Chapter 14: Play all your cards and win by wit
The lingering sound of the final bell seemed to still be vibrating in the air, and Ye Feng's mountain-breaking fist had already carried the force of thunder and struck Ye Li's face!
The spiritual power of the Half-Step Condensed Veins Realm was unparalleled and violent. The earthy yellow light was as thick as a mountain, squeezing the air and emitting a dull whistling sound. This punch was absolutely incomparable to the previous opponent. The power, speed, and momentum were completely on a different level!
There was a cry of surprise from the audience, and many people subconsciously closed their eyes, as if they had already seen the tragic scene of Ye Li being hit hard and knocked away by the punch.
However, at that critical moment, Ye Li's figure seemed to have lost all weight, and like willow catkins blown by the wind of the fist, it floated backwards against the fierce wind of the fist with a lightness and weirdness that defied common sense!
Shadow Step! The improved and optimized Shadow Step now demonstrates its astonishing power!
Her toes seemed to barely touch the ground, her body swaying in a blur of shadows as she narrowly avoided the strongest point of the fist. But the sharp wind from the fist still stung her skin, causing her blood to surge slightly.
"Huh?" Ye Feng exclaimed softly, a flicker of surprise in his eyes. He hadn't expected his opponent to dodge his determined punch so easily. But he was also very experienced in combat, and his moves were extremely fast. Without retracting his fist, he transformed it into a claw, his five fingers curled up, and with the force to tear through metal and stone, he grabbed Ye Li's shoulder!
"Golden Claw!"
The claws are sharp and the speed is even faster!
Ye Li's eyes were icy, and instead of retreating, he advanced! His body slid sideways at a very small angle like a swimming fish, and he actually crashed into the gap in Ye Feng's center line! At the same time, his fingers were like swords, and he pointed at the pulse point on Ye Feng's wrist with incredible precision!
Attack instead of defend! Besiege Wei to save Zhao!
If Ye Feng didn't return to defend, even if he could catch Ye Li, his wrist pulse point would definitely be hit, and the consequences would be unimaginable!
"How dare you!" Ye Feng shouted angrily, and was forced to retract his claws and defend himself, blocking with his arms.
“Bang!”
The fingers and palms intersected, making a muffled sound.
Ye Li's body trembled violently, and she drifted back several steps, a tingling sensation in her fingertips. The other party's spiritual power was far greater than hers.
Ye Feng also felt a slight numbness in his arm, and was even more shocked. The opponent's finger power was so concentrated, far beyond that of an ordinary mid-level Qiling Realm. How could it be able to shake his defense?
"There's definitely some tricks! But the gap in realm isn't something these little tricks can make up for!" Ye Feng sneered, and his attack resumed. This time, he didn't hold back, unleashing his Half-Step Vein Condensation Realm. Fists, palms, fingers, and kicks rained down on Ye Li like a violent storm!
The Mountain-Breaking Fist, the Gold-Splitting Claw, the Flow-Severing Kick...all kinds of top-grade and mid-grade human-level martial arts are at his fingertips, and combined with his strong spiritual power, the power is astonishing!
The arena was suddenly enveloped by a violent, ochre-colored spiritual light. Ye Feng's figure was like a tiger descending from the mountain, his momentum overwhelming.
Ye Li, on the other hand, was like a small boat in a raging sea, seemingly poised to capsize at any moment. She unleashed her Shadow Steps to the limit, weaving in and out of the dense onslaught, facing danger on every side. Each dodge seemed utterly treacherous, yet she always managed to avoid it by the merest fraction of a second at the crucial moment.
She no longer attacked rashly, but instead calmly observed Ye Feng's moves, habits, rhythm of his spiritual power, and possible flaws while moving at high speed.
The audience below was dazzled and frightened.
"It's too fast! I can't even see clearly!"
"Young Master Ye Feng is too strong! Who can withstand this attack?"
"Ye Li can still hold on? This movement... is too weird!"
On the platform, the elders had varying expressions. Third Elder Ye Lang smiled, seemingly confident of victory. Great Elder Ye Xiao's gaze was sharp, closely following Ye Li's steps. Fourth Elder Ye Yun's palms were slightly sweaty. Patriarch Ye Tian had a blank expression, his gaze deep.
"All you can do is hide? Trash!" After a long period of attacking without success, Ye Feng grew increasingly impatient. He had thought he could easily crush the opponent, but the opponent had been slippery and dodging for so long, leaving him feeling humiliated.
He suddenly increased his attack strength by another three points, and after forcing Ye Li back with one punch, he took a deep breath, and the khaki spiritual light around his body suddenly surged!
"Ground vibration!"
He slammed his foot down on the ring! Boom! A powerful shockwave, centered around him, spread rapidly in all directions like ripples! This was an area-of-effect attack, specifically designed to counter opponents with greater agility!
The arena shook violently, and Ye Li's movements suddenly froze!
"Good opportunity!" A fierce look flashed in Ye Feng's eyes. He seized this opportunity and the spiritual power in his body gathered madly to his right fist. A dazzling yellow light burst out from his fist, as if it had condensed the power of a small mountain!
"Mountain Collapse Punch! Defeat me!"
He roared, and his body shot out like a cannonball. He concentrated all his strength into a punch, and slammed into the unstable Ye Li! Before the punch even reached him, the terrifying pressure had almost sucked the air out of Ye Li's surroundings!
This punch has already exceeded the scope of the Qi Ling Realm and touched the threshold of the Ningmai Realm!
The audience exclaimed in surprise! Everyone thought it was over! Ye Li definitely couldn't take this punch!
Even the fourth elder Ye Yun on the high platform couldn't help but exclaim in surprise!
At this extremely critical moment!
Ye Li's body, which was originally staggering due to the shock, took advantage of the force of the shock to suddenly spin at an incredible angle, like a leaf in the wind. Not only did it dissipate the force of the shock, but it also cleverly avoided the strongest point of the fist!
At the same time, the aura she had been holding back suddenly erupted! Her cultivation at the peak of the intermediate stage of the Spiritual Awakening Realm was unreserved! The icy spiritual power of the "Youhuan Emperor Scripture" was poured into her fingers without reservation!
She did not try to take the punch that was impossible to take head-on, but instead put her two fingers together, like a poisonous snake coming out of a hole, and pointed with incredible precision at a tiny joint on Ye Feng's elbow that was slightly exposed due to his full-strength punch!
There was the weak point where the power of his move was converted at that moment!
Break through the surface with a single point! Attack the enemy and they will surely be saved!
However, Ye Feng seemed to have anticipated this, or rather, he had been waiting for this moment! A sinister smile of success flashed in his eyes!
"I knew you would do this! I've been waiting for you!"
He didn't even dodge or evade, the mountain-shattering punch continued unabated! And from his left sleeve, a barely perceptible black light silently slipped into his palm!
It was a jet-black needle, engraved with strange runes! A single-use magical weapon—the Qi-breaking Poison Needle! Once pierced, the spirit power would instantly dissipate, and the victim would be poisoned with an intractable poison! This was the "trump card" secretly given to him by the three elders before the competition!
He actually wanted to trade injuries for injuries! Even a minor injury in exchange for Ye Li's complete destruction!
The black needle thrust out silently, viciously stabbing at Ye Li's wrist! The angle was tricky, the timing was wicked!
All this happened in a flash!
No one in the audience could see the sinister black needle clearly. They could only see Ye Feng punching Ye Li violently, and Ye Li seemed unable to avoid it and could only meet it with a finger!
"It's over!" This thought flashed through the minds of countless people.
Even Ye Li felt a fatal sense of crisis the moment the black needle appeared!
But at this moment of life and death——
The fragment of the reincarnation mirror in the deepest part of her soul trembled violently again!
A wave of cool air instantly surged through her body, causing her thinking speed to suddenly increase to a terrifying level! Everything around her seemed to slow down again! The trajectory of the sinister black needle, the direction of Night Breeze's fist, the circulation of her own spiritual power... became extremely clear!
At the same time, a cold anger rose from the bottom of her heart!
As expected, such sinister means were used!
At the critical moment, Ye Li's two-finger technique remained unchanged, but his wrist bent inward in an extremely strange way at a tiny angle that was almost impossible for a human to do!
Just then, the poisoned needle brushed against her skin! The chill from the needle tip gave her goose bumps!
However, her two fingers did not slow down, and they hit the weak point of Ye Feng's elbow with incredible precision!
"puff!"
“Crack!”
There was a muffled sound, followed by an extremely subtle sound of bone cracking!
The smirk on Ye Feng's face instantly froze, transforming into an expression of extreme pain and disbelief! He felt his right arm go numb as a sharp, icy force penetrated his body, instantly destroying the spiritual energy channel in his arm! The mountain-shattering punch that had condensed all his strength suddenly dissipated like a deflated ball!
But the black needle in his left hand pierced into the empty space!
"How is this possible?!" he roared in horror in his heart!
However, Ye Li's counterattack has just begun!
While dodging the poison needles and dispersing the punches, her body clung to the opponent as if it had no bones! With her other hand, her five fingers slightly bent, a fierce gust of wind emanated from it as she grabbed Ye Feng's left wrist, which was holding the poison needle!
Ye Feng's right arm was injured, and the pain was piercing his heart. His left hand was caught, and the goal was suddenly wide open!
Ye Li's eyes flashed with coldness. He seized this fleeting opportunity and slammed his forehead forward!
"Bang!"
An extremely ferocious headbutt hit Ye Feng's nose hard!
“Ugh—!”
Ye Feng let out a shrill scream, his nose bleeding profusely, tears and snot pouring out instantly, he was dizzy and staggered backward!
Ye Li took advantage of the situation and continued to perform the Phantom Step, following like a shadow! With a fierce side kick, he fiercely kicked Ye Feng's open chest!
"Bang!"
The night wind was like a kite with a broken string, and the blood spurting out of his mouth drew a long arc in the air, and fell heavily on the edge of the ring. After struggling for a few times, he was unable to get up for a while!
The black poison needle in his left hand also fell to the ground with a "ding" sound, and the strange black light was particularly dazzling in the sunlight.
silence!
Deathly silence!
Everyone stared at the shocking reversal on the ring in amazement, their minds going blank.
what happened?
How could Ye Li, who was clearly about to lose, suddenly...
When someone saw the black poison needle that fell to the ground, they immediately gasped!
"What...what is that?!"
"Needle? A black needle! It seems to have fallen from Master Yefeng's hand!"
"Why is there something like this on the arena? Could it be..."
The whispers instantly turned into an uproar and questioning!
On the high platform, Third Elder Ye Lang suddenly stood up, his face pale! Patriarch Ye Tian's eyes instantly turned icy cold, staring intently at the poison needle! Great Elder Ye Xiao even snorted angrily, and a powerful pressure instantly enveloped the entire audience!
Ye Li stood in the center of the ring, panting slightly, her chest heaving. The series of extreme maneuvers she had just performed had taken a toll on her, and her forehead was red and swollen from the impact, showing some minor injuries.
But she stood straight, her eyes coldly sweeping over Ye Feng, who was lying on the ground with blood all over his face, and the poison needle that fell to the ground.
She won.
The weak defeated the strong! And it also shattered a despicable conspiracy!
The eyes of the entire audience were focused on her, filled with shock, awe, and disbelief!
Dark horse, dark to the end!
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