I will eventually become a god through sheer hard work.

The two immediately clashed at the start. Ye Honghui, without dodging or flinching, met Xue Jing's fist with his head, an absolute weak point of the human body. However, the fist, which was powerful enough to shatter tungsten steel, cracked instead. This scene shocked and uproared most of the audience.

"How can it be!"

"That's Xue Jing... a super genius who swept through all 46,000 levels of the Extreme Martial Heavenly Palace, and none of his opponents could force him to make a second move!"

"Ye Honghui actually took the blow with his head, and he actually caught it!"

"While the skull is one of the hardest parts of the human body, you can't just play around with it like that!"

"Even if the bones are fine, the brain inside will probably be shaken to its core..."

A knowledgeable expert crossed his arms and shook his head, saying, "Most people would be courting death by doing this, but Ye Honghui is different."

"This person can project and lock his entire consciousness into his jade bones. The rest of his body, whether it be skin, blood, muscles, brain, nerves... are all unnecessary to him."

"He is like an undead in fantasy works. As long as he has that skeleton, he can carry out all life activities. The rest of his flesh and blood are just non-essential things used to nourish the skeleton."

On the ring, Xue Jing withdrew his fist.

During the process of retrieving the weapon, he activated his vital energy with a thought, and the cracked bones in his palm instantly healed, while the flesh and blood were restored to their original state after a series of wriggling movements.

At this moment, the skin on Ye Honghui's forehead where Xue Jing had struck him cracked open, revealing a skull that was extremely smooth inside, like the texture of white jade, radiating a clear, faint light, without a single scar, like a finely crafted work of art.

Xue Jing remained calm and quickly struck out with a backhand palm, aiming at Ye Honghui's chest and abdomen.

"Normalization."

Thousands of energies merged together, forming a visible vortex of energy in the center of Xue Jing's palm, which slammed into Ye Honghui with a bang.

"puff--"

With a muffled thud, Ye Honghui's back suddenly exploded, and countless pieces of flesh and blood gushed out, staining a large area of ​​the ground behind him.

He himself remained standing still, his expression unchanged on his desiccated face, staring fixedly at Xue Jing before him.

After the attack, Ye Honghui's entire torso was stripped of flesh and blood, and his upper body clothing was completely torn apart, revealing his skeleton.

The spine, ribs, sternum, sacrum... all the bones were like white jade, slightly transparent, radiating a faint light, and with an extremely smooth surface.

"trouble."

Seeing this, Xue Jing whispered.

After several encounters, he had basically figured out Ye Honghui's background.

This person must have used their second-level breakthrough level of mental power to forcibly lock their consciousness into their bones, making their flesh and blood dispensable to them.

If you can't break his bones, you can't really hurt him.

Extreme... but precisely the opponent Xue Jing faces most difficult to deal with right now.

His creation, 'All Streams Return to One,' based on the myriad phenomena of the universe, is so powerful that almost no martial arts master can defend against it and can only swallow it whole.

But Ye Honghui was the kind of person who could swallow it whole.

The Jade Bone Technique he cultivated allowed his bones to reach an unbelievable level of strength, becoming so hard that it was hard to believe.

Xue Jing punched it, but was actually injured by the reaction force.

This proves that when Ye Honghui was struck by Xue Jing's fist, his bones did not deform in the slightest, and he returned the maximum amount of reaction force to Xue Jing.

The legendary "Jade Bones Unyielding," one of the five realms of the Treasure Body, is such a body of jade bones. Because of its extreme hardness, it is also extremely sharp. Hardness itself represents lethality.

"It's a real pity... If I had been given another year or two, I might have been just a nobody in your eyes who could be easily wiped out."

Ye Honghui spoke up.

His entire torso had lost all flesh and blood, and half of his throat was gone, with only half of his laryngeal bone exposed. He should have lost the ability to speak, but incredibly, he could still speak clearly.

But time waits for no one.

"I can feel your punch... it's very strong, but it's still far from breaking my jade bones."

Xue Jing smiled and said, "It seems so... Can I use a weapon then?"

Ye Honghui bowed slightly: "Please do as you wish."

The rule of the Extreme Martial Heaven Palace is that all cold weapons are allowed and you can bring your own.

Of course, it must be a real cold weapon. Something like a magic lightsaber made of special materials from a border region, although it doesn't have much technological content and doesn't fall into the category of 'firearms', is unusable because the materials themselves are problematic.

The crimson color in Xue Jing's hair and pupils suddenly faded, and he then raised his right hand, making a gesture as if to draw his sword into the empty space beside him.

He slowly pulled an old, beautiful longsword out of the void.

This scene surprised almost everyone present.

"Huh? Magic trick? How did he do that?"

"I didn't see him carrying a knife... Could it be that Xuan Ling used four-dimensional teleportation to transfer the knife to his hand?"

"That doesn't make sense. Xue Jing isn't even the floor master yet, so where does he get the authority to order Xuan Ling to do this kind of thing for him?"

"I've heard that people who are considered to have great potential, even if they aren't floor masters, will get Xuan Ling's attention in advance..."

Xue Jing held the unsharpened blade Zhaoye, twirled it beautifully, and pointed the tip of the blade diagonally at the ground.

Ye Honghui did not recognize this divine relic, but his eyesight and intuition as a martial artist made his eyes light up immediately when he saw the knife, sensing a slight threat.

"Good knife."

Xue Jing stood there for a moment, and seeing that Xuan Ling didn't say anything, he roughly understood how tolerant this super AI was of him.

Whether it's using the non-existent beast to retrieve something, or using this somewhat cheating 'indestructible blade,' Xuan Ling considers both permissible.

Of course, this should not be considered Xuan Ling's favoritism, but rather Xue Jing's actions were indeed within the rules.

In Xuan Ling's view, Xue Jing's ability to possess the Beast of No Existence was innate and natural. The Unbreakable Blade was not beyond the definition of a cold weapon. Although it was a divine relic, its ability was only equivalent to an extremely hard weapon.

'If that's the case...'

Xue Jing had a sudden inspiration and already had a way to break Ye Honghui's jade-like body.

He whispered a sentence in a voice that no one could hear clearly.

Then, a faint crimson light flickered in his hair and pupils, and Xue Jing once again entered the [True Crimson] state.

"Ok?"

Many experts with exceptional eyesight looked at Xue Jing's shoulder with some confusion.

"It looked like something appeared there just now... Was it just my imagination?"

On the arena, seemingly sensing that Xue Jing was ready, Ye Honghui, his bones protruding, stepped forward.

Immediately, he clenched his right hand, and on his thin arm, from his fingertips to his forearm and upper arm, the skin and flesh seemed to be corroded, rapidly shrivel, shrink, and wrinkle...

Finally, all the skin and flesh disappeared, completely absorbed by his hand bones. The remaining fragments drifted away with the wind, revealing the jade-like hand bones of his entire arm.

"—Ashes."

Her jade-like hand bones clenched into a fist and slammed towards Xue Jing.

Wherever the fist passed, the air was forcibly pushed aside, creating rings of visible wind pressure that seemed slow but were actually fast as they pierced towards Xue Jing.

This was a punch that couldn't be avoided.

There was no physical inescapability, but rather the intense spiritual aura emanating from Ye Honghui enveloped Xue Jing, firmly binding him to his spot.

If he were to actually back away out of fear, he would be at a complete mental disadvantage.

In battles at the Breakthrough Level and above, the clash of mental auras is also a crucial element. Once suppressed by the opponent, one's own 'dynamic energy' will inevitably be greatly weakened, thus becoming restricted and affecting physical performance.

However, Xue Jing had no intention of avoiding it.

He held the hilt of the sword in one hand, holding Zhaoye horizontally in front of him with the blade facing forward, while his other hand braced against the back of the blade.

Fist and blade clashed.

Instantly, an unprecedentedly immense force emanated from the blade. Xue Jing's gaze sharpened, and his entire body began to operate at high speed, like an extremely precise machine.

"Return to nothingness".

In contrast to the invincible attack of 'return to oneness', there is the impenetrable defense of 'return to nothingness'.

When the opponent attacks, instantly analyze their moves and neutralize them with completely opposite force. As long as it is not an absolutely overwhelming force, it will dissolve and disintegrate in the face of 'Return to Nothingness'.

Although it is a defensive move, its essence is the same as the "Return to One" technique, which instantly unleashes thousands of bursts of energy. Both are the ultimate application of martial arts skills.

The two combined can be described as a "unchanging strategy amidst endless changes".

"呲-"

The punch, which was extremely loud, strangely made little noise after colliding with the blade, only producing a hissing sound that made one's teeth ache, sounding like a circular saw cutting stone.

Beneath the calm surface, Xue Jing's body was operating at an unprecedented speed and frenzy since he began practicing martial arts, constantly neutralizing the overwhelming force surging from Ye Honghui's fist.

At this moment, he felt like a ship with a huge hole in it. Despite constantly scooping out the water that was pouring in, the massive amount of water continued to flow in, and the speed at which he was scooping the water was gradually not keeping up with the speed at which it was pouring in.

If it were an ordinary martial artist, even if their physical strength were equal to his, they wouldn't be able to withstand such a high-intensity, frantic exertion of energy for long before their entire body collapses and they bleed profusely. However, he possesses the True Martial Body, and his body's adaptability to exerting energy is the best in the world, reaching an extraordinary level. Only in this way can he withstand such abusive behavior.

After a stalemate lasting nearly twenty seconds—

"boom--!!"

With a loud bang, the wind pressure spread out from Xue Jing and Ye Honghui, creating a brief vacuum zone, which separated the two.

Ye Honghui took seven steps back. Although the ground was unharmed due to the protection of the SC force field, the heavy thuds of each step indicated the force he had exerted.

Xue Jing was in the same situation, and he retreated a full thirteen steps. His Zhaoye Blade was unharmed, but the skin on his palms had cracked open, and thick, ruby-like blood flowed out, staining the Zhaoye Blade.

"……sharp."

Ye Honghui clenched his fist and spoke.

A shallow indentation appeared on the originally smooth surface of his fist and palm bones.

That was the spot where the blade of Zhaoye had just clashed.

Just as I was about to say something more, suddenly, a sharp glint of light flew close by.

"Chong-"

Ye Honghui was instantly lifted off the ground and flew backward, crashing into the SC force field wall with a loud bang.

A long knife was stuck in his throat.