Chapter 88

Wang Hai and the others climbed the mountain all the way, and before they entered the gate of the Mount Tai Sect, they heard a deafening roar from afar.

The three sect leaders instantly remembered the movement they heard from afar when Lan Lechuan and Li Miao fought that day.

However, judging from the distance of this sound, it was clearly more intense and terrifying than that day.

Deng Baixuan swallowed his saliva and said: "Everyone, let's not get involved, shall we?"

"We can't help with the Battalion Commander's battle, and if we rush up rashly and get involved, we will lose our lives in vain, which is very unwise."

Wang Hai nodded: "Let's wait here, and when the sound stops, we'll go and see."

This wait lasted for nearly half an hour.

Shock appeared on everyone's faces.

Do they not need to adjust their breathing and recover their energy?

Battles in the Jianghu are often decided within a dozen moves. Those evenly matched fight at most a few dozen moves, and the winner is decided.

Only those exchanges of martial arts with a performance nature can last for hundreds of moves.

Because martial arts may have no flaws, but people definitely do.

The simplest thing is that people have to breathe, and no matter how high the internal energy realm is, they have to change their breath. Every gap in changing breath is an opportunity to decide life and death.

And the stronger the opponent, the more effort one has to put into moves, and the more true energy is consumed. As true energy decreases, the power of moves weakens, which is another point to decide superiority.

But the sound coming from afar was non-stop, and there was no sign of weakening at all; instead, it was intensifying.

By now, it had merged into one.

Suddenly, the sound in front stopped.

Several people held their breath and listened carefully to the sound over there.

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"Ha—ha—" Yun Zelin lowered his head, panting heavily.

He didn't have much time left; in a while, without Li Miao having to do anything, he would die of the "Five Decays of Heaven and Man" himself.

He had actually been heading toward death for a long time, just using means to delay this process.

When Li Miao arrived, he had no reaction, precisely because he had stopped all his own activities and fallen into a state of suspended animation. He only broke out of that state when Li Miao arrived.

With this break, the "Five Decays of Heaven and Man" also began to manifest on him.

"You, you don't want to live?" he shouted at Li Miao.

With the situation out of control and truly watching himself step into death, Yun Zelin could no longer maintain that polite attitude and began to address him directly as "you."

"I got your corpse, I can make up for my root bone."

"You perfected 'Jin Gang', you also have to face the 'Five Decays of Heaven and Man', just to kill me!?"

Opposite him, Li Miao watched him with his arms crossed, looking relaxed.

Li Miao's hair was now completely white, hanging down like silver threads. But his appearance showed no signs of aging.

"Don't flatter yourself, I'm not that cheap to trade my life for yours."

"However, do you have no other means?"

"Then I'm going to kill you," Li Miao said.

A perfect "Jin Gang" cannot be mentioned in the same breath as the "Jin Gang" where Li Miao deliberately left flaws before.

This can be seen from the state of the two at this moment.

Yun Zelin's body was covered in wounds, slowly recovering at this moment.

It's just that his appearance was no longer that of a young man, and fine wrinkles had crawled onto the corners of his eyes.

Li Miao only had some broken skin on his knuckles and a scratch on his face.

And these tiny wounds disappeared in an instant, without leaving a trace.

"No... no, there's still a chance, there's still a chance!"

Yun Zelin thought in his heart.

"He only perfected 'Jin Gang', the other two paths are still the same!"

"My 'Sumeru' is perfect, but his true energy is limited; it should have bottomed out by now!"

"With life and death at stake, I can't consider the future anymore!"

Having made his decision, Yun Zelin suddenly dispersed the hard-training technique on his chest and reached out to cut into his own chest and abdomen!

"Oh? You have more tricks." Li Miao had no intention of stepping forward to stop him.

"Heh... hehe." Yun Zelin laughed miserably.

He pulled his hand out abruptly and slowly clenched his fist.

After the previous battle, both Li Miao's and his true energy had bottomed out.

Li Miao's "Sumeru" was incomplete, and his "Sumeru" was not upright; they were six of one and half a dozen of the other.

But at this moment, a surging and majestic true energy suddenly erupted from within Yun Zelin's body.

At the same time, his face aged rapidly, turning into an old man on the verge of death in the blink of an eye.

His figure flashed.

As if the scene had switched, in an instant, Yun Zelin was in front of Li Miao.

A palm, carrying majestic true energy, struck toward Li Miao.

Li Miao raised his palm to block, but was caught off guard by a suction force, and the two arms stuck together.

Yun Zelin's palm was just a feint; the real killing move was the "Taiji Entangling Hand" he was using on his hand!

The two arms crossed, and a majestic internal energy surged from the Yangchi acupoint into Li Miao's meridians.

"Oh, like that."

Li Miao was not surprised at all.

This was not a rare move, but it was most appropriate for Yun Zelin to use it at this moment.

Speaking of which, it was just the common Jianghu way of fighting by pushing palms and competing internal energy.

Just now, both their true energy had bottomed out, but Yun Zelin reached into his abdomen, forcibly stimulating the vitality of the Gu insect he had taken from Lan Lechuan, creating a burst of true energy out of thin air.

The price for doing this was extremely high; even if Yun Zelin could win today, the Gu insect would be damaged, and his "Sumeru," obtained from the Gu insect, would also fall.

He himself had obtained "Sumeru" through the evil path; once damaged, it would be difficult to make up for it, and even his lifespan would be damaged.

It's just that Yun Zelin couldn't care about that much anymore.

Only those who can survive have a future to talk about.

Fighting in this way, moves and muscles were no longer important, and Li Miao's perfect "Jin Gang" would no longer be of any use.

It just depends on who has more true energy!

Yun Zelin grinned: "Lord Li, how is it?"

"You looked down on a mediocre person like me, but in the end, didn't a mediocre person like me win?"

"I don't believe you dare to perfect 'Sumeru' as well; that way, under the 'Five Decays of Heaven and Man', you will die faster!"

He was complacent and couldn't help but laugh.

Although Li Miao was exceptionally difficult to deal with, costing him a great price.

But with Li Miao's corpse, he could make up for his root bone, and in the future, he could slowly find ways to solve the hidden dangers.

After today, the sky is high and the sea is wide; he is finally free!

Just as Yun Zelin was wandering in the future, Li Miao laughed.

"Heh..."

"Perfecting two paths is indeed a bit of a stretch. But, I don't necessarily have to use 'Jin Gang'."

Before his voice had faded, Yun Zelin felt an incomparably huge true energy surging along his meridians.

In an instant, it shattered his already weak meridians.

"You!"

Yun Zelin looked at Li Miao in horror: "You will only die—"

Halfway through his sentence, he stopped abruptly.

Because he felt that Li Miao's perfect "Jin Gang," his incomparably tough muscles and bones, were suddenly weakening.

Li Miao said softly: "Two paths won't work."

"Then I'll just retreat from 'Jin Gang' and switch to cultivating 'Sumeru', won't I?"

(End of chapter)