“Boom!” …
In the end, Duanmu Gaoming’s giant tree spiritual form completely collapsed. Towering fluctuations surged towards him.
Duanmu Gaoming had already prepared pills in his hand. He crushed two at once. Two thick spiritual force barriers condensed before him, blocking the rolling impact.
However, the explosive force was far too vast. The spiritual force barriers in front of him, even with an additional one from his own power, were all shattered.
Duanmu Gaoming’s body was sent flying. A large mouthful of blood sprayed from his mouth.
The crowd was greatly shocked. Duanmu Gaoming from Spirit Pool Island had ultimately lost to Tantai Wenjun and was directly injured? Even two defensive pills could not hold it back?
Just how terrifying was Tantai Wenjun’s spiritual force?
Ximen Haoyue and the others from Spirit Pool Island all furrowed their brows. Their expressions turned somewhat grim.
Especially the elders of Spirit Pool Island. They knew Duanmu Gaoming’s strength very well.
He was nearly invincible below eighth-grade initial spiritual controllers, yet he had still been defeated by Tantai Wenjun.
From Tantai Wenjun’s nearly fully materialised spiritual form, one could see how terrifying her strength was.
The great spiritual controller aristocratic family, the Tantai clan, had actually nurtured such a powerful spiritual controller!
“Hiss!”
At that moment, Tantai Wenjun once again urged out her giant sword main spirit, piercing straight towards Duanmu Gaoming.
Though injured, Duanmu Gaoming immediately regained control of his body.
Five pills emerged before him.
“潜渊腾龙!”
Duanmu Gaoming roared loudly. The five pills, infused with his spiritual force, all transformed into long dragon spiritual forms materialised to seven or eight tenths.
The five dragon forms brimmed with vivid charm, as though five true dragons had appeared. Condensing boundless medicinal power, they gathered together and charged forward towards the incoming giant sword.
Afterwards, another giant tree spiritual form condensed before Duanmu Gaoming, following closely behind the five dragons as it smashed forward.
“Five spiritual form pills!” Lin Xiao’s heart jolted. Each of these five dragons likely possessed combat power equivalent to Duanmu Gaoming’s main spirit attack.
Gathered together, that was a fivefold amplification of power. Adding his own main spirit, it amounted to six times the force of his previous strike.
With such terrifying might, Tantai Wenjun could never withstand it head-on.
The crowd was also shocked, marvelling at the formidable methods of Spirit Pool Island.
Those were undoubtedly five spiritual form pills. Spirit Pool Island’s techniques were truly fearsome.
“Boom!”
A thunderous explosion rang out. The massive spiritual form was indeed instantly shattered. The long dragons, barely diminished in power, along with the giant tree, continued blasting forward.
At that moment, ten pills suddenly appeared before Tantai Wenjun.
The ten pills transformed into enormous cubic spiritual forms, like massive crystalline blocks, or meteors streaking through the air. They shot forward, smashing into the five dragon forms.
The five dragon forms collapsed. The giant tree form behind them also shattered, turning into churning waves of qi that surged violently outward.
The ten cubic crystal forms, reduced by more than half, continued smashing horizontally towards Duanmu Gaoming.
Duanmu Gaoming’s expression filled with horror. He hurriedly crushed three defensive pills in his hand. Three spiritual force barriers condensed heavily in front of him, while his own spiritual force also enveloped his body.
“Boom!”
The defences from the three pills were all shattered. Duanmu Gaoming’s own spiritual defence was breached. Terrifying force slammed into his body.
Duanmu Gaoming sprayed out a large mouthful of blood. His aura immediately weakened considerably. His entire body was sent flying far away, directly blasted out of the island’s outer array.
“What? Tantai Wenjun actually refined ten spiritual form pills?”
“Duanmu Gaoming was blasted away?” …
Everyone stared in stunned silence.
Though the battle was brief, it had been extraordinarily thrilling.
Beyond their powerful spiritual form attacks, the two actually possessed such formidable spiritual form pills. One had refined five, the other ten, and both had deployed them all.
Even if Duanmu Gaoming had more defensive pills, his defences were still overwhelmed. He was blasted out of the battlefield. Victory and defeat were decided.
Ximen Haoyue’s eyes shifted slightly. Invisible spiritual force instantly surged out, catching Duanmu Gaoming as he flew away and halting his momentum.
At this point, Duanmu Gaoming was gravely injured, his aura wilted, with only a fraction of his combat strength remaining.
Ximen Haoyue could not help glancing at Tantai Shuo. With deep meaning, he sighed, “Elder Tantai, it seems your side prepared very thoroughly this time. Ten spiritual form pills. The medicinal ingredients alone must have been a considerable expenditure.”
“Elder Ximen flatters us. This was Elder Wenjun’s own fortune. Even I did not expect her to reach this stage,” Tantai Shuo replied, his voice inevitably carrying a note of pride.
Defeating Duanmu Gaoming meant Tantai Wenjun had essentially claimed the championship.
This tournament, the Tantai family had gained immense prestige, overshadowing Spirit Pool Island.
Ximen Haoyue did not respond further to Tantai Shuo. For Tantai Wenjun to achieve such a massive increase in strength on her own, and to have enough ingredients to refine ten spiritual form pills, was hardly believable.
At that moment, Ximen Haoyue looked towards the field and announced loudly, “The competition continues. The next challenger, step forward!”
The next was Duanmu Gaoming. Though gravely injured and having just taken pills, his combat strength had already been reduced by more than half. Full recovery would take considerable time.
However, the rules of the competition were to fight to the end.
Thus, even gravely injured, Duanmu Gaoming had to take the field.
Otherwise, he could only concede.
Tantai Wenjun descended from the platform. Duanmu Gaoming dragged his heavy body and flew towards the battlefield island.
Lin Xiao immediately charged out from the number one battle platform.
With Lu Mohan dead, Duanmu Gaoming’s only opponent was him.
“Tantai Wenjun truly did not disappoint me!”
Lin Xiao inwardly praised her. Then, controlling his flight, he moved straight towards Duanmu Gaoming and called out loudly, “Senior, forgive my offence!”
“Hiss!”
A thunder dragon spiritual form surged towards Duanmu Gaoming. Duanmu Gaoming rushed into a battle platform and dodged it.
Lin Xiao immediately charged into the platform. Dozens of sword-shaped spiritual forms shot towards Duanmu Gaoming.
Duanmu Gaoming had lingered at the edge of that platform and instantly rushed out.
Lin Xiao did not immediately exit the platform. Instead, he closed in on Duanmu Gaoming’s direction to prevent him from retreating back.
Seeing no chance to return, Duanmu Gaoming could only fly outward, rushing towards another battle platform.
His current strategy was to buy time, allowing his injuries to recover further.
However, Lin Xiao intended to seize the opportunity. With his wealth of combat experience and keen grasp of battle dynamics, seeing Duanmu Gaoming head for another platform, he charged out from this one. Thunder Dragon Extinguishing Heaven Light shot towards Duanmu Gaoming’s right leg.
The reason he targeted only one leg rather than the body was that Lin Xiao feared a single strike might truly be too much for Duanmu Gaoming to withstand, potentially killing him.
Duanmu Gaoming bore him no grudge and was from Spirit Pool Island, so he held back.
