The two dragons collided, and the pair proved unexpectedly evenly matched.
The crowd reacted with widespread shock. After using explosive spirit pills to reach seventh-grade initial spiritual power, Mu Haoran’s combat strength had become this formidable. He could truly hold his own against Lu Mohanh?
What also stunned them was the thunder dragon.
It was clearly pure thunder energy, meaning it should be thunder-attribute spiritual energy.
Yet when Mu Haoran had previously unleashed the energy palm, it had not seemed purely thunder-based spiritual energy. What was going on?
Could the spiritual energy Mu Haoran had refined be particularly unusual?
Shock also appeared on Lu Mohanh’s face. A mere seventh-grade initial cultivation forcibly raised by explosive spirit pills had matched his full-power ordinary spiritual form strike?
“Hmph. Let us see how long you can sustain the pill effects,” he thought, though shocked, Lu Mohanh felt no real concern.
As long as the opponent’s combat strength did not surpass his own, even without exerting full effort, the opponent would eventually exhaust the pill effects. At that point, defeat would come.
He intended to wait until Lin Xiao’s pill effects ran out, leaving him no chance even to forfeit, and directly cripple his cultivation.
“Aoo~~~”
At that moment, a heaven-shaking screech suddenly roared from Lin Xiao’s brow. Extremely terrifying sound waves, like thousands of massive tides, surged towards Lu Mohanh at incredible speed.
The sound waves were too fast. Before Lu Mohanh could even mount an attack, he felt his eardrums on the verge of shattering, his entire mind as though it would explode.
He hurriedly circulated spiritual power to shield his mind. His body was blasted backwards by the sound waves.
After unleashing the sound wave attack, Lin Xiao hurled out the skull palm. Controlling it with spiritual power, he sent it shooting towards the retreating Lu Mohanh.
Before Lu Mohanh could recover, rolling yellow mist erupted from the skull palm.
Torrential corrosive aura burst forth. Ghostly wails rang out. The deathly yellow spring power, thick with corpse qi, exploded like a breached dam.
Infused with seventh-grade initial spiritual power, the force erupting from the skull palm became even more terrifying. Even Lin Xiao at the rear had to retreat temporarily into a battle platform.
After all, the power bursting from the skull palm did not surge in only one direction.
When that vast yellow spring power erupted, the entire island, except for the battle platforms, was submerged. Rolling yellow mist enveloped the whole island, swallowing Lu Mohanh within it.
The crowd cried out in alarm. Under consecutive assaults, Lu Mohanh had suddenly fallen into disadvantage, overwhelmed by Mu Haoran’s attacks?
“That skull palm is too eerie. Could Lu Mohanh end up reduced to bones?”
Many exclaimed in shock. In earlier rounds, people had been turned to skeletons by that skull palm.
Now, with Mu Haoran boosted by explosive spirit pills, the skull palm’s might was even greater.
Could one of the championship contenders, Lu Mohanh, have fallen victim too?
“Ha!”
Just then, a mighty shout erupted from within the rolling yellow mist. A huge arc-shaped spiritual form blasted out, dispersing the yellow mist.
Lu Mohanh’s figure reappeared.
His long hair was dishevelled, blood stained his mouth corners, yet he seemed largely unharmed.
“No serious injury from that?” Lin Xiao frowned slightly. He charged out of the platform again and unleashed his strongest Sacred Hand Covering the Sky.
His pill effects were limited. He needed to deal heavy damage to Lu Mohanh quickly and defeat him.
A massive black, cyan, and blue tri-coloured energy palm condensed in mid-air.
With forcibly elevated cultivation, Lin Xiao now possessed spiritual power nearly capable of sweeping seventh-grade advanced controllers. The energy martial technique unleashed at this level was far more terrifying.
The spiritual energy released was vaster, more majestic, its power many times greater than before.
Terrible devouring force radiated from the tri-coloured palm, as though it would swallow the entire space, twisting it. The whole battlefield island grew extremely dim, as if night were falling.
At the same time, horrifying incinerating aura filled heaven and earth. The island seemed about to burn to ashes. Temperatures soared sharply. All platform barriers rang with intense straining sounds.
Additionally, the tri-coloured palm contained thunder energy on the verge of detonation. Faint thunder rumbled within.
Three kinds of terrifying energy combined in one palm, as though to annihilate everything in its path. It slapped down towards Lu Mohanh from above.
“So powerful?” Sensing the terrifying might, even Lu Mohanh felt his heart leap. He had never imagined Lin Xiao could unleash an attack of such overwhelming force.
Without hesitation, he summoned his main spirit. At the same time, he retreated violently towards a platform barrier behind him.
Lu Mohanh’s main spirit had a strange form, like a river of ink. Black ink stained the sky, radiating astonishing mental pressure. It collided with the vast energy palm.
Boom! Boom! Boom! …
Earth-shaking explosions rang out. Lu Mohanh’s ink-river main spirit collapsed section by section. The remaining energy palm, driving heaven-shaking shockwaves and fluctuations, slammed into Lu Mohanh’s body.
“Pu!”
Lu Mohanh’s aura instantly weakened. He spat a great mouthful of blood. His body shot far backwards, crashing directly into another platform behind him.
The impact sent him rebounding out of that platform and into yet another before he finally stopped.
Half the energy palm struck the first platform, completely disintegrating. Together with the shockwaves from Lu Mohanh’s earlier main spirit, it surged forward to the rest of the island, submerging all other areas.
“What? Lu Mohanh has been gravely injured?”
“How is this possible? How can Mu Haoran’s combat strength be this powerful?”
…
Everyone stared wide-eyed, filled with disbelief.
Mu Haoran’s single strike had gravely injured Lu Mohanh?
Did that mean seventh-grade initial Mu Haoran possessed the strength to contend for the championship?
This was too hard for them to accept.
Duanmu Gaoming also showed extreme surprise, but joy soon rose in his heart.
With Lu Mohanh gravely injured by Mu Haoran, facing him later would be far easier.
As for Mu Haoran, after this battle with Lu Mohanh, his pill effects would surely be mostly depleted.
Whoever won or lost between them made no difference to him.
“Bad. More than half the pill effects have dissipated. At most, I can unleash Sacred Hand Covering the Sky one more time, and not even at full power.”
Lin Xiao frowned. He raised a spiritual power barrier around his body and rushed at extreme speed towards Lu Mohanh inside the platform ahead.
