Chapter 310: Battle Xiao Jun Yao

After the drawing of lots, the judge’s voice sounded:

“Xiao Jun Yao vs. Lou Mu Yan, Chu Han obtains a bye.”

“Si Nan vs. Ye Qing Han, Luo Li has a bye.”

After his voice fell, Lou Mu Yan got up and pushed open the stone gate in front of her. At this time, Xiao Jun Yao was already standing on the battle platform and looked at her with a smile.

She tapped her toes and jumped onto the stage.

“Young Miss Lou, we indeed meet again.” Xiao Jun Yao’s expression wasn’t at all surprised, as if he had long expected it.

Lou Mu Yan smiled lightly and said, “Young Master Xiao, how are you. Allow Mu Yan to experience Young Master Xiao’s skills today.”

She had hoped to draw and compete against Xiao Jun Yao before, mainly because she was very curious about the Psychic Constitution and wanted to see it in person.

“Haha, this one Xiao has long wanted to exchange pointers with Young Miss Lou.” Xiao Jun Yao laughed heartily.

This time, there was still an elderly man sitting on the pillar. He looked at the two of them expressionlessly and said: “The battle starts now. The rules are the same as before.”

After he finished speaking, Xiao Jun Yao cupped his hands and bowed towards Lou Mu Yan: “Young Miss Lou, please.”

“Alright!”

The two of them mobilised the Elemental Energy in their bodies. Xiao Jun Yao took out a brush, drew a few Taoist Seals in the air, splashed ink at will, and a few characters carrying Elemental Energy spun out and shot straight at Lou Mu Yan.

Lou Mu Yan’s eyes flashed slightly in surprise. She didn’t expect Xiao Jun Yao to be a Confucian Cultivator1.

The Elemental Energy characters he condensed carried an aura of righteousness. Such methods were very rare in this Continent, while they belonged to a separate method of cultivation in the Immortal Cultivation World.

Lou Mu Yan took a step back. She waved her hands, like fluttering butterfly wings, as she formed seals, and the speed was so fast that one couldn’t see her movements clearly.

Then jade-coloured runes emerged from her body, forming a rune belt that tightly bound those words in mid-air, making them unable to advance even half a step.

Xiao Jun Yao still had a gentle, elegant smile on his face. He pointed his two fingers towards the brush. The brush kept splashing ink mid-air, and ink-coloured strokes freely combined, finally forming a realistic landscape painting that was faintly visible in the air.

The majestic mountain in the painting immediately seemed to come alive. After he inserted Elemental Energy, it flew out of the painting and landed, hovering on top of Lou Mu Yan’s head.

Seeing that he used the Confucian Taoism so skilfully, Lou Mu Yan understood what Mo Yan said before—that there was no bottleneck for those with the Psychic Constitution when learning skills.

Although Xiao Jun Yao’s Confucius Taoist Skills wasn’t at the Great Achievement Realm, but he could still use it to such an extent at such an age. In the Immortal Cultivation World, one must at least be a Core Formation Stage Cultivator to be able to work it like this.

Her eyes were sparkling bright, with a smile of admiration on her lips. A green flute appeared in her hand.

She placed the emerald, green flute on her lips and blew it gently. A melodious and cheerful tune jumped out of the flute and the mountain that had fallen above her head danced with the flute.

The flowers and trees in the landscape painting also swayed to the rhythm of the flute, as if they were dancing cheerfully.

Only then did Xiao Jun Yao’s expression change. He naturally heard that the flute had a bewitching effect. He almost fell into that kind of joy just now. If he hadn’t carried that treasure on him, he might have lost.

The Sword Masters in front of the crystal wall were also stunned.

“Is this really a battle? Why do I feel like they’re competing in arts battles of the zither, chess, poems and paintings.”

“Yeah! Lou Mu Yan even knows sonic wave attacks. Her talent is too Heaven-defying.”

“Xiao Jun Yao’s most powerful Path of Confucianism seems to be suffering in her hands.”

On the battlefield, Xiao Jun Yao’s gaze changed. As if he had made a decision, he kept forming seals before his chest and chanted.

Immediately, he poured all his Elemental Energy into the brush that was still swaying in the air.

The brush flickered instantly, the style of painting changed, and wind blades were drawn from under his brush one after another, breaking through the air towards her.

The wind blade was not like ordinary sword aura wind blades, but instead, it possessed incomparable frost and cold. If the brush didn’t stop, the wind blade would continue.

Then the brush hooked, and the cold wind blew and howled. It didn’t appear like a picture at all as it all condensed into a solid form.

“The dual attributes of wind and ice. Indeed really good, but they’re not enough.” Lou Mu Yan chuckled, unbridled. The style of tune changed, and a song reminding one of shining spears and armoured horses at war poured out of the flute.

The ink painting that danced in the air also gradually disappeared on this battle platform with the change of style, without a trace.

Then she put away the flute in her hand, and ten golden lights flashed out from her sleeve, blocking her front directly.

When the wind blade was mixed with the cold wind and attacked, she formed a few Taoist Seals and quickly inserted them into the flying swords.

The ten flying swords hummed as if they were alive and shot out in an instant, continuously dancing in mid-air, its speed rising and rising, until a golden light flickered, as if the flying swords grew golden wings, fluttering about.

The ten golden sword’s rotation rapidly increased and finally turned into a hundred golden butterflies, fluttering their wings, and headed towards the wind blades.

The two collided, and for a moment, neither gave in, but at this time, Lou Mu Yan moved.

She used Flash Steps, her figure continuously flickering on the battle stage, then she struck Xiao Jun Yao with her palm one after another.

Xiao Jun Yao’s combat power in Taoism was very strong, but his physical strength was far from Lou Mu Yan’s. While he had to control the brush to create wind blades, he had to avoid Lou Mu Yan’s palm wind, which caused him extreme misery.

He had long expected that Lou Mu Yan wasn’t simple, but he didn’t expect her to have so many tricks. These tricks she played against him today had never been shown at all, which made him unable to guard against her.

Lou Mu Yan’s Mental Energy was very strong, and it was nothing to split her focus into three. She constantly flashed back and forth around Xiao Jun Yao using her Flash Steps.

Each time Xiao Jun Yao used his Mental Energy to detect her figure, take out his longsword, and slash towards it, he only ever cut past numerous afterimages.

Suddenly, Xiao Jun Yao felt a strong aura approaching from behind him. He knew that if he spun around, it would be an immediate defeat. He hurriedly shifted his feet to the side, but a jade-coloured rune belt unexpectedly emerged from beneath his feet, tightly binding them.

“PU!” A palm struck him, and after Xiao Jun Yao was struck, the jade belt around his feet loosened.

He retreated back more than a dozen metres, but when he was just about to fall off the battle platform, he finished pinching the seals, and an ice wall suddenly appeared behind him to block his body.

Lou Mu Yan wasn’t disappointed. Xiao Jun Yao’s ice attribute element comprehension had clearly arrived at the bottleneck to the Great Achievement Realm and was much stronger than He Xu Feng.

She stretched out a hand and tapped towards the ice wall Xiao Jun Yao slammed into. Fireballs the size of washbasins fell heavily, one after another, without any rest.

The fireballs smashed the ice wall and melted it into water vapor while Xiao Jun Yao dodged the fireballs falling from above his head clumsily and in a sorry state.

At this time, the golden butterflies fluttered their wings even quicker, tossing themselves towards the cold wind blades to disperse them.

Xiao Jun Yao had already exhausted a lot of Elemental Energy and it became difficult to continue to control the brush right now.

Lou Mu Yan seized the opportunity, smiled, put her hands together, then separated them again.

Suddenly, a vine made of Wood Elemental Energy Condensation emerged from beneath the stage and quickly wrapped around Xiao Jun Yao’s feet, pulling hard.

Xiao Jun Yao, who was on the edge of the stage, dodging the attacking fireballs and golden butterflies’ in a sorry state, was taken by surprise and tugged by the vine, falling directly off the battle stage.

1guess Confucius existed in their world too HAHA. I wanted to use the word ‘scholar’ because the word used here 儒 has the archaic meaning of ‘scholar’. HOWEVER, in the part where I translated it as ‘Confucius Taoism’, the actual Chinese is 儒家的道法. 儒家 from my understanding, is only related to Confucius and should have been the author’s intent. I could be wrong, but I’ll be sticking with Confucius.