Chapter 487: Fiighting Zhou Xingkong! Peak Showdown
Rumble!
Blade and spear clashed in a blinding flash.
Whoosh! An endless sea of fire erupted from Jiang Ye’s spear, engulfing the opponent’s transcendent domain.
Fire counters metal—a fundamental law of the universe.
Jiang Ye’s spear channeled vast quantities of the mysteries of fire, instantly refining and devouring countless mysteries of gold.
“So powerful?”
“This mastery of fire… it’s nearly at the quasi-eighth breakthrough level, isn’t it?” Zhou Xingkong thought, his heart jolted. “Didn’t Jiang Ye’s mysteries of fire just reach the peak of the seventh breakthrough?”
He knew fire countered metal.
But this level of suppression shouldn’t have happened so quickly.
What Zhou Xingkong didn’t realize was that Jiang Ye’s mysteries of fire, amplified by his upgraded heart fire, had already surpassed the power of ordinary fire dao techniques.
Combined with the natural elemental advantage, the flames burned with even greater ferocity.
It was a case of strength upon strength!
“Fire counters metal?”
“Against such an overwhelming disparity in power, elemental counters are meaningless!” Zhou Xingkong scoffed coldly, unleashing his full might.
Boom!
The massive golden sun behind him trembled slightly before rapidly expanding.
In less than a second, a golden sun a kilometer in diameter materialized in the sky, radiating earth-shattering pressure.
Instantly, Zhou Xingkong’s transcendent domain suppressed Jiang Ye’s spear strike.
“Suppress!” Zhou Xingkong swung his long saber again.
Whoosh!
A vast, golden saber arc erupted, as if to cleave the heavens and earth, hurtling toward Jiang Ye.
This strike, imbued with the vast mysteries of gold, had already manifested a trace of divinity!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The moment the blade was unleashed, the void within a hundred-mile radius trembled violently, splitting into jagged, terrifying fissures.
“Blood Sea Domain!”
“Martial Saint!”
Facing the divine-natured blade’s lethal strike, Jiang Ye didn’t hesitate. He instantly unleashed his two most powerful domains.
Swish! An endless blood sea materialized.
Simultaneously, a towering Holy Mountain descended, radiating boundless waves of energy. Under this oppressive force, all opponents would be suppressed by the domain.
Two domains!
They forcefully tore through the transcendent’s domain blockade and surged toward Zhou Xingkong.
“Domain suppression?” Zhou Xingkong scoffed. “You think your mere Dao Bone Aptitude can suppress me?”
In the hierarchy of power, transcendent beings possessed a dimensional advantage over those with dao bones.
A transcendent domain could easily suppress a dao bone domain. Conversely, unless one’s realm far surpassed that of a transcendent, attempting to suppress a transcendent domain with a dao bone domain was sheer delusion.
“Break!”
With a wave of his hand, Zhou Xingkong attempted to shatter the oppressive force.
But his expression immediately shifted.
“What’s going on?”
“This suppression… my transcendent domain can’t break through it?” Zhou Xingkong thought in shock. “A mere Dao Bone Domain? How is this possible?”
In his perception, the domain suppression emanating from Holy Mountain enveloped him like a fundamental law of the universe.
No matter how fiercely he attacked, it remained as immovable as Mount Tai, utterly unshaken.
‘My Martial Saint Domain isn’t just a Dao Bone Domain,’ Jiang Ye smirked inwardly. ‘It’s from the system!’
A system-generated construct was naturally impervious to transcendent forces.
Of course, due to the difference in their realms, the Martial Saint Domain’s suppression on Zhou Xingkong was also limited.
“Kill!” Jiang Ye thrust his spear forward, unleashing the Spear Art Divine Resonance. The Black Divine Spear surged with unparalleled force, piercing through the air like a divine blade, aimed directly at the divine-natured blade.
BOOM!!!
A cataclysmic collision erupted.
The divine-natured blade rapidly disintegrated under the annihilating force of Jiang Ye’s spear.
Jiang Ye himself was sent flying backward by the immense impact.
The terrifying shockwaves shook the entire vast arena, tearing fissures through the void itself.
“What?!”
“Jiang Ye actually blocked Zhou Xingkong’s divine-natured blade?” Li Zihuang, Wang Feifan, and the others watched in astonishment.
Zhou Xingkong’s earlier strike carried a trace of divinity—a hint of divine might. This ability was unique to those with Transcendent Aptitude, with the exception of Chen Zilu. Any other Dao Bone Aptitude would have struggled to withstand it.
“Jiang Ye’s spear just now?”
“If I’m not mistaken, that was Spear Art Divine Resonance?”
“It is Spear Art Divine Resonance! Jiang Ye…?” The Transcendent Aptitudes wore grave expressions.
This was the first time they had learned that Jiang Ye had comprehended Spear Art Divine Resonance. After all, his information had been sealed until now.
Weapon Dao Resonance! Though it shared a name with divinity, it was far rarer.
Any Transcendent Aptitude could master profound divinity by the seventh breakthrough. But Weapon Dao Resonance?
That required personal enlightenment—countless days and nights of relentless cultivation, arduous training, and even countless life-or-death trials.
Among them, only Chu Jingye had comprehended Spear Art Divine Resonance. The others had only grasped spiritual resonance.
Yet Jiang Ye, a mere Primitive Aptitude, had achieved this?
“Spear Art Divine Resonance? No wonder he could withstand my divine-natured blade.”
“It seems I truly underestimated you,” Zhou Xingkong said coldly, his expression growing increasingly grave.
He had completely abandoned his earlier condescension.
Previously, he had relied on his Transcendent Aptitude to look down on Jiang Ye from a superior position.
But now?
After discovering that neither his transcendent domain nor his golden divinity could subdue Jiang Ye, Zhou Xingkong now regarded him as an equal opponent.
“Let’s end this quickly,” Zhou Xingkong thought to himself. “If this drags on, I’ll have to reveal all my trump cards.” He still harbored ambitions of winning the championship and didn’t want to expose his full arsenal in this one battle.
Boom!
Zhou Xingkong’s saber technique shifted abruptly, and he charged at Jiang Ye once more.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
The saber light flashed like lightning. His technique had completely transformed; where it had once been sharp and precise, it was now unpredictable, ever-changing, and utterly bewildering.
In the blink of an eye, a storm of ghostly saber light enveloped Jiang Ye, blotting out the sky.
“Petty tricks,” Jiang Ye scoffed, brandishing his spear and charging forward.
Spear technique? He had never feared anyone in that domain!
Boom!
In an instant, Jiang Ye clashed with Zhou Xingkong again, each spear thrust and saber strike erupting with deafening explosions.
All this transpired in less than a finger snap.
The two clashed with over a thousand strikes, their movements reaching the pinnacle of speed.
Boom! Boom!
Bang! The fierce exchange erupted in a dazzling display of spear techniques, saber techniques, and profound spell arts, unleashing their full power.
As Zhou Xingkong watched the battle drag on, his true strength was gradually revealed, yet he still couldn’t subdue Jiang Ye. A sense of urgency began to gnaw at his heart.
I was saving this move for Li Zihuang and Wang Feifan…
No matter. I’ll let you have it. Zhou Xingkong’s eyes hardened. “Ultimate move—heaven-severing strike!”
Boom!
The long saber in his hand suddenly erupted with unparalleled sharpness. A terrifying blade of light soared skyward, cleaving the heavens and earth in two before crashing down upon Jiang Ye.
(End of the Chapter)