Chapter 85: Han Chong's Battle Intent

  When they heard Hu Gao's words, which were almost an agreement, everyone was shocked. This was a strong man who wouldn't lose to Yun Feng in terms of strength! How could Hu Gao, who was only at the seventh stage of the Condensed Shadow Realm, dare to agree? Was he joking?

  However, after carefully recalling what Hu Gao had said, they suddenly understood that he was actually looking for a treasure.

  He's really a greedy guy, isn't he afraid of suffering because of his greed?

  Everyone shook their heads, thinking that Hu Gao was asking for trouble and truly foolish.

  Yun Feng's eyes flickered slightly, but he didn't say anything else. He now had some understanding of Hu Gao and knew that the latter would never do something without being sure of it.

  "What's with the hair?"

  Han Cong was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly understood how he could have forgotten this. From the beginning, Hu Gao had been emphasizing that only when a warrior takes out his trump card will Yun Feng accept the challenge, but Han Cong had been so focused on challenging him that he had actually forgotten about the trump card.

  Just as he was about to casually take out a treasure as a gift, Han Chong saw Hu Gao's gaze directed at him, with a somewhat ill intention, and his expression suddenly became somewhat unpleasant.

  He could see it clearly, Hu Gao's eyes were conveying a message to him. If the reward he took out couldn't satisfy him, it would be difficult for him to accept the challenge. Anyway, he had plenty of reasons to refuse.

  "Bastard..."

  At this moment, even if it was Han Chong's usual calm and composed nature, he couldn't help but curse out loud.

  He is a genius of the Congying Realm, comparable to the strong ones in the Tongtian Realm. It's an honor for Hu Gao to be challenged by him, but instead of being excited, Hu Gao wants to take advantage of him and even asks to fight him as if he's begging for it...

  Although Han Chong couldn't help but admit that he really did want to have a fight with him.

  Look at the treasure piled up in front of Hu Gao, which is about one meter high. Han Chong's eyelids couldn't help but jump twice. He now has all the treasures he should have, and the treasures on his body are not much better than those in front of him.

  Suddenly, his fingers trembled slightly, as if he had thought of something. He gritted his teeth heavily and lifted his hand to remove a silver ring from his finger.

  "Brother, no way! This space ring is a city... but it was Uncle's gift to you on your 15th birthday, how can you use it as a bet?"

  Han Cong just took off the space ring, and Han Ning's face changed drastically behind him, hastily coming forward to say.

  Everyone's face showed a shocked expression when they saw the space ring on Han Chong's hand.

  Space Ring, the value of one is over a million gold coins, but no one thinks that Hu Gao can win because Han Chong's strength is too strong, even Yun Feng may not be able to defeat him, and Hu Gao is just a Condensed Shadow Realm Seventh-Stage Peak Martial Artist, how can he possibly win?

  "These things are nothing but external objects to me, my mind is made up, no need to say more."

  Han Chong waved his hand to stop Han Ning from continuing, then looked at Hu Gao: "I'll use this space ring as a bet. If you defeat me, not only will this space ring belong to you, but all the treasures inside it will also be yours."

  "Space ring? What's inside?" Hu Gao was so excited that he almost jumped up, it was as if he lacked something and someone would send it to him, just when he was about to doze off, someone sent a pillow.

  "That's right, although I didn't deliberately collect various treasures, but I believe the treasures inside won't be less than these in front of you..."

  Han Chong smiled casually, seeming to take these things lightly.

  He had long since seen through this point, external objects are ultimately external objects, his strength can be improved so quickly, except for some time-consuming yuan force accumulation, he will never use external objects to enhance his own strength.

  "Alright, I accept your challenge."

  Hu Gao didn't hesitate any longer and readily agreed, "However, I'm a bit curious to know why you want to challenge me, and for the sake of challenging me, you're even willing to take out your spatial ring?"

  "There aren't that many whys, I just want to challenge you because I think you're special. Yun Feng is indeed very strong, but I already have a clear understanding of his abilities, defeating him might be difficult, but the probability isn't low either. However, you..."

  Han Cong looked at Hu Gao, his eyebrows slightly furrowed, and a fierce aura burst out from him. "I don't know why, but although your surface cultivation is weak, I feel that you are very dangerous, even more so than the feeling Yun Feng gave me. So... I want to challenge you."

  Han Cong thought back to everything Hu Gao had done since entering the valley, using his unique insight to deflect the fire poison with one sword, explosively jumping over the wind tunnel, utilizing Yun Feng's designed gamble, and sealing off Guangying Wang with one sword...

  Everything seemed to reveal Hu Gao's extraordinary and ruthless insight, if all this were placed on the old man with the pipe, it would be nothing special, but since Hu Gao was only a fourteen or fifteen year old youth, he had such thoughts, and Han Chong, who considered himself a genius, couldn't help but feel competitive.

  Of course, Han Chong's thoughts were not so complicated. His cultivation was high, but his mind was relatively pure and simple, and he couldn't compare to Han Ning in terms of thinking things through.

  "Is it just because of this?"

  Hu Gao couldn't help but roll his eyes, weirdos appear every year, and this year there are especially many. He didn't expect that Han Chong wanted to challenge him just because he gave him a dangerous feeling.

  What a boring person.

  "Alright, I know why you want to challenge me, so bring it on, punk."

  Hu Gao nodded slightly and stopped talking, walked forward, pulled out the Wuying Sword, and a faint aura naturally emanated from his body.

  At this time, he had already mobilized all the energy in his body. His true strength was only comparable to that of a ninth-level warrior at the Condensed Shadow Realm, and facing Han Chong, a genius who could be compared to a Transcendent Realm warrior, even if he used all his means, it was not certain whether he could defeat him.

  But Hu Gao wasn't worried because he still had a killer move...

  Wind and Thunder Pearl

  This Wind Thunder Pearl is no ordinary treasure, if it were to be detonated, even a martial artist in the Connecting Body Realm would not be able to withstand it, let alone Han Chong.

  "You're quite straightforward, I hope you won't disappoint me."

  Feeling the aura emanating from Hu Gao's body, Han Chong slightly shook his head. If it were just based on this, Hu Gao was far from being his match.

  As soon as the voice fell, a terrifying Yuan force fluctuation suddenly burst out from Han Chong's body. The green Yuan force flashed out and covered his entire body, accompanied by a strong breaking wind sound. He had already charged towards Hu Gao, with the long spear in his hand like an angry dragon stabbing at the latter.

  Rumble...

  An ordinary attack, yet it was as if a rolling wave had been brought along with it, striking down and causing the space to tremble.

  Everyone's face changed color at this scene, even Yun Feng, who had retreated to the back, suddenly became serious.

  Han Chong's strength is really too strong, absolutely won't be weaker than him by half a point, if he really starts fighting, he really has no confidence in defeating Han Chong.

  "I don't know if Hu Gao's little girl can withstand Han Chong's attack." The old man with the pipe also stopped smoking, and his aged face showed a worried look.

  "Can the cultivation of the Seventh Stage of the Realm of Condensed Shadows withstand it?"

  Looking at the red elemental force slowly released from Hu Gao's body, everyone shook their heads. This battle for the space ring was likely to end in disappointment for all.

  After all, Hu Gao's Condensed Shadow Realm was at its seventh stage peak, and it was fundamentally impossible for him to withstand this attack.

  "Your power is quite strong, but if you want to defeat me, you'll have to bring out your true skills."

  However, just as everyone thought that Hu Gao couldn't withstand it and was about to retreat, the latter's body flashed slightly, and the long sword in his hand casually drew two strokes, and the yuan force attack like a wave was shattered, not even hurting him half a finger.

  The broken spear style of [Dugu Jiu Jian], Hu Gao was somewhat relieved that Han Chong and Guo De Yun were both using spears. Although the current power of [Dugu Jiu Jian] had a few parts of his own imagination, it was far from being as powerful as he had expected, but his hand-eye coordination was still there.

  War Guo De Yun grinds a sword, looks at the cloud abundance to understand a sword, and adds Hu Gao's own foundation there. This sword breaks the gun, naturally it comes easily. Hu Gao even thinks that if he wins against Han Chong like this, won't his "Gun Breaking Style" be complete?

  Everyone was shocked, instantly realizing they had misjudged him. This small martial artist who seemed to be only at the seventh stage of the Condensed Shadow Realm's peak was absolutely hiding a huge secret; otherwise, how could he possibly withstand Han Chong?

  "Alright, it seems you have some tricks up your sleeve, actually being able to reverse control the yuan force I attacked with. Let me try this move again, Flip Clouds and Pouring Rain!"

  Han Chong shouted in excitement, his eyes gleaming with a fierce light, the battle flames on his body burning even more fiercely. Hu Gao had indeed not disappointed him.

  "Hmm...".

  "Rumble, rumble, rumble!"

  Han Cong closed in on Hu Gao, his long spear dancing non-stop, its movements so dense they seemed to block out the wind. The terrifying Yuan energy fluctuations directly brought about a strong gust of wind that swept across the surroundings, sealing off all four directions and leaving no room for retreat.

  This set of techniques looks very simple, and its power is not necessarily great, probably only at the lower level of human rank, but the perfect connection between moves, that kind of coherence, as well as the manipulation of the heavens and earth's energy, made all the warriors around widen their eyes.

  This is absolutely not an ordinary person's lower-grade Yuan Gong key.

  Or rather, Han Chong absolutely did not cultivate this Human Stage Lower Grade Yuan Technique to an ordinary level.

  If he wasn't mistaken, Han Chong had already reached the realm of transformation through his cultivation.

  The transformed boundary of the lower-grade Yuan Jue, its power may not be as strong as that of the upper-grade Yuan Jue in the small accomplishment boundary, but during combat, the attack of the transformed boundary's Yuan Jue is the most troublesome, because it's hard to find a way to break through it.

  "Hu Gao may have some endurance too, but looking at his current state, the battle is probably almost over."

  Everyone was astonished, then shook their heads and sighed. Who would have thought that Han Chong could display the transformation boundary's secret so quickly? Such a secret even gave ordinary Body Cultivation Realm warriors headaches; how could Hu Gao possibly break through it? It was absolutely only possible to admit defeat.

  "Not bad marksmanship, a realm of transformation, you also try this sword's subtlety."

  Hu Gao let out a light cry, the sword's edge suddenly changed, weaving in and out of the dense gun shadows at an extremely strange angle, stabbing out to kill. His body also followed, bursting out, although he was brought away with a thread of blood light, but his entire person's spirit hadn't been affected in the slightest. Under the shocked gazes of the surrounding crowd, he instead charged towards Han Chong to stab and kill.

  "Take another sword from me!"

  Hú Gāo's entire body glowed with a fierce red light as the two energies were merged and transmitted into the Wú Yǐng Sword.

  The winds rise! The winds gather! Dry and clear! Break through the rocks! Dot of cyan!