"While you're injured, I'll take your life!"
A ruthless glint flashed in Li Yuanzheng's eyes.
He was no gentleman!
This was a golden opportunity, a once-in-a-lifetime chance. If he didn't cut down Ling Fan and the Lan family now, when would he?
The aura emanating from him continuously ascended, his entire being becoming the eye of a storm. Boundless, wild energy from the surrounding heaven and earth surged into his body, causing him to briefly levitate.
Heavenly Origin Realm Grandmaster.
Upon forming Heavenly Origin Force within, one could briefly float nine zhang high.
Li Yuanzheng's body rose continuously, and under the awestruck gazes of everyone present, he stood in mid-air at a height of nine zhang.
The power within him grew increasingly violent, increasingly surging, like a volcano on the verge of eruption. An unparalleled pressure descended.
Blood
Dragon
Roar!
Li Yuanzheng uttered in a low growl, word by word.
His voice, like thunder, struck everyone's ears.
Instantly, the boundless, wild energy flowed, and the very heavens and earth changed color!
A colossal blood-red dragon, nearly twenty meters long, materialized in the sky. Its claws were like knives, its teeth like a forest, and its scales, like pieces of blood jade, shimmered with an eerie red light.
Before Li Yuanzheng broke through to the Heavenly Origin Realm, the blood-red dragon he condensed was only three to four zhang long.
Furthermore, it was propelled by martial qi, its power level far inferior to what it was now!
Now, driven by the higher-level Heavenly Origin Force and drawing upon a trace of heavenly power, it condensed this magnificent, world-shattering blood-red dragon, as if it were the might of heaven itself!
Everyone's faces turned ashen, their bodies trembling, unable to speak or move.
In the face of this grandmaster's strike that made the heavens and earth change color,
They felt as insignificant as ants!
Boom!
Li Yuanzheng pushed forward with both hands, and the nearly twenty-meter-long blood-red dragon let out a world-shattering roar. With an incomparable, wild power, it descended with a thunderous boom!
At that moment,
Time itself seemed to freeze.
Only this blood-red dragon was rapidly plummeting.
"Hahaha! Die, die quickly! As long as he dies, everything will be over, and Xueyi will be mine!"
Han Qing's eyes were wild, a look of ecstatic, sinister laughter on his face.
The experts from the City Lord's Mansion also revealed an indescribable fervor in their eyes!
Their City Lord was a legendary martial arts grandmaster. This time, they were bound to win!
The surrounding onlookers, the strong individuals from Jiangnan City, wore expressions of extreme gravity, sighing inwardly.
With Li Yuanzheng becoming a grandmaster, the Li family's rule in Jiangnan City would likely become even more unshakeable.
All the families in Jiangnan City would have no choice but to grovel at the feet of the Li family, surviving like dogs, wagging their tails for scraps!
As for Ling Fan and the Lan family...
Today was destined to be their final disappearance from Jiangnan City.
"Son-in-law!"
"Xiao Fan!"
"Master!"
Facing this near-heavenly might, this peak grandmaster's strike,
Liang Hutu, Li Shan, the Lan Tianxiong couple, and all the members of the Lan family turned ashen, their minds reeling as if they would explode!
It was over...
Despair consumed them.
Just as everyone believed Ling Fan was doomed to die,
Ling Fan finally slowly raised his head.
His expression remained indifferent, his gaze profound, as if empty, as if nothing could enter his sight.
"Today, atop Mogan Mountain..."
"I shall slay a grandmaster!"
Amidst the earth-shattering roar,
Ling Fan's voice, though not loud, was clearly heard by everyone.
However, everyone then witnessed an astonishing sight...
Ling Fan's body suddenly erupted with boundless Five Elements divine light, his entire being like a noble, banished immortal descending to the mortal realm. He moved his body, adopted a bow stance, and coiled his fist.
Then...
He simply threw a punch towards the sky!
The Thirty-Six Techniques of Peering Heaven, the Sixth.
True Martial Fist!
This was a fist technique created by Ling Fan after reaching the pinnacle in his previous life, integrating the strengths of martial arts from myriad worlds, simplifying the complex, and drawing from the best of all.
The Great Dao is simplicity itself.
It directly points to the ultimate truth of boxing.
In his previous life, Ling Fan had unleashed this punch and directly annihilated a small world!
That small world was known as the strongest small world below the Heavenly Realm, with the potential to become the tenth Heavenly Realm.
It had countless Saints.
And nine Great Emperors.
Yet, because it had crippled one of Ling Fan's registered disciples, Ling Fan had destroyed the world with a single punch!
Although Ling Fan was still a vast distance from recovering his peak state, by driving it with perfected Five Elements True Qi, he could still unleash a sliver of the True Martial Fist's power.
Moreover, Ling Fan's opponent...
Was merely a grandmaster!
Boom!
As this punch was thrown, the very heavens and earth seemed to solidify.
A brilliant fist light, like a pillar connecting heaven and earth, shot straight into the nine heavens!
Perfectly rounded and as one wished, like a egret's horn leaving no trace.
The simpler the move,
The fewer the flaws!
Under the expressions of indescribable horror from everyone, the surging fist light collided head-on with the twenty-meter-long blood-red dragon.
Rumble!
Rumble!
Waves of destructive power swept in all directions.
It was as if the sky had exploded with thunder, and a mushroom cloud billowed upwards.
A moment later,
Under the awe-struck, trembling gazes of everyone, the twenty-meter blood-red dragon, unleashed by Li Yuanzheng, the newly ascended grandmaster, as if it were the might of heaven itself, began to...
Shatter inch by inch from the dragon's head!
Exploding in the air like a blood-red firework!
The brilliant fist light, like a bamboo breaking through, showed no sign of slowing.
The moment it destroyed the blood-red dragon, it pierced through Li Yuanzheng's chest once more!
Leaving behind a shocking, transparent hole as large as a bowl's mouth!
Li Yuanzheng stared with wide eyes, revealing an extreme, unadulterated disbelief...
He was in the Heavenly Origin Realm!
He was a martial arts grandmaster!
How could he have lost!
This was the realm and power he had exchanged for his son's life! To take that crucial step towards becoming a grandmaster, he had personally killed his beloved son...
His only son!
How could he lose!
He stared blankly downwards, then saw the hole through his chest.
"Ah!"
Li Yuanzheng let out a roar of utter unwillingness in mid-air, his eyes bulging so wide that the corners of his eyes split!
What martial art was Ling Fan using?
Why did it possess such astonishing power?
He was unwilling!
The life force within Li Yuanzheng rapidly receded like a retreating tide.
Then, filled with profound unwillingness and unable to rest in peace, he plunged down headfirst!
When Li Yuanzheng's body fell to the ground with a thud, splattering into a pulp, the entire scene was deathly silent!
Everyone was speechless.
Staring blankly, almost petrified.
They finally recalled the simple words Ling Fan had spoken earlier.
"Today, atop Mogan Mountain..."
"I shall slay a grandmaster!"
He had actually done it!
All eyes converged on the solitary, proud youth in the center, clad in a grey cloth robe, his hair a faded grey.