"Hmph, a cheap trick. Watch me break it!"
With a thought, Chen Hao opened the connection within his body to the Spirit-Gathering Array in Guanghan Palace.
Drawing on the immense, ferocious spiritual power within the Spirit-Gathering Array, the spiritual energy in Chen Hao's body surged exponentially and poured into the Spiritual Energy Stone.
The Spirit-Gathering Array had been personally crafted by Chang'e. In both strength and purity, the spiritual power it condensed far exceeded anything this world could comprehend.
As soon as that spiritual power surged into the Spiritual Energy Stone, it completely shattered the spiritual power barrier Yuan Kai had secretly placed inside.
"What?!" Yuan Kai's expression changed as he sensed his barrier being destroyed.
Everyone saw Yuan Kai abruptly retreat two steps. Before they could figure out what had happened, spiritual power surged around Chen Hao, so powerful that it formed a vortex of spiritual energy around him and forced everyone back.
Even Wu Daozi, the strongest person present, could not help exclaiming, "Such powerful spiritual energy! Has Chen Hao really only reached the third realm?"
While everyone stood stunned, the light inside the Spiritual Energy Stone intensified, shooting from a foot high to roughly ten feet. Everyone had to look up just to barely see the top of the brilliant beam.
That was not even the most shocking part. Despite reaching roughly ten feet, the beam kept climbing.
Seeing this, Yuan Kai immediately shouted, "Chen Hao, stop!"
But the moment Yuan Kai finished speaking, a crisp cracking sound rang out. Crack!
Then the Spiritual Energy Stone in Chen Hao's hand burst apart, scattering black fragments all over the ground.
Yuan Kai was dumbstruck, and so was Yuan Li beside him.
Damn it, in the previous round, he had blasted Wu Daozi's sixth-grade Spirit Artifact to pieces. Now,