“Hmph, take this!”
Seeing Lin Xiao’s physical strength match his own, Yue Xingchen snorted, charging again with his white sword.
Dazzling swordplay unfolded, sharp sword energy flooding the arena.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Lin Xiao stood his ground, his petrified fist clashing with Yue Xingchen’s sword, sparking loud impacts and powerful shockwaves.
Despite Yue Xingchen’s relentless sword dance, Lin Xiao blocked every strike, their fight remaining evenly matched.
The battle raged on until Yue Xingchen’s sword gleamed with radiant energy, a terrifying force surging forth.
“Chi!”
Lin Xiao’s stone fist unleashed a petrified punch, colliding with the brilliant sword beam.
Bang! Bang!
Explosions rang out as the stone punch shattered into gray mist, while Yue Xingchen’s sword beam dissolved into waves of energy, vanishing.
“Get serious!”
Yue Xingchen’s feet sprouted elemental wings, lifting him into the air. His aura surged, hair flowing without wind, his white sword radiating blinding light that illuminated the surroundings.
“Meteor Sword, Falling Star!”
With a loud cry, Yue Xingchen slashed downward, a meteor-like sword beam streaking from the sky, its radiant light tearing through the heavens, crashing towards Lin Xiao like a celestial strike.
“Great Azure Dragon Slash!”
Lin Xiao dispelled his petrification, drawing the Yaoguang Broken Sword. Immense elemental force surged, unleashing the Great Azure Dragon Slash. A brilliant azure glow erupted, forming a long azure dragon that soared diagonally, roaring as it met the meteor-like sword beam.
“Boom!”
The collision shattered the azure dragon into rolling waves of energy. The meteor sword beam, halved in intensity, continued towards Lin Xiao.
Lin Xiao frowned slightly. Yue Xingchen’s technique and power were formidable—his peak Martial King-powered Great Azure Dragon Slash couldn’t stop it.
“Thunder Style Two!”
Thunder energy surged within Lin Xiao, pouring into the Yaoguang Broken Sword. Faint lightning crackled as he slashed upward against the descending meteor beam.
“Boom!”
A massive thunderclap echoed. A giant thunder sword materialized, striking the meteor beam. Rolling shockwaves erupted, both beams shattering into vast waves of energy, surging skyward.
Yue Xingchen slashed again, sending multiple meteor-like sword beams raining down through the turbulent energy, targeting Lin Xiao.
The crowd’s hearts raced. One meteor beam was terrifying; a barrage was unimaginable.
“Spirit Seal!”
Lin Xiao frowned, a wave of spiritual energy bursting from his mind, forming a spirit seal that shot upward, colliding with the meteor beams.
“That’s fourth-grade high-level spiritual power!” Ziling exclaimed. In the ultimate battlefield, Lin Xiao had broken through to mid-fourth-grade after refining a pure spirit pill. Over a year later, his spiritual power had advanced another level.
Lin Xiao’s spiritual power surpassed most spiritual controllers, capable of fighting one level above. His fourth-grade high-level power could rival ordinary fifth-grade initial spiritual controllers or average Third Realm Martial Venerables.
Ziling’s confidence in Lin Xiao grew. With his potent elemental force and fourth-grade high-level spiritual power, he could surely match Yue Xingchen.
“Boom!”
The spirit seal clashed with a meteor beam, shattering it into waves of energy. Blocking a second beam, the seal disintegrated alongside it, dispersing into spiritual fluctuations.
“Swallowing Heaven Art!”
As Yue Xingchen continued unleashing meteor beams, Lin Xiao activated the Heaven-Devouring Spirit Emperor’s ultimate technique, Swallowing Heaven Art.
Swallowing Heaven Azure Flame Spirit Energy surged, forming a black-azure vortex in the air. Its terrifying burning and devouring power seemed to consume and incinerate the void, dimming nearby light.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
Meteor beams struck the vortex, creating small ripples before being swallowed.
Only after absorbing countless beams did the vortex vanish.
Seizing the moment, Lin Xiao soared from the side, denying Yue Xingchen further chances to spam Meteor Sword. He swapped his broken sword for a ten-foot black pillar, dark energy seeping from it.
“That’s the Youtian Demon Pillar!” Gasps and shouts erupted, all eyes locked on the black pillar in Lin Xiao’s hands.
The Youtian Demon Pillar, Youtian Demon Palace’s founding treasure, was a priceless artifact containing their core technique, Youtian Demon Art.
In the ultimate battlefield, Lin Xiao had obtained it, only to be blasted into the thunderstorm by a Youtian Demon Palace Martial Monarch, who then chased him in. No one was sure if Lin Xiao still had it.
Now, seeing him wield it, everyone confirmed the Youtian Demon Pillar remained his.
The crowd was stunned. If this news spread, Youtian Demon Palace would be in an uproar.
The pillar was something even their Palace Master sought.
They might launch an all-out war to reclaim it.
Lin Xiao revealed it deliberately. In the Holy City, he wanted to see if Youtian Demon Palace would dare come.
With Shengyuan Academy’s protection, he was safe here. Outside, he’d be at risk.
Even without revealing it, Youtian Demon Palace, upon learning he lived, wouldn’t let it go, especially since the pillar hadn’t fallen to Mei Taiyang.
But challenging Shengyuan Academy, a centuries-old powerhouse with vast resources, would require immense courage and strength from Youtian Demon Palace.
“No surprise, this kid’s a troublemaker,” a voice remarked from the void, where three figures stood. The speaker, in simple robes, was the Vice Dean, flanked by the Ten Thousand Treasures Pavilion Master and Eight Directions Tower Master. Though hidden, they closely watched Lin Xiao’s fight.
