Chapter 1703: Golden Crow Avatar
"Junior brother Ling Feng has been hiding far too deeply."
In the preparation area, Gongsun Changfeng shook his head with a wry smile. The most ironic part was that every time Ling Feng fought someone, it always ended in what looked like a draw. Again and again, it made people believe they had already seen his limit.
Only at this moment did they finally understand that Ling Feng had simply been enjoying the process of battle.
If he had used his Spiritual Consciousness Domain from the very beginning, those thrilling, near death exchanges might never have happened at all.
"He has always been like this for a long time."
Tuoba Yan narrowed her beautiful eyes and smiled faintly.
Until the very last moment, no one could ever know how many cards Ling Feng still held.
Perhaps even now, he had not yet revealed his final trump card.
"Hahaha."
Shi Haoxuan's figure flew back into the sky. His laughter carried an astonishing battle intent.
"Good. Very good."
His gaze locked tightly onto Ling Feng.
"It has been a long time since I felt this satisfied. Junior brother Ling Feng, you have truly surprised me. I have never been this excited before. Hahaha."
His wild laughter carried a terrifying surge of great sun true energy.
The intense battle intent within it was like a demonic sound piercing the mind, enough to make anyone who heard it feel a chill of fear.
"Senior Brother Shi Haoxuan is about to get serious."
"My heavens. Someone actually managed to force out Senior Brother Shi's true strength."
"How terrifying. Should the defensive barrier be reinforced again? I am honestly worried."
Amid the discussions of the crowd, Shi Haoxuan's aura once again climbed to its peak.
No, it went even higher than before.
"Come. Let us continue this battle."
In his wild laughter, Shi Haoxuan revealed an unprecedented mix of excitement and solemnity. Now that Ling Feng had erupted with power comparable to his own, he finally prepared to unleash his strongest killing move.
On the elder seats, Saint Lady Bi Luo wore a grave expression as she turned to look at the Hall Master of the Blazing Sun Hall.
"Senior Brother Jin, is Shi Haoxuan going to use that technique?"
The Hall Master of the Blazing Sun Hall took a deep breath and replied slowly, "Perhaps so. I gave him that incomplete scroll eight years ago. With his talent, he may have already mastered it."
"So you really treated him as your successor," the Hall Master of the Void Heaven Hall could not help but sigh. "Even a secret art that only successive Hall Masters are allowed to learn was given to him."
The Blazing Sun Hall Master had indeed gained a successor of extraordinary strength. Meanwhile, his own most promising disciple, Qin Zusheng, had not even qualified to participate in the Sunset Heaven Selection.
Thinking of this, the Void Heaven Hall Master could not help but sigh repeatedly.
However, given the level of this year's competition, even if Qin Zusheng had not been crippled, he would never have made it into the top ten.
"If Shi Haoxuan truly mastered that secret art, then Ling Feng will likely not have many chances left."
Saint Lady Bi Luo shook her head. It was not that she looked down on Ling Feng, but rather that the inherited secret arts of the Blazing Sun Divine Hall were simply too terrifying.
Even so, the fact that Ling Feng had fought Shi Haoxuan to this extent made her want to see just how far his limits truly reached.
......
"It is coming."
Shi Haoxuan shouted loudly and retracted all of his condensed great sun true energy back into his body.
The remaining six golden crow divine birds behind him instantly collapsed as well, transforming into thousands of zhang of divine light that poured into his body.
When Shi Haoxuan slowly opened his eyes again, a strange crimson glow appeared within them.
"Caw."
The next moment, a sharp birdlike cry came from his mouth.
Immediately after, strands of crimson gold feathers began to grow from behind him. His entire body expanded rapidly under the boundless surge of great sun true energy. In the blink of an eye, Shi Haoxuan had transformed into a massive golden crow.
Strictly speaking, he had manifested wings, claws, and feathers of the golden crow rather than fully becoming one.
All of this seemed long and drawn out, yet it happened in a single instant.
Shi Haoxuan flapped his enormous wings and slowly raised his arm toward Ling Feng.
"Golden Crow Avatar."
The Hall Master of the Blazing Sun Hall revealed an excited expression.
"Hahaha. He did not disappoint me after all."
The golden crow was a legendary divine bird, the embodiment of the sun itself. Only those who had comprehended the great sun law to the fourth tier could possibly manifest a true golden crow body.
Not only that, it also required a drop of golden crow blood.
Unfortunately, such divine birds had almost completely disappeared from the continent. Shi Haoxuan had searched the entire Dongling Region and only managed to find descendants of the golden crow. From their diluted bloodlines, he extracted traces of its essence.
Over many years, he managed to refine a portion of this impure golden crow blood. As a result, his Golden Crow Avatar was incomplete, with a significant portion still untransformed.
Even so, his entire aura had already surged to its absolute peak.
Ling Feng's expression turned sharp. The pressure Shi Haoxuan gave him had become incomparably terrifying.
Compared to before, it had increased by at least fivefold.
Shi Haoxuan's hands had already transformed into sharp claws. With a single raise of his left claw, it elongated rapidly into a thousand zhang blade that tore violently toward Ling Feng.
Around that blade, a layer of terrifying great sun true energy wrapped itself like blazing true fire, burning everything in its path.
Ling Feng's eyelid twitched slightly. Under the Golden Crow Avatar, Shi Haoxuan's physical body strength was likely even above Ao Jue.
"Eight Swords United."
At this critical moment, Ling Feng activated the Ten Directions Annihilation to forcibly meet the strike head on.
Boom!
In an instant, heaven and earth shattered. The entire space time was filled with spatial cracks.
At the peak of the sacred mountain, ten divine generals acted simultaneously to contain the devastating force. At the same time, they shouted loudly, ordering everyone to retreat a thousand zhang.
The battle between Ling Feng and Shi Haoxuan had become far too destructive. If all that energy were forcibly compressed within a small space, even the ten divine generals could contain it, but the result would very likely be both of them dying together inside the arena space.
Therefore, in order to allow both fighters to unleash their full strength, the ten divine generals had no choice but to make this decision.