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Chapter 249 A draw?



Chapter 249 A draw?

The wind on the wasteland suddenly stopped.

The world was deathly silent, with only the heavy breathing of the two people echoing in the night.

Yang Qiong slowly lowered his arm, his jade-like fingers now slightly red.

He glanced down, then looked up at Li Wudao, and suddenly smiled.

It wasn't a gentle smile, but a fiery one born of a worthy opponent, with starlight burning like flames in his eyes.

"good very good."

His voice was deep, each word seemingly squeezed from the depths of his throat, yet his eyes shone with an astonishing light: "Brother Li, you are worthy of my full strength!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Qiong raised both hands at the same time, drawing a circle with his left hand and a square with his right.

Two completely different hand seals took shape in his palms, each gesture drawing upon the power of the stars in the void.

A slowly rotating phantom star map appeared before him!

"Om-"

Behind him, two illusory star images rippled and lit up simultaneously.

A crimson red, burning with raging flames, its light distorted and steamed the air in all its path.

A deep blue expanse, as blue as the sea, is covered in bone-chilling frost; wherever the cold air spreads, the ground is instantly covered in white frost.

Ice and fire, two extreme forces that should repel each other, are now perfectly fused together in Yang Qiong's hands, forming a strange balance.

The crimson stars transformed into a sky full of fiery rain, containing the intense heat to incinerate all things.

The azure stars condensed into a frost storm, freezing the air with a bone-chilling cold.

The two forces intertwined to form an ice and fire tornado with a diameter of more than ten feet, distorting space and sweeping towards Li Wudao!

"Two stars shining brightly together?!"

Shi Mao gasped, his expression changing drastically. "Senior Brother Yang has actually mastered this move?!"

Qiao Yuan's expression was solemn: "This technique requires the simultaneous manipulation of two opposing stellar powers, a balance that even ordinary Martial Venerables might struggle to maintain. Senior Brother Yang's mastery of the Dao of Stars is probably not much inferior to those elders of the Holy Land..."

The onlookers stared wide-eyed.

They felt a destructive aura rushing towards them, and those with weaker cultivation turned pale and retreated repeatedly.

Where the ice and fire tornado passed, the ground displayed a strange phenomenon—

Half of it was charred and cracked, with melted earth and rocks; the other half was covered in frost, with a bone-chilling cold!

Extreme heat and extreme cold alternated in an instant, and the space emitted a "crackling" sound as if it could collapse at any moment!

Li Wudao's pupils contracted slightly, and his clothes and hair were whipped about wildly by the violent air currents.

This move was even more lethal than the previous "Shaking Light Finger," and the destructive aura of ice and fire made his hair stand on end.

Not daring to be negligent in the slightest, Li Wudao stretched out his right hand and grasped it in mid-air.

"Zheng——!"

The clear, resonant sound of a sword ripped through the night sky, like a phoenix crying out in the heavens!

A slender and elegant longsword appeared out of thin air, its blade as clear as carved jade, its entire body flowing with a soft and mysterious silver-white light.

The two ancient and profound characters "Lingxu" on the hilt of the sword are now emitting a faint spiritual light.

The peerless holy weapon obtained from the forbidden zone of life, "Sword Ruins," has fully awakened at this moment!

The moment Li Wudao grasped the sword, the blade trembled slightly and emitted a joyful hum, as if a long-dormant spirit had finally found its true master.

"cut!"

With a single word uttered, the sword flashed like a dragon!

The Lingxu Sword streaked across the night sky, its blade radiating an unprecedentedly scorching crimson-gold light, dazzling against the dark night, like a shooting star soaring against the heavens!

At this moment, the pure Yang Flame and the ethereal aura of the sword itself merged perfectly.

It transformed into a dazzling sword beam interwoven with crimson gold and silver, tearing through the sky and fiercely slashing towards the ice and fire tornado!

"laugh--!"

Wherever the sword's edge passed, it tore the space apart with fine black cracks, demonstrating astonishing destructive power!

The instant the ice and fire tornado clashed with the sword's edge—

"Boom!!!"

Amidst a deafening roar, the power of ice and fire was cleaved apart by the sword's edge!

Half of the raging flames were devoured and annihilated by the pure Yang Flame, while the other half of the frost melted and vaporized in the Supreme Yang Sword Intent.

But the sword's energy was exhausted, and it vanished without a trace.

It's a close contest again!

"Sword Intent at its peak?!"

A look of amazement flashed in Yang Qiong's eyes, then he suddenly realized something and looked at Li Wudao with suspicion:

"This aura... the power of ultimate Yang?"

His suspicion was becoming clearer and clearer—

It can resonate with the essence of his righteous holy body, and possesses such a pure and domineering aura of supreme yang...

Suppressing his distracting thoughts, Yang Qiong's fighting spirit grew even more intense:

"Again! Let's see if your sword's edge is sharper, Brother Li, or my starlight is stronger!"

Yang Qiong no longer held back, and the speed at which he formed hand seals suddenly increased.

His ten fingers danced like butterflies flitting among flowers, instantly forming forty-nine hand seals!

"Om-"

Vast stellar energy descended from the void, transforming into a gigantic silver seal, hundreds of feet in size!

On the giant seal, an intricate and mysterious star map shimmered and gleamed.

As soon as it appeared, the suppressive force it emitted caused the ground within a radius of a hundred feet to sink three feet, and the soil and rocks to crumble, unable to withstand this force at all!

"Suppression!"

Yang Qiong pressed down in the air.

The massive silver seal crashed down with a thunderous roar, creating visible ripples in the void. Its power was terrifying!

The onlookers had already turned pale and retreated one after another.

"Back off! Back off even further!"

"This power...it's terrifying! Anyone who didn't know better would think there was an earthquake!"

Even some senior experts at the Martial King realm were horrified. They knew that if they were placed under this seal, they probably wouldn't last three breaths!

Li Wudao's expression became extremely serious.

He drew his sword to meet the attack. The Lingxu Sword transformed into a swimming dragon in his hand, its blade trembling slightly as if it were humming with excitement.

"Clang!"

The sound of metal clashing echoed across the wilderness, each collision sparking dazzling sparks!

Sword energy crisscrossed, illuminating the night sky, and clashed fiercely with the giant silver seal!

Li Wudao grew increasingly alarmed as the battle progressed.

As expected of a top genius from the Holy Land, his methods are endless.

Each move contained terrifying power, and what was even more frightening was the "momentum" that was subtly formed between those moves—as if the entire starry sky was blessing him.

If it weren't for his physical body being comparable to a low-grade King-level treasure, and the blessing of the Vermilion Bird Treasure Bone, making his blood and qi as vigorous as a furnace, he would probably have been severely injured long ago.

Even so, his arms were already tingling, and the gaps between his thumb and forefinger were cracked, oozing blood.

Moreover, the shockwave would occasionally penetrate his body, causing his internal organs to tremble slightly.

"Quick victory!"

Li Wudao made a decision, and his sword stance changed.

[Ancient Double Pupils - Awaken!]

A purple glow swirled deep within his eyes.

He no longer confronted the attacks head-on, but instead moved like a dragon through the gaps between the killing blows.

Each sword strike was precisely aimed at the weakest point of the attack. Wherever the sword's edge touched, the flow of star power was interrupted, and the suppressive force of the giant seal was momentarily halted!

At the same time, the "Shrinking the Earth to an Inch" technique is pushed to its limit!

One moment he was directly below the giant seal, the next he was ten feet away; the sword light slashed from the left, but the figure had already circled to the right.

In the blink of an eye, he shifted and changed positions more than ten times, his figure unpredictable like a ghost!

"Boom——!"

The wasteland trembles! The earth groans!

The place where the two fought was already unrecognizable.

The charred pits were bottomless, and the crisscrossing ravines spread like a spider web, while the glassy soil reflected an eerie light.

Even the air smelled burnt...

"Too...too strong..."

"Is this the battlefield for top geniuses?"

The onlookers were so shocked that they forgot to breathe.

"This is hardly a battle from the early stages of a King of Martial Arts."

An elderly man with white hair said in a trembling voice, "Such power... even a Martial King at the peak of his cultivation couldn't reach this level..."

The middle-aged martial artist beside him turned pale: "The combat power these two have displayed is at least three minor realms above theirs!"

"For ordinary geniuses, being able to fight someone one level higher is already rare enough, but these... they're simply monsters..."

At this moment, an even more terrifying roar erupted from the center of the wasteland.

The air currents rolled in like a tidal wave!


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