Volume 6: Post-mortem Chapter 5: Sword Master
Qi Ji stayed on Earth for nearly a month and mainly accomplished several things.
The first is to cooperate with the arrangements of the upper echelons of Daxia and send envoys to the world in the name of diplomatic aid to wipe out the foreign demons that are already spreading out of control.
Of course, he didn't need to take action against that kind of small and low-level external demon.
He just went to a few key nodes and cleared out the first few core desperate situations guarded by the fourth-level top-level external demons.
Then all countries discovered that without the origin of the desperate situation, the generation rate of other low-level external demon desperate situations immediately decreased significantly.
Then Qi Ji will focus on clearing out the more difficult external demonic desperate situations, and it will not be a problem for the elite from various countries to clear out the other low-level desperate situations themselves.
From then on, the invasion of foreign demons on Earth was completely eliminated under Qi Ji's extremely powerful strength.
Secondly, during the period of sweeping away the foreign demons, Qi Ji took time out to participate in the Global Weaponry Masters Tournament, which required him to appear intermittently.
The result is self-evident—a crushing victory.
That's right, even though he later actively limited his strength and speed to the level of ordinary people.
But after so many battles, he learned countless skills.
With the blessing of the enormous transcendence degree, he possesses super dynamic vision and reaction ability that cannot be restricted.
There was absolutely no way he could lose any of these games.
Moreover, because Qi Ji assisted other countries in eliminating all the foreign demons that were a serious threat to them at lightning speed, his image is now very friendly in the eyes of other countries.
With the tacit approval and even promotion of officials from various countries.
Now, not only in Daxia, but the whole world's evaluation of him has been infinitely improved.
This improvement was brought to its peak during the special session "The Path of the Sword Master" on the last day of the Masters Tournament.
"The Road to the Sword Master" is the final stage of the annual Weapon Masters Tournament. In this stage, the person who obtains the first ranking of this Weapon Masters Tournament, that is, the strongest person under the Sword Master ranked fourth in the world, will have the right to challenge the Sword Master.
In previous years, the person ranked fourth in the world often rotated, but in the past ten years, no one has been able to successfully challenge and gain the recognition of any sword master to become the fourth most powerful person in the world.
This day is the day when the "Path of the Sword Saint" begins.
After defeating his old friend Lancelot, who was originally ranked fourth on Earth, yesterday, or rather, after this old friend admitted defeat without hesitation, Qi Ji became the protagonist of today's "Road to the Sword Master" segment.
The final venue of this year's Military Martial Arts Masters Tournament happened to be located in the Phoenix Nest of Daxia.
He did not wear any protective gear that day.
Instead, he came to the stage wearing ordinary sportswear.
His first opponent was a short, elderly man.
His name and his opponent's name were displayed on the big screen above the stadium.
Qi Ji (Daxia) VS Kamiizumi Shintuna (Sakura).
"Although after talking to Lao Yu, I know that you are as strong as a god now, but on Earth, the characteristic of isolating the extraordinary still makes me qualified to fight with you." Opposite Qi Ji, Kamiizumi Shintuna, who was wearing complete armor and holding a katana in his hand, was full of energy. Although he was not tall, it could be seen that the old man's physical functions were almost at the peak of human beings.
He looked at Qi Ji excitedly and said, "Qi Ji, go put on your protective gear, and then let me see if the skills of the "God" are worthy of the power of the "God."
Qi Ji did not move his feet. He looked at the extremely excited Sakura Sword Saint opposite him and smiled wildly: "No need. Since you are a "god", why would you need such inconvenient things as protective gear?"
He casually held an ordinary long sword in his hand and gently held it horizontally in front of him: "Attack me."
Seeing Qi Ji's posture, the entire packed Phoenix Nest audience knew that this guy was going to fight without protective gear.
Suddenly the whole place was noisy.
Especially the audience from Daxia, all of them couldn't help but reveal an expression of "I knew this guy would do something naughty."
Online, all kinds of barrage comments have once again entered carnival mode.
[It’s so funny, Qi Shen is not wearing protective gear again, he is so brave! ]
[What did he say before? Did he forget it? ]
[“I think this suspension is very correct. We did violate the relevant regulations. I would like to thank the league for its tolerance. It is only a one-month suspension as a warning. In the future, I will abide by the discipline and will not do such outrageous behavior again.”]
[You want to make me laugh to death, so you want to take away Qi Shen’s promise and whip his corpse, right? ]
[To be honest, isn't it a bit rude for Qi Shen to fight against a sword master like this? ]
[To be honest, this is not impolite, this is just being arrogant! But I love watching it, I suggest you watch more (dog head)]
[Friendly troops in front, the 40-meter-long sword has already chopped down, remember to finish the key points in the next life (funny)]
[I hope Sakura's Ueizumi Sword Saint can give Qi Shen a hard time (funny)]
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Inside the field, when Kamiizumi Shintsuna saw Qi Ji's gesture of not wearing protective gear, he paused for a moment and couldn't help but burst out laughing: "You are so confident! It seems that I am really old. Then watch out, I am about to attack!"
After he finished speaking, he grasped the knife in both hands, pushed off the ground hard, and rushed towards Qi Ji at high speed.
In the eyes of ordinary audiences, Kamiizumi Shintuna almost turned into a shadow and appeared in front of Qi Ji in an instant.
Then, the two of them attacked each other like a storm for several seconds!
A series of metal sword collisions sounded like raindrops hitting an iron shed, making a dense sound.
Kamiizumi Shintuna did not look like an old man at all. He was agile, moving left and right, and using the new Yin style to launch various slashing attacks at Qi Ji from multiple directions.
This is Earth, and with no extraordinary power, he believed that if they only competed in sword skills, he would not be too far behind Qi Ji.
In fact, this is true.
Like Yu Chengen, Kamiizumi Shintsuga is a person who has reached the level of Sword Saint on Earth. Even after going to the outside world, he is still a super genius with outstanding talent and has always maintained his invincibility among his peers with his sword skills.
They are all top-level experts who have come from behind and grown from the first level of transcendence to the fourth level of transcendence in just less than ten years.
Such a strong man naturally has absolute confidence in the sword skills he has always relied on.
Even if it is a god, at most he is stronger than me. In the realm of swordsmanship, I believe I am not inferior to anyone.
However, although he did not overestimate himself, he underestimated Qi Ji.
Qi Ji allowed Shangquan to attack fiercely, and at the moment when he blocked the hundredth move, he swung the sword with both hands.
The gap between Kamiizumi's katana and the sword.
Qi Ji slashed out horizontally in the nick of time!
In Kamiizumi Shintuna's sight, a flash of knife light seemed to rise out of thin air and quietly swept over from the side!
So fast!
Kamiizumi Shinsuna’s eyes widened.
No, it's not fast in a physically fast way. In fact, Qi Ji's speed is not faster than Kamiizumi Shingen's.
Rather, it’s the kind of speed where the opponent has completely seen through his move and the timing of his attack is completely ahead of his own by a whole level!
Qi Ji had already planned to use the hundredth strike to deflect the opponent's attack.
The angle of the swing was also planned by Qi Ji long ago.
After the vibration, the opponent's reactions, movements, and even countermeasures were all within Qi Ji's expectations.
He seized all these precise moments, and launched his first attack from the angle that was most difficult for his opponent to deal with and at a rhythm that his opponent least expected.
Hit the target in one shot!
Counter-cut, forward cut, backhand horizontal cut, backhand diagonal cut, forward cut, counter-cut, backhand upward cut, jump up and cut down.
Eight swords flashed!
Kamiizumi Shintuna was hit by all of Qi Ji's continuous slashes. Under the clever impact, he was completely unable to fight back or use the force. In the end, he was lifted up by Qi Ji's upward attack, and then he was chopped down to the ground from mid-air.
Off the field, the score was exactly 20 points, neither more nor less.
Qi Ji learned this move by imitating the last tall and handsome man with long silver-gray hair in the world view of the third level of the Berserker Stage.
That man's name was "Sephiroth".
He is a man who is far stronger than Claude under normal circumstances. He holds a super-extended katana that is two and a half meters long. He possesses exquisite and elegant sword skills and also masters magic of various attribute categories.
However, his Eight Swords Flash was just a skill he learned by imitating Sephiroth's movements through his powerful body control and learning abilities.
The real skill he inherited from Sephiroth through the blood-red crystal was actually an ability called "black magic", which he had upgraded to the maximum level using his transcendence.
This is also the only skill he has acquired under the Berserker Level 3 worldview by spending transcendence to improve it.
As for other skills, such as Claude's "Ultimate Martial God Slash", he only learned them to become familiar with the principles behind them, and by analogy, he increased his experience in using the extraordinary factors converted into the "Mako" form.
Black magic is different. It's a kind of magic whose principle is unclear. Without the transcendence upgrade, he can't figure out how to use this magic subsequently.
So he spent a full 35,000 points of transcendence to upgrade this skill to the maximum.
[Transcendence: 337990→332990→322990→302990]
[Black Magic·Remnant→Black Magic·Ultimate (cannot be upgraded)]
[Obtained Skill Branch: One-Winged Angel Mode]
[Obtain secrets: Dark Fusion, Careless Angel, Supernova]
[Dark Fusion: Summon multiple black magic energy balls based on the consumed Mako energy. Enemies far away from the energy balls will be attracted by a huge force, while enemies touching the energy balls will be repelled by a stronger force and suffer terrible damage.]
[Heartless Angel: Stores a large amount of Mako energy in an object. After the energy explodes, a conceptual idealistic force explodes with the stored object as the center, forcing enemies with lower mental power than oneself into a state of near death.]
[Supernova: A forbidden spell that unfolds an inherent barrier, transforming a large area of the real world into a mental world that simulates the universe, and pulling all enemies within the range into the mental world. At the same time, it simulates a huge meteorite bombarding a star in the mental world, triggering a supernova phenomenon, destroying all enemies along with the entire space.]
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We will explore Qi Ji’s deeds in the Tower of Transcendence later.
Let’s turn our attention back to the Phoenix Nest venue of the Global Martial Arts Masters Tournament.
After defeating Kamiizumi Shintuna with eight smooth sword strikes, Qi Ji, unsurprisingly, was admired by people all over the world.
Although many people already had a premonition.
But when many people saw Qi Ji actually defeated the first Sword Master, it was still hard to believe.
Especially all the people of Sakura Country, when they saw that the pride of their country, the powerful and invincible Sword Saint Kamiizumi was defeated by Qi Ji, many of them burst into tears on the spot.
They had originally hoped to rely on the Sword Saint to avenge the shame of being swept away in the Sakura Kendo world, but unexpectedly, they were greeted with an even greater humiliation.
Kamiizumi Shintuna sat up from the ground, took off his mask, and couldn't help laughing happily: "What a wonderful swordsmanship, I lost! What Lao Yu said is right, you are invincible in every aspect."
Qi Ji smiled slightly, looked at him and said, "I didn't disappoint you, did I, Senior Shangquan?"
"Not a bit of disappointment, but full of surprises. The three of us old guys have occupied the position of Sword Saint for too long. We should have retired to the background long ago." Kamiizumi Shintuna stood up neatly and patted his butt. "I am very old and cannot stay on Earth for long. After this Masters Tournament, I will settle down in the Outlands permanently. Qi Ji, if possible, please take time to take care of my useless grandson and granddaughter."
"No problem, Yiren and Saeko are also my good friends." Qi Ji agreed readily.
As he said this, Kamiizumi Shintuna laughed and slowly walked down from the stage.
Qi Ji, on the other hand, smiled and watched him leave the stage.
After a while, the staff came to the stage and announced loudly.
"After the competition, the Sakura Sword Master, Mr. Kamiizumi Shintuna, was defeated!"
Sword Master Shangquan was defeated!
The audience, as well as the global viewers who were watching the live broadcast, looked at each other, and their expressions gradually turned into extreme excitement.
After ten years, someone finally succeeded in his challenge and became the fourth Sword Saint in the world! ?
At the same time, a staff member came to tell Qi Ji that the Sword Master of Oz also wanted to have a sword fight with Qi Ji.
Moreover, regardless of winning or losing, he has already acknowledged Qi Ji's status as a sword master.
Qi Ji naturally agreed with a smile.
When the event organizer announced the news loudly to the stadium through the radio, everyone was excited.
Sword Saint of Oz also recognized Qi Ji's strength and acknowledged his title of Sword Saint!
As the noisy voices rose, a tall foreigner with deep eyes and a gloomy face walked up from the stage.
This person is naturally the pride of the Nordic swordsmanship world - the Nordic Sword Saint Oz.
His expression was serious and quite meticulous. After he got on the stage, he said directly to Qi Ji: "I have recognized your strength. According to what Yu Chengen said, Mr. Qi Ji's strength in the outer domain has reached the realm of gods. This time I came on the stage, just because I was excited to see the prey and wanted to experience other sword skills of the same level or even higher level players. I hope I didn't make you feel abrupt."
There is nothing wrong with being harmonious and quiet.
The two men got ready.
Oz held a swift sword in his hand and stared at Qi Ji with a solemn expression. He quickly calculated the opponent's flaws and postures and quickly came up with his greatest possibility of winning.
The next second, he shouted softly and rushed towards Qi Ji at high speed!
In less than a minute, Qi Ji's sword chopped his weapon off, and then he was hit by Qi Ji and flew backwards, almost falling off the stage.
After Oz left the stage, Yu Chengen came on stage amid everyone's expectant expressions!
The two sword masters of Da Xia, one old and one young, smiled and looked at each other on the stage.
Qi Ji raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Master Yu, would you like to have a go?"
Yu Chengen smiled cheerfully: "Come on!"
The two men shouted at the same time, gripped their weapons tightly, and rushed out at the same time, breaking through the wooden floor of the arena!
clang clang!
The crisp sound of weapons clashing could be heard from far away.
The fierce cheers of the Phoenix Nest audience could be heard from far away !
