Fierce Thunder Method

"Fellow Daoist's thunder arts are remarkable; He Kai admires them."

He Kai slowly drew a seven-inch plain brush from his sleeve and announced, "However, my master has ordered me to take this match, so I must offend you."

Seeing that he appeared entirely certain of his victory, Qi Wei said little. She merely extended a hand in a gesture of invitation.

Once both were prepared, the supervising cultivator raised a hand. "The match begins!"

As the words fell, both moved simultaneously.

He Kai swept his brush tip before him. After a shimmering blur, dozens of ink spots transformed into eight roaring, leaping ink-beasts.

The Painting-Beast Method he practiced was a fusion of the Dao of painting and beast-taming arts.

Qi Wei was no slower. Drawing thunder-fire around her, she pressed her palms together, condensing a ball of pale blue lightning.

"These... these ink-beasts are all at the Fifth Layer!"

"Eight Fifth Layers-how is she supposed to fight that?"

The young disciples in the stands were visibly shaken.

Controlling eight ink-beasts at once was already a feat, but the true terror lay in the fact that each possessed the strength of a Fifth Layer cultivator.

Just as concern for Qi Wei mounted, three flashes of pale blue lightning flickered.

The thunder-ball hovered above her crown, unleashing strikes of terrifying potency. In an instant, it blasted the three beasts lunging toward her into fragments.

The spectators gasped.

They had heard of the lethality of thunder cultivators, but today they truly felt it.

Each bolt released by that thunder-ball possessed the power to instantly kill a typical Fifth Layer cultivator.

Protected by the thunder-ball, she resumed her state of thunder-fire flooding her body and charged straight for He Kai.

Five ink-beasts attempted to intercept her, but before the fierce thunder, their forms were as fragile as paper, pierced through in a single strike.

"Too fast!"

He Kai's gaze sharpened. He raised his brush and drew a circle at his feet.

"Green Mountain Cover!"

Whoosh-

Ink surged upward, instantly manifesting as a gray-black mountain that shrouded him.

Yet, this defense was clearly insufficient.

Qi Wei spread her fingers in a sharp grabbing motion. A patch of thunderclouds coalesced in midair.

Locking onto He Kai's aura, five pale blue thunder-bolts descended in a flash.

Crack-

Thud!

After the five strikes, the ink-mountain began to totter.

Qi Wei raised her hand, condensed a Palm Thunder, and pressed it against the formation, shattering the defense entirely.

Her other hand swung out, weaving lightning directly toward He Kai's face.

Just as she was about to prevail, a violent burst of pressure erupted from He Kai, sending her reeling backward.

When she steadied herself, she saw images resembling a hundred-beast totem swirling around him.

"I had hoped to see how far I could contend without the Spirit-Commanding Method. It seems I underestimated the power of your thunder arts."

He Kai shook his head with a faint smile. "Very well. Since you have forced my hand, let us make an end of this."

With a flick of his brush, a winged tiger manifested from the ink. Its aura had already reached the Sixth Layer.

The winged tiger leaped, closing the distance with terrifying speed. It ignored the thunder-ball's barrage, even swallowing the projectile whole.

Qi Wei fought while retreating, but her thunder arts left only shallow wounds on the beast.

As she was driven toward the edge of the Dao Discussion Platform, the spectators held their breath, their eyes filled with dread.

If this continued, Qi Wei would soon be forced off the platform.

He Kai remained calm, a serene smile on his face. In his view, since his opponent had not mastered the Spirit-Commanding Method, his own activation of it rendered him invincible.

"Huh?"

"What is Senior Sister Qi doing?"

He Kai's composure wavered at the sound of the sudden exclamations.

He looked toward Qi Wei and felt a chill.

"Is this woman mad?"

At the very edge of the platform, Qi Wei gathered all the thunder-fire in her body to her fingertip, forming a restless Thunder Pellet.

Then, under the stunned gazes of all present, she swallowed the pellet without hesitation.

Boom!

In the next instant, her aura soared, crossing the Fifth Layer threshold to reach the Sixth Layer in a heartbeat.

"The Thunder-Swallowing Method!"

On the high dais, the representatives of the various factions gasped in amazement.

To master such a brutal method at her age-the Daoyuan Mountain's training was ruthless indeed.

With the thunder swallowed, Qi Wei was wreathed in pale blue fluorescence. Her speed, strength, and the intensity of her thunder arts increased manifold.

Facing the winged tiger, she no longer dodged but met it head-on.

In moments, she had mercilessly torn the wings from the beast's back.

He Kai attempted to intervene, but against the empowered Qi Wei, his techniques were useless; he could not even land a strike.

"Damn it!"

He Kai's mind raced, yet all his efforts were futile. He could only watch as his ink-beast was shattered by the thunder in her palm.

"I concede!"

Seeing the situation was lost, He Kai chose the lesser of two evils: surrender rather than enduring the suffering of a total defeat.

Tap.

The supervising cultivator stepped in to halt Qi Wei, who had been mid-charge.

She spat the Thunder Pellet out, then collapsed to her knees, coughing up black blood.

The Thunder-Swallowing Method was powerful, but the strain on a cultivator's body was immense; if she could not suppress the thunder-core, she risked severe injury.

"How is it, Junior Brother? How do you feel?"

Xiao Yize watched Qi Wei wipe the blood from her lip as she returned to the high dais and turned to Yang Lingshu.

"A bit frightening. I have no desire to fight her."

"Exactly. Now you understand your Senior Brother's plight, don't you?"

Xiao Yize gestured discreetly toward Qiu Ran, who sat on the Daoyuan Mountain side. "That one is even more frightening. When he fights, he is relentless. I bested him once ten years ago, and he has hounded me ever since. This Senior Brother's heart is bitter!"

Yang Lingshu chuckled at the complaint.

If others heard this, they might truly believe he was afraid of Qiu Ran. But as one who cultivated the same Spirit Communion technique as Xiao Yize, he knew the true depth of his Senior Brother's skill.

The twin ultimate techniques, "Jade Water" and "Encountering Spring," ensured Xiao Yize remained all but untouchable at his level. As the head disciple of the Myriad Transformations Sect, he was evenly matched with Qiu Ran; he simply possessed a temperament that shunned trouble, preferring to avoid him entirely.

Meanwhile, Daoyuan Mountain had reached a decision.

Because Qi Wei's injuries were too severe for her to continue, they needed a replacement. They skipped the Qi Gathering Middle Stage rounds entirely, sending out Chu Hao, a powerhouse at the Ninth Layer peak.

As he stepped onto the platform, Yang Lingrui and his companions grew serious.

The previous matches had been exciting, but to them, they were mere appetizers.

From the moment Chu Hao stepped onto the stage, the true confrontation between the Zhuhu Wangchao and the genius disciples of the Four Northwestern Sects had begun.

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