Chapter 426: Battle Again

"What? Actually won?"

Huo Lingzi was fighting a Yao tiger prince, and when his divine sense swept over, he saw the black dragon win, unable to help but be shocked.

But in that instant, the Yao tiger opposite seized the opportunity, and a 'King' secret pattern appeared on its forehead.

A giant tiger with hanging eyes and a white forehead leaped out of the void, turning into a divine sense attack and rushing into Huo Lingzi's sea of consciousness.

'The innate divine ability of the Imperial Clan among the Tiger race—Tiger Roar?'

Huo Lingzi thought it was bad; in his sea of consciousness, streaks of mental power had already turned into defense.

But everything was already too late.

Just in the instant he was distracted by defense, a terrifying tiger claw fell, tearing apart the whisk in his hand and leaving a deep bloodstain on his chest.

A huge force came, and by the time Huo Lingzi came to his senses, he was already outside his own cloud platform.

"Actually… lost?"

"Damn it, I clearly could have won."

A trace of cold sweat seeped from Huo Lingzi's forehead: "This is not good…"

Regarding the identity of a core member, besides the three strongest, the other core members would definitely not voluntarily admit defeat, but would seize the opportunity to fight to the death!

In the words of the white ape Wu Qi, they were all core members, who was afraid of whom?

Huo Lingzi's strength was considered middle-to-lower among the core members, and having lost one round at the beginning, he was now in great danger.

Once he was careless and fell into the last three spots, he would be finished…

After Fang Xing won, it wasn't long before he welcomed his second opponent, the woman in the green dress who had been with Huo Lingzi.

Looking weak and fragile, she practiced the Destruction Dao laws and was extremely fierce in her attacks.

He still did not use his own terrifying physique, just honing his own law moves.

Even so, his pair of claws still surpassed the weapons provided in the illusion, and it would be embarrassing if he accidentally crushed them.

Whoosh whoosh!

Streaks of destruction light fell, the woman in the green dress danced with a pitch-black long sword in her hand, and behind her suddenly appeared an image of a god-demon with three heads and six arms, with a red eye on its brow.

"It is Yu Xin's most proficient divine soul attack technique!"

Huo Lingzi was also in his second battle, and when his divine sense swept over, he was overjoyed: "This is Yu Xin's most proficient 'God-Demon Rage', she will definitely win…"

But the next instant, he saw Fang Xing seemingly completely unaffected, whipping his tail at Yu Xin and whipping her off the cloud platform.

"Impossible!"

Even though he had warned himself in his heart, Huo Lingzi still could not help but be slightly distracted.

Perhaps for many cultivators, this flaw was not even a flaw.

But for a genius of the same level, Huo Lingzi's momentary shock was simply equivalent to offering his head.

Pfft!

A cyan long spear instantly pierced through Huo Lingzi.

"Not good!"

Huo Lingzi's figure appeared again, his expression very bitter: "Cannot lose again, next time no matter who that black dragon encounters, I must absolutely not be distracted!"

When he made up his mind and arrived on the cloud platform, he saw his opponent this time, and his heart felt bitter.

The enemy standing in front was in white robes, his face covered in scales, his horns prominent; it was the number one core member, 'Qiong Bai'!

"I… admit defeat…"

Huo Lingzi felt his mouth was full of bitterness, and an even greater sense of urgency rose up.

If he kept losing like this, he might really fall into the bottom three!

……

"Is this the last round?"

In the next few rounds, Fang Xing had both wins and losses.

Once he discovered that the opponent's Dao law power had merits and surpassed his own, he would simply admit defeat, never bullying others by relying on his physique.

He flapped his wings and flew onto the cloud platform, where he saw an acquaintance.

The opponent had long red hair and a very ugly expression, only showing a hint of joy when seeing Fang Xing; it was Huo Lingzi!

"Fellow Daoist Huo Lingzi, it is truly… fate."

Fang Xing smiled.

He looked up and saw those pairs of eyes that were like the Dao of heaven, cold and ruthless, unable to even identify which pair belonged to that 'Hun Tian Great Sage'.

'Intentional? Or unintentional?'

'The Grand Void Spirit was also created by humans; perhaps it is impartial, but as long as the master's order comes, it will do as it must…'

Just as he was thinking, Huo Lingzi in front had already taken the initiative.

"Water and fire are ruthless… Merge!"

Huo Lingzi's long red hair danced wildly, and he swung his whisk fiercely.

The sky full of white silk carried the continuous artistic conception of water, and there were also the cries of thousands of red birds.

A flame phoenix appeared, which was the realm of the Law Body.

The blazing phoenix was coiled with water currents, surprisingly of the same origin of water and fire, and fell fiercely.

Whoosh!

Fang Xing roamed the void, suddenly using a Void Flash, arriving in front of Huo Lingzi; it was his most proficient 'Brother Brother Heilong Riding the Face'.

"I have been waiting for this!"

Huo Lingzi's eyes lit up, one pupil seeming to turn into the sun, the other into the moon.

The sun-moon pupils carried the power of divine sense attack, falling into Fang Xing's sea of consciousness.

And on Huo Lingzi's body, a translucent water armor burning with flames appeared.

Streaks of water flood dragons and fire phoenixes danced wildly, pouncing on Fang Xing! 'Others have not been idle these past few years… this Huo Lingzi has gone quite far on the path of merging water and fire laws.'

'Hmm? This is… some kind of space-locking power? It seems even Void Flash cannot be used?'

Fang Xing's heart stirred, seeing Huo Lingzi's smug smile.

"I have long known you are proficient in Void Flash, so I specially created this 'Water-Fire Cage' which can best restrain Void Flash… Now, be defeated!"

Huo Lingzi's heart was surging; as long as he won this round, even if the ranking was ugly, he would not fall into the bottom three.

The whisk in his hand exploded, countless fire phoenixes and water flood dragons hissed and roared… merging and exploding with each other… the blue-red brilliance almost drowning Fang Xing…

But the next instant.

Whoosh!

Fang Xing's figure moved, disappearing directly from the Water-Fire Cage.

Then, he arrived behind Huo Lingzi and pressed out a claw.

This was not 'Void Flash', but 'Teleportation'! And it was a 'Teleportation' sufficient to ignore the Water-Fire Cage!

Between this claw, his own 'Time' seemed to have been accelerated three times!

In other words, his speed increased three times!

When fighting, a difference of ten or twenty percent in attack speed is a huge gap, not to mention several times!

By the time Huo Lingzi reacted, Fang Xing's dragon claw had already touched the water-fire armor on his body!

"Not good!"

Huo Lingzi's expression changed, but he could only surge his magic power.

He used his true body template, and his own magic power had already reached the high-grade level, the power of the water-fire armor far exceeding what he had shown before.

But from Fang Xing's dragon claw, the sound of a great river surging suddenly came.

Black water surged, crushing the water-fire armor on Huo Lingzi's body, the dragon claw piercing directly through his back, grabbing a bright red heart that was still beating…

"I…"

Huo Lingzi lowered his head, a bitter smile flashing across his face.

Then, he was swept away by a space storm, scraped into countless fragments.

……

Qingyuan Great World.

In a Dao palace.

"No!"

A terrible cry suddenly resounded through the entire Dao palace.

Huo Lingzi's long red hair danced wildly, seeming to burn directly: "Brother Brother Heilong! My core member identity…"

He roared, just about to log into the Grand Void Illusion, when a prompt appeared:

【You are no longer a core member, you cannot use special templates, current available templates: A…】

"Defeated…"

Huo Lingzi's anger dissipated, as if his spine had been pulled out, and he slumped to the ground: "Once I go this time, within a hundred years, I will not be able to challenge for core member again… my resources have been reduced by more than half, and the probability of becoming a Celestial Immortal in the future has dropped by at least fifty percent! Damn it!"

At this moment, he wished he could kill the Brother Brother Heilong, or defect from the Boundless Mountain.

But thinking of those high-and-mighty eyes that were like the Dao of heaven, he had no thoughts left, only clenching his fists: "I am not young anymore, and in a hundred years I will be nearly five hundred years old… even becoming a core member would be useless… Now, let's break through to the Nascent Soul stage. Nascent Soul has a lifespan of ten thousand years, there will be many opportunities in the future, I can still turn things around!"

Those who can become core members not only have strength and talent, but their temperament is also quite good, at least possessing indomitable perseverance.

Otherwise, there would be no hope at all of achieving the rank of Celestial Immortal!

……

"Congratulations, Brother Brother Heilong, core member ranking seventy-seven."

The cloud platform dissipated, representing the end of this core member assessment.

The white ape Wu Qi walked to Fang Xing's side and congratulated him: "To be able to defeat several core members with third-level Dao law insight… you are powerful!"

"Dao law insight is important, but it is not everything."

Fang Xing shook his head.

This time, fighting with many geniuses, he had gained many more understandings and insights into the Time and Void laws.

"Hehe… it seems you should be of Imperial Blood."

Wu Qi sighed: "Imperial Blood, Imperial Son blood… just practice a little, and the foundation alone is something we King Bloods can hardly reach…"

'No, you are mistaken, actually I was only Mortal Blood before…'

Fang Xing complained inwardly, and furthermore, his truly powerful physique had not been displayed at all.

"For us, bloodline will eventually become a shackle."

He sighed, but this was at least a matter for after becoming a Heavenly Yao, and he was not really a black dragon, so naturally, he would not care too much.

"Well, let's not talk about this, do you have any thoughts of going on a mission recently?"

Wu Qi said: "The Peach Valley Secret Realm… the Immortal Peach Forest is about to ripen again, I am planning to go and earn a sum of merit points, do you want to go together?"

"Peach Valley Secret Realm?"

Fang Xing had naturally heard the great name of this secret realm; it was information that only core members could access.

This secret realm was also left behind by a Celestial Immortal powerhouse and was discovered and occupied by the Boundless Mountain and the Qingdi Palace… it produced a special Red Pantao, which not only had a unique taste but also contained many benefits.

Among them, one 'Cyan Red Pantao' could be worth a thousand merit points, and one 'Red Red Pantao' was worth ten thousand merit points; the Boundless Mountain would take as many as there were.

Of course, its greater fame was that the 'Peach Valley Secret Realm' was extremely dangerous inside, only allowing cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage to enter, and the previous core disciple had fallen in the Peach Valley Secret Realm!

"You should be going, right? We are both of the Hun Tian Great Sage ancestor lineage, just right to go and pick more Red Flat Peaches to honor the ancestor…"

Wu Qi grinned, his monkey face full of shrewdness.

Only two chapters today.

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