Chapter 0522 Tyrant Sword Arcane Art

Chapter 0522: Dominating Sword Arcane Art

At night, Qin Yun paced restlessly in the hall while Yue Wulan and Tian Ruoleng sat quietly drinking tea.

Late into the night, Hu Jingxian arrived, clad in white robes with a translucent veil covering her face.

Earlier in the evening, Qin Yun had learned that the Long and Yang families had increased the bounty on them, dead set on finishing them off here.

"Hu Jingxian, I apologize for troubling you to come so late!" Qin Yun had contacted Hu Jingxian, who was nearby, through the Hero's Blade.

"The bounty notice you entrusted me to issue has already been posted," Hu Jingxian said with a light smile. "The response should be strong!"

"I want to increase the bounty! Whoever brings me the heads of the Long or Yang family heads will receive two relic Dao Artifacts—both legendary ancient Dao Artifacts!" Qin Yun then took out four Dao Artifacts, all weapons, including swords, blades, and spears.

Hu Jingxian's eyes gleamed with astonishment as she gazed at the four Dao Artifacts.

After carefully inspecting them, she confirmed they were indeed authentic ancient Dao Artifacts.

"Good! I'll act immediately and ensure this news spreads across Proudstar Continent by tomorrow morning!" With that, Hu Jingxian departed at once.

Qin Yun knew that killing those two family heads wouldn’t be easy.

His actions were meant to show the Long and Yang families that he, Qin Yun, was not to be messed with.

Moreover, he wanted to drag these two great families into terror!

It must be said that Hu Jingxian acted swiftly.

Using message transmission talismans and Demonmoon Island’s information network, she spread the bounty notices to many major cities overnight.

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By dawn, many disciples in the Blade and Sword Villa were still shocked by the audacious move of the Long and Yang families increasing the bounty on Qin Yun, Tian Ruoleng, and Yue Wulan.

But as soon as they woke up, they learned that Qin Yun had also raised his bounty—putting up four relic Dao Artifacts as bounty for the heads of the two family heads!

And all of them were legendary ancient Dao Artifacts!

The news was released by Demonmoon Island, and the Dao Artifacts had been verified by the island’s elders as authentic ancient artifacts.

The runes on these ancient Dao Artifacts were ancient, making them superior to many contemporary Dao Artifacts.

Additionally, they held significant research value, making them fiercely coveted by Mystic Rune Masters.

If something caught the eye of a Mystic Rune Master, they would spare no effort to obtain it!

But what truly sent people into a frenzy was that Qin Yun had also increased the rewards for bounties on the disciples of the Long and Yang families!

Anyone who took out a disciple from either family during battlefield confrontations would receive two mystical weapons!

Many had assumed that Qin Yun, having offended the Long and Yang families—two of the Five Great Clans—was in for a world of hurt.

But now, it seemed the Long and Yang families were the ones sweating.

The consequences of offending Qin Yun are also severe!

Qin Yun wanted precisely this effect—to instill fear in the Yang and Long families!

A new day arrived, marking the second day of the siege warfare.

In the morning, another round of defensive battle began!

Qin Yun, Tian Ruoleng, and Yue Wulan, clad in black robes and radiating energy, stood within the barrier-enclosed arena.

They kept their eyes fixed on the courtyard entrance, awaiting the sword academy that would attack today.

Soon enough, a group of white-robed figures appeared!

The arriving sword academy was named the Celestial Sword Academy, consisting of eight members, all appearing middle-aged!

The Celestial Sword Academy belonged to the premier institutes. Rising from a lower-tier to a premier academy took an extremely long time—sometimes even a century—and was grueling.

Those who failed to break through to the Spirit Martial Realm within a hundred years would inevitably age into middle-aged appearances.

The crowd gathered to watch this morning was even larger than the previous afternoon!

Most were from the Miraculous Patterns Hall, the Alchemy Hall, and the Elder Hall.

Particularly from the Elder Hall—the Long and Yang families' elders had arrived, two wrinkled old men.

As soon as they entered, their eyes burning with murderous intent fixed on Tian Ruoleng, Qin Yun, and Yue Wulan!

"The Celestial Sword Academy is a near-Royal Institute because they have a Martial Master among them!" Dao Fan spat in a low voice. "Among them is a man named Long Yufan, who recently broke through to the Spirit Martial Realm!"

A sword academy with a Martial Master was indeed formidable!

Qin Yun said, "A Martial Master who just entered the Spirit Martial Realm is no match for us. We will definitely hold our defense."

To succeed in the attack, they had to defeat all three of them before the incense burns out.

Among the Celestial Sword Academy members was a square-jawed man with an arrogant demeanor—clearly Long Yufan.

"You three miserable curs, for killing our Long family disciples, today I, a member of the Long family, shall end you!" Long Yufan's icy voice snarled as a terrifying dragon's might surged from his body.

Dragon Blood Inheritance!

Qin Yun felt a jolt of surprise but didn't flinch.

No matter how strong the Dragon Blood Inheritance was, without proper coordination with totems and mastery of its use, its power would remain severely limited.

"You bastard, watch your filthy mouth!" Tian Ruoleng snapped.

"Tian Ruoleng, Yue Wulan, you two sluts! To obtain Qin Yun's Dao Artifacts, you whored yourselves out and colluded with him!" Long Yufan taunted.

"Nonsense! Your Long family is clearly jealous of our Yue and Tian families!" Yue Wulan chimed in mockingly. "Long Yufan, you pathetic wretch! Even as a Martial Master, you don’t own a single Dao Artifact."

Tian Ruoleng mocked, "Long Yufan, if you want a Dao Artifact, I can show you the way—just chop off your family head’s turtle head and hand it to us!"

"Yes, yes! Kill your family head, and you’ll get two ancient Dao Artifacts!" Yue Wulan chimed in mockingly. "Hurry now, don’t waste time here. If you’re too slow, someone else might beat you to it!"

Long Yufan’s face darkened with fury, his eye twitching.

An elder in golden robes shouted, "Yufan, they'll pay for this soon enough!"

Long Yufan thought it would soon be his turn to attack, so he quickly cooled off.

"Tian Ruoleng, wanna make a bet?" Long Yufan suppressed his rage and eyed the beautiful white Frostcloud Blade.

"We won't waste time betting with you! Yang Mutian was just a total sore loser! You're all cut from the same cloth!" Yue Wulan scoffed lightly.

"If you want to bet, we can entrust the stakes to Xiong Dao. We take the prize from him if we win!" the golden-robed elder from the Long family said.

Clearly, the Longs had planned to win something during this round of attack.

"What are you betting?" Qin Yun asked.

"Your ancient Dao Artifact! If you fail to defend, you lose—one ancient Dao Artifact to us!"

Long Yufan's eyes lit up, like they'd already won.

"And if your attack fails?" Tian Ruoleng countered.

"I'm a damn Martial Master—what chance do you have? Hahaha..." Long Yufan laughed loudly. "But if we do lose, we'll give you a billion purple crystal coins!"

"A billion purple crystal coins?" Qin Yun chuckled. "You think I'm stupid? Cut the crap—let's fight!"

"Five billion!" the Long family elder yelled.

Qin Yun didn't blink.

"Ten billion!" the elder yelled again.

"Fifteen billion!" Qin Yun sneered. "Too cheap to go fifteen?"

Though Qin Yun had previously obtained over seven billion purple crystal coins, various expenses had whittled it down to around three billion.

"Fifteen billion it is!" The Long family elder ground out.

Qin Yun took out an ancient Dao Artifact sword and handed it to Xiong Dao.

The Long family elder also produced a purple crystal card and transferred fifteen billion coins to Xiong Dao.

Everyone's eyes locked onto the Dao Artifact!

The elders here, at most at the peak of the Spirit Martial Realm, were dying to get a Dao Artifact.

Swordblade Manor originally had Mystic Rune Masters, but they had all gone off to immortal sects.

Even if they had Mystic Rune Masters, scoring Dao Artifacts would still be tough.

To many, Qin Yun's purple crystal coins were worth a king's ransom, but he himself felt it wasn't enough.

If he needed to purchase materials or activate grand formations in the future, the coins could be spent quickly.

So whenever he had the chance, he needed to grab more purple crystal coins.

Plenty eyed the Long family elder with envy.

With Long Yufan, a Spirit Martial Realm Martial Master, present, he'd wipe the floor with Qin Yun, Tian Ruoleng, and Yue Wulan.

Even Xiong Dao was a little nervous that Qin Yun's crew might take the L!

"Alright, begin!" Xiong Dao shouted.

In the Celestial Sword Academy, Long Yufan was the undisputed leader, and the others followed his every order.

There were eight of them in total, and now they were focusing their assault on Tian Ruoleng!

Long Yufan indeed had a plan—instead of splitting their forces to attack all three, they concentrated their fire on Tian Ruoleng first!

They intended to take them down one by one!

Qin Yun and Yue Wulan naturally wouldn’t let them succeed and quickly moved to Tian Ruoleng’s side to shoulder the burden.

Long Yufan bellowed in fury, "Then I’ll cripple all of you together!"

As he spoke, a surge of purple-gold light suddenly radiated from the sword in his hand!

"It’s the Sword Martial Soul fused with the blade!"

"Long Yufan possesses the Purple-Gold Sword Martial Soul—born to walk the sword path!"

"The sword intent is truly terrifying—even through the barrier, you can feel it!"

"He’s using Primordial Dao Force!"

"It’s… the Dominator Sword Arcane Art!"

The crowd broke into astonished cries as they saw the sword in Long Yufan’s hand suddenly expand to colossal size before slashing violently toward Qin Yun and the other two.

Martial Soul-enhanced Arcane Arts, combined with Primordial Dao Force, were the most fearsome.

"All of you, go down—HAHAHAHA!"

Long Yufan’s laughter was filled with arrogance and triumph.

The purple-gold greatsword in his hand, now dozens of feet long, descended fiercely toward Qin Yun with his wild laughter!

Qin Yun’s expression turned grave, his brow furrowing as he swiftly activated his Quake Art.

He channeled seismic power, then controlled it to form a protective barrier enveloping all three of them.

Against an attack like Long Yufan’s, their dragonhide armor was utterly incapable of withstanding it.

KABOOM!

The greatsword struck, purple-gold light exploding outward as shockwaves surged violently.

A shrill sword howl echoed through the air!

The crowd recoiled in terror, their eyes snapping toward Qin Yun.

His veins bulged grotesquely; blood seeped from the corners of his mouth and eyes, while thin rivulets of blood trickled from the skin on his face.

Clearly, he had been wounded by the backlash.