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Chapter 1125: Refined Attire and Iron Armor, Proudly Treading the World

Everyone present knew what Ge Yongshou was going to do at this moment, the most basic and direct source energy attack doesn’t mobilize the surrounding source energy, it is directly gathered and compressed within the body and then released. Seeing Ge Yongshou make this move, Lin Daozi, who was watching from the periphery, frowned slightly. Having watched Pei Yan’s previous competitions, he was very familiar with Pei Yan’s proficiency in source energy control, and judging from today’s battle, this ability seemed to have qualitatively leaped, presumably as a result of digesting his advance ability from that day. Lin Daozi could almost be sure Ge Yongshou would only be humiliating himself by making this move, yet he still widened his eyes and did not miss a single detail between them, he wanted to see how Pei Yan would respond to this challenge."Uh...!"

A sudden muffled groan left everyone watching tensely stunned, followed by expressions of shock and disbelief on their faces. Despite having anticipated the outcome and being mentally prepared, Lin Daozi still did not expect the conclusion to come so quickly and fiercely.

This time Ge Yongshou finally managed to strike! However, at the moment he made his move, his arm was almost simultaneously ground to dust, literally reduced to fragments from the outside in, instantly shattering into a shower of blood that enveloped his entire being.

Losing an arm, Ge Yongshou was completely deflated this time, not even reacting to the need to staunch the freely flowing blood from his wound, his expression dazed as he looked at the ’Wang Wenze’ before him, who remained utterly still. Just moments ago, while gathering source energy, he had been staring at the opponent so intently, hoping to discern a flaw in his strike.

Nothing! Still nothing! Even after watching so intently, he still did not see how the opponent made his move! Failure is not scary, what’s scary is failing four times and not even knowing how the opponent struck! Such a blow is indeed too great for a cultivator, to the extent that Ge Yongshou still hasn’t come to his senses until now.

He’s lost it! But Zhangsun Zhize hasn’t; he rushed beside Ge Yongshou with a swift stride, first swiftly injecting several streams of source energy into his body with flying fingers to stop the bleeding from his continuous blood-gushing wound. It was only at this point that the dimly aware Ge Yongshou came around, glancing at his severed arm then his senior brother beside him, the double blow of his injury and the defeat left him rolling his eyes and fainting dead away in his senior brother’s embrace.

Catching Ge Yongshou, Zhangsun Zhize laid him down smoothly on the ground; after a simple treatment, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. His junior brother’s injuries looked ghastly but were not serious, other than some internal injuries and the loss of an arm, but given his current realm, re-forming a severed limb is not difficult. However, his mental state has suffered severe damage, and this battle almost certainly makes it as hard as ascending to the heavens for him to reach the level of Heavenly Dao.

"Fellow Daoist Pei, truly remarkable skill! The old man is impressed!" Ge Yongshou did not see how the opponent struck, but Zhangsun Zhize certainly saw it clearly. Pei Yan indeed did not mobilize even a sliver of his source energy, but he used the source energy released by Ge Yongshou. Just when Ge Yongshou executed the source energy slash, that energy, which should have been aimed at the enemy, was forcibly crushed and compacted in midair, refined into fine invisible source energy threads, which, formed from the source energy released by Ge Yongshou, were again applied to his own arm, grinding it to pieces.

Previously Zhangsun Zhize just had his suspicions, now he was completely sure! To manipulate an opponent’s source energy from afar and compress it into detailed source energy threads in such a short time, the former he had never seen anyone apply but the latter was exactly Pei Yan’s signature skill showcased during the Sword Discussion Conference. If he couldn’t deduce the identity of the person before him, wouldn’t that make him a fool?

"Who are you calling? What Fellow Daoist Pei? Old man is confused! My surname is Wang!" Pei Yan continued jesting with Zhangsun Zhize.

"Pei Yan! Stop making a fool of the old man!" Even with Zhangsun Zhize’s good temperament, he was genuinely angry now, staring furiously at him and growling: "I do not believe that your Investigation Bureau could produce two people who can control source energy to this extent! Pei Yan, are you doing things that you can’t own up to? If you reveal your identity now, our wager can still stand, but if you continue to toy with the old man! Even if you defeat us, I will break the agreement even at the cost of this old face and not fulfill my promise!"

"Alright! Alright! Alright! Ah..." Pei Yan, seeing that Zhangsun Zhize was genuinely angry, shaking his head, sighed, followed by a dissipating mist that revealed his true face, grinning at the opponent: "Why is the elder so worked up? The junior was just having a little prank with you."

"Prank? Hahaha!" As Zhangsun Zhize saw the opponent was indeed Pei Yan, his mood relaxed significantly, coldly laughing repeatedly after hearing this: "Fellow Daoist Pei, your one joke caused my junior brother to lose an arm, destroyed his Dao heart, possibly leaving him in a slump, isn’t your joke too much?"

"Too much?" Pei Yan bore an indifferent expression, rolling up his sleeve to reveal his mechanical arm and said: "I too have been beaten and lost an arm before, didn’t I also advance to my current realm? If he cannot overcome this hurdle, it only shows he lacks determination, unable to overcome the heart demon, it is his own problem, am I a psychological counselor to bear his concern?"

Finished speaking, Pei Yan sneered disdainfully: "Moreover, the predicament he finds himself in was his own doing, I already showed mercy to him. Elder Changsun, don’t forget, he released the source energy slash with both his arms, but I only injured one arm, the other source energy slash was dissolved into invisibility by me. Furthermore, don’t forget, he launched four consecutive attacks on me, the first three times I just touched on lightly, if it were someone else they should have already recognized the difference in the strength between the two, but he still launched the fourth attack, wasn’t it because he thought I was young and unfamiliar, assuming my previous attacks were side strikes and deceitful means? In battle, if you dare approach your enemy with wishful thinking, then having suffered the consequences is not to blame others."

"Hehehe, good! Well said! I’ve long heard of the Peisan Monarch, arrogant in the dust, both unreasonable and most reasonable, today I see it truly lives up to its reputation. It’s to my shame that throughout this duel we didn’t even see your signature skill, it seems Fellow Daoist Pei truly doesn’t regard us as worthy?"

Zhangsun Zhize’s cold and sarcastic words, Pei Yan could understand what he meant, but didn’t comprehend why he was referred to as Peisan Monarch, fearing to directly ask and reveal ignorance, he could only turn back and seek help with inquisitive eyes towards the person behind.

Mei Simiao seeing this instantly understood his meaning, using the Secret Sound Technique to convey: "This is the new title Daoist Realm gave you after the Sword Discussion Conference, Arrogance in Iron Armor, as for Monarch, you used to be called Mechanical Tiger! Monarch is simply another term for tiger."