Chapter 260 260: Beginning Of The Battle



As the audience continues to belittle Geo's dream of making martial arts a valuable path for immortal cultivators, Yoze could sense that the aura around Geo was becoming colder and colder. As he barely tried to hide the hidden anger in his heart.

"Sigh, these folks are truly ignorant, but what they say is the truth. For mortals, it isn't practical to practice both martial arts and immortal cultivation unless one is talented in both."

"So that's why I believe that only once one becomes an immortal can they truly show the power of martial arts. But with you here, I think we might be able to show them the potential of martial arts with our battle." Geo released a deep sigh as all the anger in his heart disappeared without a trace, replaced with excitement for battle.

As Yoze listened to Geo's speech, he couldn't help but nod his head as he felt that their interest was similar but not the same in the end. While he was interested in combining martial arts and immortal cultivation, he had higher aspirations as well.

Yoze wanted to reach the peak of all three power systems of this world; he wanted to combine martial arts with spiritual energy and immortal cultivation. By reaching the peak, he would be impossible to defeat and thus could live his life with complete freedom without any fear.

With how magical all three powers were, Yoze believed that once he reached the peak of martial arts, spiritual energy, and immortal cultivation and fused them, he could do anything. He could make the impossible a reality, making fantastical dreams seem plausible.

Yoze firmly believed that by fusing all three powers, he would get god-like powers that one could only dream of. Even if he could never accomplish it in his lifetime, he knew it was possible since immortal cultivation and spiritual energy were already doing the impossible.

Whether it was immortal cultivation or spiritual energy, they seemed to have endless potential and advanced the furthest. Even with his shallow understanding of these two systems, he understood that both granted eternal life.

For immortal cultivation, it was quite simple as the path to immortality was achieved step by step until one reached that realm. As for spiritual energy, it seemed more tricky, but from what he understood, as long as they could protect their spiritual energy, they could revive and live forever.

The only path that didn't seem to contain a way to become immortal was the martial art path, but Yoze believed it was because no one had reached it yet. Only martial arts seemed to have reached a limit that no human could break through.

The Martial Grandmaster realm was the current limit, but Yoze believed that he could break through that limit and allow martial arts to reach its full potential. Inner Vigor was just as magical as crystal energy and spiritual energy, but the unfortunate thing was that it required one to be extremely talented in the field.

If one wasn't talented enough, they wouldn't even be able to reach the Martial grandmaster realm before they died with old age. In contrast, you could say that immortal cultivation and spiritual energy didn't require their users to be as talented.

As long as you had a grade-five Crystal Nerves talent for immortal cultivation, they had a shot at becoming immortals. At that point, they would have an infinite amount of time to continue developing their paths.

Spiritual energy, on the other hand, was always exclusive to only a select few species, mainly demons, and all these species were extremely talented in the field to the point that the moment they were born, they were close to becoming immortals.

So Yoze could understand why immortal cultivators underestimated it and firmly did not believe in its potential. But knowing that many immortal cultivators saw the potential in martial arts both excited him and scared him.

"Only immortals can break the limits of the human body and thus surpass the Martial Grandmaster realm." As Yoze was in deep thought, he suddenly remembered a conversation he had had with one of the generals at Jade City and couldn't help but say it out loud.

"Exactly, while it is the sad truth. I believe that the path of martial arts is long and tiring, but the rewards will be worth it. It's only unfortunate that the human lifespan is too limited to witness its true power." Responding to Yoze's realization, Geo nodded his head with sadness before shaking his head.

"Come, my fellow brother, and let's fight to please not only the immortals but to show everyone that martial arts are powerful in their own right!" 

The moment Geo finished his sentence, all his sadness vanished like smoke and was replaced with a strong lust for battle. He grabbed his black cloak and ripped it off his body.

Seeing that the battle between them was about to start, Yoze snapped out of his deep thoughts and turned his focus back to Geo. However, when he saw Geo's weapon, Yoze could help but silently curse at him.

Complementing Geo's height, his body was extremely muscular but lean and balanced, showing that he took. Underneath his robe, Geo continued to appreciate the beauty of an all-black outfit as he wore a skin-tight black shirt and skin-tight black leather pants.

Wrapped around his waist was a black belt that had golden buckles, which was the only other color in his entire outfit. The reason for the unexpected color was obviously due to them matching his golden eyes that seemed to be as sharp as a knife.

In addition to the color of his clothing, Geo allowed his long hair to run loose, but even then, it seemed to be unnaturally clumped up into spikes. However, what made Yoze curse with anger was that covering Geo's arms was a pair of spiked arm guards that were made of the same material as Lebra's Shadow Armor.

"Don't tell me his arm guards also have the property of being able to absorb anything. If that's the case, it's going to be annoying to use any range attacks on him." As Yoze stared at Geo's arm guard, he couldn't help but compare them to Lebra's Shadow Armor.

If they were truly made out of the same material, Yoze knew that it was going to be difficult to win with the same level of power he had been showing all this time. It was already an inconvenience to overwhelm Lebra's Shadow Armor to the point that Lebra had to surrender.

So he could only imagine trying to do the same with a more skilled opponent and someone who already had a good understanding of the level of power that Yoze was willing to show. It was going to be a tough match, but he wasn't going to give up yet and decided to continue limiting himself.

It wasn't only because it would be suspicious for a martial artist to be so strong, and it would most likely attract the attention of immortals that were too powerful for him to handle. It would also allow him to once again have a good opponent to improve his martial art techniques.

He had already gotten a good foundation of his new martial art technique that he had created and wanted to test it against a good opponent. This way, he could evolve and adapt the technique by getting rid of the kinks and useless flashy moves in a real battle.

"Let's go. I want to see how powerful you truly are to have such a grand ambition. Don't disappoint me." As Yoze turned his focus on the battle, he felt his battle spirit surge as he urged Geo to attack.

"Disappoint you? Ahahah, I almost forgot that all martial artists crave a good fight. Thank you for reminding me, but I really hope that what you showed earlier isn't your peak, or I'm going to be disappointed." Surprised by Yoze's sudden urging, Geo laughed before having his fighting spirit explode.

"Boom!"

The sound of a powerful explosion rocked the obsidian platform as the immortal cultivators in the crowd felt their hearts drop. They didn't know what had happened before they suddenly realized that Yoze and Geo had switched places.

They realized that both Yoze and Geo had moved so fast that they couldn't even see them move. Many of them cursed before muttering a long chant to themselves and activating their Eye of Insight spell.

Within the crowd of hundreds of immortal cultivators, nearly all of them had complex spinning magical circles within their eyes, allowing them to witness the entire world slowing down. They were determined to see every last second of this battle and determine whether it truly was worth the effort to practice martial arts.

As for the immortal cultivators who didn't activate Eye of Insights, they couldn't help but curse at themselves for being too broke to afford the spell. They could only pray that they didn't miss too much of the battle.