Martial Saint with Passives

On Qin Wuya’s Profound Iron Long Spear, a dark golden Qi Force madly condensed and compressed.

Finally, it coalesced into a single, blindingly brilliant point of starlight!

A pure, destructive aura emanated from that single point of starlight, causing the temperature of the entire plaza to seemingly plummet by several degrees in an instant!

Under the terrifying energy, space itself began to show subtle, ripple-like distortions, like the surface of water!

”That’s ’Celestial Spirit Destruction: Unrivaled’!” a Taiyuan Sect Elder’s expression changed abruptly.

”This is the strongest killing strike among our Taiyuan Sect’s Ultimate Skills! It channels Divine Thought to compress one’s entire Strength into a single point, simulating the power of True Qi to break through defenses! If it connects, even a genuine Early-stage True Master, caught unawares, would be gravely wounded! I never thought Wuya would have learned this technique!”

The color drained from the faces of the entire crowd at his words!

Everyone looked at Jiang Che on the platform with gazes filled with something akin to pity.

”It’s over... There’s no way a Refining Organ Realm Martial Artist can block a move like that!”

”Jiang Che... is sure to lose!”

Xu Qingshan’s heart leaped into his throat!

Although Jiang Che had the Sect Leader’s Talisman Seal, which was enough to save his life.

But he didn’t want to see his newly risen disciple’s Dao Heart shatter under the force of this ultimate attack!

However, just as everyone thought Jiang Che would be helpless before this cataclysmic strike and face a grim defeat...

He moved!

To everyone’s surprise, he didn’t choose to meet the attack head-on. Instead, he leaped backward with the agility of a monkey, instantly putting dozens of yards between himself and Qin Wuya!

”What... What is he doing?”

”He’s running? He’s actually... fleeing in the middle of a fight?!”

Many people wore looks of disbelief as they watched this unfold.

Even a flash of disappointment crossed Qin Wuya’s eyes.

But in the very next instant!

After creating some distance, Jiang Che reached behind his back and drew out a massive, pitch-black longbow of ancient design!

The Star-Chasing Bow!

Without a moment’s hesitation, he drew the bowstring into a full moon. He then frantically poured what little Strength he had left from his previous outbursts—along with the power he had just converted via his [Yin Yang Transformation Force] Talent—into the bow without holding anything back!

VMMMM—

The body of the Star-Chasing Bow seemed to transform into a bottomless black hole, instantly draining every last drop of Strength from Jiang Che’s body!

A wave of unprecedented weakness washed over him, and his vision began to dim.

But at that same moment, an Energy Arrow materialized on the bowstring. It was more condensed and more terrifying than any he had created before, seemingly forged from pure darkness and thunder!

On the arrow, black lightning crackled and arced wildly, emitting a destructive aura in no way inferior to that of the long spear in Qin Wuya’s hand!

”What... What is that?!”

”What a terrifying aura!”

”He... He was hiding a trump card like this all along?!”

Everyone stared, dumbfounded, at the scene on the platform, feeling as if their hearts were about to stop.

On the platform.

Qin Wuya stared at the arrow in Jiang Che’s hand, which radiated a destructive aura. He frowned, sensing a hint of danger.

He waited no longer. Pouring a lifetime of learning into this ultimate spear strike, he thrust it forward without hesitation!

”Celestial Spirit Destruction: Unrivaled!”

At the same time, Jiang Che released the bowstring!

”Go!”

On one side, the peerless gleam of a spear that could pierce through anything!

On the other, a destructive arrow that could tear the sky asunder!

As the entire audience watched with bated breath, the two attacks—representing the pinnacle of power of the current younger generation—slammed violently into one another!

RUUUUMBLE!!!!!!

For an instant, the world seemed to lose all sound and color!

A sphere of white light, more dazzling and blinding than the sun itself, erupted in the very center of the platform!

A terrifying storm of energy, like a level-twelve, world-ending hurricane, swept out in every direction!

”Watch out! Fall back!”

The spectators closest to the platform were instantly sent flying by the violent aftershocks of energy, their screams echoing in the chaos.

When the light faded and the dust settled.

Everyone’s eyes shot toward the platform.

The supposedly indestructible platform now had a terrifying, bottomless crater blasted into it, over a hundred feet in diameter!

On opposite sides of the massive crater, Jiang Che and Qin Wuya stood facing each other.

However, neither of them seemed to be in good condition.

Jiang Che’s face was ashen, his Strength completely depleted.

Qin Wuya, on the other hand, was faring no better.

His golden martial robes were in tatters, a striking trickle of blood hung from the corner of his mouth, and his unbreakable Profound Iron Long Spear had snapped in the middle, leaving him holding only the bottom half!

A draw!

The final result... was actually a draw!

The entire arena once again fell into a deathly, pin-drop silence.

...

On the high dais.

The Sect Leader of the Taiyuan Sect, ”Mad Lion” Zhao Qingtian, jolted. His burly frame shook as his tiger-like eyes went wide, staring intently at the two figures on the platform. His face was a mask of utter disbelief!

He could never have imagined that his prized disciple, who already had one foot in the True Master Realm, would actually...

...be pushed this far by an opponent in the Late-stage Refining Organ Realm!

Meanwhile, Liu Ruyan, the Sect Leader of the Profound Sound Sect, let out a long, slow breath.

Her eyes, as she looked at Jiang Che, held a trace of genuine admiration.

’This boy is quite something...’

Suddenly, a thought struck her.

’Qingge isn’t young anymore. The two of them...’