The Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd!

Meanwhile, in a rear courtyard in Lin City.

Yu Xiaogang lay beside the sewage ditch, staring at the ancient, gigantic finger in midair that had crushed everything.

He wet himself in sheer terror.

A stream of pale yellow liquid ran down his trouser legs into the sewage ditch.

"No wonder he wouldn't listen to my theories..."

"He actually mastered such monstrous martial arts..."

Yu Xiaogang trembled all over.

Now he was truly, immensely grateful that Lin Dong had made the tiger blow him into the stinking ditch rather than poke him with that finger.

Otherwise, even his ashes would have been scattered by now.

Just as Yu Xiaogang shook with fear, a guard behind him lashed his back with a whip.

"What are you staring at! Get shoveling that shit! Slack off again, and I'll break your legs!"

Yu Xiaogang screamed, hurriedly grabbed his shovel, and ran back like a slave to continue shoveling demonic beast dung.

Inside the Arena.

After a brief silence, cries of astonishment erupted like mountains toppling and seas surging.

On the platform.

Lin Dong slowly withdrew his finger. His delicate features were somewhat pale from the excessive expenditure of Yuan Power, but his back remained ramrod straight.

He looked at the somewhat disheveled Lin Langtian on the raised dais, a cold smile curling his lips.

"Your Creation Martial Arts don't seem all that impressive."

Those words were like a sharp knife plunging straight into Lin Langtian's supremely arrogant heart.

On the raised dais.

Lin Langtian pushed aside the two Supreme Elders standing in front of him.

His handsome face had turned so dark it seemed about to drip water.

Having his ultimate move broken by a branch family disciple before hundreds of thousands of people was worse than death for someone as proud and arrogant as him!

"Good... very good!"

Lin Langtian laughed in his fury, the murderous intent in his eyes so thick it had almost become tangible.

"Lin Dong, you really have surprised me."

"You can be proud of forcing me to use my trump card."

Lin Langtian drew a deep breath. He knew that if he failed to crush Lin Dong with an overwhelming advantage today, his title as the Lin Family's greatest genius would become a complete laughingstock.

Lin Langtian slowly raised his right hand.

Hum!

A strange light flashed, and an ancient, palm-sized mirror appeared out of thin air in his hand. Its entire surface was bronze-colored, its edges lined with sharp serrations.

The instant the mirror appeared.

The temperature throughout the Arena plummeted.

A terrifying fluctuation capable of forcibly distorting even the surrounding Heaven and Earth Yuan Power emanated from the mirror.

[Martial Universe equipment: Spirit Wheel Mirror!]

[One of the Lin Clan's clan-guarding treasures, a high-grade earth-tier spiritual treasure!]

[Capable of absorbing Heaven and Earth Yuan Power, reflecting and even multiplying an opponent's attacks. Its might is unfathomable!]

As soon as the captions appeared on the heavenly screen.

The people of the Douluo Continent gasped once again.

A high-grade earth-tier spiritual treasure!

What that Heavenly Origin Realm martial artist had held earlier was merely an ordinary mid-grade spiritual treasure, yet it could cleave a cliff apart with one sword strike.

Now Lin Langtian had actually brought out a high-grade earth-tier spiritual treasure worthy of being a clan-guarding treasure!

At the sight of the Spirit Wheel Mirror.

Tang San of Shrek Academy stared, his eyes fixed.

"It can absorb Heaven and Earth Yuan Power? And reflect attacks with multiplied power?"

Tang San stared fixedly at the mirror, a profound sense of helplessness rising within him.

The greatest weakness of the hidden weapons he took such pride in was that they could not carry much energy and could only rely on physical penetration.

If they encountered a spiritual treasure like this, capable of forcibly distorting space and absorbing attacks.

His hidden weapons probably would not even raise a splash when fired at it. They might even be multiplied and reflected straight back, killing him instead!

"These battles aren't even in the same dimension..."

"Magical treasures, martial arts, cultivation realms..."

"The Martial Souls the Douluo Continent takes such pride in really are nothing but a pile of junk before this world."

In the Arena.

Holding the Spirit Wheel Mirror, Lin Langtian looked down at Lin Dong, no longer concealing the murderous intent in his eyes.

"Lin Dong, dying beneath my Spirit Wheel Mirror is an honor for you."

As his words fell.

Lin Langtian frantically poured the Yuan Power within his body straight into the Spirit Wheel Mirror in his hand.

Hum!

Dazzling light erupted from the Spirit Wheel Mirror. Within its surface, a seemingly solid beam of light condensed and swept viciously toward Lin Dong on the platform, carrying an aura of utter destruction!

Faced with a strike that even a Creation Realm expert would not dare meet head-on.

Lin Dong did not dodge.

His gaze sharpened, and his hand abruptly clenched.

"You have a spiritual treasure. Do you think I don't?"

With a cold laugh from Lin Dong.

An ancient halberd instantly appeared in his hand, dark red from end to end and covered in fine scales, radiating towering baleful energy like an ancient ferocious crocodile!

The instant the ancient halberd appeared.

A savage, ancient baleful aura, as though it had crawled from mountains of corpses and seas of blood, turned into almost tangible red light and shot into the sky!

The chill brought by the Spirit Wheel Mirror's sudden drop in temperature was instantly torn to shreds beneath the impact of that ferocious baleful aura.

[Martial Universe equipment: Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd!]

[Grade: High-grade earth-tier spiritual treasure!]

[Description: Forged by fusing the blood essence and complete skeleton of the ancient ferocious beast, the Heavenly Demon Blood Crocodile. Its baleful energy towers to the heavens, and its might is unparalleled!]

As they read the captions on the heavenly screen.

Everyone in the Arena, including the Lin Family Inner Clan elders in the stands, abruptly widened their eyes.

A high-grade earth-tier spiritual treasure?!

How was that possible!

The Spirit Wheel Mirror in Lin Langtian's hand was a clan-guarding treasure of the Lin Clan, acquired only by pooling the entire clan's wealth and accumulated resources.

How could Lin Dong, a branch family disciple from a backwater like Qingyang Town, possibly possess a treasure on the same level as a clan-guarding treasure?!

In the Qingyang Town branch family's seats.

Father and son, Lin Zhentian and Lin Xiao, exchanged a glance, each seeing the utter shock in the other's eyes.

"Dong'er... what he's holding is actually a high-grade earth-tier spiritual treasure?"

Lin Xiao rubbed his eyes hard, his voice trembling.

"How many Nirvana Pills would that cost! Just what has he been through out there these past few years!"

Although it pained him to think of his son suffering away from home, as Lin Xiao gazed at that back on the platform, holding an ancient halberd with the invincible bearing of a war god, an almost mad hope rose in his heart for the first time.

Perhaps.

Dong'er really could win today!

Meanwhile.

On the field at Shrek Academy on the Douluo Continent.

Tang San stared fixedly at the dark red Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd on the screen, having fallen into a state of frenzy.

"They forged a weapon with the blood essence and complete skeleton of an ancient ferocious beast?!"

Tang San clutched his hair with both hands, his worldview suffering an unprecedentedly violent blow.

On the Douluo Continent, Soul Bones dropped by dead soul beasts were divine treasures every Soul Master dreamed of, all painstakingly absorbed into their own bodies.

Who would dare use a Soul Bone for smithing?!

Never mind whether the Douluo Continent even possessed such forging techniques; that act of wantonly squandering a heavenly treasure alone would have every Soul Master on the continent drowning the culprit in spit.

Yet now, the people of that world had not only used an ancient ferocious beast's bones for forging.

They had even fused in the beast's blood essence, directly forging a spiritual treasure weapon capable of destroying heaven and earth!

"My Tang Sect's casting techniques... before artifact-refining methods like these, they're nothing but scrap collecting!"

Tang San gritted his teeth. Before the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd's towering baleful energy, the Tang Sect Hidden Weapons he took such pride in did not even qualify as fire pokers.

On the platform.

Facing the destructive beam sweeping toward him from the Spirit Wheel Mirror.

Lin Dong gripped the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd's shaft tightly with both hands, the Yuan Power within him surging into it like a raging flood.

"Shatter!"

Lin Dong roared, the muscles of his arms instantly bulging with the formidable physical strength of the Great Sun Thunder Body.

He swung the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd straight up and hacked viciously down at the beam!

Boom!!!

The ancient halberd's blade slammed into the Spirit Wheel Mirror's beam.

Blinding light instantly erupted in the center of the platform, forcing everyone in the surrounding stands to shut their eyes.

Ring after ring of almost tangible, violent energy ripples surged wildly outward.

At that moment, the hard black obsidian platform seemed made of tofu, its surface ripped up layer after layer.

Fragments of stone shot in every direction like bullets, striking the Arena's defensive formation and sending violent ripples across it.

"He blocked it?!"

The martial artists in the stands squinted, staring fixedly at the center of the energy eruption.

Within that dazzling light.

Lin Dong held the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd, both feet nailed firmly to the ground. The terrifying impact pushed him back more than ten meters, plowing two deep furrows into the ground.

Yet the ancient halberd in his hands remained braced firmly against the beam, yielding not a single step!

"Roar!"

As the Yuan Power within Lin Dong continued to erupt.

The faint phantom of an enormous blood crocodile actually emerged from the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd!

The blood crocodile phantom opened its blood-filled maw and let out a heaven-shaking, earth-shattering roar, biting straight down on the Spirit Wheel Mirror's beam.

Crack!

A crisp cracking sound rang out.

That destructive beam, which even Creation Realm experts dared not meet head-on, was forcibly cleaved in half down the middle by the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd!

Split in two, the beam flew past either side of Lin Dong's body and slammed into the barrier behind the platform, blasting two enormous holes into it.

"A high-grade earth-tier spiritual treasure?!"

On the raised dais.

As Lin Langtian stared at the ancient halberd in Lin Dong's hands, radiating towering baleful energy, his expression finally changed completely.

That face, which had maintained its cold arrogance all along, was now somewhat contorted with extreme shock and jealousy.

He, Lin Langtian, was a once-in-a-century genius of the Lin Clan, enjoying the clan's finest resources since childhood.

The clan had only rewarded him with this Spirit Wheel Mirror after he had rendered countless distinguished services.

But what right did this branch family peasant before him have?!

What right did he have to produce a treasure of this level too?!

"Impossible!"

"How does a lowborn wretch from a branch family like you deserve a high-grade earth-tier spiritual treasure!"

Lin Langtian completely lost his earlier lofty composure.

His eyes were bloodshot, and even the hand holding the Spirit Wheel Mirror trembled slightly.

At that moment, the absolute sense of superiority he had always held over the branch families was smashed to pieces by Lin Dong's ancient halberd!

"A lowborn wretch?"

On the platform, Lin Dong planted the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd heavily on the ground.

He looked at the furious, flustered Lin Langtian on the raised dais, a mocking, cold smile curling his lips.

"Lin Langtian, do you think only people from the Main Line like you deserve good things?"

"That pitiful pride of yours was built entirely on exploiting the branch families, on the countless resources the clan piled into you!"

"Strip away that skin of a Main Family genius, and what the hell are you!"

Every word Lin Dong spoke struck at the heart, each one like a knife driven viciously into Lin Langtian's lungs.

Throughout the Arena, countless branch family disciples felt hot blood surge through their chests at his words.

How many years had it been?

Before the Main Line, the people of their branch families had been like dogs, unable even to raise their heads.

Today, Lin Dong had not only raised their heads for them, but had pointed straight at the Main Family's foremost genius and called him trash before the whole world!

What sweet relief!

In Qingyang Town's seating area, Lin Xiao trembled all over with excitement and slammed his fist into a stone beside him.

"Well said! Dong'er, well said!"

Meanwhile, in a dark corner of the Arena.

Hu Liena watched the commanding young man on the platform, ancient halberd in hand, pointing at Lin Langtian as he berated him.

She felt her legs go a little weak.

That wild, unrestrained spirit, that overbearing air that treated the powerful as mere weeds.

It utterly bewitched her, a woman who admired strength in her very bones.

"So handsome..."

"Compared to a man like him, those elders and Saint Sons of Spirit Hall are nothing but a bunch of eunuchs without a drop of fire in their blood!"

Hu Liena bit her lip hard. She no longer cared at all how strong Lin Langtian actually was.

Even if Lin Langtian won today, she would acknowledge only Lin Dong as her master.

Even if Lin Dong died fighting on the platform today, she would still consider him the man with the most guts in the world!

"You're courting death!!!"

On the raised platform, Lin Langtian was utterly enraged by Lin Dong's words.

Rage swallowed his reason.

He abruptly bit through the tip of his tongue and spat a mouthful of blood essence straight onto the Spirit Wheel Mirror in his hand.

"Lin Dong, if I don't tear you into ten thousand pieces today, my name isn't Lin Langtian!"

Buzz!

Having absorbed Lin Langtian's blood essence, the Spirit Wheel Mirror abruptly erupted with an extremely eerie, dark red light.

A pulse several times more terrifying than before instantly enveloped the entire Arena.

Lin Langtian's hands rapidly formed seals, pouring every last bit of his advanced Qi Creation Realm Yuan Power into the mirror.

"Spirit Wheel Mirror! Heaven and earth turn, all things fall into oblivion!"

With Lin Langtian's hysterical roar.

A dark red wheel of light fully a hundred feet across actually formed directly upon the Spirit Wheel Mirror.

Its rim was covered in exceptionally sharp teeth, and it spun so fast that it sliced black rifts of nothingness into the surrounding space.

"Die!"

Lin Langtian swept his hand.

With a piercing sonic boom, the dark red wheel of light hurtled straight down at Lin Dong to shred him, like a buzz saw capable of slicing through heaven and earth!

Faced with this killing blow into which Lin Langtian had poured all his strength, even sacrificing his blood essence.

Lin Dong drew a deep breath.

He knew that now was the moment victory and defeat would be decided.

"Old dog, today I'll show you what true Creation Martial Arts are!"

Lin Dong no longer used the Heavenly Scale Ancient Halberd to meet the attack head-on.

He thrust the ancient halberd into the ground beside him.

Then he slowly closed his eyes, his hands forming an ancient seal before him that was ten times more intricate than the Great Desolate Imprisoning Heaven Finger he had used earlier.

Buzz.

As this seal took shape.

The previously clear sky above the whole of Lin City actually darkened in an instant.

An aura of desolation several times more terrifying than the Great Heavenly Phoenix Seal, or even the half-finger of the Great Desolate Imprisoning Heaven Finger from earlier.

Surged wildly from Lin Dong's body like floodwaters bursting through a dam!

The instant that aura appeared.

The faces of the several Lin Clan Supreme Elders at the very top of the stands turned utterly pale.

"This... this is..."

"A complete Creation Martial Art?!"