But in the match he had just fought against Yue Zhenchuan of the Mountain-Moving Guests, Xu Taiping had expended only three beads of Divine Essence.
Those three had been expended while unleashing Overlord's Breath.
He had used up less than thirty percent of his Qi and Blood and True Essence.
I never expected that bringing out ninety percent of this body's fighting strength at my current realm would not only increase my combat power, but also reduce my consumption of Magic Power so drastically.
Xu Taiping was coming to appreciate more and more the benefits of fully bringing out this physique's fighting strength.
What would it be like if I brought out its fighting strength to a full hundred percent?
At that thought, Xu Taiping looked forward all the more to his upcoming battles against those stronger cultivators.
Especially those Heavenly Geniuses everyone spoke of.
Then he took out a Spirit Crystal and tossed it straight into his mouth.
Although there was spiritual energy in the Black Prison, it was so thin that it could not replenish his expenditure at all. He could only replenish it by eating Spirit Marrow Stones.
And even that was only because he had cultivated the Furnace Dao Body.
Otherwise, like the other cultivators, he would have had to slowly refine and absorb the Spiritual Power within the Spirit Marrow Stones.
Just then, the spectating cultivators around him finally reacted.
For a time, an uproar swept through within the Bronze Prison.
Although the spectating cultivators had considered that Xu Taiping might win, none had expected him to defeat Yue Zhenchuan of the Mountain-Moving Guests in such an overbearing, direct manner.
Below the platform, Heavenly Lord Hanjian offered rare, outright praise:
"In this round, Xu Taiping truly showed something of the ancient martial tradition. A punch