Breaking the Enemy

Su Bai instantly felt a powerful aura lock onto him.

His cultivation level was fully unleashed, and his lightning escape speed had reached its peak.

But a bizarre scene unfolded before Su Bai's eyes.

As that aura locked onto him, Su Bai was shocked to discover that no matter how much he increased his escape speed...

The distance between Xu Qing and himself remained unchanged.

And that punch, its speed undiminished, was still hurtling towards his chest, making it impossible to dodge!

This was a blow that could not be avoided.

Su Bai had no choice but to react quickly, holding the Soaring Dragon Sword horizontally in front of him.

The seemingly small fist contained power far beyond what an ordinary Golden Core cultivator could withstand.

Although the speed wasn't fast, Su Bai could clearly feel the immense power contained within it.

Although the timing was already very tight, the attack was still blocked by five-tenths of its power by the Soaring Dragon Sword.

The Soaring Dragon Sword struck Su Bai Su Bai, who felt an immense force crashing down on him like a tidal wave.

A sweet taste welled up in Su Bai.

The internal organs were jolted back and suffered minor injuries.

This is even with its power reduced by five-tenths.

If Su Bai takes that punch squarely, the situation will become even more complicated.

In a duel between masters, one can often discern the opponent's next offensive intent simply by looking into their eyes.

Especially when you've landed a successful blow and gained a slight advantage.

A skilled player will often reveal a fleeting glint of greed in their eyes, an intention to seize the advantage and relentlessly pursue their advantage.

Before the exchange had even ended, Su Bai noticed that Xu Qing's eyes remained virtually unchanged despite his successful strike.

Calm as a still lake.

It was just like what is described in ordinary novels, like Martial Arts Grandmaster who ascends to the highest level.

Su Bai sensed that this attack, along with that strange energy-locking technique, had an astonishing impact on Xu Qing's own Spiritual Qi.

Its Spiritual Qi has been reduced to barely half.

However, that locked energy remained.

The two seemed to be enveloped by a strange force field, maintaining a constant distance of four feet.

This distance is perfect, allowing one to absorb all the force of the female master's punches and palm strikes.

"It's Martial Dao Divine Ability in a similar field..."

Su Bai realized what was happening and naturally stopped using his Escape Technique.

In close combat, he was by no means defenseless.

Xu Qing delivered another palm strike, but this time Su Bai was no longer as passive as before. Instead, he unleashed a fierce sword strike.

It collided violently with its seemingly slender palm.

This time, Xu Qing once again used the peculiar defense of concentrating Spiritual Power into a single point.

But Su Bai had already activated the [Virtual Reality Sword Domain] within this four-zhang radius!

With the added power, Su Bai wielded the Soaring Dragon Sword, which he had used for many years and was already very familiar with.

The power contained in this sword strike was far beyond what any single strike from the Thundercloud Sword Array could match.

The blade of the Soaring Dragon Sword collided violently with Xu Qing's left palm!

Click--

Even with his defensive techniques, Xu Qing was struck by a sword that seemed to penetrate paper; his palm remained unharmed, but the bones in his hand were fractured.

Su Bai, wielding the Soaring Dragon Sword, also suffered a tremendous recoil, but was not injured; only the area between his thumb and forefinger turned slightly blue.

Despite the shattered metacarpal bone, Xu Qing's expression remained completely unchanged.

With a clenched fist, he shifted his stance and unleashed another punch at Su Bai.

"That woman is ruthless..."

This was the first time Su Bai had ever seen a female cultivator like this. She looked delicate and pretty, but she was so fierce when she fought.

Even Su Bai chose to temporarily avoid the blow, barely dodging it by turning to the side, only to be slightly grazed and suffer minor superficial injuries.

At this point, Su Bai sensed that his Spiritual Qi energy had finally been depleted by more than half.

That kind of the Unseen pressure came from the strange domain that Xu Qing had unleashed.

The oppressive feeling has now subsided and is beginning to fade.

The outcome is no longer in doubt.

Within this strange realm, their fight was truly like a turn-based game, with each side exchanging blows.

Su Bai thrust out his sword again, this time accompanied by half of the Yin Yang Sword Qi stored within his dantian.

Just as Su Bai had expected.

Xu Qing seemed to have been prepared for this.

Although the Yin Yang Sword Qi was effective, Xu Qing's spiritual skill was no less powerful than his fists and feet.

As if sensing a fleeting moment of disorientation, his eyes only showed a brief moment of unfocusedness.

However, all Su Bai wanted was this moment of dissipation.

Its ability to maintain that defensive method undoubtedly relies on the ultimate control of the soul over Spiritual Power.

The twenty-four Lightning Attribute Spirit Sword that had already surrounded Su Bai.

They instantly locked onto Xu Qing's exposed vitals outside his white training clothes.

Showing absolutely no mercy, thunder roared.

To Su Bai's slight surprise,

This person's spiritual strength was actually slightly higher than Su Bai had anticipated.

He managed to condense a few strands of Spiritual Power with great difficulty.

Unfortunately, the twenty-four Lightning Attribute Spirit Sword covered an extremely wide area when they struck.

Xu Qing had no chance of surviving this attack.

A South Sea Nascent Soul sighed briefly, then with a wave of his sleeve, pulled Xu Qing out of the arena.

The outcome is self-evident.

The Nascent Soul stage expert announced the results, sparking much discussion outside the venue.

This is the final battle.

The discussion it sparked was undeniably heated.

Although the battle lasted only four or five exchanges, it ended abruptly.

But everyone was not blind; they clearly saw Xu Qing punch Su Bai, and witnessed the audacious scene of palm meeting fist.

Although the result showed that Lu Jiu of the Heavenly Star Alliance won quickly.

But in the eyes of the audience, Lu Jiu had defeated Yan Chi.

Xu Qing actually had the ability to fight back, and even managed to injure the strongest Golden Core in the Heavenly Star Alliance.

His true strength is evident to everyone!

"This... Fairy Xu is quite something, she actually withstood several rounds?"

"I agree. If Lu Jiu didn't show any mercy to women, then she's clearly many times better than Nangong Yuxiu..."

"In my opinion, Fairy Xu could easily defeat three Nangong Yuxiu!"

"No, no, no, at least five!"

These discussions offered various perspectives, but most expressed approval of Xu Qing.

Of course, these discussions all came from Cultivator who were not gamblers.

As for the gamblers who bet most or even all of their wealth, they naturally either left or dispersed.

There were also those who remained standing still, seemingly in a daze, but in reality, they had been dead for a while.

Although Su Bai won this match.

But it's by no means as easy as it seems to outsiders.

Under this bizarre domain, and with defenses that can only be described as inhuman.

If its Spiritual Qi is abundant and vast enough, and the Yin Yang Sword Qi stored in Su Bai's dantian is insufficient.

Su Bai really couldn't think of any way to defeat it quickly.

Even with persistent effort, Su Bai will inevitably suffer serious injuries in the end.

At the very least, there won't be a single undamaged spot on his body.

It has to be said.

Xu Qing is one of the most formidable opponents Su Bai has encountered at the same cultivation level since entering the Cultivation World.

Although they only clashed a few times, he was unfortunately defeated.

But looking at all the Golden Core in the Heavenly Star Alliance and the South Sea, probably no one is a match for Xu Qing.

However, things like reviewing the past are far less important than the income of Spirit Stone, so we'll talk about that later.

At this moment, Su Bai's attention was already drawn to the telepathic message from the Heavenly Law Ancestor...