Chapter 461: Chapter 251: Defeated (2)

In an instant, all eyes fell on Jiang Fan. The two had fought once before as Outer Disciples, a fight Jiang Fan had lost by a single move.

During the Ten Heroes ranking, Jiang Fan was placed above Li Chuyang simply because he had his breakthrough a bit earlier. Li Chuyang had long been dissatisfied with this arrangement.

Meeting everyone’s gaze, Jiang Fan’s expression remained as serene as a still well. He had long anticipated Li Chuyang’s challenge.

"As if I’m afraid of you!"

Crimson Gang Qi swirled around Jiang Fan. He activated his Nine Revolutions Blood Coagulation Battle Gang and shot onto the platform like a streak of blood-red light.

"Fight!"

Li Chuyang let out an explosive roar like a crack of thunder. His silver Gang Qi surged like a tide, and a tyrannical aura swept over everything.

The next moment, he vanished like a silver flash, his body tearing through the air. Wreathed in churning Gang Qi, he swept toward Jiang Fan like a tidal wave.

Jiang Fan was like a blazing furnace. Crimson Gang Qi erupted from the crown of his head, making his entire body look as if it were stained with blood, his fighting spirit soaring.

The Nine Revolutions Blood Coagulation Battle Gang was a Condensing Gang Qi Technique forged from the life-and-death struggles of the battlefield. It prized fighting spirit above all else—the higher the spirit, the stronger the Gang Qi.

"BOOM!"

Jiang Fan tapped his toe on the platform and his body abruptly vanished. He too shot forward, his body shattering the air with a deafening sonic boom.

The next instant, one red and one white figure collided heavily, like two shooting stars.

"BANG!"

It was like two mountains colliding. The red and white Gang Qi clashed, and the resulting shockwave swept through the air, completely engulfing the entire twenty-foot-square platform.

"RUMBLE..."

The platform trembled. On the Martial Arts Arena floor, tiles exploded with a roar as dust and smoke shot skyward. Some of the closer disciples, their faces contorted in pain, hastily raised their Protective Gang Qi and retreated in horror.

"So strong!" Many felt their scalps tingle with shock.

This was the power of the first and second ranked of the Ten Heroes. They couldn’t even withstand the aftershocks of the clash. It was hard to imagine how powerful the two combatants were for their physical bodies not to have disintegrated from such a terrifying impact.

"Haha! Excellent! Jiang Fan, you’re finally starting to look like a real expert."

Amidst the dissipating tide of Gang Qi, Li Chuyang’s figure emerged. His robes whipped about as silver Gang Mang flowed over his entire body.

"But you’ve been a bit of a disappointment!"

Jiang Fan’s calm voice rang out. He was like an undefeated War God of the battlefield, blood-red light surging around him, his fighting spirit higher than ever before.

He had a gentle and warm personality. Not even the incident with Lu Ren and Xiaoya had truly angered him. But when it came to Li Chuyang, his disgust only grew, fueling his will to fight.

"Insolent!"

Li Chuyang barked coldly and strode forward. Gang Qi surged in his palm, forming a full moon that he blasted toward Jiang Fan!

Three Yin Silver Palace Profound Gang True Technique!

This was the Li Family’s Secret Technique. It was not only a Superior Technique for condensing Gang Qi, but also a terrifyingly powerful Martial Technique. As his Cultivation deepened, Li Chuyang had become able to use some of the devastating offensive moves from the Three Yin Silver Palace Profound Gang True Technique.

"RUMBLE..."

Li Chuyang’s move was earth-shattering. Before the silver moon had even struck, the terrifying pressure it exuded was already causing the platform to groan and sink, unable to bear the strain.

A shocking chill spread rapidly, and everyone saw ice crystals beginning to form on the platform.

"What a powerful move! What technique is that?" someone exclaimed in shock.

Before the palm even arrived, its tyrannical Palm Force was already causing Jiang Fan’s Protective Gang Qi to ripple, as if it were about to be crushed from a distance.

"As expected of Li Lingdu’s son. To have cultivated the Three Yin Silver Palace Profound Gang True Technique to such a degree... This move, ’The Moon Sets, the Crows Cry, and the Sky is Full of Frost,’ already contains a hint of Martial Dao Imagery. Given time, it’s not impossible for him to comprehend Martial Dao Imagery while still in the Bone Marrow Cleansing Realm."

On the viewing stands, an old master from a Martial Arts Clan spoke, his voice filled with a mixture of shock and uncertainty.

A genius who could comprehend Martial Dao Imagery while in the Bone Marrow Cleansing Realm... the Purple Sun Sect might not see one of those for many years.

"The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. How could Li Lingdu’s son be anything but extraordinary?"

"Can the Young Master Marquis handle a move like this?"

All eyes fell upon Jiang Fan.

A sharp glint flashed in Jiang Fan’s eyes, his fighting spirit almost solidifying into a tangible force. Faced with Li Chuyang’s ferocious palm strike, his will to fight soared even higher.

His blood-red Gang Qi flared as if doused in oil, erupting with a roar and expanding by half a foot. A visible ripple of power swept outwards.

"CRACKLE CRACKLE CRACKLE..."

At the same time, a series of sharp cracks, like beans popping in a hot wok, sounded from within his body. His muscles swelled like mountain peaks, their contours sharply defined. An even more powerful aura—fierce and tyrannical—erupted from him.

The terrifying pressure from Li Chuyang’s silver moon was completely dispersed, and even forced back.

His crimson Gang Qi surged, revolving and compressing three times in quick succession. A tyrannical aura, in no way inferior to Li Chuyang’s, swept out from him.

Jiang Fan strode forward and threw a punch to meet the silver moon.

"Nine Revolutions Breaking Gang Strength! The Young Master Marquis is incredible! He’s actually cultivated it to the Fourth Turn," Ding Yuan exclaimed in awe.

The crimson fist carried the force of an avalanche, utterly unstoppable. It tore through the air with a piercing shriek and, in an instant, crashed into the silver moon.

"BOOM!"

Fist met palm with a thunderous clap. A violent storm of Gang Qi erupted like a flash flood, sweeping out in all directions. The entire platform rumbled and sank further.

Everyone felt the ground tremble, as if the entirety of Tianquan Peak were experiencing an earthquake. A dragon of dust and smoke coiled into the sky, obscuring the figures of Li Chuyang and Jiang Fan.

"Hmph!"

Two pained grunts came from within the dust cloud. A turbulent blast of Force ripped the smoke apart, revealing both Li Chuyang and Jiang Fan staggering backward, nearly blown off the platform.

"Again!" Jiang Fan roared, his fighting spirit on the verge of solidifying as the Nine Revolutions Blood Coagulation Battle Gang circulated wildly within him.

He strode forward and threw another punch, as unstoppable and brilliant as a rainbow piercing the sun.

In the past, he had always been the one reluctant to fight Li Chuyang. This time, however, he was the one taking the offensive, and he found it utterly exhilarating.

"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!"

The two continued to trade blows, fighting with such ferocity that it seemed to blot out the sun. They were evenly matched.

Eventually, Elder Yang Yuanzhou had to intervene to stabilize the platform. If he let them continue, they would have completely demolished it.

Li Chuyang’s techniques were grand and sweeping, tyrannical and ferocious.

He seemed to prefer direct, head-on clashes, disdaining flashy, ostentatious moves.

Jiang Fan was like a general forged in the crucible of battle, growing ever more valiant as the fight wore on.

After several dozen more exchanges, both of their auras had weakened considerably, and their stamina began to fade. Li Chuyang’s decline was the most apparent; he was beginning to lose ground to Jiang Fan.

"BANG!"

Ten moves later, he was sent flying off the platform by one of Jiang Fan’s punches. The challenge was a failure.

"Li Chuyang, so this is all you amount to." Jiang Fan stood on the platform, looking down on him.

He rarely spoke such arrogant words. It just went to show how truly he had come to detest Li Chuyang.

"I only lost by a single move. This is a platform duel. If it were a battle to the death, you’re the one who would have died," Li Chuyang snorted.

He still had trump cards, but they weren’t the kind of techniques one could use in a platform duel.

’What a megalomaniac, making excuses even after losing.’

Jiang Fan couldn’t be bothered to waste words on him. After bowing to Yang Yuanzhou with cupped fists, he turned and leaped off the platform.

"Li Chuyang’s challenge has failed!"

Yang Yuanzhou announced, "Are there any other challengers?"

"I wish to challenge Jiang Fan!" Zhang Hanzhou declared.

A cold aura emanated from him. His eyes were as sharp as blades. He was dressed in black martial attire and carried a short saber, no more than three feet long.

He was originally ranked sixth on the Ten Heroes List. Later, when Xu Yang made the list, Xiong Kun was pushed off entirely, and Zhang Hanzhou was bumped down to seventh. Now, with Yan Guiyun absent, he was back to sixth place.

The senior disciple ranked ahead of him was Ye Qiuling. Logically, she also had the right to contend for first place, but she had been standing quietly the entire time, showing no intention of issuing a challenge.

"I want to challenge Li Chuyang!" declared Qi Xuancheng, who was ranked seventh.

This man had a somewhat scholarly air about him. He looked at Li Chuyang with a faint, knowing smile.

Everyone was taken aback by his words.

Li Chuyang was the disciple of Medicine King Peak’s Peak Master, while Qi Xuancheng was the Peak Master’s grandson. Logically, he shouldn’t be challenging Li Chuyang, since they were both disciples under Peak Master Qi.

’Does he think he’s no match for Zhang Hanzhou, so he’s challenging the second-ranked Li Chuyang instead?’

"Very well, but first, we wait for them to finish recovering their energy!"

Yang Yuanzhou’s gaze fell on Xu Yang. "Does anyone else wish to issue a challenge?"

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