Chapter 176 Cooperation

Ye Chuxiao, relying on the swiftness of his foot artifact, led Jin Buyi's group of 'clones' in circles. These clones, not particularly strong, couldn't touch Ye Chuxiao at all.

Sometimes, Ye Chuxiao would deliberately stop, waiting for these clones to gather, ensuring they were far enough away from Jin Buyi.

This was to prevent Jin Buyi from shamelessly calling for reinforcements in his upcoming fight with Yan Po.

Meanwhile, Jin Buyi was rushing towards the location indicated by the clones.

He had borrowed a special artifact from an old friend that could effectively restrict speed.

As long as he could corner Ye Chuxiao, he was confident he could surround and kill him, completely eliminating this inner demon.

Perhaps Ye Chuxiao himself didn't realize he had become Jin Buyi's inner demon.

If he couldn't get rid of Ye Chuxiao, Jin Buyi would feel constipated.

Gathering his qi and riding the wind, Jin Buyi's heart burned with passion.

Although still injured, he was full of expectations for the future.

He swallowed a spiritual pill to temporarily suppress his injuries and tossed out several spiritual pearls, crushing them.

These spiritual pearls briefly granted Jin Buyi specific buffs.

Thus, he had temporarily completed his pre-battle preparations.

Suddenly, a gust of wind swept across the sky, and a figure blocked his path.

The newcomer looked young, dressed in black, wearing a bamboo hat, and carrying a black saber. His appearance was ordinary.

"Who dares to block my way?" Jin Buyi didn't completely stop, slightly changing direction, preparing to bypass the black-clad figure.

Focused solely on eliminating Ye Chuxiao, Jin Buyi had no time to deal with anyone else.

Buzz!

Amidst the saber's hum, the black saber was slightly unsheathed, revealing no blade but only saber qi crisscrossing the surroundings.

The saber qi had formed a vast, pulling net, enveloping Jin Buyi's path.

"My name is Zhao, Zhao Buyi!"

"I heard you're also called Buyi, so unfortunately… Daheng can only have one Buyi," the black-clad figure coldly told Jin Buyi.

Jin Buyi subconsciously stopped.

The black-clad figure's words clearly touched a nerve.

Jin Buyi hated anyone contesting his identity or sense of existence.

Before killing Ye Chuxiao, he didn't mind having an appetizer first.

"Arrogant! Daheng has never heard of a Zhao Buyi! Who are you, daring to block my way?" Jin Buyi carefully examined the black-clad figure, comparing him to some troublesome experts in his memory. Judging by appearance alone, there was no match, and he breathed a slight sigh of relief.

However, this didn't mean anything; disguises and transformations were not uncommon.

Strong cultivators with a certain level of skill knew a little about it.

"After killing you, everyone will know!" The black-clad figure claiming to be 'Zhao Buyi' said, staring at Jin Buyi.

Jin Buyi glanced at the black saber in the black-clad figure's hand.

The blade was long and narrow, revealing a long blood groove on the back. It looked like a wild goose saber.

This didn't match any of the well-known saber users in Jin Buyi's memory.

"Is he really some newbie who popped out of nowhere?" Jin Buyi thought.

A person's appearance could be faked, but their preferred weapons and equipment couldn't.

Even using the same type of weapon, such as long sabers, short sabers, broadswords, narrow sabers, thick-backed sabers, and double-edged sabers, there were differences in usage and habits, off by a hair's breadth and a thousand miles astray.

Jin Buyi no longer hesitated, opening his hand and instantly summoning short halberds. He then brought one down.

The force was like ten thousand acres of thunder, rushing towards the black-clad figure.

The short-term buffs on him clearly had a positive effect on the mobilization and deployment of large amounts of energy.

Jin Buyi was skilled in combining martial arts and techniques, often creating wind and lightning, water and fire, for excellent visual effects.

With every gesture, he resembled a high and mighty deity.

Faced with Jin Buyi's aggressive and domineering attack, Yan Po lowered his eyes as if he wasn't disturbed at all.

Then, with a 'clang,' the long saber was fully unsheathed.

When the saber fell, all creation fell silent.

If Jin Buyi's offensive was dazzling, colorful, rich, and outwardly expressive, then

Yan Po was his opposite.

Low-key, restrained, suppressed, controlled.

All the strength, precision, and dominance were condensed into the small space of the blade.

When the calm saber collided with the surging thunder that seemed to cover hundreds of miles,

an unexpected scene occurred.

The surging thunder was easily shattered, cut, and eliminated under Yan Po's blade, as if it were paper or cloth.

Smack!

Yan Po's blade struck the short halberd in Jin Buyi's hand.

The powerful force made Jin Buyi's wrist tremble slightly.

In the instant of the clash between the expanding force and the compressed force, the latter gained a significant advantage.

Of course, this only showed that Jin Buyi wasn't fighting smart enough.

If he were smart, he should have adapted to the situation, using the expanding force to communicate and shake the power of heaven and earth, using the power of heaven to kill.

This kind of 'smartness' was perfectly demonstrated in Ye Chuxiao.

Ye Chuxiao's Heaven Saber, in a sense, had similar characteristics, but it was used more skillfully and contained more things.

"What great brute force!" Jin Buyi said lightly in a tone of evaluation, but his hand behind his back, clutching the short halberd, was still trembling slightly.

"However, brute force alone is not enough."

"Let me tell you that the battle of experts is not just about selling one's strength."

Jin Buyi said these words, but in reality, he had already used one hundred percent of his strength.

Seemingly calm, he twirled the short halberd into a ball, which then turned into a mist of light.

Wind, fire, thunder… all kinds of elements were generated from the mist of light, transforming into mountains, seas, and lakes, rushing towards Yan Po.

Heaven and earth had become Jin Buyi's domain.

His unrestrained and arrogant nature was fully displayed in this attack.

But he obviously wouldn't just make one move, waiting to dissect and resolve the attack of the black-clad saber wielder opposite him.

In secret, Jin Buyi had already scattered a large number of Yin Fire Thunder.

Beneath the dazzling offensive, hidden was a cunning and treacherous scheme.

Just like Jin Buyi himself.

The exterior was disguised as bright and beautiful, but in his bones, he was still a treacherous and sinister villain.

Firelight and thunder filled the field of vision.

It was an extremely gorgeous and brilliant view, and normal people would be dazzled by the chaos.

In this dazzling world, Yan Po was dressed in black, and the black saber in his hand seemed so plain and out of place.

Soon, Yan Po himself, along with his saber, was swallowed by the splendid light.

Seeing Yan Po's figure seemingly disappear into the light and shadow, and even the domain was continuously weakening,

Jin Buyi smiled in satisfaction.

More Yin Fire Thunder scattered with the flow of the spectrum.

He wasn't such an imprudent person.

At least in the midst of battle, he still had a normal fighting mind and brain.

The weakening of aura could be the effect of his offensive.

But it could also be the opponent showing weakness to him, waiting for an opportunity.

Jin Buyi was confident, but not blindly so.

However, when a saber broke through space and everything, suddenly pressing against his throat, Jin Buyi was still scared into a cold sweat.

He suddenly began to feel fear.

When fighting Ye Chuxiao, although he was outwardly fierce but inwardly timid, he also knew that even if he couldn't win or made a mistake, Ye Chuxiao wouldn't really do anything to him.

Fighting Ye Chuxiao, in reality, Ye Chuxiao was on the unfair side of the struggle.

Jin Buyi was taking advantage of this unfairness, jumping around happily.

The black-clad saber wielder in front of him was different. He wasn't a participant in the Heart Dan struggle; he was just a saber wielder who wanted to make a name for himself in this world as soon as possible.

If he was caught with a flaw, he would really die!

Jin Buyi had too many reasons not to die, so under the pressure of Yan Po's saber, he retreated rapidly, disregarding everything else.

At the same time, he detonated all the Yin Fire Thunder.

The violent explosions connected into one piece, causing the space to become severely unstable.

Everything visible to the naked eye was distorted in the intense energy shock.

In the explosion, Jin Buyi captured all possible auras, unleashing offensives, turning fear into violence in his hands, and venting it to his heart's content.

He had accumulated too much pressure in his heart, and he was actually on the verge of collapse.

The fire and smoke dissipated.

Yan Po stood dozens of miles away, holding his saber, looking at Jin Buyi from afar with a smile on his face.

"Illusion Saber!" Jin Buyi gnashed his teeth, hating him to the core.

Yan Po's first saber had successfully created an extremely simple saber path in his heart, making him subconsciously define Yan Po.

So, when the second saber fell, Jin Buyi was fooled, believing that the saber that was about to cut his throat was real.

However, Yan Po was faking a move.

Using the illusion saber in the moment of life and death, he tricked Jin Buyi into revealing his trump card.

Swish!

Another saber fell.

The evaluation of this saber could be summed up in one word.

Fast!

Fast to the point of being unable to capture the trajectory, fast to the point of being unable to see any shadows.

Fast to the point where the wind couldn't hear the sound of movement, and the light couldn't catch up with the shuttle of the saber.

If it were before, Jin Buyi could have detonated Yin Fire Thunder to achieve the effect of blocking and positioning.

Pure speed offensives, if repeatedly blocked, forcing the speed to slow down, would easily expose flaws.

However, Jin Buyi, who had already exhausted his resources, could only concentrate his domain around himself, spreading the characteristics of the borrowed artifact around him.

The artifact that was originally used to suppress Ye Chuxiao was now reversed in direction and used for defense first.

Chi la!

A flash of saber light.

In front of Jin Buyi, a long string of light smoke appeared.

The domain and the characteristics that filled it were transformed into scattered spirituality, scattered in all directions in a mess.

Jin Buyi clutched the saber wound on his chest, and the fear in his heart magnified to the extreme.

He didn't dare to gamble on the fourth saber anymore!

He could only flee in embarrassment, flee frantically!

Only by living could he have a future; if he died… he would have nothing.

Compared to ordinary people who could expect a so-called afterlife after death, Jin Buyi knew very well that once he fell, it would mean that all his memories and cognitions would return to the 'public platform,' becoming information to be read and property to be inherited.

That was a fate more despairing than being annihilated.

Watching Jin Buyi's frantically fleeing back, the muscles on Yan Po's face twisted for a while.

Then, it reverted to his original appearance.

"It's lacking!" Yan Po commented.

Although he had accepted the assignment, Yan Po was originally looking forward to this battle.

But after actually fighting, he found it somewhat boring.

Jin Buyi had power, but he didn't seem to have the corresponding rich fighting experience.

He seemed to be better at crushing battles by taking advantage of his realm.

This preference could play a strong crushing role against opponents weaker than him, but if he encountered opponents equal to or better than him, it would expose his shortcomings.

In fact, Yan Po was a little wronged by Jin Buyi.

As Xiao Chi's 'just right' substitute vest, Jin Buyi's ability was neither strong nor weak.

The reason why he was defeated so easily by Yan Po was because Jin Buyi was actually in a state of panic and mental distraction.

From Jin Buyi's perspective, he needed to guard against Ying Shu, guard against Ye Chuxiao, guard against Xiao Chi, and even be betrayed by Yuan Meng, and all the many scheming 'clones' also wanted to replace him.

In this state, as long as Jin Buyi's first aggressive move was broken, from then on, as long as one fought steadily, he could be beaten so hard that he couldn't fight back.

Evaluating from a more objective perspective, Jin Buyi's power could not be fully matched with his own temperament.

His power came from Xiao Chi's giving, not entirely from his own cultivation and honing.

This giving was different from Ye Chuxiao's reception of cultivation experience.

The former was a domestic dog being fed, while the latter was a wild wolf seizing food.

The moment Jin Buyi was defeated, Ye Chuxiao once again received a strong call request from Ying Shu.

This time, Ye Chuxiao accepted her request.

Ying Shu's voice appeared again.

"Let's cooperate!"

"Completely!"

"Mutual trust, no reservations!" Ying Shu said very sincerely.