Lan Tianxiong and the others were stunned.
A secret weapon?
What kind of secret weapon was so powerful that it could allow Lan Junjie to contend against Li Qingxuan, this peerless prodigy!
But it was too late to think about it now.
Lan Junjie had already stepped onto the battle stage, and this battle was unavoidable.
...
On the battle stage, Li Qingxuan's sharp eyes fell on Lan Junjie. He frowned slightly, unable to comprehend where Lan Junjie got the courage to stand before him.
He was Li Qingxuan!
Even a year ago, Lan Junjie was no match for him.
Let alone the current him!
"Get down yourself. In my eyes, you are like an ant. Let your brother-in-law come! I can wait for him for a while."
Li Qingxuan said with a hint of disdain.
Lan Junjie snorted, "You want to fight my brother-in-law? Get past me first! I advise you not to be so arrogant, thinking you are the only genius in the world! Lan Junjie has never bowed to anyone in this life except my brother-in-law! Not even you, Li Qingxuan."
Li Qingxuan's eyes turned cold upon hearing this.
"Fine, you court death, don't blame anyone!"
"You attack first, otherwise, by the time I make my move, you won't even have a chance to."
Li Qingxuan's words were filled with immense contempt.
"Arrogant!"
A surge of anger welled up in Lan Junjie's heart.
That fire crystal vein originally belonged to their Lan family.
If it weren't for the City Lord's Mansion interfering, how could it have been put up for contention at the Jiangnan City Martial Arts Tournament!
Moreover, Li Qingxuan's smug look of certainty made him furious to the extreme.
Thief! Traitor!
Boom!
A powerful martial qi surged up from Lan Junjie's body. Although he hadn't truly reached the late stage of Qi Refining, he was not far from it.
He quickly drew his saber and slashed, and a sharp saber light flew towards Li Qingxuan from a distance.
Forty-eight steps of Qi Penetrating the Body!
"Like an ant."
Li Qingxuan sneered softly, his eyes filled with even greater disdain.
With a flick of his finger, the saber strike, which could cleave a ten-thousand-jin boulder, was easily shattered.
He pressed down on the void with his backhand, and a qi palm print, a meter and a half square, instantly condensed and suppressed down towards Lan Junjie's head.
Li Qingxuan's move immediately shocked many people.
Even someone as powerful as Jin Wudao could only condense a qi palm print of one meter square, and his speed was far inferior to Li Qingxuan's.
It seemed that between Jin Wudao and Li Qingxuan, there was still a significant gap, even though both were at the peak of Qi Refining.
Boom!
The powerful qi palm print descended. Lan Junjie's face was extremely solemn, and he quickly used his saber to block the suppressing qi palm print.
However, the gap in cultivation between him and Li Qingxuan was too vast.
Even a casual strike from Li Qingxuan was not something he could resist.
The qi palm print seemed to carry immense weight, pressing down continuously.
Lan Junjie felt as if his arms were about to break, his legs trembled, and his bones creaked under the unbearable pressure.
"Junjie!"
"Son!"
"Young Master!"
The Lan family members cried out in alarm.
"Ah!"
Lan Junjie roared, bit his tongue fiercely, and sprayed a mouthful of blood onto his long saber.
Instantly, blood-red patterns flashed on the saber, faintly illuminating an extremely complex blood-colored talisman.
Following that, a blood-colored saber light smashed through the qi palm print.
Li Qingxuan was slightly surprised.
What was going on?
Lan Junjie was clearly about to be suppressed by his palm, but how did he suddenly unleash such powerful force?
The strong individuals in the entire audience were also extremely surprised.
"It seems the saber in your hand is a bit strange. Did Ling Fan tamper with it?"
Li Qingxuan pondered for a moment and said.
"You're scared now, aren't you! How can you comprehend the methods of my brother-in-law."
Lan Junjie's mouth was bleeding, and he was panting, but he stood straight with a proud expression.
"Hmph, overestimating yourself! It's not your own strength, is it? I'd like to see how much vital blood you have to nourish that saber!"
Another palm print condensed. For Li Qingxuan, it consumed almost no strength.
Lan Junjie's expression was solemn, knowing that he couldn't drag this out, or he would surely die.
Boom!
Lan Junjie held the saber with both hands, and his entire body rushed towards Li Qingxuan like a whirlwind.
Crack!
The blood-colored saber light slashed out again, shattering the palm print.
However, his movement was also halted.
It was during this brief pause that several more palm prints whistled towards him.
Li Qingxuan stood with his hands behind his back, a playful expression like a cat toying with a mouse.
"Bastard!"
Lan Junjie was furious. Li Qingxuan had never treated him as a true opponent from beginning to end, but was merely toying with him.
"Damn it! I'll kill you, you bastard."
Lan Junjie fiercely slashed his saber across his own arm.
Instantly, blood appeared, but strangely, no blood flowed out; it seemed to be completely absorbed by the saber.
The saber body erupted with a brilliant blood-red light!
Several consecutive palm prints were cleaved by the blood saber.
Lan Junjie also managed to get within five steps of Li Qingxuan.
The blood-colored saber light flashed and fiercely slashed towards Li Qingxuan.
Li Qingxuan was slightly surprised and gracefully retreated two steps.
The spot where he had been standing had a huge pit blasted out by the blood saber.
"Good!"
Many strong individuals cheered in unison.
From the time Li Qingxuan started fighting until now, he had defeated top prodigies like Huo Wuguang, Ding Ku, and Wu Jianxin, without even taking a single step back.
To think that Lan Junjie of the Lan family had achieved this.
"You good-for-nothing brat, planning to fight to the death, are you!"
A ruthless glint flashed in Li Qingxuan's eyes.
A solid qi palm print condensed. This was not comparable to the casual palm prints he had made earlier; every detail was clear.
It was one of the ultimate techniques of the Li family of the Jiangnan City Lord's Mansion.
Yellow Grade Middle Rank Martial Skill, White Cloud Palm!
The palm force was gentle, but the after-force was extremely strong.
The palm print roared towards him. Lan Junjie raised his long saber, appearing somewhat labored, as if the saber was becoming heavier and heavier.
But he did not hesitate and still slashed out with his saber.
The expected scene of the palm print being shattered did not appear. The palm print possessed an extremely tenacious resilience, and even the blood-colored saber light showed signs of gradual disintegration.
Lan Junjie slashed out five consecutive times before finally shattering the palm print.
At this moment, his face was already pale, devoid of any color.
"Just a spent force!"
Li Qingxuan sneered. He could still unleash many such White Cloud Palm strikes.
But how many more saber strikes could Lan Junjie unleash?
Even if he were made of iron, how many nails could he drive?
"I can defeat you!"
Lan Junjie gritted his teeth, a look of desperation flashing in his eyes. He picked up his long saber and cut his right arm again. Instantly, the long saber greedily absorbed his blood, and his right arm visibly shriveled, appearing like a mummified arm.
The blood-red light on the saber body surged unprecedentedly.
Even the blood-colored talisman on the saber body, after appearing, did not disappear but was clearly displayed.
Lan Junjie staggered, almost falling to the ground, his face completely bloodless!
Yet, he still tightly gripped the saber that had completely turned red. A dangerous power fluctuation, even enough to alarm peak Qi Refining realm experts, quietly permeated the air.
Li Qingxuan's pupils contracted slightly.
This was the first time he felt a sense of danger.
This saber strike was enough to kill a peak Qi Refining realm expert.
"Boom!"
The saber light was astonishing. Everyone stared blankly at the blood-colored saber light that spanned the battle stage. Even the hard battle stage was torn open with a gully, almost split in two.
"No way..."
"Is Lan Junjie really going to make a comeback!"
"This saber strike is so powerful!"
"Li Qingxuan is in danger!"
"How will he block this saber strike!"
At that moment, countless people stared intently at the battle stage, their eyes filled with immense shock.
Just as the saber light was about to fall on Li Qingxuan.
Suddenly, a terrifying fluctuation, unprecedented in its intensity, spread out from his body like a tide.
His entire being seemed to transform into a furnace of qi and blood, radiating vigorous life force all over.
Blood-colored qi surged towards the sky like a rainbow!
"I am in the Profound Gang Realm, how can an ant like you defeat me!"
Bang!
With a palm strike, the blood-colored saber light, capable of killing peak Qi Refining realm experts, was shattered. Following that, Lan Junjie's body flew high into the air like a tattered sack.
At that moment, the entire audience fell silent.
Li Qingxuan was not at the peak of Qi Refining.
He had stepped into the Profound Gang Realm!
A young martial arts master.