Qin Wenwu felt Lin Beichen’s killing intent, with a smile on his face, his eyes filled with battle readiness.
"Whether he lives or dies, I don’t care. I’ve set up dozens of pawns like Zhao Tianjie in the past. I once had high hopes for them, but they all ended in disappointment. Though Zhao Tianjie is useless, he led to your appearance. I decided to set up a monument for him; in that respect, he’s more useful than the others."
"After I kill you, I will go find that peerless master from a hundred years ago. I once lost to him by a single move and almost developed a heart demon."
As his words fell, the Ice and Snow Throne behind Qin Wenwu shattered with a boom, countless ice fragments converging into sharp blades, like thousands of Ice and Snow Swords.
"Ice Sword Array!"
With a slap from Qin Wenwu’s big hand, terrifying thousands of Ice and Snow Swords instantly surged towards Lin Beichen.
The immense power of ice and snow froze the lake water wherever it passed. Though it was the scorching summer, the lake surface was like the frigid midwinter, freezing everything.
"A mere insignificant trick."
Lin Beichen’s hand flashed with spiritual light, and he casually slapped.
A terrifying cyan spiritual light condensed from the waterbed, converging into a cyan wall.
Thousands of Ice and Snow Swords struck the wall, instantly turning to dust.
As the Ice and Snow Swords dissipated, Qin Wenwu was already there.
He gathered his fists, with all his strength, and fiercely punched the wall.
"Bang!"
The cyan spiritual light wall, which had just appeared for less than ten seconds, shattered instantly.
Lin Beichen moved again, gathering the shattered cyan spiritual light with his fingers, a Cyan Light Treasure Sword appeared between his fingers.
"Go!"
As the sword light swept across, Qin Wenwu’s air-ripping fist energy was instantly dispersed.
"Hmm?"
Lin Beichen frowned slightly.
Qin Wenwu’s ice qi seemed off.
The ice qi he left in Zhao Weinan’s body was also cold, but thick yet unconcentrated, extremely elusive.
But now, Lin Beichen could feel the bone-chilling sword qi in his fist wind.
Qin Wenwu broke through the Celestial Gate with his own strength, without any guidance from him?
Not just the Celestial Gate.
Qin Wenwu mastered the Five Elements Qi and even reached the Tier Four level of a certain type of spiritual qi.
Now, compared to Qin Wenwu, Lin Beichen only had a slight advantage.
The Power of Withered and Flourishing and his mastered Tier Five Flame Power.
"Indeed, you are a genius. I didn’t expect that after the Celestial Gate’s opening, someone like you would achieve such rapid progress."
Lin Beichen said leisurely.
Lin Beichen’s words were sincere.
He was indeed shocked by Qin Wenwu’s talent.
Even Mr. Li Jiang, without Lin Beichen’s guidance, would have needed at least ten years to digest the Celestial Gate Realm and find his path.
Yet Qin Wenwu, self-taught, even caught some spiritual qi in the mere month since the Celestial Gate’s opening and realized a breakthrough.
Accumulating thickly and striking thinly.
This was Lin Beichen’s true assessment of Qin Wenwu.
Qin Wenwu’s body surged with strands of cold light, the cold light converging into a shield, blocking in front of him.
"I have lived in this world for nearly a thousand years, tried all the dharma gates humans have researched to break through the Celestial Gate!
For the first 500 years, I always thought it was my lack of talent. In the latter 500 years, I found that everyone was trapped outside the Celestial Gate, just like me! It was not our lack of talent but this planet not allowing the Celestial Gate."
Qin Wenwu said leisurely.
"When others discovered this, most chose to hide and wait for the opportunity, but I refused to accept it. I traveled the world, seeking methods and never yielded to the heavens. Since the heavens do not allow me to walk the path of the Celestial Gate, I shall find another way!"
Qin Wenwu slowly opened his hand and lifted his sleeve.
On his arm, strange and mysterious runes were engraved.
These runes were both ancient and modern, both Eastern and Western.
So that’s how it is.
Lin Beichen looked thoughtfully at Qin Wenwu.
His current strength was due to trying all ancient and modern secret techniques.
"Your determination is commendable, worth my serious consideration."
Lin Beichen said faintly, his fingers coming together to form a sword, the fierce sword light transforming into a dragon.
Qin Wenwu’s hands turned into weapons, and as he danced his arms, the various runes on his arm emitted different brilliance.
The various brilliance flowed and fused, eventually forming a mass of ice qi in his palm.
The spiritual qi moved mountains and rivers. The water of Jiangnan Water Village was soft and delicate, but in Qin Wenwu’s hands, it all turned into ice killing qi, like billions of flying knives, easily shattering people.
Yet facing such terrifying attacks, Lin Beichen’s hand merely flashed with spiritual light, his fingertips lightly waved, and the ice in the world turned into faint spiritual light, dispersing into nothingness.
"Impossible!"
Qin Wenwu exclaimed, staring at Lin Beichen.
Under his feet, the spiritual light surged, a hand shadow swirled in the void, and the ice was instantly severed, the water separating to reveal the muddy lake bed.
"You only know the Celestial Gate has opened, but not its operational methods! You merged various strengths, finally reaching the Celestial Gate. In the old era, your courage was commendable, your methods exquisite, but I must say, in the new era, your methods are too cumbersome and outdated."
Lin Beichen said unceremoniously, the cyan spiritual light in his hand gradually turning earth yellow.
"I use the Power of Withered and Flourishing to mobilize the Five Elements Qi; just by transforming Wood Spiritual Qi into Earth Spiritual Qi, then use the law of mutual generation and restraint of the Five Elements to activate divine techniques."