"Taiping... beat that Qi Hao?"
In the bamboo grove at Profound Seclusion Abode, Zhao Linglong still looked incredulous even after Prefect Qiu Shanyuan had announced the result of the match.
The other senior sisters and senior brothers reacted much the same way she did.
Even Dugu Qingxiao's eyes were filled with astonishment.
He had considered that Xu Taiping might win, but he had never imagined that he would win this way.
"That punch Taiping just threw was somewhat like Charging Ox Breaks the Formation, yet also vastly different. It could be called an entirely new fist technique. So does that mean that, within these seven years, he trained a move from an entirely new fist technique to... the ultimate realm?"
Dugu Qingxiao gazed at Xu Taiping, who stood alone on the Golden Scale Platform in the Spirit Mirror, and murmured to himself.
When someone cultivated a martial art to the ultimate realm, it was easy for others to sense it, so long as they did not deliberately conceal it.
All the more so for an expert like Dugu Qingxiao.
"Second Senior Brother, why think so much? Taiping won, anyway!"
Zhao Linglong cheered merrily.
Spurred on by her, the other Seven Peaks disciples also began celebrating happily.
Dugu Qingxiao shook his head with a wry smile and thought:
You lot probably haven't realized just how terrifying Taiping's punch was. That wasn't an ordinary ultimate-realm punch. It was an ultimate-realm punch unleashed with a martial artist's blood qi power.
At that thought, his gaze returned to the Spirit Mirror.
He began enlarging the faces in the spectator stands in the Spirit Mirror's image, little by little, and sure enough, their expressions were every bit as spectacular as he had imagined.
"With nothing but a martial artist's ultimate-realm punch, he defeated one of