One Move

Yang Ming and Zhao Wuji stood facing each other.

Zhao Wuji clasped his heavy hands together and rolled his wrists. A series of bone-cracking pops rang out, making teeth ache, and the invisible pressure intensified severalfold.

Yang Ming spoke calmly.

"Forget three moves. I'll use one move to decide the winner!"

Hearing Yang Ming's arrogant declaration, Zhao Wuji sneered and commented slowly.

"Kid, three moves means three moves."

"If you fail with one move and lose the bet, making excuses afterward would be rather embarrassing!"

Yang Ming did not answer. He raised a hand and summoned the Atlas Spear, its tip pointed directly at Zhao Wuji.

When Zhao Wuji saw Yang Ming's Martial Soul, the Atlas Spear, which shone with a blazing white light and seemed almost transparent, yet possessed an extremely long blade, he furrowed his brows. No Spirit Rings?!!

Back when Zhao Wuji had first begun making his way across the continent, he had encountered several spear-wielding Soul Masters. The one that had left the deepest impression on him was the Soul Breaking Spear of the Breaking Clan.

Yet as he looked at Yang Ming's Atlas Spear, Zhao Wuji vaguely felt that it was no worse than the Soul Breaking Spear. Though he could not sense the Atlas Spear's proper might, it was simply a feeling. But Soul Masters who had cultivated to the Soul Saint stage rarely had feelings without cause!!!

Zhao Wuji let out a low roar, and his body suddenly swelled. His already terrifying muscles nearly doubled in size, while his height shot up by a full meter in an instant, making him incomparably burly.

After Martial Soul Possession, Zhao Wuji's entire body was covered in thick brown fur. He stood over two and a half meters tall, muscles knotted all over his body, his brownish-yellow eyes radiating a domineering aura, while his large hands became especially massive.

Seven dazzling Spirit Rings rose at once—two yellow, two purple, and three black. Seven terrifying Spirit Rings were attached to his body.

When the pedestrians along the street saw the seven Spirit Rings beneath Zhao Wuji's feet, they cried out in alarm.

"Seven rings? A Soul Saint!!!"

"He's actually a Soul Saint-level expert!!!"

"..."

Yang Ming's expression turned somewhat grave as he looked at Zhao Wuji, who resembled a humanoid giant bear after Martial Soul Possession. He exhaled a breath of stale air. Zhao Wuji's cultivation was far beyond his, but that was alright. Yang Ming did not lack a chance of victory entirely.

If he could not match him in strength, then he would attack his heart directly. It just so happened that Yang Ming had recently perfected 'Royal Power'!

Yang Ming bent his legs slightly, raised the Atlas Spear into a thrusting stance, and a Yellow Soul Ring beneath his feet lit up brilliantly. The Atlas Spear's First Soul Skill, 'Source of Void,' activated!!!

At the same time, the Anti-air Power activated!!!

In that instant, Yang Ming directly mobilized all the power needed to activate 'Royal Power' perfectly.

Yang Ming's aura began to erupt in full. Golden, silver, and white Soul Power flames intertwined and blazed upon the transparent, ancient Atlas Spear.

Feeling the terrifying aura of 'Absolute Dominance, Dominance Without Borders' emanating from Yang Ming, Zhao Wuji's certainty of victory began to waver, and a trace of fear involuntarily arose within him. This was not a gap in strength, but a gap in will and bearing.

From the moment Zhao Wuji's conviction wavered, the scales of victory had already begun to tilt.

'The way of momentum is to press forward in one burst. A second burst weakens it, and a third exhausts it!'

This was Yang Ming's newest insight into momentum.

Although his previous 'Royal Power' had been developed to a formidable level with Yang Ming's exceptional talent, it had taken the wrong direction and had essentially reached its limit.

The flames on the Atlas Spear completely withdrew and condensed, forming a dazzling, blinding point of light at the spear tip that could not be looked at directly. Yang Ming's entire aura and pressure were ultimately compressed into that single point with his spatial power and Anti-air Power, without leaking even the slightest trace.

Yang Ming was quite curious what would happen if this will, capable of shattering matter, were completely driven into a human body!

As the point of light gradually condensed and took shape, the aura Zhao Wuji sensed from Yang Ming grew weaker and weaker, as did the pressure it brought him, until it vanished entirely. Yet such abnormality made warning bells ring loudly in Zhao Wuji's heart!

"Heaven-Piercing, Royal Power!!!"

After Yang Ming let out a low shout, the Atlas Spear thrust forward, seeming slow yet actually fast.

Watching the Atlas Spear draw ever closer, Zhao Wuji decided to play it safe.

"Roar!!!"

A furious roar suddenly rang out. Cold light burst from Zhao Wuji's eyes as he clenched both fists. Of the seven Spirit Rings around him, the first Yellow Soul Ring instantly lit up, and intense golden light erupted almost immediately.

'Immovable Bright King Body'

Zhao Wuji's signature Soul Skill, and the reason he was known throughout the Soul Master World as the 'Immovable Bright King.' Its effect was simple and brutal: it instantly unleashed intense golden light that rebounded any attack within three meters of his body.

In an instant, the golden light reached Yang Ming. Just as Yang Ming was about to crash into Zhao Wuji's Bright King protective golden light, silver light rose again before the Atlas Spear!

A tiny black crack appeared before the Bright King golden light that should have sent Yang Ming flying. Its deep blackness gave one the feeling of an endless Abyss. It seemed capable of devouring the surrounding light, causing the once-bright sky to dim.

'Space Rending,' the Void God Leopard's signature offensive Soul Skill.

If 'Royal Power' truly collided with 'Immovable Bright King Body,' Yang Ming would inevitably expend some of Royal Power's strength. Moreover, the gap between their Soul Power cultivation was simply too great! But since Yang Ming dared to use it, he naturally had a strategy that guaranteed a hit.

Yang Ming had devoted most of his focus to stabilizing Royal Power. Using the little remaining focus he had to mobilize spatial power and ensure that Royal Power would strike without fail had also been planned in advance.

Space Rending was merely the first step. If it could directly tear through 'Immovable Bright King Body,' that would naturally be best. If not, Yang Ming would use a second-stage Space Rending to connect the space and directly send the Atlas Spear before Zhao Wuji.

Though the golden light fiercely resisted upon meeting the crack, it was still easily torn apart. However, after ripping through 'Immovable Bright King Body,' the spatial power was exhausted, and the tiny spatial rift torn open by Space Rending began to be repaired by the Douluo Great Void.

'Immovable Bright King Body' erupted in all directions without blind spots, but its power was spread far too thinly. It might have been able to block non-spatial elemental Soul Skills like the 'White Tiger Light Wave,' but against the immensely destructive Space Rending, it was insufficient!

Seeing the black crack before Yang Ming, Zhao Wuji cried out in shock.

"Spatial rift!!!"

Even if this spatial rift was tiny, was this a skill a Soul Elder could use?!! Zhao Wuji roared inwardly, yet the facts were right before his eyes. Yang Ming truly could do it.

Before Zhao Wuji could finish being shocked, 'Royal Power' was already right before him. The Atlas Spear, without carrying any imposing force, pierced Zhao Wuji's golden bear-like body as though it had been forged from pure gold.

"Clang!!!"

When the spear collided with flesh, it actually produced the resounding clang of metal being struck. This showed just how powerful Zhao Wuji's defense was!

Yet this seemingly 'feeble' thrust made Zhao Wuji feel as if he stood at the edge of an abyss!!!

Yang Ming's Royal Power Spear Art, which had perfectly compressed the aura of Absolute Dominance, the might of the Atlas Divine Spear, and the increasingly powerful intent of invincibility that had come with the revival of his memories into a single point, erupted completely the moment it touched Zhao Wuji's body!!!

That supreme will, capable of shattering matter, brutally suppressed Zhao Wuji's mind!!!

At this moment, within Zhao Wuji's inner world—

An immeasurable colossal spear bearing an aura capable of supporting Heaven and shaking Earth, unmatched beneath the heavens, pressed down upon Zhao Wuji with terrifying might as though it would thoroughly shatter this entire world! The Vajra Bear manifested by Zhao Wuji's mind let out a furious roar as it faced the Heaven-Piercing colossal spear descending upon it, and golden light surged around its body.

"Roar, roar, roar!!!"

The Vajra Bear that Zhao Wuji had become began to swell at an exaggerated speed. Its brownish-yellow fur grew wildly, its body completely turning brilliant gold. A holy bear—the entire creature became a prehistoric Holy Bear radiating golden light, like the Bright King descending into the world.

The Holy Bear raised both palms, and the golden light across its body continuously gathered toward them. Soon, the luster faded from its fur and it returned to brownish-yellow, but the pressure upon its bear paws was as though the Hand of the Bright King had descended upon the Human World itself, like the will of the gods descending to subdue demons.

As the Heaven-Piercing colossal spear drew nearer and nearer, Zhao Wuji's massive bear body launched into the air, and he struck out with one palm.

"Boom!!!"

A heaven-shaking explosion resounded through Zhao Wuji's heart, and his entire inner world trembled.

PS: The Heaven-Piercing Spear Tactic was a few spear arts Guantou designed for Yang Ming based on Yang Ming's naming style of Heaven-Piercing and Sun Shooting, as well as techniques from his past life and ones created in this life. Royal Power was one move, Sun Shooting was from the original work and was also one move, and several more moves would be added later.

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