The First Sword of the Universe

Chapter 334 White Dragon and Black Snake
The third match finally got down to business.

The most common way for martial arts practitioners to determine who is superior is through duels and fights to decide who wins and who loses.

Xu Xingchen looked at the two people separated by three zhang in the middle of the arena and thought to himself, "Jing'er currently only has the strength to break through to the second realm, while Ouyang Ke has broken through to the third realm; I wonder if Jing'er can, like me, defy the odds and rise above them in this battle."

Ouyang Ke looked at Guo Jing opposite him. He felt both confident and somewhat uncertain.

That kid over there... something strange about him. Every time we meet and spar, his martial arts skills seem to improve dramatically. I wonder what level he's reached now.

Guo Jing still looked simple-minded and dazed. He earnestly bowed to his opponent.

"let's start!"

At Huang Yaoshi's command, the two people on the field quickly collided.

In the midst of a fierce and rapid exchange of blows, the two quickly exchanged more than a dozen moves.

Ouyang Ke's Snake Fist technique is agile and flexible, often able to launch attacks on opponents from places that ordinary people cannot imagine.

Guo Jing's Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms were executed with steady and powerful movements, unleashing immense power with every gesture.

The two exchanged more than a dozen moves in a short time. Ouyang Ke made a careless move and was sent flying by Guo Jing's "Regretful Dragon" move.

Ouyang Ke rolled on the ground three zhang away, quickly got up, and looked at Guo Jing opposite him in disbelief, thinking to himself, "How...how is this possible? I was actually knocked away by this guy?!"

Unconvinced, he leaped forward again.
As a result, after only a few moves, he was knocked to the ground by Guo Jing's palm strike!
Ouyang Feng, who was watching the battle from a distance, frowned and a cold glint flashed in his eyes.

With his hands behind his back, Huang Yaoshi's cheek twitched slightly, and he suddenly felt an urge not to watch any longer.

Hearing her daughter cheering for her "Brother Jing" from the pavilion behind her made her even more irritable.

As Xu Xingchen watched Guo Jing demonstrate the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms move by move, he knew that the basic skills he had taught Guo Jing had fulfilled their purpose and would likely be rarely used by him again in the future.

Guo Jing, who possesses the Nine Yang Divine Skill and can wield the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms, is clearly much stronger than the Guo Jing in the book.

With a series of rapid, coordinated palm strikes, they pushed and rammed forward.
Kanglong has regrets!

Flying dragon in the sky!

Two dragons drawing water!

The dragon appears in the field!

Guo Jing's palms were incredibly powerful and ferocious, each strike covering a vast area.

Ouyang Ke moved like a snake, darting across the arena with incredible agility; his two arms, like the boneless body of a snake, always managed to launch attacks from angles that no ordinary person could predict.

But no matter how varied his Snake Fist technique was, and how his body resembled a snake, he still could not escape the range of the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms.

Before he had even exchanged a dozen or so blows, he was sent flying by a single palm strike.

This is already the third time!

"That's impossible! I absolutely refuse to believe that your martial arts skills have surpassed mine."

Ouyang Ke roared angrily, and his body rapidly expanded, growing taller amidst cracking and popping sounds, making him appear both tall and slender.
With a sway of his body, a strange snake shadow flashed through the air.

The next moment, a hand extended three feet long, suddenly circled behind Guo Jing, and punched Guo Jing squarely in the back.

Guo Jing's Nine Yang Internal Force erupted instantly, and a burst of energy rippled outwards, violently shattering the fist.

He staggered, took two steps forward, and quickly straightened up.

Upon seeing this scene, both Ouyang Feng and Huang Yaoshi's gazes sharpened.

They knew this wasn't due to the effects of Hong Qigong's Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms, but rather the extraordinary nature of the boy's own internal energy cultivation method.

For a moment, both of them became quite curious about the internal energy cultivation method that Guo Jing practiced.

He thought to himself, "Apart from the Shaolin Temple, which has been closed for many years, there seems to be a supreme divine skill that can defend against and deflect other people's attacks. I have never heard of a second such internal energy cultivation method in the world."

Although Hong Qigong knew that Guo Jing's internal energy cultivation method was somewhat extraordinary, he never expected it to have such a function, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at the young man beside him.

Ouyang Ke came from a prestigious school and had a solid foundation in martial arts.

When unleashing the power of breaking through a realm, it is not like the brief burst of power of ordinary martial artists.

In his transformed state, his movements become more flexible and versatile, and his speed and reaction time also reach a new level.

The key was that both of his arms could extend three feet; like two boneless venomous snakes, they launched a fierce attack on Guo Jing from all directions.

Guo Jing was caught off guard and tried his best to use the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms to block Ouyang Ke's attacks, but he was still hit by Ouyang Ke's fists from time to time.

Fortunately, his Nine Yang Divine Skill was unparalleled and he effectively defended against Ouyang Ke's attack.

His body was swaying from side to side from the blows, making it difficult for him to maintain his balance!
"Damn it! Damn it!"

Ouyang Ke was filled with rage, and his attack became faster and faster.

But Guo Jing was like a roly-poly toy; he would block attacks that his palms could withstand, and for those attacks that he couldn't, he would use his body to take them down.

Even though Ouyang Ke was beating him so badly that he was staggering and swaying from side to side, he never fell down. If he weren't competing in martial arts in front of top masters like his uncle, Island Master Huang, and Hong Qigong, Ouyang Ke would probably have been cursing him out in anger long ago.

Even so, his anger continued to build up. When he realized that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't defeat this hateful opponent, his anger finally exploded.

A snake's shadow flashed in the air, and Ouyang Ke instantly retreated three zhang away.

Then, he looked up to the sky and roared!
The whistling sound was high-pitched and sharp, soaring into the sky.

His body swelled up wildly again amidst the cracking sounds of his bones, becoming even taller and more supple.

Snake scales, barely visible, had crawled up his neck, cheeks, and arms.

His pupils flickered a few times, quickly turning into dark yellow vertical pupils.

The violent aura, like invisible venomous snakes, slithered, danced, and coiled around him.

The venomous snakes coiled around the man and woman in white flicked their tongues and hissed.

This is the power that Ouyang Ke possessed when he broke through to the second realm.

However, Ouyang Ke seemed to be driven mad by Guo Jing's persistent troubles, and the changes in his body continued unabated.

On the exposed skin of the cheeks, neck, and back of the hands, amidst the dramatic changes in the flesh beneath, faint snake scales appeared to crawl up.

His eyes became narrow and elongated, his brows rose high, and his vertical snake-like pupils emitted a cold, sharp light.

Snapped!
The hair broke off, and the long, black hair grew wildly backward like a vine, only stopping when it was about ten feet long.

Thousands of black hairs, like thousands of agile snakes, twisted, swayed, and moved vividly in the air behind Ouyang Ke, as if they were alive.

Transforming into a 2.3-meter-tall Ouyang Ke, he blinked a pair of cold snake eyes, his cheeks, neck, and the back of his hands adorned with tiny snake scales; his black hair danced like snakes behind his head, and he looked like a snake spirit reincarnated, exuding a powerful and cold aura.

The cold, eerie aura spread out, causing a strong sense of unease to rise in the hearts of the onlookers. They felt as if a slippery scent was swirling around their skin, sending chills down their spines.

Within a radius of several dozen feet, some grass, tree bases, and wall crevices that usually appeared clean and without any abnormalities suddenly began to rustle and emerge from them one after another of venomous snakes with colorful scales.

These venomous snakes, unique to Peach Blossom Island, flew and slithered, gathering around Ouyang Ke as if on a pilgrimage.

In a short while, hundreds of venomous snakes gathered and bowed their heads to Ouyang Ke, showing their submission.

The thousands of venomous snakes coiled motionless behind Ouyang Feng were also stirring restlessly, seemingly wanting to crawl over and obey Ouyang Ke's commands.

But Ouyang Feng emitted an invisible aura that immediately calmed the thousands of venomous snakes behind him.

the other side.
When Guo Jing saw Ouyang Ke's transformation, he knew that he had no choice but to unleash his power to break through his cultivation level.

Crackling!

With a cracking sound, his body rapidly expanded and grew stronger, soon tearing his clothes to reveal a body of well-developed, muscular muscles.

A powerful aura suddenly rose up and swirled around his body.

He continued to unleash the power of his second breakthrough, and with a creaking sound, the muscles all over his body merged into larger muscle blocks, expanding outwards to a height of 2.2 meters.

Beneath the muscles, several dragon-shaped energy streams meandered rapidly, causing the muscles and bones to undulate in unison.

As the dragon-shaped energy converged from the shoulders, waist, ribs, thighs, and buttocks onto the back, a ferocious white dragon, depicted in a ukiyo-e style, took shape.
The powerful aura surging around him instantly condensed into an invisible dragon-shaped aura, swirling and dancing, moving up and down.

A faint dragon's roar echoed in everyone's hearts!

At this moment, Ouyang Ke, who had just completed his transformation, saw Guo Jing's appearance, opened his fanged mouth, and loudly mocked, "You only have the power to break through to the second realm? Hahahaha, this time, let's see how you stop my power to break through to the third realm!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he twisted his waist and transformed into a hazy, long snake phantom, flashing across a distance of three zhang (approximately 10 meters) and colliding fiercely with Guo Jing.

Bang!
A burst of energy, like a thunderclap from a clear sky, instantly sent a gust of wind rushing in all directions, reaching several meters away.

Soil and grass clippings shot into the air, enveloping the battlefield in a cloud of dust.

A dragon's roar resounded.
A white dragon shadow suddenly soared into the air and engaged in a fierce battle with the giant snake shadow.

Thump thump thump thump thump thump.
A series of explosive bursts of energy, like thunderclaps, resounded continuously in the air above the open space.

One after another, gusts of wind spread out from the center of the collision between the two.

The ground was most affected, becoming the biggest victim of the aftershocks of the two men's energy.

Grasses kept breaking free from the ground and flying in all directions.

Mud gushed up like a fountain, rising and falling in waves.

The once flat ground quickly became pitted and uneven.

A white dragon shape, and a black snake shadow.
They flew, hovered, collided, and tore at each other on the open ground, creating an exceptionally ferocious and violent battle scene.

The black snake shadow was clearly much stronger than the white dragon shape. After dozens of moves, the balance of power gradually tilted in its favor.

But the white dragon's toughness exceeded many people's expectations.
Amidst bursts of explosive energy and swirling shockwaves, it stood firm, refusing to yield.

(End of this chapter)