Chapter 223: Chapter 221: Cold Star Army-Shattering Spear (Part 2)

"I can’t believe it. Women go crazy for Dai Xing no matter where he is!"

"Who cares about those lovestruck fools? Just watch the upcoming fight! Dai Xing versus Su Yu! A clash between the two greatest prodigies of the Outer City. I wonder who will come out on top!"

"If you ask me, Dai Xing has the better chance of winning! He majors in his family’s ancestral ultimate technique, the Cold Star Army-Breaking Spear! Su Yu only practices the White Ape Fist. How can he possibly be a match?"

"The Cold Star Army-Breaking Spear is indeed famous. Back in the day, the Dai Family Patriarch split a ship with a single spear thrust and single-handedly took down three Water Bandit leaders at the Muscle Forging Realm!"

"But speaking of which, isn’t Su Yu a renowned saber expert in the Outer City? During the Yuan Lantern Festival, his Demon-Slaying Saber Stance stunned everyone. With such a formidable opponent before him today, why didn’t he even bring his saber?"

"He’s too arrogant! It would be one thing if he were facing an ordinary master, but to fight a spear grandmaster like Dai Xing empty-handed? Isn’t that just asking for death?!"

"Silence!"

On the arena stage, Ye Xiaohong’s brow furrowed slightly. With a thunderous shout infused with his immense Qi and Blood, he instantly suppressed the roaring discussions below.

His gaze, sharp as lightning, swept over the two fighters whose auras were steadily rising. Seeing that both were ready, he immediately bellowed in a deep voice:

"The duel begins!"

The moment his voice fell.

BOOM—

Dai Xing stood holding his spear in one hand. Suddenly, a terrifying roar like a great river surged from his Qi and Blood.

As his Qi and Blood thundered, he kicked his spear up with his right foot, twirled it in a flourish before him with one hand, and shot toward Su Yu like a gale.

The refined steel spear tip dragged diagonally across the bluestone slabs, sending sparks flying. Accompanied by the vibrations of the shaft, it emitted a piercing hum that stung the eardrums.

Su Yu’s expression was as placid as a lake, completely undisturbed by the shrill hum of the spear. He slammed his fists together in front of his chest. The vast, suppressed Qi and Blood within him exploded like a fierce dragon crossing a river, thundering through the Four Extremities.

A membrane, cold and deep like flowing mercury, instantly coated his fists.

The next moment, instead of retreating, Su Yu advanced, charging straight into the sharp gleam of the spear!

Their figures, like two meteorites hurtling toward each other, closed the distance in an instant!

Dai Xing held the absolute range advantage of a long weapon—an inch longer, an inch stronger! A cold glint flashed in his eyes as he opened with his sharpest killing move: Viper Strikes from the Cave!

His great tendons suddenly trembled, and the muscles in his right arm tightened like a twisted rope.

The spear shot out like a dragon. Its tip, like a cold star appearing in the dead of night, instantly tore through the air with a piercing sonic boom, aiming straight for the fatal acupoint over Su Yu’s heart!

Before the cold spear even arrived, an overwhelmingly intense, tragic, and bloody aura—as if forged from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood from a million-strong army—erupted in front of Su Yu.

Su Yu felt the light dim before his eyes, which could see nothing but that single, frigid point of light from the spearhead, magnifying infinitely in his pupils.

In that moment, it was as if he were targeted by an entire army, with no chance of survival!

Spear Stance!

Having already grasped the concept of "stance" through his saber techniques, Su Yu reacted in an instant.

’This Dai Xing is a genius indeed, to have comprehended such a powerful Spear Stance!’

Faced with this domineering Spear Stance that oppressed the spirit, Su Yu knew he absolutely could not retreat! If he fell back even half a step, this relentless, forward-pressing stance would overwhelm him like a burst dam!

"Fierce Ape Splits the Mountain!"

He let out a fierce roar. Riding the power of his shout and the surge of Qi and Blood that rushed to the heavens, he savagely tore apart the spiritual pressure bearing down on him!

Amidst the roar of his Qi and Blood, he stomped his foot down hard, and the solid bluestone slab instantly shattered into a spiderweb of cracks.

His speed surged once more. His right fist, covered in Profound Silver Flow Armor and wreathed in the piercing sonic boom of Ming Jin, swung like a mountain-cleaving giant axe, violently meeting the fatal spear light!

CLANG—

The violent collision rang out like a great bell.

The moment the fatally sharp spear tip struck Su Yu’s fist, it was as if it had hit an unbreachable city wall!

The Penetration Power generated by the silver spear was instantly negated for the most part by the Profound Silver Flow Armor.

In contrast, the silver spear let out a sorrowful cry under the crushing pressure of Su Yu’s tyrannical strength. The shaft was instantly bent into the exaggerated arc of a full-moon bow!

’What tyrannical power!’

Dai Xing’s pupils contracted, and his heart leaped in terror. He never imagined that, despite both being in the mid-stage of the Flesh Refining Realm, the power Su Yu unleashed with that one punch was like that of an Ancient Fierce Beast in human skin—something he was completely unable to block!

But he was, after all, a top-tier spear prodigy. Facing a spear on the verge of breaking, he immediately changed his move.

Using the rebound force from the spear shaft being bent to its limit, Dai Xing nimbly sidestepped and executed a brilliant Tiger’s Tail Sweep!

The long spear instantly swung like a tiger’s tail. Not only did it smoothly evade the unabated, tyrannical fist, but it also traced a bizarre arc. With a SWISH, it rebounded with extreme cunning, stabbing back toward Su Yu’s throat!

’A brilliant move!’

A glint of sharp light flashed in Su Yu’s eyes. ’As expected. Only by fighting a genius of this caliber can I experience this kind of tension and excitement!’

’My strength may be absolutely superior, but this Dai Xing was able to redirect the force and even use the rebound to launch a counterattack from a desperate position. His combat talent is truly marvelous!’

"Wind-Tearer, Armor-Splitter!"

Su Yu’s combat instincts were also monstrously sharp. Faced with the spearhead thrusting straight at him, he didn’t lean back to dodge. Instead, he took an incredibly bold step forward!

His five fingers spread like an angry ape’s claws, not shying away from the sharp point as they shot out as fast as lightning!

CLANG!

A tooth-grating screech of metal on metal. Relying on his palm, which was covered by the Profound Armor, Su Yu had precisely caught the neck of the spear! His ten fingers locked on it like an iron clamp in an instant, and his muscles coiled like a furious dragon!

With his spear locked by the "angry ape," Dai Xing’s expression changed drastically. He now had a deeper understanding of Su Yu’s tyrannical and savage fighting style.

Seeing the flowing silver sheen on the other’s palm, he instantly understood that Su Yu had cultivated a powerful Hard Skill, which was why he dared to act so recklessly.

"Army-Breaker Collapse!"

Unflustered in the face of danger, Dai Xing roared. The muscles in his arms vibrated at a high frequency, and the locked silver spear suddenly emitted a violent hum, beginning to spin and shake wildly in Su Yu’s palm!

VZZZZ—

The intense friction created a burst of dazzling sparks in Su Yu’s palm.

At that moment, he felt that what he held was no longer an inanimate long spear, but a vicious silver flood dragon, churning the rivers and seas, ready to shred the web of his thumb at any moment!

Due to a minuscule lapse in concentration, the long spear forcibly broke free from Su Yu’s grasp.

Before Su Yu could regain his stance, the spear executed a "Part the Grass to Find the Snake." The spearhead hugged the ground, sweeping toward Su Yu’s legs with a shriek that tore through the air!

It had to be said that Dai Xing’s mastery of the Spear Technique was extremely high, and his talent for actual combat was astonishing.

He knew that Su Yu’s upper-body Fist Technique was fierce and tyrannical, impossible to face head-on, so he decisively changed tactics to attack Su Yu’s lower body!

However, Su Yu’s response was even more direct!

He immediately activated the Seven Fiends Thunder Collapse Step!

Qi and Blood roared like a great river, violently pouring into the Yongquan Acupoints on the soles of his feet.

The next instant, with a BOOM, his body shot straight up into the air, narrowly avoiding the sweeping spear strike.

Dai Xing seemed to have anticipated this, a dazzling glint of light exploding in his eyes.

He gripped the butt of the spear with both hands and flicked it upward. The silver spear, like an angry dragon soaring from the abyss, executed a "Dragon Raises Its Head," viciously thrusting toward Su Yu, who was in mid-air with no way to leverage his strength!

This chain of killing moves was truly brilliant! First, he used "Part the Grass to Find the Snake" to force Su Yu to jump, then he precisely predicted the landing spot and followed up with "Dragon Raises Its Head"!

At this moment, Su Yu was still in mid-air. His old momentum was spent, and new strength had not yet been generated—it was the most fatal of openings. To everyone watching, Su Yu was now trapped in an inescapable, desperate situation!

He was in mortal danger!

However, Su Yu, still in mid-air, simply smiled faintly as he looked down at the life-stealing spear light thrusting up at him like a venomous dragon.

His Seven Fiends Thunder Collapse Step had reached great completion. He had been waiting for this very moment.

"Seven Fiend Thunder Collapse!"