Chapter 597 - 247: Aiming for Martial Saint! Knows Courtesy, Lacks Righteousness
While Kujo Akiyoshi was spewing trash talk before the match, Dong Dongchen’s fingers clattered across a secondary keyboard, moving so fast they were a blur.
"Guys, I’ve got it!"
His voice trembled with excitement. "This Kujo Akiyoshi is using his real name! He’s one of the most outstanding geniuses from East Japan’s Yin Yang Academy in the last decade!"
"East Japan has a similar national Martial Artist selection tournament called the Celestial Examination. This Kujo Akiyoshi placed third in the nation five years ago!"
"He’s only 23 this year, and his cultivation has already reached Divine Realm Perfection, just one step away from the Celestial Human Realm! He’s definitely a true pillar of East Japan’s younger generation!"
The audience in the livestream let out a collective gasp.
While they disapproved of Kujo Akiyoshi’s character, they couldn’t deny his strength.
Because that level of strength was considered astonishingly brilliant, a rare find even in Great Xia.
The moment the countdown hit zero.
The battle was on!
Without a moment’s hesitation, Lin Ye detonated the Bloodline Power within his body!
Stage Transformation!
Dragon Descendant Incarnation!
His height shot up to two and a half meters, cyan-black dragon scales covered his entire body, and blazing golden, slitted pupils replaced his human eyes!
This transformation was faster, more thorough, and more... savage than any before!
The instant he finished transforming, Lin Ye’s figure slowly levitated into the air. His dragon pupils, burning with golden flames, looked down upon Kujo Akiyoshi on the ground like a god scrutinizing a mortal ant.
The expression on Kujo Akiyoshi’s face was instantly replaced by one of profound astonishment and shock.
His pupils shrank as he stared, transfixed, at the savage figure in mid-air radiating an aura of boundless ferocity.
"Ancestral Spirituality? The legendary... Celestial Dragon Bloodline of Great Xia?"
After a brief moment of shock, he suddenly gave a cold sneer and gave his folding fan a sharp flick.
"A little interesting. But I wonder, how does your so-called Celestial Dragon compare to the eight million gods of East Japan’s legends?"
As he spoke, countless pitch-black shadows began to squirm and emerge in the void behind him, letting out silent roars.
Under Lin Ye’s True Vision, the true nature of those shadows was laid bare.
They were countless imprisoned resentful spirits and demon-ghosts—so-called "shikigami."
Among them, one aura, the largest and most evil of all, even made Lin Ye take notice.
It was the phantom of a colossal monster with eight hideous snake heads. Its mere presence caused ominous ripples to spread through the surrounding space.
A thought flashed through Lin Ye’s mind, but his movements didn’t pause for even a second.
BOOM!!!
A deafening sonic boom erupted in mid-air!
Lin Ye’s figure had vanished.
’So fast!’
Kujo Akiyoshi’s face paled. He hadn’t seen Lin Ye’s movement at all before a terrifying pressure, one that felt like it could rip his very soul apart, slammed into him!
Without hesitation, he swung his folding fan forward.
"Triple Rashomon!"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Three massive, incredibly thick stone walls inscribed with countless runes shot up from the ground, blocking his path!
This was one of his strongest defensive techniques!
But in the next instant.
In the face of such absolute power and speed, all defenses seemed futile.
Almost in the instant they appeared, the three indestructible stone walls were consecutively pierced and torn to shreds with devastating ease by a cyan-black claw carrying an unparalleled force!
Amidst the exploding debris and runes, Kujo Akiyoshi was sent flying backward as if struck by lightning, moving faster than the speed of sound!
On his chest and abdomen, three horrific claw marks were clearly visible, so deep that bone could be seen, almost completely severing his torso!
Blood spewed from the wounds like a fountain!
For the first time, a look of genuine, pure shock and terror appeared on his pale, handsome face.
’What... what is this power?!’
’This is not the power someone in the Gang Condensation Realm should have!’
However, there wasn’t the slightest ripple of emotion in Lin Ye’s cold, golden dragon pupils.
His figure vanished once more.
Instant Body!
In an instant, he appeared directly above the still-recoiling Kujo Akiyoshi. His savage dragon claw, five fingers spread wide, descended with the will to crush all existence, slamming down viciously on Kujo Akiyoshi’s head!
BOOM—!!!
Lin Ye smashed Kujo Akiyoshi down from mid-air like a meteor, driving him straight into the ground!
The earth shook violently as a terrifying crater, over ten meters in diameter, suddenly appeared.
And in the center of the crater, Kujo Akiyoshi’s head burst apart with a SPLAT, just like a watermelon smashed by a sledgehammer!
Red and white matter splattered everywhere.