Martial Hero Rebirth

Chapter 11: Sword Arts Upgraded

The third day.

After two days in high fermentation, Lin Yi's challenge towards the ranks of one hundred strongest new disciples had attracted the whole batch of new disciples, causing even more onlookers to come and watch the battle. On the rocks, on the roofs, on the grounds, on the trees

All of those places were filled with people.

"Lin Yi has come to challenge!"

Lin Yi had appeared on time, stirring up a ruckus!

The expression of all the remaining sixty rankers darkened!

"I accept your challenge!"

The sixtieth ranker walked out of his courtyard. He took a step forward, holding his sword.

The two of them unsheathed their swords and clashed against each other.

Compared to the sixtieth ranker who was going all out, Lin Yi seemed to be very relaxed.

At the tenth courtyard, the top ten seats among ten thousand new disciples gathered together. They were watching the battle between those two and frowned their brows slightly.

"Completely unable to see the limits of his strength!"

"His combat experience is extremely rich. Compared to him, his opponent is like a naive child. They are simply not people of the same level!"

"The moves he executed are all the moves from Basic Swords Arts. Stab, chop, sweep, poke, cut. Though they are all simple moves, yet he could utilize them perfectly, achieving his purpose accurately."

"Did you all notice? Everytime he'd wait until his opponents used up their moves before he'd retaliate. Furthermore, he only needed one strike to finish off his opponents! That's to say, if he really wished to, he only needed one move to kill his opponents!"

"How horrifying! His strength is simply unfathomable! It's unknown why someone with his strength would want to challenge starting from the hundredth seat? Why don't he just start with top ten seats?"

"Don't understand and can't guess it either! Probably he has other purposes!"

The top ten rankers discussed among themselves, with worried looks on their faces. Han Bai who was listening on the side was irritated. The current him didn't have the previous mood of watching leisurely anymore.

Initially he thought this Lin Yi who popped up out of nowhere suddenly was too far from him and wouldn't pose a threat to him. However, after the last forty seats of one hundred strongest new disciples were defeated consecutively in two days, he started to fear this person.

Other than fear, he also felt a tinge of excitement. Finally he met a real opponent!

"And I thought no one could stop me among my peers. I never thought a Lin Yi would appear suddenly. The days from now on will be not boring anymore!" Han Bai thought secretly.

He strolled around while watching the battle. Seeing Lin Yi who was easily dealing with his opponent, he frowned his brows, "He could have just defeat them with a single strike. Why is he doing this?"

He couldn't understand the reason for Lin Yi's action at all.

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Everyone could see that the outcome of the sixtieth ranker was the same with the previous forty people.

After the sixtieth ranker used up all his moves, Lin Yi finally made his move and his sword was already on the shoulder of his opponent soon after.

"I lost!" The sixtieth ranker, with a serene look, conceded directly.

Lin Yi had waited for him to use up all his moves before defeating him made him felt grateful.

After observing for two days, he had long known he wasn't Lin Yi's opponent. He had soon predicted this kind of outcome, so he didn't feel too frustrated.

It was the same with the competition to determine the ranks of one hundred strongest new disciples. Previously, Han Bai with his unstoppable strength defeated every last one of them. This feeling of unable to fight back was the same as back then.

Since they were unable to fight back, then they should accept this kind of outcome willingly.

"Your moves are not bad. You have reached the peak of novice stage. What you should do next is to break down the eleven moves of Huashan Swordplay. Understand well their each characteristics, find out which move should be used in which situation, and reach the state of owning both offensive and defensive simultaneously. By then, your Huashan Swordplay will have reached intermediate stage!"

According to his rules, Lin Yi gave out his reviews and suggestions.

"Thanks, Senior Brother Lin!"

"No need to, challenge may be challenge. But after challenge ends, we are still fellow disciples. Helping each other is a must!"

Lin Yi shook his head slightly and smiled. This made the sixtieth ranker filled with myriad of feelings. He gazed at Lin Yi with gratefulness, then he thought in his heart, "Seems like it's not a bad thing if Senior Brother Lin Yi managed to win the first seat!"

Having defeated the sixtieth ranker and obtained another 1,000 combat experience points made Lin Yi smiled even more.

"Lin Yi has come to challenge!"

"I accept your challenge!"

The fifty-ninth ranker went up on the stage and the battle started.

Unsurprisingly, a few minutes later, after the fifty-ninth had used up all his moves, Lin Yi defeated him in one move.

The fifty-ninth ranker was defeated!

"Lin Yi has come to challenge!"

The fifty-eighth ranker went up on the stage!

Lin Yi's issues of challenge reverberated throughout all the courtyards.

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Those challenged by him were defeated one after another.

The top ten rankers' facial expressions became uglier as time passed. The sweat on their foreheads fell down akin to rain.

"Too strong, simply unstoppable!"

"I seem to have seen the scene where he defeated me!"

"Me too."

The top ten seats could be said the top existences within the hearts of ten thousand new disciples. Each of them were confident in their own abilities. However, after they had seen Lin Yi, they couldn't help but admitted this fact.

Lin Yi was stronger than them!

Though it wasn't their turn to battle yet.

"I wonder if Han Bai can block Lin Yi's advance?"

"Maybe yes, maybe not."

"I think it's hard. Though Han Bai is a genius, but this Lin Yi is too unfathomable. His combat experience is simply too rich, unlike someone of fifteen or sixteen years old. I wonder how did he grow up. It can't that he grew up under constant killings, right?"

"That's right. His combat experience practically can drive people to desperation! He know how to use the simplest move to block, how to dodge, and how to counter the best! This kind of person shouldn't be someone in our groups of new disciples!"

"It's weird. Why is someone as strong as him is not accepted into the upper courtyard?"

Though the discussions by the top ten rankers' were held in whispers to prevent Han Bai from listening, but with Han Bai's strength and keen hearing, he was able to listen to their words clearly. His face showed traces of anger. Though he feared Lin Yi, but he didn't want the others to misunderstand that he, Han Bai, wasn't Lin Yi's opponent!

"Hmph, however rich combat experience he has, in the face of absolute strength, he will still be crushed!" Han Bai snorted angrily. It made the others felt a shiver in their heart. They shrunk their heads and didn't dare to utter a single word.

Glancing coldly at these people, Han Bai moved his sight towards the battle and clenched his fists.

"Lin Yi, I look forward to battle with you, so that everyone will be able to see who is the real number one!"

"I, Han Bai, will surely let you return with bleeding, cracked head!"

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"Wow!"

"He defeated another one. This is the fifteenth already, right? Senior Brother Lin Yi is too powerful. After fighting so long, doesn't he get tired?"

"Hey, didn't you know? Senior Brother Lin Yi wouldn't let it go without defeating twenty people a day!"

"This is pitting himself against the entire ranks of one hundred strongest new disciples!"

"Senior Brother Lin Yi is really like a god!"

Seeing his opponents got defeated one after another, the onlookers went into an uproar and felt their blood boiling. They said aloud whatever they wanted to, completely unafraid of the stirring up things.

After fighting for the entire morning, Lin Yi finally defeated the forty-first ranker!

Quest Rewards : Defeated the forty-first seat of one hundred Huashan's strongest new disciples. Awarded 1,000 combat experience points.

System Notification

Completed his mission of defeating twenty seats and obtaining twenty thousand combat experience points, Lin Yi took a breath, seemingly a bit tired.

The further he challenged the ranks of one hundred strongest new disciples, the more tiring a battle was. It was because, the higher someone's rank, the better their means would be. After waiting for them to unleash all their abilities, Lin Yi would be more tired.

However, for combat experience points and the seat of head disciple.

No matter how hard or tiring, it was all worth it.

Seeing the experience value on attributes panel, Lin Yi suddenly felt his fatigue had been swept away!

Experience : 64,200

System Notification

He took a look at the martial arts panel next.

Huashan's Fist Arts (Silver Grade) : Intermediate Stage +20 attack, next stage (Advanced Stage), 50,000 combat experience points needed.

Huashan's Arts of Lightness (Silver Grade) : Intermediate Stage +20 attack, next stage (Advanced Stage), 50,000 combat experience points needed.

Huashan Swordplay (Silver Grade) : Intermediate Stage +20 attack, next stage (Advanced Stage), 50,000 combat experience points needed.

System Notification

After some thoughts, Lin Yi upgraded his Huashan Swordplay.

Successfully upgraded Huashan Swordplay!

System Notification

Boom!

He suddenly felt a loud noise in his mind. Endless information on Huashan Swordplay entered his mind. These were all the essences of Huashan Swordplay, including how to use the moves in advanced stage better.

Huashan Swordplay (Silver Grade) : Advanced Stage +30 attack, next stage (Perfection Stage), 100,000 combat experience points needed.

System Notification

He displayed the attributes panel.

Note : Attribute bonuses will be chosen from the highest value from each discipline

Blade Skills : Basic Blade Arts (Iron Grade)(Intermediate Stage)attack+10

Bare-handed Skills : Huashan's Fist Arts (Silver Grade)(Intermediate Stage)attack+20

Movement Skills : Huashan's Arts of Lightness (Silver Grade)(Intermediate Stage)speed+20, Basic Arts of Lightness (Iron Grade)(Intermediate Stage)speed+10

Sword Skills : Huashan Swordplay (Silver Grade)(Advanced Stage)attack+30

Internal Strength : none

Speed : 30 (Huashan's Arts of Lightness+20)

Defense : 10

Attack : 40 (Huashan Swordplay+30)

Status : Lin Zhilong's son, Huashan's lower courtyard's disciple

Name : Lin Yi

System Notification

Looking at the significant increase in his strength, Lin Yi was filled with a sense of accomplishment. Basic attack had reached 40 points. Compared to 70 points which was publicly recognized as the standard of third-rate experts, he wasn't that far away.

Coupled with 150% bonus from the usage of Huashan Swordplay, a martial arts of silver grade, meant that his attack could reach 60 points when he executed Huashan Swordplay! If he had used another weapon with +10 attack, he could even pose a threat to a third-rate experts.

Naturally, he only posed as a threat.

To be able to become a third-rate expert, the first way was to have internal strength and cleared few out of twelve standard meridians, causing attributes to grow up in folds. The second way would be to train in exceptional martial arts of purple grade to advanced stage, which then would reach 70 attack points just right.

No matter which one, none of them were someone the current Lin Yi could beat.

The pugilistic world has it, if one didn't train in internal strength, one would always remain as an ungraded martial artists!

*note: you may notice that Basic Fist Strikes is not there, the raw didn't have it so i didn't add it either.