206: The belief in victory

The mountains collapsed, dust swirling into the sky.

Feng Yutao's confident full-power strike yielded an unexpected result.

As Twin Peaks collapsed, both of them fell to the ground.

Kneeling on one knee, Feng Yutao was drenched in blood, unable to move a muscle.

"How could this happen?"

The scene of his previous palm strike hitting Shen Lian immediately flashed in his mind.

Feng Yutao was certain that the palm strike had indeed hit Shen Lian.

But the moment the palm strike landed on Shen Lian, he felt countless granular Spiritual Qi madly gushing into his body.

Subsequently, those particles that entered his body began to rampage through his meridians, and he immediately circulated his cultivation to try and dissipate them.

As soon as he circulated the Spiritual Qi in his dantian sea, those particles actually gathered in his dantian sea, firmly blocking the just-raised Spiritual Qi, preventing its release.

It was as unbearable as having a huge rock pressed against his entire body, making it impossible to breathe.

Finally, the unreleased Spiritual Qi backfired, forcefully rupturing the meridians throughout his body.

Yet, he still didn't understand why this was the result, what exactly happened during that time?

"Are you very surprised?"

Suddenly, amidst the swirling dust, a disheveled figure appeared before Feng Yutao.

His arrogant face, imbued with an Aura that looked down upon the world, even though he was covered in blood, did not diminish the fearless demeanor of a victor.

"Tell me, why is this? Let me die understanding."

Losing so inexplicably left Feng Yutao with great unwillingness in his heart.

Even if he were to die, he wanted to die with understanding.

"Ugh, puff—"

Shen Lian spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, propping himself up with one hand on a broken rock beside him, struggling not to fall.

Wiping away the blood from the corner of his mouth, he pointed at Feng Yutao.

"In terms of cultivation Foundation, I am currently no match for you, so to defeat you, I had to take an unconventional approach."

"If I continued to entangle with you, the one who would ultimately lose would only be me. Only by forcing you to use your strongest strike would I have a chance to turn defeat into victory."

"After you unleashed your strongest move, did you feel many strange phenomena appear on your body? That's because these Spiritual Qi-like Origin Qi bodies were formed by the dispersion of your own palm strike."

"I merely used this point to transform the residual force of your palm strike into Chaos Power, which then backfired on you."

"The mud and sand splashed up by a wheel rolling through mud can also corrode the wheel itself. I merely applied this principle to the martial Dao."

"So, Feng Yutao, you lost because you were too confident, so confident that you thought you could easily manipulate me."

Upon hearing this, Feng Yutao couldn't help but clench his fists.

"I understand. You transformed all your Spiritual Qi into a Chaos state, your purpose being to take advantage of the moment when I unleashed my full-power palm strike and was recovering Qi, to blast the residual Chaos Power into my body?

As soon as I used my True Essence, the Chaos particles remaining in my body would fiercely backfire, thus forcing my dantian sea's Qi to backlash, is that it?"

A crimson trail of blood overflowed from the corner of Shen Lian's mouth, and he covered his chest, remaining silent.

In this battle, he was also severely injured.

"Hehe."

Feng Yutao let out a bitter laugh of unwillingness.

"I never expected that to defeat me, you would not hesitate to use yourself as bait to lure me into a trap. If you had failed to withstand that palm strike just now..."

"Do you know what the biggest difference between us is?"

Shen Lian coldly interrupted him.

"Because I have a reason not to fail. My obsession with victory is far stronger than you imagine."

"The path I walk, I will absolutely not allow myself to turn back. No matter the cost, I must reach the end!"

"And you, although you possess an unparalleled Foundation, lack the unwavering belief in victory. After all, in your eyes, the huge gap in cultivation no longer required such emotions to influence you."

"So from the very beginning, you had already lost. I had a plan for your lack of one; you lost because of your own arrogance."

"If only you had understood that when I dared to face you with Immortal Realm cultivation, I must have had something to rely on, then today's battle would not have ended like this."

Upon hearing this, Feng Yutao let out a bitter laugh.

"It seems my brothers truly did not die in vain against an opponent like you."

"Shen Lian, if there is a next life, I will definitely not repeat the same mistakes. I will personally send you into Reincarnation!"

Shen Lian: "Unfortunately, you no longer have that chance."

"Alas, brothers, your Big Brother is incompetent and cannot avenge you."

Feng Yutao raised a finger to the sky, slowly closing his eyes.

"This is all fate."

Boom—

As his voice fell, lightning flashed around Feng Yutao's body, and in the next moment, he exploded and died.

"Ugh, puff—"

Shen Lian spat out another mouthful of blood, struggling to stay upright, standing amidst the ruins.

Because he still had something left to do.

"Xu Feifei, now it's time for you to atone."

Xu Feifei and Tang Jue in the distance watched the scene before them in shock.

They never expected that a man as powerful as Feng Yutao would end up so miserably.

Tang Jue couldn't help but question Xu Feifei: "Island Master, who exactly is that Shen Lian? Why is he like this?"

"I, I really don't know..."

Xu Feifei shook her head in a panic, still not having recovered from the scene before her.

"Fourth Senior Brother, let's leave quickly."

"No!"

Tang Jue pushed Xu Feifei away, glaring angrily at the extremely weakened Shen Lian.

"How can I let go of the murderer who killed my brothers? I will kill him to avenge my dead brothers!"

With a roar, Tang Jue directly lunged at Shen Lian.

"Fourth Senior Brother!"

Xu Feifei wanted to stop him but was half a step too late.

At this moment, Tang Jue's eyes were filled with rage. As he approached three zhang from Shen Lian, he waved both hands, and countless hidden weapons flew out at once.

"Hmm?"

Even though his Qi was depleted and his strength exhausted, Shen Lian maintained sufficient vigilance. Facing the incoming hidden weapons, he used Four Symbols Limitless Steps to skillfully evade the killing moves.

But in the next moment, Tang Jue's palm strike closed in, aiming directly for Shen Lian's vital points.

"Shen Lian, you deserve to die! Pay with your life for my brothers!"

Just as the palm strike was about to land... "Void Concealment, Taiji Seal."

Shen Lian transformed into the Taiji Two Forces, blocking this fatal blow.

"You..."

"Return to Void, Restore Origin, Shatter Heaven and Earth!"

Boom—

With a palm strike, Tang Jue unexpectedly encountered this change and was immediately hit by a doubled Protective Aura that he himself had unleashed, which surged back into his chest.

"Ah~"

With a scream, Tang Jue was instantly sent flying.

"Puff..."

Shen Lian, who had forcefully circulated his cultivation, spat out another mouthful of blood, and his pupils suddenly filled with crimson killing intent.

"Kill me? You're not worthy!"

Ignoring his worsening injuries, Shen Lian leaped and pounced on Tang Jue, who was still in the Void Realm.

"Void Concealment, Furious Cloud Movement."

Bang bang bang—

A continuous barrage of palm strikes, one after another, all slammed into Tang Jue's body.

In just an instant, the sound of bones cracking echoed.

Boom—

With a loud bang, Tang Jue was slammed three feet into the ground by Shen Lian's palm, bleeding from all seven orifices, utterly lifeless.

"Xu Feifei! Get out here and die!"

After furiously killing Tang Jue, Shen Lian roared, intending to eliminate the last obstacle in his heart.

But looking up, Xu Feifei was already nowhere to be found.