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Chapter 853: One Hundred and Forty-Seven: Advantage
Chapter 853: One Hundred and Forty-Seven: Advantage
Chapter 853: Chapter One Hundred and Forty-Seven: Advantage
This Spirit Art, capable of overwhelming more than ten teams of Fierce Realm powerhouses, was something even a Grandmaster like Luo QingChi wouldn’t want to test with his body. He shifted the Five Elements’ Perfection Array right below him to block between himself and the Yellow Dragon. The now-perfected elemental array burst forth with all its might, the Five-Color Divine Light whirling into a vortex that shredded the thunderous Geo Fury surging skyward, also buying precious time for Luo QingChi.
Faced with Xiao Jinlin’s Yellow Dragon Soaring to the Heavens, Luo QingChi knew he had lost the upper hand. It was no longer possible to keep Tang Luo here; what he needed to consider now was how to escape at the smallest cost.
The Spirit Escape unique to a Grandmaster was executed, intending to disperse as Spiritual Light. However, it was rigidly trapped by a boundary realm that appeared out of nowhere.
With the Spirit Escape failed, Luo QingChi reassembled his body, looking up with a frown to see the silver giant that should have fled standing right above him in the void, with a pitch-black circle hanging behind it, and the boundary realm enclosing both of them originated from that circle.
He was trapped in place. The Five Elements’ Killing Array couldn’t stop the Yellow Dragon that sought to soar into the heavens, which meant not only would he bear the brunt of this Grandmaster-level spirit technique—Tang Luo, sealed in the soul domain, couldn’t escape either. Spirit Arts did not distinguish between friend and foe; the silver giant’s body was ten times his size, meaning it would suffer attacks tenfold greater than his own. Luo QingChi truly couldn’t understand why this once-in-a-lifetime genius would make such a foolish decision.
The Spirit Vortex, composed of Five-Color Divine Light and having devoured a massive amount of thunder and Geo Fury, was about to collapse. Luo QingChi, however, lifted his head and said, “Although you’ve blocked my Spirit Escape with a boundary realm, at most taking on this Spirit Art will severely injure me, but you could very likely die from the aftermath of the Spirit Art. Don’t you think that’s foolish?”
“I may not be smart, but can I be dumber than a Grandmaster using divine powers to pass judgment?” The silver giant, standing in the void, looked down and spoke coldly, “As for whether I will die, the Grandmaster need not concern himself. You should worry about how to survive the Geo Fury and thunderstorms first!”
The Spirit Vortex exploded, the Dragon Ascended to Heaven, the Yellow Dragon formed a pillar of light rising from the ground. Their vast reach left both men with no escape. Without the obstruction of the Five Elements’ Spiritual Array, the endless Geo Fury and thunderstorms rushed skyward along with the wild earth’s fire. The Undying Battle Body’s Heaven-gifted Divine Armor shattered in a second, followed by the Steel Unity. The fourth-grade Xuanwu body lasted only a few breaths before breaking, and with the cultivation body dismissed, Tang Luo’s physical defense plummeted several levels, but he was prepared!
Dozens of heavy shield Spiritual Instruments surged from the Void Stomach. After the Undying Battle Body was breached, they formed a second line of defense, giving Tang Luo the time to escape from the center of the light pillar.
Two figures nearly simultaneously broke free from the light pillar. One, just after escaping from the Geo Fury and thunderstorms, immediately faced the pincer attack of two colorful Divine Dragon Shadows, leaving no opportunity to catch a breath.
However, Tang Luo, though wounded and ragged, was met by four teammates flying out from the phoenix chariot, with Li Xuanba and Xiao Ziyu supporting his arms from left and right, trying to bring him back into the phoenix chariot.
“It’s not that dramatic. Clan Leader Xiao pulled back his strength at the last moment. My blood-drenched appearance might look frightening, but it’s actually nothing serious. You all go back to the chariot first. This level of combat is not something you can get involved in right now,” Tang Luo said, patting Li Xuanba and Xiao Ziyu on the shoulders and giving a reassuring, untroubled gesture to Tang Xing and Cui Haoran behind him.
Although his body was covered with wounds scorched and eroded by the thunder and Geo Fury, they were healing at a visibly fast rate under the repair of the Two Ambiguity Innate Qi, lending convincing power to Tang Luo’s words, so the others could only comply.
Meanwhile, Tang Luo, who had been mostly focused on Luo QingChi, understood that due to Xiao Jinlin pulling back his power, Luo QingChi wasn’t severely injured. If he didn’t take the opportunity to expand the results of the battle and injure his opponent, there would be no peace along this journey.
On the other side, Luo QingChi was kept so busy by the two Divine Dragon Shadows that he had no time to spare. The Heavenly and Earthly Qi were thrown into complete chaos by the soaring Geo Fury and couldn’t form an array. To counter the two Divine Dragon Shadows, it would take more than a casually thrown Spirit Art to achieve success.
Just as he had said earlier, control is paramount in a battle between Grandmasters; once you lose the initiative and fall into a disadvantage, you will be relentlessly pursued and find it extremely difficult to turn the tables, let alone the fact that he was injured. Under normal circumstances, he would have long since fled, but the reason he was still struggling desperately was because of the pride of Martial Saint Mountain.
He had already seen the true nature of Divine Dragon Shadow and knew that the biggest flaw of such heterodox powers was that they were strong but not durable. What he needed to do was to withstand the duration of Divine Dragon Shadow and wait for the Heavenly and Earthly Qi disrupted by Earth Spirit to return to calm.
Though he was at a disadvantage and had suffered indistinct injuries, Luo QingChi always believed that he would achieve the ultimate victory. It wasn’t until a strike from the Innate Divine Sword pierced through his chest and abdomen that he realized how sudden the taste of defeat could be.
Spirit Liquid surged out from the void in his chest and abdomen, and for the first time since being acknowledged as a Grandmaster, he felt such a severe sense of weakness. Luo QingChi finally knew that the situation was hopeless, yet he did not flee. Instead, he mustered a resolute determination to die together with his opponent.
“To extinguish the source of calamity in Longzhou here, what does the loss of one warrior count for!”
After realizing that he could not extract the Innate Yin-Yang Grinder using “peaceful” means, he planned to adopt the most extreme method: to destroy the evil object along with Tang Luo.
At the same time, the two who held the absolute upper hand suddenly ceased their attack. The two Divine Dragon Shadows returned to the Monument Dragon Diagram behind Xiao Jinlin, and Tang Luo, who had succeeded in the sneak attack, did not pursue his advantage; instead, he withdrew to a distance from Luo QingChi and said indifferently, “Grandmaster Luo, you have lost.”
Luo QingChi hadn’t expected the two who held the absolute upper hand to suddenly stop fighting, rendering his moments-ago do-or-die resolution utterly absurd.
From that angle, he seemed even more like a radical and evil person than Tang Luo before him.
He was the one who, for Longzhou’s future, had not hesitated to be estranged from everyone. Why did it now seem that he was the madman? Could he be wrong?
No, impossible! He could not be wrong; no one could resist the temptation of that evil thing. Those who had the upper hand and sought to quell the situation peacefully were only afraid of the consequences being exposed; he absolutely could not fall for their trick!
Having swiftly constructed this mindset, Luo QingChi grabbed a vast amount of Primary Qi from the environment. Taking advantage of the lull in the battle, he temporarily repaired his injuries.
Seeing Luo QingChi’s actions, Tang Luo rested his hand on his forehead and said resignedly, “After all this, Grandmaster Luo, you still refuse to give up?”
Indeed, a flesh body made of spirit material could be temporarily fixed using Spiritual Light, but such repairs are temporary, similar to hastily patching a hole in the wall with some mud. Clearly, Luo QingChi had not abandoned his initial intent. Tang Luo’s gesture of sincerity was used by the other as a dire battlefield first-aid measure, which was really a stroke of bad luck.