Chapter 390: Refining Objects, Black Water

The great sun hung in the sky, its light illuminating all things.

The entire Glory Plaza was a vast expanse of white, making it impossible to see anything clearly.

Everyone felt as if they were inside a furnace, experiencing an incomparable, scorching heat!

"Master was indeed prepared."

Li Fei let out a sigh of relief, then took the lead and launched his move.

At this moment, almost everyone present had been "blinded," and Xu Jing's attention was entirely on Hao Yi; it was the perfect time for him to strike!

Relying on his superior sensory abilities, Li Fei charged in the direction he remembered Yan Yan Shijin being in.

He once again unleashed the Diamond Seal: Roc, maintaining his high speed.

Soon, cries of alarm erupted everywhere.

Yan Yan Shijin was currently surrounded by a group of guards, but none of these guards were Dao Foundation realm powerhouses.

The four Possession realm Grand Mages from the Supreme Court were also in the crowd, but they were currently affected by the "Dao Force" erupting from Hao Yi in the sky, much like ordinary people hit by a "flashbang," and their perception and reactions to the outside world were severely impaired.

With things this way, no one could stop Li Fei.

He charged toward the crowd!

The guards on the perimeter were professional bodyguards with extensive protection experience.

In this situation, without needing anyone to give an order, all the guards spontaneously tightened their defensive formation, creating a very dense line.

They held heavy, custom-made shields, wore heavy armor, and simultaneously exerted their full Innate Qi or physical force to protect their bodies.

These guards had no intention of counterattacking; they attempted to rely on their dense formation and heavy equipment to turn into a human wall, forcibly blocking Li Fei's charge.

But Li Fei's strength was not just in his force, but in his raw power!

He unleashed the Diamond Seal: Dragon-Elephant again, the power from 【Blood Rage】 doubling and surpassing the limits of his body.

Snap!

Li Fei stepped down, shattering the marble beneath his feet; the earth shook, and cracks spread out toward the front.

Before he arrived, the gale had already arrived!

The guards standing directly in front felt as if a massive, monstrous beast was charging at them!

Li Fei turned his body sideways and slammed his shoulder into the black shield directly in front of him.

The shield instantly buckled inward; the guard behind it, wearing heavy armor and shrouded in a layer of pale cyan Innate Qi, could not react in time, and the arm holding the heavy shield snapped with a crunch.

Then the shield pressed against his breastplate, which deformed, cracked, and continued to compress inward; next, his sternum shattered, pressing inward.

This guard was like a sandwich cookie crushed by a heavy hammer!

Finally, the guard's feet left the ground as he was forcibly pushed backward by the immense power.

Behind him were guards also holding heavy shields and wearing heavy armor; they suffered the same process, continuing to be pushed backward.

Then the third, the fourth...

Li Fei knocked down six guards in one go!

Fresh blood flowed from their deformed heavy armor, staining the pristine white marble floor beneath them red.

Li Fei charged into the gap created in the human wall.

If he had used force to fight them, he would have needed to put in some effort to break through this human wall.

But relying on brute strength, he only needed to ram through.

Charging into the group of officials, a chorus of exclamations rang in his ears.

Relying on sound to locate his target, Li Fei arrived in front of Yan Yan Shijin.

"Save—"

Before Yan Yan Shijin could finish the word, Li Fei grabbed him by the neck and dragged him out of the crowd amidst a chorus of gasps.

Taking advantage of the fact that the gap had not yet been filled, Li Fei carried Yan Yan Shijin and rushed out.

As the dazzling light in the sky gradually faded, Li Fei returned to the spectator stand.

"Xu Jing!!!"

Li Fei shouted loudly, "Release Shangguan Xiao, or I will kill him!"

He held Yan Yan Shijin's neck with one hand, lifting the Deputy Inspector-General of the Inspection Department into the air.

Yan Yan Shijin's face turned red from being choked, but he maintained the composure of a high-ranking official and did not panic or scream.

On the execution platform, Xu Jing had kept all his attention on Hao Yi ever since the latter began breaking through his realm.

Hearing Li Fei's threat, he didn't even turn his head to look, saying indifferently:

"Then kill him."

Yan Yan Shijin: "..."

Li Fei: "..."

"Xu Jing, you must save Lord Yan!"

Behind him, an official from the investigation team couldn't help but shout loudly after hearing Xu Jing's words.

Xu Jing curled his lips and ignored the rest.

He looked at Hao Yi in the sky, his eyes becoming extremely excited:

"Hao Yi, you truly did not disappoint me!"

"Now, you are qualified to die by my hand!"

He would care about the lives of Yan Yan Shijin and the others, but only on the condition that their lives did not affect the grudge between him and Hao Yi.

Although Hao Yi's breakthrough surprised him, he was not afraid; instead, he became even more excited!

In the sky, Hao Yi had already stabilized his realm.

He had successfully constructed the Martial Dao foundation, the 【Steel Core】, and become a Martial Dao Master!

What he couldn't finish over thirty years ago had finally been completed today.

Facing Xu Jing's provocation, he said nothing, simply plummeting from the sky and slashing his blade toward Xu Jing below!

The "sun" that had just disappeared appeared once again, only this time it was not the great sun in the sky, but—

Sunfall!

As this great sun descended, the world turned brilliant; a scorching blade intent filled the entire plaza, making people feel the heat from the inside out, as if their souls were being burned!

And this was merely the feeling of being caught in the wake of the move.

Li Fei only now realized that his master's blade intent was so tyrannical!

"Well done!"

Xu Jing laughed loudly and leaped upward violently.

Rumble—

As he exerted force to leap, the execution platform beneath him collapsed under his feet!

Li Fei weighed whether to rush over to save people, but he feared interfering in the battle between Hao Yi and Xu Jing and accidentally becoming a burden.

Just as he hesitated, Hao Yi and Xu Jing had already collided in the air.

BOOM!!!!

The massive explosion was deafening, causing everyone in the plaza to go temporarily deaf, their eardrums nearly shattered.

A "mirror surface" appeared at the point where the two collided, rapidly spreading in all directions, almost covering the entire Datong District!

The next second, Xu Jing fell from the sky, landing near the execution platform and smashing a large crater into the marble floor.

Dust filled the air.

Then the "little sun" that Hao Yi had transformed into also fell, crashing into the dust.

BOOM!!!

The plaza shook violently.

At the collapsed execution platform, the two guards responsible for the execution looked at each other; one grabbed the limp Shangguan Xiao, the other held a blade to her neck, and then they shouted loudly:

"Hao Yi, if you don't surrender now, we will kill her!"

The two of them had already seen the situation clearly and knew that Hao Yi had come to save Shangguan Xiao, as had that "Blood-Faced Ghost" who had suddenly appeared.

So the two acted decisively, using Shangguan Xiao's life to threaten Hao Yi.

They felt their opportunity for merit had arrived!

"Oh no!"

Li Fei's heart sank, and he was about to use Yan Yan Shijin to threaten them not to act rashly.

But before he could speak, the two guards beside Shangguan Xiao suddenly had bloodshot eyes, followed by bleeding from their seven orifices, and finally, their hearts exploded, killing them instantly.

Not only that, but the remaining guards at the execution platform also died from ruptured heart vessels!

"No one is allowed to interfere—"

Xu Jing's voice, filled with killing intent, resounded throughout the plaza.

It was he who had killed all the guards at the execution platform!

He had come to this setup today with the mindset of a superior, a victor, and a conqueror.

What he wanted was to witness with his own eyes Hao Yi's broken state of mind and his painful death.

If that didn't happen, he would personally finish him off to resolve the knot that had been in his heart for decades.

The option of using Shangguan Xiao as a threat to make Hao Yi give up had never even crossed Xu Jing's mind.

If he won in such a way, his inner knot would only deepen.

This was something Xu Jing absolutely could not accept!

What he wanted was for Hao Yi to fight with all his might, struggle desperately, and still lose to him in the end.

Therefore, anyone who attempts to intervene in the battle between him and Hao Yi, attempting to influence him to settle this grudge, is his enemy!

For a time, dust and smoke filled the air near the execution platform in the center of the square, the ground shook repeatedly, and massive booming sounds rang out one after another.

Two Martial Arts Masters were engaged in a life-and-death struggle right here!

There is no need to mention Xu Jing's water-control supernatural ability; the means to directly influence the blood inside another person's body can be called a lethal strike.

Even as a fellow Martial Arts Master, Hao Yi still needs to expend a massive amount of Dao energy to protect his own body, lest he be controlled by Xu Jing regarding the blood within him and thereby be severely wounded.

As for Hao Yi's own matter-refining supernatural ability, it looks like a support-type ability, but in reality, it is an all-around ability capable of both offense and defense!

The characteristic of being able to refine all things is actually very powerful; the key lies in how one wields it.

For example, Hao Yi refines all the energy Xu Jing uses to attack him, changing its "material properties," refining these energies into shards of frost, thereby becoming incomparably fragile, shattering at a touch, and completely losing their threat.

Hao Yi also refined the marble and mud that exploded on the ground into steel, turning it into a cage to trap Xu Jing within.

Although this cage cannot trap Xu Jing for long, it can cause an impact on the opponent at a critical moment.

Besides this, Hao Yi's primary means is refining his own energy.

When Xu Jing attacked him with a palm, he refined his body-protecting Heaven and Earth Furnace Energy into a shield resembling a crystal.

The Heaven and Earth Furnace Energy, which was originally not adept at defense, saw its defensive power greatly increase after changing its "material properties"!

Then Hao Yi slashed a blade toward Xu Jing, and the Dao energy based on the Heaven and Earth Furnace Energy transformed into a sea of fire, enveloping Xu Jing.

Xu Jing pushed out with both palms, freezing this sea of fire.

The high-level energy he practices is the Ice Soul God-Suppressing Energy, which can simultaneously freeze matter and spirit!

But the next second, the sea of fire was refined by Hao Yi into thick earth.

The Five Elements generate each other; fire generates earth, so this refining was very effortless and also very rapid.

After transforming into earth-attribute energy, it became very difficult for Xu Jing's Ice Soul God-Suppressing Energy to suppress it.

Because earth overcomes water!

This is the power of the matter-refining supernatural ability; Hao Yi can possess a variety of means and has a wealth of methods for dealing with enemies.

If it were not for the fact that Hao Yi needed to divert the majority of his mental effort and energy to resist the water-control supernatural ability, Xu Jing would have already lost.

Even so, as Hao Yi became increasingly proficient with the matter-refining supernatural ability, combining various means with his own blade technique, his combat power began to rise steadily, gradually pressing Xu Jing into a disadvantage!

Although Xu Jing broke through his realm earlier than Hao Yi, everything seemed to be the same as it was back then; in a situation where both were in the same realm, he was ultimately no match for Hao Yi.

After the two exchanged dozens of moves, Hao Yi seized an opportunity and slashed a blade toward Xu Jing.

Xu Jing's body-protecting energy had already been refined into ice by Hao Yi a step earlier, shattering instantly, and then the blade light struck, appearing like a great sun sweeping across!

Xu Jing did not dodge or evade, letting the blade light strike him, while he slapped his palm toward Hao Yi's chest.

When the blade light reached his body, a black water suddenly appeared on Xu Jing's skin, resembling an unfathomable abyss, directly swallowing Hao Yi's blade light!

The next instant, Xu Jing's palm struck Hao Yi's chest; black water likewise emerged from his palm, instantly swallowing Hao Yi's body-protecting energy.

Black water—this was the method Xu Jing used back then on Mount Mount Tiefeng when he defeated the "Blade King" Gu Vanguard Commander!

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