“Hiss!”
A beam of Extinguishing Heaven Light shot out at incredible speed, piercing straight towards Duanmu Gaoming’s right leg.
Duanmu Gaoming’s brows jumped. He hurriedly forced out spiritual force to envelop his entire body, concentrating the defence on the spot where that thread-thin ray was heading.
“Hiss boom!”
Duanmu Gaoming’s defence shattered. The Thunder Dragon Extinguishing Heaven Light did not pierce through his right leg, but part of the energy still struck it.
Duanmu Gaoming’s body dropped downward. His entire leg turned charred black, with wisps of black smoke rising.
However, the injury did not seem all that severe.
“Holy Hand Covers the Sky!”
Lin Xiao directly unleashed Holy Hand Covers the Sky. He knew Duanmu Gaoming still had trump cards and would not be defeated so easily.
Thus, he had to seize the moment to launch his strongest attack and heavily injure the opponent first.
Otherwise, once the other recovered, the outcome would be uncertain.
After all, this ranking was vitally important to him, and it held great significance for An Miao too. He had to fight for a higher placement.
“This kid!” A helpless expression appeared on Duanmu Gaoming’s face. He could only grit his teeth and forcibly urge out his main spirit.
A giant tree condensed in the air, materialised to only six or seven tenths now, blocking the giant hand infused with three types of energy attributes.
“Boom!”
A heaven-shaking explosion rang out. The giant tree spiritual form collapsed. The energy giant hand, having consumed most of its power, slammed into Duanmu Gaoming.
It slapped him towards the ground, stirring up surging waves of qi.
“I admit defeat!” At that moment, Duanmu Gaoming shouted.
This palm was somewhat similar to the one that struck Lu Mohan. Though the force had clearly weakened by more than half, Duanmu Gaoming was already gravely injured. Under this strike, his wounds were no lighter than Lu Mohan’s.
Moreover, he had forcibly urged out his main spirit and was now at the end of his strength.
If Mu Haoran launched another Extinguishing Heaven Light attack, he might even fall by the youth’s hand.
Thus, he had no choice but to concede.
“Senior Duanmu, thank you for letting me win!”
Lin Xiao cupped his hands towards the rolling waves of qi on the ground.
“Mu Haoran wins again!”
“He only took advantage of the situation. If Duanmu Gaoming had not been heavily injured by Tantai Wenjun, he definitely could not have beaten him.”
“Regardless, Mu Haoran has claimed second place in the continental spiritual controller tournament. This achievement is enough to tower over the world.”
“Do you think he could still beat Tantai Wenjun and take the championship?”
“Impossible. Tantai Wenjun’s spiritual forms are nearly at eighth-grade initial spiritual controller level. She is probably only a step away from contending against martial saints. Mu Haoran has no chance against her.”
“Exactly. If Mu Haoran can still defeat Tantai Wenjun, I’ll write my name backwards!”
…
The crowd buzzed with heated discussion.
Though Lin Xiao’s talent was indeed demoralising, strength conquered all. Those without grudges against him, especially the younger generation, many began to shift towards admiring Lin Xiao.
However, in a matchup against Tantai Wenjun, they did not favour Lin Xiao.
After all, Tantai Wenjun was simply too powerful. For Mu Haoran to cross two full grades and win was virtually impossible.
At this point, the energy on the field dispersed. Duanmu Gaoming on the ground slowly climbed to his feet.
Lin Xiao felt some surprise in his heart. As expected, the opponent was not so easy to deal with. Even beaten like this, he could still get up.
Not holding back with Holy Hand Covers the Sky had indeed been the wisest choice.
Otherwise, the subsequent situation would have been hard to predict.
“Never in my dreams did I think this old man would fall at the hands of a youth!” Duanmu Gaoming swallowed another pill, forcibly steadied his body, and flew to the number one battle platform. There, he began healing on the spot.
Lin Xiao could only respond with a smile.
“Mu Haoran wins. The next match: Mu Haoran versus Tantai Wenjun for the championship.” Ximen Haoyue’s voice rang out.
The next match was the final one.
This battle would decide the champion, the last fight of the continental spiritual controller tournament.
No one had expected the final match to feature a youth barely in his twenties.
Yet for this ultimate clash, whether it happened or not, everyone already knew the outcome.
It differed from any previous tournament they had watched, where the final was always the most thrilling.
The championship battle had essentially already occurred in the earlier clash between Tantai Wenjun and Duanmu Gaoming.
At this moment, Tantai Wenjun took the field, standing in confrontation with Lin Xiao.
“Master!” Tantai Wenjun transmitted via divine sense to Lin Xiao.
“Now is not the time to expose your identity. Use your strongest main spirit to attack me!”
Lin Xiao gave the order. He was not far from the battle platform. With a shift of his figure, he flew to the outside of the rear platform.
Holy Hand Covers the Sky was immediately urged out. A tricoloured energy giant hand, suffused with the aura of three attribute energies, carrying momentum like overwhelming mountains and seas, capable of annihilating everything, slapped towards Tantai Wenjun.
“Hiss!”
Tantai Wenjun unleashed her giant sword main spirit. The main spirit, materialised to eight or nine tenths, under the gaze of the crowd, slashed horizontally across the energy giant hand.
“Boom!” …
A heaven-shaking explosion resounded. Lin Xiao’s energy palm burst apart. The giant sword spiritual form, still carrying immense power, cleaved towards Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao had already retreated violently while launching his attack. Just as the giant sword was about to strike, he withdrew inside the battle platform’s barrier, causing the giant sword form to slam into the defensive screen there, erupting into rolling fluctuations.
“So strong!” Seeing the commotion erupting from the barrier before him, Lin Xiao thought to himself.
The reason he had Tantai Wenjun use her main spirit was twofold: first, to make the act convincing, and second, he wanted to test whether his spiritual force could sweep seventh-grade spiritual controllers.
The result was no.
Against ordinary seventh-grade advanced spiritual controllers, he might sweep them, but against someone like Tantai Wenjun, he was utterly outmatched.
Tantai Wenjun was simply too powerful, a near-saint existence, invincible below martial saints.
Fortunately, he had long ago enslaved Tantai Wenjun. Otherwise, forget her, he might not even have beaten Duanmu Gaoming.
At this point, Lin Xiao had also made his plan.
Though he very much wanted Tantai Wenjun to concede directly and shock some people,
that would only be a last resort. Exposing that Tantai Wenjun was his slave would mean offending the Tantai family entirely. The trouble afterwards would be far too great.
Now, he had sufficient strength to make it convincingly real without needing to expose anything and offend the Tantai family.
In the future, he might even use Tantai Wenjun to leverage the Tantai family.
Outside the battle platform, Tantai Wenjun did not continue attacking. Instead, she stood in place in the void, allowing the rolling energy waves to engulf her. With a tone of disdain, she spoke to Lin Xiao: “Admit defeat. You are no match for me. This old woman does not wish to injure you.”
“Hmph. In pure spiritual force combat strength, I am indeed inferior, but I still have Violent Spirit Pills. Though they cannot raise my cultivation another full grade, several Violent Spirit Pills can greatly boost my strength. Who wins is still uncertain.”
With that, Lin Xiao flipped his hand, pretending to swallow pills.
In reality, he only took out two pills, sixth-grade advanced spirit-replenishing pills. His spiritual force consumption was considerable, and he did indeed need to replenish it.
But most importantly, it was for cover.
Immediately, Lin Xiao deliberately emitted a powerful aura. His entire body charged out from the edge of the battle platform, urging out Thunder Dragon Extinguishing Heaven Light.
A beam of Extinguishing Heaven Light shot through the rolling waves of qi at extreme speed.
On the other side, Tantai Wenjun condensed a powerful spiritual force defensive barrier. With a loud “Boom hiss!”, Tantai Wenjun’s body was sent flying backwards.
A large mouthful of blood sprayed from Tantai Wenjun’s mouth. Her right shoulder had been struck. Half her body turned charred black.
Clearly, she had genuinely suffered a serious injury.
