After being reborn, all I want to do is run away.

Chapter 30 Showdown with Yang Sen

"Elder Liu, don't get so angry! If Elder Xiao hadn't insisted on finding that little thief who scared his granddaughter, we wouldn't have gone to such lengths. I have some excellent pre-rain tea; would Elder Liu do me the honor of coming and have a taste?" the white-robed middle-aged man said with a smile.

"So what do you plan to do with this disciple of our sect? Will you capture him/her from your Flying Cloud Sect?"

"Yang Sen, let this young man go. His cultivation at the sixth level of Qi Nourishing is beyond doubt," the middle-aged man in white ordered.

"Disciple obeys!" Yang Sen bowed and said.

"Young man, your name is Wang Lun, right? Your temperament suits my taste. Cultivate well, and I'll take you as my disciple once you enter the inner sect." Elder Liu walked up to Shen Xu and patted him on the shoulder.

These words immediately drew envious glances from the disciples nearby.

"Thank you for your kindness, Elder. I will definitely cultivate diligently and live up to your expectations." Shen Xu's lips twitched, but he still thanked you solemnly.

"This disciple will return to the sect now!"

"Yeah! Go ahead!"

After bowing, Shen Xu turned to leave, but his eyes narrowed as he turned around. He saw Elder Su from the Green Bamboo Sword Sect standing beside him, smiling at him. Shen Xu instantly revealed a very ugly smile.

"May I have the honor of drinking Elder Bai's tea?" Elder Su said to the middle-aged man in white.

"Elder Su is actually willing to do us the honor! Please, please come in!" Elder Bai said excitedly.

Shen Xu immediately felt relieved. But thinking about it, it made sense. His only connection with Elder Su was those fifty Qi-Nourishing Pills, and that was a free trade. Besides, they belonged to the same sect, and Elder Su had no reason to expose him.

On the way back, Shen Xu was in a pretty good mood. Although there were some minor hiccups, he managed to get through the challenge without any major incidents. The only downside was that someone had followed him.

After leaving the Crimson Valley for a while, Shen Xu stopped. "Come out! I know you've been following me."

As Shen Xu's words echoed through the empty mountains, Yang Sen revealed himself from behind a rock not far away.

“I’m certain it was you who did it. Although you disguised yourself very well, I can’t mistake your eyes. And your strength is definitely not just at the sixth level. I don’t know how you concealed your cultivation level, and even the elders were fooled by you, but I will never be fooled by you,” Yang Sen said coldly.

"A pair of eyes alone is not enough to determine that person is me."

"So I'm going to take you back."

"only you?"

"I'm enough on my own!"

"People always say I'm arrogant, but there are actually quite a few people in this world who are more arrogant than me!" Shen Xu sighed.

"Last time you tricked me into not being able to use my full strength. This time you will witness my true power, and I will avenge myself on you." Yang Sen drew his long sword and looked at Shen Xu with a sharp gaze.

"Since you want to fight, I'll gladly oblige!" Shen Xu tossed the sword wrapped in cloth behind his back into the air. The strips of cloth unraveled layer by layer in the air, revealing two swords inside: one sheathed, concealing its sharpness, and the other unsheathed, its cold light gleaming.

Shen Xu took the sheathed sword and let Han Yue insert it into the crevice in the stone behind him.

"It really is you!" A hint of excitement flashed in Yang Sen's eyes, and his blood rushed through his veins—the feeling of encountering a powerful opponent.

"A sword pierces the wind!"

A sharp, chilling sword light, moving with lightning speed and accompanied by a whistling wind, pierced towards Shen Xu.

However, compared to the speed of the Wind Leopard, this was nothing. Shen Xu easily dodged the sword light by using his Dragon Body technique.

Having missed his target, Yang Sen didn't linger. He immediately moved with lightning speed to create distance between himself and Shen Xu. Then, he swung his longsword through the air, and a pale blue wind curtain appeared out of thin air. A gust of wind blew from the wind curtain towards Shen Xu, causing him to squint.

Beneath the gentle breeze, a sharp killing intent suddenly appeared. The breeze that swept around transformed into a streak of azure sword light, attacking Shen Xu from an eerie angle.

Just as Shen Xu was about to dodge in the same way, the cyan sword light suddenly split into eight smaller sword lights that surrounded Shen Xu. Then, they instantly merged together, trying to kill Shen Xu within the cyan sword light.

"The Pine Tree Stands Tall Against the Wind!" Shen Xu swiftly brandished his longsword, and a phantom image of a pine tree formed amidst his continuous sword strikes. Eight beams of azure sword light attacked the phantom image from all directions in an instant. Under such violent attacks, the pine tree's branches seemed to be battered by a storm, constantly leaning towards the ground and on the verge of breaking.

But even as the last ray of azure sword light vanished, Shen Xu's tall and straight figure remained standing in the breeze.

"What exquisite swordplay! It even seems to incorporate the essence of wind," Shen Xu thought to himself.

"My methods are still too limited. I can only use mortal-level sword techniques to deal with such attacks, which is too passive."

If it weren't for the fact that Cangsong Aofeng had a slight advantage over his sword move, I might not have been able to defend against it.

"It seems I can't win this battle if I don't reveal my Overlapping Waves Sword Technique." Shen Xu frowned as he looked at Yang Sen ahead.

"What kind of sword technique is this?" Yang Sen asked in surprise.

"The mortal-level Azure Pine Sword Technique is more than enough to deal with you," Shen Xu said with a smile.

Yang Sen was stunned. The person in front of him not only dodged his fastest sword move with his movement technique, but also blocked his combo of Qingfeng Sword Technique, which was at the human level, with a single mortal-level sword technique.

What humiliated Yang Sen the most was that the other man had been using his Qi Cultivation Level 6 cultivation from beginning to end to fight him, and he hadn't even used that powerful water-based sword technique from last time.

Thinking of this, Yang Sen felt a surge of shame and anger. "Wang Lun! Don't look down on me!!"

With a furious roar, Yang Sen's dantian surged forth with a burst of energy. Streams of pale blue energy coiled around his longsword, and within a short time, a deep blue luster condensed on the blade. He gripped the sword tightly and swung it with all his might.

With a sharp whistling sound, a cyan wind blade as tall as a person tore through the air and appeared in front of Shen Xu like a swift wind and lightning.

But even with Yang Sen's full-force sword strike, the speed suddenly slowed down when it reached Shen Xu. To be precise, it wasn't that the wind blade slowed down, but rather that it slowed down in Shen Xu's eyes.

Shen Xu moved his body lightly, swaying like a dragon, causing the wind blade that had just struck his face to graz his side and pass by instantly.

The wind blades that shot out struck the rock wall behind Shen Xu, causing rocks to fly everywhere and dust to rise. A whole section of the rock wall was cut off and rolled to the ground with a loud rumble.

Yang Sen, on the other hand, had exhausted his energy and weakened after unleashing that wind blade with all his might. He knelt on one knee, struggling to support himself with his sword, staring at the scene before him in disbelief.

"This is impossible?" Yang Sen murmured to himself.

"Nothing is impossible. I thought you were so amazing, but it turns out you're nothing special!" Shen Xu said with a light laugh.