Less than a second.
Yuwen Shi, accompanied by a rumbling sonic boom, crossed a thousand zhang distance and flew above Li Hai's head, fiercely striking down with his knife.
"Hahaha, well met!"
At the same instant, Li Hai also laughed loudly, raising his whip and sweeping it fiercely, striking upwards with a ferocious blow towards the knife Yuwen Shi was bringing down!
Accompanied by a clangorous explosion of metal on metal, the fierce clash of their blows, carrying terrifying power, instantly cracked the ground below and caused a large area of air to explode.
A visible shockwave formed, carrying layers upon layers of explosive sounds that were enough to shatter eardrums, sweeping across hundreds of zhang in all directions in the blink of an eye.
It swept countless Rubble in this vast area into the sky, turning them into a torrential rain of stones, which pelted the surrounding wider area like battlefield shrapnel, making cracking sounds.
It also completely shook to death, shattered, and turned into a bloody paste many Knife Soul Valley disciples who were lingering in the surrounding piles of architectural ruins.
Furthermore, large numbers of bloodthirsty spectators in the wider surrounding area who dared to observe the battle between the two were struck by thousands of flying stones, turning them into bloody sieves and tattered bags of flesh.
However, for Li Hai and Yuwen Shi, who caused such a terrifying scene, this clash was merely an appetizer.
In the subsequent battle, the flashes of knife light and whip shadows between the two continuously flickered, as they fiercely clashed repeatedly, making the entire ground continuously vibrate, sending out circles of explosive soundwaves and Qi waves powerful enough to shatter houses and demolish buildings, constantly crushing and sweeping in all directions.
It caused countless stones and dust on the surrounding dilapidated ground to be swept into the sky with a roar, where they churned and danced, slowly forming a large dust Qi vortex that circulated continuously around this vast several-hundred-zhang wide ruin.
If this continued, once this massive dust Qi vortex merged with the layers of clouds above, this area might even experience a torrential downpour.
At the same time, this spectacular scene, where human power caused a change in the heavens, also greatly shocked many Knife Soul Valley disciples who were secretly observing the battle from a distance, making them exclaim in disbelief:
"! Too powerful, truly too powerful!"
"Is this the strength of the Peak of Martial Dao?!"
"Terrifying, terrifying, truly terrifying!"
"Compared to them, we are simply insects!"
"No, not even insects; even if we were closer, we would be pulverized!"
And just as these distant observers were filled with shock, the main subjects causing their awe—Yuwen Shi and Li Hai—their battle also moved beyond the warm-up stage and began to become even more breathtaking.
With True Qi overflowing, Yuwen Shi struck at Li Hai's face with his knife, but the latter quickly and skillfully raised his whip and lightly shook it, dispersing most of the force.
And at the same time, Li Hai's other steel whip swept out swiftly, striking precisely against the multi-layered bone shield that suddenly appeared on Yuwen Shi's chest and abdomen.
Bang!
At that moment, loud noises reverberated, and Qi waves flew about.
And in the instant that the bone shield shattered into dust, Yuwen Shi used the force to frantically retreat dozens to hundreds of steps.
But Li Hai seemed to have anticipated this, almost simultaneously he swiftly followed closely, and then swept out several more fierce steel whips.
"Hmph!"
Yuwen Shi sneered, rotating his large arm and holding his knife suspended above his head, while at the same time, a thick-backed bone knife suddenly burst from the palm of his other hand, which he then also swung up to parry on either side of his golden knife.
Then, almost simultaneously, Li Hai's crimson steel whip, carrying immense power, slammed down heavily.
Mieh!!!
Amidst a roar even louder than a fuel-air explosive, the ground beneath their feet, which had already been compacted to sufficient hardness by successive battles, suddenly collapsed and caved in a large area.
At the same time, the hundred-zhang area around the two was instantly blasted into a vacuum by this clash, even producing layers of bright blue ionized sparks, and strands and bundles of churning, roaring water Qi tornadoes.
And Yuwen Shi, who had directly endured this strike, felt his hands go numb, while all the Qi and blood in his body inexplicably became chaotic, as if they had a life of their own, rushing left and right, seemingly wanting to burst out of his body.
He did not know that this was precisely the mystical effect produced by Li Hai's Bloodline Divine Power—"Controlling All Flows."
(See Chapter 100 of this book for details)
In short, under Li Hai's 'sneak attack,' Yuwen Shi's body stiffened for an instant.
But in that instant, hundreds of fiery whip shadows were swiftly flung out by Li Hai, all striking Yuwen Shi's entire body.
And while once again creating large ground depressions, air explosions, ionized sparks, and Qi vortex tornadoes,
In half a second, he was blasted thousands of zhang into the sky, higher than Mount Everest.
But no sooner had Yuwen Shi flown to several thousand zhang in the sky than he was once again heavily struck by thousands of whip shadows, fiercely flung out by Li Hai, who had arrived there half a step earlier, having rushed and flown madly upwards.
Boom!!
A fierce explosion suddenly resonated in the sky.
The terrifying storm generated by Li Hai's heavy blow instantly swept away all the clouds in a several-thousand-meter radius around them.
And Yuwen Shi, who had perfectly endured almost the entire force of this blow, instantly traversed the several-thousand-zhang distance between heaven and earth, at a terrifying speed completely exceeding one hundred Mach, and instantly slammed into the very center of the Knife Soul Valley ruins below.
Boom!!!
It was as if a meteor had fallen from the sky and struck the earth.
Accompanied by an earth-shattering tremor and roar, as well as sky-filling flames and dust, dozens of towering earth waves and rolling shockwaves instantly swept out from the point where Yuwen Shi fell, covering the entire Knife Soul Valley in a radial pattern with rumbling sounds.
Thus, for a time, the entire area spanning several thousand zhang transformed into a surging, roaring sea, continuously rising and falling, churning without end.
The Knife Soul Valley disciples, numbering several hundred or perhaps a thousand, who were hidden in this area, were also cruelly torn apart and pulped into puddles of bloody mud by the terrifying tremors, earth waves, and shockwaves in this terrifying, almost natural disaster-like scene.
And the instigator of this natural disaster—Yuwen Shi—had tragically become a mass of bloody, shattered flesh, with only half of his head remaining, lying Dying at the bottom of the hundred-zhang crater he himself had created with his impact and explosion.
Just as Yuwen Shi's consciousness was becoming increasingly blurry and he was about to die, Li Hai's figure suddenly appeared before him.
"Old man, stop playing dead."
Li Hai looked down at Yuwen Shi and chuckled softly, "I had roughly calculated beforehand that although you would lose all vitality after this blow, with the extreme support of your Divine Ability, you should still be able to live for two minutes—a full two minutes, enough time for you to explain all the information about Xuan Nie, right?"
"Heh—heh—heh..."
A weak voice came from the head in the pit, "Young friend is truly formidable, this old man is far inferior. Alright, this old man will keep his promise... I will tell you the information."