Chapter 295 - 174: Extreme Joy Turns to Sorrow, Struck by a Deadly Poison [Subscribe Please]
Lingzhou, an unnamed wilderness territory.
The intense battle was something neither party had anticipated beforehand.
Both sides thought it would be an easy fight to swiftly take down their opponent.
But when they actually faced each other and revealed their trump cards, what they thought would be a one-sided fight turned into a tough, hard struggle.
With the might of his Talisman Treasures, Master Jiang, at the later stages of Foundation Establishment, was able to stand against the third-order Demon Beast, the Fire Divine Jackal, without falling short by much.
The combat power that Zhou Chun unleashed also greatly shocked the cultivator wearing a wolf-face mask, finding it incredibly troublesome. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
At that moment, he incited two second-tier, mid-grade Talismans, transforming them into a Fire Dragon and a Golden Light Long Spear, aiming to defeat Zhou Chun in one strike.
But Baibai, the Silver Lightning Python, was covered in explosive lightning flashes and instantly appeared in front of the Fire Dragon, confronting it with a direct burst of lightning from its mouth.
Boom!
Accompanied by a thunderous explosion, Baibai, the Silver Lightning Python, was blasted away, his body scorched black. Continue reading stories on empire
However, this was merely a superficial flesh wound, and the damage to him wasn’t particularly significant.
Zhou Chun also raised his hand to strike, deflecting the Long Nail Talisman toward the Golden Light Long Spear, greatly weakening its potency. Ultimately, it failed to break his Protective Barrier.
Seeing that Zhou Chun had not been killed, the cultivator with the wolf-face mask darkened in expression, feeling a surge of annoyed embarrassment.
He was, after all, a cultivator at the later stages of Foundation Establishment, and yet his continuous efforts failed to bring down Zhou Chun, a cultivator at the early stages of Foundation Establishment, which made him feel quite embarrassed.
All of a sudden, as if he had made a certain resolution, he fiercely raised his hand and punched his own chest, immediately spitting out a mouthful of essence blood.
Then, with his fingers choreographing a spell, the essence blood swiftly entered the blue Magic Artifact bottle.
In an instant, that blue bottle spun rapidly in mid-air, and once again gushed out an even thicker mass of black fog, transforming into an even larger Black Fog Serpent that pounced towards Zhou Chun.
However, just as the wolf-face masked cultivator was willing to sacrifice his essence blood to use a secret technique to enhance the power of his Magic Artifact, Zhou Chun also chose to use the "Ancestral Resurrection" secret technique.
Originally, Zhou Chun thought that if he could delay the fight, waiting for the Fire Divine Jackal to exhaust Master Jiang’s Talisman powers, then it wouldn’t be necessary to use the "Ancestral Resurrection" secret technique.
Indeed, using such a secret technique was exciting, but the subsequent half a year of weakness was a significant price to pay, and it was best avoided if possible.
But it was clear that he had underestimated the strength of cultivators in the later stages of Foundation Establishment.
Even now, after switching to cultivating the powerful top-tier "Golden Cauldron Profound Technique," with the equally powerful Silver Lightning Python, Baibai, to assist him.
Facing a cultivator with strong cultivation and excellent Magic Artifacts like the wolf-face masked cultivator, he was still unable to match, let alone delay the fight for a while.
At this moment, as the "Ancestral Resurrection" secret technique was deployed, lightning surged wildly around Baibai, the Silver Lightning Python, and Dragon Horns, as well as Dragon Claws, quickly sprouted from the top of its head and below its belly.
To the wolf-face masked cultivator, this sight was utterly shocking, and he couldn’t help but exclaim in surprise, "How is this possible! What kind of secret technique is this?"
He did not understand!
He didn’t understand how a python could transform into a Flood Dragon so suddenly!
He even suspected he might be affected by Zhou Chun’s illusions, that everything he saw was fake, an illusion!
But when he saw the Thunder Dragon emerge from the Flood Dragon’s head, clashing with the Black Fog Serpent in mid-air, he knew it was all real.
As the Thunder Dragon collided with the Black Fog Serpent in mid-air, the serpent’s body was instantly destroyed and dispersed into blue smoke, not giving the wolf-face masked cultivator another chance to reform it.
Meanwhile, the Thunder Flood Dragon, Baibai, waved its claws, hurling one silver lightning Dharma Sphere after another at the wolf-face masked cultivator.
Seeing this, the wolf-face masked cultivator quickly cast a spell, and a blue water light spread from his body, forming an egg-sized blue Protective Barrier to guard himself within.
This was a defensive Divine Skill that accompanied the cultivation technique he practiced; bolstered by his later stage Foundation Establishment Cultivation Level, its defense wasn’t much less than that of a standard second-tier, high-grade Spell.
But silver lightning Dharma Spheres relentlessly bombarded him, and while he could defend against one or two, he couldn’t withstand four or five.
After only three consecutive hits from the silver lightning Dharma Spheres, he realized he couldn’t continue on the defensive.
As he manipulated a spell, his dark blue scimitar Magic Artifact suddenly made a beeline for the Thunder Flood Dragon, Baibai, slashing through the air towards it.
Simultaneously, a black shield Magic Artifact flew out from his Storage Pouch at his waist, circling around to block the attacks from Zhou Chun’s "Flying Dragon Snatch".
Watching the scimitar Magic Artifact slashing towards him, the Thunder Flood Dragon, Baibai, didn’t confront it head-on.
While employing the "Lightning Flash" Spell to dodge the scimitar Magic Artifact’s attack, it concurrently used lightning to strike the scimitar, wearing down its power.
At this time, Zhou Chun, no longer under pressure from the wolf-face masked cultivator, also unleashed his counterattack.
He reached into his Storage Pouch and pulled out a white bow and an arrow, then nocked the arrow to the bowstring, aiming at the wolf-face masked cultivator.
Whoosh!
The arrow left the bow with a flash of lightning; it traversed several hundred yards in an instant, appearing right in front of the wolf-face masked cultivator.