Spirit Vessel

ge Art, Heaven Punishing Hammer!” Feiyun paused and used his three treasures to protect his body before condensing his forty divine intents to perform an attack in the form of a gigantic black hammer.

This was the legendary Heaven Punishing Hammer depicted in many ancient records.
Feiyun called it out and ferociously smashed it towards the holy tablet.

At the same time, the spirit vessel, the saber, and the Infinite Spirit Ring made a line with Feng Feiyun at the end.
This was them utilizing their strongest attacks.

This was the deciding moment, whether they could defeat Nalan Hongtao or not was all up to this next attack.

The cultivators around the lake seemed to have been petrified.
None of them bat their eyes while watching this scene that would surely go down in history.

Feiyun was right behind the ring with an incomparable calm mind.
To him, there was nothing else but his opponent, Nalan Hongtao.
The entire world seemed to have turned dark, Hongtao’s body was the only entity emitting light.
At this moment, Feiyun wished to annihilate this light.

“Boom!” The hammer slammed down first, causing the tablet to tremble.
However, Hongtao punched it and turned it into black smoke right away.

“Boom!” The spirit vessel was the next to strike, but it was also blown away.

“Boom!” The stone saber issued its hymn with a Nine Firmaments Slash.
Nine consecutive slashes went forth but were all shattered.
Hongtao’s fist made contact with the blade and repelled it as well.

“Boom!” The ring couldn’t withstand the shockwave from his punch and fell into the lake.

All of this happened in a split second, the attacks came one after another without any gaps.

Feng Feiyun’s fist met Hongtao’s fist for the first time.
The impact issued a steely growl.
All the water in the lake went flying as explosions appeared in the sky.

After his fourth blood transformation, Feiyun’s body was as tough as a phoenix fledging.

This bout didn’t last long.
After eighteen punches, Nalan Hongtao’s arm was crushed and turned into an incomplete ethereal mass.

Meanwhile, Feiyun was bathed in blood with cracks everywhere on his skin.
The bones in his arm had been broken at several sections.
On the final exchange, Hongtao slammed into him and blew him away.
Feiyun eventually fell down by the shore and kneeled with one knee on the ground while his intact hand propped up his body.

In the end, he was still lacking a little bit and was grievously wounded by Hongtao.
Nevertheless, he bit his teeth with a determined gaze to not fall down.

The ring, saber, and spirit vessel all flew back.
All of them were dim.

Feng Feiyun had lost to Nalan Hongtao at the same level, but no one dared to mock him because this was Hongtao’s cultivation at its prime.

Everyone was completely astonished!

“Feiyun has broken Hongtao’s arm, that’s pretty much the same as breaking part of the seal.
Damn! This is when Hongtao is at his strongest too!”

“If it was still dark and Hongtao was only at half power, Feiyun probably would have beaten him.”

“Feiyun’s aptitude is even above Ling Donglai.
It looks like he’s the number one genius in this generation with no match at the same level.”

***

Ling Donglai, Ji Feng, Yao Ji, the girl from the Beastmaster Camp, and the young master from the immortal sect, all of them had indescribable emotions running in their minds, a sense of loss even.

“So what if he’s invincible in the same cultivation level? As long as he doesn’t leave his name on the tablet, he’s still nothing since he didn’t win the providence of the tablet.
He can’t reign over us.” The young master snorted.

He was right.
The reason why they wanted to leave their name behind was not only to become famous since they were already renowned.
They actually desired the great providence granted by the tablet.

Throughout history, those who obtained this blessed providence could reign for a generation.
They would take away the spotlight from the other grand historical geniuses.

Someone said: “Feng Feiyun can wait half a year for the next eclipse.
With his talents, he can definitely defeat Hongtao at half strength.”

“Are you kidding? After this news spreads, it will shock the world.
No one will want to see him leave his name on the tablet.
Many will try and eliminate him, even Giants will take action.
Not to mention half a year, he would be lucky if he could live another fifteen days.”

“Sigh! The tallest tree will always be the first to be pushed down by the wind.”

***

Feiyun naturally understood this truth as well.
However, the people here didn’t know that he had only opened 216 meridians, he still hasn’t reached the apex of grand completion God Base.

If he could refine the remaining three spirit grasses and increase his cultivation, he could defeat Hongtao without needing to wait for half a year.

As long as he could leave his name there, the will of the tablet would protect him.
It wouldn’t be so easy for others to kill him after that.

The most important part was how was he going to survive the next few days?

At the moment, some people were getting ready to take care of him so that he wouldn’t make it to the next eclipse.

Due to his current injuries, this was their greatest opportunity to kill him.