After My Rebirth, I Ended Up Happily Ever After with the Saintess - Chapter 14

The aftershocks of the final bell still seemed to tremble in the air as Ye Feng’s Mountain-Splitting Fist roared toward Ye Li’s face with the force of a thunderbolt!

The spiritual energy of a Half-Step Conduit Realm was violently overwhelming, the earthy-yellow light as thick as a mountain, compressing the air and emitting a muffled roar. This punch was utterly incomparable to any previous opponent; the strength, speed, and momentum were on a completely different level!

A chorus of gasps erupted below the stage. Many instinctively closed their eyes, as if they had already witnessed the miserable sight of Ye Li being severely wounded and sent flying by the punch.

However, at that critical moment, Ye Li’s figure seemed to lose all its weight, like a willow catkin blown by the wind of the punch. With an unnatural lightness and uncanny agility, she drifted backward, skimming past the fierce fist wind!

Phantom Shadow Steps The optimized Phantom Shadow Steps demonstrated their astonishing power at this moment!

Her toes seemed barely to touch the ground as her body swayed, leaving several blurred afterimages. She narrowly avoided the strongest point of the punch. Yet, the sharp fist wind still scraped her skin painfully, causing her blood and qi to churn slightly.

“Oh?” Ye Feng let out a surprised sound, a flicker of astonishment in his eyes. He hadn’t expected his opponent to evade his determined strike so easily. But his combat experience was also extensive, and his move changed quickly. His fist did not retract; instead, it transformed into a claw, his five fingers spread, sweeping toward Ye Li’s shoulder with the power to tear through metal and stone!

“Metal-Rending Claw!”

The claw-wind was sharp, and the speed was even faster!

Ye Li’s eyes were cold. Instead of retreating, she advanced! Her body executed a tiny-angled side-slip like a swimming fish, actually colliding actively into Ye Feng’s open centerline! Simultaneously, she drew her fingers together like a sword, pointing with absolute precision at the pulse point on Ye Feng’s wrist!

Attack instead of defend! Besiege Wei to rescue Zhao!

If Ye Feng didn’t defend, even if he managed to grab Ye Li, his wrist pulse point would certainly be struck, with unthinkable consequences!

“How dare you!” Ye Feng roared in anger, forced to retract his claw and defend, blocking with his forearm.

“Snap!”

Fingers met forearm, issuing a dull thud.

Ye Li’s body shook violently, and she drifted back several steps, a tingling ache running through her fingertips. The opponent’s spiritual energy was far more profound than hers.

Ye Feng also felt a slight numbness in his arm, and the shock in his heart deepened. The opponent’s finger force was so condensed, far exceeding a typical mid-stage Aura Revelation Realm, that it could actually shake his defense?

“You do have some tricks! But the gap in cultivation realm isn’t something a few clever moves can bridge!” Ye Feng sneered, and his offense resumed. This time, he held nothing back. His Half-Step Conduit Realm cultivation was unleashed completely. Fists, palms, fingers, and legs rained down on Ye Li like a violent storm!

Mountain-Splitting Fist, Metal-Rending Claw, Torrent-Severing Leg… various high- and mid-grade Human-tier inherited martial arts were deployed effortlessly. Coupled with his abundant spiritual energy, the power was astounding!

The stage was immediately enveloped in a raging, earthy-yellow spiritual light. Ye Feng’s figure was like a fierce tiger descending a mountain, with overwhelming momentum.

And Ye Li was like a small boat in a tumultuous storm, seemingly liable to capsize at any moment. She pushed the Phantom Shadow Steps to their limit, darting and dodging through the dense barrage of attacks, constantly in peril. Each evasion looked incredibly risky, yet she always managed to slip away by a hair’s breadth at the most crucial moment.

She no longer struck easily. Instead, during the high-speed movements, she calmly observed Ye Feng’s move habits, the rhythm of his spiritual energy circulation, and any potential flaws.

The audience below was dizzy and heart-pounding from watching.

“Too fast! I can’t even see clearly!”

“Young Master Ye Feng is too strong! Who can withstand that offense?”

“Ye Li can still hold on? That footwork… it’s too bizarre!”

On the high platform, the elders wore various expressions. The Third Elder, Ye Lang, wore a smile, seemingly sure of victory. The First Elder, Ye Xiao, stared intently at Ye Li’s footwork with sharp eyes. The Fourth Elder, Ye Yun, had slightly sweaty palms. The Patriarch, Ye Tian, was expressionless, his gaze deep.

“Only dodging? Trash!” Frustrated by the inability to land a hit, a sense of impatience grew in Ye Feng’s heart. He had expected an easy crush but was evaded by the opponent like a slippery eel for so long, making him feel a great loss of face.

He abruptly increased his attack by another three points of power. After forcing Ye Li back with a punch, he took a deep breath, and the earthy-yellow spiritual light around his body surged dramatically!

“Ground Wave Shock!”

He violently stomped on the stage! Boom! A powerful shockwave rippled out from him, spreading rapidly in all directions! This was an area-of-effect attack, specifically designed to counter agile opponents!

The stage shook violently, and Ye Li’s movements instantly stalled!

“Good opportunity!” A fierce gleam flashed in Ye Feng’s eyes. Seizing this momentary chance, the spiritual energy in his body frantically converged into his right fist. The fist erupted with a blinding yellow light, as if it had condensed the power of a small mountain!

“Mountain Collapse Heavy Punch! Fall!”

He roared, his body shooting out like a cannonball. That punch, condensed with all his power, slammed toward the unstable Ye Li! Before the punch even arrived, the terrifying fist pressure had nearly vacuumed the air around Ye Li!

This punch had already surpassed the limits of the Aura Revelation Realm and was touching the threshold of the Conduit Realm!

Gasps arose from below the stage! Everyone thought: It’s over! Ye Li absolutely cannot take this punch!

Even the Fourth Elder, Ye Yun, on the high platform couldn’t help but gasp out loud!

Just at this moment of extreme danger!

Ye Li’s figure, which had been slightly staggering from the shockwave, instead used the force of the tremor to execute an incredible angle of rotation, like a spinning leaf in the wind. This not only neutralized the shockwave’s power but also cleverly avoided the strongest point of the punch!

At the same time, her previously restrained aura suddenly burst forth! Her peak mid-stage Aura Revelation Realm cultivation was unleashed without reserve! The icy spiritual energy from the Nine Circles Emperor Canon was unreservedly poured into her twin fingers!

She did not choose to meet the unblockable punch head-on. Instead, she brought her fingers together, like a venomous snake darting out, pointing with absolute precision at a tiny joint connection point on Ye Feng’s elbow, which was slightly exposed due to his full-power strike!

That spot was precisely the momentary weak point during the power transition of this move!

Breaking the surface with a point! Attacking where the opponent is bound to defend!！

However, Ye Feng seemed to have anticipated this, or perhaps, he had been waiting for this very moment! A malicious smirk of successful scheming flashed in his eyes!

“I knew you’d do this! I was waiting for you!”

He actually didn’t dodge. The Mountain Collapse Heavy Punch continued its trajectory unabated! And from his left sleeve, a barely noticeable black streak silently slipped into his palm!

It was an obsidian fine needle, etched with eerie runes! A single-use magical artifact: Qi-Shattering Poison Needle! Once pierced, the spiritual energy would instantly dissipate, and the victim would be afflicted with a difficult-to-resolve poison! This was the “trump card” secretly given to him by the Third Elder’s faction before the competition!

He was going for an injury-for-injury exchange! Even worse, he aimed to exchange a minor injury for Ye Li being completely crippled!

The black needle shot out silently, venomously stabbing toward Ye Li’s attacking wrist! The angle was tricky, the timing vicious!

All of this happened in a flash of lightning!

No one in the audience could perceive the malicious black needle. They only saw Ye Feng’s frantic punch slamming toward Ye Li, who seemed to have no choice but to meet it with a single finger!

“It’s over!” This thought flashed through countless minds.

Even Ye Li felt a sense of fatal crisis the moment the black needle appeared!

But at this moment of life and death—

The fragment of the Cycle Mirror deep within her soul violently trembled again!

A cool current instantly swept through her body, drastically accelerating her thought process to a terrifying level! Everything around her seemed to slow down again! The trajectory of the malicious black needle, the direction of Ye Feng’s punch, the circulation of her own spiritual energy… all became incredibly clear!

Simultaneously, an icy rage welled up from her heart!

They actually resorted to such a vicious method!

In the nick of time, Ye Li’s twin fingers maintained their attack, but her wrist executed an almost impossible, extremely slight inward bend!

This caused the poisoned black needle to graze past her skin! The chill from the needle’s tip gave her arm goosebumps!

And her twin fingers, their speed undiminished, landed on the weak joint point of Ye Feng’s elbow first!

“Pfft!”

“Crack!”

A muffled sound was accompanied by an extremely faint sound of bone cracking!

The malicious smirk on Ye Feng’s face instantly froze, transforming into extreme pain and disbelief! He felt his right arm go numb. A sharp, icy force penetrated his body, instantly disrupting the spiritual energy channels in his arm! The Mountain Collapse Heavy Punch, condensed with all his power, suddenly lost most of its force, like a deflated ball!

And the black needle in his left hand had struck empty air!

“How is this possible?!” He roared in horror in his heart!

However, Ye Li’s counterattack had only just begun!

While avoiding the poison needle and dissipating the punch force, her body, as if boneless, pressed close! Her other hand, fingers slightly curled and containing a sharp, forceful wind, directly grabbed Ye Feng’s left wrist, which held the poison needle!

Ye Feng’s right arm was injured, and the pain was excruciating. His left hand was also caught squarely, instantly leaving him wide open!

A cold light burst from Ye Li’s eyes. Seizing this fleeting opportunity, she slammed her forehead forward!

“Bang!”

A ferocious headbutt landed squarely on Ye Feng’s nose bridge!

“Urghhh—!”

Ye Feng let out a blood-curdling scream. Blood sprayed from his nose. Tears and snot instantly gushed out. The impact left him dizzy and staggering backward!

Ye Li pressed her advantage, unleashing the Phantom Shadow Steps again, sticking to him like a shadow! A sharp side-kick mercilessly slammed into Ye Feng’s wide-open chest!

“Boom!”

Ye Feng flew like a kite with a broken string. The blood he spat out drew a long arc in the air, and he crashed heavily onto the edge of the stage. He struggled a few times but was unable to get up!

The black poison needle in his left hand also fell to the ground with a “clink,” its eerie dark light particularly glaring in the sunlight.

Silence!

A deathly silence!

Everyone stared dumbfounded at the shocking reversal on the stage, their minds blank.

What happened?

Ye Li, who was clearly about to lose, how did she suddenly…

When someone finally clearly saw the black poison needle on the ground, a collective gasp swept through the crowd!

“Wh-What is that?!”

“A needle? A black needle! It looks like it fell from Young Master Ye Feng’s hand!”

“How can something like that be on the dueling stage? Don’t tell me…”

The whispers instantly erupted into an uproar of clamor and questioning!

On the high platform, the Third Elder, Ye Lang, suddenly stood up, his face ashen! The Patriarch, Ye Tian, instantly fixed his gaze on the poison needle, his eyes chillingly cold! The First Elder, Ye Xiao, let out an angry snort, and a powerful oppressive aura instantly enveloped the entire venue!

Ye Li stood at the center of the stage, slightly panting, her chest rising and falling. That series of extreme maneuvers had consumed a great deal of her energy. Her forehead was also red and swollen from the headbutt, having sustained a minor injury.

But she stood straight, her eyes coldly sweeping over the fallen, bloodied Ye Feng and the landed poison needle.

She won.

Overcoming the strong with the weak! And she had shattered a despicable conspiracy!

All eyes in the venue focused on her, filled with shock, awe, and disbelief!

The dark horse, went dark to the end!