357 Chapter 53 Li Minghu''s Incisive Commentary
Protected by the glory of the Xuan Guang Ruler, Yan Yu''s sword light surged once more as he unleashed the ferocious White Rainbow Piercing the Sun, breaking into the midst of the Asuras!
Having been ambushed too many times before, these Asuras were already prepared. They suddenly dispersed into a pocket formation, allowing the sword light to penetrate into their midst before simultaneously forming hand seals and exhaling copious Earth Boundary Fire from their mouths and noses!
These flames were vicious beyond compare, mingling with sulfuric black smoke. Should they burn even a sliver of flesh that had penetrated the barrier of light, it would instantly necrotize.
The Huang Tingjian sword light suddenly soared upwards, the fire serpents only managing to lick the trail of the sword light as he agilely escaped the range of the inferno.
The leading Asura formed another hand seal, and a Golden Giant Palm descended from above like a mountain, smashing down ruthlessly.
The massive palm covered the sky and earth, forcing the surrounding Asuras to hastily retreat to avoid being caught in its path. Yan Yu''s sword light was positioned right beneath the center of the giant palm. Just as he tried to escape, the nearby Asuras once again spit fire, sealing off all possible escape routes around him.
Ye Jun, upon seeing this, turned pale with fright and hurriedly channeled all her power into the Xuan Guang Ruler, exhausting all her True Yuan to create a huge barrier of light that shot straight towards the Huang Tingjian sword light, hoping to block the blow for Yan Yu.
But unexpectedly, three Asuras in the distance suddenly extended their arms, six hands forming complex seals. Soon they produced six shimmering silver hands that firmly resisted the luminous flower from the Xuan Guang Ruler, preventing it from reaching Yan Yu.
Back in the live broadcast room, the director had just finished a sweep of the camera and returned to Yan Yu''s side only to find the situation had taken a turn for the worse.
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"Ah!" Zhou Erhe couldn''t help but exclaim in the broadcast room, "Longcheng Flying General is in danger! Ye Jun''s Xuan Guang Ruler support has been cut off, and there''s no way to break through the surrounding sea of fire; he''s doomed to be hit by that Buddha''s Palm, with no way out left!"
The executive director quickly looked to the military attaché beside him.
"No need to panic; the outcome isn''t yet decided." The military attaché had learned to be cunning. The rank of the Longcheng Flying General was so high that even as the chief military instructor of the Annan Military Academy, there was much he couldn''t comprehend. But standing there, representing the face of the Annan Army, he couldn''t admit to not understanding this or that. If he did, where would the military''s face be? He had to feign understanding, and whenever danger arose, it was "Yan Yu must be prepared."
If it turned out that he indeed averted danger, it would mean his own prediction was correct; if, unfortunately, Yan Yu met with a mishap... damn, the demise of the Longcheng Flying General in the Mysterious Realm, what level of a major incident would that be? Who else would have the energy to pursue my misjudgment?
The executive director, oblivious to his thoughts and being an outsider, instinctively trusted the expert''s judgment as was natural, and quickly signaled the staff to hold up a sign from outside the arena.
[Confidence]
When Xu Dongming saw this signal, he realized his partner Zhou Erhe had inadvertently been too negative and quickly interrupted him:
"It doesn''t matter! Even if he gets hit by the Golden Giant Palm, so what? Yan Yu is the Longcheng Flying General, and he may not lose in a contest of inner strength. Maybe with one sword strike, he''ll cut through that Golden Giant Palm and be on his way."
"Are you saying he''s going to match his Sword Control technique against their spells?" Zhou Erhe complained, "If the spell gets disrupted, it''s just disrupted, but what if his sword light can''t hold up..."
Hearing Zhou Erhe still insisting, the executive director hurriedly gestured, signaling the staff to raise the sign again:
[Shut Up]
The message was much clearer this time, and Zhou Erhe, knowing he had misspoken, fell silent. Xu Dongming quickly tried to correct the situation:
"Right, let''s watch how Longcheng Flying General will cope! The sword light is still navigating around the edge of the sea of fire! Looking for a weakness! But the surrounding sea of fire is relentless, leaving no loopholes for him!"
The unharmed Golden Giant Palm ferociously came down, instantly extinguishing the surrounding sea of fire!
The broadcast room fell deathly silent, and for a moment, even the scrolling comments came to a stop... The next second, the Huang Tingjian sword light burst forth again, but this time it charged up from underground, instantly slicing the nearest Asura into two.
"Ah?!" Xu Dongming cried out instinctively.
"This..." Zhou Erhe was also shocked into silence and muttered, "No, did he... use the Wall-Penetration Technique to hide underground?"
"That''s not right!" Xu Dongming immediately retorted, "The area below was also covered by the sea of fire! The Wall-Penetration Technique can pass through solids but can''t be immune to spell damage! Otherwise, it wouldn''t be called the Wall-Penetration Technique, it''d be called the Invincible Technique!"
"Director, cut to the replay!" Zhou Erhe shouted.
The executive director felt helpless. Broadcasts of the battles of the Longcheng Flying General had this downside; many moves were inscrutable even to professional commentators. And if you don''t provide the answers on the spot, viewers start doubting your expertise, they phone in complaints and even contact officials to complain—just like readers hounding unfinished story authors for updates... Such unreasonable demands!
Fortunately, they had a contingency plan for such situations. He tossed a glance at the director, who immediately switched to a split screen, with the ongoing live battle footage of Yan Yu on the left, taking the unprepared Asura by surprise and scattering them in disarray; on the right was the replay of the Golden Giant Palm smashing down, played back at 0.25x speed.
The military instructor watched intently. Praising himself as the most technically knowledgeable person onsite, he couldn''t afford to fall behind the two commentators.
After watching the replay on the right for a moment, he suddenly exclaimed,
"There, in the upper left corner! The sea of fire flickered there!"
"Ah?" The executive director hadn''t caught up yet. Wasn''t the fire flickering from side to side while burning fiercely quite normal?
"Look carefully," the military instructor advised, "Yan Yu''s Huang Tingjian light—that was where it flew out from. He took advantage of the moment when the fire shifted to the left and revealed a flaw, escaped from the sea of fire, and used the Wall-Penetration Technique to hide underground!"
The executive director, still in a fog, had no clue, but couldn''t allow the replay to continue for too long, so he quickly gestured for the prompter to be used offstage.
The prompter printed out the military instructor''s analysis, and the two commentators glanced at it before turning back to the screen replay. They then pretended to have a sudden realization, voiced an "oh," and started to analyze according to the script,
"...So it was because the fire swayed from side to side, creating a gap that wasn''t scorched, which Yan Yu took advantage of and used!"
"It''s like the ancient barrage of a thousand arrows; ordinary people would get turned into porcupines, but the real martial arts masters can always use their agility and movement skills to find the gaps between the arrows to dodge with ease... If Longcheng Flying General were in the martial arts world, he''d be that kind of peerless master who turns the rotten into the miraculous!"
"What kind of nonsensical analysis is that?" Inside the Annan Cultivator Academy, Li Minghu finally couldn''t restrain his criticism, "Can fire be the same as an arrow formation? Take the Flame Curse spell as an example, even the gaps between the leaping flames, as long as they are within the range of the spell, still possess fatally high temperatures... What does it mean to ''pass through a gap in the flickering flames? They should demonstrate it themselves, talking nonsense!"
"So what is the actual principle?" everyone asked.
"Didn''t you see?" Li Minghu was somewhat speechless, "To break the Flame Curse spell, why not just interrupt the caster?"
"Although the director didn''t change the angle, it should have been Ye Jun who lent a hand from offstage, using the light from the Xuan Guang Ruler to hold one of the Asuras in place, preventing him from continuing to breathe fire to replenish the formation, which revealed an escape-worthy gap within the originally inescapable sea of fire."
"Right." Li Zhaojiang also had an epiphany, nodding repeatedly, "The moment the caster of Flame Curse stops casting, although there are still flames within the spell area, without the supply of True Yuan from the caster, these flames no longer have killing power... so Yan Yu coordinated with Ye Jun, she controlled the caster over there, and immediately passed through the ineffective spell here, completing the escape! That''s how it is, that''s how it is, are these two having an affair? They aren''t even on the same team, how could they work so well together? Eh, does this count as Lord Master being cuckolded by Yan Yu? Isn''t Ye Jun Lord Master''s deputy?"
"Li Zhaojiang," Li Minghu spoke flatly, "You shouldn''t spread rumors behind others'' backs."
"They can''t hear us anyway..." Li Zhaojiang wanted to retort but suddenly felt that the atmosphere was a bit off and quickly shut up, his intuition also starting to sound alarms.
This is bad! My sister usually calls me "A-Jiang," but only when she''s angry does she call me by my full name!
Li Zhaojiang trembled with fear, but Li Minghu didn''t pursue the matter further and simply instructed,
"Keep watching the match... Yan Yu''s tactical intentions exhibited in these few minutes, you won''t learn in a few months, so watch carefully."