Chapter 263: The Appearance of the Divine Dragon (18)
The martial contest may have ended unexpectedly, but there was no need for an official verdict to determine the victor.
Throughout the entire match, as Qing was lost in a trance-like state, Gongsun Yoye took every one of her strikes head-on, getting beaten senseless like a dog.
It was a desperate, calculated effort to allow Qing to continue her enlightenment.
The last move—the one that filled the air with a seemingly endless cascade of flower petals—was, in fact, a deadly blade capable of effortlessly piercing through human flesh.
Had Qing swung with the intent to kill, Gongsun Yoye would have been reduced to nothing but a well-chopped mound of meat.
The reason the floating platform collapsed was simple. The prolonged series of intense battles had weakened the wooden structure, leaving it bruised, cracked, and riddled with fatigue.
Gongsun Yoye’s sword aura, extending and retracting like a staff, left gashes in the wood, and her petals of sword energy clawed at the surface relentlessly.
Finally, unable to bear the accumulated damage, the weakened platform gave way, splintering apart in a chain reaction of collapse.
The event planners’ schedule? Shattered.
The Murim Alliance’s construction budget? Sunk.
And Qing? Sputtering and swallowing water as she floundered in the wreckage.
Why had she unconsciously unleashed the Eighth Technique of the Dokgo Sword Style, Thousand Transformations?