Unrestrained Blade

Jiang Feng had actually injured Ouyang Ke with a Bloodthirsty Eight-Fold Wave!

When the surrounding onlookers saw the two of them separate, they waited until both figures had steadied themselves before they could see clearly that Ouyang Ke was actually the one who had been forced back.

"Good heavens, Ouyang Ke was actually pushed back by Jiang Feng!"

"Five steps—five whole steps!"

"Jiang Feng actually made the expert ranked eighth on the Earth Ranking retreat five steps!"

This was something the watching crowd never could have imagined!

However, Ouyang Ke had also been utterly enraged!

"Good... very good!" Ouyang Ke swallowed a mouthful of bloody saliva and straightened. "Jiang Feng, you truly surprise me."

"Then bear the outpouring of my wrath!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ouyang Ke moved, his whole body blasting toward Jiang Feng like a cannonball, the heavy blade in his hand chopping straight down.

Jiang Feng knew Ouyang Ke was going all out and became even more cautious. The giant ruler in his hand immediately met the strike, true intent hidden within it, energy following along.

Even so, this slash still hacked him back five steps in succession.

"So strong!" Jiang Feng was shocked. "Is this his true strength?"

Ouyang Ke did not hold back either. He continued to press the attack, pouring out a set of "Dust and Cloud Blade Technique," every slash containing true intent far beyond what Jiang Feng could compare with.

"Such powerful true intent. Baili Tu's and Gusu Fu's true intent are simply child's play in front of Ouyang Ke's blade-technique true intent!" Jiang Feng resisted with the true intent of his ruler technique while seizing the chance to learn.

He admitted that, facing Ouyang Ke's blade-technique true intent, he felt somewhat battered and flustered for the first time. In all his previous battles, he had never once felt so wretchedly hard-pressed.

"Hm?" Ouyang Ke was extremely astonished. "He can actually still defend!"

Ouyang Ke discovered that whenever he believed his next slash would force Jiang Feng into a dead end, Jiang Feng could always find even the slightest flaw within his blade technique, use his ruler-technique true intent to contend with it, and then leap out of the shroud of his blade-technique true intent.

Even when he was occasionally touched by the blade-technique true intent, he somehow withstood it by relying on a protective energy so powerful it was almost abnormal.

Though danger sprang up in ring after ring, he ultimately escaped.

"This brat's protective energy is actually this strong. If I attack head-on, my blade-technique true intent can easily break through it. But relying only on a bit of true-intent contact still isn't enough to shake him."

"If this continues, I'll need three hundred moves to defeat him!"

"No, this brat's learning ability is extraordinary. If I give him too many chances, he will definitely comprehend an even higher ruler-technique true intent from my blade-technique true intent. At that point, killing him will be even harder."

"I can't drag this out. I'll defeat him in one move!"

Ouyang Ke made up his mind:

"Jiang Feng, if you can survive my next move, then I, Ouyang Ke, will follow your lead for the rest of my life!"

He was actually going to use a martial skill against a junior!

"Unrestrained Blade."

Back then, he had used this martial skill to heavily injure a mighty expert of the Heaven Martial Realm. Afterward, even when facing challenges from other experts at the peak of the Earth Martial Realm, he had never used this move again. Yet tonight, he was actually going to use this martial skill to deal with a younger junior whose cultivation was inferior to his.

With a sweeping slash, Jiang Feng was forced back again and again.

Seizing this opportunity, Ouyang Ke raised the heavy blade with both hands. Upon the blade radiance, energy soared to the heavens, its momentum like the sun and moon hanging high and shining down.

Ouyang Ke's entire aura surged sharply, dazzling like a burning nebula amid the starry river.

Jiang Feng only felt a terrifying force capable of destroying heaven and earth lock firmly onto him. Beneath the momentum of that power, the thought that he could not resist actually arose in him.

"So strong!" Jiang Feng cried out in shock.

This time, the surrounding onlookers saw it clearly. That powerful aura shone over all living beings; even if they did not want to see it clearly, they had no choice.

"Is this the Unrestrained Blade?"

"It really is incomparably domineering. No wonder it can heavily injure a Heaven Martial Realm powerhouse."

"Jiang Feng, to die beneath this move is enough for a lifetime!"

Clearly, everyone believed Jiang Feng was dead for certain! After all, the might of that Unrestrained Blade had already manifested.

The crowd even saw that under that might, the surrounding air was being compressed until it warped!

"Jiang Feng, come die!" Ouyang Ke roared. The blade edge sank, and he chopped through the air toward Jiang Feng.

The blade radiance flared with fury, heading straight for Jiang Feng five meters away!

The surrounding air also surged after it, mixed with sand and shattered stones that filled the sky, like a violent earth dragon, completely covering Jiang Feng's entire figure.

After the sound that shook heaven and earth, after flying sand and rolling stones, after tiles and rubble flew everywhere and that violent aura passed, the air gradually fell silent.

In the distance, Xiang Pang's blood-red eyes widened, and he roared out involuntarily, "Ah Feng!!"

He had not expected that facing Ouyang Ke's final blow, Jiang Feng would neither dodge nor evade!

That strike was a blow capable of heavily injuring a Heaven Martial Realm expert! If Jiang Feng endured that blow head-on, he would probably be beaten until not even dregs remained.

Ouyang Ke put away his blade and narrowed his eyes, staring at the place where the dust fog hung, his face full of arrogance as he waited to admire the results of his handiwork.

He firmly believed that under his Unrestrained Blade, Jiang Feng had absolutely no possibility of surviving.

His Unrestrained Blade was known for its power; cultivated to great success, it could even split mountains and cleave the earth. Just as he had said, if Jiang Feng could withstand this strike and not die, then Jiang Feng would possess the qualifications to make him follow him!

Although Ouyang Ke was the chief honored guest elder of the Qi Family, that did not mean he was willing to follow Qi Gongfu of the Qi Family. In his eyes, his achievements would one day certainly surpass Qi Gongfu's. For now, lodging under Qi Gongfu's eaves was nothing more than borrowing a nest to grow.

In this world, the person who could make Ouyang Ke follow him willingly had not yet been born!

If Jiang Feng could withstand his Unrestrained Blade, then just how powerful would Jiang Feng's physical body have to be? In this world, was there truly such a body, one that could let an Earth Martial Realm martial artist withstand the Unrestrained Blade?

Ouyang Ke clearly did not believe it, which was why he had spoken such a bold and heroic sentence.

Everyone's eyes were fixed deathly on the place shrouded in dust and mist. A gust after gust of night wind brushed past, and the dust slowly dispersed.

A tall black shadow was gradually outlined by darkness and lamplight.

The black shadow was nearly ten feet tall, just like a giant!

"That is!?" Everyone froze.

Ouyang Ke's mind tightened—how could there still be someone standing in that place? Impossible. Under the might of Unrestrained Blade, unless a Heaven Martial Realm expert had been prepared and caught it head-on, it was absolutely not something an Earth Martial Realm martial artist could withstand.

"Could it be that a Heaven Martial Realm expert acted to protect Jiang Feng?"

The onlookers were all waiting for the dust to disperse as soon as possible as well, so they could see clearly just what divine figure that towering silhouette was.

Xiang Pang supported himself against the top of the wall, his eyes fixed deathly on that tall black shadow.

"What a powerful aura!" Ouyang Ke sensed it. The aura released by that black shadow was so powerful it made his courage turn cold.

"Could it really be a Heaven Martial Realm expert?"

The dust finally scattered, and the black shadow revealed its true face beneath Mount Lu.

"Jiang... Jiang Feng!!" When the black shadow appeared, everyone was shaken to the core!

That person was none other than Jiang Feng himself. Only, Jiang Feng's height at this moment had reached a terrifying more than ten feet. His shoulders were broad and his frame vast, his flesh and blood like steel beads; within every single grain of muscle was explosive power, and black-and-white patterns spread across his body. From head to toe, his clothes were torn apart, leaving only a pair of taut long pants.

The night wind swept past, stirring his long hair and the strips of torn cloth on his body.

"This..." Ouyang Ke's bloodshot eyes nearly burst from their sockets, disbelief written all over him!

"He actually... survived, and he's completely unharmed!"

Everyone cried out in shock.

"Heavens, Jiang Feng actually survived under Ouyang Ke's Unrestrained Blade, and judging by his appearance, his aura has greatly increased. He seems completely unscathed!"

Xiang Pang was also beyond excited. He had thought Jiang Feng was about to fall.

Jiang Feng slowly took two steps forward, walking out of the huge pit blasted open by Unrestrained Blade, and stared straight at the dazed Ouyang Ke.