The First Summoner - Chapter 68

Shen Xue lowered her head with a smile.

“Yes, Grandfather. Xue’er will not disappoint you or the elders.”

She looked at Shen Yan and leaped down.

“Since you wish to challenge me, I’ll accept. But if you lose, you must kneel and apologize to everyone in the Shen family. Do you agree?”

“Yes.”

Shen Yan answered without hesitation, then swept a sharp gaze over the family head and elders.

“When this duel ends, I expect to see Hongri and Yinyue. If I don’t, many people in the Shen family will die.”

The Grand Elder sneered. “You? Shen Yan, you’ve challenged the Shen family’s authority repeatedly. Don’t blame us for showing no mercy! Xue’er, teach her a vicious lesson! Cripple her cultivation, break every bone, and shatter her meridians!”

The other elders echoed him.

“Show no mercy!”

Shen Xue obediently agreed.

She looked at Shen Yan as if making a painful decision. “Sister Yan’er, your offense is too severe. As your older sister, I can only punish you on the family’s behalf. Don’t blame me for being cruel.”

Shen Yan scoffed at her hypocrisy.

What an actress.

Her fingers tightened around the Spirit Phoenix Divine Sword.

“Do you remember what I promised you, Shen Xue? Today, it comes true.”

Shen Xue’s expression changed.

Then Shen Yan moved.

She closed the distance with sword in hand. Startled, Shen Xue twisted aside, summoned her own sword, and stabbed at Shen Yan’s chest.

Clang!

The blades collided.

Their sword winds clashed, and Shen Xue was immediately forced onto the back foot. A gust cut her cheek and drew blood.

Anger rose in her eyes.

The Spirit Phoenix Divine Sword was enormously heavy. When Shen Yan swung again, it crushed toward her like hundreds of pounds of iron. The impact numbed and pained the web of Shen Xue’s hand, forcing her to stagger backward.

The crowd stared.

Shen Yan was suppressing Shen Xue?!

She pursued without pause. The divine sword moved like part of her body, astonishingly agile despite its weight. Combined with her strange movement technique, it drove Shen Xue back again and again.

Realizing she was losing, Shen Xue released the pressure of the ninth level of the Yellow-rank realm and poured spiritual power into her sword.

“Thunderclap Sword!”

A blade of lightning tore through the air toward Shen Yan.

Just as everyone expected it to strike, Shen Yan vanished.

She reappeared directly before Shen Xue, sword descending toward her head.

Shen Xue’s heart jumped. She blocked instinctively.

Clang—

The impact jarred both arms and twisted her face in pain.

“Is this all your strength?”

Shen Yan pressed down without mercy. As the edge neared Shen Xue’s head, she shouted, “Azure Wolf!”

An otherworldly beast appeared in midair and lunged at Shen Yan.

Shen Yan turned her wrist and slashed. The terrible edge struck the wolf in an instant and sent it crashing to the ground.

A bloody wound opened across its chest, and it howled in pain.

Its intervention allowed Shen Xue to escape the killing blow. Her face turned ugly when she saw her summoned beast defeated by one strike.

The spectators—and even the family head and elders—were stunned.

Shen Xue could not defeat Shen Yan?

Unable to see Shen Yan’s cultivation, Shen Xue appealed anxiously to the master residing within her.

“Master, what is her cultivation?”

The old man’s voice sounded in her sea of consciousness. “Even I cannot see through it. She must possess a treasure that conceals her realm. Xue’er, you cannot defeat her now.”

Shen Xue’s lips paled.

Impossible!

The Grand Elder shouted anxiously, “Xue’er, stop holding back!”

Shen Yan laughed coldly. “Holding back? There is no need. Shen Xue simply can’t defeat me!”

Her pride wounded, Shen Xue glared venomously and cast a summoning formation.

“Soul-Shocking Centipede, White-Mist Sparrow, Binding Tiger—appear!”

Three powerful beasts materialized, each around the ninth level of the Spirit rank. Their pressure forced the crowd half a step back.

They were enormous and far stronger than the Azure Wolf.

The result now seemed obvious.

Even if Shen Yan stood at the tenth level of the Yellow-rank realm, she could not defeat Shen Xue with three powerful beasts assisting her!

Confidence returned to Shen Xue.

“Surrender now, kneel, and kowtow to the Shen family. It isn’t too late.”

“Where does your confidence come from?”

Shen Xue’s face blackened.

“Then don’t blame me! Soul-Shocking Centipede, White-Mist Sparrow, Binding Tiger, Azure Wolf—attack!”

All four savage beasts charged beside her.

The Grand Elder smiled proudly. “Xue’er can summon four beasts slightly stronger than herself at once. Her summoning talent is exceptional!”

The family head relaxed. He had not judged her wrongly.

Summoned beasts were the Shen family’s foundation. A Summoner who could command powerful beasts was already remarkable; their own martial skill mattered little.

The elders watched proudly.

Then explosions erupted.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Their faces froze.

Powerful energy surrounded Shen Yan as she swung her sword. Several blades of gale struck Shen Xue and all four beasts. The sword energy left in their wounds exploded, throwing them to the ground.

Shen Yan flashed to Shen Xue’s side and stomped on her head.

Bang!

“Aaaah!”

Shen Xue screamed, terror twisting her beautiful face.

Shen Yan’s voice was cold as a blade.

“Everything you did to me, Shen Xue—I return it all today!”

Shen Xue’s pupils contracted, her heart filling with horror.

As Shen Yan raised her sword, the family head roared in panic.

“Stop, Shen Yan!”