Chapter 190 - 190 187 Seven-Colored Illusion Butterfly Cheng Dieyi
Chapter 190: Chapter 187 Seven-Colored Illusion Butterfly Cheng Dieyi Chapter 190: Chapter 187 Seven-Colored Illusion Butterfly Cheng Dieyi In midair, Lei Zhan stretched out his hand and summoned the Earth Shattering Hammers into his grip.
The previously shattered finger bones had been fixed with his powerful True Yuan, an injury that was not severe to him; after a few days of applying the Bone Healing Ointment upon returning, he would recover completely.
Seeing Qin Feng below brewing a spell, preparing for a powerful attack the moment he landed, even the Ghost-Faced Spider had spread a large net in the arena, just waiting for him to willingly fall into the trap, Lei Zhan couldn’t help but snort coldly.
He had fought hundreds of battles over the years, possessing rich combat experience; trivial scenes like these wouldn’t scare him.
With a fierce shout, he gathered all his mana into the hammers, instantaneously enlarging them to the size of millstones, swirling with ferocious energy, and smashed directly towards Qin Feng below.
Before his hammers could even hit, Qin Feng felt a strong gust sweeping towards him, making it hard for him to breathe.
His expression changed drastically, and he quickly gave up on his initial plan, no longer using any spells to attack as he rapidly retreated backward, keeping a large distance from where Lei Zhan’s hammers would strike.
…
Moreover, at this time, Lei Zhan was hidden behind the massive Earth Shattering Hammer.
Even Qin Feng found it difficult to strike him; under such circumstances, he certainly wouldn’t rashly block these powerful and heavy hammers.
With a loud boom, the entire arena trembled the instant Lei Zhan’s hammers hit the ground.
A series of faint cracking sounds followed, and the vast arena showed numerous cracks from the impact, the prohibitions within it not entirely able to withstand the power of his strike, leaving two pits several feet deep at the center.
Qin Feng waved away several small stones that had splattered towards him and, with a surprised look, glanced back and forth between Lei Zhan and the badly damaged platform, unable to help but give a thumbs-up: “Senior Brother Lei is indeed valiant, I admire you.”
“Cut the crap!”
Lei Zhan roared angrily, charging towards Qin Feng like a fierce wind: “Wait until my hammers break a few of your bones, then you can talk about admiration.”
“Hehe…”Qin Feng gracefully dodged to the side: “Junior Brother’s bones are quite tough; I fear Senior Brother’s hammers still lack a bit of strength.”
“Humph, if you’re capable, don’t dodge – just try taking my two hammers head-on?”
“Fine!”
“Just knew you wouldn’t dare…
eh, you agreed?”
Lei Zhan looked at Qin Feng with surprise, then excitedly shouted: “Alright, if you’ve got the guts, just stand there and don’t move.”
As he spoke, he swung his two large hammers straight at Qin Feng’s head with a move called ‘Twin Winds Piercing the Ears.’
With a booming sound, the two hammers brutally collided together.
“Ptui, you don’t keep your word.”
Lei Zhan cursed as he just started to seek Qin Feng’s figure, only to hear Qin Feng’s voice from below: “Senior Brother, don’t wrong a good person.
I indeed stood still and didn’t move; it’s just you who didn’t hit me.”
“Huh?”
Lei Zhan looked down sharply, instantly spotting Qin Feng.
And then he realized that Qin Feng indeed hadn’t moved, but his body had shrunk to a little over a foot high, barely reaching his knees.
No wonder his hammers had missed!
Upon discovering Qin Feng’s current appearance, this thought couldn’t help but cross Lei Zhan’s mind.
Truth be told, over these years, he had mostly encountered opponents much taller than him; suddenly seeing Qin Feng’s tiny stature was indeed somewhat novel.
However, the novelty aside, he wouldn’t show any mercy when it came to attacking.
But just as he moved his arm slightly, not even waiting for his hammers to strike, he saw Qin Feng’s body puff up like an inflated balloon, explosively expanding to about thirty feet tall.
“Senior Brother, take this attack from me too.”
Before his words even finished, not waiting for Lei Zhan to react, a kick came from below.
Due to the close distance and his enlarged size, Lei Zhan’s body was basically next to his huge feet; thus, there was no escape, and he was kicked away by Qin Feng.
Lei Zhan, wailing in midair, was about to swing his hammers and continue the fight when suddenly, he saw a brilliant golden light in Qin Feng’s hand; a forceful slap struck, sending Lei Zhan, already without leverage in midair, flying out of the arena.
Qin Feng hadn’t been able to practice continuously all these months – during his idle time, he also honed his magical divine powers, especially the Divine Skill of Big and Small Changes, improving it from an initial double size increase to seven or eight times its original, thus managing to dominate Lei Zhan by suddenly enlarging his body.
Of course, his victory was mainly because Lei Zhan hadn’t adapted to his sudden size changes; moreover, Qin Feng utilized the arena’s rules that victory comes by knocking the opponent out of the arena.
In a true life-and-death fight, Lei Zhan could have adapted given a bit more time using his years of combat experience; without a prolonged battle, he couldn’t possibly achieve victory.
Seeing Lei Zhan fall out of the arena, Qin Feng returned his body to its original size, letting out a long sigh of relief.
Having fought so many consecutive battles, he was slightly tired, especially since his True Yuan had greatly depleted.
If it were another disciple, they might seize the moment to rest since there was a rule in the arena that each disciple had fifteen minutes to recuperate their physical strength and True Yuan after a victory.
Qin Feng thought it over and opted not to sit and recover True Yuan but decided to continue fighting while his momentum was high, hoping not only to make a name for himself but also to cultivate an invincible presence among his peers, which would be beneficial for his future cultivation of the heart realm.
However, he wasn’t just sitting in meditation to recover; he was utilizing another method, namely the Demon Refining Pot.
At that moment, streams of pure Spiritual Power continuously flowed from the Demon Refining Pot within him, which he absorbed and refined to restore his True Yuan.
Nevertheless, to prevent the Elders of the Inner Sect, who were more experienced in the Dao, from noticing anything unusual, he took a Spirit Pill for recovering True Yuan from his Storage Bag.
That way, even if someone felt he had been continuously fighting for a long time, they wouldn’t suspect anything.
After all, this sort of occurrence was not without precedent, like Li Miaozhen more than a decade ago, who had fought from the beginning to the end of an Outer Sect competition.
Of course, Li Miaozhen had her methods of recovering True Yuan.
“Who else wants to challenge?”
Qin Feng, while absorbing Spiritual Power to recover his True Yuan, directed his gaze once again to the audience below and loudly called out.
The area below was silent; seeing that Qin Feng had even knocked Senior Brother Lei out of the arena made the desire to challenge him scarce.
Whether it was Senior Brother Lei or Yuan Powang, they were considered the best among the younger generation on their respective peaks.
Now that both had lost, confidence was rare among the other peaks that anyone still had a chance.
The silence didn’t last long, soon broken by a delicate laugh from the crowd.
Following that, a pretty young girl wearing colorful clothing and with a pair of Seven-Colored Butterfly Wings on her back, slowly flew up to the stage.
“Junior Brother Qin is truly bold, to challenge continuously and still dare to invite further challenges; sister admires you immensely,” she spoke with a soft voice and twinkling, innocent-looking eyes, as if she was a little girl unaware of worldly affairs.
However, Qin Feng didn’t let down his guard at all.
Since this girl dared to take the stage after he had defeated several opponents consecutively, she was clearly not an ordinary competitor.
“What should I call Senior Sister?”
Qin Feng asked.
The girl gently fluttered her Butterfly Wings, floating a few feet above the ground, and responded with a light laugh, “I am a disciple of Spiritual Butterfly Peak, Cheng Dieyi.”
“So it’s Senior Sister Cheng.”
Qin Feng pondered for a moment and quickly recalled this name.
Liu Wuxiang, knowing Qin Feng was participating in this year’s Outer Sect competition, had specially gathered information about outstanding disciples from various peaks for him, which included Cheng Dieyi.
The girl was famously beautiful and had high cultivation levels, thus receiving much admiration from fellow disciples in the Outer Sect.
However, her most renowned attributes were neither her beauty nor her cultivation, but her Lifebound Spiritual Beast, the Seven-Colored Illusion Butterfly.
Reportedly, she once single-handedly invaded a Bandit Cultivator fortress, using the Seven-Colored Illusion Butterfly to bewilder the senses of many bandits and achieved the feat of wiping out a hundred of them by herself.
She also traveled with her fellow Spiritual Butterfly Peak sisters, and during one trip, they encountered several Foundation Establishment Cultivators from the Giant Spirit Sect.
Given their strength, a direct confrontation would have resulted in certain death.
Cheng Dieyi, by engaging in conversation, bought some time during which she quietly deployed an Illusion Technique that deluded the opponents, ultimately allowing her to eliminate those Foundation Establishment Cultivators from the Giant Spirit Sect.
According to Liu Wuxiang, when battling this woman, one must not give her any time to cast spells; otherwise, letting the fight drag on would likely lead to falling into her illusions.
However, Qin Feng didn’t hurry to attack; instead, he pretended not to know of Cheng Dieyi’s past notoriety, continuing to chat idly with her.
He did so because he was unafraid of Cheng Dieyi’s Illusion Techniques and planned to use the conversation to recover more True Yuan.
Cheng Dieyi’s Seven-Colored Illusion Butterfly might be formidable in the art of illusion, but its effectiveness depends on whom it was trying to confuse.
If it were just Qin Feng alone, with his current cultivation level, he would definitely be impacted and might even fall into the illusion without any counteraction.
However, on the stage with him were the Swallowing Sky Toad and the Ghost-Faced Spider.
The Swallowing Sky Toad, with its high pedigree, had undergone a huge surge in power after advancing to Foundation Establishment; it had its own space-like system within its body and had also fused the bloodline of the Swallowing Star Toad.
Moreover, it currently was not the primary target of Cheng Dieyi’s deception, so it was not much affected.
The Ghost-Faced Spider, meanwhile, contained a strand of Divine Power from a Demon God within its body, faint yet of a very high level.
Under the flow of that power, the Ghost-Faced Spider was also not fooled by the Seven-Colored Illusion Butterfly.
After discovering the girl was Cheng Dieyi, Qin Feng immediately placed a part of his Spirit in these two Spiritual Beasts, using their eyes to observe Cheng Dieyi.
At the same time, he released the perception of the Ruyi Golden Snake, employing all three strategies at once, quickly discerning Cheng Dieyi’s techniques in illusion.
As she talked, she gently fluttered her butterfly wings behind her, sprinkling an invisible, multicolored powder.
That multicolored powder settled down and, controlled by her will, floated around the stage, particularly thick around Qin Feng.
This powder was the medium through which she performed her illusions.
Cheng Dieyi’s figure lightly moved across the stage, slowly approaching Qin Feng.
Yet Qin Feng still looked towards the direction where Cheng Dieyi had initially been.
There, her illusion lingered, still smiling beautifully as it continued to converse with Qin Feng.