“Holy Hand Covers the Sky!”
At this moment, Lin Xiao emerged from the number five platform, bellowing as he unleashed Holy Hand Covers the Sky, the energy martial technique derived from the Eternal Heavenly Spirit Art.
Without primal force and unable to activate the Heaven-Swallowing Spirit Gathering Finger, this was his strongest spiritual energy attack.
Su Dongfeng, a seventh-rank high-level spiritual controller, was simply too powerful. Even the skeletal palm could not stop him. Lin Xiao had no choice but to deploy Holy Hand Covers the Sky directly.
If even this failed, he would have to resort to his pill trump cards.
“Whoosh!”
A colossal energy palm, black, cyan, and blue, abruptly condensed in front of Lin Xiao.
Terrifying devouring power radiated from the tricoloured palm. Space itself seemed on the verge of being swallowed and twisted. The surroundings dimmed.
At the same time, a horrific burning aura permeated the heavens and earth. The entire island appeared about to be reduced to ashes, temperatures soaring sharply.
Every platform on the island, along with the array barriers surrounding it, activated fully and emitted intense hums.
Moreover, muffled thunder rumbled within the tricoloured palm, harbouring vast, unparalleled thunder energy. The violent thunder power threatened to explode.
In other words, the tricoloured palm contained three types of terrifying attribute energies.
The whole island lay shrouded in oppressive black, cyan, and dark blue.
The entire space laboured under immense pressure.
Witnessing the might radiating from the colossal energy palm, the onlookers all paled, utterly taken aback.
Mu Haoran still had such a powerful trump card?
What kind of spiritual ability did he possess?
“What?” Sensing the immense power of Lin Xiao’s strike and the three energy auras within it, Su Dongfeng, charging forward, changed expression at once.
He immediately unleashed his primary spirit: a triangular crystal-shaped spiritual form, materialised to six or seven tenths, carrying unparalleled spiritual force as it smashed into the tricoloured energy palm.
“Boom!”
A thunderous explosion shook the entire island. The triangular crystal spiritual form collided with the energy palm, erupting in ocean-vast waves of energy and unparalleled fluctuations.
Yet the overwhelming majority of those waves and fluctuations surged in one direction, straight towards Lin Xiao.
“So strong?” Lin Xiao’s face shifted. He hastily withdrew from the edge of the number five platform, allowing the rolling energy waves to crash against the array barrier.
Su Dongfeng’s strength exceeded even Lin Xiao’s expectations. His strongest attack, Holy Hand Covers the Sky, had proved ineffective.
No wonder Su Dongfeng was so confident. Seventh-rank high-level spiritual controllers ranked in the continental top ten were truly extraordinary.
The realm gap between them remained too vast.
In that instant, everyone stood shocked by Su Dongfeng’s dominance.
The number five platform vanished beneath vast energy.
Other areas were swallowed by rolling waves.
Su Dongfeng flashed forward, plunging into the surging waves and disappearing from view.
It was obvious he intended to seize the chance and charge into the number five platform to strike Mu Haoran.
“Lin Xiao, where will you hide now?”
Outside the number five platform, Su Dongfeng emerged from the peripheral waves and rushed inside.
There, he saw Lin Xiao already at the opposite edge, rushing outward while glancing back with a smile.
In that same instant, a sudden surge of unease and mortal peril gripped Su Dongfeng’s heart.
Just as he prepared to unleash a spiritual form, the thirty-five explosive pills Lin Xiao had long positioned in front of him detonated.
Yes, thirty-five explosive pills. Lin Xiao had anticipated this exact assault and prepared accordingly.
Thirty were seventh-rank mid-level explosive pills refined with purple fire crystal stone as the primary ingredient, plus five more seventh-rank mid-level pills made with other main materials.
Su Dongfeng was too strong. Even Holy Hand Covers the Sky had been shattered. Without deploying seventy or eighty percent of his explosive pills, victory was impossible.
Using only that amount would leave the rest ineffective against other spiritual controllers anyway.
Thus, Lin Xiao decided to expend them all for maximum impact.
“Boom!”
A heaven-shaking, earth-shattering explosion erupted. The number five platform shuddered violently. The entire island quaked as though in a massive earthquake.
The platform filled instantly with explosive energy. Lin Xiao’s body had only just cleared the edge.
Su Dongfeng was completely engulfed by the blast within.
“What?”
The onlookers reeled in shock. Even without clear sight, they knew explosive pills had detonated inside the number five platform. No other source could produce such devastating power.
They could not tell the rank or exact number, but the terror of explosive pill blasts was undeniable.
Those on the far side saw clearly. The moment Su Dongfeng entered, pills exploded directly in front of him.
Mu Haoran escaped the platform in that precise instant.
Su Dongfeng bore the full brunt of tremendous explosive force at point-blank range. The outcome was unthinkable.
Even the spiritual controllers on the number one platform, who saw everything plainly, drew sharp breaths.
Each imagined themselves in his place. They would likely have been obliterated.
This Mu Haoran possessed such a horrifying trump card. Truly terrifying. Fortunately, none of them had faced it.
Even Duanmu Gaoming wore deep wariness. Under such power, he too could not emerge unscathed.
Yan Huashu stood stunned. He had once thought that after his breakthrough he could challenge Mu Haoran, yet this trump card alone could overwhelm ten of him.
Murong Dian felt lingering fear. In the previous round, when grouped together, he had wisely avoided arrogance and chosen not to fight Mu Haoran. Otherwise, he might now be the one blasted apart.
No spiritual controller dared underestimate this youth with merely sixth-rank high-level spiritual force any longer.
He had not reached the top ten by luck alone.
As astonishment gripped the crowd, the energy gradually dissipated.
When the final waves cleared, the scene inside the number five platform came into full view.
The sight left everyone shocked once more.
