I defeated the saint with a parry.

Li Xuance stopped abruptly, narrowly avoiding the blow.

This so-called opening was originally intended for his own sneak attack...

Unexpectedly, despite the continuous attacks of the flying swords, Xu Ling was still able to find such an opening and take advantage of it to launch a preemptive counterattack.

It was as if Xu Ling lived in his mind and could read his thoughts.

Li Xuance touched his torn robe: "How did you do that?"

Xu Ling swung his ink knife, causing the calligraphy and painting field beneath his feet to splash with water as he did so. He said slowly, "The greatest truths are the simplest. You can do it too."

"Making a mystery out of nothing."

Li Xuance frowned, and with a wave of his Mountain and River Fan, ink washes clung to his body, changing his appearance and posture.

A person just like Li Tao appeared in the arena.

"Second Master Li".

Everyone present was from Fancheng and recognized this face.

Moreover, everyone knows that Li Tao is at the Sea Gazing Realm, which is a level higher than the Spirit Platform Realm.

The aura of "Li Tao" in the arena also matches the realm of Guanhaijing.

"Is this a case of calling for reinforcements because they can't win?" Zhang Li cursed, "Shameless!"

He knew Xu Ling could indeed fight someone in the Spirit Platform Realm, but the Observation Sea Realm was different. Although it was only one realm higher, after the Transcendent Realm, each major realm represented a world of difference.

"No, this is not Master Li Er." Wang Dachui frowned, his gaze never leaving the person in the room. He was quite old and had more experience. He said slowly, "This is an incarnation. Li Xuance used his understanding of Master Li Er to create a likeness of him, using his own body as a canvas."

Yes!

Copying.

The method of copying in the field of calligraphy and painting.

If used properly, it's not impossible to make a fake look like the real thing.

Li Xuance's move was truly amazing. With his cultivation at the Spirit Platform Realm, he was able to imitate the Sea-Gazing Realm. Anyone who came would have to kneel down in admiration.

Even the shadowy figure who was secretly observing looked troubled, staring at the fan in Li Xuance's hand and lost in memories.

"Old turtle, does this fan look familiar?"

He is currently in the space of the stone tablet.

What was originally just a precious stone tablet has become an old tortoise carrying the stone tablet within its own space.

The stone tablet, also known as Bixi, Baxia, or Dragon Turtle, is a Taoist treasure called "Wenbei" based on the legendary six sons of the dragon.

It is a precious treasure used by the Demon Suppression Division to suppress its branch offices in various places. It can protect all written records and resist the erosion of time.

Therefore, intelligence, missions, and even Xu Ling and his team's reports were all protected within it after being collected.

Furthermore, it allows people in various Demon Suppression Divisions throughout the Great Chu to check it at any time using their Demon Suppression Division tokens. Its function is the same as the True Spirit Tower, with no distance or geographical limitations.

However, apart from a few people, no one in the Demon Suppression Division knew the true identity of the stone tablet.

The old tortoise looked at the Mountain and River Fan and replied, "That's a replica, a copy of the Mountain and Sea Fan, one of the Daoist treasures."

"So it was a broken fan that had been lost for many years, no wonder I didn't recognize it."

The shadow looked at Li Xuance and said, "Fortunately, it's a replica. This 'Sea-Gazing Realm' is just a facade. Although it's stronger than the 'Spirit Platform Realm,' it's not as good as the real 'Sea-Gazing Realm.'"

That's true, this is much more difficult to deal with than someone at the Spirit Platform Realm.

I don't know if Xu Ling is up to the task!

Not only was Yingzi worried, but the onlookers were also sweating for Xu Ling.

Li Xuance: "Junior Brother Xu, can you defeat someone at the Sea-Gazing Realm?"

Xu Ling: "Your fake one will definitely work."

The spirit embryo builds a mountain, and from the mountain, one can view the sea.

When you feel the sea is right in front of you, it is actually very far away, so far that it seems unreachable.

Even after experiencing the trials of the trial space, Xu Ling dared not be complacent. He knew better than anyone that Li Xuance's imitation was not as simple as just copying.

"The ocean is boundless!"

Li Xuance uttered four words, and the original painting and calligraphy field changed instantly. The 'painting paper' under Xu Ling's feet turned into water, and with a splash, Xu Ling fell into the water.

He sank into the water that appeared out of nowhere. The water around him was bottomless and pitch black, with only light shining down from the surface above his head.

It is very difficult for a person to move underwater, and this body of water is obviously different. Xu Ling had tried to surface and dive in the trial space and found that he could not move as he wanted.

As he swims upstream, the water surface becomes increasingly distant, as if he can never reach the surface, and no matter how hard he tries, it's all in vain.

So Xu Ling fell into this place again, without moving, just holding his breath and gripping the ink knife tightly, waiting for Li Xuance's attack to come.

If your heart is pure and clear, you will not be alarmed even if the sky falls.

At his current level, he can completely control his heart rate and physical exertion to the lowest possible standard, thus greatly reducing the strain.

"Disengage!"

Faced with the sudden auxiliary reminder, Xu Ling did not hesitate to swing his sword and follow up with the deflection, using the basic parry move.

There are water monkeys in the water.

There were so many of them, they were so densely packed that they almost filled Xu Ling's entire field of vision. He didn't need to turn around, because these water monkey monsters were also right behind him.

Song Tianyou wasn't lying; Master Li Er did indeed have demon blood, specifically a water-related demon blood.

As Xu Ling's gaze swept across the area, he could see that the water monkeys were at least at the Condensation Realm, with a few particularly large ones already at the Spirit Platform Realm.

Imagine how difficult the situation must be to deal with hundreds of these densely packed monsters.

The underwater scene, however, was clearly visible to the demon slayers watching from the surface.

Someone exclaimed softly, "What kind of technique is this? It can actually conjure up so many water monkeys!"

"There are indeed rumors that the Second Master of the Li family is proficient in water-based martial arts, and that his cultivation level will increase exponentially in the presence of water. Perhaps this is the reason why we are facing this situation!"

Whether to fight a single cultivator or a group of demons and cultivators, everyone would choose the latter.

Only a fool would choose to fight a group of monsters.

Challenging a group of water monkeys underwater is an absolute hellish challenge.

Wang Dachui muttered, "Good luck to Junior Brother Xu."

There is no chance of winning.

He patted Zhang Li on the shoulder: "Senior Brother Zhang, prepare the medicine. Maybe there's still hope when Junior Brother Xu floats to the surface."

"Shut your mouth!" Zhang Li roared, his brows furious as he glared at Li Xuance, who was floating there. "That bastard does have some skill."

"superior!"

Li Xuance gave a low shout.

The water monkeys instantly leaped out of the water; the underwater environment, which was originally a constraint for humans, was an asset to them.

The water trails behind each water monkey resembled missile contrails, demonstrating their incredible speed.

This time, I couldn't rely on counting the rhythm to dodge the attacks; I had to rely entirely on my hand speed to follow the trajectory indicated by the assistant and parry them one by one.

Xu Ling inhaled and tightened his anus, and swung the horizontal knife in his hand forward.

"clang!"

When the first water monkey was stopped, Xu Ling stepped to its side and, without hesitation, slashed at the back of its neck with his sword.

Kill!

The first water monkey turned into a stream of water and disappeared.

Demons at the Concentration Realm pose no threat to him; a parry and slash combo is completed almost instantly, and this is underwater.

Whether you call it skill or the result of tens of thousands of severe injuries in the trial space, it doesn't matter.

Anyone could take a chance under such intense trials, and who knows, they might just turn their luck around.

The second one was already in front of him. Xu Ling deflected it along its trajectory, sending it flying and crashing into the water monkey that was rushing towards him.

The number of water monkeys that followed was large, and they all rushed at once. He didn't have three heads and six arms, so if he just stood still and took the hits by relying on the system's warning, the consequences would be dire.

If you follow the water monkey in front, the water monkey behind you will wash away your clothes, and vice versa.

Therefore, Xu Ling could only charge forward, relying on his speed to carve a bloody path in front of him.

"clang!"

The dazzling sound of hammering became much duller underwater, but the effect was not diminished in the slightest; this was due to the system's mechanics.

Using the mechanism, Xu Ling moved forward continuously, ignoring even the suppression of the water.

From an outsider's perspective, he simply moved step by step, easily catching the water monkey's attacks while simultaneously unleashing each slash in an instant, and also shifting a certain distance along the way.

He kills a water monkey with a single step, his elegant teleportation movements making it look like he's performing a sword dance in the water.

But Xu Ling was clearly using the most domineering horizontal sword technique!

"Damn it! How come these simplest and most basic moves are now blossoming in Junior Brother Xu's hands? Every move is even more beautiful than the sword dance of those dancers in Fanlou. Even the decapitation action is so perfect that it's like a work of art."

"Every move was a perfect parry, accompanied by the clanging of metal, it was like dancing on a knife's edge."

For others, martial arts are a perilous pursuit, but for Xu Ling, it has become a dance.

If Xu Ling knew what these demon slayers were saying, he might discuss it with Li Xuance and have him take up his sword and kill these "colleagues" first before talking about anything else.

"Die!"

Xu Ling's speed in killing and teleporting was even faster than that of the water monkeys. He really carved a path through the water, and by the time he killed the last one, the encirclement had been broken.

When Xu Ling turned around to look at the water monkey rushing towards him, a smile bloomed on his face: "Now it's my turn."

All the water monkeys froze in place. Li Xuance, who was possessing them, could no longer hide his emotions: Why was that person's smile so terrifying?