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Chen Qingfeng remained calm upon seeing this.
Without hesitation, he flashed and chased after Ye Liuyun.
Before long, Chen Qingfeng caught up with Ye Liuyun and arrived at the outskirts of Kyoto.
At this moment, a full moon hung high in the sky, its cold light like frost, illuminating the entire wilderness in a stark white.
The withered grass condensed with dew, reflecting tiny silvery rays, as if the earth were draped in a layer of cold iron armor.
In the distance, the gnarled branches of an old tree cast a shadow like a ghostly claw in the moonlight.
A hundred paces away from Chen Qingfeng, Ye Liuyun's plain white robe fluttered without wind, and the flowing clouds embroidered with silver thread on the cuffs seemed to be actually moving.
The two stood facing each other.
Even the slightest night breeze stopped; the air was stagnant and oppressive, suffocatingly so.
At this moment, the crickets fell silent, and the owls did not cry.
The entire wilderness seemed to fall into a deathly silence.
After a moment of silence, Ye Liuyun spoke first:
"Being able to keep up with my speed shows that you have some ability."
"Chen Qingfeng!"
"When we fight later, feel free to do whatever you want. I've only come here to spar with you, and I certainly won't take your life."
Hearing Ye Liuyun's words...
Chen Qingfeng smiled calmly.
Naturally, he also noticed that Ye Liuyun had not sensed his strength.
After all, if his opponent were a grandmaster, Ye Liuyun would never have uttered such arrogant words.
However, Chen Qingfeng didn't mind and planned to play along with Ye Liuyun.
"Master Ye is too kind."
"This kid's strength is nothing to you."
As soon as Chen Qingfeng uttered these words, Ye Liuyun was startled:
"You...you recognized me?"
Chen Qingfeng smiled slightly and said:
"In this capital, it would be hard to find another person with such magnanimity besides Grandmaster Ye of the Flowing Cloud Dispersing Technique!"
Upon hearing Chen Qingfeng's reply, a strange light flashed in Ye Liuyun's eyes, and he was somewhat shocked.
The Chen Qingfeng he had heard of was not only a womanizer but also quite talented.
However, the brief encounter just now gave Ye Liuyun a feeling that Chen Qingfeng was probably not as simple as he seemed on the surface.
Neither Ye Liuyun nor Chen Qingfeng spoke again after that.
Under the moonlit night, they gazed at each other.
For a moment, Ye Liuyun slowly raised one hand, slid it up and down, palm facing outward.
With his hand still, he delivered a palm strike to Chen Qingfeng from a distance.
"boom!"
As the palm struck down, an invisible, terrifying aura rushed towards Chen Qingfeng.
As a grandmaster, one can already use the power of heaven and earth as a means of attack.
Chen Qingfeng saw this, his expression remained unchanged, and he waved his hand nonchalantly.
In less than a few breaths, the two invisible forces collided in mid-air.
"boom!"
Immediately following, a deafening roar resounded.
"Ok?"
Ye Liuyun was shocked when he saw this.
Although that palm strike just now didn't rely on much of the power of heaven and earth, its power was still immense. Even an ordinary seventh or eighth-grade martial artist would be injured if they took it head-on.
But Chen Qingfeng caught it so easily.
"He...he actually withstood my palm strike so easily?"
"Emperors are truly cunning!"
"That made his suspicions correct."
Ye Liuyun was shocked to see that Chen Qingfeng had easily withstood his attack.
"Chen Qingfeng."
"You've hidden it quite well."
"To be able to underestimate my attack, you must be at least an eighth or ninth-grade martial artist, right?"
"The world still thinks you're a playboy, but they never expected you to be hiding your talents and biding your time."
"Such concealment, could there be some scheme behind it?"
Upon hearing what Ye Liuyun said, Chen Qingfeng remained calm.
He knew very well that Ye Liuyun had lured him out tonight and asked to spar with him, which must have been at the behest of Emperor Qing to test him.
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"Master Ye".
"In Kyoto, if you can't learn how to hide yourself..."
"They're very likely to die young!"
As the saying goes, "A tree that stands out in the forest will be felled by the wind, and a person who excels above others will be criticized by the masses."
After hearing Chen Qingfeng's words, Ye Liuyun narrowed his eyes slightly and gained a new understanding of Chen Qingfeng.
After all, before this, his impression of Chen Qingfeng was nothing more than that of a playboy.
Although Fan Ruoruo revealed Chen Qingfeng's poems and essays to the public at the banquet in the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, shocking everyone present and earning the admiration of scholars from all over the world.
But in the eyes of Grandmaster Ye Liuyun.
Writing and painting, in the end, tends to be a bit pretentious.
But after only a brief test, he realized that Chen Qingfeng was far from what he had imagined.
Originally, Ye Liuyun would have been able to report back to Emperor Qing if he had discovered that Chen Qingfeng possessed martial arts strength of the eighth or ninth rank.
But he was not in a hurry to leave.
Chen Qingfeng's presence piqued his interest considerably.
I also want to see where his limits really are.
Thinking of this, Ye Liuyun smiled and said:
"Chen Qingfeng, I only used a small part of my strength in that attack just now."
"You'd better watch out for this next attack!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Liuyun waved his hand, and his internal energy rapidly increased and condensed!
This time, he didn't rely on the power of heaven and earth, but instead used his own Grandmaster-level internal energy to directly condense a blade of energy at his fingertips.
"go with!"
With a shout from Ye Liuyun, his arm suddenly swung.
"call out!"
The next moment, the blade of energy hovering at his fingertips shot straight towards Chen Qingfeng like a rainbow piercing the sky.
.........
"Zizi..."
The air blades flew through the air, making strange noises in the space, as if they were being sliced apart.
Chen Qingfeng remained unmoved upon seeing this.
Immediately afterwards, a flick of the finger revealed condensed true energy at the fingertip, which was then flicked towards the rapidly approaching energy blade.
"call out!"
"boom!"
After a brief pause, their attacks clashed again.
A terrifying explosion resounded, causing visible ripples in the night sky.
"what?"
Ye Liuyun was completely dumbfounded after seeing this scene.
The energy blade he just condensed could not be blocked by anyone less than a ninth-grade martial artist.
But judging from Chen Qingfeng's expression, he took it down as easily as before.
"how is this possible?"
"Still so relaxed?"
Ye Liuyun was secretly amazed, his face full of disbelief.
He originally thought that with his increased power, he would be able to easily subdue Chen Qingfeng.
But who would have thought that he miscalculated.
Chen Qingfeng's relaxed demeanor suggested that he didn't take the energy blade he unleashed seriously at all.
The more Ye Liuyun thought about it, the more shocked he became.
Thinking about how old Chen Qingfeng was, to already possess the strength of a ninth-grade martial artist, his martial arts talent was exceptional, even by all standards.