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Chapter 279 One Strike

In just three years, he soared from the third stage of Dou Qi to Dou Wang.

This speed of advancement has far exceeded everyone's understanding, and even surpassed the category of genius in the usual sense. Only the word "monster" can describe his talent!
Nalan Yanran stared blankly at Xiao Yan opposite her, her aura collapsing instantly as if struck by a heavy blow.

Although she knew that Xiao Yan had shed his reputation as a good-for-nothing, no matter how she imagined it, she could never have imagined that this guy could surpass her by two major levels and reach the level of Dou Wang in just three years!

This is a Battle King!

Even the weakest Battle King is still a regional overlord in the Jia Ma Empire.

But with Xiao Yan's monstrous talent, how could he be an ordinary Dou Wang?

Even a fool would know that he must be an unparalleled genius capable of fighting opponents of higher levels!
...We can't beat them, we absolutely can't beat them!

For the first time in her life, Nalan Yanran felt a deep sense of despair.

Around the plaza, many powerful figures who had been invited stared at Xiao Yan with shocked expressions.

Among them, Nalan Jie of the Nalan family is the most complicated. When Nalan Yanran secretly ran away to break off the engagement, he was indeed very angry. However, this anger was only due to his pride and had nothing to do with Xiao Yan himself.

But now, Nalan Jie really wants to go back three years, slap his own granddaughter unconscious, tie her up, and send her to the Xiao family to get married.

A fighting king who's not even eighteen yet!
If such a prodigy can be successfully married and nurtured by both families, he will become a Dou Huang in just a few years, and even becoming a Dou Zong or Dou Zun in the future is not a dream!
"Xiao Lin, you have a good grandson..."

Nalan Jie was distraught and filled with deep regret.

His aged face was full of bitterness, as if he had aged more than ten years in an instant.

"Crack!"

The image on the screen froze, and Su Haoming looked up, saying with a satisfied expression, "That's the taste!"

Seeing this, Yun Ye and Fan Xian, who were standing nearby, were both speechless.

"Old Su, you're really the one who's sarcastic!"

Fan Xian looked at Nalan Jie in the camera lens and sighed.

Yun Ye glanced at the shocked Yunlan Sect elder on the stone platform and said calmly, "Alright, those who wanted to bid have bid. Now, it's time to prepare for the important matters..."

"boom!"

Before he finished speaking, the aura of the Three-Star Fighting King erupted unrestrainedly across the square.

Holding a cyan-purple longsword, Xiao Yan's body was covered in Dou Qi armor. A pair of cyan-purple wings fluttered gently behind him, and he floated up, calmly looking down at Nalan Yanran.

Locked in by the killing intent, Nalan Yanran suddenly woke up, staring at Xiao Yan with a pale face and disbelief.

"A three-star fighting king... How is this possible?!"

"I don't believe it! I absolutely don't believe it!"

Nalan Yanran trembled, gritting her teeth as she said, "How could you possibly advance from Dou Qi to Dou Wang in just three years on your own?!"

"...Secret technique, yes, secret technique!"

"You must have used a secret technique to forcibly elevate your cultivation level!"

"Such secret techniques can only last for a short period of time, and they leave behind huge hidden dangers after they end. As long as I can survive this period, I still have a chance to win..."

Looking down at Nalan Yanran, who seemed to be possessed and talking to herself, Xiao Yan felt a slight pang, then his face showed pity.

He never expected that simply displaying his Dou Wang realm would force this renowned prodigy into such a state.

But upon closer reflection, it's not entirely incomprehensible.

In the original novel, although Nalan Yanran was defeated by him, she was still able to put up a fight.

But now, the gap between the two is like an insurmountable chasm, and it is impossible to bridge unless they unleash the Buddha's Wrath Lotus or other fighting techniques of the Heaven Rank or above!
Nalan Yanran's self-deception is ultimately just a mental defense mechanism to prevent her from collapsing before the battle even begins...

Thinking of this, Xiao Yan felt pity and sighed softly, "Do you want to surrender?"

"No!"

Nalan Yanran suddenly raised her head, her face pale but her expression stubborn as she looked at Xiao Yan and said, "Absolutely not!"

Before she finished speaking, she took a step and shot into the sky like an arrow.

In an instant, a surge of energy erupted, transforming into ripples of azure that surrounded her delicate body, causing her to float in mid-air without any battle wings or flight techniques.

Upon seeing this, many elders of the Yunlan Sect instantly recognized the fighting technique that Nalan Yanran was about to unleash.

If it were before, they would have been amazed that Nalan Yanran could even learn this move.

However, now, facing Xiao Yan, who is at the Dou Wang level, a mere high-level Xuan-rank Dou Technique is still insufficient to bridge the gap.

Even so, Nalan Yanran gritted her teeth, her gaze fixed on the god-like youth in the sky, and with the last of her courage and will to survive, she unleashed the strongest fighting technique she had ever mastered—

"The Ultimate Wind: The Sunset Shines!"

With a delicate shout, a brilliant pale blue sword light shone from the longsword in her hand, like a sun rising from the ground.

A sharp sword intent rose from Nalan Yanran's body, and it seemed to break through her original realm, achieving a perfect effect that exceeded one hundred percent!

...Is this a power spike?

The onlookers, including Su Haoming, were all impressed, thinking that this girl was indeed a true genius, able to break through under the pressure from Xiao Yan.

Unfortunately, she is not the protagonist of this story.

The one on the other side, the boy who looks like a villain, is the real villain!

With a deafening roar, powerful battle aura erupted from the sky.

Streaks of azure sword energy burst forth like a storm, leaving clearly visible sword marks on the plaza below.

The powerful figures around the plaza sensed the chilling sword energy and were amazed by its power. They realized that even a high-level Grand Master with strength surpassing Nalan Yanran would likely perish under this sword strike.

Unfortunately, she was not facing a high-level Grand Master of the same rank, but a genius Battle King who was not even eighteen years old!

As the sword energy dissipated, Nalan Yanran, holding a long sword, hovered in the air, her body trembling.

Looking ahead from her pale face, one could see a young man in a black robe floating in the air, his purplish-blue sword, formed from fighting spirit, precisely pressed against the tip of her sword, his expression calm as he stared at her.

"Is this your strongest fighting technique?"

"..."

Nalan Yanran's face was pale, but she still stubbornly stared at Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan said calmly, "It's powerful, but... it's still far from enough!"

Before the words were finished, the bluish-purple longsword drew an eerie arc, striking the pale blue blade with a seemingly slow but actually swift motion.

"Buzz!"

In an instant, layers of force surged out like waves, spreading and rippled along the pale blue sword.

"puff--"

Nalan Yanran trembled, spat out a stream of blood, and her exquisite body plummeted towards the plaza below at an incredible speed, like a kite with a broken string.

"boom!"

With a loud crash, Nalan Yanran fell to the ground, shattering the stone bricks in the square and kicking up a cloud of dust.

The pale blue longsword tumbled twice in the air before disappearing into the dust and smoke, ending up stuck upside down beside her.

Even so, Xiao Yan still seems unwilling to let Nalan Yanran go.

Even before the opponent landed, a powerful aura suddenly erupted from him.

The powerful battle aura surged like a river, continuously converging towards the longsword in his hand.

"Chong-"

The next second, a clear sword cry rang out out of nowhere. Xiao Yan's wings flapped behind him, and the long sword in his hand transformed into a streak of cyan-purple sword light, instantly piercing through the air and pressing down on the plaza below with unstoppable force.

"boom!"

Before the sword light even arrived, the imposing aura that seemed to solidify the air preceded it.

In an instant, a continuous series of clicking sounds echoed across the square.

The stone bricks within a radius of tens of meters all crumbled, and the cracks spread wildly in all directions like a spider web.

Upon seeing this, Nalan Jie, standing at the edge of the square, couldn't help but change his expression drastically.

The elders of the Yunlan Sect on the stone platform could no longer sit still. They all stood up abruptly, looking at Xiao Yan with a mixture of shock and anger.

If such power were to truly fall upon Nalan Yanran, let alone survival, she might not even be able to leave behind a complete corpse!

Without any hesitation, the two Dou Wang level elders of the Yunlan Sect made their move, each condensing Dou Qi wings and shooting towards the cyan-purple sword light.

"Well done!"

Xiao Yan was not surprised but delighted. He immediately laughed loudly, turned his sword and thrust it towards the two elders of the Yunlan Sect.

The two men tensed up, not daring to be careless. They each channeled their fighting spirit and unleashed a palm-print-shaped fighting technique to meet the seemingly domineering cyan-purple sword light.

"boom!"

With a loud bang, the bluish-purple sword light shattered under the attack of the two palm prints.

Both elders of the Douwang faction were taken aback, finally realizing that the cyan-purple sword light was all show and no substance. It looked powerful, but in reality, its power was extremely weak. It was already at its limit if it could crush the paving stones on the square.

……How is this going?

Before the two Dou Wang elders could react, Xiao Yan loosened his right hand, dispersing the long sword formed by Dou Qi in his palm, and instead reached for the heavy black ruler behind him.

"Baji collapse!"

The next second, the pitch-black Xuanzhong Ruler came flying through the air, slamming out with a raging wave of fire.

The intense heat hit them in the face, and the two Yunlan Sect elders' expressions changed drastically. They hurriedly circulated their Dou Qi and, while rushing backward, struck out at Xiao Yan with another palm.

But this time, the pitch-black Xuanzhong Ruler was like an unreasonable bulldozer, shattering the palm prints and crushing the battle qi armor of the two Yunlan Sect elders, before crashing down on them.

"puff--"

In an instant, the two elders, both at the Dou Wang level, coughed up blood and shot towards the stone platform like cannonballs, their auras rapidly waning as they flew backward.

"what?!"

The powerful figures from Yunlan Sect and other major forces all paled.

Xiao Yan's advancement to the Dou Wang level at his current age is already astonishing, but they never expected that such a terrifying speed of advancement would be accompanied by such solid combat power!
"A single blow severely injured two Battle Kings, leaving them utterly powerless to retaliate..."

Jia Xingtian murmured in disbelief, "This little guy's true strength is almost comparable to that of a Dou Huang, isn't it?!"

(End of this chapter)