Chapter 842 - 837: Cataclysm
The Sand Demon Mage only realized that the surrounding space seemed to freeze the moment Bai Pu extended his hand! His escape ability was forcibly sealed for a second.
Then, the Sand Demon Mage, along with several unlucky demons around him, was dragged in front of Bai Pu.
After grasping the void, Bai Pu immediately drew back his fist to store power.
The energy of the Mountain and Sea Calamity gathered in his fist, and Bai Pu delivered a powerful punch.
Mountain and Sea Calamity - Cannon Bombardment!
Level 7 Effect [Mountain Collapse and Earth Split] triggered: inflict armor-piercing damage to enemies in the core area, ignoring shields!
Armor-piercing damage refers to damage that ignores the extra armor and magic resistance provided by the opponent’s equipment, skills, or items; it can only be resisted by natural armor derived from physical attributes (Endurance) —
In other words, armor-piercing damage is akin to Bai Pu’s previous Doomsday Spear penetrating the head and killing the Obsidian Armor Soldier, dealing damage directly from within the enemy’s body.
The fist gang wielded by Bai Pu, with a highly bright cylindrical area in the middle, signifies armor-piercing damage! Whereas the trapezoidal areas on both sides indicate mixed damage.
However, at the moment of the fist gang’s strike, the Space Mystical Arts played a role, and the transparent space actually appeared like glass, with dense black patterns spreading from Bai Pu’s fist as the core point!
With a cracking sound, space momentarily showed a collapsing phantom!
Just like shattered glass.
Immediately, space returned to normal, as if the previously appeared collapse phantom was just an illusion.
The Sand Demon Mage who faced the Cannon Bombardment didn’t even utter a sound, and with this fist strike, he was smashed into endless sand.
Several other demons were also sent flying dozens of meters away, exploding into countless scattered rocks and clay in mid-air.
The power of this strike made even Bai Pu find it incredible.
The Sand Demon Mage in the fist gang’s core area being shaken to death was expected.
But the several demons not in the core area, who shouldn’t have suffered armor-piercing damage, weren’t supposed to be simultaneously shaken dead, right?
Soon, the Spirit Realm Will’s prompt information arrived:
[You have comprehended the new special effect of the Compound Mystical Arts skill: Mountain and Sea Calamity: Heaven Collapse and Earth Break.]
[Heaven Collapse and Earth Break: Your Shield of the Calamity of Mountains and Seas will inflict armor-piercing damage on all enemies within the blast range. (Replaced the original effect: Mountain Collapse and Earth Split)]
Seeing this, Bai Pu naturally understood.
With just that punch, all enemies covered by the fist gang’s range had to endure armor-piercing damage! This is an application of the "Aeroquake" Mystical Art in the Three Calamities Combined Mystical Arts, expanding the scope influenced by the Mystical Art.
Heaven Collapse and Earth Break, with only a character’s difference from the original Mountain Collapse and Earth Split, signifies entirely different meanings.
Originally, the appearance of a new effect in Mystical Art skills required querying the Awakened for replacement. But [Heaven Collapse and Earth Break] is a comprehensive enhancement compared to [Mountain Collapse and Earth Split], thus automatically replaced.
If Bai Pu doesn’t want to replace it, he could still opt to maintain the original effect — but he certainly wouldn’t do so.
With one Cannon Bombardment, a blank area was blasted in a conical range ahead of Bai Pu.
The demons in front were also stunned by this blow, morale collapsed, and they turned tail to flee.
Although the demons are loyal to Emperor Yan and their immediate Demon General, as long as they are intelligent beings, survival instinctively takes precedence.
They do not know that the revival of the Great Dark Heaven comes at the cost of all the demons. If they did know, it’s hard to say whether they would still remain loyal to the Demon Emperor.
That being said, Bai Pu’s punch advanced the team forward by thirty steps — and it was Demon General Gang Rock’s thirty steps, equivalent to nearly a hundred steps for ordinary people!
Only after the distance of thirty steps did demons gradually force their way forward to intercept, using their bodies to exhausting Bai Pu’s energy.
Those truly formidable Demon Generals stayed far away. They only attacked when the top combat forces of the Expedition Team became exhausted.
Yet, Bai Pu didn’t need to use Professional Energy.
He activated the Heart of Evolution’s Talent Skills: Genetic Fusion, elevating his Long-Handled Weapon Specialization to Level 13 (Limit Breaker breakthrough).
What does Level 13 Combat Specialization entail?
Besides a 480% ordinary attack damage multiplier, more critical is the crushing differential in combat technique against enemies!
It’s like asymmetric warfare; each spear strike in the demons’ view seems like celestial danger, leaving them unable to evade or block, as if rushing to expose their vitals to the spear tip.
It’s almost critical hit and vital attack with every spear strike!
Considering the sharpness of the Doomsday Spear, most of Bai Pu’s thrusts are "armor-piercing" damage.
With the damage amplitude provided by high attack power, combat specialization, critical hits, etc., a casual thrust reaches theoretical damage values of three to four thousand points, with actual damage close to two thousand points.
The Elite Level demons’ Life Value maxes out at around four to five thousand.
Vital attack damage of 1/3 the total Life Value triggers an instant kill effect, often resulting in Bai Pu’s spear leaving demons shattered into fragments.
What’s most terrifying is Bai Pu’s instant killing of Elite demons without consuming Fighting Qi Energy.
Only against Enhanced Elite and stronger demons, difficult to instantaneously defeat with physical force alone, does Bai Pu expend a bit of Prismatic Demon Fighting Qi.
Not for the 770% Fighting Qi damage multiplier, since full output of Fighting Qi is too resource-intensive.
Bai Pu only outputs 10% of full-power Fighting Qi.
This offers a 77% Fighting Qi damage multiplier, further triggering the Three Calamities Combined Mystical Arts’ 64% damage multiplier (again, 10% of full multiplier).
In doing so, a Fighting Qi-enhanced normal attack spear strike yields theoretical damage nearing six thousand, actual damage nearing three thousand.
Enhanced Elite and Warrior Demons with Life Values of mere seven to eight thousand are instantly obliterated.
As for demon attacks?
Bai Pu doesn’t even carry defenses.
Break through the defense skills of underling Demon General Gang Rock first—then speak!
Well, once you break through Gang Rock’s [Granite Wall], you’ll see what being truly indestructible means when those attacks land on me.
Where the long spear passes, blood stains the yellow sand, and not a single enemy stands a chance!
With minimal consumption, Bai Pu advanced rapidly.
The Oath Warriors following behind felt greatly relieved.
Originally, when Beiming Jihu and Dong Bochengzhi acted as the arrowhead, spirit power preservation was necessary; a sword swing only heavily injured demons or split and repelled them.
Demons that were heavily injured and dispersed to the wings still required finishing from the winged Oath Warriors, thus placing significant pressure on the wings.
Now with Bai Pu instantly dispatching demons with every spear strike, the pressure on the wings swiftly decreased.
Moreover, Bai Pu’s completely offensive charge made speed fast, further alleviating rear guard pressure — even the pursuing demons from behind couldn’t catch up with Bai Pu’s pace in breaking through the formation!
"How long can Gangxin keep going like this?" Xiyuan Zhang showed concern.
Resting Dong Bochengzhi looked up at this: "I sense he is still at ease... should support six to seven hundred steps, stronger than Lord Beiming Jihu and me."
Beiming Jihu made a charge of five hundred steps, but Demon General Gang Rock’s stride is large, one step equates to two or three steps of an ordinary person.
With Bai Pu’s advancement, the coalition’s speed increased significantly, and they began to glimpse the borders of the demon battle formation ahead.