Wulin fought to a standstill against Wu Zhangkong in swordsmanship, although he held advantages in this fight but as he is right now there no way he can use a higher level of swordsmanship to win this battle.
Wulin reaches the first state requirement for his Absolute Sword Law ' I am one entity as my sword' which means he had absolute mastery over the sword and reach the same level as Wu Zhangkong.
But he too busy working on his body tempering technique to the third stage which does not require anymore high-level sword skill for now but he needs to temper his understanding of Law into his body, not to mention he only reaches the first entry of this level.
Only when he achieves completion of this stage that he allows able to use the essence of the sword in combat as the way he is now if he utilizes any kind of Weight, sharpness, toughness, softness and speeds his body will surely explode as his understanding overwhelm the limit of his body.
After fighting against Wu Zhangkong for a while he stops in his track as he shouts to Wu Zhangkong " Teacher Wu! Please stop for a while." Wulin stabs his Asura sword to the ground as he finishes his word.
Wu Zhangkong put away his martial soul as he walks over to Tang Wulin. "What wrong?" Wu Zhangkong asks with a curious face. " Teacher you might be able to go on but I ... I can't, the battle against you takes too much toll on my body. How about this we consider it's as a draw for now and proceeds to use soul skill instead what do you say?" Wulin said as he wants reminds Wu Zhangkong that although he Tang Wulin skill in swordsmanship but his body still can't handle extreme battle and this battle against Wu Zhangkong can be concluded as such as well.
"You got a point! Sorry, Wulin but your skill with the sword is amazing as I haven't met my match in swordsmanship for too long that I can't help ignite my battle lust after sparing against you. Well, we can go on and proceed to a battle of soul skill instead" Wu Zhangkong said happily as he is excited when he fought against Wulin.
Wu Zhangkong doesn't hold any arrogance at all against Wulin as he respects this student of him for his sword skill. When a person pursues the apex of martial arts they don't hate or bearing a grudge to people who defeat them as their pursuit of knowledge overwhelms the desire to win.
This battle can consider as Wu Zhangkong lost although he hates to admit it's, Wulin experiences in way of combat and way of the sword is by no means lower than his.
" Teacher this soul rings of mine is a bit special and I want you to keep this as an absolute secret for now," Wulin said with worry expression. Wu Zhangkong knows what Wulin worries about so he called Gu Yue and Xie Xie over as he had something to tell all of them.
As they arrive in front of him he said: " To tell you the truth as I am teaching you right now I don't intend on just teaching you for just a short time that you studying in this academy but at some point, I will take you guy to a higher-end at least the to the limit of my capability. Eastsea is too small as it is now and from what I see your talent won't limit you to this place." Wu Zhangkong said with a bit of emotion as he was happy with the battle against Wulin his mood is a bit cheerful than usual as well.
Wu Zhangkong waits for his three students to digest what he just said for a while before continues " So even though in the future you guy might join a different organization but I do hope you can keep all the secret between us because I swear If you guy betray one another I hunt you down to the end of the world. Ok, Wulin you can say what you want to tell me now as I am pretty sure that Gu Yue and Xie Xie will keep this information safe ain't I right?" Wu Zhangkong said this time with a chilling expression as he glances at Xie Xie and Gu Yue.
Xie Xie nods his head like a chicken as he said: " Don't worry Teacher Wu, Boss is the person that I acknowledge and respect I'll keep his secret safe even at the cost of my life."
As for Gu Yue, she just nods without saying anything. Seeing this Wulin proceed to release his Soul Ring which appearance even darker than black. Wu Zhangkong's shock to see this soul rings as he only got a black soul rings after many years and the current him can't bear any rings higher than black at all.
A 9 years old kid with a 10000 years soul rings? What kind of sorcery is this? If the world knew of this Wulin definitely get chase over the world as the big boss in this world will either fighting to obtain him or dissect him and try to learn his secret.
What shocked him the most is the feeling he got from Wulin Soul rings is way stronger than any black soul rings he had seen or knowledge of which means this black soul ring is at a point where it's nearly evolved to Red Soul Rings. However, this is only his speculation for now.
" So teacher when you fought against me please don't hold back against me to although I only had one soul ring, my martial Soul comes with special Initial effect which is not lower than my first soul skill, I am pretty sure you know where to stop as If I am not wrong your cultivation should be Soul Emperor," Wulin said sincerely as he also wants to knowhow he fares against Wu Zhangkong in Soul SKill.
" Enough talk! Let fight with swordsmanship and soul skills together I want to see your full capability." Wu Zhangkong uses his movement technique and distance himself 30 meters from Tang Wulin.
Gu Yue and Xie Xie also retreat to the corner as the battle before already shocking for them but now these two monsters want to use soul skill as well. Xie Xie also watches with expectation as he never seen his Teacher or Wulin use their soul skill before.
After the two release their martial soul, Wu Zhangkong rushes in as he thrust his sword at Wulin with lightning speed. Every stroke accompanies by a sword light which shot straight toward Wulin, the sword light intensify the strike but Wulin didn't panic as he counters with a sword strike of his own.
Wu Zhangkong intensified his speed of attacking as Wulin worth his effort to go all out. Wulin dodges Wu Zhangkong's sword as he does backflips and steps left and right avoiding a sword light. Wu Zhangkong stops in his track as he stand-in a piercing stand a Yellow Soul Ring appears beneath his feet as he said coldly " Frost Scar!"
An icy blue arc bloom from Wu Zhangkong sword shot straight at Wulin as he pierces his sword. Wulin raises his sword as he slashes frenzy toward the incoming frost scar. Yet as he slashes he get a deeper understanding of Wu Zhangkong's soul skill 'Frost Scar."
One attack one parry yet this moment Wulin grab a chance and release his initial effect from his Asura Sword. A sword energy Dark red shooting straight as Wulin slash the last attack from Wu Zhangkong annihilate everything in its part.
Wu Zhangkong's surprise to see the incoming sword strike he continue using his Frost Scar but the attack didn't even reduce the incoming slash as it's destroyed the moment it touches the Dark Red energy.
Seeing his first soul skill doesn't have any effect against the Wulin attack Wu Zhangkong uses his second soul skill 'Frost Mist!' as an icy cold breath appears around him lower the surrounding temperature instantly. ' Sky Frost Slash' Wu Zhangkong shout as he uses his third soul skill.
Wu Zhangkong's sword slashes out, as a sword energy beam creates from his sword as a 10-meter long sword beam shooting straight toward Wulin Asura Slash destroy it's completely.
Wu Zhangkong was shocked as he expects his third soul skill to destroy Wulin's sword energy and continue forward yet it just disappears together with the Wulin sword attack.
As the two sword slash dissipate an explosion occur from the two sword attack a snowflake fall on the ground. Seeing this Wulin smile as it's truly time for him to use his first soul skill.