Infinite Save: I Cultivate Immortality Through Reincarnation - Chapter 249: Letting Go
When Shangguan Chen’s gaze landed on Si Youyou again, his expression was no longer gentle like before.
It was filled with fury.
She was a five- or six-year-old Martial Spring Realm prodigy, so she had to have something valuable about her.
Therefore, Shangguan Chen could accept losing, but if he lost, he would at least lose with style.
Just moments ago, Shangguan Chen had thought he could easily win this bout.
Then that little girl had slapped him across the face.
My lifetime reputation as Shangguan Chen, and now this…
“Little girl, you’ve gone too far!”
A surge of potent true qi rose from Shangguan Chen’s Martial Spring, poured into his arm, and slammed toward Si Youyou’s face.
Si Youyou’s toes lightly touched Shangguan Chen’s leg again, but Shangguan Chen suddenly pulled his leg back, causing her to lose her footing.
If that full-force punch had struck the girl, there would have been a solid impact from Shangguan Chen’s fist, but no hit-feedback came back at him.
A switch between real and illusion.
Immediately, Si Youyou appeared at Shangguan Chen’s side, then activated Thousand Clouds Transformation and launched a ferocious assault.
Shangguan Chen no longer kept up his previous aloof posture, he struck back.
The little girl was faster than him, far faster.
But her limbs were short and her strength far weaker; if she used stronger mid-range techniques, he would have a much harder time defending.
However, she didn’t seem to know many techniques. She simply relied on relentless punches and kicks.
Si Youyou threw three punches, and Shangguan Chen only needed to return one to neutralize the attack.
He knew his advantages and weaknesses clearly.
Neither could actually injure the other because neither could truly touch the other.
Shangguan Chen’s problem was that Si Youyou’s speed and body technique were too bizarre.
Si Youyou’s problem was that her punches and kicks were short, and when using Thousand Clouds Transformation without integrating other methods, she was limited to close-range strikes.
He could afford countless mistakes, but the other could only afford one.
Shangguan Chen remained confident he could still defeat Si Youyou.
He pushed himself to the limit, again finding a flaw in her movements, then reached out to grab her.
Si Youyou lightly leaped, her toes landing on Shangguan Chen’s sleeve, drawing her closer to him.
Smack!
Another slap landed on Shangguan Chen’s face.
The onlookers fell silent for a moment.
“Did you teach her that?” Chen Yan asked the man beside him, Mr. You.
“No.”
Mr. You shook his head.
“Maybe the kid just likes slapping people.”
That was not a good habit, likely to make enemies, Chen Yan thought.
On the arena, just as Chen Yan expected, after taking the second slap, Shangguan Chen’s anger flared even more violently than before, his true qi growing wilder.
Shangguan Chen was ready to turn this spar into a life-or-death fight.
Jade Feather Break!
Pale cyan true qi smashed toward Si Youyou, the most famous technique of Cangkong Pavilion.
He wanted to use it to forcefully create distance between himself and Si Youyou. If he could break free of close combat, his arsenal of more varied techniques would give him the advantage.
Same rule as before.
He could make countless mistakes, the other only one.
But his calculations failed once more.
Si Youyou’s Xun Wind Step made her impossibly fast, and with the real-and-illusion shifts of Thousand Clouds Transformation, no one could predict her next move.
Si Youyou vanished from in front of Shangguan Chen.
Instinctively, Shangguan Chen turned his head.
Smack!
His face met Si Youyou’s palm.
Shangguan Chen was holding himself back.
Smack!
If he could stay calm, he believed he could handle it.
Smack!
Repeated attempts only yielded another slap and another slap.
Smack!
Yes, he could err many times, but the other could only err once.
But what if the other didn’t err at all?
“I yield.”
Shangguan Chen stopped resisting, remaining motionless as he said the words with cold detachment.
He had no more temper left.
That unlucky child was like a fly that couldn’t do him any real harm, only pure humiliation.
Yet he was completely at a loss against it.
Clang!
The bronze gong rang.
“The winner of the eighth match, Si Youyou!”
A roar rose from the crowd, and when Shangguan Chen stepped down from the platform, the spectators quickly turned their gazes away from him.
How humiliating.
In the past, Shangguan Chen had been famed across the Northern Region as Cangkong Pavilion’s strongest cultivation talent in a century, with countless legends to his name.
But from today on, his most famous deed would be this: on the Floating Light Summit Dao Inquiry stage, under the watch of all five Daomen Xingzou from the Five Great Sects, he was slapped by a six-year-old girl again and again until he shamefully admitted defeat.
“You won!”
Si Youyou bounced off the platform grinning as she walked toward Chen Yan and Mr. You.
Chen Yan, however, was not looking at Si Youyou; he watched Shangguan Chen’s retreating figure.
Those cultivators over there wore the same Cangkong Pavilion robes.
Youyou was still very young and naturally reckless, playing however she pleased without thinking of consequences.
But Chen Yan knew that defeating someone in such a humiliating manner would surely breed hatred and likely retaliation.
Especially since Si Youyou was a Rogue Cultivator.
Yet as long as she wasn’t foolish, no one would truly believe a six-year-old Martial Spring Realm girl had no backing or support.
Thinking of this, Chen Yan glanced at Mr. You beside him.
It didn’t matter—if the sky fell, this reincarnated great power still standing above the Dao Union realm and beyond could shoulder it.
Provided he didn’t run off alone.
Chen Yan thought so.
The Floating Light Summit Dao Inquiry continued. Compared to the quality of the Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry, the Floating Light Summit event was at least one tier lower.
Those cultivators who in the past had only been cannon fodder at the Heavenly Summit Mountain Dao Inquiry, being instantly killed by top sect prodigies, now performed remarkably well at the Floating Light Summit Dao Inquiry.
In both the second and third rounds, Si Youyou also won smoothly.
She never even used Piercing Sun Rainbow once; she only combined Thousand Clouds Transformation with Xun Wind Step to toy with her opponents and utterly defeat them.
This was understandable. After all, the person who used to spar with Si Youyou in the courtyard had been a reincarnation of an Immortal Ascension Realm great power.
Watching the novices on the platform peck at each other like chicks, Chen Yan suddenly felt bored. He lifted his head and looked toward the viewing stand. After watching for a few moments, he smiled and shook his head, feeling nothing but relief and openness in his heart.
So Cheng Ziying at nineteen looks like this.
Both as he imagined and somewhat different.
