“How is this possible? How could you possibly hurt me!”
Lu Mohan’s face was full of disbelief. However, when he saw Lin Xiao charging towards him, he tossed two pills into his mouth and rapidly refined them. The injuries on his body healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Seeing this, Lin Xiao’s brows immediately furrowed. The healing pills in Lu Mohan’s hand were clearly of high grade. Taking two at once made the recovery speed far too quick.
In a short moment, Lin Xiao rushed into the battle platform where Lu Mohan was.
However, Lu Mohan, who was already near the edge of the platform, seemed to forcibly circulate his power. A spiritual force barrier enveloped his body, and with a single movement, he shot out of the platform, causing Lin Xiao to miss the chance to attack immediately.
Yet Lin Xiao had prepared for this. He immediately soared into the sky, and the Holy Hand Covers the Sky, which he had long been brewing, was instantly unleashed.
A tricoloured energy giant hand, surging with three types of attribute energy, blasted towards Lu Mohan.
This time, he had nearly drained all the medicinal power. As soon as he unleashed Holy Hand Covers the Sky, his aura began to weaken.
Moreover, the might of this attack was even less than before.
This time, he had to heavily injure Lu Mohan and prevent the opponent from recovering, otherwise he would find it hard to win again.
Almost instantly, Lin Xiao had already prepared his second strike for after the medicinal power declined.
“Whoosh!” However, at that moment, Lu Mohan crushed a pill in his hand. A burst of medicinal power suddenly erupted, enveloping his entire body.
Lu Mohan’s whole body seemed to teleport as he flew backwards, rushing back into the battle platform. This caused the tricoloured energy palm to strike empty air, slamming into the ground and exploding into towering, rolling waves of qi that shook the entire surface.
“What?” Lin Xiao’s expression changed dramatically.
A speed pill. Lu Mohan actually still had a speed pill, allowing him to dodge his attack in an instant.
This caused his final burst of Violent Spirit Pill power to hit nothing.
He had no choice but to temporarily retreat from the rolling energy ahead, plunging downward into the battle platform.
At the same time, he urged out an ordinary fused spiritual energy that flew towards Lu Mohan.
This was the moment when the medicinal power was retreating but not yet fully gone, just as his seventh-grade initial spiritual force cultivation was dropping back to sixth-grade advanced.
The energy was weaker than when he was at seventh-grade initial, but stronger than sixth-grade advanced.
“Hahaha!”
Lu Mohan burst into loud laughter. Spiritual force enveloped his entire body as he allowed that spiritual energy to strike him.
That spiritual energy was actually unable to break through Lu Mohan’s defence.
“Lin Xiao, you have surprised me, but now your medicinal power has dissipated, hasn’t it?” As he spoke, the ink-river-like main spirit immediately emerged before Lu Mohan.
Though not as powerful as the previous one, it was not much weaker. Surging with rolling mental pressure, it slapped towards Lin Xiao.
“Hiss!”
Lin Xiao forcibly urged out a spiritual force barrier to block it, while his body rushed upward.
However, even at the edge of his ascent, he was still struck by that ink-river-like main spirit. His spiritual force barrier collapsed, and with a mouthful of blood spraying out, he was sent flying out beyond the battle platform’s barrier.
Above him, energy waves still surged violently, but the killing power was not great and had little further effect on his body.
But that strike from Lu Mohan was far too powerful and had injured him severely.
“I’ll cripple you first!”
At this moment, Lu Mohan’s strength seemed to have recovered even more. After rushing out from the side of the battle platform, he once again urged out his main spirit.
That ink-river-like main spirit charged towards Lin Xiao again.
All of this happened in an instant. Lin Xiao had only just regained control of his body when the ink-river main spirit, surging with terrifying pressure, arrived right in front of him.
A thick sense of crisis instantly surged into his heart.
If he was struck by this spiritual form impact, even if he did not die, he would be heavily injured and fall unconscious. At that point, he would definitely be crippled by Lu Mohan.
He now had only two choices: either erupt with origin force and unleash the impregnable Haoran defence, breaking the rules and being eliminated, or take Lu Mohan’s strike and let the injury depend on how much his body could withstand…
“I refuse to accept this!” Unwillingness and the sense of crisis instantly stimulated him to the extreme. The Violent Spirit Pill’s medicinal power had also just completely dissipated, causing his cultivation to drop right at that moment.
And because of all these emotions and physical states, a heaven-overturning change suddenly occurred in Lin Xiao’s mind.
A terrifying aura surged out from his mind, instantly filling heaven and earth.
A spiritual force palm imprint shot downward first, perfectly blocking the ink-river main spirit.
“Boom!”
A thunderous explosion rang out as the two forces collided, erupting into towering waves of qi that surged violently in all directions, creating terrifying fluctuations.
Lin Xiao was shaken upward and sent flying, while Lu Mohan below was forced to retreat.
Blood overflowed from the corners of both their mouths.
“He broke through, hahaha…” Even though he had been shaken into spitting blood, Lin Xiao above burst into loud laughter. His body immediately stopped at the very edge of the island’s highest array barrier, with powerful seventh-grade initial spiritual force aura surging endlessly.
Clearly, at the final moment of crisis, Lin Xiao had completely broken through.
From sixth-grade advanced spiritual force to seventh-grade initial spiritual force.
His strength was now considerably more powerful than when he had relied on medicinal power to reach it.
“Holy Hand Covers the Sky!”
With a rolling roar, Lin Xiao once again unleashed Holy Hand Covers the Sky. When he had relied on medicinal power to reach this cultivation, he had already been able to heavily injure Lu Mohan.
Now, there was even less need to mention it. The might was even greater than before.
The enormous palm suffused with three types of energy swept aside the rolling energy waves in the air and pressed down towards Lu Mohan below.
“What!” Lu Mohan’s face filled with shock and horror. He hurriedly forced out his strongest spiritual force defence.
Having just used his main spirit, he had no time to urge it out again, nor time for anything else. He could only bring out defence.
However, that defence still collapsed under the bombardment of the energy giant palm.
Lu Mohan’s entire body was slapped to the ground. The surface trembled, and towering energy waves surged violently across it.
“Thunder Dragon Extinguishing Heaven Light!” At this moment, even though Lin Xiao could not clearly see Lu Mohan’s exact position, he roared loudly while unleashing Thunder Dragon Extinguishing Heaven Light.
“I…” Lu Mohan’s urgent shout came from beneath the ground.
However, the lightning as thin as silk threads was far too fast, instantly shooting towards the ground as if it had pierced straight through the entire surface.
Lu Mohan’s voice stopped before he could finish.
“He should be dead, right?”
Hearing Lu Mohan’s voice cut off, Lin Xiao did not attack again. Instead, he urged out a spiritual force defensive barrier to block the energy fluctuations oscillating upward from below.
At the same time, his body descended some distance, cautiously staring downward.
