I bear witness to immortality in the human world.

Chapter 218 Da Fan
As the array's light barrier contracted, the battle of geniuses in the Wangyue Mountains finally reached its climax.

The mountain range, which was originally extremely vast, became chaotic as the area shrank, leading to constant encounters between various prodigies and various conflicts and battles.

In this situation, sheer strength is no longer the only key factor. Endurance, physical strength, recovery ability, and even judgment have become more important. In fact, in addition to strength, luck has also become part of the test.

Some individuals possess strength comparable to Gu Liufeng and have managed to pass the eighth level of the Hidden Dragon Tower. They are strong contenders for the top 100 in the Heavenly Pride Battle, if not guaranteed. However, some of them have encountered battles one after another without getting a chance to rest. As a result, they are eventually defeated by those who are slightly weaker, like Bai Qiulan, who take advantage of their vulnerability and steal their points.

In this context, every decision becomes quite important for most of the participants.

Whether to fight or retreat could lead to vastly different outcomes. While trying to defeat as many opponents as possible and collect Blood Qi Points, one must also consider whether the battle will deplete too much of one's physical or spiritual energy, giving others an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

However, top experts generally don't care about these things. In this battle of geniuses, the most dazzling ones are undoubtedly three people. One of them is Da Fan from Lu State, whose Fiery Demon True Martial Body has been cultivated to perfection. In fact, during the fifth stage of blood condensation, he has comprehended the complete martial arts intent and stepped into the ultimate realm!
One who can master the ultimate skill at the fifth blood stage is often one in several generations of the Heavenly Pride Battle. He is almost invincible in the Wangyue Mountain Range. He sweeps through the places he goes. Except for a few people who escape with their lives by relying on their speed and other life-saving methods, almost everyone else is unable to withstand a single move from Da Fan.

On the first day and night, because the Wangyue Mountain Range was too large, Da Fan did not encounter many other participants and ranked second. However, by the second day and night, his ranking had surpassed Qing Jun and reached the first place in this battle of geniuses!
Apart from Da Fan,

The second dazzling prodigy was Liang Guoqingjun!
He has mastered the Earthly Fiend Green Wood Dharma Form and the Earthly Fiend Unborn Dharma Form. Both of these are top-tier Dharma Forms in the Earthly Fiend lineage. Qingjun has mastered them to a high degree and even has a preliminary understanding of the essence of the Dharma Forms. He is able to fuse these two Dharma Forms!

The fusion of Dharma forms is extremely difficult for Dao cultivators. Even fusing a weaker Dharma form is as difficult as comprehending the rudimentary form of martial intent. To fuse two top-tier Dharma forms is even more difficult, comparable to mastering the ultimate intent!
The main point is that, like integrating the Dharma form and comprehending the martial arts essence, there is no clear path to follow.

Just like the martial arts realm, each person's is unique and belongs to them alone. They cannot follow the path of others. The same is true for fusing Dharma forms. Although there is a complete path to the cultivation of Dharma forms, once you want to fuse two Dharma forms, it is no longer about cultivating these two Dharma forms, but about mastering and bringing them to their fullest potential. This step can only be done by yourself.

Relying on the fusion of Dharma forms, Qingjun was also invincible in the Wangyue Mountains. Wherever he went, the geniuses of a hundred countries were defeated.

As for the third one... it was none other than Wu Ming!

As a top-tier Daoist master who has mastered the fusion of Dharma forms, he has not yet encountered Qingjun, and no one knows whether his strength is weaker or stronger than Qingjun's. However, there is no doubt that Wu Ming is not much different from Qingjun and Da Fan. After two days and nights of continuous battles, his accumulated blood energy points have climbed to the third position!

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Central part of the Wangyue Mountains

As time went by and the final day arrived, those still active in the Battle of the Prodigies all possessed some skill. The weak relied on various means to hide and avoid direct confrontation, while the strong roamed freely, plundering blood points and striving for higher rankings.

Although nearly half of the thousands of prodigies from hundreds of countries had been eliminated by this point, leaving only about five hundred, the remaining prodigies were encountering dangers even more frequently because the array light barrier covering the Wangyue Mountain Range was constantly shrinking.

boom! ! !
In a valley somewhere.

More than ten figures were engaged in fierce combat.

This was a chaotic battle, with almost all the participants being prodigies whose strength was comparable to Zang Mie. Most of them were capable of passing the eighth level of the Hidden Dragon Tower. Due to various reasons, they had not collected many Blood Qi Points at the moment. Although they did not know their exact ranking, they could judge that most of them were not in the top 100. Therefore, in this chaotic battle, everyone wanted to seize the points of others.

For them, as long as they can capture the points of one or two people and combine them, they will basically not participate in the subsequent battles. They will try their best to protect themselves and will likely be able to stably rank in the top 100 and enter the next round of the Holy Land selection.

"kill!"

Gu Liufeng was also among them. His eyes were solemn, and his face was covered in blood. He was no longer the easygoing and amiable person he was at Qianlong Academy. Instead, he was completely focused and full of murderous intent.

With a single swing of his sword, a god-demon resembling himself seemed to rise behind him. This god-demon was seven or eight zhang tall and swung his sword in the same manner. As the sword fell, a whirlwind seemed to sweep across the heavens and earth.

This is the rudimentary form of Gu Liufeng's martial intent!

"Well done!"

The one who met Gu Liufeng was a young man with a gun. He was dressed in a crimson robe, and his gun was as fiery as flames. He was not afraid of Gu Liufeng at all. His strength was far greater than Xue Lin's. After a loud shout, he brandished his gun.

He brandished his spear, and behind him appeared a blazing wheel of fire. Upon closer inspection, this wheel of fire seemed to be formed by the convergence of thousands of spear techniques, and the flames were the red tassels of the spear, intense and dazzling.

boom! ! !
The clash of spears and swords unleashed a deafening roar that cracked the surrounding earth several meters deep. While Gu Liufeng was engaged in a fierce battle, chaos reigned elsewhere, with fighters clashing everywhere. Those slightly weaker could hold their own in one-on-one combat, but once the situation became chaotic, they were quickly routed by attacks from two opponents or sneak attacks. Those who remained were mostly highly skilled experts.

But just as everyone was engaged in a fierce battle, a terrifying sense of oppression suddenly spread from afar. This sense of oppression was like a blazing volcano suddenly erupting, carrying a heat and intensity that made the air seem to heat up.

"It's Da Fan!"

Someone shouted, their voice tinged with apprehension.

"Da Fan is here!"

Many of the people who were fighting fiercely relaxed their grip and looked in unison towards a distant direction.

At the end of the valley, a figure trudged over, seemingly bathed in crimson flames, his movements as swift as lightning. In a mere instant, he arrived at the edge of the battlefield.

The person closest to Da Fan had originally planned to withdraw from the battlefield, but unexpectedly ran into Da Fan head-on. His eyes widened in shock, and without hesitation, he roared and swung a long halberd, slashing at Da Fan in mid-air.

Da Fan didn't even look at the attack; he simply swung his arm to meet it.

boom! !

The gray-robed youth's halberd slashed fiercely at Da Fan's wrist. Such a heavy weapon could not be blocked by anyone except a master who had achieved seven blood coagulations. Da Fan was no exception. He was not empty-handed; each of his wrists was adorned with five crimson iron rings, which were his weapons!

With a deafening roar, Da Fan was subjected to unimaginable force, and his legs sank in a foot, reaching his knees.

"..."

Having withstood the blow, Da Fan's expression remained unchanged. He simply raised his head slightly and grinned at the gray-robed youth.

The gray-robed youth's eyes showed horror. His slash was actually intended to slightly restrain Da Fan, and then take the opportunity to escape back into the chaotic battlefield and find a chance to leave. However, he did not expect that Da Fan would directly block his halberd and at the same time use that strange red bracelet to jam his halberd, making it impossible for him to pull it out for a while!
He tugged twice, but it wouldn't budge. The gray-robed youth had a bad feeling and immediately abandoned his weapon, leaping backward.

"what!"

Seeing this, Da Fan slightly opened his mouth and suddenly uttered a deep, thunderous sound. Then, he grabbed the head of the halberd with his other hand, swung it in the opposite direction, and hurled it at the gray-robed youth!
This seemingly ordinary move exuded an unimaginable pressure, like an eruption of underground flames. The resulting phenomenon was even clearly visible to the naked eye, and the halberd even faintly turned crimson.

boom.

Caught off guard, the gray-robed youth did not expect Da Fan to make this move. He had just withdrawn his hand and retreated when he was hurled at head-on by the halberd. He had no time to dodge and could only try his best to swing his arm to parry, but he still could not withstand it.

With a single, brief contact, his arms struck the halberd, and a cracking sound was heard as his bones shattered. Then, the halberd's tail struck his chest and abdomen, sending him flying backward. Several of his sternum bones snapped as he flew dozens of feet before finally coming to a stop.

hum!
Suffering this severe blow, a faint blue light suddenly emanated from the gray-robed youth.

In an instant, a golden light descended from the golden curtain in the sky, enveloping the heavily injured body of the gray-robed youth and pulling him into the sky, where he disappeared, leaving only a broken, blood-red bracelet behind.

Nourishing.

A wisp of blood energy emanated from the bracelet, transforming into an arc of light that flew towards Da Fan. It instantly merged into the bracelet on his wrist and disappeared. Upon closer inspection, one could see that Da Fan's bracelet was sandwiched at the very end of a pile of crimson iron rings, its surface displaying a deep crimson color, so vivid it was indescribable, as if fresh blood was about to drip down at any moment.

In just two moves, he defeated one of the players. Da Fan stood there, merely grinning.

The rest of the people, including Gu Liufeng, gasped in shock.

(End of this chapter)