“What martial art is he using? He just summoned a spear light that blossomed into three different attacks that struck the sword, mace, and axe!
Han Chongwei of the Wuwei Institution gasped in admiration when he saw the intricacies behind Shang Xia’s attack.
“Providence Spaer… It’s the Shang Clan’s inheritance. Everyone in the Shang Clan who trained in it would be able to comprehend a technique unique to themselves.” Chang Huaiwu said.
Chang Huaiwu of the Yanmen Institution had a great relationship with those from the Weiwu Institution due to the cooperative relationship between the two institutions. His personality was pretty easygoing, and he looked like a kind old man.
“Oh? Is there really such a miraculous spear inheritance?” Han Chongwei raised his eyebrows in shock.
“Becoming one with the spear… Did he really just enter the Martial Intent Realm? Not even seasoned cultivators in the Martial Intent Realm will be able to reach such a level.’ An Baimei added from the side. He was clearly impressed.
Wei Zhongwen who came from the White Deer Paradise nodded and evaluated in a serious tone, “This kid’s divine sense is extremely solid. He seems to have a huge reserve of inner qi too. He could withstand the consumption of inner qi to send out three of those spears at the same time. If no one told us, we wouldn’t believe that he just entered the Martial Intent Realm.”
Ji Wenlong who had been quiet all that while finally spoke up, “That brat’s using this chance to transform his residual inner qi that he gathered in the Martial Extremity Realm.
“Brother Ji, don’t tell me his inner qi hasn’t been fully transformed?! He could summon three spears like that while converting his Martial Extremity Realm inner qi to his Martial Intent Realm inner qi… How terrifying is that?” Chang Huaiwu asked.
“Well, he’s transforming it very quickly.” Ji Wenlong muttered.
“Indeed. It’s hard to believe he can do something like that!” Yu Chengjin shook his head and whispered softly.
Returning to his usual serious self, Ji Wenlong continued, “When he was in the Martial Extremity Realm, the quality of his inner qi was exceptionally pure…”
“Brother Ji, do you mean that the kid’s inner qi already possessed the properties of a Martial Intent Realm cultivator’s inner qi when he was only at the Martial Extremity Realm? Is that how he’s able to transform it so quickly?” Yu Chengjin followed up with a question.
Hesitating slightly, Ji Wenlong nodded his head.
A sigh escaped An Baimei’s lips. “This kid isn’t simple… I’m afraid his true intention isn’t to decide a victor among the five of them. He’s probably using them as his grindstone to accelerate the conversion of his inner qi!”
Everyone’s expression changed when they heard what An Baimei said.
Forcing the three of them to retreat with one spear, Shang Xia felt a sense of weakness. The amount of Origin True Qi in his body nearly couldn’t keep up with his consumption. After all, he used two moves in a row! With the void in his dantian due to the expenditure of his Origin True Qi, the remnant Yin Yang Essence Qi started to transform.
Traces of Origin True Qi started to gather in his dantian as they completed their transformation.
After pushing himself to the limit, the transformation of his inner qi accelerated. Shang Xia couldn’t help but sigh. Actual combat was truly the best way to stabilize one’s foundations.
When he tried converting his inner qi in secluded cultivation, the efficiency was nowhere near comparable to what he was doing now.
Of course, that wasn’t the time to think about how quickly he was improving. The battle at hand was the more pressing matter.
After Shang Xia pushed the three of them back, Tan Xinya, who he had dealt with earlier, came back into the action.
However, her target this time wasn’t Shang Xia. Instead, she leaped towards Song Yushu who was the closest to her.
With her hooks carving strange lines in the air, two rays of frosty light turned into a giant pair of phantom hooks in the air that slashed towards Song Yushu.
When the giant hook in the air formed by the surrounding heaven and earth qi did their thing, her actual weapon went for Song Yushu’s sword.
The moment his sword was bogged down by her relentless assault, his combat strength would decrease by a huge half!
In actuality, she could easily rally the other three and launch another attack on Shang Xia. After all, he broke up their cooperation earlier by separating Tan Xinya. He only took on three of them at once and joining hands again to attack Shang Xia was within the rules.
However, none of them were shameless enough to do that. As elite disciples of their respective institutions, they could somewhat explain the fact that they joined hands to attack Shang Xia the moment the battle started. They could chalk it off as an attempt to intimidate him, but if they tried it again after their previous failure, everyone could tell that they were targeting him specifically.
When that happened, they would be the ones embarrassing themselves and their institutions.
No matter how much they wanted to defeat Shang Xia, they couldn’t make their move at that moment! Their pride wouldn’t allow it!
That was why Tan Xinya went for Song Yushu instead.
Song Yushu wasn’t surprised by Tan Xinya’s sudden attack. In fact, he was ready for it.
As a disciple of the Jianmen Institution, he was an accomplished sword cultivator. There was no way he would allow anyone to restrict the movement of his sword.
Responding with a horizontal slash, a giant ray of sword light slammed against the giant hooks in the air.
The resulting blast forced Tan Xinya back, but Song Yushu couldn’t escape unscathed either. He took several steps back unsteadily.
When that happened, Qin Daxing and Ma Jianfan continued their assault on Shang Xia.
Who would have thought that instead of taking their attacks passively this time, Shang Xia would take the initiative?
As he twirled the Waning Moon Spear in his hand, two streaks of spear light shot at them.
Ma Jianfan was in mid air when a lightning bolt fell towards his face. Unfortunately, it was sliced in two by a second axe that appeared in his hand.
Qin Daxing’s nine segmented metal mace trembled and smashed apart the spear light before wrapping itself tightly around Shang Xia’s Waning Moon Spear.
A burst of joy filled his heart and Qin Daxing yanked hard as he tried to pull Shang Xia’s spear away. Even if he failed to force Shang Xia to release his weapon, he had to hinder his movements.
Tightening his grip on the Waning Moon Spear, Shang Xia sent a tyrannical surge of energy through the mace. Seven different types of energy wrapped themselves around the mace.
All Qin Daxing felt was a horrifying backlash and he didn’t know how to neutralize Shang Xia’s energy at all. He could only watch as his mace was sent flying.
Reacting quickly, he locked onto his weapon and dragged it back towards him. If not for his quick reaction to release his control over the whip to allow it to disengage from Shang Xia’s spear, it might have been destroyed entirely!
Even though Shang Xia had changed the usage of his Seven Laceration Sword earlier to transform them into strands of qi that wrapped around Qin Daxing’s mace, the power contained behind it was even stronger now that he was using Origin True Qi.
Shang Xia was surprised to discover that the seven different types of qi possessed some destructive capabilities to his opponent’s weapons!