blocked the illumination of the Super Sense.

This Star-picking Cliff prodigy, just what other ultimate moves is she concealing?

A quarter of an hour later, Chu Zhiyuan suddenly accelerated, blocking the direction Hu Yuni was heading.

He finally saw through Hu Yuni’s intention.

A fifty-mile-distant ice peak shrouded in mist, blocking the outside world’s gaze.

The Super Sensing Illumination showed four Star-picking Cliff masters standing on this ice peak.

They were four white-haired, white-bearded elders, all in the Venerable Realm, not inferior to Hu Yuni.

They didn’t have the eye on their foreheads like Hu Yuni, clearly, this was unique to her, a secret technique mastered alone.

This allowed Chu Zhiyuan to see the truth, identifying it as a Star-picking Cliff Cultivation Technique.

The four stood atop the ice peak, their feet seemingly rooted into massive ice blocks, their bodies’ auras connected with the stars in the void, blending into one.

The aura of the stars continuously poured into their bodies, tempering and purifying their True Yuan.

Chu Zhiyuan retracted his flying knives and shouted, ”Miss Hu, let’s end it here.”

Hu Yuni closed her eyes, lowering her beautiful face: ”Chu Liezhao, you win!”

Chu Zhiyuan said, ”Miss Hu, your recovery speed is indeed astounding.”

Her eyes were grazed by his sword aura, which clung to the wound, continuously damaging it, preventing it from healing.

Yet it couldn’t stop her wound from healing; her eyes were recovering rapidly.

The sword aura dissipated silently.

Hu Yuni snorted, ”You won’t kill me?”

”I can’t kill you, and you can’t kill me either,” Chu Zhiyuan shook his head, ”No reason to keep dragging it out, let’s bid farewell.”

Hu Yuni snorted, ”You’re scared.”

Chu Zhiyuan said, ”Miss Hu, let’s see who prevails next time.”

He turned and left.

Hu Yuni, in her present state, posed no lethal threat to him.

However, to take her life would require the use of a Spiritual Treasure.

But he didn’t want to reveal any Spiritual Treasures beyond the Swift Light Sword, wanting to save them as trump cards.

Moreover, even with other Spiritual Treasures, there’s no guarantee of killing Hu Yuni.

If more Spiritual Treasures were revealed yet failed to kill her, what’s the point?

Hu Yuni had Miracle Techniques; she likely possessed a unique bloodline, something akin to a Phoenix Bloodline.

The best way to suppress her was to enhance the Heavenly Dragon Introduction.

He drifted away.

Hu Yuni opened her bright eyes, shining like cold stars, staring straight at Chu Zhiyuan’s back.

Chu Zhiyuan suddenly stopped a hundred meters away, turned his head, and looked back.

Hu Yuni snorted, her bright eyes glittering: ”Next time, I’ll take your life!”

Chu Zhiyuan shook his head with a smile, ”You have a long way to go.”

Hu Yuni sneered, ”We’ll see!”

Chu Zhiyuan shook his head, turned again, and faded into the distance.

Hu Yuni stomped her foot in frustration.

Originally planning to lure him into an ambush by feigning weakness.

Unexpectedly, he didn’t take the bait; he might have noticed something amiss.

This Chu Liezhao is hard to kill, no wonder there’s a ten-year Demon Abyss bounty on him.

Chu Zhiyuan’s voice echoed, ”Miss Hu, tell all the Demon Clan, from today, if I see any Demon Clan experts in the Phoenix Imperial City, I’ll kill a hundred of your Demon Clan members. If your Demon Clan experts don’t withdraw, I’ll continue without pause.”

”You dare!” Hu Yuni shouted.

Chu Zhiyuan’s voice carried a laugh, ”Let’s see if I dare or not.”

Hu Yuni’s eyes shot out cold light, extremely furious.

For the mere Human Race to dare threaten the Demon Clan!

The Demon Clan always threatened and attacked the Human Race, but now it’s the reverse.

Utterly absurd!

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Star-picking Cliff

Majestic peaks surrounded a towering giant peak, halfway up, clouds piled like mountains.

As if a vast cloud mountain, the upper half of the peak was obscured, seeming to reach the heavens.

In a small courtyard on Star-picking Cliff, Hu Yuni lay lazily in a rocking chair, swaying gently, bathing in the bright sunlight.

Her expression was lazy as a cat, eyes half-closed.

A pretty little maid ran in lightly, reached her side, and handed her a pastry: ”Miss, there’s news!”

”Speak,” Hu Yuni ate the pastry, her eyes still half-closed, languid.

”Chu Liezhao indeed killed over a hundred of our experts.”

”He revealed his identity?”

”Yes.”

”Who did he kill?”

”Experts from the Zhao family and Chen family in Upper Yue, nearly wiping out the experts of Upper Yue City.”

”The Zhao family of Upper Yue... Zhao Liang belongs to that Zhao family, right?”

”Mr. Zhao is indeed a disciple of the Zhao family of Upper Yue.” The maid lightly nodded, ”He’s currently petitioning the Elders to go down the mountain to kill this Chu Liezhao.”

”Hmph, with just him?!” Hu Yuni sneered disdainfully.

The maid laughed, ”Actually, he wants to earn that bounty; many are petitioning the Elders to help Mr. Zhao avenge.”

”Fellowship? Ha!” Hu Yuni let out a cold laugh, disdainful to the extreme.

The maid said, ”Miss, do you want to join the fun?”

Hu Yuni shook her head, still with her eyes half-closed, lazily said, ”They’d just be going to their deaths, the Elders wouldn’t agree.”

”Miss, if Chu Liezhao is so powerful, is there really no one who can kill him?” The maid was unconvinced, ”Even the Elders can’t?”

”I can’t kill him; even less the Elders!” Hu Yuni said disinterestedly.

The maid opened her little mouth, then shut it.

”You think I’m talking nonsense?” Hu Yuni snorted, ”Inferior to the Elders?”

The maid quickly said, ”Miss, you possess the Nine Heavens Spirit Fox bloodline, though young, you’re already stronger than the Elders.”

Hu Yuni said, ”This Chu Liezhao is peculiar, I can’t see through him.”

”Not even with the Spiritual Eyes?” The maid said curiously.

Hu Yuni shook her head.

The maid was astonished, ”If the Spiritual Eyes can’t see through him, does that mean his cultivation surpasses you?”

Hu Yuni said, ”Comparable to me, but he possesses a Secret Technique, and has Spiritual Treasures, very troublesome.”

The maid said, ”If Miss can’t kill him, then no one can, does that mean the experts should just return from the Human World?”

”They won’t accept it now.” Hu Yuni said, ”Once enough have died, they’ll see reality.”