Hong Yu was clad in the Flowing Light Golden Armor, resembling a Golden Armored War God whose might shook the Eight Desolates.
A layer of golden Energy Arm Guards covered his hands, repelling the raging Thunder Power.
Veins bulged on his arms like Cyan Dragons, brimming with imnse, surging power as he suddenly raised them.
The Breaking Army Spear in his hands rose steadily, knocking back the Purple Thunder Saber and Blue Lightning Sword.
WHOOSH!
Hong Renjie stomped on the ground and shot high into the air, performing several backflips before landing more than ten ters away.
The mont he landed, THUD! THUD! his heavy steps sank deep into the ground.
A trace of astonishnt was in his eyes. "Is that Martial Skill the one you obtained from the Eight Desolates Mansion?"
Hong Yu grinned. "That's right!"
"So that's the Eight Desolates Old Demon's famous Body Refining Secret Skill, the *Eight Desolates Saint Slaying Technique*. To think you could bring it to this level in just over half a year. If I'm not mistaken, your *Eight Desolates Saint Slaying Technique* must be at the Fourth Transformation Realm, right?" Hong Renjie murmured.
Hong Yu frowned but said nothing, watching Hong Renjie calmly.
Hong Renjie smirked. "What a pity. Truly a pity. If you had cultivated it to the Fifth Transformation Realm, I might have been helpless against you. But as things stand, I have no fewer than three ways to deal with you!"
"Purple Thunder Saber, Wind and Thunder Saber Technique!"
Purple saber light filled the sky. The countless afterimages of the blade were like a sudden, breathtaking storm.
"Blue Lightning Sword, Electric Flash and Thunderclap!"
A blue sword light howled through the air, descending like a bolt of lightning from the heavens.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The saber and sword combined. The suffocatingly powerful aura of the two weapons suddenly enveloped Hong Yu.
BANG!
Under the pressure, Hong Yu's legs trembled. He staggered back two steps, nearly forced to his knees.
Hong Renjie let out a wild, cold laugh. "This is the flaw of the *Eight Desolates Saint Slaying Technique*. It can enhance your physical strength, but it can't boost your cultivation or your resistance to Montum. My Purple Thunder Saber and Blue Lightning Sword contain the Divine Power of thunder and lightning. It's a Spiritual Attack! Let's see you block this!"
"Just lie down and die!"
The saber and the sword, each unleashing a forty- to fifty-ter-long beam of light, howled as they fell, looking as if they could slice Hong Yu in two in an instant.
Suppressed by the imnse force, a cold light flashed in Hong Yu's eyes.
His left eye, his Cyan Eye, shimred with a light as vast as a Star River. His gaze hardened. 'A Spiritual Attack? In that case, have a taste of this move of mine!'
Hong Yu's eyes darted sideways.
From his left Cyan Eye, a beam of cyan light shot out.
SWISH!
The cyan light was impossible to defend against. It ignored the saber and sword's assault, reaching Hong Renjie in the blink of an eye.
"What the hell is this?"
Hong Renjie froze, a sense of alarm instantly rising in his heart.
His expression changed drastically...
But the cyan light was so fast he had no ti to block it. With a soft *PFFT*, the light shot into the space between his eyebrows.
The expression on Hong Renjie's face suddenly froze.
His features contorted into a strange, rigid mask.
"Ah..."
A blood-curdling scream erupted from Hong Renjie. He grabbed his head with both hands and began pounding on it, as if trying to crack it open.
"AHHHH... What the hell is this thing? It hurts! It hurts so much..."
Hong Renjie fell heavily to the ground.
His Thunder God Battle Armor slamd against the floor. The Thunder Power around him grew even more violent, and with a series of thunderous booms, the arena stage, made of Cyan Radiance Stone, was left in a complete ss. Blocks of hard stone exploded, sending shrapnel flying in all directions.
"Wh-what's going on?"
"Is Hong Renjie having one of his headaches?"
"Headaches, my ass! Look at him! He was obviously hit in a weak spot by Hong Yu."
"Hong Yu is just too damn strange. What kind of attack was that? It was completely unexpected!"
The fervent discussion among the hundreds of thousands of people was deafening.
But this very noise only intensified Hong Renjie's agony. The sounds reached his ears and were amplified endlessly in his mind, becoming an unbearable, chaotic din. Hong Renjie scread in pain as trickles of blood flowed from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth.
He was in so much pain he was on the verge of passing out.
On the other side...
Hong Yu had put his all into that Spiritual Attack from his Cyan Eye, and the strain on him was imnse.
His head spun, and a tear of blood trickled from his left eye.
He had no ti to check on Hong Renjie's miserable state; his opponent's attack was already upon him.
Hong Yu could only grit his teeth and brace himself, launching a defense. "Raging... Flas... Scorch... The... Heavens!"
With Hong Yu at its center, a sea of fire erupted, spanning a radius of over ten ters.
The sea of fire roiled, with bubbles of fla bubbling up within it.
HISSS!
The firelight flared. Waves of fla crashed into one another, shattering on impact only to reform into searing tongues of fire.
ROOOAR!
The sound of a Dragon's Roar was deafening.
From within the sea of fire, one Fire Dragon after another soared into the sky.
A total of thirty-six Fire Dragons burst forth from the inferno.
They coiled around Hong Yu, weaving over and under each other, forming a defensive barrier made of their fiery dragon bodies in the blink of an eye.
At the sa ti, the torrential lightning assault descended.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Thunder roared, tearing through the sky as its cold light illuminated the nine provinces of Jiuzhou.
The entire Cyan Nether Sword Sect was bathed in the unpredictable light of the lightning. Under the imnse lightning assault, the Fire Dragons were shattered one by one, only to reform and charge back at the lightning. From a distance, it looked as though dozens of Fire Dragons were resisting a Celestial Tribulation.
The terrifying and imnse power of the clash made the weaker Martial Artists in the audience feel their legs go soft, finding it difficult to even remain seated upright.
BEEEEEP!
A sound rang out that seed to freeze ti and space.
Exaggerated expressions of shock and awe appeared on everyone's faces...
In that instant, the rampaging lightning and the furious dragons ceased their struggle. The violet-blue light of the lightning and the scorching red glow of the Fire Dragons fused together. Imdiately after, an extrely pure white light erupted. The white light grew larger and larger, rising ten ters, then twenty, finally stopping when it was over fifty ters tall.
And then...
RUMBLE-RUMBLE-RUMBLE!
A Heaven- and Earth-penetrating explosion resounded. A mushroom cloud billowed into the air, rising a full hundred ters before it gradually began to dissipate.
Within the mushroom cloud, the roar of thunder was incessant.
"S-so terrifying!"
"Is this really a battle between soone at the Celestial Soul Realm and soone at the Earth Soul Realm? Are you sure Hong Yu isn't in the Celestial Soul Realm?"
The sound of people gulping nervously could be heard one after another.
"Is it over? Who won?" Li Tie frowned, his expression suddenly changing. "No, it's not over yet!"
As his gaze focused, two figures shot out from the mushroom cloud, one after the other.
Hong Renjie erged first, fleeing the cloud. Blood stained his face, his features twisted as he glared ferociously at Hong Yu. "You bastard! How dare you make look this pathetic. I'll kill you today for sure!"
His Thunder God Battle Armor suddenly swelled.
Wielding his reford Purple Thunder Saber and Blue Lightning Sword, Hong Renjie charged at Hong Yu.
Hong Yu was completely unafraid. "You want a fight? You'll get one! But the final victor can only be !"
With those words, Hong Yu threw a punch!
"The Vibrating Rune Technique is unleashed! Who can stand against it?"
As Hong Yu roared, a tide of Power of Primordial Spirit surged from his Dantian.
This ti, he was using the Vibrating Rune Technique with all his might.
The Power of Primordial Spirit began to vibrate the mont it left his Dantian. Each vibration sent a sharp, stabbing pain through his body. Clearly, his physical strength was still insufficient to withstand the terrifying might of the True Martial Arts Intent's Vibrating Rune Technique. But Hong Yu gritted his teeth and endured.
Amplified by the Vibrating Power, the increasingly violent and potent Power of Primordial Spirit gradually gathered in his fist.
"One punch to shake the heavens!"
Hong Yu roared, smashing his fist forward.
At the sa ti...
Hong Renjie, saber and sword in hand, also charged in for the kill.
The fist slamd against the saber and sword.
HISSS!
Lightning flared, and Hong Yu was forced back step after step by Hong Renjie's imnse power.
"Hong Yu, die!"
Hong Renjie's gaze was frigid.
Hong Yu grinned, softly uttering the words that made Hong Renjie's face drain of color: "Vibrating Rune Technique... explode!"
HUMMM!
Ripples of power, like waves, vibrated out from his fist.
Ring after ring, wave after wave...
Under the force of thirty-six waves of Vibrating Power, hairline cracks appeared on Hong Renjie's Purple Thunder Saber and Blue Lightning Sword.
Before Hong Renjie's disbelieving eyes, with two loud BANGS, the Purple Thunder Saber and the Blue Lightning Sword suddenly exploded. The punch had shattered both weapons, broken through his defense, and now appeared right before his chest. With a sharp CRACK, the chest plate of his Thunder God Battle Armor shattered, sending arcs of lightning energy scattering in all directions.
PUH!
Hong Renjie's chest caved in as if he'd been struck by lightning. Blood gushed from his mouth like a fountain.
His body flew backward like a kite with a snapped string.
With a dull THUD, Hong Renjie slamd into the ground and coughed up several more mouthfuls of blood.
PUH!
Hong Yu also spat out a mouthful of blood. The Vibrating Power that had coursed through his body had left him with significant internal injuries; several of his ridians had ruptured. His left eye was squeezed shut, unable to open. Dragging his weakened body, Hong Yu staggered toward Hong Renjie. He looked down at the young man on the ground and grinned. "You... have lost!"
"I... I lost?"
Hong Renjie's whole body trembled, his eyes vacant as he muttered to himself, "I lost? How could I possibly lose? I, Hong Renjie, can't possibly be defeated! Impossible! This is impossible..."
He snapped his head up, his venomous gaze locked on Hong Yu. "It's you. It's all your fault. You're the bastard who should have lost! You're the one who should die... I want you dead..." As soon as the words left his mouth, Hong Renjie suddenly raised his hand, a strange Jade Talisman appearing in his palm.
"Oh no! That's an Ancient Thunder Talisman! It has the power to kill a Celestial Soul Realm expert!"
"Hong Renjie, stop! Winning and losing are common in battle..."
Li Tie and Feng Xue Xin both shouted anxiously.
Hong Renjie sneered. "No! I can't lose! I will not be defeated! Hong Yu, die!"
With a single thought, he activated the Ancient Thunder Talisman.
RUMBLE!
A bolt of lightning, a full ten ters wide, coalesced and shot toward Hong Yu.
'Block it! I have to block it...'
Hong Yu's expression changed dramatically. The lightning exuded an aura of death.
He continuously unleashed his attacks: Destruction, the Three Flas Palm, the Eight Desolates Saint Slaying Technique...
But even after he had exhausted every technique he had, the Ancient Thunder Talisman remained completely unaffected, continuing its fierce assault on Hong Yu.
PUH! PUH! PUH...
Before the Ancient Thunder Talisman's attack even reached him, its powerful Montum alone forced Hong Yu to violently spit up several mouthfuls of blood. All his efforts were in vain, and his injuries only grew more severe. A shadow of despair and indignation fell over Hong Yu's heart...
"Die, Hong Yu! Just die!"
Hong Renjie laughed maniacally.
Just as the terrifying Ancient Thunder Talisman was about to kill Hong Yu, a beam of sword light suddenly shot in from offstage, accompanied by a crisp, pleasant, and lively voice...
"To be so ruthless to a fellow sect brother... Hong Renjie, you have greatly disappointed !"
[Third update complete. Ten more tomorrow!]
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