Nine Star Hegemon Body Arts

The Lightning Blaze Spider and Qifeng collided violently, shaking the entire martial stage. Their thunderforce exploded like a brilliant firework, dazzling and deadly.

Raging lightning runes sliced through the void like blades, shooting in all directions.

Liu Minghao instantly condensed a wooden shield, but those wild lightning runes tore through it effortlessly. Fortunately, their force was exhausted upon exiting it, and they exploded harmlessly.

When the lightning faded, the spectators saw Qifeng hacking up blood. He had been sent flying by the Lightning Blaze Spider.

Just then, Liu Minghao appeared atop the spider. Forming a hand seal, he shouted:

“Eight Pillars Seal the Heavens!”

Eight enormous wooden pillars descended from the heavens, smashing into the martial stage. The immense Lightning Blaze Spider was forcefully pinned to the ground, nailed in place by the pillars.

The Devil Eye Water Lily race’s experts were shocked to see this. The martial stage was renowned for its durability, yet these pillars pierced it like rotted wood. The power they contained was simply terrifying.

The Lightning Blaze Spider let out strange, screeching cries as it struggled fiercely. Lightning erupted from its body, but it was utterly unable to escape the suppression of the eight spearlike pillars.

Liu Rujiao and the others cheered when they saw Liu Minghao instantly seal the Lightning Blaze Cauldron. This move of his was truly marvelous.

However, Long Chen frowned ever so slightly.

After using this divine ability to seal the Lightning Blaze Spider, Liu Minghao transformed into a beam of light shooting toward Qifeng.

With an extended hand, he sent millions of willow branches flying out. As they wove themselves into a massive whip, it cracked through the air with a thunderous whistle, tearing through the void. The world itself seemed to split in two under its pressure.

Liu Minghao no longer appeared calm and elegant. He now radiated a wild, almost feral dominance. His attack was filled with lethal intent.

“What?!”

It was only now that everyone realized the true terror of Liu Minghao’s power.

“Damn!” Lian Sanqiang cursed, clenching his teeth.

They’d all been deceived. Even he hadn’t sensed Liu Minghao’s hidden strength. How had this slipped past him?

Liu Minghao’s whip exuded a sense of mortal danger, and this feeling of death shook Qifeng’s soul. Worst of all, he had only just been struck by the Lightning Blaze Spider and was still injured. He couldn’t possibly block this attack.

“Devil Eye Demon Lily, Open!” Qifeng roared.

Tossing aside his sword, he formed a series of hand seals, and two demonic lilies bloomed in his eyes.

The next moment, an enormous lily bloomed beneath his feet. It enveloped him, and then eye-like runes appeared on the petals, unleashing many ripples that formed a barrier around it.

“Qifeng has summoned the Devil Eye Water Lily race’s strongest defensive divine ability!” exclaimed the Undying race’s experts.

The Devil Eye Water Lily race, known for their rare pupil arts, possessed devil eyes capable of unleashing countless divine abilities. Moreover, the devil eyes let them activate bloodline abilities faster than others—a unique racial advantage.

As for the Devil Eye Demon Lily, it was their strongest absolute defense. However, this shield wasn’t powered by bloodline power—it drew strength directly from the devil eye itself. The devil eye’s power was of utmost importance to the Devil Eye Water Lily race, and they would not use it lightly.

After all, recovering its energy was extremely difficult and slow, and using too much of it could easily cause a backlash.

For Qifeng to use this pupil art showed that he had been pushed to his limit. If he didn’t use this move, he would die. Only this pupil art could react quickly enough to block Liu Minghao’s deadly strike.

BOOM!

Liu Minghao’s world-breaking whip slammed into Qifeng’s lily barrier like a divine dragon’s tail. The collision unleashed a massive shockwave. Then, both the whip and lily exploded at the same time.

Seeing this scene, the Devil Eye Water Lily race’s experts let out startled cries. Their strongest defense had actually been broken?

“Die!” Qifeng roared.

With blood oozing out of his eyes, he charged out of the lily petals.

Though the explosion had damaged his eye, it had bought him enough time to counterattack. His lightning sword transformed into a massive blade as he swung it at Liu Minghao.

Liu Minghao’s right hand was shaking. That previous attack had numbed his arm completely—Qifeng saw his opportunity and struck.

But Liu Minghao remained unfazed. With only one hand, he formed a seal. A flickering flame ignited on his fingertip, and he flicked it at the incoming sword.

BOOM!

Just before contact, the flame exploded, forming a vortex the size of a fist. The sword was caught in its pull and started to tremble violently.

Qifeng’s expression changed. Just the slightest pull had caused his sword to go out of control. He was unable to lock Liu Minghao down now.

Liu Minghao slipped past the sword’s arc and slammed his palm into Qifeng’s chest.

BOOM!

Although Qifeng tried to form a lightning chestplate in time, blood still sprayed from his mouth as he was blown back.

As Qifeng spat out blood, Liu Minghao regained feeling in his arm. Without hesitation, he formed hand seals again.

He shouted, “Nine Willow High Heaven Deathblow!”

Behind him, his manifestation appeared. Countless willow branches burst forth, sealing off heaven and earth. In an instant, they formed a giant cocoon around Qifeng.

When the cocoon was complete, the Undying race’s warriors cheered wildly. This was Liu Minghao’s finishing move—if it succeeded, the battle was as good as over.

The cocoon started to rapidly shrink in an attempt to crush Qifeng to a pulp. However, just then, they saw lightning appear through the cracks in the cocoon.

BOOM!

The entire cocoon exploded, unable to withstand the rampaging thunderforce within. Gasps erupted across the battlefield.

Liu Minghao’s expression darkened. The other Undying race experts were equally stunned.

“How is this possible?!”