Chapter 155 - 135: Ultimate Fighting

Chapter 155: Chapter 135: Ultimate Fighting

"I’m in a hurry. My little monkeys are waiting for me back home. So, how are we doing this?" Giles was the first to speak.

"This is a king-of-the-hill match. I am the champion, and all of you may test your mettle," Zhang Ji announced, his immense Spirit bearing down on all four challengers.

"Cocky bastard!" Giles said. "In that case, I’m first!"

The instant the words left his mouth, Giles’s body transformed into a crimson streak of light and shot toward Zhang Ji.

He used no fancy tricks, relying purely on the physical power granted by his bloodline.

Purple energy from his Qi Body swirled around Zhang Ji. He didn’t dodge or evade, meeting Giles in a head-on clash.

In a flash, their fists and feet collided.

"BOOM!"

"BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!"

A colossal force erupted. The air around the two figures exploded, and in an instant, a hurricane-like blast sent most of the surrounding camera drones flying. The audience on the other side of the arena saw the camera feeds rapidly switch to a super-distant perspective and a satellite view.

In the slightly blurry footage, their figures were nearly invisible, but the violent concussive booms and the destruction of the battlefield were clear to see.

Giles’s pure strength was immense and terrifying. A Tier Three Elaven might not even be his match in a contest of raw power.

He was going all out from the very beginning.

However, Zhang Ji still dealt with every move with ease.

He was relying solely on the enhancement from his Qi Body and his physical attributes.

He hadn’t activated Spiritualization or used any Palm Skills. He simply traded blows with Giles.

Their movements were incredibly fast, exchanging hundreds of blows in a single second. The immense force nearly pushed the air away to form a vacuum.

"RUMBLE!"

Zhang Ji slammed Giles into the ground with a devastating blow, blasting out a massive crater as if a meteor had struck.

His feet dug into the earth. A savage grin spread across his face, revealing his fangs. His posture was that of a wild beast.

His feral nature was running rampant, his bloodline awakening.

"THUMP! THUMP! THUMP-THUMP-THUMP!"

The thunderous palpitations grew faster and faster.

It was the sound of his heart, and also the sign of his bloodline activating further.

An invisible, crushing pressure appeared in a 300-meter radius around him. If a normal person were to enter this Domain, the resonance from his heartbeat would instantly flatten them. Even if they could withstand the pressure, their own heart would race, their blood pressure would skyrocket, and they would die as all their blood vessels burst.

This Domain was called the [Blood Boiling Domain].

Once Giles activated his blood-boiling state, he was nearly equivalent to a Tier Three Elaven at peak combustion.

"BOOM!"

The ground collapsed again as Giles charged at Zhang Ji.

Zhang Ji circulated his Qi Body. Their fists collided, and in that instant, a truly terrifying force was generated. The violent roar and surging shockwave spread so far that they were felt in the capital of Ultimate Fighting, over ten miles away.

And from their perspective, a massive ravine suddenly appeared on the battlefield.

It was at least four kilometers long.

Zhang Ji and Giles were both knocked back at the same time.

However, Zhang Ji shot up into the sky, while Giles landed on the ground, plowing a long trench in the earth.

Then, the two figures shot toward each other at an even greater speed.

"BOOM!"

"BOOM!"

"BOOM!"

A series of collisions, each more forceful than the last.

Giles used the ground for leverage, devastating the landscape until it was pockmarked with craters, as if struck by countless meteorites.

Suddenly, Zhang Ji changed his attack.

He lifted his leg and kicked at Giles.

With this kick, the airflow from a radius of around fifteen miles converged rapidly.

A seemingly solid projectile of compressed air materialized on Zhang Ji’s leg and instantly detonated.

"RUUUUUMBLE!"

A violent gale swept out, forcing the other three Saint Kings watching from nearby to retreat slightly.

Giles, who bore the brunt of the attack, was blasted through the surface and plunged more than a hundred meters into the earth before he could stop his momentum.

He leaped back out, stood on the surface, and stared up at Zhang Ji in the sky, feeling an unprecedented pressure—and an overwhelming desire to fight.

The swirling snow was vaporized by his scorching Qi and Blood, and Giles’s fighting spirit burned even hotter.

"Hmph. A beast is a beast. No discipline at all. My turn!"

Ferguson couldn’t hold back any longer. Without waiting for Giles to attack again, he shrouded himself in lightning and charged at Zhang Ji.

"Hey! I’m not done yet!" Giles roared.

But despite his anger, he didn’t charge forward to join the fray.

Masters had their pride; he was unwilling to gang up on an opponent.

"Good!"

Facing the approaching Ferguson, Zhang Ji threw a sudden punch. But the moment his fist neared Ferguson, the man’s body abruptly dissolved into a cloud of lightning Energy Particles, causing most of the force in Zhang Ji’s punch to hit empty air.

[Half-Elementalization].

Ferguson’s special skill.

Any elemental martial artist from the [Profound Heart Stream] who reached A-rank could switch to a state of Half-Elementalization. At S-rank, they could achieve complete elementalization, allowing them to evade most physical damage and granting them various other special functions.

In this state, Ferguson’s body became plasma. His movement path was filled with "dissection zones" of continuously discharging lightning that lingered for a considerable time.

Anyone with insufficient defenses who got too close would be instantly scorched and electrolyzed by the lightning.

At this very moment, Zhang Ji found himself in the midst of such a lightning field.

The space around him was filled with electricity. In the moisture-rich air, bolts of lightning linked together, their terrifying power constantly eating away at his Qi Body.

’What if someone were to drain all the water?’

The corner of Zhang Ji’s mouth curled up. With a thought, he unleashed [Violent Waterfall Strike].

Under the influence of his immense Spirit, all the moisture within a radius of around fifteen miles was gathered, forming a raging waterfall above Zhang Ji’s head.

Then, Zhang Ji made a token gesture of striking at Ferguson with it.

Ferguson was extremely fast, so of course he wouldn’t be hit.

Instead, the waterfall inundated the battlefield below, forming a small river.

In contrast, the air became incredibly dry.

The conductivity for Ferguson’s lightning dropped drastically, and his lightning dissection zones began to dissipate rapidly.

The [Profound Heart Stream]’s weakness of being overly reliant on the environment was laid bare.

Players usually solved this problem by carrying a personal dimension that contained the corresponding element.

However, in a fighting tournament where items were forbidden, they were still at a disadvantage.

"Hm?"

Ferguson’s expression shifted slightly. He hadn’t expected Zhang Ji to counter him with such a method.

Just then, Zhang Ji pushed out with one palm, releasing a gigantic, purple Divine Dragon.

"ROAR—!"

As the Divine Dragon approached, Ferguson showed no intention of blocking it head-on. The magnetic field around him shifted, and in the next instant, a vapor cone formed where he had been standing.

"BOOM!"

In a flash, Ferguson was back on the ground.

[Divine Speed: Thunder Instant]!

This technique used magnetic fields and ionized air channels to achieve super-speed movement with almost no resistance. His maximum speed could exceed Mach 50, but at that velocity, he couldn’t control his direction.

But even under normal conditions, he could move at fifteen to thirty times the speed of sound.

This was a great deal faster than the other Saint Kings.

Zhang Ji’s Spirit particles remained locked onto Ferguson. Guided by these particles, his Divine Dragon changed direction in mid-air and dove toward the ground.

Meanwhile, Ferguson, now near the ground, activated a rotating magnetic field. Countless bits of sand and dirt began to circle him, rapidly turning into a swirling current of plasma, ring after ring.

[Magnetic Storm Star Ring]!

This was Ferguson’s defensive skill, but it was also a means of attack.

By using electromagnetism and lightning to imbue matter with high-velocity and high-temperature energy, it could block most attacks. It could also launch this matter outward, much like a rocket using a planet’s gravity for a slingshot.

"BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!"

The plasma star rings collided with the purple Divine Dragon. The rings were rapidly worn down, but the Divine Dragon Zhang Ji had unleashed remained as massive as ever!

In his current state, he was no longer afraid of a battle of attrition.

Suddenly, Zhang Ji sensed something change behind him.

"SWISH!"

"BOOM!"

Abruptly, Zhang Ji spun around and threw a punch.

Somehow, Ferguson had used his high-speed movement to get behind Zhang Ji and, using electromagnetic acceleration, had thrown a heavy punch.

[Super Electromagnetic Cannon Break Fist]!

His half-elementalized arm, wreathed in lightning, blasted forward.

"BOOM! RUMBLE!"

The two fists met. The force threw both Zhang Ji and Ferguson back. Lightning erupted from the point of impact, and Ferguson’s right arm completely disintegrated. However, in his elementalized state, he quickly gathered energy to reform it.

Ferguson’s face was filled with astonishment. He never imagined that a blow like that would be neutralized head-on by Zhang Ji, and that he would even come out on the losing end.

"Young man, what’s the point of all these fancy tricks? There is only one true skill: the constant integration of force!"

Cyril stepped onto the void, arriving on the battlefield in an instant.

His aura was so perfectly restrained that not a hint of it leaked out. Even his external Spirit particles could not be detected.

This was because he had already entered [Spiritualization]!

Cyril’s pupils glowed with a blue-white halo—the external manifestation of Spiritualization pushed to its absolute limit, with energy flowing freely through his body.

If one could observe him up close, they would even see that same blue halo covering his skin.

"SWISH! SWISH-SWISH!"

Cyril charged straight at Zhang Ji, but in the blink of an eye, he appeared behind him and swung his palm.

In the superconductive state of [Spiritualization], he could briefly trigger a quantum tunneling effect, allowing him to ignore physical inertia and perform Z-shaped teleportation.

Conventional matter could not stop him at all.

The effect was somewhat similar to a spatial skill like [Void Walk].

But spatial-type combat skills could only be accessed at S-rank, which made Cyril’s ability somewhat beyond the standard.

"BANG! BOOM!"

Zhang Ji reacted with incredible speed, trading a palm strike with the Spiritualized old man.

The old man didn’t move an inch, but Zhang Ji was forced back some distance.

’The feeling is bizarre.’

’My own power was almost completely neutralized, yet all of Cyril’s power landed squarely on me.’

Although Zhang Ji could also use Spiritualization, he hadn’t developed it to this level.

"SWISH!"

"BANG!"

"SWISH!"

"SWISH!"

Cyril’s figure flickered in and out of existence, constantly reappearing in the air to land another blow on Zhang Ji.

Although Zhang Ji managed to neutralize each strike, he was beginning to feel overwhelmed.

In the blink of an eye, a net woven from countless strands of blue energy appeared around Zhang Ji.

[Spiritual Cage]. Using Spiritualization to rapidly export one’s internal energy and have it briefly linger in the void, forming a cage capable of slicing through anything.

It was one of the few energy-based offensive techniques of the [Spiritual Intent Sect].

Under normal circumstances, not even Giles could break free from Cyril’s binding in an instant.

And after binding his opponent, the next logical step was obviously to charge up a finishing move.

’Just what kind of technique requires charging up even with [Spiritualization]?’

Cyril supported his right arm with his left hand. He brought the index and middle fingers of his right hand together and aimed them at Zhang Ji as blue energy gathered at his fingertips.

[Super Spirit Indication: Breaking Army]!

"WHOOSH! SWISH!"

A spiraling blast of energy shot out, heading straight for Zhang Ji inside the Spiritual Cage.

This was a technique of supremely condensed power, and it was Cyril’s ultimate move.

According to the official data Zhang Ji knew, this single blast of energy could pierce through a five-kilometer-thick layer of rock.

After observing Zhang Ji’s previous fights, Cyril had opened with his ultimate move, showing no intention of testing the waters.

’In that case, I guess I should get a little serious, too!’

The corner of Zhang Ji’s mouth curled up. In an instant, a conceptual aura enveloped the entire world—an aura of compassion.

But this compassion was different from the conventional kind.

Zhang Ji saw himself as a Buddha, bestowing his own brand of compassion and judgment upon all creation!

This was [Flower-Blooming Buddha: Extinction]!!!

He raised his palm and thrust it forward!

"BOOM!"

A purple Buddha palm, hundreds of meters wide, shot out. It instantly shattered the Spiritual Cage and collided with the Breaking Army Finger.

Although his palm was an area-of-effect attack and the Breaking Army Finger was a piercing blast, Zhang Ji had already mastered [Flower-Blooming Buddha: Extinction] to the point of crystallization.

Therefore, even though he was using a wide attack against a focused one, he still held the upper hand.

"BANG! PFFT!"

The power of the Breaking Army Finger was annihilated by the massive purple Palm Seal. The seal continued onward. Cyril’s figure flickered as he dodged the attack, and the Palm Seal flew straight past, reaching the edge of the Ultimate Fighting arena before exploding violently.

An endless gale swept through the area. Cracks appeared on the arena’s protective outer walls. The raging blizzard came to a sudden halt, blown away by the force of the palm.