Chapter 1224 - Tough Battle, Part One

“Look, Chen Fan is fighting someone!”

On the Tianwu Continent, the crowd stared at the sky screen, watching Chen Fan trading blows with Ye Yuanming.

“Damn, who is this guy? He’s so strong, breaking through Chen Fan’s attack in a flash!”

Gasps spread through the crowd as they watched Ye Yuanming shatter Chen Fan’s Hand of Demon like soft tofu.

Everyone knew the might of Chen Fan and the terror of his Hand of Demon.

Surprisingly, that same attack couldn’t even hold for a moment against Ye Yuanming.

Worry immediately rippled across the Tianwu Continent.

“

Heh

, the Tianwu Continent’s Chen Fan is really unlucky to run into Ye Yuanming.”

“I have heard that Chen Fan has Legendary realm combat strength and has mastered over 120 threads of law. He’s not weak.”

“So what? Are you forgetting who Ye Yuanming is? He is a monstrous genius, second only to Lǚ Wangxian. And he’s also in the peak Lesser Legendary realm. Even if Chen Fan possesses Legendary realm combat strength, in front of Ye Yuanming, it’s useless against someone like that.”

“You have a point... Look, Ye Yuanming destroyed Chen Fan’s attack. The two of them are on completely different levels!”

“

Hmph

, Chen Fan won’t escape disaster this time!”

The people of the Tianxuan Continent, especially those from the Tianxuan Sacred Sect, smiled coldly.

Chen Fan’s name had long since spread throughout the Tianxuan Sacred Sect.

Everyone knew that the losses their sect had suffered on the Tianwu Continent could be blamed on one person—Chen Fan.

Before the Immortal Draft Assembly began, the Tianxuan Sacred Sect had issued a clear order to the people of the Tianxuan Continent: kill Chen Fan on sight if encountered during the event.

That alone showed the depth of their hatred toward him.

......

Puchi.

Chen Fan’s heart jolted as he saw his Hand of Demon pierced and destroyed almost instantly.

Although the Hand of Demon wasn’t an unrivaled martial art, Ye Yuanming was the first person to crush it so easily ever since he had gained mastery of it.

This alone revealed the vast gap between him and Ye Yuanming.

After destroying the Hand of Demon, the black battle spear did not slow down.

It tore through the air, sending wave after wave of qi pressure surging toward Chen Fan.

The momentum was simply suffocating.

Chen Fan’s muscles tensed up as the spear seemed to lock onto his very soul. At the last moment, he dodged with a flash.

“Think you can dodge again?” Ye Yuanming smiled coldly, his eyes shining with a sharp, cold glint.

Three more black battle spears shook. They tore through the air, rushing toward Chen Fan with boundless might.

As a peerless monster of the Tianxuan Continent, Ye Yuanming’s talent was second only to Lǚ Wangxian.

Before Lǚ Wangxian rose, he had reigned as the number one figure of the younger generation, idolized by countless juniors.

Even after Lǚ Wangxian rose to prominence, he couldn’t completely eclipse Ye Yuanming’s brilliance. He was only a step away from reaching the Greater Legendary realm, and his strength was far above Lǚ Wangxian’s.

He could, at the very least, become a Void Immortal Supreme and reign as one of the rulers of the Tianxuan Continent.

The terrifying black battle spears were like furious black dragons, roaring as they flitted toward Chen Fan with a destructive momentum.

The three black battle spears were in a triangular formation, sealing all of Chen Fan’s paths of retreat. There was no path for him to escape.

This was overpowering.

Overpowering with pure strength!

Chen Fan did not panic at the critical moment. He remained calm and collected.

As the three black battle spears pierced through the air, he moved like a fish gliding through water, slipping through the gaps between them like a passing shadow.

“Die!”

He arrived in front of Ye Yuanming, his aura surging violently. Space trembled as starry light radiated from him, flowing like a river of starlight, gorgeous and mysterious.

Back at the Road of Ancient Monuments, he had comprehended a divine Dao art related to the stars. When taken to the limit, it could grasp the sun, moon, and the stars.

“Huh?” Ye Yuanming hadn’t expected Chen Fan to dodge all three spears unscathed, much less close the distance.

Just as he was about to strike, Chen Fan suddenly split into over a dozen identical figures.

This, too, was a divine Dao art he had mastered from a monument; the same one he used to defeat the Ziyang Palace’s Zi Dongyang.

Each copy of Chen Fan looked real yet flickered with illusion. They moved in perfect sync, unleashing devastating killing techniques.

Numerous star-picking palm seals erupted with resplendent, intense lights. It was like the stars had exploded. Runic lights flashed brilliantly, each palm strike brimming with terrifying power as they rushed toward Ye Yuanming.

“

Hmm

?”

Ye Yuanming’s expression finally changed.

It wasn’t fear, but a slight surprise.

The countless star-picking palm seals weren’t illusory, but real.

Every palm carried enough destructive power to collapse the stars and rivers, pressing toward him.

“I underestimated you!”

Ye Yuanming straightened his face. Chen Fan’s sudden counterattack had caught him off guard, but it still wasn’t enough to pose a real threat.

He was a peak Lesser Legendary realm expert, not to mention a peerless monster-class figure. If he went all out, he could even trade a few blows with a Greater Legendary realm expert.

Chen Fan’s attack was so powerful that even ordinary early-stage or even middle-stage Lesser Legendary realm experts would not dare to face them head-on.

Unfortunately, his cultivation level was too low. If he had reached the middle or late stage of the Lesser Legendary realm, the attack could have threatened Ye Yuanming.

“Too bad, it won’t work!”

Cold light flashed in Ye Yuanming’s eyes. A terrifying aura spread out from him. His right hand balled up into a fist. As many as nine hundred threads of law gathered in his fist, erupting with an astonishing aura as he swung it violently.

Rumble!

It was as if heaven and earth would crumble under this punch.

Chen Fan’s thousands of star-picking palm seals exploded one after another, unable to withstand the impact. They disintegrated under the overwhelming force.

The violent collision caused the ground to shake. Streams of violent qi waves exploded in an instant, fiercely sweeping across the sky.

Pfft!

He spewed a mouthful of fresh blood furiously. His hand felt as if it were fracturing inch by inch.

A brutal force tore through him, nearly ripping his arm off and blowing him up.

His body bent like a shrimp under the impact. He was hurled through the air, blood spraying behind him.