Chapter 320 - 317: A Fair Fight
BOOM!!!
A blinding flash of light, as brilliant as a bolt of thunder, erupted. An earth-shattering explosion followed, causing the very ground to tremble violently.
A violent gale, like a raging flood, swept through the area.
The wind whipped Shen Changchuan’s robes, making them flutter wildly.
For a moment, he struggled to maintain his balance in mid-air.
Fortunately,
with his immense Magical Power,
he managed to steady himself.
Shen Changchuan’s gaze turned toward the explosion.
In that direction,
several mountaintops had vanished completely, and in their place, a massive, bottomless chasm had been torn into the earth, spanning a hundred zhang in every direction!
Above that seemingly bottomless abyss,
two figures faced each other.
Shen Changchuan could sense their auras, each as scorching as the midday sun, rising up.
They clashed and collided in the void,
and under the pressure of their surging auras, massive boulders and great swathes of earth rose into the air as if they had lost their weight, floating around the two combatants!
"This is..."
Shen Changchuan’s pupils contracted sharply.
Of the two men,
Shen Changchuan didn’t recognize one of them—a middle-aged man with a square face, dressed in the long robes of a scholar.
Judging by his aura, he must have been the one who revealed himself, ready to strike, after Shen Changchuan had sent Zhou Ling flying.
He seemed to be a bodyguard, or perhaps a senior, hiding in the background to protect Zhou Lingyun.
As for the other, younger figure,
Shen Changchuan recognized him clearly.
That person
was Shen Chong!
’What a strange aura... It seems to be pure Divine Soul Power. Could he really be one of those old grandpas from a Storage Ring?’
Sensing the unusual aura emanating from Shen Chong,
the thought involuntarily flashed through Shen Changchuan’s mind.
"Who are you? Do you have any idea what you’re doing?!"
The square-faced, scholar-robed man glared at Shen Chong and roared.
His immense fury was so potent it seemed to visibly distort the very space around him.
With such a terrifying presence,
any Cultivator at the Qi Introduction Realm would have likely been frightened to death on the spot!
"Tch. And what if I told you who I was?"
"As for what I’m doing, aren’t you watching me do it?"
Shen Chong scoffed.
"All that talk about a ’fair fight’ sounded so nice, but the moment the younger one starts losing, the older one jumps out."
"So this is the so-called Zhou Family—nothing but a bunch of shameless cowards!"
"You!"
The square-faced man’s face flushed with anger, and he was about to say more.
"That’s enough, Fourth Uncle!"
"Stay out of this from now on!"
"I will have a fair fight with him!"
A cold, grim voice suddenly cut the middle-aged man off.
Not far away,
from within the collapsed hill, a figure burst through the thick smoke and leaped into the air.
It was Zhou Lingyun!
But now,
a trickle of blood was at the corner of his mouth, and his clothes were tattered.
His fierce gaze was locked onto Shen Changchuan.
"Good! Very good!"
"I never expected you’d be able to put me in such a pathetic state!"
"If word of this gets out, you’ll have more than enough to be proud of!"
Zhou Lingyun spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, and the turbulent aura around him gradually stabilized.
At the same time,
on his body,
a Jade Pendant he wore shattered, turning to dust and scattering into the wind.
Zhou Lingyun snorted coldly.
With a wave of his hand, he swept all the dust from his clothes.
Shen Changchuan’s attack had been swift,
but as a member of the Zhou Family from the more prosperous Central State Immortal Cultivation World, he naturally didn’t lack for single-use protective items that activated automatically when struck with sufficient force.
Of course,
such an automatically activating protective measure was also extremely expensive,
and the loss stung him deeply.
He glared at Shen Changchuan, his face twisting into a savage expression.
"Damn it, you made me waste one of my Protective Jade Talismans!"
"Don’t get cocky. I was just careless for a moment and you took advantage of it."
"Next, you will die without a doubt!"
BOOM!!!
In an instant,
an incomparably powerful aura erupted from Zhou Lingyun like a tidal wave.
The vast power kicked up waves of visible, torrential shockwaves in the air!
This aura was so strong,
it was not inferior to that of an ordinary Soul Emergence Third Layer Cultivator!
Shen Changchuan’s gaze sharpened.
His opponent had clearly only just entered the Soul Emergence Realm not long ago,
yet his aura was this formidable!
Without a doubt,
for Shen Changchuan, this man was definitely a rare and powerful foe!
"Fourth Uncle, leave this to me! Just block that other guy!"
"Die for me!"
Zhou Lingyun roared,
and before the words had even faded,
his body flickered and transformed into a black streak of lightning. He vanished, reappearing the next moment behind Shen Changchuan. A long saber, as bright as pristine snow, sliced silently through the air, descending toward his neck!
All of its power
was concentrated into that single razor-thin edge,
so much so that it seemed to sever even sound and light!
It could cut anything,
and break through anything!
The attack was so fierce and swift
that if an ordinary Soul Emergence Realm Cultivator were here,
even an expert at the Soul Emergence Second Layer might be killed in a single blow!
Let alone a mere Soul Emergence First Layer expert?
Not far away,
Shen Chong frowned slightly and glanced over.
But before he could make a move,
the square-faced middle-aged man’s Divine Sense locked firmly onto him.
If Shen Chong were to intervene,
he would be met with a thunderous assault!
"Die!"
Behind Shen Changchuan,
a savage grin spread across Zhou Lingyun’s face. It was as if he could already see Shen Changchuan’s head being sliced off by his saber!
However,
an ordinary Cultivator in the Early Stage of the Soul Emergence Realm might not have been able to dodge this strike,
but how could Shen Changchuan be considered ordinary?
HUMMM!
In a flash,
a phantom image of a bronze bell suddenly materialized, completely enveloping Shen Changchuan!
Treasure: Bronze Bell!
CLANG!
Zhou Lingyun’s saber struck the Bronze Bell.
The Magical Power from the collision erupted like a volcano, and a visible shockwave of energy swept outwards.
The powerful recoil passed through the Treasure Bronze Bell and struck Shen Changchuan,
knocking him far down from his position in the sky!
’What a powerful attack!’
Shen Changchuan’s gaze hardened.
Although the Treasure Bronze Bell had blocked the attack,
Shen Changchuan could feel that
if it were to sustain three more attacks of that magnitude in a short period,
the Bronze Bell would suffer irreparable damage!
At that very moment,
SWOOSH!
Zhou Lingyun’s figure vanished again.
In mid-air,
a dazzling blade of light, like a bolt of thunder or a laser beam, shot down from above, aimed straight for Shen Changchuan!
The thunderous blade-light descended like a waterfall,
threatening to split the very heavens and earth in two!