Huo Lin'er and Lu Susu were equally shocked by Ji Mo's attack. It was a simple and heavy punch that was not fancy at all, but it contained an unstoppable aura. The fact that Wan Qinghe, who had an eight-tier tempered body, was forced to fall more than 10 meters away proved how strong the power was.
"Okay! Very well! It looks like your strength isn't that simple too. I'm becoming more interested." Wan Qinghe smiled hideously and then looked at Ji Mo with a grave expression.
"Junior Brother Wan, don't give the wild fella any chance. Kill him!" Lu Susu was rather anxious because Ji Mo's strength was beyond her expectations.
"Alright! I'll get rid of him very soon!" Wan Qinghe seemed to be really infuriated. He charged at Ji Mo with thunderous steps and gathered surging powers at his fists before swinging them at him crazily.
Ji Mo went head-on against him as well. The Celestial Devil Power that circulated in his blood and flesh caused his body to be more powerful than a demonic beast in the Qi Plundering Boundary, and he clashed hard with Wang Qinghe. They were instantly in a stalemate with their tremendous forces, and as they shifted their bodies in the dogfight, the clashes of their fists and palm forces resulted in explosive sounds in the air.
In actual fact, Ji Mo could completely suppress Wan Qinghe based on his current level of power. Wan Qinghe cultivated an advanced-level martial art and had an eight-tier tempered body that was equivalent to more than 1,500 kilograms of power. Although Ji Mo only had a seventh-tier tempered body, the Celestial Devil Power gave him more than 2,000 kilograms of power, which allowed him to take down Wan Qinghe easily.
Nonetheless, Ji Mo did not do that because he was using Wan Qinghe to practice. Honestly, Ji Mo did not have much combat experiences even though he killed quite a number of demonic beasts recently, the reason being he had only fought very few people. Sometimes, two people who battled not only competed in terms of cultivation bases but also practical experience.
When cultivators in the same boundary fought, it was unquestionable that the person with more combat experience would have the upper hand.
Boom!
After exchanging blows for more than ten rounds, Wan Qinghe still could not take Ji Mo down, thus he began feeling slightly concerned. He performed different martial arts one after another, troubling Ji Mo at that moment.
Wan Qinghe was trained as an important seedling at Tianyuan Academy, so he naturally learned more martial arts than Ji Mo, most of which were advanced-level martial arts. Wan Qinghe became nervous as he had attacked for a long time without success, thus he began executing all kinds of martial arts.
His mighty power was ever-changing as it either transformed into a ferocious beast, a sharp blade and a sword, or a mountain and a river.
Ji Mo felt a sharp pain in his left eye all of a sudden. His left eyeball turned completely white, and various mysterious runes flashed in his pupil, different from the floating light that had appeared when he found the spiritual medicine back then. This time, it was runes that flickered in his pupil.
Next, one of the martial arts Wan Qinghe performed was recorded in Ji Mo's left eye in a flash. It was an advanced-level martial art known as the Forceful Fist Sword Qi, whereby the forces from one's fist would be condensed into a sword that had an extremely strong penetrating power. The martial art was not from Tianyuan Academy but was one that was handed down from Wan Qinghe's ancestors, and he had portrayed it in great detail.
The runes in Ji Mo's left eye moved more intensely at that moment as they developed the Forceful Fist Sword Qi, replicated it, and recorded it technique by technique. Every detail was copied by the Broken God's Eye, including the martial art's routes for channeling the force.
Ji Mo finally grasped the Broken God's Eye's first use which was the imitation of another person's martial arts for his own usage.
Wan Qinghe yelled as he transformed his fist energy into a sharp sword Qi that took the form of a sword. He then slashed it at Ji Mo's neck as though it was really a cultivator's flying sword.
Ji Mo was frightened. He did not expect the Forceful Fist Sword Qi to be so powerful that he was not confident about withstanding the martial art. Just as Ji Mo hesitated, the sword Qi was already in front of him, thus his fierce eyes flashed as he released the Celestial Devil's nature.
"Hah!" Ji Mo's roar was deafening. He assembled the threatening Celestial Devil Power on his palm once again, then attacked with the Essence-Unifying Slab Splitter, but the force was even more fearsome than before. The illusory image of a Celestial Devil was visible on his arm, and he released a number of negative aurae that were violent and booming.
Clang!
When the fist that contained the Celestial Devil Power clashed with the Forceful Fist Sword Qi, the sound of metal cracking was heard. Even Ji Mo felt a throbbing pain on his palm as if his skin was cut by the sword Qi. It was worth noting that his blood and flesh stored the Celestial Devil Power, thus his body was so powerful that normal blades and swords could not hurt him.
Nevertheless, the sword Qi was also completely disintegrated by Ji Mo's Forceful Fist Sword Qi, and it broke into fragments.
"Ugh…" Wan Qinghe groaned and staggered backward, all the while looking at Ji Mo in disbelief.
He would never ever believe that Ji Mo had the power to resist him. The fellow was a nobody in the academy who only read useless books, yet had the power to suppress Wan Qinghe. He could not accept it because he was a favored student as well as a little warlord in the academy.
Huo Lin'er was also very surprised, and she widened her mouth before mumbling, "Has he been hiding his strength all this while? Based on the cultivations that he has been doing lately, he can't be this powerful no matter how hardworking he is, but Wan Qinghe, the academy's little warlord, can't even contain him. Seriously…He's a cunning man, and it looks like I was worried for nothing," she protested coquettishly, but her eyes were radiant.
"Wan Qinghe, stop dilly-dallying and kill him now. Kill him, and I'll be yours." Lu Susu was panicking. Seeing as Ji Mo overpowered Wan Qinghe, she was afraid that the worst ending would come true.
Similar to Huo Lin'er, Lu Susu was also heavily injured, so she could not make use of her original cultivation base. If Wan Qinghe failed, she would surely be doomed too.
"I don't believe this. I don't believe this! How can a good-for-nothing beat me?!" Wan Qinghe seemed to have gone mad. He gathered his power in his fist again for the Forceful Fist Sword Qi, but he attacked even fiercer and swifter than before as he decided to make it or break it.
At the same time, Ji Mo was elated. His left eye had derived the Forceful Fist Sword Qi completely, and he had grasped the martial art's gist fully such that it was stuck in his head forever.
"Forceful Fist Sword Qi!" Wan Qinghe shouted while blasting a hit with his fist. The energy from it formed a substance-like iron sword that was more than 2 meters long.
"Forceful Fist Sword Qi!"
Ji Mo punched simultaneously, but his Celestial Devil Power evolved his force into a Hell Celestial Sword that had countless runes imprinted on it. The runes looked like they were from Hell as they carried a terrifying prestige and vicious aurae, making the sword look like a Celestial Metal from Hell.
Additionally, the Hell Celestial Sword was roughly 5 meters long, which was double the size of the Forceful Fist Sword Qi Wan Qinghe combined.