Chapter 196: Year After Year

"Ahem." A light cough sounded through the microphone across the entire venue.

The male teacher's voice sounded again: "You may begin."

Jiang Ruyi collected her thoughts, looked into the distance, and gripped the sword hilt behind her shoulder with a backhand:

"This battle, I'm afraid, won't be very exciting."

"Oh?" Lu Ran looked at the girl in the white dress with curiosity.

Jiang Ruyi was not someone who spoke nonsense, so...

She really had such confidence?

Only to see the girl draw the black ice longsword from her back and place it in front of her.

Through the cold and transparent sword body, her beautiful eyes looked at the figure opposite: "You lent it to me."

"It wouldn't be impossible to give it to you." Lu Ran smiled, "But this is my family heirloom; if you take it, then you have to... hmm."

Lu Ran paused; there were too many people around, no need to say it here.

He immediately changed the subject: "If you hadn't come back, I was planning to report to the Divine Citizen Bureau and go to Yumen Pass to catch you."

"Go." Jiang Ruyi smiled and spat at Lu Ran.

Lu Ran thought for a moment and said: "You really want... ah?"

His words stopped abruptly; at the same time, a gasp sounded from the stage:

"What?"

"Divine, divine weapon?"

"My god, it's a divine weapon! Class Monitor Jiang has cultivated an artifact spirit?"

"I can actually see a divine weapon on a high school campus..."

On the podium, Jiang Ruyi's palm suddenly let go of the sword hilt.

The Black Ice Sword hovered in the air, standing beside the girl.

Wu Shanshan was even more dumbfounded, staring blankly at this scene.

As one of the only two students in the school who revered a second-class god, Wu Shanshan naturally knew what Jiang Ruyi's talent and aptitude were.

Although Jiang Ruyi had joined the third-class god, Jade Talisman, deep in Wu Shanshan's heart, she had always compared Jiang Ruyi with herself.

Now looking again...

Jiang Ruyi seemed to have surpassed her by too much.

Everyone knew that believers going to practice at the foot of the divine sculpture would likely make rapid progress.

However, such an achievement was too shocking!

At such a young age, she had cultivated a divine weapon?

How could this be possible?

"This time, even if I want it back, I can't get it." Lu Ran was both surprised and happy in his heart, muttering.

Mother's Cool Night Sword was much closer to cultivating an artifact spirit than the Dawn Blade left by Father.

Thinking back to the day Qiao Yuanxi gave the Cool Night Sword to Lu Ran, when Lu Ran returned to Yu Xiang City and stood at the entrance of the apartment building, he had pondered in his heart.

At that time, Lu Ran's Dawn Blade and Silent Zhan Ye Dao had no reaction at all; only the Cool Night Sword hummed and vibrated, responding to Lu Ran.

From that scene, it could be seen that the Cool Night Sword had already cultivated a certain spirituality under Mother's influence.

Jiang Ruyi had been gone for five months and actually forged the divine weapon?

This is not good!

Now, the Cool Night Sword only recognized Jiang Ruyi as its master; this family heirloom could only belong to her.

The wood is already a boat~

"Whew!"

Suddenly, a wave of energy surged, and a phantom expanded from the Cool Night Sword.

That was clearly Jiang Ruyi's image.

She opened her beautiful eyes, looked at Lu Ran gently, and her figure flashed and disappeared.

Although she was looking at Lu Ran, that dreamlike figure left everyone with endless aftertaste.

"Sorry, I must use Cool Night." Jiang Ruyi showed an apologetic expression, "She has been looking forward to this day for a long time."

While speaking, Jiang Ruyi stretched out her finger, tapped the sword body lightly, and instructed:

"Be gentle."

"Hum!" The Cool Night Sword trembled slightly, suddenly turned its body, and stabbed straight at Lu Ran.

"Hey?" In the crowd below, Chang Ying gave a light gasp.

She only felt the Dawn Blade in her arms tremble, and it flew out of the fabric instantly.

The next moment, a touch of morning glow swept over everyone's heads, like smoke and mist, like soft, light gauze.

"Clang!!"

A crisp sound, the blade and sword collided heavily.

The blade and sword instantly flew apart, hovering on the left and right sides of the podium.

Jiang Ruyi opened her eyes slightly, and the stage below also fell into a strange silence.

But soon, the playground exploded:

"Holy crap! Two? Two divine weapons?"

"Lu Ran also has a divine weapon?"

"Ah??"

"Lu Ran really held back! Before, when fighting Ma Tianchuan and Wu Shanshan and the others, he never summoned a divine weapon."

"No, buddy! Is your focus off?"

A student held his head with both hands, full of disbelief: "This is a divine weapon! A divine weapon!

In our backwater, we can actually see two?"

On the side of the podium, the school leaders looked at each other, feeling both overjoyed and secretly shocked.

This batch of students is really incredible, isn't it?

If this were in Jingcheng, Chang'an, etc., it would be fine, but this is the small and broken Yu Xiang City...

"Slap!"

Lu Ran grabbed the flying Dawn Blade.

The black ice blade body flowed with colors, making people dizzy and fascinated.

Lu Ran swung a blade flower, looked at Jiang Ruyi from afar, with a smile: "No need to be gentle, the teacher just said that throwing the match will result in point deductions.

Your points are not many to begin with..."

Fighting with little Ruyi, and asking her to be gentle?

Do I not have face?

"Okay." Jiang Ruyi looked at Lu Ran, her eyes shining with different colors, her fingertips flicking lightly.

The Cool Night Sword suddenly accelerated, stabbing straight at Lu Ran.

Lu Ran threw the Dawn Blade out directly.

In an instant, the blade and sword entangled fiercely, fighting into a ball.

The blade and sword that once belonged to Lu Ran's parents finally met on the battlefield more than ten years later.

It was just that the two were not comrades-in-arms fighting side by side, but opponents sparring.

It was just that the artifact spirits of this pair of blade and sword were not Lu Xing and Qiao Wanjun.

Time flows, year after year.

That couple first lived apart, then died apart.

The Dawn Blade and Cool Night Sword fell into the hands of the next generation.

This pair of blade and sword, carefully cultivated for many years, finally radiated unprecedented brilliance in the hands of Jiang and Lu.

It seemed that in the dark, there was protection from the older generation.

Protecting the ending of the newcomers, not the same as the old ones.

"Clang~ Clang~"

The sound of blade and sword touching was endless.

"Sss—"

Mist surged under Lu Ran's feet, holding the Silent Zhan Ye Dao, he deliberately bypassed the battle of the blade and sword and killed toward Jiang Ruyi.

Jiang Ruyi flicked her slender fingers forward, and among the four white jade stone plaques wrapped around her body, one plaque with blue-purple electric current flew forward immediately.

Jiang Meiren was no longer the girl who needed to draw talismans on the spot.

The four white jade stone plaques surrounding her body were the divine technique, Jade Talisman Array!

It could allow Jade Talisman believers to prepare talismans in advance and use them at any time.

At the same time, the jade talismans surrounding the body could also provide the master with powerful defensive capabilities.

Anyone who dared to get close to Jiang Ruyi...

Then you choose!

Either be frozen by frost and snow, or be blown to pieces by explosive flames, or be scorched by electricity, or be stirred into powder by quicksand.

And this Jade Talisman Array could also grant the caster the ability to fly.

It could be said to be quite powerful!

"Zzz~ Zzz~"

Lu Ran's figure tilted suddenly, not daring to be careless, and dodged the Electric Lock Talisman from afar.

Sure enough, he heard a burst of electric current crackling from behind him.

The white jade stone plaque did not touch the ground but exploded out of thin air.

River-grade divine technique, Electric Lock Talisman, does not have to hit the target; the caster can actively detonate it.

And River-grade divine techniques are no longer single-target output, but area damage!

That Electric Lock Talisman directly exploded into a "blue-purple lightning ball."

The diameter was at least 5 meters!

Within the spherical area, electric currents were densely packed and scurrying everywhere, making people's hearts jump!

"Really not holding back, little Ruyi?" Lu Ran turned his head to look behind him and said loudly.

Jiang Ruyi hung one hand naturally, and an Electric Lock Talisman quietly appeared between her fingers, filling the vacancy in the Jade Talisman Array.

She tilted her head slightly; she, who was always gentle and quiet, actually appeared a bit playful:

"I'm afraid of throwing the match, and you getting points deducted."

It could be seen that the moment Lu Ran took out the divine weapon, Jiang Ruyi's mood was exceptionally beautiful.

That state seemed even happier than when she forged the divine weapon herself.

Lu Ran weighed the Silent Zhan Ye Dao in his hand, his expression strange: "I have quite a lot of points, not afraid of deductions.

If you don't believe me, ask the students; I might have surpassed them by one or two hundred points."

Everyone:???

"You... you're scolding again?"

"No! I'm just a spectator, just watching a match, why did I get hit with a club?"

"Damn, am I also a part of you two's play?!"

"I don't agree to this marriage! I don't agree, ah ah!!"

Jiang Ruyi smiled and glared at Lu Ran, flicking a white jade stone plaque: "Be humble."

Lu Ran's eyes narrowed.

Through the sparks splashing on it, Lu Ran could clearly know that this was an Explosive Flame Talisman!

Among all god factions and all divine techniques, Lu Ran was most familiar with the techniques of the Jade Talisman faction.

He knew even better what the power of the River-grade Explosive Flame Talisman was!

Lu Ran also did not dare to be careless and immediately dashed to the side.

Jiang Ruyi's gaze followed the Explosive Flame Talisman, her fingertips tapping lightly.

"Boom!"

The Explosive Flame Talisman shattered, and layers of flames surged out...

It was like a wave of fire, surging in all directions, with astonishing power!

Unfortunately, River-grade divine techniques cannot yet allow the master to freely control and change the flight path of the white jade stone plaque.

However, disciples of the Jade Talisman faction are all late-stage players!

If Jiang Ruyi were lucky enough to advance to the River Estuary Realm, the white jade stone plaque would truly be like a flying sword or wind blade.

At that time, if the white jade stone plaque went around and failed to kill the enemy, it could fly back, return to the Jade Talisman Array, and continue to rotate around the master...

It's very frugal~

"Sss—"

Phantom shuttle, fairy mist floating.

Jiang Ruyi stood motionless, that proud posture making everyone marvel, but also secretly worried.

"Hurry and dodge! Don't be careless!"

"That kid doesn't blink when killing... wow!"

Jiang Ruyi suddenly pointed to the ground, and a white jade stone plaque wrapped in fine sand fell directly at her feet.

"Whew~~"

Streams of quicksand appeared out of thin air.

The battlefield environment changed instantly, and a large amount of fine sand was like a surging river, surging and surging.

Jiang Ruyi stood in the yellow sand river, rising and falling with the waves, waiting for Lu Ran to attack.

Lu Ran also indeed rushed into the surging sand flow.

In an instant, streams of fine sand shot out from the river, like whips entangling the enemy!

And Lu Ran...

"Sss—"

From the moment Lu Ran rushed forward at the edge of the river, he did not touch the "water" with his feet, moving forward without hesitation!

Of course, Lu Ran also did not dare to touch it.

Even if he was extremely careful, it was easy to be entangled by the fine sand and dragged into the quicksand to be buried alive!

If his feet dared to touch the ground, he would naturally sink into it and be unable to extricate himself.

"Sure enough." Jiang Ruyi picked up the white jade stone plaque that drifted to her hand, frost spreading on it, cold and bone-chilling.

In her line of sight, Lu Ran's figure magnified infinitely.

Regarding this scene, Jiang Ruyi seemed not surprised at all.

This method could allow Jiang Ruyi to block enemies dozens of meters away on various battlefields.

However, it definitely couldn't stop him.

The girl had no regret or fear; that smiling appearance instead looked like she was admiring Lu Ran's heroic posture?

She picked up the Frost Talisman with her slender jade fingers and squeezed it lightly...

Before the white jade stone plaque shattered, a sheep's bleat suddenly came:

"Meeeh~~~"

Jiang Ruyi's breathing became chaotic, her heart trembled!

Proper divine technique, Sound of Compassion!

Strictly speaking, this method is really not powerful.

For those with powerful strength and firm will, no matter how you cry and beg for mercy, it will have little effect.

Is Jiang Ruyi considered a person of firm will?

Of course!

But the problem is, the divine technique, Sound of Compassion, has a terrible characteristic—it kills those you know!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 197 =====