The massive Bronze Halberd seemed poised to destroy the world. It was a supreme ancient weapon cultivated in tandem with the lives of the Wu Shang Lineage.
It, too, possessed Ten Thousand Laws Cannot Invade, its blade cold and keen.
"Ten Thousand Laws Cannot Invade-I have it too!" He Xian roared. One hand fought the enormous palm lunging toward him, while the other caught the descending blade. His supreme body could also be considered another form of Ten Thousand Laws Cannot Invade.
With a punch and a palm strike, he sent Hao Feng flying.
"Hah!" One cry shattered mountains and rivers. He Xian stood tall, cold eyes gleaming beneath his long golden hair. His blood surged like dragons and phoenixes calling in unison, transcendent and peerless. In heaven and earth, he alone reigned supreme.
Once this battle ended, he would have fought his way through the Foreign Realm's younger generation without an equal.
Invincible beneath these vast skies!
"Become a stepping stone on my road to glory!" He Xian burned his primordial spirit to its utmost, exchanging it for heaven-reaching power. Forbidden light seethed as he unleashed all his scriptures and secret arts. He would ascend to new heights in this battle.
"Come, lightning!" Had he been in the outside world, he would have shouted those words, summoning his heavenly tribulation to break through and ascend.
Kill!
He Xian's hair whipped wildly. Every punch surged like towering waves in a raging sea, shattering vast torrents of divine light. Crimson-gold fist force flooded the heavens, making the surrounding void tremble violently as though it were about to collapse.
Whoooo...
Whirlwinds of red hair rose here. Monsters and demons lurked in shifting shadows, ghosts wailed, and gods howled, as though a passage to some unknown land had been opened.
It was simply impossible to remain here. It was as if the Ghost Gate had swung wide open, yin energy surging into the skies and ghostly winds tearing the heavens. The relentless howling was utterly chilling, and the sight was especially horrifying.
Boom!
After the fifteen-hundredth exchange, someone was finally wounded.
A bloody gash appeared on Hao Feng's body, as though he were about to be torn apart alive. Crystalline beads of blood streamed from it.
"Ha ha ha ha!" He laughed madly. "I've suffered a setback. To think I've fallen behind in a battle at the same level."
He threw his Bronze Halberd onto the arena, leaving it embedded at an angle.
Whoosh!
He refused to take advantage of his weapon.
"Son of the Crane Ancestor, you've got me excited." Hao Feng let out a long cry, his eyes blazing more fiercely than ever. He was undefeated. He was the chosen son of destiny. He believed that with all his heart.
This Title Competition had been prepared for him.
He had reached the Escape One Realm at four hundred years old. That age would frighten a great many people if word got out.
Too young. Too fast.
"Destiny is mine!" Besides, with his Escape One Realm body and his superior understanding of the Great Dao, he could not imagine how he could lose.
"Supreme dominance is mine alone!" Hao Feng roared, his thoughts flowing freely. At this moment, his strength surpassed anything he had ever possessed. Utterly domineering and wildly fierce, the power of Ten Thousand Laws Cannot Invade erupted with brutal might.
Often, people lived on the strength of a single conviction.
Why could those invincible figures dominate the world with one simple slash or punch?
It was precisely because of that conviction.
Hao Feng threw punch after punch.
Who in this world could withstand this Dao-Transforming Power?
"Destiny is yours? What a joke. Let me smash that beautiful fantasy of yours!"
He Xian barked. Comparing convictions of invincibility with him? Without enduring true blood and fire, where did invincibility come from? Without knowing the darkness ahead, where did courage come from?
To him, his opponent's conviction of invincibility was as illusory as flowers in dreams and the moon reflected in water.
It could not withstand a real test.
His hands swept ever more fiercely. The Indestructible Scripture was terrifying; every punch and palm strike possessed the wondrous power to turn decay into marvels, rivaling all manner of Ancestral Arts. Bolstered by radiant golden light, he forcibly resisted the erosion of those laws.
With a boom, the supreme mysteries of the Indestructible Scripture erupted. Beams of light surged, thunder roared, and streak after streak of golden lightning coiled around He Xian, dazzlingly bright and brimming with astonishing energy.
In this state, much like his opponent, he had almost become an eternal god of light. He disregarded Ten Thousand Laws Cannot Invade and clashed against it head-on with every movement. Each palm strike warped space and left it riddled with cracks.
"You shouldn't have been so arrogant and stopped using your weapon!" He Xian smashed Hao Feng's chest open with a punch.
While searching for an opening to kill, he had found his chance.
Crack!
The sound of breaking bones rang out in an instant. Hao Feng's left hand spasmed, then twisted out of shape, suffering a severe fracture.
Then another punch slammed into his chest, like a black mountain crashing down with tremendous weight and force. Hao Feng could not help roaring as a large section of his chest caved in, crushed into a mass of pulp.
"The myriad Daos fall to emptiness; all laws remain undying!"
Hao Feng roared, ignoring his grievous injuries. His hair danced wildly, each strand like a blade or sword. His entire body burned as well, his blood energy condensing over his skin. Rings of divine light formed a suit of Platinum Battle Armor.
Splurt!
He Xian suffered a heavy blow. The Wu Shang Lineage's peerless Ancestral Arts had unleashed their might, capable of weakening even tremendous physical strength. His opponent, meanwhile, was terrifying. After being injured, Hao Feng displayed a hundred and twenty percent of his power, breaking through He Xian's golden body and repeatedly fracturing his bones. He could even suppress the Indestructible Scripture.
All the flesh and bone that sprayed out turned to ash and vanished.
This was entirely unlike the opponents he had faced before. Hao Feng's racial advantage, Ten Thousand Laws Cannot Invade, was seamless and flawless. Every movement was natural and complete, carrying a sense of innate perfection and mastery. Moreover, he too firmly believed himself invincible, his will unshaken. He was practically beyond reproach.
Even his body rivaled He Xian's, strong enough to dominate an entire generation.
"What if you're from the Wu Shang Lineage? At the same realm, I'll slaughter you all the same!"
Instead, this stirred He Xian's fighting spirit. His body was still not strong enough. Fighting at the same realm had actually drawn his blood and broken his bones. Although this was largely due to his opponent's unique Ten Thousand Laws Cannot Invade, he still could not accept it.
He Xian let out a long cry and charged with all his might. Terrifying fluctuations erupted, sweeping forward like a tsunami and instantly evaporating everything on the battlefield, turning the entire expanse of heaven and earth into blazing golden flames.
His whole body burned and shone, first like the morning sun, then transforming into an explosive midday sun that radiated destructive fluctuations.
The Great Sun sank, bearing down upon Hao Feng.
The two resumed their fierce battle.
"Halberd, come!" Hao Feng finally could not resist using his Bronze Halberd.
This was a weapon cultivated in tandem with the lives of his lineage, possessing boundless divine might.
"Kill!"
Hao Feng held the great halberd, looking down upon the world. Terrifying phenomena erupted from the Bronze Halberd. Its blade light destroyed the heavens and split the earth, slew gods and annihilated immortals. It surged upward against the sky, smashing heaven and earth apart.
It also emitted waves of terrifying power that dispersed the myriad Daos.
Only now had Hao Feng truly reached the pinnacle of his combat strength.
"Battle across the heavens-advance, never retreat!"
Streams of blazing light boiled out of He Xian's body and coiled upward, bringing peals of thunder with them.
He felt that his Indestructible Scripture was about to break through. Beyond great mastery lay the supreme domain.
"Aah!!!" He roared, his muscles swelling and his joints cracking. An intense metallic sheen flashed again and again, bleeding into the white radiance and slowly replacing it, stirring boundless gales and crashing thunder.
Gradually, the mysterious whimpering wind grew louder and louder, until it sounded like a roar. Accompanied by lightning, it all swirled around He Xian.