The time for a stick of incense to burn quickly passed, and as the elder announced the start of the third round of battles, the crowd's enthusiasm immediately ignited.
Of the ten remaining participants, six were at the Spirit Warrior realm, and their life-taking abilities were no small feat. Only three were not very noteworthy, so no matter how the battles unfolded, strong versus strong confrontations were inevitable.
In the end, two battles particularly caught everyone's attention. One was a clash between Spirit Warrior realm powerhouses, Qiu Lan versus Lin Hong. The other attention-grabbing battle was Gu Yan versus Duoming.
As for the other three battles, they held no significance; it was estimated that Nalan Feng, Lin Qian, and Wen Jiang could directly advance.
The reality was not far from what the crowd had anticipated. Nalan Feng and Lin Qian's opponents directly conceded, and Wen Jiang's opponent was Feng Qian. Despite putting in his best effort, Feng Qian only managed to last three moves against Wen Jiang before being knocked off the stage. Moreover, Wen Jiang did not use his full strength; the gap between the Spirit Warrior realm and the Qi Warrior realm was insurmountable.
This time, the main stage featured Qiu Lan and Lin Hong, who were the main characters of this round of battles.
On the northern stage, Gu Yan's icy gaze fell upon Lin Feng, and he released a killing aura. It was indeed a coincidence that he had encountered Lin Feng. As long as Lin Feng dared to fight, he was determined to make Lin Feng die to avenge Gu Qing's murder.
"If you don't dare to fight, just roll down and don't disgrace the name of a warrior," Gu Yan said with a mocking expression, his voice harsh.
Lin Feng remained calm, saying indifferently, "You don't need to provoke me. Rest assured, I will give you the chance to avenge."
"Heh heh." Gu Yan laughed sinisterly at Lin Feng's words. He was indeed trying to provoke Lin Feng with his words to make him fight. He didn't expect Lin Feng to see through it but still decided to fight.
"Foolish fellow, I will make you understand what the Spirit Warrior realm is. The gap is insurmountable," Gu Yan sneered in his heart, not even releasing his martial soul. He was afraid that releasing his martial soul would scare Lin Feng and make him unwilling to fight.
Lifting his foot, Gu Yan approached Lin Feng. When he was just ten steps away, his steps suddenly trembled, and a powerful palm wind struck from a distance. A series of tangible palm prints rained down on Lin Feng. At this moment, Lin Feng was completely covered by the endless palm prints, and from Gu Yan's direction, Lin Feng was no longer visible.
" daring to harm a member of my Gu family, you are courting death," Gu Yan roared, bringing a massive palm print down on Lin Feng. Even if Lin Feng could withstand those palm prints, this decisive strike would still take his life. Since he had decided to act, he would not allow Lin Feng to live; otherwise, where would the face of the Gu family's top genius be?
The palm prints were about to land on Lin Feng, and a cruel smile appeared on Gu Yan's lips.
However, at this moment, the brilliant light flashed again, just as it had before. The palm prints were torn apart, forming cracks that seemed ready to shatter at any moment.
"Die." Gu Yan was unmoved, roaring as he delivered a powerful and tyrannical palm strike directly onto the nearly cracked palm prints, unleashing a force that could crush all Qi Warrior realm practitioners.
"Not necessarily."
"Rumble."
A calm and cold voice echoed, and an overwhelmingly powerful sword aura tore through everything. The palm prints instantly collapsed and shattered into countless fragments, scattering with the wind. A single sword light was enough to challenge the heavens.
"Spirit Warrior realm." Gu Yan's face turned pale. How could he not have realized that Lin Feng had hidden his strength?
The sword light was cold and lethal, the sword aura fierce and destructive, annihilating everything that stood in its way.
A sword, invincible and destructive.
"Oh no." Gu Qiong was shocked, standing up from his seat, but it was already too late. Gu Yan had always planned to deliver a fatal blow to Lin Feng, leaving no room for himself to counter. At this moment, he could not retaliate, let alone withstand Lin Feng's decisive sword strike.
A jet of blood shot from Gu Yan's throat, and the Spirit Warrior realm Gu Yan fell.
This was the only Spirit Warrior realm powerhouse to be eliminated in the martial arts competition so far.
At this moment, all the members of the Gu family stood up, watching the scene with shock and despair, seeing their most outstanding disciple fall on the stage.
"I will make you die." Gu Qiong roared, shaking the crowd's eardrums.
Nalan Xiong frowned and said, "Lord Gu, you are being too presumptuous. Don't forget this is the martial arts competition in Yangzhou City."
Gu Qiong's expression froze, looking at Nalan Xiong. He finally let out an unwilling cold snort and sat down.
However, from the way Gu Qiong stared at Lin Feng, it was clear that he would not let Lin Feng off.
"What, Gu Yan was killed by Duoming with just one sword again?" Many people who were watching the battle between Qiu Lan and Lin Hong were suddenly awakened by Nalan Xiong's roar. Seeing Gu Yan's corpse on the ground, they could not help but stare in shock.
"Damn, why did I watch Qiu Lan's battle and miss this? How did Duoming kill Gu Yan?"
Many people began to regret it, lamenting that they had missed such an exciting battle. They clearly did not expect such a shocking battle to occur, where a Spirit Warrior realm powerhouse was eliminated, and by the mysterious rising star Duoming.
"We all misjudged. Duoming is also a Spirit Warrior realm martial practitioner, incredibly powerful, with strength that could place him in the top five, or even higher."
Not only the crowd, but even Nalan Xiong watched Lin Feng walk off the stage. A Qi Warrior realm martial practitioner was defeated with one sword, and a Spirit Warrior realm martial practitioner, still with one sword. Just how strong was this guy? Even he could not see through it.
At this moment, the other battle also concluded, with Qiu Lan defeating Lin Hong. Thus, the five strong contenders advancing to the next round were all present.
Nalan Feng, Lin Qian, Wen Jiang, Qiu Lan, Duoming!
The independent cultivators still had the most remaining, with Qiu Lan and Duoming. The Gu family had none left, and their two most talented disciples were killed by Lin Feng.
After another stick of incense burned, the elder stepped onto the main stage.
"Fourth round, Lin Qian is exempt, Nalan Feng versus Wen Jiang, Qiu Lan versus Duoming."
The crowd was excited, finally reaching the ultimate showdown. Nalan Feng's strength was self-evident, and Wen Jiang, a second-level Qi Warrior realm martial practitioner, was at a higher realm than Nalan Feng and Lin Qian. Their battle would undoubtedly be thrilling.
There was also another battle, where Duoming had swept through with three swords, killing three people, and now he and Qiu Lan would face off in the fourth round. What kind of clash would occur between them?
This time, the two battles would not take place simultaneously but in sequence, both on the main stage.
First, Nalan Feng and Wen Jiang.
"Wen Jiang, your strength is not bad, but you are still no match for me. Concede," Nalan Feng said with supreme arrogance, like a princess, looking down on everything.
"Hmph, my realm is higher than yours. The one who should concede is you, Nalan Feng," Wen Jiang retorted.
"Stubborn." Nalan Feng coldly shouted, releasing her martial soul. Instantly, a divine arm martial soul appeared behind her. However, what was shocking was that Nalan Feng's divine arm martial soul was different from Nalan Chen's, who was killed by Lin Feng. Nalan Feng's divine arm martial soul was golden, radiating an invincible golden light.
"Divine arm martial soul, only a golden divine arm can be considered a perfect divine arm martial soul." Nalan Xiong's lips curled into a smile. In a hundred years, only Nalan Feng had awakened the purest divine arm martial soul.
"Truly worthy of being the princess of Yangzhou City, her divine arm martial soul is golden, powerful and tyrannical."
The crowd's hearts trembled, their faces changing.
Wen Jiang was not to be outdone and also released his martial soul. Behind him, a virtual river appeared, with continuous waves and flowing water, the Wen family's river martial soul.
"Indeed, this world is full of wonders." Lin Feng sighed inwardly, seeing the two martial souls. A divine arm could become a martial soul, and it was even golden. A river could also be a martial soul.
Martial souls, diverse and unimaginable.
Glancing at Lin Qian, if he had not misjudged, Nalan Feng would win this battle and directly advance to the next round. This meant that in the next round, he would face Lin Qian after defeating Qiu Lan.