Chapter 424: Chapter 294: A Showdown at the Peak between the 6th Realm "Lion Roar" and the 3rd Tier Exotic Treasure "Ancient Sound of the Primordial World"!
The sound of thunder and wind are originally the sounds of heaven and earth, and they should be integrated in harmony. However, at this moment, the thunder is colliding with the wind, making people’s eardrums tremble with pain, and causing them to feel restless and unsettled in mind and soul.
"I can’t take it anymore!"
Wang Zhengyi let out a long howl, vaguely hearing a cracking sound. It was when the howl collided with the zither sound, the mist was stirred and rolled back, and the ’Mirage Pearl’ in his hand shattered in response—
The Mirage Pearl is broken!
The mist disperses!
Everyone finally sees that on the Hai Character Arena, Wang Zhengyi, Lian Jie, and others can no longer bear it. They ran away, fleeing off the arena, far from Yan Chuan and Luo Qi.
At this moment, only Yan Chuan holding the ’White Horn Trumpet’ performing the "Lion Roar" and Luo Qi sitting cross-legged playing the zither remain on the arena.
One howls towards the sky like a mad demon.
One elegantly plays the zither like a Zhe Xian.
The confrontation between the two!
Heaven and Earth cracking!
All the discussions and cheers around were completely drowned out by Yan Chuan’s howl and Luo Qi’s zither sound. The audience a little closer felt as if their souls were about to scatter, seeming like all the bones in their bodies were being shaken loose by the howl and the zither sound.
Wang Zhengyi ran far away.
After leaving for several dozen steps, he finally felt a warmth rising from his Dantian, slightly calming him. He closed his eyes and bowed his head, secretly cultivating to resist. Although the howl and zither sound were still as tumultuous as thousands of troops and horses, they were ultimately farther away now, no longer making his heart leap like before, almost to the point of explosion.
Hai Character Arena!
Zither and howl confrontation.
Luo Qi played for nearly two hours. In the first half, his rhythm was continuously interrupted by Yan Chuan’s ’Vajra’, intermittently. Now finally in the second half, it became coherent, and the power was greatly revealed.
Although Yan Chuan’s howl came later, it was also horrifying. His prolonged howl lasted for an entire meal’s time without the slightest sign of exhaustion, but rather the momentum grew stronger and stronger.
In the sky.
One of the Eight Great Vajra of Eight Phases Mountain, ’Stone Breaking Hand’ Xin Zhuang listened to Yan Chuan’s long howl, and couldn’t help but admire: "Despite Yan Chuan’s recent advance to the Postnatal Fifth Layer, his inner strength is pure, his inner cultivation is surprisingly solid and terrifying, this ’Lion Roar’ is unrivalled, made not with tricks but with pure positive energy. His inner strength may not be thick, but the endless cycle is extremely abundant, the fierce and resilient strength of the inner power is unmatched by even the top Heavenly Pride of ’Hidden Dragon’ and ’Chufeng’ on the two lists. It’s truly perplexing how he managed to cultivate such power at such a young age!"
Outsiders watch the excitement!
Insiders see the way!
Only Xin Zhuang and a group of Innate Grandmasters can know how difficult it truly is to do a long howl like Yan Chuan’s, and so enduringly and dominantly!
Like this!
After a full fifteen minutes—
"Time’s up!"
With Shen Wu announcing the end of another round of arena offense and defense.
"Brother Luo!"
"What a wonderful zither piece!"
Yan Chuan flicked his sleeve, and the howl stopped.
Suddenly, with a clanging sound, Luo Qi strummed with three fingers, and the zither sound ceased abruptly. He showed a tired expression, rose and cupped his fists towards Yan Chuan: "Brother Yan, the ’Lion Roar’, can truly be called absolute!"
He wasn’t wrong—
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[Your ’Lion Roar’ was enhanced, from Fifth Realm of Mastery to Sixth Realm Refining!]
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The ’Lion Roar’ unexpectedly advanced ahead of the ’One Yang Finger’ by half a step, reaching the Sixth Realm, thus called absolute!
Yan Chuan was pleased, smiled at Luo Qi and said: "Brother Luo’s zither skills are exquisite, inner power is robust, I look forward to further sparring with Brother Luo."
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With Yan Chuan’s howl and Luo Qi’s zither sound subsiding, the audience collectively let out a long breath, feeling dizzy and numb in the head, indeed shaken quite intensely.
Upon hearing Yan Chuan still wishing to compete with Luo Qi—
"Please don’t come again!"
"Enough, enough!"
"Alas! The zither music was originally pleasant, and yet you made it like this! What a maddening noise piercing the ears! If you can’t decide a winner, don’t do it anymore!"
"Good lord! I’ll say it here, if anyone dares to play the flute or zither and roar like a lion or tiger on the arena again, I’ll catch one and curse one, curse their ancestors for eighteen generations! No mercy!"
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Luo Qi enjoyed playing!
Yan Chuan delighted in howling!
But it was tough on the audience, who never want to go through such torment again.
This fight, the biggest loss was Wang Zhengyi, who lost the ’Mirage Pearl’.
The one who gained the most was Yan Chuan—
The ’Lion Roar’ forcefully broke through, reaching Refining Fire.
Additionally.
[Task Five: Ghost Prison Yin Wind Roar] added to the inspiration accumulated over the previous four hours, also successfully developed in this match of "Lion Roar" and "Wuye Dance Autumn Wind".
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[Task Five]
[Research Project Name: Ghost Prison Yin Wind Roar (Difficulty: Geng ★)]
[Inspiration: 100]
[Completing the task grants ’Experience +5W’, ’Spiritual +5W’.]
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The ’Lion Roar’ broke through!
The ’Ghost Prison Yin Wind Roar’ development completed!
Truly joyous and congratulatory.
However, with Luo Qi and the ’Ancient Sound of the Primordial World’ passing this hurdle for now, following the shattering of Wang Zhengyi’s ’Mirage Pearl’, teams challenging the Hai Character Arena increased unprecedentedly.
Including former arena masters like Liu Xin, Ma Hongniang, Ying Jifeng, Lu Yuru, Ying He, among whom Liu Xin possesses the third-rank treasure ’Chasing God Blade’, and Ma Hongniang’s third-rank treasure ’White Bone Banner’ is about ready to return.
Hai Character Arena!
Perilous!
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"Tsk!"
"This luck!"
Wang Zhengyi sighed.
After the ’Mirage Pearl’ shattered, many teams indeed came to challenge, but among them were more weak and mid-level teams, yet the first match was against the team led by Ma Hongniang who holds the ’White Bone Banner’!
"White Bone Banner!"
"White Bone Forest!"
"The first battle is a tough one!"
"There are definitely more hard battles to fight afterward!"
"This arena! Difficult to defend!"
Wang Zhengyi shook his head and smiled bitterly. He had thought that with the ’Mirage Pearl’, they could hope to hold the arena for 49 days in a row. After all, it was already the fifth day of the Sword Discussion, and although slightly dangerous in the previous four days, they passed smoothly. Yet he didn’t expect Luo Qi’s zither sound and Yan Chuan’s Lion Roar to collide and shatter his ’Mirage Pearl’.
This was truly a calamity from the sky, unforeseen.
"It’s okay."
"As long as it’s not against the top ten masters of the ’two lists’, I can handle it."
Yan Chuan is confident in his strength. He saw the opponents for this round, and as the thought moved through his mind, he quickly set the third Geng Wu after "Yin Yang Mill" and "Ghost Prison Yin Wind Roar," which was —
"Heavenly Mountain Six Yang Palm!"
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[Task Five]
[Research Project Name: Heavenly Mountain Six Yang Palm (Difficulty: Geng ★★★)]
[Inspiration: 0]
[Completing the task grants ’Experience +15W’, ’Spiritual +15W’.]
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The "Heavenly Mountain Six Yang Palm" is a martial art of the Carefree Sect in "Heavenly Dragon Eight Parts".
The ’Six’ in this hand technique actually represents the two Yang numbers in "The Book of Changes", and thus it can also be called "Heavenly Mountain Yin Yang Palm". This hand technique is extremely powerful, and with "White Rainbow Palm Power" are the deepest hand techniques of the ’Carefree Sect’. During the execution, the left and right palms can each use different yin and yang inner strength, which has the same effect as Yan Chuan’s previously developed "Yin Yang Mill" of Kongtong Sect. After developing ’Yin Yang Mill,’ developing this "Heavenly Mountain Six Yang Palm" should yield twice the result with half the effort.
Moreover, this "Heavenly Mountain Six Yang Palm" also mutually generates and inhibits with "Life and Death Talisman". By using this skill to resolve the "Life and Death Talisman", it also assists in Yan Chuan’s subsequent development of "Life and Death Talisman"—
"Seven Injuries Fist!"
"Yin Yang Mill!"
"Heavenly Mountain Six Yang Palm!"
"Life and Death Talisman!"
Following this path, Yan Chuan’s efficiency in developing martial arts greatly increases, and he can obtain many Godly Absolute Skills that follow a single lineage, which is a dual benefit!
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The ’Mirage Pearl’ is shattered, but Yan Chuan should continue to explain and give the martial arts lecture.
And this time, the discussion is on Ma Hongniang—
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""Chufeng" number 81 ’White Bone Immortal’ Ma Hongniang, at the Peak of Bone Training, but due to cultivating the strange skill "White Bone Temple", and with the help of the exotic treasure ’White Bone Banner’, her bone structure surpasses the Heavenly Pride of the same Peak of Bone Training, making her an absolute."
"What is the ’White Bone Temple’?"
"It originally refers to one of the Buddhist meditation methods, being one of the five Zen methods in Buddhism, usually consisting of four steps: ’impurity view’, ’white bone temple’, ’bone regeneration’, and ’white bone radiance’, with the main aim of extinguishing the attachment to the physical body."
"However, Ma Hongniang’s practice of ’White Bone Temple’ only vaguely borrows the concept from the Buddhist ’White Bone Temple’, but is significantly different."
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