I Outworked the Entire Cultivation World

Chapter 804: Chapter 748: Doing Harm Without Benefit (Requesting Yue Tickets)

The battle between Li Shen Zhi and Zhao Benlei began at a climax, with Zhao Benlei living up to his name, moving swiftly and launching a powerful attack right from the start, killing intent surging.

Faced with such a formidable opponent, Li Shen Zhi’s cunning plans could not be implemented, and he could only react passively, scattering a large number of black and white pieces to array.

Zhao Benlei swung his sword, and the Sword Aura, like lightning, radiated from the center outward, striking each of Li Shen Zhi’s pieces with precision amidst the strange howling noise.

The pieces landed, and Zhao Benlei was already wielding his sword in front of Li Shen Zhi.

Clang!

The Silver Thunder Longsword collided with the earth-yellow shield light blossoming around Li Shen Zhi, the residual force blowing the disheveled hair on their foreheads as Li Shen Zhi frowned and Zhao Benlei’s piercing gaze clashed, sparking between their eyes.

Li Shen Zhi hooked his hand at his side, and the pieces on the ground quickly returned to position on the arena floor as a chessboard, causing the platform to vibrate, earth-yellow stone pillars rising like bamboo shoots after a rain.

Li Shen Zhi had a single Earth Spirit Root, and earth attribute moves were always his strongest.

Zhao Benlei’s gaze sharpened, a surge of Thunder Power erupted from him, like the collapse of mountains and rivers, an unstoppable force, shattering the defenses before Li Shen Zhi.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Ninth-Layer Body Protection Gang Qi on Li Shen Zhi was shattered in succession, and he was instantly engulfed by the overwhelming thunder.

”Senior brother!” Tang Weimian exclaimed.

Fang Yuxing down below marvelled, ”Such strong Sword Intent!”

Beside him, Lu Nanzhi squinted with her arms around her sword, and just like Jiang Yuebai, she appeared calm.

On the platform, as the thunder light dissipated, beneath Zhao Benlei’s sword lay a pile of shattered stones, with no sign of Li Shen Zhi.

A stone pillar rose under his feet, causing Zhao Benlei to quickly retreat, and turning, the surrounding scene drastically changed, the sky turned dark, and stone pillars were everywhere.

He was already trapped in Li Shen Zhi’s Array.

Zhao Benlei surveyed his surroundings, everywhere he looked was an endless array of stone pillars, with no signs identifying the platform.

This was clearly an Illusion Array that trapped him without a way to escape.

This was one of Li Shen Zhi’s strategies against opponents—avoiding their sharpness, dragging it out!

Every match at the Qingyun Conference platform had a time limit; if Zhao Benlei couldn’t break his Array within an hour, according to the conference rules, Zhao Benlei would be deemed lost.

This was currently the safest strategy for Li Shen Zhi.

Li Shen Zhi hid in the darkness, looking at the earth’s chessboard with countless stone pillars while Zhao Benlei struggled.

However, Li Shen Zhi obviously underestimated the ’straightforwardness’ of a Sword Cultivator.

Zhao Benlei didn’t think about breaking the Array; faced with the boundless stone forest, his eyes sharpened, and he launched himself off the ground.

His long sword shot through the air, then Zhao Benlei formed a sword technique with two fingers, with dark clouds rolling over his head, wind and thunder roaring.

The sword technique completed, he swung his arm downwards.

Thunder rumbled!

Vast thunder tides converged under the guidance of his sword, like Tribulation Crossing, entirely striking Zhao Benlei.

As the sword rang, Zhao Benlei merged man, sword, and thunder into one, transforming above the stone pillars into an enormous sword of powerful thunder light.

Its terrifying momentum twisted the air, the Protection Array on the platform was pushed to its limit, with distorted thunder light continuously erupting from the giant sword, striking the Protective Barrier.

”Man and Sword Unity, a move from Divinity Transformation!”

As a Sword Cultivator, Fang Yuxing again exclaimed, swallowed hard, realizing that without Divinity Transformation, one couldn’t possibly block it!

Tang Weimian became tense once more, habitually reaching beside her but finding empty air, turning to see Jiang Yuebai had already moved over to Lu Nanzhi’s side.

Thunder boomed!

The giant sword relentlessly swept across the stone forest below, large patches of stone pillars shattered under the fierce thunder light and Sword Aura.

Even though the ground could continuously produce new stone pillars, they would still be flattened by the domineering giant sword in mid-air.

Before absolute strength, all cunning tactics are futile.

The spectators were dumbstruck, hair standing on end, the strength of a Sword Cultivator was undeniably displayed at this moment.

Even Jiang Yuebai couldn’t help but be amazed; this was impressed, especially since Zhao Benlei could hold a tie with Lu Nanzhi, whose momentum was indeed terrifying. If it were him, he might have to deploy his Domain to cope.

Bang!

The final sword slashed down, the giant sword exploded along with the Great Array, nearly splitting the entire platform in half with Zhao Benlei’s single sword.

Li Shen Zhi staggered out of nowhere, surrounded by shattered black and white chess pieces.

Zhao Benlei surged through the air, preparing to end the match.

Silver Thunder Sword Aura grew larger in Li Shen Zhi’s pupils, lightning danced like snakes, blocking all his escape routes.

In that instant, countless thoughts raced through Li Shen Zhi’s mind.

The struggle not to shame his master, the impotent disparity in strength, the guilt of disappointing everyone’s expectations...

But, never did he worry about his own loss.

With thoughts racing, Li Shen Zhi bitterly smiled, thinking since he couldn’t win, he shouldn’t lose for no reason—at least, he should secure a chance for others to win.

With a wave of his hand, the fifty Thunder Pearls Jiang Yuebai had given him, along with the fifty different Fire Talismans he had stored himself, spread around him like stars.

Seeing this scene, Muh Wushuang turned pale; at such a close range, all these Thunder Pearls and Fire Talismans exploding would also engulf Li Shen Zhi.

Yet Jiang Yuebai just squinted, and sure enough, Li Shen Zhi raised his hand at lightning speed and shouted loudly.

”I surrender!”

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Massive explosions roared up to the sky, silver thunder tides and red fire waves clashed fiercely on the platform, the battle was relentless and the momentum terrifying.

When the thunder tides and fire waves dissipated, everyone saw Li Shen Zhi standing unharmed on the shattered platform, surrounded by protective green light, while Zhao Benlei across from him, supporting himself with his sword on the ground, was half blackened, clutching his chest, blood at the corner of his mouth.

It looked like he was heavily injured!

Li Shen Zhi chuckled, ”Sorry, I conceded, the match is yours.”

On the platform of the Qingyun Conference, as long as an opponent conceded, they would be protected by the Protective Great Array, preventing anyone with malicious intent from severely injuring the conceder.

”Despicable!”

Sword Cultivators from the Luofu Sword Sect cursed angrily below, furious.

Li Shen Zhi remained indifferent, shrugging his shoulders.

However, the others were praising Li Shen Zhi.

”What a strategy!”

”Unexpected maneuver, I’ve learned something!”

”The Dao partner is righteous!”

Li Shen Zhi’s actions, though harming himself and not benefiting others directly, also served the greater good.

Because, during the platform battles, none of the participants had enough time to rest and heal; Zhao Benlei was injured now, and before the next match started, he would certainly be unable to regain his peak condition.

At that point, whoever faced him next would have a better chance of victory.

And for Li Shen Zhi, he had high hopes for Jiang Yuebai and Lu Nanzhi, believing Zhao Benlei would definitely be a hindrance in their bid for the top three.

Though he lost, he couldn’t lose for nothing.

Zhao Benlei wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and strained to stand upright, staggering to find balance as the various raiding thunder and fire not belonging to him rampaged within his body, especially the thunder with Yin Yang attributes.

Though harmonious with his attributes, he couldn’t easily control them at this moment and had to exert all effort to dispel them, avoiding collision with the fire inside.

Zhao Benlei gritted his teeth, adhering to courtesy, clasped his hand to Li Shen Zhi, ”Thank! For! Letting! Me win!”

Li Shen Zhi smiled broadly, ”Don’t mention it, Dao friend, no need for courtesy.”

Zhao Benlei: ...

Zhao Benlei, in disbelief, took a deep breath and descended from the platform speechlessly.

After stepping off the platform, Li Shen Zhi prepared for a scolding from Muh Wushuang, but Muh Wushuang merely glared at him instead, exuding suppressed concern without saying a word.

Tang Weimian comforted him, ”Senior brother, don’t be too upset. Even if we couldn’t bring glory to our master, who knows, perhaps our junior brother might work a miracle?”

Li Shen Zhi forced a smile, ”Let’s hope so.”

Unbeknownst to them, over in the Golden Core Stage platform battles, what Li Shen Zhi failed to achieve through his dragging strategy, Hee Wangchen successfully executed.

For one full hour, the opponent was trapped in the Illusion Array, unable to escape, and was ultimately judged as defeated.

The opponent cursed as they left, and Hee Wangchen advanced to the top hundred.

Seeing his name shining in mid-air, Hee Wangchen was overcome with emotion, sitting on the platform, began to sob.

Master, I’ve succeeded, can you see, I made it into the top hundred, boo-hoo-hoo~~~

Around the platform, there was not a single person, as everyone left due to boredom, leaving only Hee Wangchen sitting on it, crying loudly.