Chapter 0837: Close Victory
Chapter 0837: Close Victory
Boom!
When Li Luo swept down the plantain fan, lightning flashed and a tempest raged. All of a sudden, a ferocious, azure wind swept up the crystal square, leaving endless traces of deep, torn scars on the field.
Amidst the azure wind, there were also balls of lightning that contained extremely violent lightning energy that could easily annihilate even someone in the Greater Heavenly Resonance Tier.
The azure wind and balls of lightning flew past the void and clashed directly with the incoming rain of dark-blue streams.
The formidable, piercing strength of the dark-blue streams was displayed as soon as they made contact. They penetrated the azure wind and shattered the balls of lightning instantly.
However, this also slowed down the speed of the streams considerably, though they continued to charge through the passage of wind towards Li Luo.
"Banner Leader Li Luo, this is the third Nine Revolutions Art you have used. What a surprise! From what I gathered, even Banner Leader Li Qingfeng only possesses two Nine Revolutions Arts. Achieving such amazing feats just a few months after your return is truly impressive," Qin Yi commented as she observed the raging winds and flashing lightning. She could clearly tell how devastating this attack was. Even though Li Luo was merely at the level of a lower first-grade Duke, he could still bog down her Ten Thousand Water Streams Slaughter by so much. Moreover, she had always been one who defeated opponents above her own level. Being hindered by Li Luo left her with mixed feelings as he was clearly weaker than her.
Nonetheless, she was no ordinary opponent. The difference in strength was still very much a factor here. One Nine Revolutions Art alone would not be sufficient to bring her down.
Under her watch, the dark-blue water streams rapidly sliced through the azure winds and lightning balls, closing in on Li Luo.
Right at this moment, an unusual lightning ball appeared in front of the water streams. This lightning ball was not only filled with flashing lightning, it was also surrounded by the wildly ravaging winds. Without a doubt, it had combined both powers together.
This was stronger than his previous attacks.
It collided with the dark-blue water streams.
In that instant, Qin Yi's calm face changed drastically.
A look of shock and surprise surfaced on her usually unfazed, beautiful face.
She witnessed the terrifying destructive power of this attack immediately. When they collided, her dark-blue water streams were shattered in the air.
Each of the high-speed water streams were grinded down and then blown apart by the ravaging wind that followed.
Her fatal attack was totally wrecked in the short span of a few breaths, and the special lightning ball went directly towards Qin Yi like an arrow shooting out of a bow.
She quickly regained her senses. Despite her cool personality, she was taken aback this time. She did not understand how Li Luo could have broken through her attack.
In fact, she did not even manage to see why her Ten Thousand Water Streams Slaughter would disintegrate by itself so suddenly. It was as if she had encountered a truly fearsome foe all of a sudden.
However, she knew that it was pointless to ponder over all this now. She hurriedly raised her jade hands, and her resonant power surged. Soon, a mysterious, black turtle materialized in front of her.
The black turtle stood guard before her like a huge, firm, black mountain.
"Mystical Turtle Mountain Shield!"
This was Qin Yi's defensive art with extremely strong protective capabilities. After the previous clash with the Ten Thousand Water Streams Slaughter, the lightning ball with ravaging winds was already buffeted with scars. This shield should be enough to fend it off.
Just as she thought about it, the lightning ball collided with the turtle's back.
Following the impact, the lightning ball shattered into countless little sparks as expected.
However, this was not enough for Qin Yi to heave a sigh of relief. She noticed that countless cracks had appeared on her turtle's shell, and they were rapidly spreading out.
At this point, she could not help but squint at this sight.
This time, she finally felt a strange force.
When the lightning ball shattered earlier, a hardly noticeable strand of energy had slipped into the black turtle. This was the force that had so easily broken through the defensive art.
Although the undulations emanating from this force appeared weak, it seemed unstoppable.
"What the hell is this?!" Qin Yi was completely confused. In the next instant, a tingling sensation of pain surfaced on her skin. It was a signal from her Invincible Water Jade Armor that something immensely dangerous was approaching!
However, it was too late for her to do anything at this point.
She could only watch helplessly as the strange strand of energy penetrated the turtle and came into contact with the skin of her palm.
“Ugh!”
A soft voice rang in the air. Her Invincible Water Jade Armor was broken apart. The strange strand of energy continued onward and pierced her body directly.
At this point, she could feel the terrifying and sharp sword intent slicing and ravaging through her innards.
Faced against this annihilative force, her Invincible Water Jade Armor was unable to save her, and she instantly sustained grave wounds. Even with the immense recovery ability of her ninth-grade water resonance, Qin Yi would have to go through hell this time around.
The energy around her became disoriented. Her delicate face turned pale, and she could not help but spit out a mouthful of fresh blood.
When the fresh blood landed on the ground, it cut through the floor, leaving behind countless minute and tightly-packed holes.
At the same time, tiny cracks repeatedly appeared on her snow white jade skin as it continued to repair itself.
It was at this time that Qin Yi knew very well that she had been completely defeated.
Although the aggressive sword intent in her body was not particularly strong, it was extremely stubborn. Even with her ninth-grade water resonance, it was still extremely challenging to completely erase and cleanse the body of its presence completely.
As Li Luo watched Qin Yi stand there with her disoriented resonant power, he finally heaved a sigh of relief. It looked like the power of the Cosmic Sword Intent was much stronger than he had expected.
Now that Qin Yi had been caught off guard and allowed the sword intent to enter her body, she would no longer have an easy time.
It seemed like he was the one better off after this clash.
However, he did not turn complacent. Instead, there was more pressure on him now than ever before. After this confrontation with Qin Yi, he had clearly seen how challenging it was to go up against the top talents of the Heavenly Emperor powers. Li Luo would stand no chance against Qin Yi at all if they had fought with their own individual strength without the assistance of Harmony.
Minimally, he would need to enter the Fiend Body Tier before he could even put up any sort of resistance.
Furthermore, Qin Yi was not even giving it her all in this fight. She had exhausted a huge amount of energy to keep up the water palace in order to trap Li Qingfeng and the rest.
As such, Li Luo dared not underestimate the talents in the inner divine continent just because of a close win over Qin Yi.
As Li Luo recomposed himself, he looked towards his opponent. She was definitely not doing well. Nonetheless, he was very careful not to get too close to her. There was still the possibility that Qin Yi would become enraged and summon up all of her last remaining strength to bring him down with her.
That would not be ideal, as he still wanted to collect the dragonbreath!
Li Luo laughed a little, but he did not waste any more time talking to Qin Yi. He made his way straight towards the door at the back of the crystal square. At this moment, there was waterlight dazzling at the doorway with rays of light passing through it.
This was the exit of the water palace.
Without Qin Yi's obstruction, Li Luo could finally leave.
With a swing of his blade, the gate of the water palace was sliced apart and rays of light fell upon his figure.
As he stood there, he turned back and watched Qin Yi. She was standing at her original spot, unable to move even a tiny bit. Meanwhile, Li Luo smiled brightly at her.
"Lady Qin Yi, will your mother punish you when you return?"
Qin Yi clenched her fist, and green veins showed up on her arms. She stared at Li Luo with eyes full of fury.
Meanwhile, Li Luo merely laughed out loud. He did not taunt her any further. Turning around, he stepped out of the gate. His eyes were filled with anticipation at this point.
With Li Qingfeng and the rest still trapped in the water palace, wouldn't all six Coiling Dragon Pillars be up for his choosing?!