Chapter 235 - 140: Advancing to the Semifinals
"This is impossible!"
Shock filled Wu Wuji’s eyes, and the smirk on his face instantly turned incredibly stiff.
’It’s just too fast!’
In the blink of an eye, his opponent had appeared right before him.
’Who would believe this?’
He quickly sensed a terrifying crisis descending upon him.
Before him, the Starlight Blade that had suddenly ripped through the void radiated a brilliant light. It brimmed with a terrifying Sword Intent as it tore through space, slashing down toward him with overwhelming power!
His heart sank.
Then, he gritted his teeth.
’Damn it, I’ll go all out!’
A ferocious look appeared on his face.
"Hah!"
With a sudden, furious roar,
the True Yuan in his body, as deep as an abyss, erupted from within him. It surged like roiling dragons and snakes, blasting outward in all directions!
The next instant, he swung the immense, heavy Battle Halberd in his hands,
slashing violently upward!
Instantly, a massive beam of Halberd Light, shaped like a full moon, slashed through the air.
It hurtled with astonishing power toward the terrifyingly sharp blade, which was descending like a meteor!
BOOM!
The two incredibly powerful techniques collided violently in midair,
instantly setting off a world-shaking explosion.
The surrounding space immediately shattered like glass,
vaguely revealing the terrifying, chaotic currents within the endless, pitch-black abyss of the void!
A terrifying shockwave blasted out in all directions.
The arena below seemed to be struck by an earthquake, collapsing completely. The fissures that snaked across its surface looked like ferocious, winding dragons!
Mysterious defensive barriers of light rose at the edge of the arena, attempting to withstand the terrifying impact.
But with a faint CRACK, a few fissures still appeared on the barriers.
It seemed even the Array on the arena couldn’t withstand the terrifying shockwave.
Seeing this, the Deacon Referee outside the arena
was startled.
He immediately and skillfully poured a massive amount of True Yuan into the Array.
He only let out a sigh of relief after the cracks had mended and the terrifying shockwave was completely blocked.
He then looked at the two combatants in the arena.
’Damn it,
it’s him again...’
A helpless expression appeared on the Deacon Referee’s face.
’Why does this kid always manage to crack the defensive Array...’
’The defensive Array on the arena for the Inner Sect Grand Competition should easily withstand any attack below the Tongxuan Realm.’
’So how come when it’s him...?’
’Could it be that their attacks have already surpassed the True Martial Realm and are approaching the Tongxuan Realm? That they’ve even reached the very threshold?!’
Phew.
’That’s impossible!!’
The Deacon Referee shook his head repeatedly,
suppressing the thought.
Then, he focused his gaze back on the arena.
If something unexpected happened to the arena’s Array and he failed to repair it in time, the responsibility would be immense.
...
At that moment, high above the arena,
the golden, moon-like Halberd Light and the star-like Sword Qi intertwined madly, radiating a brilliant light that seemed to illuminate every corner of the world.
CRACK! CRACK!
With a series of crisp cracks,
BANG!
In the next instant, the massive golden moon of Halberd Light was shattered by the incomparably sharp Star Blade Intent.
Then, with unstoppable Momentum, it continued slashing toward Wu Wuji!
"Damn it!"
Wu Wuji’s eyes narrowed.
His expression was extremely grave as he stared up at the supremely sharp blade light—it resembled a star tearing the sky asunder, as if it would cleave space itself in two!
Wu Wuji stomped on the air, sending out ripples. Then, moving with phantom-like speed, his figure suddenly flashed across a vast distance to forcibly evade the descending blade.
BANG!
The star-like blade sliced Wu Wuji’s afterimage in half, then continued with unstoppable Momentum, striking the massive, shattered arena below.
In an instant, it sliced through the vast stone floor of the arena as if it were tofu, cutting it in two.
It carved out an extremely deep fissure,
and the residual Sword Intent dispersed into the surroundings,
pulverizing the surrounding rubble into fine dust and erasing it from existence!
Far off in the air above the arena, Wu Wuji watched this unfold. His eyes widened, and he swallowed hard.
’Fuck!’
’This is too damn Heaven-Defying!’
A wave of relief washed over him.
’Phew!’
’Good thing I dodged that. Otherwise, I would’ve been seriously injured.’
’Good, good.’
’This battle...’
’I can still fight.’
’And as long as I can fight,’
’I can win!’
’I’ll just bide my time.’
Suddenly,
the space behind Wu Wuji—who was built like a muscular brown bear—began to ripple like water.
The next moment, a figure emerged from the ripples as if stepping out of a mirror.
A spark of lightning flickered in Gu Yun’s eyes, shining with unprecedented brilliance, like a thunderbolt tearing through a dark sky.
Then, raising a hand, he clenched his fingers into a fist. Gathering myriad bolts of lightning that tore through the void, he unleashed a punch with the might of roaring Thunder, blasting it toward Wu Wuji’s back!
’Hm?!’
A sense of extreme crisis suddenly surged from within Wu Wuji.
His heart sank completely.
The sense of danger at his back, like a descending Thunder Punishment, made his heart pound with terror.
His pupils instantly constricted to the size of pinpricks!
He was just about to counterattack,
but the next moment—
BOOM!
An immense, boundless bolt of lightning slammed into his back almost instantly.
Instantly, a Power of Destruction swept through his entire body. It felt as if every bone was shattering.
Immediately after, a monstrous force erupted from his back.
Like a cannonball, he was sent flying straight through the air, soaring past the arena and smashing violently into a crater in the stone ground below!
For a moment, dust billowed and rubble flew everywhere!
At this moment,
the spectator stands outside the arena fell completely silent.