Chapter 198 - 198 195 The Final Battle
Chapter 198: Chapter 195 The Final Battle Chapter 198: Chapter 195 The Final Battle However, Qin Feng was not the least bit afraid of Xie Ding.
Even though this man’s attacks were fierce, they were unlikely to catch up with his speed, and the three scorpion tails behind Xie Ding couldn’t reach far, their attack range was limited.
As long as he kept his distance from Xie Ding, this guy’s strongest trick would be of little use to him.
But Qin Feng did not choose to do so.
He planned to defeat Xie Ding head-on, to make his own victories shine even brighter.
So, when Xie Ding swung his three scorpion tails at him, Qin Feng merely tangled with him for a few moments, roughly assessing the man’s strength before he stopped dodging around.
Seizing the moment when Xie Ding’s tails all struck out in a character ‘å“’ shape towards him, Qin Feng suddenly shrunk his stature, transforming into a tiny person a foot tall, swiftly passing between the scorpion tails and turning into a streak of golden light darting straight at Xie Ding.
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“Hmph!”
Xie Ding let out a cold snort.
Although arrogant, he indeed had some reason for his pride.
Watching as Qin Feng’s transformed streak of light approached, he waved his hands, and they turned into a pair of huge scorpion claws which clacked menacingly as he aimed them at Qin Feng.
Qin Feng chuckled softly and instantly restored his body to its original size, raising his hand to block the oncoming pair of scorpion claws.
The real cause for Qin Feng’s wariness was just those three scorpion tails behind Xie Ding.
As for the seemingly formidable scorpion claws, Qin Feng didn’t take them too seriously.
With his current defensive ability, even if he allowed Xie Ding’s claws to clamp onto his body, they would hardly harm him at all.
With several light ‘bangs’, Qin Feng quickly exchanged a few moves with Xie Ding, then with a rotation fast as a wraith, he reached Xie Ding’s side just as the latter was retracting his tails, and the Ruyi Golden Light in his hand transformed into a long sword which he fiercely slashed down.
“Ah…”
Xie Ding was taken aback.
Although his scorpion tails were protected by a hard shell and wouldn’t easily be damaged, if Qin Feng happened to sever his tails, it would be a huge problem for him.
Even if the Cultivation World had some Spiritual Elixirs that could help reattach them, the cost would be enormous.
Panicked, Xie Ding’s body flashed with Spirit Light as True Yuan surged into his scorpion tails as if it was free, desperately concentrating on ensuring no harm would come to his tails.
But in his panic, his actions became disordered; he was focused on protecting his tails but forgot that his own body was the most important.
As Qin Feng’s Ruyi Golden Light long sword descended halfway and he saw Xie Ding’s overly strong defense of his tails making it difficult to inflict damage, the sword light in his hand shifted, the long sword transformed into a flexible sword, wrapping around Xie Ding’s neck like a Spiritual Snake.
“Senior Brother Xie, you’ve lost.”
A trace of a smile appeared on Qin Feng’s face as he looked gently at this proud noble heir.
“You…”
Feeling the sharp Sword Light against his neck, Xie Ding hesitated for a moment but ultimately did not resist.
However, his heart was filled with reluctance, “If only I had released the rest of my Spiritual Beasts earlier, you wouldn’t have had the chance to attack me so easily.”
“Indeed.”
Qin Feng nodded in acknowledgment, “I’ve seen Senior Brother Xie’s battles with other disciples, and your several Spiritual Beasts are indeed extraordinary.
If you had released them, our battle would still be up in the air, and it’s uncertain who would have won or lost.”
Now that he had already won, Qin Feng didn’t mind giving a few compliments to soothe Young Master Xie, proud and high-spirited, so that he wouldn’t harbor resentment against him.
“Hmph, good that you acknowledge it.”
Xie Ding’s face held a sullen expression, “You’ve won this time, but if we cross hands again in the future, I won’t give you another chance to get close.”
“Then for this time, thank you for yielding, Senior Brother.”
As he spoke, Qin Feng had already put away the Ruyi Golden Light.
Xie Ding touched his neck, his heart a bit unwilling to accept defeat, but his upbringing in a great noble family also gave him a certain magnanimity, and he didn’t persist.
Glancing at Qin Feng, he turned and walked away from the arena.
Unlike the previous battle, this time, Qin Feng was the first to finish his fight.
Too fast.
From the beginning of his exchange with Xie Ding, it took only a mere dozen breaths to end the battle, which was even shorter than the time they spent talking.
A quarter of an hour later, the battles on the other stages also ended one after another.
There were a total of thirteen people left on the stage, as there had been a bye in the last round.
However, one of the disciples sustained severe injuries in the recent battle and chose to give up.
Otherwise, according to tradition, there would certainly be another bye in this round, allowing another to directly challenge one of the three strongest in the end.
Now that one person had given up, the battles for the others became simpler.
After two more rounds, only the three strongest would remain to fight each other for the treasures they desired.
Qin Feng’s next opponent was named Zhang Tianlai, an unconventional fellow.
What made him unconventional was that nobody knew where he had obtained a Deep Sea Octopus, which he had managed to refine into his Lifebound Spiritual Beast.
The Beast Taming Sect was not near the sea.
Although the Sect had many disciples with Water Element Spiritual Beasts as their Lifebound, there was currently no one but him in the vast Beast Taming Sect who had a Deep Sea Octopus as a Lifebound Spiritual Beast.
But this guy’s strength was truly formidable, with eight huge tentacles extending directly behind him, each one capable of stretching out dozens of meters, just like the legendary eight-armed Demon God, where a single strike could cause rubble to fly all over the arena, with an invincible close-quarters combat prowess.
Qin Feng, having watched the matches of other disciples in the arena earlier, had already been captivated by this individual, and later Liu Wuxiang went out of his way to gather some information for him.
After returning, he told Qin Feng that Zhang Tianlai had come across the Big Octopus during a mission to the South Sea, a fortunate encounter.
This person’s lifebound spiritual beast was very powerful, considerably outstripping Zhang Tianlai’s cultivation realm; the reason he managed to refine it into his lifebound beast was due to the fact that the octopus had lived for years in the abyss of the ocean floor.
Although large in size, its spiritual intelligence had not awakened, which allowed Zhang Tianlai to refine it to his advantage, managing to do so with the strength comparable to Foundation Establishment while he was still at the Qi Refinement seventh level.
In the years that followed, this Big Octopus’s cultivation had even reached the late stages of Foundation Establishment realm; in terms of close combat, not even the peak Foundation Establishment spirit beasts could necessarily be its match.
Not only was this creature huge and formidable, but more crucially, it had eight tentacles that could attack from multiple directions at once.
Qin Feng tried to sever one of the octopus’s tentacles, only to find that not only were they incredibly tough, but their recovery power was equally astounding; even when he managed to wound one, the injury would not bleed, but rather would heal rapidly back to normal.
Moreover, each of the octopus’s tentacles was lined with two rows of huge suckers that had an incredibly strong adhesion force; Qin Feng had nearly been caught by the suckers several times.
Fortunately for him, he could transform his shape and had the sharp Golden Wings to protect himself, cutting the suckers off the tentacles in time when things went awry, thus avoiding entrapment.
Facing such a formidable opponent, Qin Feng was once again in a difficult situation.
Luckily, his flying speed was astonishing, not something Zhang Tianlai could match, thus he did not suffer.
However, this was not a long-term solution since the opponent dominated the arena, and he couldn’t always just fly around avoiding engagement.
In the end, he released his frequently used Fire Ape, which bombarded the field with a barrage of Fire Rain Meteor, hitting the slowly flying Zhang Tianlai who could not catch Qin Feng nor leave the arena.
Zhang Tianlai had no choice but to concede defeat to avoid severe injury, allowing Qin Feng to claim victory once more.
However, Qin Feng got lucky in the next round; his opponent had sustained serious injuries in his last battle.
Upon seeing Qin Feng summon the Fire Ape again, his opponent promptly conceded defeat and left the arena, granting Qin Feng an easy victory.
After the battles on the other two arenas concluded, only three contestants remained in the field.
Looking over, Qin Feng saw that he knew both of the other two contestants; one of them, a tall and plump woman, was none other than Xue Baoshu, the Baoxiang Peak disciple he had fought earlier.
This woman was indeed fierce, wielding a Wolf Fang Club that dominated the arena, rising to the top through numerous battles.
Typically, the three of them should have each fought two more battles to determine the victor.
However, upon seeing Qin Feng, Xue Baoshu straightforwardly announced her defeat.
Given her current strength, she had no hope of winning against the Fire Ape, so there was no point in fighting Qin Feng.
As for the other disciple, he was Long Qian, the genius from Heavenly Dragon Peak.
When they were preparing to go to the Heavenly Pool Secret Realm, they had met briefly, but due to Long Qian’s pride, that meeting hadn’t left Qin Feng with a good impression.
In fact, Long Qian didn’t think much of Qin Feng at all.
He was from the direct lineage of the Long Family, the leading household among the nine noble heirs affiliated with the Beast Taming Sect; not only was he extraordinarily talented, he had been nurtured from childhood with numerous precious treasures to aid his cultivation, and his lifebound beast was a Jiao Dragon with the bloodline of the Dragon Clan.
Underneath the brilliance of these many achievements, he naturally cultivated a measure of pride.
Further complicating matters, the Heavenly Dragon Peak and the Spiritual Snake Peak, although from the same origin, were competitors within the Outer Sect; thus, upon seeing Qin Feng, Long Qian was not intimidated by his Fire Ape, but rather eager to contest Qin Feng.
Not just for the rewards of the Sect but also to vindicate Heavenly Dragon Peak.
After all, last year during the Outer Sect competition, Zhao Qinglin, the most promising disciple from Spiritual Snake Peak, had been defeated by a Heavenly Dragon Peak disciple.
This year, he wanted to continue the momentum, making it known to all one hundred and eight peaks of the Outer Sect that Heavenly Dragon Peak was stronger than Spiritual Snake Peak.
The bloodline power of the Jiao Dragon was more than sufficient to suppress most of the same level Spiritual Snakes, and he wanted to convince his fellow disciples from various peaks that Spiritual Snake Peak was inferior to Heavenly Dragon Peak.
Plus, the title of the first place in the Outer Sect competition had a nice ring to it.
Long Qian wasn’t averse to adding another dazzling entry to his life’s accomplishments.
“Release your spiritual beasts.”
Long Qian said proudly, “I’ll fight you fairly, so you won’t feel disgruntled when you are defeated.”
Qin Feng looked at the tall, handsome Long Qian in front of him and didn’t say much, just nodded slightly and raised his hand to summon his several Foundation Establishment spirit beasts.
In recent years, their two peaks had always shown signs of competition; now that they faced each other, of course, he would go all out to win glory for Spiritual Snake Peak.
Long Qian glanced at Qin Feng’s several spirit beasts, paying particular attention to the Fire Ape, and once he saw its fluctuating aura, he felt even more confident about winning.
This instability had arisen because the several preceding battles had drained a significant amount of the Fire Ape’s strength.
Even though Qin Feng had returned it to the Demon Refining Pot and transmitted a lot of pure spirit qi, it was still not as formidable as when it had first appeared.
“Make your move.”
Long Qian merged with his Jiao Dragon, instantly making his figure more imposing.
At the same time, he released three Foundation Establishment spirit beasts: an Armadillo capable of burrowing, a Wind Sparrow with a fluctuating body, and a robust White Bull.
His spirit beasts covered a wide range, with aerial, underground, and strong ground attacks all included.
Combined with his own Water Manipulation adept Jiao Dragon, he was well-prepared for any kind of battle, ensuring that he would never be caught unprepared.
Long Qian’s face showed a hint of arrogance, “If you don’t take action soon, you’ll have no chance when I do.”