Chapter 231: Emerging Talent

The host who had been driven off the stage, upon hearing that Ye Liuyun had used a trick, immediately perked up.

"You little brat! Dare to cheat me, I'll see how you die in a moment! Master, eliminate him for me!"

The host shouted at several inner‑door disciples.

Thus, a Sixth Sea Transformation disciple immediately leapt onto the stage.

"Kid, you dare oppose Clear River Pavilion, you're doomed!" The disciple snarled and prepared to strike.

"You will die!"

Ye Liuyun coldly uttered a word, and a blade flash, swift beyond measure, sliced through the disciple's neck. Many did not even see Ye Liuyun strike.

Ye Liuyun's opponent looked as if he had seen a ghost, his eyes bulging wide!

Whimpering, he said, "How could this be... so fast!"

Immediately, a line of blood erupted from his neck, then blood gushed wildly. The disciple reached to cover his throat, but his own head fell off, and his body collapsed face‑up in the blood pool.

Sss!

A chorus of gasps rose from the audience, followed by low muttering.

"What a fast blade; I didn't even see him strike!"

"That kid is ruthless! He strikes and kills!"

The host was also stunned. "You... you dare kill someone from Clear River Pavilion?"

"You were about to cripple me, and I still can't kill? Must I stand here waiting for you to fail?" Ye Liuyun retorted.

"You are truly arrogant; do you know Clear River Pavilion's background? Not to mention the pavilion master, even any Protector is someone you can't provoke!" The host, enraged to near madness, shouted at Ye Liuyun.

"Clamor!"

Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil flashed, and a Spiritual Soul Attack instantly forced the host's mouth shut forever, his body falling rigidly to the ground.

"Do Clear River Pavilion members only brag with their mouths? If you dare fight, step onto the stage; if not, scram. Stop wasting time here."

Ye Liuyun let out a roar, employing True Essence; his voice echoed through the entire academy, silencing the whole arena.

Originally, many who were unaware of the contest were drawn by the shout. Even Lin Xueying, realizing Ye Liuyun was fighting, hurried over.

Imposing!

The disciples of Lingyun Pavilion, seeing Ye Liuyun's performance, couldn't help admiring him silently.

"What a domineering newcomer!"

Other onlookers thought to themselves, but no one dared speak out of turn.

With the host dead, Clear River Pavilion's disciples turned their gaze toward Li Xuanbing.

Li Xuanbing's look at Ye Liuyun became considerably more cautious.

He coldly told the Clear River Pavilion disciples, "Continue forward, spare no mercy, kill outright. This kid killed our member; he must pay the price."

On Clear River Pavilion's side, another Seventh Sea Transformation disciple wielding a long sword stepped onto the arena. After planting his feet, he asked Ye Liuyun, "Kid, what's your name? How dare you challenge Clear River Pavilion, do you even know..."

"Ye Liuyun!"

Ye Liuyun didn't wait for him to finish, announced his name, and simultaneously swung Yi Dao forward.

The disciple hadn't expected Ye Liuyun to act immediately, and to strike without hesitation.

He originally intended to threaten Ye Liuyun, hoping to make him back down, but Ye Liuyun was completely uninterested in his nonsense.

Facing Ye Liuyun's blade, he felt utterly powerless to resist. He tried to dodge, convinced he couldn't, tried to block, also sure he couldn't.

Before he could decide how to counter, Ye Liuyun's blade flash already sliced through his...

"You, so ruthless..."

He, with his last breath, managed a few words. He raised his hand to point at Ye Liuyun, but it stalled halfway and never rose again. Then his body and head both "thud" onto the arena.

"Ye Liuyun! Your strike was too ruthless!" Li Xuanbing shouted from below.

"You're not as ruthless as Clear River Pavilion! Your pavilion steals others' cultivation resources, cuts off their Martial Arts Future, and constantly tries to cripple people! I'm just cleaning up a few trash for the academy."

Ye Liuyun looked at Li Xuanbing and coldly said, "Even Sixth and Seventh Sea Transformation can't defeat my Fifth Sea Transformation; such waste doesn't deserve the academy's resources."

"Senior brother, stop talking to him; I'll slay this kid!" A disciple of Eighth Sea Transformation beside Li Xuanbing leapt onto the arena.

"Kid, when you meet me Yue Fengzi, you won't leave this arena alive today. I always kill with my sword!" The disciple brandished his sword, focusing on Ye Liuyun, fearing a Spiritual Soul Attack.

The onlookers' expressions became vivid.

"Yue Fengzi! The sword‑killer lunatic? Didn't expect him to join Clear River Pavilion!"

"Now this will be interesting! Watch this blade versus his sword, who is stronger!"

"This Ye Liuyun isn't simple! He easily wiped out a Seventh Sea Transformation. This battle will be lively!"

These spectators love chaos; the bloodier the fight, the more they enjoy it.

Ye Liuyun glanced disdainfully; just by sensing the aura on him, Ye Liuyun knew Yue Fengzi's sword intent wasn't his own strength.

"Then let's see who can't leave the arena today!"

Ye Liuyun said calmly, then swung a blade at Yue Fengzi.

This time, all his blade intent erupted. The Great Achievement Sixth Layer blade intent, like a mountain, pressed down on Yue Fengzi.

Yue Fengzi felt Ye Liuyun's overwhelming blade intent and cried out, "How is this possible? You're only Fifth Sea Transformation and already grasped Great Achievement blade intent?"

Immediately, his whole body unleashed sword intent, a sword meeting Ye Liuyun's blade.

But his sword intent was far too weak, like a small boat battling the sea wind, instantly swallowed by Ye Liuyun's blade intent.

Even nearby disciples on the stands were cut by that blade intent, clutching their heads and fleeing backward.

At this moment, Yue Fengzi, facing this domineering blade intent, lost all will to resist, standing dazed.

At the instant Ye Liuyun's blade struck, Yue Fengzi's body erupted a stronger sword intent. He managed to break his sword intent to the Great Achievement level in crisis.

Only that breakthrough came a bit too late.

Ye Liuyun's blade already came down head‑on, cleaving him from head to toe, splitting him in two. Even the arena beneath cracked a yard‑wide fissure.

This is still with Yue Fengzi having broken through to Great Achievement Sword Intent. Otherwise, Ye Liuyun's this slash could have cleaved him into pieces.

Everyone present felt this overbearing blade intent.

The power of Ye Liuyun's slash shocked everyone's hearts.

At this moment, Ye Liuyun on the Zhan Tai had already sheathed his blade, dressed in white with Golden Pupil, carrying a black blade on his back, standing with hands behind his back. It was as if that slash just now had nothing to do with him.

Han Feng, Leng Yue, Qi Tianyue, Nan Xiner and the others could only look up to Ye Liuyun now!

"He's left us far behind!" Nan Xiner couldn't help but say.

"Yeah! We're no longer of the same world!" Qi Tianyue said somewhat disappointedly.

"Don't give up. We must take him as our role model, a target to surpass!" Nan Xiner encouraged Qi Tianyue.