“Elder Xue Ling has graced us with her presence and is personally observing. You all understand what this signifies. I hope you will each cherish this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
Shangguan Yu, his face filled with excitement, spoke loudly: “Now, let the competition begin!”
Hearing this, Shangguan Yu immediately became even more exhilarated. Today was precisely the moment for him to display his prowess. Once he swept through the three opponents, he would undoubtedly catch the eye of the Spirit Phoenix Valley elder.
Once he entered Spirit Phoenix Valley, his future prospects would be limitless.
Moreover, there would be a chance to go to Spirit Pool Island and witness the Continental Spiritual Controller Grand Tournament.
That was the grandest event in the world of spiritual cultivation. Spirit Pool Island was a distant land. Without a major power like Spirit Phoenix Valley, let alone two years, it might take a decade to reach it.
To witness such a magnificent spectacle would be enough for a spiritual controller to boast about for countless years.
The more he thought about it, the more excited Shangguan Yu became. He immediately leaped up and soared towards the high sky dozens of li ahead.
The competition between sixth-grade initial-level spiritual controllers had to take place in the distant high sky, or else the entire site would be affected.
Ouyang Peng also took to the air, flying to a spot not far from Shangguan Yu, where they stood in confrontation.
“Please!” Shangguan Yu said.
With that, a powerful sixth-grade initial-level spiritual power aura immediately emanated from him, with formidable mental pressure enveloping all directions.
“Please!” Ouyang Peng also released his aura without reservation, the two facing off sharply against each other.
“Sizzle!” As soon as the words fell, before Shangguan Yu’s eyes, spiritual power surged and coalesced into a one-horned spiritual beast.
This spiritual beast was half a zhang in size, with a majestic form. Its two legs were bent, treading the void, emanating a powerful spiritual power pressure.
The manifested spiritual beast opened its large mouth, as if about to roar loudly. Although its spiritual form was still somewhat blurry, it contained extremely potent spiritual power.
Opposite him, Ouyang Peng refused to show weakness and similarly manifested a spiritual beast. This one resembled a qilin, also filled with overwhelming pressure and majestic in stature, as if about to roar and charge straight towards the one-horned spiritual beast manifested by Shangguan Yu.
Shangguan Yu’s one-horned spiritual beast instantly surged forward fiercely, rushing to the midpoint between the two, where it directly collided with the qilin spiritual form.
“Boom sizzle!”
After the two spiritual beast forms collided, they turned into vast spiritual power fluctuations that surged and spread in all directions. The powerful waves directly rippled towards the positions of the two combatants, but they were easily blocked by both.
This strike could be called evenly matched.
This caused the members of the Shangguan family to furrow their brows slightly. Although it was merely a probing strike, Shangguan Yu was after all their most powerful genius. For the opponent to block it completely also indicated that this Ouyang Peng was quite formidable.
“To block my strike, you have some skill!”
Shangguan Yu let out a light sigh, his spiritual power stirring as he manifested two spiritual tiger forms, which arced around from both sides in a large curve towards Ouyang Peng.
Although he had split into two spiritual beast forms, each of these forms was hardly any weaker than the one-horned spiritual beast he had previously summoned.
If the two combined, in terms of power, they would certainly surpass that one-horned spiritual beast form by a considerable margin.
Evidently, Shangguan Yu had already increased his effort.
“Let us see how many of my strikes you can block.”
Accompanying Shangguan Yu’s light shout, the two spiritual tigers, mouths agape, pounced towards Ouyang Peng from two directions.
“Sizzle! Sizzle!”
On either side of Ouyang Peng’s head, two long arrow spiritual forms coalesced. Compared to spiritual beast forms, the long arrow forms were smaller, yet they gathered powerful spiritual power, with faint spiritual power fluctuations spreading out.
Then, those two long arrow spiritual forms shot out as if from a longbow, streaking towards the two spiritual tiger forms with lightning speed.
Under Shangguan Yu’s control, the two spiritual tiger forms did not charge directly but arced around once more, evading the long arrows.
However, the long arrows also curved in an arc, pursuing the spiritual tiger forms.
Originally, Shangguan Yu had intended to evade consecutively and then collide upon approaching Ouyang Peng.
Yet the long arrows were extremely fast. After merely evading two or three times, before getting close to Ouyang Peng, they struck, turning into surging waves of spiritual energy that rippled outwards in all directions.
“Sizzle! Sizzle!”
At this moment, Shangguan Yu remained composed and manifested spiritual beasts once more.
This time, it was four spiritual leopard forms, each hardly any weaker than the previous spiritual tiger forms.
The combined power of four was considerably stronger than before.
The four spiritual leopard forms arced around from up, down, left, and right, drawing long curves as they charged towards Ouyang Peng.
Ouyang Peng instantly manifested four long arrow spiritual forms, slicing through the long sky and shooting towards the four spiritual leopard forms.
Although the spiritual leopard forms evaded several times, attempting to close in on Ouyang Peng, they were ultimately struck by the four long arrow spiritual forms. Without getting too close, they disintegrated into terrifying spiritual energy waves, which Ouyang Peng easily dissipated along with the fluctuations.
Of course, although the long arrow spiritual forms had struck the spiritual leopard forms, in reality, Shangguan Yu still held a slight advantage.
After all, the position where the spiritual power collapsed was somewhat closer to Ouyang Peng.
Following this clash, Shangguan Yu directly manifested ten spiritual sparrow forms. Although each spiritual sparrow was considerably weaker than the previous spiritual leopards, the ten combined were slightly stronger than before. They traced brilliant arcs in the air, splitting into ten directions as they charged towards Ouyang Peng once more.
Around Ouyang Peng, ten axe forms manifested, spinning as they slashed towards the ten spiritual sparrow forms.
It was evident that Ouyang Peng was countering Shangguan Yu’s attacks.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
Although the ten spiritual sparrow forms dodged about, they were successively struck by the axe forms, disintegrating into waves of spiritual power that impacted outwards.
In the end, one spiritual sparrow form evaded an axe form and rushed towards Ouyang Peng.
However, Ouyang Peng shifted his body, easily dodging that spiritual sparrow.
Afterwards, the axe pursuing the spiritual sparrow struck it, causing both forms to collapse and turn into rolling waves of energy that surged in all directions.
Ouyang Peng retreated evasively, shaken back a certain distance, but the impact was not significant.
“Sizzle! Sizzle!”
Shangguan Yu’s eyes narrowed slightly as over a thousand various spiritual birds manifested directly, each containing considerable power. The total power of these thousand manifested forms was several times stronger than before.
The dense flock of spiritual birds scattered explosively, charging from all directions towards Ouyang Peng.
Sensing wave after wave of spiritual power fluctuations, Ouyang Peng could not help but furrow his brows this time, summoning an even more powerful spiritual form attack.
Around Ouyang Peng, a star chart seemed to appear, with over a thousand large and small celestial bodies coalescing into form.
Some small celestial bodies were several zhang in size, others only as big as a fist. The gaps between them varied in size as well, some places spanning dozens of zhang, others mere inches, making it hard to discern clearly.
The spiritual power accumulated in the small celestial bodies on that star chart varied in magnitude. As the star chart unfurled, it immediately resembled a vast net, spreading across the sky towards the thousand spiritual birds.
