High Martial Arts: Enlightenment after Practices

Chapter 149: Chapter 149: One Soul-Suppressing Spear

HUM!

A clearly visible, golden-jade luster instantly covered Luo Liang’s entire body.

His skin seemed to transform into translucent, precious jade, shimmering with a solid, profound brilliance.

He had pushed his Golden Jade Skills to their absolute limit. A powerful defensive field emanated from him, putting his mind slightly at ease.

He stared intently at Xu Wuyi, on high alert for a surprise attack leveraging his higher Level.

However, Xu Wuyi didn’t move.

He didn’t even assume an offensive Starting Form, simply standing calmly in place, the tip of his longspear angled toward the ground.

His gaze was tranquil, as if the deafening roar of the crowd around him had nothing to do with him.

But an invisible pressure began to slowly emanate from him as its center.

Xu Wuyi was elevating his spiritual Mental Realm.

The True Intention of the ”Mountain” quietly coalesced—heavy, towering, and immovable.

Some people in the spectator stands who were closer vaguely felt their breathing grow difficult, as if the very air had become thick and heavy.

That wasn’t enough.

Deep within his Dantian, that wisp of crimson-gold Heart Fire swayed gently. A spirit-scorching, bone-corroding intention arose, overlapping with the True Intention of the ”Mountain.”

The two didn’t merge, but rather cleverly interwove and layered upon each other.

In Luo Liang’s perception, the Xu Wuyi before him vanished.

In his place was a colossal mountain, erupting furiously from the ground!

The mountain was rugged, carrying a heavy will that could suppress all things. More terrifyingly, the entire mountain seemed to be silently burning.

A flame that burned the spirit and disintegrated the will coiled around the mountain, causing the horrifying sense of pressure to grow exponentially!

Gazing up at the towering peak, one’s very Heart and Spirit would be incinerated!

”Ugh...” Luo Liang grunted, cold sweat streaming down his forehead.

He hadn’t possessed the Golden Jade Skills for long. Although he had reached the Entry Level quickly thanks to his compatible physique, he hadn’t managed to comprehend a True Intention of Martial Arts.

The domain of the Spirit was precisely his weak point.

He had thought he could make up for it later, never expecting Xu Wuyi to perceive it so keenly now!

Under the crushing weight of that dual Mental Realm, Luo Liang felt like a lone boat in a tempest, liable to be smashed to pieces and burned to ash at any moment.

Faced with this pure pressure of Spiritual Will, his much-vaunted Golden Jade Skills seemed to have lost all effect.

The golden-jade luster still covered his body, but his ”spirit” trembled violently under the pressure, on the verge of collapse.

’I can’t wait any longer!’

He felt that if he endured this pressure for even one more second, his will to fight would completely shatter!

”ROAR!”

Luo Liang let out a nearly bestial roar, forcibly dispelling the fear in his heart. With a powerful stomp, he made the arena floor tremble slightly.

His entire body transformed into a streak of golden-jade light. He focused all his strength into his right fist, the metal Gloves gleaming with a golden luster, and shot forward like a cannonball straight for Xu Wuyi’s face!

The companion Martial Technique to the Golden Jade Skills—Golden Stone Breaker!

This punch condensed all his Qi and Blood and spirit, an attempt to use his strongest attack to shatter this suffocating spiritual cage.

And in the very instant he moved, Xu Wuyi, who had been standing perfectly still, finally acted.

He merely took a half-step forward and, with his right hand, swept his spear upward in a simple, clean thrust.

There was no splendid radiance, no explosive roar of Qi and Blood.

But in the perception of every spectator, he wasn’t lifting a spear, but an entire, towering mountain that had accumulated endless power and was wreathed in Heart Fire!

The spear tip struck with unerring precision, landing dead center on Luo Liang’s oncoming gloved fist.

Time seemed to freeze in that moment.

The next instant—

”BOOM!!!”

It was like Mount Tai toppling over, like the heavenly river pouring down!

The True Intention of the ”Mountain,” condensed to its absolute peak, combined with the spirit-scorching might of the Heart Fire and the innate Soul Suppressing intention of the Eight-direction Soul Suppressing Spear. Three layers of power, stacked as one.

It didn’t act upon Luo Liang’s incomparably sturdy physical body. Instead, like an invisible torrent, it passed straight through and slammed violently into his spiritual world!

”AH—!”

Luo Liang let out a bloodcurdling scream, his forward momentum coming to an abrupt halt.

The golden-jade luster on his body flickered violently, then shattered and disintegrated inch by inch like broken glass.

The whites of his eyes showed as his pupils filled with endless terror, as if he had just witnessed the most horrifying sight in the world.

His body froze in place, twitched faintly, and then dissolved into a flash of white light and vanished.

The Battle Network’s protection mechanism had activated. Luo Liang’s Heart and Spirit had suffered a massive shock, and he had been forcibly ejected from the Battle Network.

The entire spectator area for Main Arena 1 fell deathly silent.

Everyone stared wide-eyed, watching the black-clad figure standing with his spear on the arena in disbelief.

One move?

No, you couldn’t even call it a move.

From start to finish, Xu Wuyi had only taken half a step and made a single thrust of his spear.

Luo Liang, with a Life Energy Level of 18.9 and astonishing defensive power, couldn’t even make him change his position before suffering a complete mental collapse and being forcibly logged out by the system?

This wasn’t just a curb-stomp. This was a difference in dimensions!

”Wh-what happened?”

”One spear thrust? Just one?”

”What about Luo Liang’s Golden Jade Skills? Why was it like paper mâché?”

”It wasn’t physical! It was a Spiritual Attack! Xu Wuyi directly shattered his spirit!”

”Terrifying... Isn’t Xu Wuyi’s specialty Spear Technique? How does he also know a Spiritual Secret Technique?!”

Shen Wei’s jaw dropped and didn’t close for a long moment. He suddenly slapped Xu Zhi’s shoulder. ”Holy crap! Old Xu is... he’s just too damn fierce! That Golden Jade Skills thing is a total joke!”

Xu Zhi winced from the slap, but his eyes were also filled with shock. ”A complete domination of Mental Realm... Combined with that special spirit-burning power, no matter how strong Luo Liang’s defense was, if he couldn’t protect his Heart and Spirit, he’d be defeated in an instant.”

Yu Peiling let out a long sigh of relief, while Zeng Bonan clenched his fists, his face filled with excitement.

In the front row, Zhao Qingwei had stood up at some point. She stared intently at Xu Wuyi, a faint Sword Intention rising around her—an instinctive reaction to encountering a powerful opponent.

On the other side, Qin Rui was silent for a moment before quietly turning and disappearing into the boisterous crowd.

On the arena, Xu Wuyi seemed oblivious to the deafening clamor around him.

He slowly retracted his spear, savoring the exhilarating feeling from that moment—the perfect unification of his spirit, will, and Qi and Blood, unleashed through his True Intention.

In his fight with Luo Liang, he hadn’t even used Melting Furnace Boiling Blood. He had simply relied on the layering of his True Intention and Heart Fire to end the battle as easily as crushing dry weeds.

To walk the path of Martial Arts to its peak, one must pursue spiritual strength. His understanding of this point had grown even deeper.

’The threshold of a Martial Artist...’ he thought to himself, feeling that the gate to a new world was now within arm’s reach, tangible.

He didn’t linger on the arena. His figure slowly faded in a flash of white light as he logged out of the Battle Network.

「...」

His consciousness returned to reality. Xu Wuyi was still sitting cross-legged.

The battle with Luo Liang had seemed like an easy victory, but it had actually forced his own spirit, will, and Qi and Blood to a highly unified peak state in an instant.

That exhilarating feeling of layering the True Intention of the ”Mountain” with the intention of the Heart Fire to crush an opponent with spiritual power was like a thunderclap, splitting apart the long-accumulated fog in his mind.

The opportunity had arrived!