Martial Artist and Spirit Reader Dual Cultivator

Seeing Jiang Yao charging toward his opponent, who looked like the very embodiment of lightning, while stepping on his spirit weapon, almost everyone in the plaza was stunned.

"Is he charging in to commit suicide because he sees no chance of winning?"

Even Prose, who had always been full of confidence in Jiang Yao, was momentarily bewildered.

Battles between Controllers and Martial Artists usually involve keeping a distance and attacking with spirit weapons; it is even more so when facing an opponent who seems like the incarnation of thunder—running away would be the only logical choice.

Not creating distance, but charging straight in instead—this was truly bizarre.

On the screen, Jiang Yao's indomitable figure didn't feel like a genius Controller pushing the Red Shadow Blade to its limit, but rather like a Martial Artist!

One must know that his opponent, the short, lightning-wreathed Leixi race member, was a genius Martial Artist capable of breaking into the finals of the peak tournament. Even if he suppressed his domain to the fourth level, he was absolutely not someone any ordinary fourth-level domain Martial Artist could handle.

Moreover, Jiang Yao was a genuine Controller. Even if he practiced as a Martial Artist on the side, could he possibly surpass the power of a Controller?

The Leixi race opponent simulated by the Virtual Universe seemed startled by Jiang Yao's actions as well. He paused for a split second, but quickly swung his lightning blade at the oncoming Jiang Yao with an expressionless face.

Then, the lightning blade, wreathed in cyan and purple electricity, stopped.

It had been blocked by a single finger!

A blinding red light erupted at the point of contact between the finger and the lightning blade.

The short Leixi race member seemed enraged, dancing his lightning blade and attacking Jiang Yao like a torrential storm.

Jiang Yao, meanwhile, used his palms as blades, his legs as staves, and his fingers as swords to block the lightning blade, clashing head-on without retreating, as if his body were not human flesh, but some kind of powerful weapon.

The Senate chamber was silent at first, then erupted into an uproar.

"Am I seeing this right? Is this the Heavenly Cage Domain Seal?"

"Aside from this top-tier combat secret technique, I can't think of any other technique that could possess such power..."

"Are you crazy? I haven't even mastered this Heavenly Cage Domain Seal myself..."

Even the Lingtong race sovereign sitting on the highest tier, the immortal god Jiuyuan, broke the mask he had maintained until now, asking with a look of astonishment: "Is it really the Heavenly Cage Domain Seal?"

He was a Spirit Reader Controller and had never practiced this combat secret technique, which was touted as the strongest for Martial Artists below the World Lord level.

The surrounding World Lord elders were also hesitant at this moment.

It was Kasa, the World Lord, who replied hesitantly because he had practiced this technique himself: "It... should be."

One cannot blame him for being so hesitant, even as someone who had practiced the Heavenly Cage Domain Seal.

It was simply too far beyond the imagination of an ordinary person.

The Heavenly Cage Domain Seal can condense a domain with a wide range of influence onto a specific part of the body, such as a finger, a fist, or a knee; at the highest level, one can even condense the domain into a single point.

Once mastered, the condensed domain can move at will, meaning every move, every punch, kick, finger, or palm strike contains the power of the entire domain, as hard as a high-level weapon and as destructive as a savage beast.

If combined with decent insights into the laws, one could be considered invincible among Domain Lords!

Jiuyuan suppressed his look of astonishment, a hint of joy appearing in his eyes as he continued to ask: "Has there been any example in the clan of someone below the Domain Lord level mastering this Heavenly Cage Domain Seal?"

Kasa the World Lord nodded: "Historically, there was a Universe-level Martial Artist in the clan who mastered the Heavenly Cage Domain Seal. With a foundation of an eighth-level domain and no insight into the laws, he became the biggest dark horse of the entire empire at the time, passing the first round of the preliminary qualifiers in the peak powerhouse tournament."

The Universe-level powerhouse tournament is different from the Stellar-level genius tournament. In the genius tournament, if one can step into the threshold of the origin laws, it is basically enough to ensure a top 500, or even top 300, ranking in the Xuanshang Universe Country.

But in the powerhouse tournament, stepping into the threshold of the origin laws is merely the basic prerequisite to pass the first round of the preliminary qualifiers.

The peak powerhouse tournament is a stage where origin laws collide with all kinds of unique arts.

For a Universe-level Martial Artist who hadn't grasped a single shred of law to pass the first round of the preliminary qualifiers by relying on the Heavenly Cage Domain Seal meant that he was fully capable of rivaling powerhouses who had grasped a shred of law, or even those who had stepped into the threshold.

Kasa, the World Lord presiding over the selection tournament, watched the two figures entangled in battle like savage beasts on the screen, feeling somewhat dazed.

It was laughable that he had been surprised earlier by Jiang Yao practicing as a Martial Artist on the side.

This wasn't a Controller practicing as a Martial Artist; this was clearly a Martial Artist practicing as a Spirit Reader!

Almost all the geniuses in the plaza had a similar sense of absurdity at this moment.

Duomeng asked Prose with a stutter: "You never told me he was a Martial Artist..."

Good heavens, so the previous six rounds of combat were just him playing around with everyone? Did he finally reveal his true colors as a Martial Artist in the seventh round?

Was his previous posturing of manipulating spirit weapons to fight his opponents just for show?

If you were a peerless Martial Artist capable of mastering the Heavenly Cage Domain Seal, you should have said so earlier! Is it fun to pretend to be a Spirit Reader Controller?

Prose opened and closed his mouth several times, not knowing how to explain: "Believe me, I just found out too."

If Jiang Yao, who was currently immersed in the battle and unable to extricate himself, knew that in the eyes of the others in the Lingtong race he was already a fraud pretending to be a Controller, he would definitely cry out in injustice.

In fact, even he himself was somewhat surprised.

Using the Heavenly Cage Domain Seal was just an attempt on his part, but he hadn't expected it to be so seamless. After surviving the initial passivity, Jiang Yao was shocked to discover that his body seemed to harbor a combat instinct he had never noticed before.

Every palm and leg strike seemed natural, as if his body's instinctive reactions were being activated bit by bit, like an innate ability.

His body's reactions were even faster than his thoughts, as if Jiang Yao was born to fight like this.

Nine Transformations of the Desolate God!

Startled and delighted, Jiang Yao realized he had overlooked something very important.

He had once transformed into the Desolate God Bizhang, and ever since, he had been constantly resisting Bizhang's will, treating it as a form of cultivation to improve his body's genetic level.

However, he had only focused on the improvement of his genetic level and his body becoming increasingly attuned to the Origin Law of Fire and the Origin Law of Light, treating the Nine Transformations of the Desolate God as an alternative version of the Nine Tribulations Secret Manual.

Only now did he realize that the Nine Transformations of the Desolate God was far more than that; it was not merely about enhancing cellular genes or making the body attuned to laws, but had also imprinted many more profound things deep within his body.

This battle served as the catalyst that began to unlock the treasures hidden within his body from over a decade of practicing the Nine Transformations of the Desolate God.

Jiang Yao extended a palm, his five fingers splayed, carrying the might of his entire domain as he enveloped his short opponent from the Leixi Race.

It was as if a red and white Divine Crane were reaching out its claw from the clouds, appearing light and graceful yet imbued with a heavy weight; the moment it manifested, all the lightning was completely frozen.

The Leixi Race opponent's body went rigid, as if he had taken root, forcibly pinned in place within the void!

The Claw of the Divine Crane extended further and further, instantly piercing through his opponent entirely like a rainbow bridge!