Supreme Star Card Master

Chapter 1688: Chapter 1292: Fist Duel (Part 2)

”Flying Dragon in the Sky!”

Long only had time to cross his arms in front of him. In the next moment, the black light Divine Dragon that shot down violently collided with Long’s body straight into the ground...

”Boom!!”

Infinite black light burst forth from the ground, and hundreds of miles of land in this realm turned into countless fragments like tofu in an instant!

A moment later, Ling Xiao stood among the countless rubble, his body surrounded by black light while he intently stared down at the deeper parts of the opened ground.

What Ling Xiao could be sure of was that the continuous Four Sacred Mysteries he unleashed must have caused no small blow to Long, but whether it was enough to kill him in one strike...

”Hm?”

Ling Xiao’s expression shifted slightly. He sensed something, feeling as if the void around him had solidified, as if something had already locked onto him.

Ling Xiao immediately released the East Emperor Bell, and the Gold Plating descended to protect himself.

In the next moment, Ling Xiao saw a shimmering golden fist coming into view, growing closer and larger, nearly filling his entire field of vision!

”Sixteen Extremes Unification Technique!”

Accompanied by a deep voice, an incomparably tyrannical fist descended upon the entire void centered around Ling Xiao.

The Void Heaven shattered, the Golden Bell quivered, and everything fractured under the fist power.

The East Emperor Bell slightly trembled, and the descended golden light instantly dimmed considerably.

”What a terrifying technique!” Ling Xiao’s eyes narrowed slightly as he focused on Long below, who was stepping through the air, ”Divine Beast state... Oh? Turns out to be a True Dragon!”

At this moment, Long had golden dragon horns on his head, and his body was clad with hard golden dragon scales. His aura was more formidable, clearly revealing the Divine Beast state, and his true form seemed to be some kind of mythical True Dragon.

Nevertheless, despite the fierce offensive Ling Xiao had unleashed with the Four Locks fully open, many of Long’s golden scales were shattered, making him look rather battered.

”Cough, cough... What a formidable body, what a formidable fist, forcing out my true form!”

Long coughed twice, a faint trace of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth, looking at Ling Xiao with burning eyes.

”Even among the other Divine Generals, few have seen my true form, because no one has forced me to go all out!”

”Besides the Divine Generals, Lingxiao Master, you are the first one to make me unleash the Divine Beast state.”

”I just didn’t expect that you would use the East Emperor Bell to take this blow. It seems... you don’t trust your own fist enough.”

Ling Xiao’s eyes narrowed slightly. After a cold snort, he waved his hand and stowed the East Emperor Bell in his sleeve.

Ling Xiao knew very well that Long was trying to provoke him into not using the East Emperor Bell.

But undeniably, Long succeeded.

If it were another opponent, Ling Xiao would never forgo using the East Emperor Bell.

But only in front of Long, this formidable opponent who also destroys everything with fists, must he use a fist to solve it!

Otherwise, it would mean doubting his fist from the heart; doubt would lead to weakness, and weakness to a significant drop in strength.

Even if he could win against Long with the East Emperor Bell, there would inevitably be a lingering doubt afterward: ”Would my fist lose to his?”

This has already touched upon the battle of faith among the strong!

As the strongest of the Great Flame Country, the foremost of the Four Heavenly Emperors, Ling Xiao must naturally and necessarily be fully confident in his most adept fists!

And there is another reason...

Facing such an opponent, how could Ling Xiao not want to have a fist-to-fist confrontation to determine the victor!

”Then, let’s try again!”

Ling Xiao’s eyes shone brightly as he raised his hand to his chest, and the Four Sacred Marks all lit up at once. The holy beast shadows of Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu surged out as if they were flames, howling and roaring.

As Ling Xiao raised his right hand, making a fist, the roaring Four Sacred Shadows converged and fused onto the fist, emanating a terrifying wave as if to destroy the heavens and the earth!

”Azure, White, Crimson, Black, Dragon, Tiger, Bird, Turtle, Chains and Links, Four Saints Unification!”

Ling Xiao shouted fiercely and swung his fist toward Long below.

”Is it one strike to decide victory?” Long’s cold, golden eyes after Dragon Transformation also gleamed with intense heat as he slightly tightened his fist, ”I haven’t fought so thrillingly and full-force in a long time!”

The golden dragon scales on his body glowed brilliantly, and the intense Power of Time surged forth.

Long punched out, seemingly halting time, with iterations of himself from parallel spaces punching alongside, overlapping into a supremely domineering punch.

”Thirty-Two Extremes Unification Technique!”

The fist twined with four-colored spirit light and the rough golden-glittering fist each roared out.

In the Blue Sea and the Grey Realm, the mightiest two fists between humans and Star Beasts collided between heaven and earth.

”...!”

Space trembled violently, and the intense collision seemed to silence heaven and earth for a moment, visible only in the roaring, raging, and mutually obliterating four-colored and dark-golden terrifying spirit lights...

”Boom!!”

After several breaths, the earth-shattering, nuke-like terrifying sound finally rang out, transmitted through this Tree Realm far and wide...

As the spirit light dissipated, the two stood on either side of the shattered void, after their full-force strike.

”Ha, ha!!”

Ling Xiao, his face ghostly pale, was gasping heavily with sweat pouring down like rain, his aura dim, his body cracking with blood and flesh, as the Four Saints Power flowed to fully repair his body.

On the opposite side, Long stood firm, showing no signs of redness or breathlessness, as if nothing had happened.

However...

A ”bang” sounded as blood and flesh exploded, Long’s right hand covered in dragon scales suddenly burst into a blooming blood mist.

And this was just the beginning.

”Bang bang bang bang...”

Explosions resounded from all over Long’s body, golden scales shattered, and blood splattered. Within several breaths, Long was already a bloody mess with almost no intact part!

With a muffled grunt, Long’s aura dramatically fell as he staggered, almost failing to keep his footing...

”Lingxiao Master...” Long looked up at Ling Xiao, eyes filled with surprise, ”What a formidable fist!”

From the beginning, there weren’t many techniques in their fight; it was simply fist against fist, hard confrontation!

Their battle skills had reached perfection; the rest was merely a test of whose fist was harder and stronger!

Long could use Thirty-Two Extremes Unification only by being in the Divine Beast state after Dragon Transformation, with an even tougher body.

Thirty-Two Extremes Unification Technique explodes with thirty-two times the strength in an instant, almost capable of demolishing everything...

Yet such a horrific punch also imposes an unimaginable burden on oneself. Even using Sixteen at a time requires the Divine Beast state to withstand, and anyone else might self-destruct before even using this technique!

But even such a pure, numerical move couldn’t overcome Ling Xiao’s Four Saints Unification and even resulted in Long’s arm being smashed apart.

”Likewise!”

Ling Xiao took a deep breath, rapidly recovering with the restorative power of the Four Saints Technique.

Likewise was no courtesy or humility, but admiration and appreciation.

Even though they were enemies and he barely edged out a victory, by this point, Ling Xiao also held immense respect for Long!

Long glanced at the dim and flickering Four Sacred Marks on Ling Xiao’s chest and said slowly, ”But you can’t keep up that state for long, can you?”

Ling Xiao nodded, ”Indeed, Long God General, your physique is incredibly tough; I can only match you thanks to the Xuantian Four Saints Technique.”

”Over time, I certainly won’t be your match, so I can only erupt with full force to crush you with a decisive strike.”

”However, though I can’t last much longer now, it’s still more than enough to smash you!”

Long’s eyes sank; he was well aware of his bleak situation and, with a flicker, retreated rapidly!

However, Ling Xiao, with black light around him, turned into an afterimage and charged up, giving him no chance to escape.

”Bang bang bang...!”

The fist power roared, and the two clashed at high speed once again.

Riding the momentum, Ling Xiao’s aggressiveness soared, while Long, severely injured and without his right arm, could only resist.

After just a few exchanges, Long spewed blood and was sent flying backward...