Chapter 495: Chapter 371: The Immortal Martial Hall’s Foundation, Celestial Thunder Hurricane Hammer

After Lin Chang’sheng killed Liu Chengfeng with a single palm strike, his heart felt a great deal lighter. He’d finally avenged Zhao Shuang’Er.

As for the Blood Robe Sect’s threats of revenge, Lin Chang’sheng didn’t pay them the slightest mind.

Once he stepped into the Integration Stage, even without Gu Shan’s protection, the Blood Robe Sect wouldn’t be able to do a thing to him.

After claiming victory, Lin Chang’sheng leapt off the platform, and soon after, another talented disciple ascended to choose an opponent.

Now, with only the top fifty Immortal Realm prodigies competing, the battles had become all the more intense.

All kinds of Immortal Techniques and Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasures kept appearing. Clearly, the sects had invested tremendous resources to help their disciples achieve better results.

As time went on, all Divinity Transformation Stage disciples had already been eliminated, leaving only those prodigies at Void Refining Stage or above.

Hou Shaojie, relying on his Fierce Tiger Body Strengthening Technique, battled fiercely and successfully advanced to the top twenty-six.

Of these twenty-six, most were from the top ten forces of the Immortal Realm, with just a handful of dark horse competitors breaking through.

Besides Lin Chang’sheng and Hou Shaojie, two others in particular had outstanding fights.

Li Zhantian of the Purple Cloud Sect and the loose cultivator Luo Xiao.

Purple Cloud Sect was a second-class sect. Their Sect Leader’s Cultivation was only at the Mahayana Stage, yet they’d managed to raise a prodigy at the Middle Stage of Void Refining. This spoke to Li Zhantian’s astonishing talent.

Luo Xiao was a lone cultivator, with no sect or affiliation, yet he’d managed to cultivate to the Early Stage of Void Refining on his own—his aptitude was truly extraordinary.

With such talent and no sect support, these prodigies were instantly courted by major sects throwing out their olive branches.

Whether or not he could enter the top ten, many sects were willing to go all-in to nurture him.

Luo Xiao understood that his potential couldn’t compare to Lin Chang’sheng’s, so before the battle was even over, he’d already chosen to join Spirit Mountain Sect, one of the Ten Great Immortal Sects.

This decision greatly satisfied the Spirit Mountain Elders.

Aside from these black horses, the remaining victors were all disciples of the top ten Immortal Sects in the Immortal Realm.

All three disciples from Immortal Martial Hall made it in, and though Heaven-Suppressing Sect lost one disciple, they still had three remaining. Immortal Palace had just two, and Spirit Mountain Piaomiao Sect had quite a few victorious disciples as well.

Now, it was time for the challenge round to decide the top thirteen.

To avoid clashes between the strongest, the more powerful disciples were given first pick to challenge slightly weaker opponents.

But Lin Chang’sheng wasn’t in a hurry at all.

After all, no matter who he faced, he was absolutely confident in his victory.

Besides, unless the others were idiots, basically no one would choose to challenge Lin Chang’sheng.

Lin Chang’sheng appeared to be at the Middle Stage of Void Refining, but who really knew what his true strength was? Given that, why not just pick a disciple only at the Early Stage of Void Refining to battle?

"Immortal Martial Hall, Yang Huaizhen! I challenge Junior Sister Yu from Piaomiao Sect!"

Yang Huaizhen was the first to step onto the platform and declare his choice.

Although he wanted to challenge someone from another sect, Piaomiao Sect’s recent behavior had really pissed Yang Huaizhen off.

So he planned to eliminate one of them.

And Yu Tingting happened to be the weakest among them.

"Hmph, real men don’t bully women. You actually picked me, a mere girl? Aren’t you afraid people will laugh at you?"

Yu Tingting was clearly upset; she knew she wasn’t Yang Huaizhen’s match.

She tried to talk him out of it with words.

"It’s a contest of skill, not gender. If you’re afraid of getting hurt, Junior Sister Yu, you can always admit defeat!"

But Yang Huaizhen wasn’t going to be fooled by her words.

"You—"

Seeing he wouldn’t be swayed, Yu Tingting was so angry she couldn’t speak, then she gathered her strength and jumped up onto the combat platform.

Piaomiao Sect was a powerful force in the Immortal Realm—if she surrendered without a fight, it would be an utter embarrassment.

So no matter what, Yu Tingting was determined to at least exchange a few moves with Yang Huaizhen.

"Fists and feet aren’t merciful. Junior Sister Yu, be careful!"

Even as he faced Yu Tingting, Yang Huaizhen didn’t plan on using his Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure. His Cultivation already suppressed hers, so using a treasure would just be bullying at that point.

"Be careful too, Senior Brother Yang—blades and swords are blind!"

Though her opponent was using fist techniques, Yu Tingting had no intention of following suit. She immediately summoned her Heaven-Reaching Spirit Treasure.

It was a Qingfeng Blade, three feet six inches long.

The blade was sharp and slender, a faint cold glint on its surface. Its power was definitely formidable.

"Martial God Suppressing Heaven!"

Roar—

Yang Huaizhen shouted, and his Primordial Power burst forth, gold radiance blooming all around him. As his voice echoed, a massive golden human-shaped phantom appeared behind him, exuding immense pressure.

The giant humanoid shadow resembled a Divine being, gold light surging from its form, eyes blazing with heat.

As Yang Huaizhen unleashed his Fist Aura, the Martial God phantom did the same, launching a devastating punch at Yu Tingting.

Yu Tingting didn’t have a chance to think. She immediately swung her blade, sending Sword Aura to meet the attack.

As the Qingfeng Blade swept forth, the very air was torn as it howled from the force.

Waves of Sword Aura kept slashing at the golden Fist Aura.

Bang—

In the next instant, fist and sword qi collided fiercely. The razor-sharp Sword Aura was completely shattered in a flash by the overwhelming Fist Aura.

And the Fist Aura, momentum unbroken, crashed headlong toward Yu Tingting.

Yu Tingting’s eyes went wide in shock—so this was the gap between Early and Late Stage of Void Refining?

"I admit defeat!"

Feeling the situation turn bad, Yu Tingting immediately conceded.

Yang Huaizhen saw her admit defeat and stopped, his Fist Aura halting three feet in front of Yu Tingting.

"She admits it!"

Yang Huaizhen withdrew the Martial God phantom and spoke.

"Hmph—"

Yu Tingting huffed angrily and leapt off the combat platform. This guy was clearly just bullying them.

This scene left Zhou Qibai rather upset as well.

If the other guy weren’t so strong, Zhou Qibai absolutely wouldn’t let him get away with it.

Now, with Yu Tingting eliminated, Piaomiao Sect had only Zhou Qibai left in the fight.