Chapter 264: Facing the Armory Tomb, a New Spirit Descent

Master Uncle?

Seeing Ji Huai accept this title, Qin Chuan glanced in surprise at the boy who had walked out with him.

Ji Huai had no intention of explaining; with a raise of his hand he condensed a long spear and threw it to Li Nianzhu, then patted Qin Chuan's shoulder, saying, "Watch first, later it'll be your turn."

Qin Chuan nodded, his expression turning serious.

He retreated several meters, watching Ji Huai walk to a spot ten meters away and stand firm, facing off with Li Nianzhu from a distance.

With the long spear in hand, Li Nianzhu seemed like a different person; his earlier refined feeling vanished in an instant, and his slightly narrowed eyes gave Qin Chuan a chill as if being stared at by a snake.

"Master Uncle, be careful." Li Nianzhu let out a low shout, pushed off with his feet, and his slightly slender frame shot out like a leopard.

The three-meter-long spear in his hand writhed like a spirit snake spitting its tongue, and amidst the continuous clang of metal, facing Ji Huai who held back nothing and switched weapons at will, he endured thirty-two rounds before finally being defeated.

His opponent's skill had already surpassed Qin Chuan's.

Qin Chuan found this battle exhilarating, and Xue Gao was equally delighted.

Li Nianzhu used a spear, but Ji Huai had used a knife several times!

It just loves watching others use knives!

"Master Uncle is still amazing." Li Nianzhu rubbed his sore shoulder and gave a bitter laugh, "Last time I could have held out a few more rounds."

"If your progress isn't keeping up with others, that's regression." Ji Huai said calmly, gesturing for Li Nianzhu to step back, then looked at Qin Chuan and said, "Come on."

"Let me see, after the college entrance exam, have you made any progress during this time?"

Qin Chuan, who had just been laughing and watching the excitement, suddenly couldn't laugh anymore.

It's been almost half a month since the college entrance exam, and during this time Ji Huai hasn't given him special tutoring; although he has also been researching techniques on his own, he's likely to be scolded.

As expected, a moment later Ji Huai's low shout echoed.

"You've regressed so much, what have you been eating?"

Qin Chuan: "..."

He rubbed his aching ribs where he'd been hit, gripped his long blade tightly, and gritted his teeth.

"Again!"

Thus, all the students on the training ground saw the classic scene of Luo, who had cleared twelve A‑level dungeons in a row before class, repeatedly suffering defeat at Ji Huai's hands.

When the practical skills class ended, Qin Chuan let out a slight sigh of relief.

Under Ji Huai's high‑intensity pressure, the number of rounds he could withstand in Ji Huai's hands finally caught up to what it had been half a month earlier.

As Ji Huai said, it wasn't that his skills were regressing, but that his rate of progress hadn't kept up with Ji Huai's.

With the birth of the cultivation method, the upper limit of skills likewise kept rising.

"Oh!"

We will definitely surpass him in the future!

In Qin Chuan's mind echoed Xue Gao's voice; the repeated setbacks dealt Xue Gao just as heavy a blow, and although it wasn't the one that lost, it felt the same pain.

"Good." Qin Chuan smiled, "Let's work hard together."

While he was communicating with Xue Gao, Ji Huai strode over after class ended and said, "During our sparring just now, you zoned out several times—what's the reason?"

"I was communicating with the second spirit beast." Qin Chuan explained a little embarrassedly, "I just brought it out of the Dream World today, so I'm not yet used to it."

Ji Huai nodded thoughtfully and asked, "Have you mastered the ultimate skill?"

"Not yet." Qin Chuan shook his head helplessly, "The pressure from A‑level dungeons isn't enough, and the S‑level dungeons haven't refreshed."

"You want pressure?"

Ji Huai gave Qin Chuan a strange look and said, "Isn't that simple?"

"Come on, follow me to the Special Affairs Group's supernatural combat ground." He shook his wrist, "This place doesn't allow full deployment."

Qin Chuan's eyes lit up. He instantly understood Ji Huai's meaning.

Although Ji Huai lacks an epic‑tier spirit beast and his supernatural value is only half of yours, Ji Huai has Spirit Descent, which is enough to make up the difference in supernatural value between the two of you.

After Spirit Descent, he can use equipment affixes and traits, and combined with Ji Huai's skill, that would give him tremendous pressure.

Ji Huai drove, and the two left Yan Da, soon arriving at the supernatural combat ground.

After driving away the onlookers, Ji Huai and Qin Chuan stood a hundred meters apart, facing each other from a distance.

"Spirit Descent·Infinite Armory Tomb!"

Accompanied by Ji Huai's low shout, a figure suddenly appeared above his head, simultaneously chopping down heavily with a sword as a golden pillar of light shot up into the sky.

Seeing the light pillar rapidly spreading toward him, Qin Chuan without hesitation activated Seek Frost Trace, dodging the descending weapon attacks while building up momentum.

When the light pillar dissipated, Ji Huai burst forward to a point not far in front of him; Qin Chuan emerged from the frost, and the ice blade condensed in his hand instantly traced an arc in the air before slashing fiercely toward Ji Huai.

A bone‑chilling cold instantly erupted, causing Ji Huai to sink as if in mire, his body gradually stiffening in the extreme cold; a snow‑white blade radiance slanted outward from the ice blade and descended straight toward Ji Huai.

Seeing the attack up close, Ji Huai let out a low grunt, grabbed a heavy hammer embedded in the nearby ground, and slammed it fiercely into the void.

Ultimate Weapon, Shock!

"Boom!!!!"

Accompanied by a tremendous roar, the void at this moment twisted violently, as if space had been smashed into a dent.

The gathered blade light of Breaking Frost Slash scattered instantly and was forcibly shattered in midair; Qin Chuan only felt as if a super‑large‑yield bomb had exploded in front of him, and the terrifying shockwave sent his body flying backward uncontrollably.

His pupils contracted slightly; Qin Chuan without hesitation activated Seek Frost Trace, and in the next instant a long spear had already pierced into the soaring wind and snow.

The strike missed; Ji Huai reacted extremely quickly, pulling a huge fan from the ground, its surface like a shield and its edges like blades, and fiercely swept at the surrounding flying snow.

Ultimate Weapon, Wind!

"Boom!!!!"

In an instant, fierce wind‑howling sounds exploded around, and the vortex of the gale instantly wrapped up all the drifting frost and hurled it skyward!

This is not only the effect of the ultimate weapon within the Infinite Armory Tomb, but also adds the wind‑system passive skill of Ji Huai's fourth spirit beast.

The drifting frost was restrained; two Qin Chuan manifestations appeared, immediately charging toward Ji Huai, and in the instant Ji Huai staggered, they crossed paths.

Twelve sword lights instantly traced a snowflake in the void.

At the moment the two snow blossoms burst open simultaneously, his clone shattered into frost and snow, Qin Chuan's true body drifted back, looking at Ji Huai with only a faint bloodstain, his expression helpless.

The formidable foundation of the Moon Flying Frost Instant Splendor Dance lies in the superimposition of the Blade-Tip Dance trait and the effect of the Eternal Winter equipment affix.

It's a pity that, without undergoing Spirit Descent, he lacks both of them.

"Ooh!!!"

Watching Ji Huai charge forward with a raised knife, Qin Chuan took a deep breath, and in the midst of the ice cream's uplifting cheering sound, he responded by gripping the Ice Blade.

"Clang clang clang—"

The clash of metal rang out continuously, as the two figures constantly collided amidst the scattered weapons.

After dozens of rounds, Qin Chuan was flung backward by a hammer strike from Ji Huai, his back slamming into a heavy shield planted in the ground, he let out a muffled groan, feeling his innards overturn like a raging sea, and his expression instantly turned to pain.

"If that's all the strength you have, then let's end it!"

Ji Huai, who caught up in an instant, let out a low shout; the sharp spear blade in his hand flashed with a cold gleam like a spirit snake flicking its tongue, and he thrust fiercely at Qin Chuan.

"Crack—"

Accompanied by a ringing sound of ice splitting, the long spear, without ever touching the boy before him, suddenly began to shatter inch by inch from the tip, all the way to the shaft.

Ji Huai abandoned the broken spear, lowered his hand and stood firm, watching Qin Chuan slowly lift his head, the corner of his mouth curving upward.

"Not bad."——(End of chapter)