Chapter 297: With Sword Qi From A Thousand Mountains Forged Into Wings, Dare To Ride The Astral Winds And Knock Upon The Emperor’s Gate
Chiyue Town, Auction Plaza.
As Lin Qi appeared before Mo Xiao in an instant, the various major powers that had been waiting for an opportunity quickly noticed this scene, each of them looking on in astonishment.
“What does that Hall Master Lin intend to do? Does he really plan to fight Mo Xiao?”
“No way. Mo Xiao is one of Smiling Skull’s Seven Guardians. Just within the Four Regions alone, several high-level Blood Condensation Realm martial artists have died at his hands. Even if Hall Master Lin is a super genius capable of matching intermediate-level Blood Condensation Realm martial artists, even those super geniuses from the Domain City at that level do not dare act arrogant before Mo Xiao. Has he been driven mad by the current situation?”
Hu Lei and Zhuo Gu, who had held their forces back, looked at Lin Qi facing Mo Xiao and could not help feeling surprised.
The situation of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was indeed not very good. In the battle in the sky, although Earth Star Pharmaceuticals had only thirteen main combatants and their other Bone Forging Realm martial artists could only shoot arrows from the ground, the thirteen Blood Condensation Realm experts hired by Earth Star Pharmaceuticals were all extraordinary, especially the blood-stained general Meliya and an old man of the Half-Beast Race.
Meliya alone, with a single spear, had fought for just over ten seconds before dozens of grey-robed disciples from the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had fallen. As for that old man of the Half-Beast Race, the great axe in his hand swept out without using any martial skills at all. His axe wind was so fast that no one could react; with each step he killed one person, and not a single grey-robed disciple could block one of his strikes.
Even when the two faced the Spiral Demon Spear Cannon of the more than twenty super geniuses, they could still deal with it calmly when working together, while the other Blood Condensation Realm masters were effortlessly crushing the high-level martial artist grey-robed disciples.
However, there were also extraordinary individuals among the grey-robed disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. One long-haired woman, whose hair reached her waist, controlled more than three hundred long swords, working together with another woman wielding dual swords, each strike as fast as lightning, sometimes sending out sword light stretching a thousand meters. Together they forcibly pinned down the blood-stained general Meliya, giving her no chance to use any battle skills, forcing her to rely only on her own strength.
On another side, the Half-Beast Race old man was entangled by several extremely powerful grey-robed disciples. From time to time, they unleashed beams that could destroy sky battleships, or faced off against a man over eight meters tall holding a spear whose strength was not far below that of the Half-Beast Race old man, combined with a woman whose movement technique was strange and elusive. For a while, the Half-Beast Race old man was unable to break through.
As for the other Blood Condensation Realm experts of the Twelve Freaks of the Forbidden Land, each was held in check by Bone Forging Realm grey-robed disciples or large numbers of disciples who had condensed enormous phantoms. Both sides clashed fiercely, distorting the very air, while the ground caught in the aftermath was turned into ruins.
Although overall the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was slightly at a disadvantage, it was not something that could be decided in a short time. The strength they displayed completely exceeded everyone’s expectations and was absolutely not comparable to an ordinary major power. In addition, the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall still had a group of Bone Forging Realm experts and the Blood Condensation Realm Yinuo who had not acted yet. Within the entire Wushan Region, they were enough to stand at the very top.
This was also why the various major powers present had not rushed to make a move.
So Lin Qi going straight to Mo Xiao so quickly truly surprised everyone.
If he could suppress Mo Xiao, he could greatly quell the current restlessness of the major powers and make them afraid to act rashly. But Mo Xiao, as one of Smiling Skull’s Seven Guardians who had been famous for many years, was not someone so easy to deal with.
One could say that even if those more than twenty super geniuses among the grey-robed disciples attacked together, it would still be hard for them to contend with Mo Xiao. For high-level Blood Condensation Realm martial artists, their minimum strength was above 135 tons, while an expert like Mo Xiao, a high-level Blood Condensation Realm master renowned for many years whose Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill had reached the Perfection Realm, definitely possessed strength surpassing 200 tons.
For Bone Forging Realm martial artists to fight Mo Xiao was simply like an egg striking a rock.
Yet as Lin Qi’s life aura surged on the field, both Hu Lei and Zhuo Gu, and even Blood Condensation Realm experts like Tie Mu watching from afar, were shaken by the intensity of Lin Qi’s life aura.
This life aura did not just shoot straight into the sky; everyone present could feel a kind of trembling from the level of life itself, as if a ferocious beast was staring at them from point-blank range, provoking an instinctive urge to retreat.
“With this life aura and pressure, no wonder he dares to come over.” Mo Xiao looked at Lin Qi’s hair and clothes flowing despite the windless air, his oppressive aura making even the surrounding earth seem to tremble, and could not help but smile. “It seems the rumors that you can match intermediate-level Blood Condensation Realm masters are not exaggerated, but you are still somewhat lacking before me.”
After speaking, Mo Xiao threw a very normal punch toward Lin Qi, without using any martial skill or even a weapon, just a simple straight punch.
Bang!
The punch was so fast that the lizardman class instructor at intermediate-level Blood Condensation Realm beside them did not react before Mo Xiao’s fist appeared in front of Lin Qi, piercing through the air so cleanly that even the air failed to register it.
The ground cracked, and a steel high-rise a hundred meters away was blasted open with a gaping hole more than three to four meters in radius.
This scene made Hu Lei, who had been watching, narrow his eyes solemnly.
“With just a simple punch, he can condense the fist wind to such an extent?” Hu Lei looked at the steel high-rise that had been pierced through and could not help drawing in a sharp breath.
As someone only one step away from reaching high-level Blood Condensation Realm, he believed that when he threw a punch, the fierce fist wind could easily blow out several hundred meters.
But to rely on fist wind alone to pierce a steel high-rise a hundred meters away, even if he reached the extreme of high-level Blood Condensation Realm, he absolutely could not do it without using martial skills.
If he were hit by that punch, even with Tier 2 Top-grade Battle Armor to weaken the impact, he would still be seriously injured.
However, when Hu Lei saw Lin Qi tilt his head to dodge that punch, his eyes went wide. He could not believe Lin Qi had actually dodged a punch as fast as lightning.
For that punch’s speed, Hu Lei believed that out of ten attempts he would be fortunate to dodge two or three times. What was more, Mo Xiao’s fist had passed less than two centimeters from Lin Qi’s cheek; it was like dancing rock music before death itself.
Yet Hu Lei did not know that Lin Qi’s Mental Domain now covered a fifteen-meter radius around him. No matter how fast Mo Xiao’s punch was, before the fist was thrown Lin Qi had already calculated where it would land and could dodge in advance. Moreover, once he entered his Transcendent State, his neural reactions reached the level of Supernatural Life, far beyond ordinary life.
If it came down to pure nervous reaction speed, even a Heavenly Human Realm grandmaster might not be able to match Lin Qi.
“You dodged? You are somewhat capable, but how many times can you dodge?” Mo Xiao, somewhat surprised, looked at Lin Qi, then his six arms began to unleash a frenzied barrage of punches upon Lin Qi.
In an instant, it was like a fierce storm of blows more terrifying than a Gatling gun, with more than ten thousand punches per minute. Each punch was like a missile, shattering metal and stone even a hundred meters away; even a Bone Forging Realm expert wearing Tier 2 Battle Armor within that range would be killed in a single blow.
When Mo Xiao stopped his actions, a crater more than one hundred meters in radius had appeared on the ground in front of him, the entire area of earth pounded into dust, crushed rock turned into gravel.
“What a terrifying storm barrage. If it were any other intermediate-level Blood Condensation Realm martial artist, they would have been reduced to dust by now.” Lin Qi, hovering above the crater, glanced at the desert-like ground and could not help but marvel at Mo Xiao’s strength. If not for his Mental Domain, he definitely would have been hit.
With strength surpassing two hundred tons, even his body in Transcendent State would be injured if struck, let alone hit tens of thousands of times.
“You… how is that possible!” Mo Xiao stared at the unscathed Lin Qi, a trace of astonishment flickering in his eyes.
His storm barrage, though it looked simple, was actually more effective than most Supernatural Martial Skills. It let him make full use of his physical advantages; same-level high-level Blood Condensation Realm martial artists simply could not withstand one round of his beating.
Even peers who had reached high microscopic level could only block him using martial skills. Yet Lin Qi, just a Bone Forging Realm martial artist, had dodged an entire round of his barrage, which was truly unbelievable.
At this moment, it was not only Mo Xiao who was confused; even high-level Blood Condensation Realm martial artists Zhuo Gu and Tie Mu watching everything felt it was impossible.
“Is he hiding his true qi and blood intensity?” Tie Mu stared fixedly at Lin Qi, filled with doubt.
Against Mo Xiao’s barrage, even he could only rely on martial skills to take it head-on; pure evasion was impossible, since their neural reactions were similar, but Mo Xiao had six arms while he had only four.
“You have had your fun. Now it is my turn.”
Lin Qi looked at the astonished Mo Xiao and suddenly unleashed Lightning Palm, its speed in no way inferior to Mo Xiao’s earlier simple punch.
But the power of this palm far surpassed Mo Xiao’s punch.
With three disciplines cultivated in parallel, his Bone Forging Realm had reached the intermediate-level extreme. In Transcendent State, the panel showed his strength at 70 tons; with the blessing of martial skills and the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, it exceeded 115 tons. With Lightning Palm’s twofold power eruption, the force of this one palm neared 350 tons.
Azure lightning surged out like a roaring flood dragon, devouring toward Mo Xiao.
“You think only you can dodge?” Mo Xiao looked at the incoming lightning with utter disdain, lightly tapping a foot on the ground. His body vanished from where he stood, leaving only a still-exploding crater behind as he easily dodged the several-meter-thick bolt of lightning.
In the blink of an eye, Mo Xiao appeared at Lin Qi’s flank, and at some point six silver short swords had appeared in his hands. Fine runes were carved on the blades; as soon as he drove them with qi and blood, the six silver swords shot out soaring energy, extending each sword blade to a length of over a hundred meters. He then unleashed a wild storm of sword slashes at Lin Qi.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
From a distance, it looked like six laser beams sweeping madly, slicing several high-rises hundreds of meters away into thousands and tens of thousands of pieces.
But after the storm of sword blades, bolts of lightning shot one after another from the dust, devouring toward Mo Xiao. Wherever the lightning passed, steel buildings hundreds of meters away were also pierced through and burned into molten iron.
In a short time the two exchanged dozens of moves, darkening heaven and earth, leaving everyone watching utterly shocked.
None of them had expected one of Smiling Skull’s Seven Guardians to be so formidable, nor that the master of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall could stand his ground against Mo Xiao without falling behind.
“To be able to fight such a strong Blood Condensation Realm expert like Mo Xiao to a draw, is this Hall Master Lin’s true strength?” Precia stared at Lin Qi in midair, trading dozens of blows each second, her eyes nearly popping out.
They were both Bone Forging Realm, yet the gap was simply enormous.
Mo Xiao’s attacks clearly relied on sheer number and speed instead of pure power. But even if Mo Xiao did not pursue maximum power, any random strike of his could easily kill her.
Yet Lin Qi, relying on his uncanny reactions and extremely fast advanced martial skills, was trading blows back and forth with Mo Xiao, not falling behind at all.
This made her wonder if Lin Qi was really a Bone Forging Realm martial artist.
While Precia and the others marveled, Isaac of Smiling Skull was staring, dumbfounded, his heart full of terror and jealousy. “How can he have such strength? That is Lord Mo Xiao! Is this the secret hidden beneath Crimson Moon Mountain?”
In Isaac’s view, Lin Qi had merely gotten lucky when he took Crimson Moon Mountain. Originally, Lin Qi had been a very inconspicuous nobody in the City of Light Chasing, not even a quasi-martial artist.
For his strength to reach the point of battling the high-level Blood Condensation Realm Mo Xiao in such a short time, there could be no explanation other than the secret hidden within Crimson Moon Mountain. And he had actually let it slip by back then, without thoroughly investigating Crimson Moon Mountain. Otherwise, he too might now possess strength like Lin Qi’s.
While Isaac was being devoured by jealousy, Mo Xiao’s aura suddenly changed as he roamed in midair. His qi and blood surged hundreds of meters high, pressing all Bone Forging Realm martial artists within a kilometer so hard they could not move, as he looked down upon all like a god or demon.
“Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill, Third Level, Blood Fiend Starfall! Mo Xiao is getting serious.” Tie Mu watched Mo Xiao’s skyrocketing qi and blood and sighed. “His qi and blood are stronger than before. Even now, I do not dare claim that I could take this move head-on.”
In normal battles, Mo Xiao almost never used Supernatural Level martial skills. He usually crushed opponents with technique alone. This was not because he was poor at martial skills; on the contrary, his mastery of martial skills had reached an extreme level. Against enemies, the power of his Perfection-level techniques was enough to kill, making martial skills unnecessary.
Once Mo Xiao used martial skills, anyone not of his level would not even have the strength to resist.
“For me to use Blood Fiend Starfall, Lin Qi can be considered the number one under the Blood Condensation Realm.” Mo Xiao looked at Lin Qi as a phantom nearly one hundred and fifty to sixty meters tall appeared around him. The phantom had three heads and six arms and held a zither; its six arms plucked across the strings.
Suddenly, everyone in Chiyue Town heard a strange, bewitching melody. In the sky, more than a hundred blood-red stars, each dozens of meters in radius, appeared and fell toward Lin Qi, the scene like the descent of doomsday.
“This Mo Xiao is insane! Is he planning to kill everyone here?” Xie Feina’s expression changed drastically as she watched the more than one hundred blood-red stars fall.
Blood Fiend Starfall.
Back then, when Mo Xiao fully unleashed it, he directly destroyed a remote city beyond the domain, and was banished by Tianhe Domain City, with an order that if he ever set foot in the Tianhe Region, he was to be hunted down.
When Mo Xiao had used Blood Fiend Starfall back then, he had summoned only eighty-eight stars with his full strength; now it was one hundred and eight stars.
“As expected, without using my trump cards, I still cannot kill a high-level Blood Condensation Realm expert.”
Facing the falling one hundred and eight stars, Lin Qi directly took out a blood-colored pearl from within his clothes. It was the precious treasure obtained from Emerald Sky, which could increase his qi and blood energy by fifty percent.
In an instant, his entire body’s qi and blood rose sharply, and lightning flickered faintly in his eyes.
“Manifest.”
With just a raise of his hand, a huge phantom of a gate appeared behind Lin Qi. The gate was nearly two hundred meters tall, giving off an indescribable sense of solemnity and sanctity. Unlike other phantoms, one could faintly see almost realistic patterns carved upon this gate.
This move was the Limit Breaking Level Martial Skill Lin Qi obtained after fusing two Extreme Super-Class Martial Skills.
Thunderous Mountain Movement.
As the one hundred and eight stars fell, Lin Qi pushed with one hand, as if slowly opening the huge gate behind him. From within the open gate blew gentle gusts of wind, and long swords wreathed in lightning rapidly condensed in midair, drawing in all the free energy within a radius of several kilometers.
In just an instant, a thousand enormous long sword phantoms crackling with lightning filled the space before Lin Qi. Each sword was dozens of meters long, covering nearly half of Chiyue Town.
“Go.”
With Lin Qi’s command, the thousand sword phantoms shot out, crisscrossing like a sweeping storm that left nothing alive. All one could see were countless beams of light interwoven together, surging toward Mo Xiao in midair.
One star shattered… ten stars shattered… a hundred stars shattered…
In just the blink of an eye, all one hundred and eight stars were crushed beneath the countless brilliant lights. Before Mo Xiao could recover from his shock, the thousand interwoven long sword phantoms swept past him, and just like those star phantoms, he turned into a cloud of blood mist in midair, dead beyond any doubt.
