179: Victory, doubt, and gain!

In an instant.

Another series of purple lightning bolts, radiating endless destructive power, surged around Li Ziyu.

Completely enveloping Li Ziyu.

The intertwining purple lightning bolts resembled winding, swimming purple dragons, causing the surrounding air to tremble.

The terrifying sound of crackling electricity caused the entire room's floor to begin to crack inch by inch under the shock of the violent current.

The screen in the center of the room was directly pulverized into wood chips.

"What a powerful aura! As expected of the genius I, Lin Xingyao, swore to surpass!

However, this time, I won't lose to you!!!"

"Starfall!"

The violent airwaves emanating from around Li Ziyu made Lin Xingyao instinctively squint his eyes, but then he suddenly widened them, swung his blade in a backhand motion, and brought it down on Li Ziyu's head.

As this blade strike was unleashed, the star river instantly flowed, and the Big Dipper shifted!

Under this blade strike, Li Ziyu felt as if he had arrived in an endless, brilliant star river, and Lin Xingyao's blade was a meteor streaking across that star river.

"A Battle Skill of such power, could this be a Martial Saint Technique?"

Li Ziyu's eyes involuntarily grew solemn.

Initially, he had thought that with several Ninth-level Techniques from two hundred years in the future, all of them Peak-level, he could easily defeat Xingyao Wusheng, a Martial Saint of the same level, even though Xingyao Wusheng was a genius from two hundred years ago.

But with this one blade strike, Li Ziyu knew he was wrong.

And he was terribly wrong!

"However, this isn't enough to defeat me!"

"Ninefold Thunder Blade!"

Facing the blade light that descended like a falling meteor, Li Ziyu not only didn't retreat but instead swung his blade and engaged Lin Xingyao in battle.

...

One day later.

With a long sigh, Lin Xingyao's figure slowly blurred:

"I lost, I am ultimately inferior to you..."

"This Starfall Battle Skill and prime crystal will be your spoils of war."

"Also, be careful of Supreme Path Martial Saint and Transcendent Martial Saint; they are traitors to humanity..."

With that, before Li Ziyu could be filled with questions, Lin Xingyao, with a complex expression, transformed into a sky full of shimmering light and vanished from the spot.

On the ground, only a thin book and a sparkling, rhomboid crystal remained.

"Hmm? What's going on?"

"The second round of the mission is over?"

"Are this book and this rhomboid crystal on the ground the rewards for the second round of the mission?"

"But what did Lin Xingyao mean by 'be careful of Supreme Path Martial Saint and Transcendent Martial Saint'? And what did he mean by Supreme Path Martial Saint and Transcendent Martial Saint being traitors to humanity?"

Li Ziyu frowned as he looked at the book on the ground, then walked forward in confusion, preparing to bend down and pick it up.

However, suddenly, Li Ziyu's body stiffened as if he had been electrocuted, his eyes slightly wide.

He had just thought of something strange.

He was currently completing the second phase of the mission in the Martial Saint Secret Realm, challenging the Fourth Grade Intermediate Lin Xingyao.

And at this stage, Lin Xingyao should have just entered a martial arts university and cultivated for a few years, not yet graduated.

He shouldn't have become a Martial Saint yet, right?

Including Supreme Path Martial Saint and Transcendent Martial Saint, at this time, they should still just be ordinary students at a martial arts university.

But why would Lin Xingyao, in his youth, know the title of Martial Saint and even call the two Martial Saints?

Li Ziyu frowned in thought.

However, after thinking for a moment, he shook his head and stopped dwelling on it:

"The timeline is too chaotic, and there's a lack of effective clues.

However, judging from what Xingyao Wusheng Martial Saint said at the end, his death back then was not as simple as it seemed; it's highly likely to be closely related to Supreme Path Martial Saint and Transcendent Martial Saint!

And this Secret Realm is a countermeasure left by Xingyao Wusheng Martial Saint before his death against Supreme Path Martial Saint and Transcendent Martial Saint."

"He probably wanted to find a successor or something?"

Thinking this, Li Ziyu first picked up the book on the ground and held it in his hand.

"Battle Skill — Starfall."

"It's the Battle Skill that Xingyao Wusheng Martial Saint just used, and looking at the records here, there are even more moves than the Battle Skill Xingyao Wusheng just demonstrated!"

"Starfall First Chapter — Elementary Meteor Sword Technique.

Starfall Second Chapter — Elementary Starry Sky Movement Technique.

Starfall Third Chapter — Elementary Starry Sky Undying Body!"

Li Ziyu flipped through the secret manual in his hand, which recorded the lifelong efforts of Xingyao Wusheng Martial Saint, and the more he read, the more he was amazed.

This was definitely a genuine Tenth Grade Battle Skill!

Xingyao Wusheng Martial Saint truly lived up to his reputation as the strongest Martial Saint of his time; just being able to create this Tenth Grade Battle Skill, Li Ziyu felt he couldn't do it himself.

Moreover, when he was fighting Xingyao Wusheng Martial Saint just now, Xingyao Wusheng Martial Saint only used Elementary Meteor Sword Technique; he didn't use the second chapter, Elementary Starry Sky Movement Technique, or the third chapter, Elementary Starry Sky Undying Body.

Otherwise, it would be hard to say who would have won.

"Good, good, good! This trip to the Martial Saint Secret Realm was not in vain! Haha!"

"Body Movement was my weakness; now it's been compensated for."

"And Elementary Meteor Sword Technique, I was just worrying that I only had Ninefold Thunder Blade as a means of offense, which was too monotonous. This is like getting a pillow when you're sleepy, haha!"

Li Ziyu held it and started to read.

A moment later, the book in his hand turned into specks of starlight and vanished from the spot.

From then on, the Tenth Grade Battle Skill passed down by Xingyao Wusheng Martial Saint dissipated from the world, existing only in Li Ziyu's mind.

Name: Li Ziyu.

Realm: Fourth Grade Intermediate Martial Artist.

Martial Saint Technique: Elementary Meteor Sword Technique, Elementary Starry Sky Movement Technique, Elementary Starry Sky Undying Body.

Combat Skills: Micro-level Blade Technique, Subtle Body Movement, Micro-level Great Sun Body Tempering Method, Peak Level Natural Breathing Method, Peak Level Crystal Meditation Technique, Peak Level Ninefold Thunder Blade, Peak-Level Thunderclap Slash (+).

System: Martial God System.

Function 1: Can absorb all things to increase vital energy.

Function 2: Can devour Battle Skills and inherit Battle Skill levels.

Other functions to be discovered by the system itself.

"It was even listed as a separate line by the system, which is enough to show the extraordinary nature of these Battle Skills passed down by Xingyao Wusheng Martial Saint."

"Almost forgot, there's also this rhomboid crystal; I wonder what its use is."

After finishing with the system panel, Li Ziyu finally remembered that there was still a rhomboid crystal on the ground.

He had been too focused on learning the Battle Skills just now and had overlooked this rhomboid crystal.

The rhomboid crystal was amber-colored throughout, resting quietly on the ground like a flawless gem, its surface shimmering with a mysterious faint blue light.

"This Xingyao Wusheng Martial Saint, he seemed quite honest when he was young, but why did he start speaking in riddles when he grew up? He didn't even explain what this rhomboid crystal is for."

Li Ziyu reached out rather speechlessly and picked up the rhomboid crystal, preparing to hold it up to his eyes to carefully study its function.

However, the moment he touched the rhomboid crystal.

A sudden change occurred!

(Only to hear a voice that would make listeners grieve and hearers weep, shouting: Gifts, please!)