Invincible Beyond Heavens: Cultivating With A Broken EXP System

Li Yun remained calm on the surface, but inwardly he was carefully assessing the young woman standing before him.

The moment he sensed that her cultivation had reached the Half Step Qi Sea Realm, he immediately understood that defeating her would not be easy.

Just moments earlier he had already unleashed all three moves of his middle grade profound rank sword art with the level of True Meaning mastery, yet she had endured the attacks without suffering any serious damage.

That brief exchange had made one fact painfully clear to him. The gap between the ninth level of the Xiantian Realm and the Half Step Qi Sea Realm was far greater than he had initially imagined.

At the same time, Li Yun also felt that the woman before him was far from an ordinary martial artist at this level. Her aura was steady and powerful, and her presence carried a sharp confidence that suggested extraordinary strength. Very few martial artists at the Half Step Qi Sea Realm would likely be able to compete with her.

After thinking for a moment, Li Yun spoke again.

“Who are you?”

The young woman studied him carefully for a few seconds before answering.

“I am Yan Luo of the Boundless Martial Palace.”

“I see.”

Li Yun simply nodded after hearing her introduction. In his mind, he quickly connected the pieces together and guessed that she was probably the reinforcement sent by the Boundless Martial Palace to seize the Martial Dao Crystal.

Yan Luo, however, was somewhat surprised by his reaction.

She had expected shock, or at least recognition, but the young man in front of her showed neither.

Her name was widely known throughout the Southern Martial Domain. Among the countless geniuses scattered across the region, she was considered one of the top five without question. Because of that reputation, her name was famous across nearly every major sect and force.

Yet Li Yun’s calm expression clearly showed that he had no idea who she was.

At that moment Li Yun’s expression suddenly changed.

His spiritual perception detected several powerful auras rapidly approaching from the distance. Each of them possessed a cultivation that was either at the ninth level of the Xiantian Realm or at the Half Step Qi Sea Realm.

A sense of urgency immediately rose in his mind.

’I have to leave this place.’

Li Yun quickly concluded that these incoming experts were most likely reinforcements from the Boundless Martial Palace. If they surrounded him here, escaping would become far more difficult.

He made his decision instantly.

“Since you are so beautiful, I will let you go today,” Li Yun said with a faint smile.

The moment his words fell, his body burst into motion as he rushed toward the exit of the Black Wind Desert. His figure moved with incredible speed, resembling a fierce wind tiger streaking across the barren land as he activated the movement technique known as the Raging Wind Tiger Art.

Li Yun was extremely fast, but Yan Luo was even faster.

In the blink of an eye she caught up to him and blocked his path.

“Do you really think you can escape so easily?” she said coldly.

Yan Luo had already sensed the approaching reinforcements as well. She understood that she did not need to defeat Li Yun immediately. As long as she could delay him for a short time, the other experts from the Boundless Martial Palace would soon arrive.

Once they reached this place, the situation would become much easier for her to handle.

Li Yun frowned as he suddenly came to a halt. He could no longer afford to keep running while Yan Luo continued to block his path.

“Miss Yan,” he said in a low voice, “you have forced my hand.”

The moment those words left his mouth, Li Yun raised his sword high into the air. At the same time he began circulating all three of his cultivation arts at the fourteenth layer.

Almost instantly the sword in his hand began to overflow with violent energy. Flames surged across the blade while streams of wind qi and lightning qi gathered around it. The combined power grew increasingly intense until the sword itself started trembling violently, as though it could barely contain the overwhelming force being poured into it.

“Five Elemental Sword Art – Three elements into one!”

Li Yun roared as he fused his Sword Intent together with the Killing Intent drawn from his Killing Intent Seed and poured both of them into the Overlord Sword Art before unleashing its ultimate strike.

“Overlord’s Final Judgment!”

With a powerful motion he brought his sword down toward Yan Luo.

A terrifying sword qi burst forward from the blade. It carried blazing flame qi, roaring wind qi, and crackling lightning qi all at once. The violent energy tore through the air and smashed across the ground beneath it, leaving destruction in its wake wherever it passed.

“So strong!”

Yan Luo could not hide her shock. She had never expected such a powerful attack to come from someone whose cultivation was only at the third level of the Xiantian Realm.

Reacting immediately, she released her own 10% sword intent to the fullest and circulated her mid grade Profound Rank cultivation art to the fourth layer. She raised her sword high above her head, and in the next instant a massive black sword condensed in the air above her.

The giant black sword descended and collided directly with Li Yun’s three element sword qi.

Bang!

A deafening explosion erupted the moment the two attacks met. Violent shockwaves spread in every direction while black winds, blazing flames, and streaks of lightning tore through the surrounding desert.

Whoosh!

Even Yan Luo was forced backward by the terrifying force generated from the collision. Her body slid across the ground for a long distance before she finally drove her sword into the earth to anchor herself and bring her momentum to a halt.

A thin stream of blood slipped from the corner of her mouth as Yan Luo slowly circulated her cultivation art to steady the violent energy inside her body. Her breathing gradually calmed as the turbulent qi within her meridians settled. She raised her hand and wiped away the blood from her lips while looking toward the fading shockwaves left behind by the clash.

“Such a powerful attack,” she murmured quietly.