King Qing Mei made his move just in time, and although Li Feng was injured, it was nothing more than a minor wound.
His expression was grave as he stared at Lu Qingshan.
The Green Snake Sword Qi from Lu Qingshan still left him feeling extremely shaken.
Sword Qi Transformation was a technique that only appeared among Void Refining Sword Cultivators, but if it appeared on Lu Qingshan, who could even be called the most outstanding Nascent Soul Realm Sword Cultivator of the age, it wouldn’t be too surprising.
What he could not accept was that his much-prized defensive techniques were so easily shattered in the face of that Green Snake Sword Qi.
Li Feng felt stifled in his defeat because he had many moves left unplayed—like the Lion’s Roar, which had been effective in a previous battle, only to be defeated in an unexpected and sudden clash of conflict.
But his defeat was also expected.
Because in the Cultivation World, real Magical Combat was often .
You very likely will not have had the chance to use all your skills, your powerful Magic Artifacts might not have been revealed, and your trump-card Divine Skills may remain uncast, and so on, before you are already beheaded.
Life-and-death battles are this cruel, never following a three-round two-win competition where you fight with Spiritual Power until depleted, then with Primordial Spirit, and if that’s not enough, with Magic Artifacts—it’s possible you’ll die before the battle of Spiritual Power even starts.
Not convinced and want to fight again, to have a rematch?
Go talk to the Netherworld Prison Master in the Netherworld!
As a cultivator of Li Feng’s caliber, he naturally wouldn’t harbor such naïve thoughts as “It was just a moment of carelessness.”
So even though he was stiflingly frustrated, he had no choice but to walk back to the team of cultivators from the Central Heavenly Realm with heavy steps.
Lu Qingshan did not make much of this victory.
To him at this point, defeating someone ranked fourth on the Yellow List wasn’t really anything to be proud of.
He silently took out a pill for restoring Spiritual Power, given by his teacher Xia Daoyun, from his Storage Ring, swallowed it in one gulp, closed his eyes, and concentrated, beginning to circulate his Cultivation Technique to restore his Spiritual Power.
The fight with Li Feng had not actually drained too much of his Spiritual Power.
But to make it to this major competition, he had been flying at full speed using Sword Control for a long time, and that was the main cause of his Spiritual Power depletion.
The scene quieted down, but the burning gazes toward Lu Qingshan did not cease.
Two hours later, Lu Qingshan opened his eyes.
“The seventeenth Magical Combat, will commence shortly,” announced King Qing Mei, still sparing with his words.
A silence fell below, and all the remaining cultivators who had not yet fought showed no sign of stirring, with many of them starting to quietly exchange looks.
If nothing unexpected occurred, it would be Central Heavenly Realm’s turn to have bad luck again.
Let them have the bad luck first, anyone who steps forward is out of their mind!
The Marquis of South Ming wore a face filled with gloom and desolation.
After witnessing the previous battle, it was impossible for him to have even the slightest hope of good luck.
“Enough is enough, it was supposed to be a joint effort to squeeze out the Eastern Domain, but in the end, it turned out that I was the one being squeezed out,” lamented the Marquis of South Ming internally.
The watching crowd of cultivators sighed at this scene.
They had anticipated this situation after Lu Qingshan’s easy victory, so they weren’t surprised when it actually happened.
But a sense of melancholy was inevitable.
After waiting a moment, seeing no one come forward to challenge, King Qing Mei declared that Lu Qingshan could choose an opponent.
Lu Qingshan’s gaze fell directly on the camp of the Central Heavenly Realm; he then casually pointed to a cultivator with a clear and mature face.
It really was just a casual choice.
Since he was planning to defeat all cultivators from the Central Heavenly Realm, what did it matter the order in which they came?