"Fight!"
Bai Shuyan roared. A blazing golden light surged around him as he raised his palm. The Blazing Sun Star Shattering Palm struck toward Gu Fei with a momentum that seemed capable of incinerating the heavens.
That palm strike condensed into an illusory shadow of a great sun. Even before it drew near, the scorching airwaves had already distorted the surrounding air into ripples.
Gu Fei's pupils constricted. He never expected his opponent to abandon his signature martial arts and instead execute a palm technique he had never seen before.
The stinging sensation of the heatwaves burning his skin sent a chill down his spine. Without time for thought, his Mysterious Ice Cold Night Saber slashed out.
The blade shimmered with deep blue frost, and the cold Saber Qi collided violently with the crimson palm energy!
*Boom!*
The ground cracked into spiderweb patterns as ice mist and sparks exploded together.
The pride of the Mysterious Ice Cold Night Saber, its extreme cold Saber Qi, melted instantly under the force of the Blazing Sun palm force like thin snow meeting boiling water.
Gu Fei let out a muffled groan. The web of his thumb split open, and he retreated three steps before steadying himself, his boot soles plowing three deep furrows into the bluestone slabs.
Bai Shuyan's offensive was like a rising tide, his palm shadows transforming into a sky full of great suns.
Gu Fei gritted his teeth and swung his saber to block, only to find the opponent's palm technique alternating between reality and illusion, making it impossible to evade.
"Clang!" With a crisp sound, the long saber flew out of his hand, drawing a bright silver arc in the air before landing on the ground.
Immediately after, a golden light pierced through him. Gu Fei flew backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily ten zhang away as blood seeped from the corner of his mouth.
Who am I? Where am I?
Gu Fei lay on the ground with a dazed expression, completely unable to recover from the shock of his miserable defeat.
Ten moves. Only ten moves.
He had been completely defeated by Bai Shuyan, without even managing to touch the corner of the other's clothes.
Suddenly, he forced himself up and stared at Bai Shuyan with bloodshot eyes, roaring hoarsely:
"Impossible!"
"How could you possibly become so strong?"
"The one who should win is me! You must have used some underhanded means!"
"If you're bad, practice more." Bai Shuyan sneered, his eyes full of disdain. "To slander someone in front of so many people is truly laughable."
"You could win against me before only because the Gu Family's Cultivation Technique was more Advanced than mine. Now, you can't even touch the corner of my clothes!"
Hearing this, Gu Fei was so enraged that he spat out a mouthful of blood:
"Impossible!"
"Absolutely impossible!"
"I will definitely win it back!"
As he spoke, he stood up unsteadily and staggered forward, about to rush in.
Just then, a figure flashed like a ghost.
Gu Qingchuan, the head of the Gu Family, appeared beside Gu Fei with a cold face and lightly tapped his finger on his son's neck.
Gu Fei's eyes rolled back, and he fainted into his father's arms.
Gu Qingchuan gave Bai Shuyan a cold sweep of his eyes before turning to leave with his son in his arms.
Facing Gu Qingchuan's cold, blade-like gaze, Bai Shuyan only smiled indifferently, thinking to himself: Before long, even you won't be my match.
Recalling a few months ago, after losing to Gu Fei, he had left Jiangling Prefecture City to travel around, determined to find a powerful Cultivation Technique to improve his cultivation.
Unexpectedly, in Changling County, he accidentally obtained a System and even exchanged for a peerless Cultivation Technique from the mall.
After a period of hard cultivation, his strength had broken through directly from the Xiantian Early Stage to the Xiantian Middle Stage.
Moreover, his current Xiantian Middle Stage was different from the ordinary Xiantian Realm in the Jianghu.
It was the Xiantian Realm within the Dao Seed Martial Arts Cultivation System, far stronger than the Xiantian Realm in the Jianghu.
With the System's assistance, his strength was still improving rapidly.
Even if Gu Qingchuan had the cultivation of a Grandmaster, he might not necessarily be able to defeat him now.
Therefore, he completely ignored the other's threatening gaze.
At this moment, the onlookers were all dumbfounded, unable to believe that Gu Fei had lost so quickly.
"How unlucky!" A large bearded man suddenly kicked a wooden post beside him and said through gritted teeth:
"I bet 100 taels of silver on Gu Fei winning, but who would have thought this kid couldn't even last ten moves? He's simply a waste!"
"Isn't that right! But how did Bai Shuyan's strength suddenly become so terrifying?"
"That palm technique just now was too terrifying, like the sun in the sky crashing down. It was so hot people couldn't even keep their eyes open!"
"I have the inside story!" A middle-aged man in a green robe, Liu Jing, squeezed to the front and said loudly on purpose, his eyes flashing with excitement.
"He can be this powerful all thanks to the System! That palm technique just now was the Blazing Sun Star Shattering Palm, a peerless skill purchased from the System Mall!"
"System? What kind of thing is that?" Everyone crowded around, and curious inquiries immediately rang out in unison.
Liu Jing suddenly shouted at the top of his lungs: "Everyone, don't worry! I have system seeds here, giving them away for free! Line up! Once you've bound the System, you can buy any divine skills or peerless techniques you want!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's spirits were lifted, and they all clamored: "Is it real or fake? Quick, give me one!"
Seeing this, Bai Shuyan was so anxious he was fuming.
He challenged Gu Fei, first to seek revenge, and second, to use this duel to create momentum so he could promote system seeds and earn energy points.
Now someone had jumped out halfway to distribute system seeds first—wasn't this just stealing business?
He, who had just maintained the air of an expert, immediately switched to a face full of smiles and shouted at the top of his lungs:
"Do you want to know why I became strong so quickly?"
"Hurry up and come to me!"
"The system seeds here are the authentic ones! Bind one and you can be as powerful as me!"
The onlookers instantly became excited and swarmed around Bai Shuyan.
Looking at the dense crowd before him, Bai Shuyan couldn't stop smiling, as if he could already see a vast amount of energy points surging toward him.
Seeing the crowd surge toward Bai Shuyan like a tide, Liu Jing's expression instantly darkened, and he roared at the top of his lungs:
"Don't be foolish! There's no difference between system seeds!"
"If you all huddle over there now, by the time you get one, others will have already successfully bound theirs."
"Seize the initiative! It's first come, first served. If you're a step late, you'll lose at the starting line!"
A few people in the front who had grabbed seeds couldn't wait to bind the System.
In an instant, one of them suddenly jumped up, his eyes wide, letting out a startlingly strange cry:
"Holy crap! This System is amazing! The mall is full of peerless divine skills."
"No wonder Bai Shuyan could become so strong! Damn! It turns out giving away system seeds for free can earn energy points!"
After realizing this, the person immediately calculated: "If I sell my own Cultivation Techniques to the mall, I can buy system seeds once I've earned energy points, and then I can also go distribute system seeds to earn energy points."
At this thought, the person's eyes immediately lit up with excitement, and they hurriedly sold their Cultivation Techniques to the System Mall.
With 1,110 energy points credited, he immediately purchased system seeds and began distributing them to the people around him.
More and more people at the scene followed suit, copying this model of earning energy points.
Those who were even more quick-witted didn't say a word and immediately took off running toward other parts of the prefecture city.
Rather than competing for business here, it was better to go elsewhere to open up new markets.
Just like that, the System Hosts scattered.
Before long, the entire Jiangling Prefecture City was caught in a craze of distributing system seeds, and every street and alley was talking about the System.