Chapter 379(1: ): This Is My Third Martial Intent!
As one of the most talented disciples of the Sima Family, there was no need to question how strong Sima Zhanxing was.
Before entering the Martial Extermination Realm, he also managed to comprehend his third martial intent. He only stepped into the Martial Extermination Realm after entering the grand completion stage of the Martial Intent Realm.
Sima Zhanxing had been comparing Shang Xia’s ninth move to the martial intent he comprehended.
In fact, he was already surprised when Shang Xia unleashed Startling Moon.
Even though Startling Moon didn’t pierce the void directly, it managed to affect it nonetheless. It was an incredible feat for someone in the Martial Intent Realm.
Hm… This brat’s move is slightly weaker than my third martial intent!
That was Sima Zhanxing’s evaluation of Shang Xia’s eighth move after seeing it earlier.
When Shang Xia unleashed his ninth move, he managed to tear a hole through Sima Zhanxing’s extermination origin and the void around him. That led to Sima Zhanxing associating the move with Shang Xia’s third martial intent!
He was completely shocked at the discovery as he heard about how strong the Shang Clan Spear Art was and the strength displayed by Shang Xia had far surpassed it.
“His martial intent actually touched on what Martial Extermination Realm experts can do. However, he’s a Martial Intent Realm cultivator at the end of the day. He won’t be able to send out attacks like that infinitely. Hah, the only thing that allows him to stand out is the speed of his attacks. I have to end it now to give a proper explanation to Elder Pan.” Sima Zhanxing muttered to himself. With the power contained in Piercing Sun, Sima Zhanxing knew that Shang XIa couldn’t unleash it in succession. He definitely had to gather a lot of inner qi to release that strike again and he wouldn’t be able to do so in a short amount of time.
“I’ll take him down immediately and return to assist Elder Pan!” Sima Zhanxing growled inwardly as his extermination origin emerged to coat his fist. He unleashed the rank four martial art he created ever since stepping into the Martial Extermination Realm, Spirit Gathering Fist!
The history of cultivation in the Azure Origin World barely went back eight hundred years. The number of Martial Extermination Realm experts who had appeared since then was limited and the number of inheritances they could pass down was even lesser. With the various powers keeping a tight leash on the outflow of such inheritances, the number of people who could learn rank four techniques was few and far between/
Cultivators in the Martial Extermination Realm would have to develop their own techniques in order to fight more effectively.
Naturally, developing a new technique from nothing wasn’t easy. However, it went without saying that once they succeeded, their technique would be slightly stronger than martial arts from inheritances. After all, the technique one developed would be most suited to themselves.
As a genius cultivator from the Sima Family, Sima Zhanxing had access to the family’s records and inheritances. However, no matter how talented he was, he wouldn’t be able to access the family’s rank four inheritances and martial arts before stepping into the Martial Extermination Realm.
He broke through in the Coral Forest, and the Rose Party suffered a huge loss soon after. They beat a hasty retreat with those from the Four Spiritual Peak and he had to seek refuge from the four great races of the Liao Continent! He didn’t have time to return to the family to receive the inheritances!
Since he was unable to receive resources for cultivation in the Azure Spiritual World, he poured his heart and soul into creating a rank four martial art for himself, the Spirit Gathering Fist!
The name came from the extermination origin he refined in the Coral Forest, the Spirit Gathering Seasonal Extermination Origin.
There was something strange about his extermination origin and he could gather the heaven and earth qi around him for a short period of time, depriving others of it.
The effects caused Shang Xia to think back about the Dual Seasons Land in the Coral Forest. Heaven and earth qi was plundered from ordinary herbs and used to nurture precious herbs. Sima Zhanxing’s extermination origin seemed to possess an extension of that ability.
With the effects of his extermination origin, Sima Zhanxing developed a rank four martial art for himself!
As he punched towards Shang Xia, the heaven and earth qi around them gathered around his fist and increased the amount of power it possessed. A sharp whistling tore through the air.
One had to say that his extermination origin truly possessed tyrannical might. Even against cultivators at the same level, he would be able to reach an advantageous position with the effects his extermination origin possessed.
As the fist traveled closer and closer, Shang Xia could feel the heaven and earth qi around him draining quickly. However, he wasn’t flustered in the slightest.
Staring directly at Sima Zhanxing, Shang Xia muttered, “Who told you that that was my third martial intent?”
As an incredulous look started to form on Sima Zhanxing’s face, Shang Xia tightened his grip on his Scarlet Star Spear once again. The inner qi in his body entered the spear in an endless tide and his divine sense wrapped around it.
In that instant, Shang Xia could feel the subtle change around him. He became one with the spear, reaching an extreme state of mind.
Facing the rank four martial art, Spirit Gathering Fist, Shang Xia didn’t feel the slightest amount of fear as he unleashed his third martial intent, Divine Killing Spear!
He only used the move once before, and it was against Kou Chongxue’s Martial Dipper Realm clone!
The second time he used his third martial intent was in actual combat against the Martial Extermination Realm Sima Zhanxing!
As the tip of his spear came into contact with Sima Zhanxing’s fist, the expected explosion followed by a massive shockwave of heaven and earth qi was nowhere to be seen.
Their surroundings became eerily silent as the huge fist formed with heaven and earth qi had a huge hole blasted through the middle.
The fist didn’t stop because of that. Instead, it continued on its way towards Shang Xia.
The spear didn’t stop after punching a hole through the fist. It sailed through the air towards Sima Zhanxing!
Shang Xia knew that he couldn’t avoid the punch as he used everything he had to unleash his third martial intent. He didn’t hesitate to throw out a Tranquil Water Screen Talisman to protect himself.
As a water screen appeared above him, it managed to stop the fist for a short second. However, that was it. The fist shattered the water screen before falling down on Shang Xia once again.
Very quickly, Shang Xia tossed out the second and last Tranquil Water Screen Talisman he had on him to create another water screen.
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This time, it stopped the fist for a little longer. The fist expended a huge amount of energy to shatter the water screen, but it continued on nonetheless. At the end of the day, Shang Xia’s talismans were merely rank three ones and they couldn’t stop Sima Zhanxing’s rank four martial art.
Luckily, the two water screens weakened the fist by a huge amount! However, that wasn’t what Shang Xia cared about. Instead, they managed to buy him a lot of time!
In the few short seconds that passed, Shang Xia managed to regain a small amount of inner qi to unleash his eighth move, Startling Moon.
Of his seventh, eighth, and ninth move, it went without saying that Piercing Sun possessed terrifying offensive ability. It wouldn’t be useful to protect himself at that point. Startling Moon was the only one that could break Sima Zhanxing’s Spirit Gathering Fist currently.
After taking on Shang Xia’s Divine Killing Spear and being obstructed by two Tranquil Water Screens, the punch was showing a whole lot of weakness. Shang Xia’s Startling Moon disturbed the void around him, eventually nullifying Sima Zhanxing’s Spirit Gathering Fist!
The heaven and earth qi was dispersed above Shang Xia’s head, and a massive dust cloud was blown into the skies from the disturbance.
As Shang Xia successfully protected himself from Sima Zhanxing’s Spirit Gathering Fist, Sima Zhanxing was facing the kid’s spear! He discovered that the Piercing Sun that he thought was Shang Xia’s third martial intent before was a mistake!
Shang Xia’s third martial intent actually had the ability to threaten him, a Martial Extermination Realm expert!
With a look of terror on his face, he discovered that he wouldn’t be able to avoid Shang Xia’s Divine Killing Spear! He would be forced to take it head-on.
He didn’t even have the luxury of time to think about how Shang Xia could lock on to him with his divine sense to ensure that the spear didn’t miss!
Since he didn’t expect Shang Xia to be able to threaten him, he didn’t take any precautions before. As he hastily summoned his extermination origin to defend himself, he suddenly discovered that his divine sense had been whittled down slightly and it was on the verge of crumbling! He didn’t really possess the ability to save himself!
Everything clicked in his mind. The Divine Killing Spear truly deserved its name. Disrupting one’s divine sense and preventing them from protecting themselves. That was the true terror of Shang Xia’s third martial intent!
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