Indomitable Staff Technique vs. Dragon-Slaying Blade Art

Faced with the question, Di Guangming remained as aloof as ever.

He silently put away the Dragon-Slaying Blade and waited for the Dragon Emperor's instructions.

Long Zijin scooped up another spoonful of soup and said, "Pagoda Master Qiangu asked for your name and title. Just give him one."

Only then did Di Guangming show a thoughtful expression. After several seconds, he made up a title. "My name is Guangming. My title is... Holy."

"Oh, so it's Brother Guangming. I've heard much about you."

Qiangu Dongfeng clasped his hands and probed, "Brother Guangming has joined our Spirit Pagoda for over a month now, yet no position has been arranged for you. How about this—"

"I happen to have an honorary vice pagoda master position under me. But rest assured, it will not restrict Brother Guangming's freedom in the slightest, and none of the benefits or resources due to you will be withheld."

"I wonder what Brother Guangming thinks?"

Di Guangming turned his gaze toward Long Zijin, seemingly asking for her opinion.

Long Zijin smiled at Leng Yaozhu instead and asked, "What do you think, Sister Yaozhu?"

"After all, Old Di and I both agreed to work under you."

"You're leaving such an important matter to this child?" Qiangu Dongfeng could not help frowning. His assessment of Long Zijin rose several more levels, as did his wariness toward the Dragon Soul Master Family behind her.

"This..." Leng Yaozhu pondered.

Though her relationship with Qiangu Dongfeng was subtle and could not even be called good, she was ultimately his subordinate. She could only speak from that position. "Brother Guangming, you should accept the vice pagoda master position. Otherwise, our Spirit Pagoda truly cannot find a post worthy of a Quasi-God powerhouse."

"Fine." With Long Zijin's nod, Di Guangming immediately accepted the position.

Yet Qiangu Dongfeng smiled for no apparent reason, as though he had achieved some purpose.

The smile on his face immediately turned to worry as he sighed. "However, according to procedure and regulations, the vice pagoda master position requires a recommendation and a vote from our internal high-level council before it can be approved."

"I, Qiangu Dongfeng, can recommend Brother Guangming. But I also hope Brother Guangming can put my mind at ease. After all, though I have long admired your strength, I have only heard of it secondhand."

"If your strength does not match Yaozhu's description and those old fellows on the council seize on it, then I, as pagoda master, will be the one getting showered in spit, won't I?"

The Dragon Emperor and the Holy Dragon King could finally tell what this Spirit Douluo had been laying the groundwork for all this time.

—He wanted to trade blows with the Holy Dragon King.

"Old Di, show him what you've got, but hold back." Long Zijin directly gave the order in dragon language.

"Yes!" Sharpness surged into Di Guangming's eyes.

With the new Dragon-Slaying Blade in hand, the Holy Dragon King had naturally been itching to test it in battle and grow accustomed to it, but he had lacked an opponent.

Now Qiangu Dongfeng had delivered himself to the blade. His strength had reached Demigod Rank, and his Martial Soul was related to dragons, making him perfectly suited to sharpen a dragon-slaying blade.

"Good, Brother Guangming. Let us fight in the sky!" Qiangu Dongfeng laughed loudly.

In an instant, two auras beyond the limit erupted from the nineteenth floor of the Heavenly Spirit Pagoda!

The two simultaneously transformed into white-gold flying dragons. In the blink of an eye, they passed through the ninth-grade soul-conducting crystal walls, appeared outside the tower, and shot into the clouds together!

However, the Holy Dragon King directly turned his body and soul into light, passing through every barrier in his path, while Qiangu Dongfeng paused for half a second at each wall and had to use his spatial Soul Core ability to fly out of the tower.

Seeing this, Long Zijin could not help secretly nodding in praise. This Qiangu Dongfeng truly deserves to be called an outstanding hero and a formidable schemer of his generation.

The commotion naturally drew the attention of the entire Heavenly Spirit Pagoda. Countless Spirit Masters walked or flew out of the tower, joining streams of spiritual consciousness to observe the scene in the sky east of the Heavenly Spirit Pagoda.

They saw two massive holes punched through the clouds, revealing the azure sky beyond.

White-gold phantom dragons coiled around both Qiangu Dongfeng and the Holy Dragon King, constantly sweeping away the white mist around them.

The two faced each other from a hundred meters apart.

Qiangu Dongfeng had gone to great lengths, using Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng to obtain Leng Yaozhu's introduction, then using Leng Yaozhu to meet Long Zijin, then using Long Zijin to meet Di Guangming...

Finally, he had used the position of vice pagoda master of the Heavenly Spirit Pagoda to draw out the Holy Dragon King. It could be said that he had exhausted every effort.

But why had he gone to such lengths?

First, the Qiangu Family had one Quasi-God and two Demigod Rank experts holding the fort. They were about to become the continent's foremost family.

That was an indisputable fact.

So long as they carried out that "God-Slaying Plan" and joined forces with the Holy Spirit Church to eliminate the Sea God Pavilion and Tang Sect factions, the Qiangu Family would unquestionably become the number one power on the continent!

Therefore, as the head of the family, when facing this suddenly appeared Quasi-God, Qiangu Dongfeng naturally had to test whether this variable would be an aid on the Qiangu Family's road to the heavens—or a stumbling block that had to be crushed beneath their feet.

The rise and fall of those thoughts took less than half a second. Qiangu Dongfeng shouted and clenched his hand.

"Coiling Dragon Staff, come!"

The phantom dragon coiling around him was immediately grasped and transformed into a tangible staff.

It was a massive staff with a black main body, golden ends, and dragon-shaped patterns carved across its surface.

A pure golden holy attribute rippled from the staff's golden ends. It was the holy attribute radiated by the Evil-Breaking Dragon Soul coiled around the weapon.

What attribute could break evil? Pure holiness.

Qiangu Dongfeng gripped the black-and-gold staff, twisted his waist and spine, and swept it outward, scattering the clouds across the sky!

Red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red—nine rings of hundred-thousand-year soul rings rose at once.

His four-word Battle Armor, Heaven and Earth Coiling, appeared over Qiangu Dongfeng's body as well.

A Demigod Rank expert fighting a Quasi-God could not afford to hold back even a shred of strength.

That was also why he had not fought inside the Heavenly Spirit Pagoda. He feared losing disgracefully and damaging the majestic image he had built up.

"Brother Guangming, please." Qiangu Dongfeng's aura surged like a rainbow, his voice resembling the roar of a dragon soul.

But Di Guangming, a hundred meters away, made this high-spirited Spirit Douluo furrow his brows tightly.

The Holy Dragon King's expression was calm. He merely reached behind his waist, gripped the hilt, and drew a violet crystal cleaver.

"Hm?" At the sight, Qiangu Dongfeng immediately felt displeased. He had neither unleashed his Martial Soul nor displayed his soul rings, and he was not even using Battle Armor.

Does he look down on me that much?

Yet he did not know that the Holy Dragon King drawing his blade against an opponent below God Rank was already the greatest sincerity he could show.

After all, when he captured the Water Dragon King, he had used only a single claw.

"Hmph, excuse me, then!" Qiangu Dongfeng roared through the air.

He spun with the staff in hand and swept it horizontally. The surrounding space cracked apart piece by piece, and an aura capable of sweeping away all things burst forth in the sky!

Second form of the Indomitable Staff Technique: Heaven-Shaking Earth-Quaking!

The black-and-gold Coiling Dragon Staff expanded in midair, becoming a hundred meters long and ten meters wide, then swept fiercely toward the man a hundred meters away!

The air along its path exploded in a series of BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

The space along its path rang with fragile crackles, like a transparent glass curtain splitting apart inch by inch.

Yet the Holy Dragon King merely rotated his wrist once before drawing out a slash!

In an instant, surging blade intent transformed into a realm, filling half the sky!

Within that realm, gigantic dragons as immense as mountains were cleaved apart in body and soul by a single slash, their dragon blood spraying across the horizon!

The horrifying sight made every onlooker tremble with fear!

A Transcendent God skill—

Dragon-Slaying Blade Art!