The long spear, which swept across with overwhelming momentum, collided with Xiang Pangyun's battle saber. Dongbo Xueying exerted his strength with both arms, causing the spear shaft to twist and bend... producing an astonishing arc, like a dragon emerging from the water, continuing to thrust towards Xiang Pangyun.
"Clang." Xiang Pangyun dared not clash head-on, holding the battle saber with both hands to deflect and defend while retreating!
"How could his strength suddenly increase so much? This, this increase in strength is too much!" Xiang Pangyun couldn't believe it, "Generally, powerful martial arts techniques have some desperate means to make the martial energy burst out more intensely and become more powerful! But the increase is usually not so exaggerated."
Doubling one's strength, such an increase is still too astonishing.
It's like two ordinary soldiers.
One has a strength of 100 pounds, the other 200 pounds, and the stronger one can completely dominate the weaker one!
And after becoming powerful, one has a strength of 50,000 pounds, the other 100,000 pounds! The difference in combat is even more obvious, as the stronger one has 50,000 pounds more strength! If their techniques are equally matched, the weaker one might lose their life in just two or three moves.
"Die!"
Dongbo Xueying advanced rapidly, his spear like a dragon, attacking continuously.
Pfft.
Instantly tearing through the air resistance, the spear thrust towards Xiang Pangyun's face. Xiang Pangyun panicked, dodging and blocking with his battle saber.
"Block!" The thrust immediately turned into a crushing force, the spearhead directly sending Xiang Pangyun flying into the nearby rocks, causing the rocks to crack and shatter into countless pieces.
"Die, die, die." Dongbo Xueying's spear attacks became faster and faster, each thrust aiming to take a life. After gaining the advantage in strength, Dongbo Xueying's continuous spear attacks brought a suffocating sense of threat, as if he could lose his life at any moment.
...
On the other side.
The Black Moon Centipede quickly landed at Snowstone Castle, and Bai Yuanzhi said, "Brother Zong Ling, Brother Tong, and Qing Shi, quickly come up! We will fly to a high altitude... so that the Lord can fight Xiang Pangyun more confidently. If you stay here, Xiang Pangyun might directly attack you after losing, using you to threaten the Lord."
"Thank you, Great Mage." Zong Ling said, and added, "Tong San, Qing Shi, let's hurry up and go up."
The Black Moon Centipede is a relatively large alchemical creature, with a long body that can easily carry seven people. If they squeeze, ten people could sit on it.
Zong Ling, Tong San, and Qing Shi quickly climbed up and sat down.
Huh.
The Black Moon Centipede began to twist and soar towards the high sky.
"Qing Shi." Ji Rong whispered.
Qing Shi, on the back, glanced at Ji Rong beside him. His mood was already different from the daytime.
He had always been carefree, and because of his girlfriend's issues and his overbearing brother, he had said some hurtful words. But now, seeing that battle... especially seeing his brother in danger, possibly losing his life, and knowing that this battle was due to his own trouble, his previous petty grievances towards his brother were long gone.
All that remained was worry and tension.
Without the anger towards his brother, he could naturally reflect on the words he had said to his brother earlier from a more objective perspective.
"At the time, I thought my brother was making assumptions, but in reality... Ji Rong was also making assumptions! Relatively speaking, my brother's words were backed by the intelligence of the Longshan Tower, which monitors the world, making their information more credible." Qing Shi thought to himself, as young people in love often lose their heads, especially during their first love, and he was only sixteen, the age when one is most prone to losing their head.
But in the face of his brother's life-threatening situation, he calmed down. Although he was simple, he was not stupid; in fact, he was quite intelligent.
"If the intelligence from the Longshan Tower is completely accurate."
"Ji Rong's parents are extremely hypocritical and vicious people, and Ji Rong herself is also ruthless. Such a family... all of them like this?" Qing Shi felt a chill run down his spine.
"Bad!"
Just as the Black Moon Centipede flew to a high altitude, before Qing Shi could speak to Ji Rong, Mage Bai Yuanzhi's face changed dramatically.
Qing Shi, Zong Ling, Tong San, and the others all looked down.
The situation had indeed changed again.
Originally, Xiang Pangyun, wearing a dark red robe, still had a layer of blood-colored glow on his body, making him look like a blood-colored figure! That blood-colored glow was his protective martial energy! But now, the layer of protective martial energy on his body had completely disappeared, and his aura had clearly become much stronger. Even at a high altitude, they couldn't help but feel fear!
"I haven't gone all out for thirty years. Even the old man Siliang Hong was unwilling to truly fight me. Dongbo Xueying, you can force me to go all out, and you should be satisfied to die!" Xiang Pangyun's fierce aura was overwhelming, his eyes, which were previously a faint blood color, now completely blood red.
His martial energy erupted and consumed rapidly.
Even his protective martial energy was withdrawn into his body to sustain this consumption.
The consumption increased dramatically, and his strength naturally increased dramatically!
The truly top-tier martial arts techniques generally have desperate means. The middle-grade martial arts technique "Flame Three-Stage Method" that Dongbo Xueying learned did not have such a desperate means, and even if it did, it would be useless, as the silver moon-level martial energy bursting out would be of no use to him, as Dongbo Xueying's body was much stronger than his martial energy.
"Boom."
The two clashed.
Dongbo Xueying was repeatedly forced back, dodging each time.
"Bad." Dongbo Xueying's face changed dramatically, "This is Xiang Pangyun's true strength? My current strength is still far from the 500th place on the Longshan List."
He had already burst his strength and bloodline, going all out!
"Whoosh!"
A white light flashed.
Dongbo Xueying dodged with lightning speed, the spear tip colliding with the white light, causing it to slightly change direction, sweeping across the surroundings.
The surrounding rocks and trees were neatly cut.
"What a fast saber." Dongbo Xueying dodged with all his might.
Xiang Pangyun had long reached the pinnacle of strength, his weapon not inferior to Dongbo Xueying's, and the saber technique he practiced was equally formidable, not inferior to the "Mystic Ice Spear Technique"! Moreover, his experience was much richer than Dongbo Xueying's. After gaining an overall advantage, Dongbo Xueying immediately felt the danger, finding each defense difficult.
...
In the high sky, Qing Shi, Zong Ling, Mage Bai Yuanzhi, and the others on the Black Moon Centipede were all tense, Kong Youyue and Ji Rong also had complex thoughts, watching the battle below with tension.
"Is he going to die?" Ji Rong was tense but also somewhat expectant.
"Dongbo Xueying." Kong Youyue's mindset was very contradictory. If Dongbo Xueying died in battle, her previous decision to give up on him would seem wise! But on the other hand, she didn't have much resentment towards Dongbo Xueying, and after spending a long time together, he was at least someone she knew well. If he died in battle, she would feel some distress.
"Brother!" Qing Shi was extremely tense, as were Zong Ling and Tong San.
They were the most tense of all.
Dongbo Xueying was a close person in their lives. Zong Ling and Tong San had watched Dongbo Xueying grow up from a young age, treating him like their own child. How could they not be worried and tense?
But they had no other choice, they could only watch.
...
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh.
Dongbo Xueying's movements were like lightning. After bursting his strength, his speed was astonishingly fast, his spear techniques completely becoming illusions, blocking each attack, pushing himself to the limit.
Xiang Pangyun, however, was even faster, his saber techniques faster and more fierce.
The area around the top of Snowstone Mountain was in chaos, with many large trees and rocks shattered.
"This can't go on." Sweat beads formed on Dongbo Xueying's forehead, "It's too difficult, continuing this battle could cost me my life at any moment."
"Run."
While fighting, Dongbo Xueying was also very concerned about his younger brother and the others. When Great Mage Bai Yuanzhi took his younger brother, Uncle Zong, and Uncle Tong to a high altitude on the Black Moon Centipede, Dongbo Xueying was no longer too worried. What he needed to do now was... to save his own life!
Swoosh!
Dongbo Xueying used the collision of weapons to instantly borrow force, sprinting over two to three hundred meters, quickly running away.
He fled!
"Run? Can you escape?" Xiang Pangyun sneered, his figure flashing as he pursued, clearly faster.