Although Punya had bisected the elder in one slash, he wasn’t weak by any means. In a third-tier city like Lunaris city, anyone who had reached the peak of the foundation building realm could be counted as almost invincible. What’s more, the elder was from a second-tier city and had cultivated a spirit grade cultivation technique and a spirit grade martial technique.
Both of those were not available on the Lunaris city. If Punya had not broken through to the ninth stage of the foundation building realm and hadn’t incorporated the moves of the spirit halberd technique on his sword move, then the outcome would have been different. Although Punya was confident in killing that elder, it was only on a one-on-one basis without outside interference and even then it would take some time to finish him off. The spirit halberd technique could be counted as a peak of spirit realm martial arts.
If Punya had used a good halberd, then this battle could have changed its direction sooner. After Punya bisected the elder, the elder’s remains were dumped to the ground. There was no one there to take care of the corpse or even someone to show some respect to the cultivator at the peak of the foundation building realm. Even the remaining five elders topped on their way breaking the formation. They knew that even though they could trap Punya in the formation with just the five of them and they could drain down his qi to the last drop, they weren’t confident enough to endure that sword slash and come out unscathed.
Although the deceased elder was weakest among them, it was only by a small margin, none of them could kill him as Punya did. At the same level, it was almost impossible to sneak up on a foundation building realm cultivator unless one had mastered some exquisite stealth technique. So the last move by Punya was just that impressive. The sword was so fast that the elder didn’t even have time to pull out his trump card. A battle between two high-level cultivators was different, even a blink of an eye could blur the line between life and death.
As for the elder, it didn’t even take time for a blink of an eye to be bisected, the sword went through him smoothly. There wasn’t even a drop of blood on the sword. The five elders stood in mid-air and looked at Punya warily. Every one of them still thought that they would be able to kill Punya after some time but they also knew that they would have to work in groups. Punya looked at the elders and knew what they were thinking.
He smirked and said “What? Are you afraid of a commoner from a third tier city?” The elders knew he was goading them but they chose to remain silent. Rushing to the battle against a battle cultivator without preparation was a foolish thing to do. This accident today was a slight miscalculation on their part. They didn’t know Punya had recovered and that he was at the ninth stage of the foundation building realm. But it didn’t matter, they had their ways to deal with strong enemies. It was sad to see one of the clan members die but in the grand scheme of things, they had one less competitor for resources from their clan.
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The five elders started planning their strategy once again with their divine sense. Punya looked at the battlefield of Kumari and she had just killed everyone except Alaric. Alaric was going berserk. Punya looked at the Keshab and they were still at a standstill. Neither Keshab nor Saroj were making any moves, they were only battling with their pressure. Punya then looked at the five elders and circulated his cultivation technique.
The situation on the battlefield could change at any time so Punya felt wasting more time would be unwise. It will only let the enemies come up with a better plan. He covered his sword with his qi and performed a slash. This slash was directed at the gathering place of the elders and didn’t target anyone in particular. Although the slash was weak, no one wanted to waste their qi on defending it. The elders backed away a little bit.
Punya rushed at the elders with his sword brimming with qi. Then as if they had planned something one of the elders came towards Punya with his sword. The four elders backed away a little bit but their swords were also coated in qi. This time when Punya’s sword clashed with the elder’s, there was no pushback effect. This move was clearly a different one. It was still heavy but Punya could bear it. Although he didn’t feel threat by this sword attack, he knew there could be hidden moves associated with it so he didn’t dare to risk it.
The two cultivators started slashing their swords at each other. This battle of swords went on for a few rounds. They were only imbuing qi in their swords and there were no other fancy moves involved, only the basic swordsmanship. The elder being experienced for decades on the sword was able to overwhelm Punya for the first few moves but Punya adapted to it and was gradually suppressing the elder. It wasn’t that Punya was better than the elder but Punya had trained his swordsmanship with Radha who was a battle maniac and even in training she didn’t give any quarter. This was why Punya adapted to the elder’s swordsmanship easily and was even on the verge of suppressing it.
As the two cultivators started getting into the zone, Punya suddenly felt danger approaching. He looked over and saw a few slashes made of sword qi traveling towards him at rapid speed. He used the first movement of the spirit halberd technique and started slashing at the sword slashes. From the remaining four elders, the sword slashes became regular. The fifth elder was pressing at Punya and the remaining elders slashed at him from afar.
He could evade some of those slashes and could destroy the remaining with a simple slash of his own but he had to look out for the fifth elder who came at him with his sword. As the elders from far away began to support him, the fifth elder began to increase his input of qi in his moves and it became increasingly dangerous for Punya. He had to evade four more slashes and even had to confront the elder with a sword. The annoying thing about the sword slashes from the four elders was that the strength of the slashes was not uniform.
Some of the slashes were lethal and even when Punya used his sword to parry, he would have to increase his input of qi, otherwise, he would be pushed back and if he failed to adjust in time, he would be ganged upon. At this moment he felt a sense of danger.