Chapter 549 - 545
Duan Shanhe’s expression grew increasingly ugly.
He hadn’t expected Li Miaozhen to say such words, and he instantly felt greatly insulted!
What did she mean by saying she’d knock him down and then drag him to Qin Feng’s seclusion room? What was he being treated as?
How could he, Duan Tianhe, a leading True Inheritor from a major sect, be so incompetent?
Not to mention that they hadn’t even competed yet and the outcome was still unknown. Even if you, Li Miaozhen, are truly unbeatable at your level and indeed better than me, would I, Duan, not retreat if I couldn’t beat you and let you manipulate me at will?
“Li Miaozhen…”
Duan Shanhe roared angrily, causing the ears of the surrounding onlookers to tingle, and only then did they realize that his strength was far from ordinary.
Not to mention, now Duan Shanhe was drumming up all his energy, his body like a furnace, his voice like a bell, as his powerful aura surged skyward, pressing down on Li Miaozhen overhead.
“You’re looking for death, I’ll grant it to you!”
In his furious haste, Duan Shanhe suddenly sacrificed the copper hammer in his hand, throwing it up into the sky where it transformed into a hundred-zhang size, smashing down directly on Li Miaozhen’s head.
The main issue here was that they were inside Lingxiao City, and the space wasn’t very spacious; otherwise, he could have made the copper hammer as large as a mountain!
Even so, the hundred-zhang area covered by the copper hammer also enveloped Qin Feng and more than a dozen Beast Taming Sect disciples along with Li Miaozhen under its attack!
The people behind showed no panic at all. Although this strike was incredibly powerful and they were not confident in withstanding it directly, not one of them showed a look of panic, let alone thought of fleeing.
Because, the first to bear the brunt was Li Miaozhen. Although Duan Shanhe’s displayed strength was beyond imagination, they had full confidence in Li Miaozhen and did not believe that this strike could bypass her and hit them.
Indeed, Li Miaozhen hadn’t even made a move, when the giant hammer in mid-air was smacked away by Qin Feng with a slap.
“You said you wanted to challenge me, yet you dare provoke Senior Sister Li, do you also have the courage to face us both at the same time? Then I truly admire your courage!”
Qin Feng’s expression was indifferent, as if the person who had just sent the copper hammer flying wasn’t him!
However, the surrounding spectators all changed color.
They hadn’t expected Qin Feng’s strength to be so formidable.
The power of Duan Shanhe’s strike was clear to everyone, yet Qin Feng effortlessly slapped it hundreds of zhang away with a casual swat. If Duan Shanhe hadn’t used magic to summon it back, who knows how far it would have flown!
This aroused even greater interest from the onlookers, wondering whether this newly advanced Purple Mansion genius from the Beast Taming Sect was stronger or weaker compared to Li Miaozhen?
Duan Shanhe summoned the copper hammer back, his gaze shifting slightly as he looked at Qin Feng, but quickly returning to normal.
It seemed, not only he had rapidly improved over the years, but Qin Feng’s currently displayed war power was also much stronger than during their last encounter.
However, thinking about the opportunities he had obtained in the Otherworld, Duan Shanhe quickly steadied himself.
You’re strong, but I am stronger!
He took a deep breath.
This breath caused the winds and clouds to change color, drawing the surrounding spiritual energy continuously towards him, even forming two visible streams of spiritual snakes that disappeared into his body.
Then, under the astonished gazes of those around him, Duan Shanhe’s already large frame inflated like an air-filled balloon at a visible speed, and in just a few breaths, he became nearly thirty zhang tall, assuming the appearance of a giant.
This left some cultivators who knew the details of the Giant Spirit Sect utterly shocked.
The Giant Spirit Sect specialized in physical strength, not in cultivating the Primordial Spirit, pursuing an immortal physical body indeed!
They were refining their cultivation method based on the essence blood, divine powers, and inheritances of the Giant Spirit Divine Clan; although the clan was dominant in physical strength, their bodies were not ridiculously large in reality.
Especially the members of the Giant Spirit Divine Clan at the Purple Mansion Realm, who hadn’t ascended to the Dharma Image realm or mastered the Great Divine Power “Fatian Xiangdi,” their physical bodies were never over fifteen zhang.
But what was the situation with Duan Shanhe, who had somehow created an almost thirty zhang tall giant physical body—had he already mastered “Fatian Xiangdi,” or had he ascended to an even higher realm?
As for Qin Feng, he glanced at Duan Shanhe’s transformed giant form and chuckled lightly, “Brother Duan indeed found good fortune. It seems you’ve really reaped many benefits in that world, even integrating the bloodlines of Hill Giants and Frost Giants into your Giant Spirit Dharma Body. You do have some skills, no wonder you have the courage to seek revenge for that day’s arrow!”
“Hmph, all thanks to you!”
Duan Shanhe’s robust figure was mountain-strong, and as he spoke, his voice thundered, causing everyone’s ears to buzz.
“If it hadn’t been for you stealing my opportunity, why would I have risked entering the Iron Forest and facing those dangerous monsters and giants!”
He coldly sneered, “But I was lucky, contrary to your expectations I didn’t die there but rather seized the opportunity and came back. Now, are you ready to face my revenge?”
“To deal with you, what preparation is needed?”
Qin Feng shook his head, sighing softly, “Such a good inheritor of the Giant Spirit Sect you could have been, yet you choose to come here seeking death. Since so, I will grant it to you!”
As he spoke, his head also shook, and his body instantly also grew to about thirty zhang tall, his body also emanating powerful vital energy, looking every bit as formidable as Duan Shanhe.
And that wasn’t all—scales the size of a palm appeared on Qin Feng’s exposed skin, dark and shiny with a metallic luster that made it clear they were extremely tough. Clearly, while he possessed immense strength, he also had formidable defensive capabilities.
The surrounding crowd was stunned!
Not only had Duan Shanhe not anticipated Qin Feng’s next move, but even the onlookers were stunned. Although some were aware of the Beast Taming Sect’s capabilities and knew that the Spiritual Snake Lineage possessed Body Refinement Techniques and that the “Azure Dragon Divine Technique” was a divine art with a direct connection to the Immortal Dao, it was only natural for Qin Feng, as the true inheritor of the Spiritual Snake Lineage, to cultivate this body refining method.
However, the extent of his cultivation in this regard, matching that of the chief inheritors of the Giant Spirit Sect who were renowned for their powerful physical bodies, was truly shocking.
After all, Cultivators of the Beast Taming Sect primarily focused on magic cultivation with beast taming as a secondary practice, and body refining techniques were relatively underestimated!
The only one unaffected by Qin Feng’s transformation was Li Miaozhen.
Not just because she was aware of many of Qin Feng’s methods, but also because she often disregarded what kind of divine skills her opponent was adept in. Should a fight commence, she would decisively cut through any number of her opponent’s transformations with a single stroke!
However, now, she looked up and around, noticing that Qin Feng had already executed his transformation technique; she could only helplessly sigh, sheathe her sword, and dispiritedly walk away.
Initially excited to hear some commotion after coming out of seclusion, thinking she could fully engage in a fight, it turned out that someone was specifically looking for Qin Feng, who had just happened to leave his seclusion; she had no choice but to reluctantly leave the scene.
“Aren’t you the one who wanted a fight with me? Come on then!” Qin Feng beckoned with a casual flick of his finger.
“Hmph… as if I’m afraid of you!” Duan Shanhe, though taken aback by the realm Qin Feng had achieved with his body refining technique and surprised that he could also transform into such a towering giant, soon settled down after a closer look.
In his view, although Qin Feng’s essence blood was potent, it wasn’t refined enough.
In terms of body refinement, their Giant Spirit Sect was the true expert.
As for Qin Feng, he clearly hadn’t devoted much effort to body refinement.
Duan Shanhe bellowed, lifting his foot and stomping it on the ground. The original bluestone pavement burst open, and a tremendous force spread toward Qin Feng along the ground.
This force, carrying the essence of tearing everything apart, cracked the earth. If it had spread to a person, it likely would have split them in two just like the ground!
“Insipid trick!” Qin Feng scoffed: “Earth Element Divine Power, I can do that too!”
He remained stationary, and a yellowish light glowed beneath his feet, seeping into the ground. He, too, executed the Earth Splitting Divine Power, meeting Duan Shanhe’s spell with a bang and neutralizing it into nothingness.
“Better not show off these little tricks, if you have no more than this, don’t bother going back!”
“Stop your arrogance!”
Duan Shanhe scoffed: “Since you’re in such a rush to die, I’ll grant your wish.”
As the words fell, layers of mountains suddenly appeared around him, as if solidifying into reality, pressing down toward Qin Feng.
Each mountain was immensely heavy, almost real. Even before they could fall, they had sealed off the hundred zhang of void around Qin Feng like a copper wall or iron barrier, attempting to trap and crush him alive.
“Hmm?” Qin Feng looked up, and upon seeing this divine skill, he got serious.
He extended his index finger and continuously poked the air above him. Lines of golden light emerged from his fingertip, directly piercing the illusory mountain shadows. The mountains collapsed and dissipated into nothingness.
The Golden Hole Finger, a divine skill he had mastered a long time ago, had now enhanced alongside his comprehension of the Gold Element Path and his advancement to the Purple Mansion Realm, advancing into the Gold-Breaking Finger Great Divine Power.
At this level, shattering gold and splitting stone was as easy as trivial matters. Not to mention the illusory mountains conjured by Duan Shanhe, even if he had transported several real mountains, they would still be pierced through by Qin Feng’s Gold-Breaking Finger!
With the mountains dissipated, the imprisoning force around suddenly turned into nothingness.
“Ice Sealing the World, Eternal Mountain River!” Duan Shanhe’s eyes narrowed, and he suddenly shouted, executing the strongest divine skill he had comprehended in recent years.
Immediately, a vast expanse of cold air surged from his body, directly condensing into ice and freezing the void.
The ice turned into mountains, suppressing the rivers!
With a series of light cracking sounds starting from in front of Duan Shanhe, endless cold ice began to freeze everything, quickly encapsulating Qin Feng and the surrounding space.
As for Qin Feng, he too was sealed within the ice.
A look of victory appeared on Duan Shanhe’s face.
This was the result of his daring adventure into the Iron Forest, transforming his appearance to infiltrate the Giants, blending in with various Giant leaders for nearly a decade, surviving countless life-threatening attacks and ambushes, collecting essence blood from Hill Giants and Frost Giants. By merging the essence blood of those two types of Giants into his Giant Spirit Dharma Body, remolding his Dharma Body, he gained his current strength.
With just this one divine skill, Ice Sealing the World, Eternal Mountain River, he was already a match for any old cultivator at the peak of Purple Mansion.
It was these abilities that gave him strong confidence to face any cultivator of the same level, and he came looking for Qin Feng to exact revenge.
Just as he was brimming with confidence, thinking Qin Feng was trapped within the ice mountain at his disposal, he suddenly heard a series of cracks by his ear.
Looking up, he saw that the ice mountain had already cracked, revealing Qin Feng’s form.