Chapter 359: Li Hao’s Fist - Part 1
“What terrifying sword intent!”
“I thought he used fists—how is his Sword Dao just as formidable as his Fist Dao?!”
“So is he a fist cultivator or a sword cultivator? I saw him wielding exceptional swordsmanship in the True Immortal Secret Realm, too!”
When Li Hao raised his hand and slashed out that sword, exclamations rang out beyond the Imperial Platform as the crowd erupted into discussion.
The overwhelming sword intent radiated out over the Southern Region. Just meeting it with the naked eye gave one the sensation of being split open, a sharp, stinging pain. That indomitable sword intent cut straight to the soul, as though it were cleaving open the sea of consciousness itself!
And this was merely the feeling from watching—it was hard to imagine what it would be like to face that sword intent directly.
Boom!
“A sword? I thought we were fighting with fists—is this your real trump card?!”
Zhan Yuchen’s eyes flared with unrestrained battle spirit. Dark silver light surged over his fists. When the Imperial Platform battles concluded and he learned Haotian would be his opponent, his master had shown him an image pulled from the river of time, replaying Li Hao’s battles on the platform.
He had a strong impression of this monstrous genius with the youngest soul age, but hadn’t regarded him as a true threat. After all, soul age merely indicated raw talent—it didn’t guarantee he’d make waves in the Southern Region War.
But during the battle for the Imperial Platform, Li Hao’s invincible fist intent had genuinely startled and excited him.
Among the many prodigies atop the Imperial Platform, fist cultivators were rare. He hadn’t expected to find one that shared the same path as himself. This match had stirred great anticipation in his heart—and now, Li Hao revealed a Sword Dao on par with that overwhelming Fist Dao!
“Break!”
A silver radiance bloomed on Zhan Yuchen’s forehead as his entire body unleashed a unique secret art of the Zhan Tian Clan, causing his immortal power to surge explosively.
A colossal fist image came crashing down from above, while Li Hao’s Azure Sky sword energy—woven from three layers of spacetime—rose to meet it.
With a thunderous boom, a violent tremor echoed across the Imperial Platform. It sounded like two meteorites colliding. The shockwave spread outward, distorting the very air.
Li Hao’s sword technique dissipated, shattered by that fist force, even the power of spacetime unraveling before it.
Yet Zhan Yuchen’s fist image also vanished. Its residual force clashed into Li Hao’s Eternal Dao Domain, only to be obliterated by the domain’s spacetime power.
In that first clash, neither side held the upper hand—they were evenly matched.
“Good! Good! That was exhilarating!”
Zhan Yuchen’s eyes gleamed. His immortal power soared anew, a silver light appearing on his brow, revealing the faint trace of a Nine Blossoms Immortal Seal.
“Nine Blossoms Immortal Seal! Another one?!”
“Heavens, how many cultivators with Nine Blossoms Immortal Seals have we seen now?”
“So what? Haotian already defeated one back during the Imperial Platform battles. He probably has one too!”
“That’s not the same! This is the Zhan Tian Clan’s Nine Blossoms Immortal Seal—it’s the elite among elites!”
The crowd outside the Imperial Platform erupted in awe as they saw the seal on Zhan Yuchen’s brow and sensed his surging momentum—a pressure approaching the unimaginable level of a lower-tier Immortal Lord.
“At it again!”
Zhan Yuchen let out a low roar. His twin fists pulsed with terrifying ripples, shaking the void. Each strike gathered heart-pounding power.
Li Hao’s gaze grew solemn. Though Zhan Yuchen had activated his Nine Blossoms Immortal Seal, he had held back—its true composition of nine Daos remained hidden. He was clearly preserving his trump cards.
Even so, from their earlier clash of sword and fist, Li Hao could sense the other had also mastered the Dao of Space—and to a high degree.
Now, Li Hao unleashed his own immortal power. Thick, mist-like immortal energy surged from his body. His extreme power emerged, and behind him, his Dharma Aspect manifested.
Then, faint traces of the Nine Blossoms Immortal Seal slowly emerged on his own brow as well.
Like Zhan Yuchen, he didn’t fully reveal it—only drew upon part of its power.
Even so, the immortal energy radiating from his Nine Sequences Nine Blossoms Immortal Seal was immense and majestic.
In mere moments, Li Hao’s aura surged past Zhan Yuchen’s.
“Knew it! Haotian has a Nine Blossoms Immortal Seal too!”
“No wonder they’re both top-tier prodigies! But this is only the top-100 round—if things are already this intense, what kind of spectacle will the top-10 and champion battles be?!”
Outside the Imperial Platform, the spectators were thrilled. They weren’t surprised by Li Hao’s seal—his performance in the battle for the Imperial Platform had been so overwhelming that lacking the Nine Blossoms Immortal Seal would have been more shocking.
“Hm?”
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