Li Meng was aware of the incoming spear attack, but he wanted to test out his body's durability. The number of body cultivation art which he practiced is way more than anyone could imagine. He wanted to experiment with the stacking qualities of such arts.
"What are you trying to do?" The Keeper asked in a negative tone.
"Do you know how many body tempering arts I have practiced over the course of my training in martial arts? Although I felt like my body should be really strong, I truly want to examine the true limits of it."
"If you truly want to try it out, why don't I suggest the best pathway? Just contend with the three of them with your body. No need to use any Qi for either defence or attacks. Your body cultivation is about to reach the peak of acupoints stage. It's time to test the real fruits from your ardent body cultivation." The Keeper said in a sarcastic tone.
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Li Meng held the spear in his hands and waved it off. The contender was thrown away like a stone. The power was so immense that he had to use a lot of Qi to finally gain a stable foothold.
The three contestants were just staring at Li Meng with caution. Just how are they going to tackle this guy? He is just too powerful for them to handle.
"We need to come up with a plan."
"I have an idea, but requires three of us to work in sync. I am the strongest when it comes to body cultivation. I will confront him head-on. You two need to do a synced attack on him. Try your best to merge the power of the two, so as to make it more effective."
Li Muyan and the spear wielder nodded in agreement. Chu Xiao was someone who managed to cultivate Lightning Devil body while being in Qi general level. She was undoubtedly the strongest in frontal confrontation.
When the three of them were about to start attacking, Li Meng suddenly closed his Qi pores. He then looked at the three people and spoke. "The last attack reminded me of something I wanted to test out for a long time. I will fight without using Qi from now on. Let's see how long my body can last by itself."
The three people didn't even get the time to respond as Li Meng dashed towards them and started attacking. Soon the loud clanking of hands against weapons began. Chu Xiao was the only one who was contending against Li Meng with bare hands. The longer the fight continued, the more embarrassed the three people felt. Li Meng was literally dominating the fight with pure physical strength.
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The audience couldn't even make an argument about the situation in front of them. Li Meng was just too powerful, dominating the whole fight with pure strength. The other three were even using their weapons, yet they were pushed back.
"I going to get rich today. I thank all of you for your generous donations of Qi stones." The boy spoke up. No elder managed to refute this statement. They were bound to lose their money if this continued.
The elder from the Chu family stood up and went near the edge of the stage. "Why don't you use your full prowess, young miss? You are even allowed to use that. The patriarch wants you to win this match. Now is the best chance since he has his guard down." Chu Xiao glared at the elder, but she quickly turned and concentrated on the fight.
Soon enough, Li Meng's body was riddled with injuries. Although he was at the very peak of body cultivation at this stage, the contenders were geniuses belonging to the three powerful backgrounds.
He began to operate all his meridians and acupoints. His body visibly grew big. Every eye watching the match was shocked by his appearance. Li Meng continued to confront the three. After a whole incense stick of fighting 3 on 1, Li Meng's body was reddened with blood. The other three were no better.
The spear wielder was hurt the worst, while Li Muyan and Chu Xiao were in a better state.
"I guess I would need to use it after all."
Chu Xiao closed her eyes, and her breath began to slowly change. A faint figure started to appear behind her, and waves of thunder began to discharge all over the stage. Li Muyan followed her lead and changed his weapons. The aura radiated from them was incredibly powerful.
Li Meng's eyes turned serious. He managed to test out the durability of his body for quite a long time. It was finally time to turn serious. He began rotating the 9-Thunder body art and a prominent thunder circle appeared behind him. He picked up the sword and closed his eyes. A hu8mongous figure emerged out of the sword.
The figure was majestic and held a large sword in its hand.
"Isn't that." Some elders were shocked to the extreme.
"Third level of sword intent. He managed to materialize it. This boy is also such an accomplished sword cultivator. Just how many secrets does this boy hide? Is he an incarnation of some mighty saint of the past?"
The three figures rushed towards him and Li Meng responded with an equal amount of ferocity. The 9-Thunder body art directly impacted the illusionary lightning body of Chu Xiao. The impact caused a lot of energy to disperse within the environment, affecting the other two attackers. The lightning devil and thunder circle were constantly colliding with each other.
Li Muyan took the initiative to use his most powerful art. It was the second volume of Water mist art. It directly penetrated through the residual energy waves and rushed towards Li Meng. In response, the figure formed out of sword intent waved the sword in his hand.
Taking advantage of this distraction, the third guy used a really powerful spear art imbued with spear intent at level 2 and rushed towards Li Meng's back.
Li Meng instantly initiated the hell forger art and guarded against it. He then used the second volume of strikes of thunderous palms. It hit the guy directly in his stomach, blasting him directly into the opposite wall. Blood was flowing through multiple crevices on his body, and he lost consciousness.
Only two contenders remain. He continued to fight with Chu Xiao while occasionally shifting his attention to Li Muyan. The fight continued, and the Qi reserves were getting drained. Li Meng didn't have the problems due to his body cultivation and avatars, but the other two started to show obvious weakness quite fast.
"They wouldn't be able to hold on much longer." One of the elders pointed out.
"Like we couldn't see it." The Chu family representative was disappointed with the situation. Their young miss should have won the competition, but she was being absolutely overshadowed.
"The boy's Qi reserve is quite massive. He doesn't even look exhausted."
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Li Muyan soon exhausted his Qi reserves and a hit from Li meng ended his path. He didn't suffer as much as the spear-wielding guy, but his wounds were pretty deep.
"You are the last one remaining. Would you like to give up on your own or should I make you do it?"
"I guess I would make one last effort putting my all into it. If you could beat me after this attack, I would accept my loss. I just need some time to prepare. Mind giving me some?" Chu Xiao asked in a sarcastic manner.
"Sure. You can take all the time you want. I want to see how powerful an attack you could come up with." Li Meng said with a smiling face. This was even worse than before. He was just dragging Chu Xiao's name through the mud, by being charitable.
Surprisingly, Chu Xiao accepted the gift and began to prepare the art. At first, Li Meng thought of just using the Strike of Thunderous palm at its full potential, but a warning from the Keeper alerted him.
"You should take this attack seriously. She is using a high-grade king rank weapon, with all her Qi reserves poured into a single attack."
"Are you suggesting that I should use my best attack?"
"It is the only other artist whose power could contend with your opponent."
"Fine, I will use it." Li Meng took the posture required for the execution of the art.
Chu Xiao rushed with her full power, and Li Meng rammed his fist while revolving the Dominator's fist art. The impact was so powerful that the stage broke from the pressure. There was smoke all around and a figure flew from within it. It was none other than Chu Xiao.
Li Meng was the only person who remained standing. Although his fist was bleeding, the result was already set-in-stone. He won the competition
