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Despite his tough talk, his previous bizarre defeat had greatly diminished his confidence.

This time, he dared not use both hands at the same time. Instead, he let out a low shout and used only his right palm to unleash a thicker and hotter chain of flames that swept towards Chen Changsheng.

This time, however, Chen Changsheng stood still, without even attempting to dodge.

The flaming chains instantly wrapped around his body.

Hong Lie was overjoyed at the sight and was about to unleash the fire elemental power in the Fiery Rope with all his might when he was horrified to discover that the Fiery Rope wrapped around Chen Changsheng was actually a fire.

With a slight tremor from the other party, it shattered into pieces like fragile rotten wood, and was extinguished in an instant!

Chen Changsheng patted the stains on his clothes, seemingly a little impatient: "I came here to exchange skills, but you keep trying to fool people with these low-class tricks."

This is a complete waste of everyone's time. Get out of here!

Before he finished speaking, Chen Changsheng unleashed the Nine Shadows of the Heavenly Fox, instantly appearing beside Hong Lie and delivering a punch imbued with pure Yang energy straight to his face.

Hong Lie was in a state of shock and confusion as the Fiery Chain was broken again, his mind reeling and his reaction slowed by half a beat.

With no way to avoid it, he could only retreat in a sorry state, but he still took a solid punch to the chest from Chen Changsheng.

boom!

Hong Lie's protective spiritual power trembled violently. Although Chen Changsheng's spiritual power level was two levels lower than his, he was still caught off guard and suffered such a heavy blow, which still caused his blood and qi to surge.

He was filled with shame and anger, and roared hysterically with a blazing sun fist, his fists wrapped in raging flames as he smashed them down on Chen Changsheng.

Chen Changsheng shifted his feet slightly, calmly dodging Hong Lie's fiery iron fists, and raised his right hand with lightning speed.

With a sharp crack, he precisely pressed down on Hong Lie's right forearm, where he had exerted force, and a slight, cold smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

"Aaaaaaah!"

A bloodcurdling scream, like a pig being slaughtered, instantly echoed throughout the entire hall.

Hong Lie, who had just been so aggressive, suddenly knelt down on the ground, frantically waving his hands, though the flames in his palms were extinguished.

But his fingers and palms began to emit wisps of black smoke, and a pungent smell of burnt meat instantly filled the hall.

Upon seeing this, Hong Cangye's expression changed drastically. He swayed and rushed to the center of the field, his hands transforming into a series of finger shadows to grab Hong Lie's arms.

He forcibly guided and dispelled the violent, fiery spiritual energy that had seeped into his palm.

The pain on Hong Lie's face subsided slightly, but his once nimble hands were now charred black, his ten fingers twisted into a frightening arc, and wisps of black smoke kept oozing from the burnt flesh.

"You treacherous disciple, more trouble than you're worth! How could you let your own fiery true energy backfire on yourself! Have you wasted all these years of cultivation?"

Seeing Hong Lie's pitiful state, Hong Cangye disregarded the occasion and cursed loudly with a livid face.

As one of the top three prodigies of the Blazing Fire Sect, to make such a ridiculous and laughable mistake is a disgrace to the Blazing Fire Sect.

However, Hong Cangye could never have imagined that at the very moment Chen Changsheng touched Hong Lie's arm, something would happen.

It was the pure Yang domineering body within his body that directly reversed Hong Lie's fiery spiritual power, forcibly forcing it back into Hong Lie's palm.

"Elder, this disciple just now..."

"Shut up! Haven't you embarrassed yourself enough? Get out of here and heal your wounds!" Hong Cangye roared.

Hong Lie had no choice but to grit his teeth and shut up, drooping his bloodied and mangled hands as he retreated to his seat in a disheveled state.

He glared at Chen Changsheng, feeling that the shattering of the flames and the backlash were extremely strange and might be related to this kid.

But then I thought, how could the other party possibly have the means to control his flames?

"Heh, this kid's luck is pretty good, running into such an incompetent fool. I thought he was about to pay the price for his previous arrogance."

The middle-aged man in black from the Imperial Sword Pavilion sneered.

"His arrogance won't last long."

Ye Guying remained indifferent throughout, a playful smile playing on his lips. "The next one to go up will definitely lose his life."

The elders and disciples of Cangwu Academy all breathed a sigh of relief.

They thought Chen Changsheng would definitely lose this time, and might even be crippled. Who would have thought that the opponent would be defeated due to the backlash of his technique, allowing Chen Changsheng to win another round effortlessly.

In this way, Chen Changsheng successively defeated opponents at the first and third levels of Foundation Establishment!

This is an unprecedented feat for Cangwu Academy, something they have never accomplished in a century, enough to make them proud!

Chen Changsheng crossed his arms, his handsome face radiating an arrogant and domineering aura: "This is already the second one. Anyone else who disagrees, feel free to come up on stage and give it a try!"

His nonchalant yet extremely arrogant tone instantly enraged the major powers.

As soon as Chen Changsheng finished speaking, the youngest disciple from the Yufeng Valley seat directly in front of him snorted and stood up.

"Lei Zhen, a direct disciple of Yu Feng Valley, is sixteen years old!"

This young man was thin and plain-looking, but he possessed the aloofness unique to the prodigies of major sects.

He stared at Chen Changsheng with an arrogant gaze and said coldly:

"I would never stoop to lay a hand on an ant like you, because you are not worthy of being my opponent."

But your arrogant and reckless attitude is truly disgusting.

You just happened to win against that weakling Li Jie by sheer luck, and then you relied on luck to win a joke against the Blazing Fire Sect. Do you really think you're invincible?

In my eyes, you don't even deserve to be a joke!

"Well said! Let's teach this arrogant brat a lesson!"

"Do you really think that none of our major sects have any talent?" A chorus of agreement immediately erupted from the audience.

"Although Lei Zhen is only sixteen years old, he broke through to the third level of Foundation Establishment several months ago, and his strength is much stronger than Hong Lie's."

It is said that his comprehension is even more amazing, and he has already cultivated the supreme profound skill of Yufeng Valley, the Gale Breaking the Sky Technique, to the third level.

I bet Chen Changsheng wouldn't last five moves against him!

Lei Zhen's sarcastic remarks were undeniably harsh, but Chen Changsheng remained unfazed, responding only with an even more disdainful look:

"You'll find out who the real joke is when you're lying on the ground later."

"snort!"

Lei Zhen's eyes flashed with murderous intent. "If I don't completely subdue you and cripple you here within three moves, I, Lei Zhen, will write my name backwards!"

Before he finished speaking, Lei Zhen suddenly opened his half-closed eyes, and the hem of his robe began to flutter without wind, bursting out with a tearing sound of air currents. His entire body was completely enveloped by a visible, violent whirlwind.

He glanced coldly at Chen Changsheng: "Boy, remember well the martial technique that will defeat you. This is the true secret of the Wind Control Valley—Nine Transformations of Gale!"

Swish!

Lei Zhen's figure had already transformed into a gust of wind that tore through the night sky, violently rushing towards Chen Changsheng.

Because his speed was extremely fast, his figure appeared and disappeared intermittently during his advance, alternating between illusion and reality. The violent residual wind, carrying sharp spiritual energy aftershocks, brought a piercing howl to the center of the hall.

"First Transformation - Gale Transformation!"

With a sharp shout, four powerful palm strikes, each carrying a wind blade, converged from all directions like the source of a storm.

Chen Changsheng frowned slightly. The Nine Shadows of the Heavenly Fox flashed one after another, managing to dodge three of the wind blades. However, the last wind blade seemed to have eyes, sealing off all his blind spots.

With no way to avoid it, Chen Changsheng gritted his teeth, and his spiritual power suddenly exploded, forming a pure yang energy shield in front of him.

boom!

The violent wind blade palm force slammed into the air shield, tearing it apart with a deafening roar.

The immense recoil forced Chen Changsheng to stagger back three steps, his blood and qi churning violently within his chest.

For him, it was indeed somewhat difficult to withstand the full force of a Foundation Establishment Level 3 expert's attack head-on with his Foundation Establishment Level 1 spiritual power.

"Second Transformation—Shadow Shift!"

The swirling vortex of wind spun more and more violently, and Chen Changsheng's ears were filled with the deafening roar of the tearing storm.

Lei Zhen's movement speed had already surpassed the common sense of the Foundation Establishment level, and the sky was filled with afterimages of the vortexes he tore apart.

At this critical moment, the airflow directly behind Chen Changsheng suddenly twisted strangely, and a figure carrying the force of a thousand pounds of air-piercing power, like a bloodthirsty eagle, frantically attacked his blind spot from behind!

However, just a fraction of an instant before the attack was about to strike, Chen Changsheng was driven by an astonishing beastly instinct and suddenly turned around!

Chen Changsheng's terrifyingly fast reaction speed, which was almost like foresight, made Lei Zhen secretly startled.

But the ferocity in his eyes did not fade. He believed that with his extreme limited air speed and the overwhelming force of his surprise attack, his opponent would have no chance to dodge in his hasty response.

Lei Zhen gathered his energy into a blade, and with a powerful punch that could tear through rocks, he slammed it down toward Chen Changsheng's throat.

In the instant he turned around, Chen Changsheng did not choose to retreat or defend. Instead, his right fist suddenly shot up, directly facing the opponent's fierce iron fist in a straight line, and he clashed head-on with it!

"What?! Has he gone mad?! He actually dares to confront Lei Zhen head-on!"

"A mere Foundation Establishment Stage 1 brat dares to compete with a Foundation Establishment Stage 3 expert in terms of physical strength and spiritual power? He's utterly courting death, incredibly naive!"

The various powerful figures who witnessed this scene in the hall were all certain in their hearts:

This kid surnamed Chen, his hand is completely gone.

Lei Zhen's killing move was not only an absolute crushing of his cultivation level, but also a violent amplification from the supreme profound art of Yufeng Valley. Upon collision, Chen Changsheng's arm would definitely break inch by inch on the spot!

However, Chen Changsheng dared to sweep away all the heroes in such a way, so how could he not have a real heaven-defying reliance!

boom!

Just a fraction of a second before their iron fists were about to collide, the violent killing intent and surging spiritual pressure from Lei Zhen, a late-stage Foundation Establishment Level 3 cultivator, finally transformed into an unprecedented sense of crisis, fiercely stimulating Chen Changsheng's bones, blood, and meridians!

hum!

Deep within Chen Changsheng's dantian, in the core of the ancient divine core, which had been dormant for a long time and consisted of nine ancient divine cores that resembled blazing suns, the second dazzling sun, which had begun to loosen after the last battle, was finally fully activated by the violent stimulation of Lei Zhen's terrifying external force, bursting out with a brilliant golden light like a galaxy bursting its banks!

Pure Yang Overlord Body - The power of the second Yang is fully ignited!

In an instant, the spiritual energy within Chen Changsheng's body surged wildly in an almost frenzied manner!

The moment the power of the two yang energies erupted completely, Chen Changsheng vaguely heard a low rumble coming from the depths of his bones and blood.

Suddenly, the pure Yang energy within his body began to expand wildly.

This rampage was not simply a surge in spiritual power; even the density of true energy was increasing at an astonishing rate...

The simultaneous surge in both quantity and density, a state that completely defies common sense, manifested itself with unparalleled reality in Chen Changsheng's meridians the moment the Second Yang was fully ignited.

What followed was the complete frenzy of Chen Changsheng's true energy!

According to the core of the movement techniques and secret arts taught by Mu Qing'er, the true essence of this power is to let the Qi energy go wild to its limit!

A violent burst of crimson-gold energy surged forth from all the acupoints in Chen Changsheng's body, instantly permeating every corner of his being.

A painful sensation came over me, as if my meridians and body were about to be completely burst, but it was only about to burst.

It's not that the body really can't handle it.

It seems that with his current mortal physique, forcibly activating this power was indeed somewhat of a strain, and his body felt slightly weak and exhausted after his meridians calmed down.

boom!

Lei Zhen and Chen Changsheng's fists collided solidly, producing a dull, deafening bang.

This is a direct confrontation between pure spiritual power and physical body, without any fancy tricks!

Click!

The crisp sound of bones breaking rang out, clearly audible to everyone, and unsurprising to anyone.

Then a bloodcurdling scream rang out... and this scream left everyone completely stunned...

Because the one screaming was not Chen Changsheng, but Lei Zhen, who was at the third level of Foundation Establishment!

The bones in all four fingers of his right hand broke instantly upon impact, and even his wrist was smashed.

But Chen Changsheng's fist did not stop there. After smashing through Lei Zhen's defenses, it continued forward with a violent crimson-gold aura, striking him hard in the chest.

Lei Zhen's protective spiritual energy shattered instantly, like fragile thin glass. He felt as if he had been struck head-on by a massive divine cauldron, and his entire body flew backward like a withered leaf swept up by a gale.

His back slammed heavily against the central pillar of the hall, and he was thrown back several meters. He lay sprawled on the ground in a contorted position, spitting blood. He suffered a severe and devastating defeat and was unable to stand up for a long time.

The hall fell completely silent. Everyone gaped, unable to believe what they were seeing...

In a pure contest of strength, a newcomer actually won...

He still completely defeated a top genius at the third level of Foundation Establishment!

Not to mention the young disciples, even seasoned veterans who have weathered countless storms throughout their lives found it hard to believe.

Chen Changsheng slowly lowered his arm, calmed his mind, and gathered the power of the two yang energies back into his body.

Instantly, the burning, swelling, and stinging sensation that spread throughout the meridians disappeared without a trace, and a slight feeling of weakness and exhaustion arose in the body.

He took a few steps forward, looked at Lei Zhen whose eyes were filled with shock, humiliation, and disbelief, and said calmly:

"I am arrogant because I have enough reason to be arrogant."

Your arrogance before me has only brought shame upon yourself. A mere Foundation Establishment Level 3 cultivator like yourself has been utterly defeated in a pure strength contest against someone like me, a Foundation Establishment Level 1 cultivator. Now do you realize who the real joke is?