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Chapter 520 - First Place

Duan Tianxing was slightly surprised when he saw this scene: “The monsters in your blood river appear to be…”

Gongyi Tianheng smiled: “The name of this move is the Asura Blood Ocean. The people in this ocean are called asura.”

Once he finished speaking, the river of blood suddenly started to surge and boil over. While this happened, over a hundred asura gripped bladed weapons, brandished sharp claws, and launched attacks toward that Duan Tianxing!

Duan Tianxing’s expression became more serious. He reached out and grabbed that giant hammer. The head of the hammer burst forth with formidable power, which seemed to suppress the raised platform’s surroundings.

Each asura had the strength of the low Ascendant Realm, which was the same as Tianheng’s own realm. Naturally, although they were powerful, they couldn’t compare to the numerous prodigies. It could be said that these asura were only equivalent to ordinary Ascendant Realm practitioners. However, even though they were “equivalent,” they couldn’t be killed. Their numbers were also a hundred times that of the opponent, so their combined power was extremely terrifying.

Duan Tianxing directly swung the hammer out, and shouted: “Forging the Heavens, First Strike—”

On the head of the hammer, a mighty force suddenly erupted, forming the virtual image of a gigantic hammer in the sky. It smashed straight down from above! The momentum was like a falling mountain, and its power was unparalleled and difficult to withstand!

The asuras in the river of blood abruptly lifted their heads. Facing the virtual image of that gigantic hammer, all of them sent out a punch!

Great Asura Fist!

This kind of punching technique was inherently powerful, and could overwhelm people with force. After the Ascendant Realm asuras were unleashed, the hundred-plus blood-colored fists bombarded upwards like droplets in a storm. Those fist shadows gathered in one place, forming a flood of punches. The instant the virtual image of the gigantic hammer descended, it was shattered to pieces!

The power rushed out and overflowed in all directions. Tianheng stood behind the river of blood, but not a single strand of hair was blown out of place. It seemed as though the river of blood separated him and Duan Tianxing into two worlds. Even though that world was filled with violent winds and breaking waves, none of it could disturb him.

The pupils of Duan Tianxing’s eyes suddenly shrank.

How powerful!

After watching Tianheng’s repeated battles, he discovered the subtlety of his opponent’s moves and knew that the other party still had something to hide. In order to experience the evolved river of blood for himself, and to have the strongest battle, he decided to respond with his greatest attack.

Forging the Heavens with Three Strikes was his most powerful technique. It wasn’t known how many opponents he had beaten using this method. It was to the point that countless people had fallen under the first strike. How could the situation be like now? After his first strike, he actually didn’t even shatter the other side’s asuras!

Duan Tianxing felt real pressure.

After that, he took a deep breath and gripped his hammer tighter: “Forging the Heavens — Second Strike!”

Following this, the hammer suddenly grew ten times larger. It seemed as though eighteen hammers of this size were smashed down from high in the sky. The force of momentum from these hammers was far greater than what many prodigies previously imagined.

These hammers accurately fell toward their targets. It seemed that the blood asuras were going to be crushed to death in a short while. As for that river of blood, it also looked like it was going to be completely evaporated under the strength of this strike!

Then, those blood asuras acted for the second time.

This time around, they sent palm strikes into the sky!

Great Asura Hand!

Over a hundred enormous palms were blasted out. In order to smoothly complete this move, even the color and luster of the river of blood appeared to dim slightly.

Those palms were stacked in layers. Blocking the top of the river of blood, they brazenly faced the eighteen hammers.

The attack force of the eighteen hammers was extremely fierce. When faced with those enormous blood-colored palms, each palm print didn’t last longer than a second before being crushed into slag. It was just that, no matter how hard the hammers crushed down, each blood-colored palm would weaken a portion of the hammers’ power. From four to five palm prints in a row, and from six to seven palm strikes in quick succession, the remaining might of these few hammers was incapable of shaking the river of blood at all. It couldn’t even set off the river’s waves.

Duan Tianxing’s complexion turned slightly pale.

Although Forging the Heavens with Three Strikes was powerful, it wasn’t a move that could attack infinitely. Possessing incomparable strength, it was natural that these strikes were incredibly difficult to utilize.

This second strike was also resisted by Tianheng, but Duan Tianxing’s energy consumption hadn’t recovered yet.

His remaining strength was less than half.

Duan Tianxing looked at the giant hammer in his hand with a cold expression.

There was still the third strike. However, this third strike…

Duan Tianxing observed the river of blood in front of him as well as the calm and unhurried Tianheng, and made a decision in his heart.

With a resolved look on his face, he opened his mouth and said: “Brother Gongyi, I can still unleash one last strike, but I’ve never used the third strike of Forging the Heavens against someone with all my strength. Its mighty power is enormous. Once I use it, I won’t be able to stop.”

Tianheng showed a hint of solemnity: “Brother Duan, please go ahead!”

Duan Tianxing settled his heart and focused his breathing: “Be careful!”

Immediately following which, Duan Tianxing soared into the air, and his entire body arrived in the sky. He lifted that giant hammer with its body facing the heavens. Then, the muscles in his arms bulged like that of an ape, and he abruptly swung out a perfect circle!

There was a rumbling boom.

Forging the Heavens, Third Strike! In the sky, forty-nine hammer shadows appeared before everyone’s eyes. Each hammer shadow had turned an almost golden color, and carried a power that seemed like it could forge heaven and earth. From top to bottom, with a suffocating pressure, the hammers ruthlessly smashed down!

As soon as this move was unleashed, thin seams like black threads split apart in the surrounding space, and a nigh unstoppable force emerged from the seams. When combined, they continuously increased the third strike’s attack power!

Upon seeing this, Tianheng’s eyes darkened.

At this very moment, his whole body was also exuding a dense bloody qi. This bloody qi rapidly spread throughout the entire platform, dyeing all of the air a bright-red.

At the same time, the sensation of the raised platform had changed!

If it was said that the numerous prodigies felt that two forces were colliding on the platform just a while ago, they now discovered that the blood-red color wasn’t a force, per se. Instead, it was like a qi field.

When the blood-red filled the air, everyone who was stained by it seemed to feel a trace of violence in their hearts. This kind of violence also caused their eyes to suffuse with a scarlet color, creating a strong greed for the river of blood.

[Charge into the river of blood and swallow the bloody liquid within it. Those blood asuras are my…my people…

Let’s kill! Let’s kill!

Why am I standing here? Kill, kill, kill! There’s nothing in the world that can’t be killed!

That person is my god and my king…

I want to go there, kneel down, and bow my head to him. I want to consecrate and worship him. I want to obey him!]

The asuras in the river of blood suddenly stood closer together.

They waved their fists with their left hands and slapped their palms with their right hands. At the same time, countless blood-red sharp blades burst out from their mouths, turning into a dense rain of sabers that moved upwards.

The forty-nine hammers derived from the third strike of Forging the Heavens were like forty-nine mountains, smashing down crazily from above. The power transmitted through each “mountain” was many times stronger than the previous two strikes!

It was to the point that many prodigies felt that, once this third strike came down, not only would all of the blood asuras perish from it, but the river of blood would probably be annihilated in an instant. Tianheng himself would suffer a backlash from such an attack and would be seriously injured! Perhaps… Duan Tianxing, who was already unsteady on his feet, and that moment’s Gongyi Tianheng would both suffer a loss.

However, the prodigies didn’t expect that Tianheng would swiftly burst forth with an intense bloody qi, making the entire platform seem like a world of its own. Those streams of bloody qi possessed a powerful contaminating ability. Even if the crowd of prodigies only saw it from below, they seemed to hear the shrill screams and screeches of those blood asuras as they looked up to the sky amid this bloody qi. It was as though the sounds were going to rupture the eardrums of anyone who listened.

— How horrifying!

Those forty-nine hammers were indeed powerful, but just as they were falling, their originally fast speeds suddenly slowed down several times. With careful observation, one would see that it was the bloody qi that had taken effect. Like an unending flow, the bloody qi was constantly crowding around and holding the hammer shadows up, which prevented them from using that strong, explosive power.

Moreover, the longer they were held up by the bloody qi, the more the golden color on the forty-nine hammers were stained by the color of blood. Without realizing it, the third strike was weakened by several layers. By then, the golden color had become very dim, and the power on the hammer was also enfeebled.

Those streams of bloody qi have the ability to corrode one’s power!

None of the prodigies anticipated that Tianheng’s river of blood would become so terrifying after he broke through to the Ascendant Realm.

There were also a few prodigies whose complexions all changed after sensing this bloody qi.

Duan Tianxing’s gaze flashed with a trace of shock. Soon after, his eyes carried a somewhat bitter look.

​Compared to others, he had more knowledge…

The 276-meter prodigy, who previously tried to show off his power but later gave up, was in a similar situation after seeing those streams of bloody qi. He couldn’t help but murmur: “Im-impossible! How could it be—”

High in the sky, on the imperial boats.

Those watching the battle were silent for a few breaths. All of a sudden, someone questioned: “That’s… Could it be that this old man is seeing things wrongly?”

Someone else said: “It emanates from the martial artist and envelops the land. All who tread on this land must act in accordance with his thoughts. Your sight should be correct.”

Then, another one said: “His thoughts can influence others, and his will can make his wishes a reality…”

Finally, someone sighed: “There’s no need for doubt. This is the conceptual inspiration of the path of martial arts! Blood Transformation Palace Master, you really accepted a good disciple! He has just broken through to the Ascendant Realm, and he’s already capable of comprehending this… In the future, the distance to the Celestial Realm will probably be just a matter of accumulated merit. Nothing more will be needed.”

The clear and cold voice of Xue Li, the Blood Transformation Palace Master, was filled with a kind of joy that couldn’t be ignored: “Everyone is giving too much praise. That apprentice of mine still needs to keep working hard.”

The conceptual inspiration of the path of martial arts was a mysterious and profound feeling that could only arise when a martial artist had an extraordinary understanding of the techniques and martial skills one had learned, and achieved a state of incomparable harmony with them. When two people fought, if one person could exert their martial arts conceptual inspiration, then the other person would be shrouded in the former’s conceptual inspiration and would be strongly affected by it.

In other words, conceptual inspiration was a type of contamination. As such, no matter how strong the individual, unless they utilized their own martial arts conceptual inspiration to break free, they would never be able to escape the conceptual inspiration, and would only be defeated in the end.

The path of the asura was a path of Tianheng’s own creation, so what he created would naturally harmonize perfectly with him. One might say that it couldn’t have been easier for him to comprehend the conceptual inspiration of the path of martial arts.

— Undoubtedly, Duan Tianxing didn’t have this ability.

His Forging the Heavens with Three Strikes was an extremely powerful martial technique. It was only a pity that he hadn’t completely grasped the essence yet. There was even less need to mention the corresponding conceptual inspiration of the path of martial arts.

As a result, when Tianheng’s conceptual inspiration was displayed, Duan Tianxing had already lost.

That third strike of Forging the Heavens could only crumble and decay under the conceptual inspiration!

The one in first place on the Ascendant Realm Prodigy Monument was none other than Gongyi Tianheng!

T/N: I was blindsided by several work projects, which delayed the translation. Thank you for your patience!

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