When should this Divine Ability be used?
It should only be used in life-and-death battles.
To lose six years of precious time just for a top-grade Storage Pouch? That’s too uneconomical.
However, by the time Elder Ice Mysterious shouted, it was already too late.
Because a drop of blood had already seeped out from Xiao Xuan’s glabella.
Bang...
That drop of blood rolled in the Void Realm, spinning rapidly, then burst open with a bang, turning into countless tiny blood droplets.
At this moment, countless fire spiritual power surged out from within Xiao Xuan’s body.
These fire spiritual power condensed into a giant hammer in front of him.
A long-handled Divine Hammer.
This hammer was naturally not a physical entity; it was merely a phantom condensed from spiritual power.
Although it was just a phantom, after mixing with blood, it possessed an inexplicable sense of weight, with surging flames burning on it, like a Divine Hammer from the heavens.
“He Pingsheng... you must die!”
Xiao Xuan stretched out both hands, then forcefully gripped the hammer’s long handle and swung it with all his might.
The giant hammer carried his body ten zhang into the Void Realm, then slammed down violently towards He Pingsheng’s head.
Xiao Xuan roared, “Formless Fire Divine Hammer...”
This was another Divine Ability of the Ice Peak Sect.
Originally, this item was not called the Formless Fire Divine Hammer, but rather the Ice Peak Sect’s 【Formless Ice Divine Hammer】.
But Xiao Xuan was worried that an ice-attributed hammer would be countered by He Pingsheng’s earth-attributed defensive light membrane, so he operated it with a fire-attributed Cultivation Technique.
Thus, the Formless Ice Divine Hammer became the Formless Fire Divine Hammer.
“Open...”
He Pingsheng, standing on the arena, dared not be negligent, and the earth-attributed magic power within his body surged into the light membrane with a rumble.
His Earth Armor Technique was activated to its extreme.
It was dazzlingly bright.
He Pingsheng also felt that Xiao Xuan’s strike was much stronger than his previous attacks.
It was said to have increased by thirty percent.
But to He Pingsheng, it was definitely more than thirty percent.
It was probably a full fifty percent.
As he pondered, the large hammer, wreathed in flames, slammed heavily onto the Earth Armor outside his body.
“Crack...”
The next moment, a crisp sound immediately followed.
He Pingsheng looked closely and saw a crack appear on the Earth Armor, centered where the hammer made contact.
Then!
Crack... Crack... Crack-crack-crack...
Countless cracks spread out like a spider web.
In the span of a single breath, the Earth Armor condensed by the Earth Armor Technique directly shattered.
At this moment, He Pingsheng no longer had time to re-condense the Vajra Shield.
What to do?
There was only one way.
Run...
He Pingsheng tilted his head to dodge the fatal blow.
However, this hammer was not only powerful but also fast.
He Pingsheng’s head did dodge the fatal blow, but the hammer squarely struck his shoulder.
Then...
A numbness spread from his shoulder.
Just as everyone thought He Pingsheng’s shoulder would be smashed into a bloody mess, a loud metallic clang rang out.
Clang...
Then, everyone only saw He Pingsheng’s body stagger back seven or eight steps with a bang.
The Daoist robe on his left shoulder was burned to ashes.
However, on the exposed, fair skin of his shoulder, where was there any injury?
He Pingsheng touched his shoulder, then belatedly realized something: he was a Body Cultivator.
His Divine Ability, the 【Nine Poison Golden Body】, had already been cultivated to the Qi Refining Stage Tenth Layer.
“How is that possible?” Xiao Xuan was stunned.
The combat power he gained by burning his essence blood and Origin, yet this kid actually managed to block it again.
That last strike had consumed another thirty percent of his spiritual power!
Of his ten percent spiritual power, sixty percent had already been used.
He had four percent left.
If he couldn’t even break this fellow’s defense, then how could he fight?
Xiao Xuan’s eyes narrowed slightly.
On the stage, Red-Clothed Elder Ice Mysterious also noticed something was amiss.
If this continued, Xiao Xuan was bound to lose.
A top-grade Storage Pouch was not a big deal, but their Ice Peak Sect could not afford to lose face.
His Disciple was an Empty Spiritual Root!
Countless people had placed their hopes on him!
“Senior Nephew He...” Ice Mysterious had no choice but to step in personally, although he knew it was somewhat embarrassing, he couldn’t care less about that now: “The so-called competition is about give and take! Only then is it a competition!”
“If you keep defending, what if the two of you end up in a draw, unable to determine a winner?”
“Constantly defending, this fighting style is a bit shameless!”
As he spoke, Ice Mysterious himself felt his face flush red.
Who was shameless?
Using words to force the opponent to attack and thus disrupt the battle, wasn’t that even more shameless?
“Senior!” He Pingsheng responded while keeping an eye on Xiao Xuan: “It’s not that Junior is shameless; when I came, our Elder told me not to retaliate!”
“Oh?” Ice Mysterious felt he had seized an opportunity and quickly asked: “Why wouldn’t he let you retaliate?”
He Pingsheng said: “Our Elder said that your Ice Peak Sect is a large Sect, and our Tai Xu Sect is a small Sect. If I were to injure this Senior Brother, our Tai Xu Sect would not be able to bear the consequences!”
“So he told me to be steady during the fight and not easily injure Xiao Xuan!”
“Therefore, Junior dared not make a move!”
It would have been better if he hadn't said anything, but upon hearing this, several people’s faces turned dark.
Elder Chongyang’s face was so dark he could drill into a crack in the ground: You little brat, damn it, who told you to say that? Isn’t this giving them a reason to slap my face, saying our Tai Xu Sect is timid and fearful?
And beside him, the Elder of the Ice Peak Sect’s face was even darker: What does this mean? Does this mean they’re going easy on us?
“No need for that!” Elder Ice Mysterious waved his large sleeve: “You just fight according to your normal Ideas, no constant defending, otherwise others will say our Ice Peak Sect bullies the small!”
He just found an excuse to make He Pingsheng attack.
Only if he attacked, there would be a flaw, and only then could he create an opportunity for Xiao Xuan.
“Good!”
He Pingsheng quickly retreated ten zhang, then retracted the defensive Earth Armor Technique around his body.
“Open!” He Pingsheng took a deep breath, and a fire crow condensed before him.
“Go...”
A fire crow flew rapidly towards Xiao Xuan, twenty zhang away.
“A mere trick!” Xiao Xuan laughed.
As long as you retract your shield, let’s see how you can defend.
He slammed open the Fire Divine Hammer again with a bang.
Then he swung the hammer and smashed it hard onto the fire crow.
Clearly, He Pingsheng’s fire crow did not block it.
After all, the opponent had activated a secret technique, and He Pingsheng had only condensed this one fire crow.
After Xiao Xuan shattered the fire crow, he leaped over a distance of ten zhang and launched a surprise attack towards He Pingsheng.
“Now, let’s see how you defend!”
Leaping ten zhang and landing, Xiao Xuan’s foot stomped heavily on the ground, intending to use the force to leap up again and attack He Pingsheng.
As a result, with a bang, the floor tiles shattered.
A verdant vine drilled out from underground, instantly coiling around Xiao Xuan’s leg.
And that wasn't all.
The vine grew wildly, and seven poisonous thorns pierced out from seven different directions, striking Xiao Xuan’s leg, buttocks, arm, and other parts.
Poison liquid sprayed, and Xiao Xuan instantly lost all combat power, flopping to the ground.
He Pingsheng, on the other hand, waved his hand and retracted the Spell.
Mission accomplished!
Clean and decisive.