Chương 264: Fighting an Overlord

"Come… and… take… it!" The heaviness of these words when spoken to one of the seven overlord geniuses could be imagined. Even those watching from outside, though they couldn't listen to conversations, they could almost feel the heaviness, the tense atmosphere seeping out of the screen.

"W-what is going on? What's that boy doing?" The Yihua clan's Great Elder asked worriedly.

"I'm not sure. He should hand the token over. He wouldn't be eliminated immediately, he still has two more chances" the Misty Mountain's Master responded with a frown. Jin Bao stared at Long Feng with visible shock. He was even doubting his ears.

"What did you say?" He asked again to confirm that he wasn't hearing things.

"Are you deaf? You want my token? Then come and take it" Long Feng replied coldly. Jin Bao was stunned for a minute before be began to laugh. His laugh was icy, devoid of any humor.

"What a rare sight. For someone to have the guts to challenge me. Simply splendid!"

"Can you stop the chat and get on with this? I don't have the whole day!" Long Feng interrupted without hesitating, once again rendering Jin Bao speechless.

"Kid, what's your name again? Ah, Long Feng. You've enraged me. I will send you out today, and when I leave, I'll make sure to let you regret speaking to me with such insolence!" Jin Bao spoke coldly, his black pupils glimmering. He clenched his fists and began to stretch his arms, causing his joints to let out popping sounds. Long Feng's expression was solemn and his eyes was focused on every movement of Jin Bao's.

"I didn't expect to fight anyone before those other six. But you can be a warmup!" Jin Bao smiled and suddenly vanished. Long Feng's pupils shrank instantly and he turned around, raising his two arms across his chest, pushing his body strength to the limits. A fist seemed to appear out of thin air and crashed into Long Feng's two arms with a resounding boom. A huge shockwave exploded, sending all wild beasts around them far away. Long Feng's face paled a bit as a berserk energy rushed into his arms.

His body strength was wholly insignificant before this energy and he had to forcefully disperse it with his spirit energy. Still, he was forced to take almost a dozen steps backwards and his arms were shivering. The clothing around both of his arms had exploded to bits and two thin lines of blood flowed down his arms and dripped to the ground slowly.

"Hm? You're not bad. You withstood a punch with almost your pure physical body? Seems like you tempered your body a little" Jin Bao unexpectedly didn't move to deliver another attack. He stood in Long Feng's former spot and Spike leisurely. Long Feng stared at him with a very serious expression. At that moment when Jin Bao's fist met his arms, he had recognized the former's energy and realized why it felt familiar to him.

"You're a body tempering cultivator?" He asked. He sounded sure despite his question.

"That's right kid. You don't know? The Wolf Alliance Continent is renowned for our peak body tempering skills in the continent zone." Jin Bao replied calmly. The Wolf Alliance was truly a unique force in the continent zone. According to the past rumors, the Wolf Alliance's founding ancestors were half humans half wolves who worshipped an ancient spirit beast, A howling Moon Wolf. That tradition had continued for years until now. The Wolf Alliance took the Wolf as their ancestors.

Wolves were sacred beasts in the continent, and all their descendants had the bloodline of the wolf, injected to them at birth. The howling Moon Wolf was a spirit beast with great body strength. A single swipe of it's paw could level a mountain to dust, according to legends. And that was without using any energy, just pure body strength. So the Wolf Alliance took onto that path, the path of body tempering. It was one of the three great cultivation paths alongside the Soul Path and the Energy Gathering path.

You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author. The Wolf Alliance all had insignificant cultivation realms, but they had tempered their bodies under unimaginably harsh conditions until their body strength surpassed any weapon. Their fists could shatter rocks and break through the defense of spirit energy at the same level. But Long Feng didn't know about the history of the Wolf Alliance Continent, and this was the first time he was hearing about this.

"What trash did you come out from that you don't even know this basic knowledge? My actual cultivation is just rank six spirit realm; completely unworthy of mention. But my body strength… tsk, not even Huang Fang Hao would like the feeling of receiving a straight punch from me" Jin Bao continued calmly.

"Body tempering… it doesn't lose out to spirit energy at all" Long Feng murmured. He hadn't expected Jin Bao's path to be entirely different. He had never met a body tempering cultivator in his life if not today.

"Kid, try and receive another fist from me!" Jin Bao shouted and leapt forth, moving at a speed even faster than before. Long Feng could barely follow Jin Bao's movements as he turned around and gathered his spirit energy to his arms, enforcing his body strength and meeting the fist that appeared from behind him. BOOM! Another wave of energy spread, killing some weaker beast around them. Long Feng's face paled even more and he took a few heavy steps back with a metallic taste at the back of his throat.

"So strong! My body strength is like paper compared to his! And that berserk body strength of his makes even spirit energy hard to compare." Long Feng thought. This didn't mean that body tempering was better than spirit energy. That was impossible. Although they were called equals, body tempering and Soul Path were equal while spirit energy was a tad higher. That was because of one thing; Only energy gathering cultivators could comprehend Dao!

But without a Dao, then an energy gathering cultivator might really lose badly to a body tempering cultivator. And even with the Dao, the difference would vary depending on how strong the body temperer was. And Jin Bao certainly wasn't to be underestimated. He failed the Dao tempering tower first among the seven overlord continents because he was a body tempering cultivator and wasn't proficient with the Daos. Yet if it was true ranking of strength, then he could rank in the fifth place among the seven.

"Impressive, kid. You withstood a second punch. You're quite resilient. But you're trying to divide your focus. Choose one path, energy or body. Taking both will split your focus and make you weak! You won't survive another fist!" Jin Bao shouted coldly and vanished, appearing before Long Feng and sending another casual fist at him. Long Feng's bones seemed to crack as he took this fist again directly.

He was forced backwards and somersaulted in the air to stop himself and land back on the floor, but he still moved three steps backwards and coughed up a mouthful of blood.

"You aren't bad. Take my advice. Hand over your token and I'll let this go. It's not everyday someone takes three fists of mine" Jin Bao stood straight and spoke with a calm tone. By this point, everyone outside was speechless. They ogled at the screen in shock as they watched an unknown kid withstand three of Jin Bao's fist. In the continent zone, Jin Bao was known as the Berserk Wolf. That was due to his ridiculous body strength. A single fist could defeat all spirit realm warriors without exception.

Even rank one Imperials wouldn't like the aftermath of taking a casual fist from Jin Bao. But…. a rank one spirit realm kid just took three punches straight?!

"Amazing! That kid is definitely strong! To withstand three fists from the berserk wolf Jin Bao, then he must at least be a rank one imperial master."

"But, why am I sensing the energy of a rank one spirit realm cultivator instead?"

"Shut up you idiot! Do you really believe that a rank one spirit realm warrior could even reach that step? Not to mention taking three punches from Jin Bao?"

"Oh. Yeah, you're right. That is impossible""I suppose he has a peak method to hide his cultivation from everyone. I think he should have the strength to challenge the top fifty ranks" As people discussed excitedly, a few people had blank expressions on their faces.

"H-he… are you seeing this?" The Yihua clan's Great Elder asked in shock. The Misty Mountain's Master closed his mouth and nodded in a daze.

"We've truly underestimated him. Looks like the Yihua continent will rise to fame this year" Ming Dao, Li Hu, Lan yanyue and the other Yihua Clan's youths all stared at the mirror blankly. Three fists didn't sound like much and could even be embarrassing, but that depended on who the fists came from. This was Jin Bao! The berserk wolf! One of the seven overlord geniuses! His body strength was number one among the geniuses of the continent zone.

Yet someone from their continent, someone they disdained for being weak just withstood three head-on fists from Jin Bao! Shock was an understatement to describe what they were feeling. Back in the mystic realm, Jin Bao stood proudly. His expression was calm as he waited for Long Feng to apologize and hand over his token respectfully. But… things just never went as expected. Long Feng stared at Jin Bao without emotions. He was extremely calm as he opened his mouth and spoke,"Come again."

Jin Bao froze again, his expression slowly turning grim as he stared at Long Feng. Then a smile appeared on his face.

"I don't know whether to call you a fool or a brave person. Since you refuse my toast, them you'll drink a forfeit today!" His figure vanished once again and a blurry fist rushed towards Long Feng's chest at an even faster speed than before. Long Feng remained calm as he slowly lowered his left arm and grabbed at the black sheath on his waist… BOOM! A huge mushroom like shockwave exploded, sending dust billowing into the air and temporarily hiding the two youths from everyone's sight.

They all waited with bated breaths to see Jin Bao standing proudly with his opponent defeated, even unconscious. But when the dust cleared, what they saw instead was Jin Bao and Long Feng standing a few steps away from each other. Jin Bao's right fist was still outstretched, but it hadn't met Long Feng's chest. Instead, a pitch black sword sheath had stopped his fist from moving completely, resulting in the current standoff.

Jin Bao's eyes were filled with disbelief as he saw Long Feng's hand holding the unsheathed sword and using it to block his fist. He had long since noticed the sword sheathed by his waist, but he didn't put it to mind. After all, what use would a sword be to a rank one spirit realm warrior facing a strong Imperial level body temperer? How wrong was he. Before he could speak, Long Feng stared at him with his pitch black pupils brimming with calm and spoke softly"You've enjoyed yourself.

Now, it's my turn" A brilliant sword energy shot into the sky, radiating unparalleled sharpness that almost seemed to seep out of the mystic realm and be felt by the spectators outside. Jin Bao's expression changed drastically as he drew back his fist and retreated. But Long Feng was much faster. His arm drew out the Origin Spirit Sword. Jin Bao couldn't even keep up with his arm speed, which was thanks to his training with the tree in Old Man Solitude's valley.

Jin Bao's face was dark as he realized that he couldn't keep retreating otherwise the sword strike would certainly meet his chest. And he wasn't confident of taking that with his body head on. With a snort, he threw out a punch. This was much stronger than the casual fists he unleashed before. It contained nearly his full body strength behind it. Rank one Imperials would definitely be defeated by this fist.

The collision of sword energy and raw body strength from Jin Bao's fist caused a dazzling light to explode from the point of collision. Jin Bao stepped backwards unsteadily as he stared at his right arm with a gloomy expression. On his fist was a clear cut that was bleeding. When he unclenched his fist, the blood flowed along his fingers and dripped to the ground. Everyone outside stared at the screen in absolute silence.

From the continent zone's leaders in the center of the thunder sky sect to the envoys and the geniuses that had been eliminated to the spectators, everyone was stunned speechless. For the next few minutes, they watched dazedly at Jin Bao's fist that was bleeding and then at Long Feng, the 'unknown' weakling standing indifferently. The two youths stared at each other with Jin Bao's heart beating rapidly. He couldn't even begin to imagine how a mere rank one spirit realm youth could actually have such strength.

He had truly underestimated this kid. This wasn't just talent, this was ridiculous talent! Rank one spirit level comparable to Imperial realm? Someone would think they were speaking of a famous rising prodigy of a two star force or even one of the four Royal Clan's geniuses. But No. This person was an unknown kid from an insignificant low ranked continent who had hidden himself deeply until now. Long Feng was the one to break the tense silence that lasted a few minutes.

"That was the first move. Get ready for the second one…"