Tyrant Sky Martial Soul
Chapter 810: Avatar Possession

Chapter 810: Chapter 810: Avatar Possession

Long Xiaoxiao’s initial desperate attempt to end the fight quickly was the right idea, but unfortunately, it wasn’t successful. Instead, she wasted a large amount of True Essence, and finally, on the two hundredth move, Lan Yu’er knocked her off the Martial Arts Platform.

The victorious Lan Yu’er absorbed Long Xiaoxiao’s Nine Tripod Fortune. The second Bronze Cauldron’s vague phantom had already appeared, and it wasn’t far from taking shape.

"This woman is quite interesting. It would be nice to take her back as a concubine, hehe, should I let her win a little?" Qin Bi Xue snickered coldly. He liked strong women, and he was clearly interested in Lan Yu’er.

Only unfortunately, this guy didn’t have feelings to give to anyone; what he wanted was merely a slave.

"Clueless fool." Joshua Long muttered to himself upon hearing Qin Bi Xue’s words.

Lan Yu’er might not be very prominent, being lucky to have entered the Twenty Heavenly Prides, but dare to lay a hand on her, would you not be afraid of offending Ling Xiao?

In Joshua Long’s view, within this entire competition, the only one who could pose a threat to Ling Xiao was Holy Son Victoria Mingkong. The others were simply not in the same league as Ling Xiao.

The first round of the competition was fairly uneventful, with the expected winners and losers in place.

The second round also had no surprises.

Ling Xiao’s opponent turned out to be Fengmo Ting, who conceded without even fighting, resulting in Ling Xiao’s Nine Tripod Fortune barely increasing.

After all, Fengmo Ting had already lost two matches.

In the third round, Ling Xiao’s opponent was still quite weak—it was Po Qian Jun, who he had encountered before and who also conceded without fighting.

So, after three rounds, his fortune remained three Cauldrons, and the fourth Cauldron had only begun to take shape.

Joshua Long could be considered luckier. His opponents in all three rounds were not weak, and their fortunes were strong. Up to now, he had also reached three Cauldrons’ fortunes, basically catching up with Ling Xiao.

In the fourth round, Ling Xiao’s opponents remained weak.

In fact, if one observed carefully, it wasn’t hard to discover that all six seed players faced opponents that weren’t very strong, probably a deliberate arrangement.

They claimed the draws were random, but with the transcendent capabilities of the Yin-Yang Realm masters, it would be easy to interfere with the results.

At the end of the fourth round, although Ling Xiao had won four consecutive matches, his fortune was still slightly more than three Cauldrons.

Joshua Long had already surpassed him, reaching four Cauldrons’ fortune.

Hong Li was even more outstanding, having already possessed five Cauldrons’ fortune. She was already strong to begin with, so her performance was not exaggerated.

Hong Sanwei was also formidable, originally possessing three Cauldrons’ fortune; she too had reached five Cauldrons.

After her fight with Long Xiaoxiao, Lan Yu’er benefitted greatly and achieved another breakthrough during the rest period.

Originally, Ling Xiao judged it would be difficult for her to rank in the top ten.

But now, he felt that it would be very stable for his senior sister to enter the top ten.

After four rounds, only losing one match to Victoria Mingkong, she claimed all other victories.

However, losing to Victoria Mingkong was nothing shameful; with Lan Yu’er’s strength, it wasn’t a disgrace to lose to any of the six seed players.

Lan Yu’er’s fortune was still just over one Cauldron, not quite reaching two Cauldrons.

In the fifth round of the competition, Ling Xiao finally encountered a relatively stronger opponent, someone he had never faced before: the Fire Demon Venerable.

The Fire Demon Venerable, not showing off and keeping a low profile, barely made it into the top fifty in the last Martial Arts Festival.

No one took him seriously, yet quite surprisingly, in this Martial Arts Festival finals, he killed his way into the front and smoothly became one of the Twenty Heavenly Prides.

Not only that, but the Fire Demon Venerable also won all four previous rounds and already had three Cauldrons’ fortune. It could be said that he was a true dark horse.

"Others may fear you, but I, Fire Demon Venerable, do not!"

Fire Demon Venerable did not concede in the face of Ling Xiao.

"It doesn’t matter if you’re afraid or not, I just want to ask you one thing, what is your relationship with Demonflame Celestial of the Moon Hua Sect?"

Ling Xiao had always been puzzled because he clearly felt the aura of Demonflame Celestial emanating from Fire Demon Venerable.

"No relation!"

A flash of surprise crossed Fire Demon Venerable’s eyes, but he quickly regained his composure and flatly denied any connection.

"You won’t tell the truth, huh? Then I’ll make you!"

"I’m afraid you don’t have the ability, take my ultimate move—Volcano Refinery!"

In a roar, flames wrapped around Fire Demon Venerable’s body as he leapt into the air, fiercely smashing his hands down on Ling Xiao. The fierce fire actually condensed into a mountainous form that crashed towards Ling Xiao.

Boom!

With a light tap of his finger, Ling Xiao’s Heaven Vein Qi Sword pierced through the air, instantly reducing the seemingly ferocious mountain to rubble on the spot, with the formidable attack ending stillborn.

"What a fellow, truly formidable!"

Fire Demon Venerable was taken back with shock.

His Volcano Refinery’s most terrifying aspect was not the initial attack, but the dreadful flames that would continue to surge towards his opponent afterward.

Each wave of flames was stronger than the last, and among them was the hidden Death Dark Flame, catching the enemy off guard.

But Ling Xiao had shattered his attack right from the start, preventing any of the subsequent power from coming into play.

He truly could not understand how Ling Xiao had managed to detect the flaw and problem with his move.

"You certainly have a connection with Demonflame Celestial. Those who possess Death Dark Flame are either disciples of Demonflame Celestial or an avatar of his. You couldn’t be the original body, otherwise, you would have been discovered."

Ling Xiao had once seen in the Moon Blossom Pagoda that avatars of Demonflame Celestial could control the bodies of other martial artists.

Now he was almost certain that Fire Demon Venerable was under the control of an avatar of Demonflame Celestial.

"So what if you’ve discovered me? After all, there are people who would be delighted to see you dead. But rest assured, I won’t let you die just yet. After I seize the Nine Tripod Fortune, it won’t be too late to let you die. In this battle, count me as lost!"

Fire Demon Venerable sneered, actually admitting defeat voluntarily and leaving the Martial Arts Platform, and with it, a portion of his fortune was absorbed by Ling Xiao.

The fortune of Fire Demon Venerable was strong, so Ling Xiao absorbed a lot, and in an instant, his fortune rapidly soared close to the five cauldrons’ status, vaguely catching up to Hong Sanwei and Hong Li.

"Interesting, the more fortune there is, the greater the aid to one’s vitality and spirit."

As the fortune continued to grow, Ling Xiao also gradually discovered that although the effects had not changed, they got increasingly stronger.

And at this time, his cultivation level finally made another breakthrough, advancing to the intermediate stage of the First Line of Heaven realm.

Not only that, the Heavenly Origin Power and physical strength he had exhausted before were replenished in an instant.

The so-called vitality and spirit refer to physical strength, inner strength, and soul power.

These three elements are crucially important for a martial artist, as they are expended in almost everything they do.

When two evenly matched adversaries duel, the strength of their vitality and spirit will determine their strength in battle.

Underestimating these three aspects would result in great losses.

Ling Xiao was able to use fortune for cultivation precisely because of this.

After the enhancement of physical strength, inner strength, and soul power, the cultivation level naturally increased, as the elevation of these three aspects was inherently intertwined.