Divine Brilliance
chapter-191

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

“How vicious! This person is just abusing his strength, how despicable. How can he win?”

Hu Zhongyuan’s body backed off another 100 feet before standing still, only to see Zong Shou’s body bounce backward. The knife-like leg wind still swept upwards into the sky, smashing on the roof and breaking a deep hole. Following the loud explosion, many pieces of stone broke, causing the entire Tiegang Hall to shake.

What happened next was that no matter how Zong Shou’s sword changed or how indiscernible it was, Xuanyuan Tong wouldn’t block it. Even if his body was exposed he wouldn’t care, directly ending it, smashing with a fist or kicking it away with a leg. How overbearing!

What made Hu Zhongyuan respect him was that he had to retreat a further hundred feet. Chuxue and Zong Yuan couldn’t hold on anymore and were forced to the corner of the stone hall. To think that Zong Shou was able to survive and be unharmed with an initial xiantian realm cultivation in front of Xuanyuan Tong.

Pretty much every fist that struck out from the Xuan Mountain City lord cause the wind to surge. Each leg that swept out will cause the stone hall to shake. Like a giant human-sized mountain which was causing the ground to shake continuously.

In just a few strikes Zong Shou was forced back hundreds of feet, like a giant stone rolling down from a mountain, really dangerous and it crushed everything with an unstoppable force.

Zong Shou’s fighting spirit was hit out, he was totally fearless and determined, showing no signs of depression and giving up as he continued to move in this fist wing. Occasionally he would stab out with his sword and each was really exquisite.

When he retreated to the center of the stone hall, he turned into starlight, like an eye-catching milky way as he counter-attacked.

Millions of sword images cut up the vast wind in front of him, continuously shaving at it, frenziedly attacking forwards! Pretty much in an instant, he was in front of Xuanyuan Tong, like it was about to totally drown out his body.

However, Xuanyuan Tong’s eyes shone coldly, following which he advanced instead of going backward, charging at Zong Shou. Not only was he fast as lightning and intense like a flame, but his aura had also increased by several times.

“Good sword technique! Only this strength is too weak! You can come from a thousand paths but I will return from one! Break for me…”

A charging fist, a hammer sized fist struck at the centermost portion of that milky way-like sword explosion, clashing head-on with that sword glow.

“Bang!”

When the fist and sword engaged, at the next moment Zong Shou’s body seemed to be hit by a million-kilogram huge hammer swung at high speeds. He was flung back like a ragdoll. Until he reached close to the gates of the hell did he manage to stabilize himself. But when he landed he slid backward another few hundred feet.

Then, Zong Shou spat out blood, half kneeling on the ground devoid of strength. He rested on the sword in his hand to avoid falling onto the ground.

Hu Zhongyuan took in a deep breath. Although he predicted that there was no way that Zong Shou could beat Xuanyuan Tong, he was feeling unfair for him.

This was bullying! It was like an elephant going all out to step on an ant. It was too merciless, this Xuan Mountain City lord really didn’t have style. His father had sealed a huge portion of his strength before fighting Zong Shou.

And this one, apart from the true qi suppression of the Tiegang Hall, he was pretty much going all out. The gap between the two was close to 20 times!

That Xuanyuan Tong seemed to know that he was being a bit of a bully. After stopping he explained apologetically, “Your sword path is deep and far, much better than I expected! If I saved any strength I might fall to you. So I had to go all out in this battle to fight fire with fire. Your loss today isn’t because your attainments on the martial path are weaker than mine, but because of our huge difference in strength, you don’t have to mind much about it. If you have the strength you should stand up and apologize to Uncle tan and Uncle Luo. They are your elders and won’t blame you…”

Whilst speaking, he had already treated Zong Shou as his son in law. Xuanyuan Tong’s eyes were filled with total surprise.

In just 10 years of time…He didn’t expect the son of his old friend to actually become so strong!

However just as he was halfway done, Xuanyuan Tong paused, looking dumbfounded towards the front.

Only to see Zong Shou shakily stand up. His eyes showed no intentions of admitting defeat. There were only burning flames that were crazily burning. He couldn’t help but feel startled, he raised his hand and waited quietly.

Zong Shou’s mind was still a mess, not having much consciousness. However, on one side it was really clear, numerous sword arts and sword techniques flashing across his brain. Parts that he thought were never interconnected were now totally linked. He had comprehended some of the essences, able to understand them better and utilize them better, making the technique more and more perfect.

His sword all along looked up to the strong, getting stronger as it faced stronger opponents.

Apologize, what a joke! He Zong Shou never apologizes when he beat someone up!

Slowly a wind starting blowing on the ground and gathered around Zong Shou’s body.

Fire and water spiritual energy as thick as fog caused that ten feet odd space to turn red and white like there was a giant spiral that was spinning about.

“…This spiritual energy, is it a spiritual technique?’

Xuanyuan Tong couldn’t be certain. At the start, he thought that it was Zong Shou releasing his internal energy and causing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to resonate with it. Following which he remembered that they were within the Tiegang Hall. Apart from him who was half a foot into xiantian, no one else would be able to release any bit of energy.

But this Zong Shou could actually control spiritual energy from heaven and earth!

“That’s right, it actually is soul power! Using his body’s spiritual energy to control and attract spiritual energy around. Apart from being a xiantian master, he is actually also a spirit master, a dual cultivator!”

He was astonished, his eyes also showed a moment of loss of focus. Coincidentally at that moment, Zong Shou suddenly opened his eyes, looking coldly like his eyes could see through everything. His entire body suddenly moved, like he had merged into the light wind, flying about.

From 500 feet out a sword stabbed over, it was still really elegant and exquisite, close to perfection, using up the theories of the sword path!

Xuanyuan Tong immediately recovered from that loss of focus, looking at the attacking sword light, his eyes lit up in awe.

“Good sword! Really exquisite! This sword technique actually improved from such a high level. I don’t know if you didn’t go all out before or you had some comprehension. What terrifying talent!”

Without hesitation, he still punched out furiously forwards! All his muscles were being utilized, the vital energy in his body burning. This fist was much stronger than the one before.

“So what if your technique is close to the martial path? With nothing to rely on it is still weak! How weak! Shatter for me!”

Where the fist wind hit towards was the place the sword tip came from. When he acted, Xuanyuan Tong’s eyes had turned ice-cold, close to that of a machine. All the emotions in his eyes had disappeared, only left with a coldness that could destroy everything and confidence to suppress everyone.

Only when he saw Zong Shou’s sword did he suddenly have an unprecedented feeling to escape did he suddenly feel shocked. That lasted for a short while before he calmed down.

It’s better not to dodge, this fist could decide victory.

“Dang!”

When the fist and sword clashed once more, the entire stone hall shook once more. Zong Shou’s body was tossed backward as everyone expected. However, he wasn’t in such a bad state, landing beside the stone door like that of a leaf, slowly drifting down.

On the contrary Xuanyuan Tong…

“Tong” Tong” Tong”

stepped backward 3 times, each step caused the tiegang stone beneath to be stepped to pieces.

Within the thousand feet of space, the temperature was suddenly hot and cold. The place where the two of them had engaged had threads of lightning glow lingering.

“How is this possible, what strong internal strength! With just an initial xiantian body how did this kid have enough strength to fight against me? His spiritual cultivation had actually also reached the night wandering realm. What terrifying talent. But even so, he shouldn’t have such power! Pretty much on the same level as him…”

Within Xuanyuan Tong’s chest, a huge wave rose up.

Hu Zhongyuan, Zong Yuan and the others had their mouths agape.

That was someone of earth chakra level 9 meridians, the peak of Xuanwu! Even within the tiegang hall, he could casually have hundreds of thousands of kilograms of strength.

Did their prince eat some god strength pill or something? He could actually use one sword to force him back by 3 steps, barely going head to head on the same level?

Or was he possessed by some god or demon?

Zhu Junhou, Tan Tao who was lying on the group couldn’t believe their eyes. This sword had totally disregarded and broken through the realm and level gap. Unless this Zong Shou was a grandmaster level expert this was impossible.

Luo Xian barely raised his head, his eyes staring. Before this he was furious, not willing to admit defeat, wanting to kill this Zong Shou. But now he felt really shocked, one wave larger than the other.

Although he wasn’t too certain, the feeling that the sword of the kid gave him was really really strong!

Li Sina’s eyes shook and blurred like she was recalling something. After a short while, she startled, “It is spirit and martial arts combining. It actually is! Before my teacher died he spent his whole entire life but was unable to reach that level!”

That low mutter was so soft that pretty much no one should have been able to hear it. However, it caused the 2 people in the hall’s heart to shake.

Fang Shu was similarly shocked before he said, “How is that possible? It might be, using the initial earth chakra level to fight a 9 meridian. If that isn’t it, then what is that?”

Xuanyuan Tong took in a deep breath. Although his wife’s martial cultivation wasn’t strong, she came from a large demon sect. Her knowledge was far above his.

His eyes glowed like a torch as he focused around Zong Shou’s body. Following which when he saw the fire and water spiritual energy, gathering around his body like a mist, injecting towards the sword, his eyes contracted into that of a needle-like shape.

He wasn’t a normal dual cultivator who used true qi and spiritual techniques to assist. Instead, he merged the two, energy and soul as one, intersecting with one another. It was like the two were destined to be together like they were part of the same body. Instead of repelling one another and swallowing one another.

…No wonder that sword was strong enough to go up against him.

Using the true qi of the initial xiantian realm to mix with the spiritual energy of the heaven and earth, the strength of that sword was indeed enough to make up for the difference.

Indefinitely reducing the gap in strength between the two.

His eyes were at a loss. Think about how many dual cultivators there were in the world? How many of them could merge spirit and martial arts! Moreover, who could do that at 14 at the xiantian realm?