Chapter 2164: Battle with the Top-level Emperor
After constructing the Frost Domain, Sikong Jing emitted a "clang".
In his hand appeared a pure white Ice Sword. At this moment, Sikong Jing bore the appearance of the Frost Sword Demon from before the Wanlu Sect courtyard, except this time he didn’t hide his face.
Sikong Jing pointed his long sword and said casually, "Defeat you, and you will naturally have to change your ways obediently."
His voice carried a calm yet intense Battle Intent...
Earlier, when recognized as Sikong Buwang, Sikong Jing had already decided to take Qu Hanming, the Beiming Mountain Master, as a test of strength. He hadn’t truly fought a top-tier emperor alone before.
He was certainly eager for a battle.
It’s important to know that the Ten Emperor Battle of Qianwang is just a few days away, and Sikong Jing had told everyone from Overlord Commerce that he would earn one of the Ten Emperor slots for fun. Naturally, he wanted to see how his combat prowess would compare to a top-tier emperor.
Fortuitously, after being recognized by Xu He, he thought it best to give it a try.
In the eyes of Cold Soul Old Ghost and others, Sikong Jing now seemed extremely arrogant and limitless. Even though they were indeed very humble before the Qianwang Holy Tower, their Beiming Ice Mountain was still a top-tier sect.
In other places, they might be able to slightly accept Sikong Jing’s arrogance...
However, this was Qianwang Fenglei City!
Hence, Qu Hanming couldn’t help but smirk coldly, saying, "Hehehe... Little Demon Sikong, perhaps given ten years, I would run away upon seeing you, but right now you have no right to be arrogant in front of me."
Defeating the Wanlu Sect Master means nothing, there is a considerable gap between an emperor and a top-tier emperor.
And Wanlu Sect Master was at most just capable of slightly carrying Qu Hanming’s shoes.
In response, Sikong Jing raised his sword and replied, "Again with ’no qualification’? Looks like I’ll have to prove my qualification once more."
As his words fell, the True Qi throughout Sikong Jing’s body erupted once more. Behind him suddenly appeared illusions of two demon beasts, precisely the Absolute Night Wolf King and the Ice Eternal Mystic Turtle, and he then said, "Mountain Master Qu, take my sword!"
With a buzzing roar, the sword in Sikong Jing’s hand transformed into a sharp light, piercing straight through.
Simultaneously, Sikong Jing continued, "Mountain Master Qu, don’t use too large moves, or it won’t be fun for either of us if we attract other strong figures from Fenglei City. After all, defeating me would make you the favored one in Pei Kuang’s eyes."
With Sikong Jing’s words, Qu Hanming raised his hand coldly and caught Sikong Jing’s sword light.
"You’re absolutely right, rest assured, I won’t use big moves."
Qu Hanming said as a **boom!**
Instantly, he crushed Sikong Jing’s sword light into fragments, while around him, black cold ice surged forth like threads of cold silk wrapping towards Sikong Jing.
Yet the next moment, he suddenly stopped, calling out incredulously, "You’re actually only at the King Realm?"
Only then did Qu Hanming realize and probe Sikong Jing’s Martial Arts Realm, which left him extremely surprised.
Meanwhile, Cold Soul Old Ghost, Xu He, and others couldn’t help but widen their eyes...
What a joke, Little Demon Sikong was only at the King Realm, so how did he manage to take down the Wanlu Sect Master?
And how did he take down Qiu Leiyin, whom he practically defeated in seconds?
Facing the looming black threads, Sikong Jing responded, "Indeed, to be precise, I’m just at the King’s Fifth Realm."
Saying that, the sword in Sikong Jing’s hand flashed with ice-blue cold light, also transforming into threads that swept upward. Then the ice-blue threads instantly stretched straight, piercing the black threads into fragments like Absolute Night Wolf claws.
"But my King’s Fifth Realm True Qi seems to be able to break top-tier emperor’s True Qi."
Sikong Jing’s voice came chilled as he stepped forward, striking towards Qu Hanming, and continued coldly, "Don’t be too surprised, think about what my Grandpa Su killed and did back in the day..."
As his voice fell, Sikong Jing’s figure appeared before Qu Hanming, a sword pressing down.
As he just said, using a big move now could easily break the surrounding barrier, attracting the elite from Qianwang Holy Tower, which Qu Hanming certainly wished to avoid.
He basically confirmed that Sikong Jing was alone, and he definitely harbored thoughts of capturing Sikong Jing.
Indeed, as the sword came down, Qu Hanming raised his head and caught it again, instantly saying, "To my knowledge, Su Old Demon never had a record of defeating top-tier emperors under King Realm."
As he spoke, he crushed Sikong Jing’s sword light again, then unleashed a heavy palm strike, also concentrating it around a small area.
But this palm was by no means weak, transforming into small mountains layered upon one another, collapsing towards Sikong Jing.
The latter did not retreat...
But kept forming shields, using the Ice Eternal Mysterious Shield to block strike after strike from Qu Hanming, though each block made Sikong Jing instinctively retreat one step, and after each block, he returned back to his original position.
At this moment, Cold Soul Old Ghost and others already figured out that Qu Hanming had suppressed Sikong Jing.
At least in combat strength, their Mountain Master was a head above Sikong Jing.
But Sikong Jing neither faltered nor changed expression due to retreating several steps, and said, "So that’s how it is, but I’m standing on my Grandpa Su’s shoulders for cultivation, so I should be able to create feats of defeating top-tier emperors."
Upon finishing... **boom!**
Sikong Jing’s entire body surged with ferocious beast essence, once again illusions of beasts appeared behind him.
Amazingly, there were five Emperor Martial Peak fierce beasts, along with three Holy Martial fierce beasts...
Besides the demonized Blood Devouring Demon Beast Meridian strength, Sikong Jing unleashed his strongest beast veins, his whole being at this moment transformed from the previously frigid, manic assault to extraordinarily explosive.
Clearly appearing as human, yet resembling terrifying giant beasts!
Earlier failing to withstand Qu Hanming’s attack was due to him only unleashing two frost demons, now was the complete release.
This image caused Cold Soul Old Ghost to incessantly retreat...
Also, made Xu He and others almost unable to breathe, instantly withdrawing to the edge of Sikong Jing’s Frost Domain, their True Qi linked to withstand Sikong Jing’s beast aura.
Similarly, Qu Hanming was incredibly shocked gazing at the beast-like Sikong Jing, he felt threatened at that moment.
Previously, the calm stemmed from feeling no threat from Sikong Jing at all, but now he realized that if not fully engaged, Little Demon Sikong might blast him to pieces.
Internally feeling as if facing a monstrous giant beast.
Qu Hanming clenched his fist tightly, with top-tier emperor True Qi becoming increasingly fierce, heavily emanating from within, inner fear even driving him to act first.
Thus, Qu Hanming lunged at Sikong Jing, murmuring lowly, "Beiming Jueyu, Yin Cold Mountain Collapse!"
The eight words roared from his mouth, instantly a Yin Cold Domain like a small mountain covered Sikong Jing underneath, engulfing him within.
Eventually, the small mountain collapsed, seemingly intending to crush Sikong Jing into paste.
However... **boom!**
A pitch-black Punching Force abruptly tore through the collapsing Yin Cold Mountain, smashing it into fragments and radiating outward; the Punching Force roared like a savage beast, howling like the Black Tiger.
The next instant, Sikong Jing shouted, "Beast Skill, Ten Thousand Beasts Demonic Fist."
