Absolute Choice 4

by Pear Lands In The Autumn Spring

  Where was the air?

  Sunless turned to look into Mu Yuesheng's eyes. She remained expressionless, but this did not mean she barred people from her shell, she was just inept at producing any expressions. Just like her voice, it was clear that she was just inept at speaking when one heard her.

  "Super...power."

  Sunless softly said the word before turning to leave. She did not even look back.

  Mu Yuesheng pondered for a few moments before realizing what had happened. A wry smile hung across the corner of her lips. This girl...was a nemesis she was helpless against.

  ...

  By the side of the arena, the elderly God of Swords and One-Pun were standing side by side. The God of Swords shook his head and sighed. His expression looked as though he felt a tinge of pity.

  "This child is very good and is a talent that can be molded. However, meeting Sunless is like a mouse meeting a cat. She had no means of resisting. Unfortunately, you won't have the chance to witness Sunless's sword techniques for now."

  Although the elderly God of Swords sighed, the smile on his face was filled with pride and smugness.

  One-Pun was silent before saying moments later, "If I'm not wrong, Sunless's superpower...has something to do with air?"

  The elderly God of Swords immediately grinned and said with a laugh, "Vacuum!"

  One-Pun shook his head with a wry smile and was unsure of his words.

  A vacuum's resistance was nearly infinitely large. Extremely high voltage was needed to cause a dielectric breakdown. With Mu Yuesheng's present strength, how was it possible for her electric bolts to traverse a vacuum?

  It was no wonder that in front of Sunless, Mu Yuesheng's electric bolts would instantly dissipate. She was a natural nemesis of Mu Yuesheng.

  ...

  The audience discussed the short but exciting fight amidst warm applause. There was no lack of speculations, and the members of the audience who were in the dark had deified Sunless's sword technique. They believed Sunless could slash apart electric beams, and they placed her on a divine pedestal.

  The three-minute interval in between the battles quickly ended the lively discussion.

  When Heartless walked into the arena, the audience spontaneously quietened down. The seventh battle of the battle exchange was about to begin, and it was also the final battle.

  Similarly, this was also the battle the audience looked forward to the most.

  It was not because the battle would be greatly fascinating, but because Heartless had declared that he would finish the battle within three seconds. This meant that they had a chance of seeing Heartless using his full strength.

  At this moment, a burly figure walked out from the other passageway. That savage face was still as frightening as ever, but after the pre-battle declaration segment, the audience had confused thoughts over the blockhead's aggressive looks but kind personality.

  Ye Jiaquan walked into the arena and faced Heartless from afar.

  "Long time no see."

  Ye Jiaquan looked at Heartless and scratched his head, as though he was a bashful large kid.

  Heartless remained expressionless, but his eyes were cold. He said coldly, "I never expected that after so many years, you are still trash."

  When the audience heard this sentence, they immediately quietened down.

  What was the situation? The two of them knew each other from before?

  At this moment, a cold beam of light flashed past. It was a silver sword that emitted a clangorous sound when it struck the ground in front of Ye Jiaquan.

  As the audience looked at the silver sword, their eyes widened.

  This sword...

  Wasn't this Sunless's sword?

  ...

  Outside the stadium, a hurtling figure came to a halt just before it hit the stadium walls.

  He took a few steps back. His expression looked calm, but his eyes looked cold.

  "This King is here."

  ...

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  Chapter196 The Former Child Prodigy

  The silver sword vibrated for a moment after it stabbed into the steel floor before slowly coming to a stop. The clear, loud hum reverberated before dulling.

  Everyone was shocked when they saw this sword because the silver sword had a purplish-gold hilt. Its blade was carved with dragon patterns and it was identified at a single glance that this was Sunless's purplish-gold silver dragon sword.

  And the sword had darted over and stabbed into the ground directly in front of Ye Jiaquan.

  Everyone quickly turned their heads to the origin of the flying sword and saw an azure-dressed person standing at the entrance to a passageway, in the intersection of shadows and light. It was none other than Sunless. However, the shadows were masking her looks, so it was unknown what her expression was. There was no way to guess at her intentions as to why she sent her beloved sword darting over.

  Suddenly, while everyone was still steeped in shocked, a gentle voice resounded. The voice was delicate, as though it was a winter's sunlight which was soft and non-glaring. It was not cold, but it wasn't entirely warm. It was if it had a tiny bit of cautious desire.

  "Brother, are you using a sword?"

  This voice was very soft, but with every member of the audience turning silent, there were still many people who heard this.

  Everyone who heard this revealed surprised looks because the voice came from the passageway and was evidently Sunless's voice. However, her question was puzzling. Sunless's purplish-gold silver dragon sword was right in front of the blockhead's body, but she had asked Heartless if he was using a sword?

  And at this moment, Heartless suddenly spoke. His voice was cold like a sword's blade. "Pull the sword out, Ye Youtian."

  Heartless said those words apparently to the simpleton with ruthless looks but a kind heart. And Heartless had called him "Ye Youtian"?

  Who was Ye Youtian?

  Why did this name sound somewhat familiar?

  Many members of the audience seemed to have doubts in their minds flash when they heard this name.

  "Ye Youtian...Could it be that Ye Youtian?" Suddenly said with an exclamation.

  The audience stands quickly burst into a flurry of discussions.

  "Ah, I remember. Isn't Ye Youtian...the eldest son of the Ye family?"

  "Oh...Ye Youtian from a decade ago?"

  "Heavens, this blockhead is that Ye Youtian?"

  "That's right. That Ye Youtian is Heartless and Sunless's elder brother. Since Sunless called the blockhead 'Ye Youtian', this Ye Youtian must be that Ye Youtian."

  "..."

  All sorts of gasps and startled voices resounded as the audience stands immediately turned into a cacophony.

  At a particular seat, a seven-year-old boy tugged at the sleeves of a man beside him and asked curiously, "Daddy, Daddy, who is the Ye Youtian they are talking about?"

  The man turned his head and stroked the boy's head and said, "This Ye Youtian was a child prodigy known throughout the country a decade ago. At a young age, he had attained a certain level of sword arts. At the age of six, he was invited to Heroes Central's Spring Festival Gala to perform his swordplay. It had caused quite a sensation."

  The boy exclaimed loudly, "Wow, that's amazing!"

  They man used a tone with slight regretfulness as he said, "But unfortunately, for some reason, the child prodigy suddenly turned average after the age of seven. Not only was his sword arts gradually surpassed by his younger brother and sister, who were one year younger than him, even his psionic cultivation was gradually surpassed by his peers. Back then, people said that Ye Youtian was being placed on too high a pedestal that he became overly conceited and became lazy towards cultivation. This resulted in him becoming mediocre. Many people would use Ye Youtian's story to warn their children against being too carried away because of a momentary lead. Therefore, Ye Youtian's story became well known. Later on, it was s
aid that Ye Youtian left the Ye family and his whereabouts were left unknown. Only then did everyone slowly forget this name."

  The boy's eyes were filled with confusion.

  The man rubbed the boy on the head and said, "Child, a child prodigy who doesn't work hard will become mediocre. So, you must remember that hard work is most important."

  Most of the audience present had heard of Ye Youtian's story. After all, this story had happened in the past decade and had profound educative value. A child prodigy like Ye Youtian was like a fleeting comet and was like a short-lived epiphyllum. As for the reason, it was likely an intriguing and thought-provoking story.

  As the audience discussed amongst themselves, they finally untangled the situation that had happened.

  The reason why Heartless had suddenly offered to "feeding a hundred Psionic Condensing Pills to the pigs" for personal reasons was because he had seen Ye Youtian.

  The reason why Sunless threw her sword over and said, "Brother, are you using a sword" was because she was addressing her other brother, Ye Youtian.

  However, from her affectionate form of address, it appeared as though his younger sister, Sunless, still had deep affections for Ye Youtian. However, the younger brother, Heartless, had a cold attitude. His tone was as sharp as a blade, as though he detested Ye Youtian greatly. What was going on?

  And why did the former child prodigy, Ye Youtian, look like this? And why did he appear in Gaia?

  The Annihilation division rookies who knew Ye Jiaquan were taken aback. They never expected that Ye Jiaquan, the honest and silly simpleton was previously one of the three sons of the Ye family, the famous child prodigy, Ye Youtian.

  As the audience broke out into a flurry of discussion, all their attention was focused on the savage looking but honest sounding simpleton, Ye Jiaquan.

  ...

  ...

  Sunless asked, "Brother, are you using a sword?"

  Heartless said, "Pull the sword out, Ye Youtian."

  Ye Jiaquan's honest looking expression slowly disappeared. As he looked at the purplish-golden silver dragon sword in front of him, his eyes glazed over, as though he was immersed in distant thoughts.

  Heartless' eyebrows gradually knitted together. It was unknown if it was because of the unkind chatter or it was because his patience had worn out.

  Heartless coldly said, "Ye Youtian, do you not even have the courage to pull the sword out?"

  Ye Jiaquan turned his head to look at Heartless and had a gloomy expression. He said, "Me is not named Ye Youtian, Me is named...Ye Jiaquan."

  Heartless' face turned even colder when he heard this as he sneered, "Ye Jiaquan, what a nice Ye Jiaquan. Is this the excuse you are using to escape from reality?"

  Ye Jiaquan gaped his mouth and met him with silence.

  Heartless coldly snorted and said, "It looks like you have completely lost the courage to hold a sword. Fine, since you have changed your name to Ye Jiaquan, let me see to what extent your cultivation in the fist technique that the Ye family has long abandoned has reached."

  The Ye family were like other family clans that adhered to the tradition of the "era of punches and kicks", and was famous for it's Ye family fist techniques. However, now with the society having progressed into the "era of weapons", the Ye family was gradually replacing fist techniques with sword arts.

  Hence, from Heartless's point of view, Ye Youtian had changed his name to Ye Jiaquan and was using the Ye Family Fist technique as a shield for him to escape from reality.

  However, in order to escape from his former shell as a sword prodigy, he had gradually disappeared into the crowd, resulting in the brutal reality of being slowly surpassed by his younger brother and sister.

  "Let us begin."

  Heartless looked at the elderly God of Swords and said, "There is nothing more to say between us."

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  Chapter197 A Crush from a Single Sword Strike

  Heartless requested for the elderly God of Swords to begin the match, while Ye Jiaquan remained silent.

  This intriguing dialogue thus came to an end. Most of the audience could read in between the lines, but they found it incomprehensible why Heartless was so repulsed by his elder brother.

  There was a story unknown to all that had presumably happened?

  The audience failed to guess at the truth, so they could only focus their attention on the battle that was about to proceed.

  Super rookie, Heartless against the former child prodigy, Ye Youtian. It was both a competition between former and present geniuses, and also a showdown between brothers.

  Regardless of the case, this was a battle not to be missed.

  Before the battle even begun, Heartless had pulled out the black sword behind his back.

  The black sword was jet black, but it had a metallic luster to it. Its hilt was similarly black in color, hence, the sword did not possess any color except black. The black blade appeared somewhat odd, as though it was a heavy blunt sword, but appeared to be extremely sharp that led to instant death.

  Heartless had already drawn his sword, but Ye Jiaquan did not pull out the purplish-gold silver dragon sword in front of him. Instead, he took a step past the sword and clenched his fists.

  At the passageway, Sunless's bright eyes gradually lost their luster. That beautiful face with a deadpan expression revealed an undetectable hint of melancholy.

  The elderly God of Swords glanced at Ye Jiaquan and felt somewhat regretful. He had previously heard of the former sword arts prodigy as well, and had even thought of taking him in as a disciple. But before he managed to do so, he heard of news that the child prodigy was no more.

  The matter was very sudden, and it was unimaginable how a talented prodigy would suddenly become like a normal child. The elderly God of Swords did not believe it was a result of laziness, but he did not have the mind to investigate the mystery behind the matter back then. And now, it was already a little too late to consider it.

  "Three, two, one..."

  The elderly God of Swords sighed. There were numerous geniuses in the world, but the ones who could eventually dazzle were few in number. However, everything in life depended not on the heavens but on people.

  "Begin!"

  The elderly God of Swords retreated and the battle began!

  The audience held their breaths. They did not even dare blink because Heartless had previously declared before the match that he would end the battle within three seconds.

  In that case, the battle would hardly last more than three seconds!

  The moment the elderly God of Swords' declared the commencement of the battle, Heartless raised his black sword high into the sky. Black mists suddenly rose up from the ground. They were not dense, but they crawled up from the ground like vines, and rapidly reached the black sword's blade.

  The audience was astonished. Heartless was planning to end the battle with a single strike a hundred meters away?

  Even more surprising was Ye Jiaquan. At this moment, he was in a hunched stance and he had curled his right arm, as though he was planning to punch out.

  He was planning on using a fist to meet a sword?

  Heartless' eyes were cold, as a cold sneer suffused across his lips.

  "Heaven Shrouding Eclipse!"

  Heartless slashed out.

  A humongous black sword projection fell from the sky as it shrouded the heavens. The sword projected exuded a terrifying aura as it crushed down at Ye Jiaquan. It was as if a gigantic black mountain came crashing down from the sky!

  The audience gasped. From a distance, the audience could sense the immense sword energy and terrifying power from the gigantic sword projection. This strike exceeded the Psionic Mortal Realm, so was Heartless putting all his strength into this strike?

  Against the sword projection that seemed to crush down like a mountain, Ye Jiaquan did not dodge, nor did he raise a psionic defense. Instead, with a bello
w, he punched out at the black sword projection!

  His punch was simple, and when it punched out, there were only a few air ripples. Compared to the Heaven Shrouding Eclipse's expansive power, it was like a drop in the bucket.

  Was Ye Jiaquan using such a "weak" punch to withstand such a terrifying sword projection?

  Some people stared at the arena widely, afraid of missing the upcoming instant. There were also others who closed their eyes as they could not bear witnessing this scene that resembled an egg striking a rock.

  Ye Jiaquan's punch struck that towering sword projection that contained immense sword energy!

  "Boom!"

  A deafening explosion thundered as the punch struck the black sword projection and dissipated immediately. The crushing black sword projection instantly engulfed Ye Jiaquan, as the black sword projection hit the ground like a waterfall at its end. Black water petals splashed upwards, each containing razor-sharp sword energy. They lacerated the ground with sword scars of varying depths.

  "Ah!"

  The audience exclaimed!

  This sword projection was like surging sword energy. Wouldn't Ye Youtian be mashed into meat pulp after being engulfed by such a sword projection?

  The audience held their breaths as they stared at the fading black sword projection, afraid that they would see a mess of flesh and blood.

  Slowly, the black shadow dissipated and revealed the true situation under the black shadow. The audience gradually heaved a sigh of relief.

  His Excellency One-Pun had already appeared in the sword shadow, while Ye Youtian had his eyes tightly closed. His clothes were completely tattered, and there were a few light lacerations on his arm. However, he had been knocked unconscious by the suppressive power of the sword projection. Under His Excellency One-Pun's protection, he escaped the blade energy without serious injuries.

  Thankfully, the referee for this match was His Excellency One-Pun!

  "Zeus wins."

  The elderly God of Swords declared the outcome of the battle.

  Only then did the audience come round. It was over. Heartless had won. Although it was something to be expected, they were still astonished by the terror of that one strike!