For the first ti, Hong Nianyi’s Illusion faltered, its movents clearly sluggish.
On the left arm of the faint golden figure, the Dark Gold Fla burned, quiet but stubborn, constantly eroding the Energy that ford her body.
She "glanced down" at the fla on her arm. Her blurry face seed to turn, "looking" toward Xu Wuyi once more.
Her gaze seed to hold a hint of... scrutiny.
Barely a minute had passed since the battle began.
Xu Wuyi was drenched in his own blood. Blade marks covered his shoulders, chest, stomach, and legs, so so deep they exposed bone. His Qi and Blood were being consud at a ferocious rate.
But he had succeeded.
He had planted the Undying Fla on his opponent.
Sure enough, the movents of Hong Nianyi’s Illusion had beco sluggish.
The fla clung to her like a tenacious poison, burning without end and forcing her to divert a portion of her Spirit to resist it.
This was Xu Wuyi’s only chance!
He took a deep breath, ignoring the searing pain from his wounds, and pushed his remaining Qi and Blood and Spiritual Power to their absolute limit.
Within his sea of consciousness, the two dormant True Intentions—"Mountain" and "Burn"—erupted like sparks hitting boiling oil, instantly flaring into a raging torrent!
The Intention of the Mountain: majestic, heavy, bearing all things.
The Intention of Burning: blazing, radiant, purging all things.
Under the extre pressure of a life-and-death battle, spurred on by the sliver of hope that the successfully planted Undying Fla provided, the two completely different ntal Realms began to collide and rge at an unprecedented speed!
Xu Wuyi could almost hear a roar from the depths of his soul.
The long spear in his hands beca impossibly heavy and scorching hot.
Along the spear’s shaft, crimson Qi and Blood and the Dark Gold Fla entwined in a frenzy. An indescribably terrifying aura began to brew and surge!
Hong Nianyi’s Illusion seed to sense the mortal threat as well.
She stopped trying to dispel the fla on her left arm, instead condensing all her Spirit and power into the "blade" forming in her right hand’s grip.
The indistinct shape of the blade suddenly grew sharper.
A piercing True Intention, one that could shatter all creation, surged skyward!
The blade had not yet struck, but its Intention had already arrived.
The entire challenge space seed to freeze for a mont, the air thick with a hair-raising sharpness.
She was about to strike.
This would be no ordinary strike. It was a blow that condensed every ounce of True Intention she could currently muster, even simulating the embryonic form of a Heart Image!
Even if it couldn’t compare to the "Life and Death" technique from the youth tournant, it was far beyond what any ordinary Martial Artist could withstand.
Xu Wuyi knew the next move would decide it all.
He could not retreat. There was no path of retreat.
Countdown: [01:47]
One minute and forty-seven seconds remained, but he no longer cared about the clock.
His eyes saw only the faint golden figure before him and the impending strike that seed capable of sundering heaven and earth.
"Co on!"
Xu Wuyi let out a low roar. He stopped suppressing the two boiling True Intentions in his sea of consciousness, instead actively guiding them to smash into so unseen, predestined "point"!
BOOM—!
A cataclysmic sound, like the birth of a new world, exploded in the depths of his soul.
It wasn’t a real sound, but a cataclysmic shift in his ntal Realm.
The ever-calm and stable True Intention of the Mountain and the brilliantly blazing True Intention of Burning—at this mont, within the lting Furnace of life-and-death pressure, forged by Xu Wuyi’s unwavering will—finally shattered the formless barrier between them and began to fuse!
The mountain was no longer just the mountain, nor was the fire just the fire.
Instead, a brilliant sun now rose from the mountain’s peak!
The great sun’s light bathed the mountains, granting them the will for light, heat, and change. The imnse mountains supported the great sun, granting its light a foundation of stability and depth.
A far grander and more complete ntal Realm erupted from Xu Wuyi!
VMMMM—!
In the physical world, a phenonon manifested!
Behind Xu Wuyi, a hazy, indistinct phantom of a majestic, massive mountain suddenly materialized in the void!
And from its peak, a radiant sun, emitting endless light and heat, burst forth, bathing the entire challenge space in its brilliant and impartial rays!
The Sun on the Mountain’s Peak!
The manifestation of the preliminary fusion of Xu Wuyi’s own True Intention of Martial Arts!
The mont this phenonon appeared, the piercing blade Intention condensed by Hong Nianyi’s Illusion was forcibly diminished by a third!
"Slash!"
A silent telepathic pulse emanated from the Illusion.
A streak of blade light, so condensed it seed capable of cleaving light itself, finally slashed forth!
This strike lacked the profound mystery of the "Life and Death" technique from the youth tournant, but it was purer, more extre. It compressed all power and True Intention onto the single line of the blade’s edge—unmatched in speed and sharpness, able to cut through anything!
At almost the exact sa mont, Xu Wuyi unleashed his strongest spear thrust to date.
He didn’t use any specific Spear Technique.
It was just the simplest, most direct thrust.
At the tip of the spear, the phantom image of the sun on the mountain’s peak flashed.
The blade light and the spear tip t in the void with cataclysmic force!
There was no earth-shattering explosion.
For a mont, ti seed to stand still.
The next mont.
CRACK—!
The condensed blade light, like a wave crashing against a reef, began to form an infinitesimal crack at its very tip.
The crack spread rapidly, covering the entire streak of light in the blink of an eye.
But the teor Iron Long Spear, wreathed in newfound power, pushed steadily forward. The strange Energy at its tip was like the rising sun—unstoppable!
The blade light shattered.
It dissolved into a sky full of dancing, faint golden specks of light.
Hong Nianyi’s Illusion remained frozen in its striking posture.
The Undying Fla on her left arm had been extinguished, but a hole the size of a bowl had appeared in her chest. Around its edges, an interwoven energy of crimson and gold continued to slowly eat away at her.
She "glanced" at the hole in her chest, then "looked" toward the slowly fading phenonon of the sun on the mountain’s peak behind Xu Wuyi. Her indistinct face seed to shift slightly.
Then, the entire faint golden figure, like a weathered sand sculpture, crumbled away inch by inch, dissolving into a stream of the purest Energy that flowed back into the silver pedestal below.
The space above the pedestal was empty once more.
[01:38]
The countdown stopped at one minute and thirty-eight seconds.
Inside the challenge space, there was a dead silence.
The only sounds were Xu Wuyi’s ragged, wheezing breaths, like a blacksmith’s bellows, and the sizzle of Energy escaping from his wounds.
He remained in his spear-thrusting stance, his muscles trembling from the strain and his injuries.
’I won?’
’I... defeated the battle Illusion of Hong Nianyi from before she reached Level 35?’
’It was only because I planted the Undying Fla on her and had a breakthrough with my fused True Intention, but... I actually did it.’
He had defeated his opponent head-on before the three-minute ti limit expired.
Vmm.
The crimson countdown in his vision vanished.
It was replaced by a line of soft, green text:
[Challenge Complete. Victor: Xu Wuyi.]
A cold, chanical voice then echoed throughout the space:
[Challenger Xu Wuyi, at Life Energy Level 32.5, has defeated the historical record Illusion ’Hong Nianyi (Level 33 state)’. Ti elapsed: 1 minute, 22 seconds.]
[Conditions t for special ’Red Star’ inclusion.]
[Updating ’Nine Stars Stele’ record...]
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