strokinit Chapter 45: Spirit-grade Marrow Cleansing Agent Acquired!
Chapter 45: Spirit-grade Marrow Cleansing Agent Acquired!
Jiang Feng's side—
The phone rang.
[Jiang Feng, that's over there, you can come now.]
The address is Arena Area 1.
It was a message from Katsuragi. It seems that the winner between the second and third ranked students has been decided.
"Teacher Sun, let's go," Jiang Feng said.
Sun Hao naturally knew what he was talking about and nodded.
"Remember, don't feel pressured. Even if you lose, you'll still get 5 bottles of Xuan-level Marrow Cleansing Elixir. This trip won't be a loss no matter what."
"Yes, I know." Jiang Feng smiled but didn't say anything more.
After greeting Ye Weiwei and Lin Lu, who had calmed down in the distance, the group headed towards the interior of the exhibition hall.
Along the way, all sorts of complicated gazes swept over Jiang Feng and his group, but most of them fell on the black-haired boy in the lead.
Shock, doubt, confusion, bewilderment, jealousy, inferiority... a multitude of emotions converged, ultimately turning into a sigh of regret.
"Why."
Why can't I be that kind of person?
........
The inner perimeter of the exhibition.
This is a semi-enclosed area with an arena in the center. Strange runes that prevent the power from dissipating are all around it, shimmering with golden light and enveloping the arena.
On the arena, someone was already waiting.
It was Lin Feng, who had previously tested at Gate No. 1.
"Lin Feng possesses the aptitude of Xuan Bone and the strength of the seventh level of Body Tempering. His martial art is the Wind-attribute Wind-Cracking Palm, but his cultivation method and protective abilities are unknown."
"This person is ranked third, yet they defeated Cai Yan, who is ranked second. Be careful."
Jiang Feng recalled Sun Hao's words of advice.
Ahead of him, Lin Feng suddenly said mockingly, "Thank you, 228."
Jiang Feng laughed and said, "What are you thanking me for?"
Lin Feng responded with a smile, "I've imagined countless times what it would be like to obtain a Spirit-level Marrow Cleansing Agent, and every single one of them is incredibly difficult."
As soon as he finished speaking, a blue whirlwind suddenly rose around him, his robes moved without wind, and his hair was blown backward by the airflow.
"I never imagined that this final match would just involve me bullying a martial artist who's only at the fourth level of Body Tempering!"
The next moment, he suddenly exerted force with his feet, and a whirlwind swirled around him. His whole body turned into a blue afterimage, and in the blink of an eye, he was already right in front of Jiang Feng!
"Thank you for giving me this bottle of Spirit-grade Marrow Cleansing Elixir that I've been longing for!"
He hissed, "Wind-Splitting Palm!"
A palm strike was launched.
This palm strike appeared ordinary, but it actually contained seven overlapping hidden forces. Wherever the palm wind passed, a trench half an inch deep was carved into the arena floor.
The crowd below gasped in surprise.
"So fast! Is this a high-grade Xuan-rank martial skill at the perfect level?"
"As expected of Lin Feng!"
"This palm strike will probably end the battle immediately."
A deafening "BOOM!"
The two only clashed their qi and blood, and the arena was already filled with smoke and dust. Then, a fierce wind dispersed, revealing the scene inside.
"This is......"
Everyone stared intently, but the scene they had imagined did not appear. Before Lin Feng's hand could even touch Jiang Feng, it was blocked by a crimson shield.
"As expected of someone at the seventh level of Body Tempering of the Profound Bone level, truly terrifying!" Jiang Feng's expression was solemn, and flames rose around his body.
This person's strength is probably more than three times that of Jiang Bei. If he hadn't broken through to the fourth level of Body Tempering and obtained the True Dragon Soul, that attack might have ended the battle.
"A shield?" Lin Feng sneered, exerting force in his palm and advancing instead of retreating, the azure gale in his hand growing even stronger.
"You think you can stop me with this shabby shield that's only at the initial stage?"
With a "crack", the Crimson Rock Shield was ultimately not fully formed, and it was already beginning to falter in the face of Lin Feng's palm strike!
Jiang Feng's expression hardened slightly. He took a half-step to the side with his left foot and clenched his right hand into a fist, from which a flame appeared.
The ultimate Flame Collapse Fist!
With a loud "bang," the Crimson Rock Shield shattered completely. Lin Feng grinned and slammed his fist forward, but Jiang Feng neither dodged nor avoided it, and threw a punch in return!
Fist and palm collided with a muffled thud. The scorching flames and the biting wind collided, and the shockwave spread in all directions, causing the clothes of the people below the stage to flutter.
However, after the first move, both of them remained standing in place, without taking a single step back.
"I really underestimated you!"
Even though he had prepared himself mentally, Lin Feng was still somewhat startled by the attack.
He was very familiar with this Flame Collapse Fist, but it was only at the lower level of the Profound Rank. Even if he mastered it to perfection, how could it possibly compete with his upper-level Profound Rank Wind Crack Palm?
Furthermore, the physical damage unleashed by the opponent was so terrifying that it was something that a fourth-level Body Tempering warrior could not produce; it was probably approaching the sixth level of Body Tempering!
What kind of monster is this?
Little did they know, Jiang Feng also had some doubts.
After being enhanced by the Twin Flames and the Purgatory Dragon Soul, the power of my Flame Collapse Fist was three times that of the original. So why did my opponent seem to have not suffered much damage?
Could it be...?
He vaguely guessed a certain possibility, and suddenly exerted force in his hands, his blood and qi surged, and streams of 'true fire' appeared on his body.
The protection of Hellfire! Damage stacks up again!
Amidst the force of his punches, a resounding dragon's roar echoed as he transformed his fist into a palm and unleashed a powerful strike!
"Burning Heaven Palm!"
"Hmph!" Seeing this even more powerful attack, Lin Feng knew he had no way to avoid it. He just snorted coldly, and his dark blue blood energy transformed into a protective aura in front of him.
"boom--"
Jiang Feng felt a dense and tricky force coming through his arm, the stone slab under his feet cracked, and he took three steps back before regaining his footing.
Lin Feng only took a step back and suffered minor injuries.
"There's something strange about your internal energy." He frowned.
He had sensed something when they first clashed palms; the opponent's defenses seemed to be even stronger than he had imagined.
This was definitely not just simple qi and blood energy, and there was no fluctuation of martial arts techniques involved.
Then it can only be—
"Not bad." Lin Feng saw that he had noticed, so he no longer tried to hide it.
"This is my blessing... Wind Spirit Body, all the damage you cause will be diluted by more than half by this blessing."
"Watch out!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he stepped forward and transformed into a streak of azure light, rapidly traversing the arena.
"So fast!"
Even Sun Hao, who was at the Qi and Blood Realm in the audience, couldn't determine Lin Feng's true location for a moment, and silently felt a chill for Jiang Feng.
Just then, a low shout rang out in the air, "Thousand Wind Blades!"
Countless wind blades, each the size of a fingernail, appeared out of thin air and poured down on Jiang Feng like a sudden storm!
"So many wind blades, there's no way to dodge them!"
"It's over, Jiang Feng has really lost this time."
"Lin Feng is incredibly fast; he's probably even faster than a martial artist at the Qi and Blood Realm."
Below the arena, apart from Lin Lu and Ye Weiwei, everyone secretly thought to themselves that all was lost.
But Jiang Feng's side—
After several encounters, he realized that the person in front of him was no ordinary person like Luo Feng and Fang Xiao. In terms of talent alone, he was probably no less than Ding Xiuqi and Zhang Ruanruan!
If that's the case, then for this 2700 million, then... let's hang it up!
In the next instant, dark red mist suddenly billowed in his hand, and within the mist, a black and red scythe as tall as a person solidified.
The crescent-shaped blade of the scythe gleamed with a cold light, and the blood-red runes wrapped around it flowed slowly. A terrifying aura of decay and ruin suddenly swept across the entire area.
As soon as this aura was released, the entire arena fell silent.
"What an eerie weapon." Ge Cheng frowned. Despite being at the upper level of the Meridian Opening Realm, he couldn't even discern the weapon's grade.
"Could it be a superior spiritual artifact that has already developed sentience?" someone beside him speculated.
"At least that's the possibility."
Katsuragi hadn't expected this young man from the lower district of Arashi City to have such an encounter, and couldn't help but linger his gaze on him a few more times.
This Jiang Feng is probably far more complex than he imagined.
On Lin Feng's side, the wind power that was originally circulating wildly based on his own blood and qi suddenly became extremely sluggish the moment the scythe appeared, like a stuck gear.
He stared at Jiang Feng in shock, not even having time to react.
"Whoosh—"
A dark red arc of light streaked across the sky, moving so fast that its movement was completely invisible.
A chilling, decaying power surged wildly into Lin Feng's body along with the wind, gnawing at his meridians and internal energy like a maggot clinging to his bones.
Lin Feng screamed in agony as all his strength was instantly drained, and the last wind blade he had condensed in his hand vanished without a trace.
His face was ashen, and he crashed heavily onto the arena. The protection of his Wind Spirit Body shattered, and the wind element around him completely dissipated.
Jiang Feng put away his sickle, drank a bottle of purified water, and slowly walked forward.
He chuckled lightly, "Lin, you lost."
"This spirit-grade marrow cleansing potion should rightfully belong to me."