It was not that Dou Zhan Jin Shen, manifested under Dou Zhao’s hand, purely in terms of power, already surpassed Chong Xuanzun.

Rather, it was in the very instant he revealed Dou Zhan Jin Shen, his intent and momentum surged forth like a spring sending forth a hundred grasses, like a tide giving birth to surging waves.

Chong Xuanzun could no longer withstand his knife intent!

The Five Divine Powers of the Fist, controlled by starlight, also shattered to pieces under Dou Zhao’s Chop God Knife.

In such a situation, to push Dou Zhao towards infinite heights, towards becoming a fierce sun in the present world, had become an impossibility. If the stalemate continued, there was no need to fly any further. Dou Zhao could, with his knife intent alone, cleave Chong Xuanzun to death.

Both combatants understood this point clearly in their hearts.

In this desperate situation, Chong Xuanzun decisively activated a divine ability, the Reverse Chong Xuan!

Holding the sun wheel aloft, he suddenly plunged downwards with extreme speed. The sun wheel and the blade edge of the Tian Xiao Knife momentarily separated.

But…

The Tian Xiao Knife swiftly chopped down, striking the sun wheel once more! Chong Xuanzun sought to disengage, but Dou Zhao would not allow it!

High in the sky, he swung his knife wildly. As Chong Xuanzun accelerated his descent, Dou Zhao, to prevent his opponent from escaping the knife’s momentum, employed no complex techniques, only the simplest, most direct…

Chop strike!

His knife momentum enveloped Chong Xuanzun, refusing to yield even an inch. His entire being descended with Chong Xuanzun’s fall, the Tian Xiao Knife chopping relentlessly.

Clang clang clang clang! Clang clang clang clang!

Like sudden rain upon banana leaves, the chop strikes were frenzied and ferocious. The Tian Xiao Knife produced a heavy shadow, as if a hundred blades simultaneously cleaved towards Chong Xuanzun.

The reason for only this many knife shadows was solely because, under Chong Xuanzun’s control, the sun wheel defending against the blade was only this large, incapable of accommodating space for more chop strikes.

Yet, Chong Xuanzun could not further shrink the sun wheel, as it was already in its most suitable form under his utmost control. If it were larger, he could not sustain it; if smaller, it would be insufficient to defend against the descending knife, inadequate to protect himself.

Both sides reached their limit in attack and defense.

In the eyes of all spectators, those two gradually distant, gradually smaller black dots, once again grew larger, becoming clearer.

Then, they heard the howling of air being ripped apart.

And then they saw—

Dou Zhao, his Jin Shen brilliant, held the Tian Xiao Knife with both hands, pressing down on the sun wheel, forcing Chong Xuanzun, in his state of Five Manifestations Shining, to fall from the high heavens!

Five clusters of fierce light pierced through the white robes, making Chong Xuanzun appear as a deity. And Dou Zhao’s red-bottomed, gold-edged martial attire was now entirely dyed in brilliant gold.

In the air, his back facing the fierce sun, he seemed to have become the fierce sun itself!

Even with such swift chopping, he appeared like a blacksmith of boundless strength striking iron before a furnace. The elegantly peerless Chong Xuanzun was treated as a mere piece of iron blank, a lump of iron.

Each knife strike was like a heavy hammer smashing down.

From the beginning, Chong Xuanzun had used the sun wheel and his fists to smash others. Jiang Wang had never before witnessed him being smashed like this.

The knife smashing the sun wheel was merely the surface. The truly marvelous aspect was the peak confrontation between Dou Zhao and Chong Xuanzun during the mad collision of the Tian Xiao Knife and the sun wheel.

Just as Chong Xuanzun had earlier reversed and pushed back Dou Zhao, this time it was Chong Xuanzun who continuously made his moves – Chong Xuan Power, the Five Divine Powers of the Fist driven by starlight – attempting to shake off the knife momentum.

And Dou Zhao, with the Way of Dou Zhan, wielded the Chop God Knife, resolving each of Chong Xuanzun’s moves one by one.

In this round where Dou Zhao held the advantage, he refused to grant Chong Xuanzun any opportunity!

Unlike the ascent, Chong Xuanzun’s fall finally had an end, and that end would be reached very soon. Dou Zhao’s knife swings appeared wild, yet each strike was precisely measured.

One knife pursued another. Knife upon knife overlapped, accumulating momentum. And this accumulated momentum, when at its peak – when Chong Xuanzun was brutally chopped to the ground, with no path of retreat – would cleave him in two!

From ten thousand zhang in the high heavens, chopped back to Guan He Tai, from distant black dots to being clearly visible to all spectators… how many knives were swung in this process?

Jiang Wang counted very clearly.

Seventeen thousand five hundred and sixty-two knives.

In the battle, Dou Zhao and Chong Xuanzun were even clearer. They confronted each other in every detail, every specific and minute aspect – power, momentum, intent – without the slightest compromise.

If no accident occurred, victory and defeat would be decided within twenty thousand knives.

The outcome resulting from this situation was, of course, not what Chong Xuanzun desired.

So, he separated his hands!

The sun wheel vanished…

That momentum of mad wind and sudden rain hitting banana leaves… abruptly ceased.

However, the Tian Xiao Knife, having already accumulated momentum from seventeen thousand nine hundred and thirty-one knives, chopped down unimpeded towards Chong Xuanzun’s body, towards his elegantly peerless face!

On the spectator stand, Huang She Li gripped his seat nervously, unable to bear the thought of beauty withering.

*Pa da.*

Something brilliant, gem-like, shattered and extinguished.

Chong Xuanzun’s life-saving divine ability!

In his extreme-speed descent, he had been unable to shake off Dou Zhao’s knife momentum. After determining that the matter was beyond hope, he decisively retracted the sun wheel, risking the consumption of a life-saving divine ability to prematurely end Dou Zhao’s continuous chop momentum.

But his timing was also very clever. He not only chose a point that was relatively uncomfortable for Dou Zhao, preventing his accumulated chop momentum from reaching its maximum potential and dissipating a small half of its power…

More importantly, it was the position.

Their current location was still in relatively high air… precisely beside the moon wheel!

That moon wheel, hanging in the high heavens, having been passed over and ignored by many, was once again passed by as they fell back from a higher point.

And at this very moment.

That round bright moon instantly transformed into ten thousand paths of moonlight, falling all over Dou Zhao’s entire body. Silken lines of moonlight, one end connected to some unknown place in the void, the other fixed upon Dou Zhan’s body.

Thousands upon thousands of moonlight lines held the just-shattered life-saving divine ability of Chong Xuanzun, Dou Zhao, in place.

This scene was truly mysterious. The snow-white moonlight seemed to weave into a spiderweb, spreading out, covering the high heavens. And Dou Zhao at this moment was like a small golden insect that had fallen into a silver spiderweb!

The momentum of attack and defense shifted again!

Chong Xuanzun’s body shape had already reversed, transforming from a fall to a leap upwards. He clenched his right fist tightly, starlight flowing, the light of the Five Divine Powers shining, and a fist boomed onto Dou Zhao’s abdomen.

It was…

The Five Divine Powers of the Fist!

The fist struck Dou Zhao’s Jin Shen body, producing the sound of colliding gold and iron.

As the Dou Clan of Great Chu claimed, a top-level divine ability that only appeared once every five hundred years. Dou Zhan Jin Shen was undoubtedly powerful. This generation of the Dou Clan producing two was indeed a stroke of heaven’s luck.

But Dou Mian’s Dou Zhan Jin Shen, compared to Dou Zhao’s, was simply like brass plated with gold dust.

Here, with Dou Zhao, relying solely on his own defensive power, he could actually withstand the Five Divine Powers of the Fist without dying!

Although, Dou Zhao’s entire body was already bent into a shrimp shape in the air. But how many cultivators in the Outer Building realm could resist such a fist with their physical body?

Chong Xuanzun did not hesitate to deliver another fist. Dou Zhao’s just-straightened body shape was again boomed into a bent posture.

And this time, he spat out a mouthful of golden blood! Golden blood indicated that Dou Zhao’s Dou Zhan Jin Shen had truly developed from outside to inside, from skin to bones and blood, to the utmost extent currently possible.

This mouthful of blood, sprayed out of his body, actually transformed into a golden knife handle, suddenly folding, and chopping out a Pi Nang Bai, slashing towards Chong Xuanzun’s face.

Chong Xuanzun neither dodged nor evaded, still booming a fist onto Dou Zhao’s body. He would rather endure this knife with a life-saving divine ability than give Dou Zhao an opportunity to escape!

A fist boomed onto Dou Zhao’s face, shattering several teeth, the remaining force shaking loose his hair bun. Dou Zhao suffered further heavy injury.

But that golden blood knife, counter-attacking in momentum, turned into Shen Xing Mie, falling onto the moonlight net.

When this knife was released, it originally held two momenta in one strike. If Chong Xuanzun blocked, he would borrow the momentum to escape; if Chong Xuanzun ignored it, he would use this knife to save himself.

This move with the blood knife was too exquisite, completely deceiving Chong Xuanzun. Spraying blood to form a knife was originally a clever maneuver. And the fact that a single knife formed from sprayed blood could conceal two momenta was even more of an almost impossible feat. It left people unable to imagine it, and thus naturally unable to defend against it.

Only a peerless talent like Dou Zhao could turn the impossible into possible!

The golden blood knife, with the momentum of Shen Xing Mie, chopped down on the moon net. Dou Zhao’s Jin Shen shone, and in an instant, he regained his freedom.

All of this happened very quickly. At that very moment, Dou Zhao had just been boomed in the face by a fist, two golden shattered teeth mixed with blood flying out, his entire handsome face forced to turn to the right…

The corner of his mouth still held traces of golden blood, his hair bun had already been scattered, golden long hair flying in the air. But once free, he suddenly turned his head, his golden pupils brilliant with divine light!

As he turned his head, he had already turned the knife back. When his golden pupils once again reflected that figure in snow-white clothes, the Tian Xiao Knife had already arrived!

The next scene almost rendered all spectators speechless.

It was at this moment that Dou Zhao, fully utilizing Dou Zhan Jin Shen, unleashed the Seven Styles of Dou Zhan, truly re-presenting “Since this world exists, the first killing technique!”

The Tian Xiao Knife fell.

Pi Nang Bai!

Shen Hun Xiu!

Ren Huo!

Zhan Xing Jian Wo!

Shen Xing Mie!

Tian Fa!

Under the impetus of Dou Zhan Jin Shen, these consecutive six styles were this wondrous. The knife light easily twisted Chong Xuanzun within its embrace.

Making his Pi Nang damaged, his Shen Hun injured, self-born disaster, his original heart severed, his divine power extinguished, accepting heavenly punishment upon himself!

That beautiful, brilliant, gem-like thing… continuously shone and extinguished twice. This meant that within this round of knife light poured out by Dou Zhao, Chong Xuanzun faced a certain death situation twice!

Completely killing him with no power to retaliate.

But it was still not the end!

At this moment, Dou Zhao, with traces of golden blood still on the corner of his mouth, was already directly facing Chong Xuanzun.

The Tian Xiao Knife chopped down precisely from end to end! This single knife was grand and majestic, shining golden light everywhere, brilliant and dazzling, yet stern as gods and Buddhas.

The last style of the Seven Styles of Dou Zhan…

Tian Ren Wu Shui!

Around Chong Xuanzun’s body, that beautiful, brilliant, gem-like thing…

*Pa da, pa da, pa da…*

As if consecutively emitting such crisp sounds. It rang three times!

That Liang, who had manifested a near-god body, had once asked how many times Chong Xuanzun’s life-saving divine ability could be used.

The answer to this question was seven.

Chong Xuanzun’s life-saving divine ability was named Xing Lun. Seven stars surrounded him, capable of resisting seven certain death attacks. In that battle with That Liang, it was consumed once, and had not yet recovered. Earlier, to end Dou Zhao’s continuous chop, it was consumed again. Within the six consecutive strikes after Dou Zhao gained freedom, it was consumed twice more.

And Dou Zhao’s final knife, driven by Dou Zhan Jin Shen, the last style of the Seven Styles of Dou Zhan…

Had already completely exceeded the current bearing capacity of Xing Lun. It shattered three times consecutively, yet still could not exhaust it!

Before such a terrifying knife. Chong Xuanzun’s pure white, snow-like clothes were already quietly covered in dirt. His glossy black long hair instantly withered and fell. Sweat, sticky and gooey, continuously emerged from his armpits. His body began to emit a fishy odor. His entire person was restless, his mind not his own.

Precisely the appearance of Tian Ren Wu Shui! This was a knife capable of cleaving even heavenly beings to death! Those five groups of fierce light sources, originally shining brightly, had also dimmed!

When Dou Zhao manifested Dou Zhan Jin Shen, he had spoken one word of regret. He regretted that Chong Xuanzun was unable to reveal his fifth door divine ability, because he would not give Chong Xuanzun another opportunity.

At this moment, with a single knife of Tian Ren Wu Shui falling, the elegantly peerless Chong Xuanzun had already begun to wither! Life was flowing away. With terrifying speed, it was flowing away.

Everyone could see that Chong Xuanzun was irrevocably heading towards death, falling into defeat. Under such a knife, even if his Xing Lun had three more uses, it could not withstand it!

On the spectator stand, Wang Yi Wu had already stood up, veins bulging on his clenched fist. Even True Person Cao Ji stared intently at the martial stage, ready at any moment for Chong Xuanzun to admit defeat. Even knowing that Yu Xi would preserve the life of the defeated, he worried about the other side deliberately neglecting to do so. An absolute top talent like Chong Xuanzun was someone no country would be willing to lose!

But just at this moment.

Chong Xuanzun extended his hand. Clearly under the knife momentum of Tian Ren Wu Shui, clearly capable of only dying.

He still struggled to extend his hand.

It was a white, fair, slender, powerful… but now withered hand.

He extended his left hand.

From the grand ceremony, the martial arts before Tai Miao. To the Yellow River meeting, striving for the championship at Guan He Tai. No matter when, he had always fought with his right hand. Holding the sun wheel, gripping an iron fist. He had never used his left hand to lead an attack.

Now, he extended his left hand. In his palm, light points appeared. One point of red light, the sun wheel. One point of snow light, the moon wheel. One point of treasure light, the star wheel.

Three points of light lined up side by side. Those that were gathered within his body, hung at the sky’s edge, surrounding his body… the sun wheel, moon wheel, star wheel.

Suddenly appeared, connecting with each other. Brilliant splendor flowed, three lights shining together.

Together, they composed a strangely shaped long knife. The knife back had three curves, the knife ridge had two tips. The knife edge had only one bend. The shape of the knife body was like a curved moon formed by three wheels joined together, and the knife handle was a flowing, constantly changing brilliant light.

Now this light, grasped in his hand. Now this knife, mastered by his left hand.

Very few people knew that Chong Xuanzun had always practiced with his left hand, using a knife. What he was truly skilled at was knife technique. Because very few people were able to force him to use his left hand. Even fewer people were able to witness his knife!

At this moment. Sun wheel, moon wheel, star wheel, three wheels united, manifesting the sun-moon-star three-wheel knife. And Chong Xuanzun, gripping it with his left hand, added the Chong Xuan Power, and in his own endless weakness, chopped out a single knife!

This knife, just released, had already cut across Dou Zhao’s neck!

Chong Xuanzun’s last door of divine ability within his Five Manifestations was named Zhan Wang! Because it had the function of “chopping away delusion, directly reaching the true self,” it was named Zhan Wang. Manifested internally, it chopped away the confusion of the Dao. Manifested externally, it struck directly at vital points.

Ancient and now rarely seen, the Zhan Wang knife!

The sun-moon-star three-wheel knife cut down on Dou Zhao’s neck, and upon meeting the golden light of Dou Zhan Jin Shen, it drove straight in, cleaving into the middle of his neck!

Almost simultaneously, Yu Xi took a step onto the martial stage, clear light flowing in his palm!

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