Chapter 854 - 849: One-Shot?
Actually, Rein had overestimated Bai Pu.
The main reason was that Bai Pu frequently slew monsters of a higher level, accumulating 76 Celestial Human Attribute Points! In addition, the Celestial Descent State could double these points, all allocated to Power, resulting in a total of 152 points, a number more terrifying than that of many Power-type Advanced Awakened.
Adding to that were the King-level Purple Weapons and the Winged Tooth Beast King Da Fei providing the Man and Horse as One, under full power outbreak Bai Pu’s Power more than doubled, plus the Professional Passive Tyrant’s Fury, allowing him to compete in strength with a King-level powerhouse with 50% enhanced augmentation—a.k.a. Emperor Yan (Great Dark Heaven)!
Nevertheless, Emperor Yan was also truly formidable.
Even when he couldn’t compete in Power, he was still able to use various intricate Force-Neutralizing Sword Techniques to guide and deflect Bai Pu’s stabbing positions!
This feeling made Bai Pu very uncomfortable, even though his Power was greater than his opponent’s. However, every strike felt as if it struck a smooth turtle shell, sliding off to the side and being unable to cause effective damage!
"This technique... I’ve seen it in the Beiming Xuanjing Secret Technique, called..." Bai Pu frowned in contemplation.
"Mirror Return!"
Beiming Jihu suddenly spoke up, "The basic skill of the Beiming Xuanjing Style is Mirror Return, and its highest difficulty is also Mirror Return. Duke Guicang’s Mirror Return Secret Skill has been cultivated to the level where his heart is like a treasure mirror, reflecting myriad phenomena. Be wary of him using the Mirror Return’s finishing move to instantly return all the techniques you used to attack!"
"Unworthy descendant, this is the Profound Mirror Style’s untransmitted secret!" Yan Emperor Beiming Guicang roared angrily, but also had no choice but to prematurely unleash the Mirror Return finishing move!
The glaive spun around, tracing out a hemispherical mirror, resembling a smooth turtle shell.
Each mirror segment was like a smooth piece of turtle shell armor.
The most terrifying aspect was that each segment reflected Bai Pu’s previous attack moves!
The figure in the mirror reversed the posture and stabbed back at Bai Pu!
Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—
In an instant, Bai Pu’s body and skin burst out with a dozen or so blood blossoms!
Each blood blossom represented damage values of three to five hundred points.
This one Mirror Return strike had depleted Bai Pu of over 6000 Life Value!
Bai Pu was startled; he had never taken such a great loss before.
His Life Value was only around ten thousand points.
If just then, the Mirror Return concentrated the damage instead of dispersing it, targeting Bai Pu’s vital areas such as his heart or neck... Bai Pu would have been instantly killed!
Quickly heal!
The necklace around Bai Pu’s neck, [Sand of Thought], emitted a blue light, like the ocean, instantly raising Bai Pu’s Life Value by about 3800 points—[Ocean Affinity]!
And Bai Pu’s upper garment: the Immortal King’s Iron Breastplate, simultaneously emitted a red blood aura.
Consuming 100 points of fury, it restored 1500 points of Life Value—[Fury Recovery]!
The Blood Bar, originally dropping to half, was nearly full again in an instant!
"What?"
Emperor Yan Beiming Guicang saw Steelheart, who went from pouring with blood to instantly healed to the point of appearing uninjured, and was both shocked and furious.
—In fact, the inability of the Mirror Return ultimate skill to kill Steelheart was surprising enough to Emperor Yan.
Now realizing that Steelheart could still refill his blood instantly made Emperor Yan’s sense of defeat significantly increase. If Emperor Yan knew Steelheart also had a "Quasi-General Level Honor Life Potion" capable of instantly restoring 1600 Life Value, he would feel even more defeated.
This was precisely the moment Bai Pu was waiting for—
Emperor Yan using the Mirror Return big move required Replenishing Qi, during which his movements were stiff and slow!
The second after being hit by the Mirror Return Secret Skill, Bai Pu’s blood volume was full once again, and instead of retreating, he advanced!
Immortal King’s six-piece set skill: Immortal Incarnation, activate!
[Immortal Incarnation: After activation, you become the temporary earthly incarnation of the Immortal King. Within 30 seconds, you will not die, Special Attributes +100 points, and temporarily acquire a one-time skill: Immortal King’s Wrath. The cooldown for this set effect is seven Cosmic Days.]
In an instant, a vague shadow of a primeval giant appeared behind Bai Pu, wearing the Immortal King’s set, emanating a primitive aura, raising its sturdy arms, and roaring skyward.
Bai Pu continuously launched [Illusionary Steps], accelerating the sprint to the front of Emperor Yan, leaping into the air, pouncing at Emperor Yan!
Upon seeing this, Emperor Yan instinctively sensed danger. He quickly drew a breath, forcibly shifting steps at the cost of suffering internal injuries, attempting to dodge.
However, Beiming Jihu, with injuries and exhaustion, gritted his teeth and swung a sword towards Emperor Yan.
[Beiming Xuanjing Flow Secret Technique - Divine Turtle Suppressing Mountains]!
A mountain phantom appeared in front of Emperor Yan, pressing down with the weight as heavy as Mount Tai! Emperor Yan’s figure froze instantly, his two feet stamped several feet deep into the ground.
Though it was only a moment’s pause, it was enough for Bai Pu.
He lunged forward, wrapping both arms tightly around the neck of the Great Dark Heaven shell Emperor Yan was controlling!
Like embracing an old tree trunk.
At this moment, Bai Pu had the Immortal Incarnation set skill bonus, Special Attributes +100 points, pushing his Power to over the 500-mark, approaching 600 points! And his Power judgment value was nearing 700 points.
Emperor Yan tried to break free, only to find in astonishment that the Power value of the "little figure" in front of him was far superior!
Completely unable to break free!
The next second, the Immortal King shadow behind Bai Pu suddenly opened its mouth, roaring out a dazzling white conical beam!
[Immortal King’s Wrath: Vent the Immortal King’s Wrath in a conical range ahead, causing (10~25) * your Power points of non-attribute damage. This damage can include selected Mystical Arts/True Intent Prototype special effects and damage amplification. The closer the target is to you, the more damage it takes.]
Bai Pu selected [Three Calamities] Composite Mystical Arts.
At such close range, the damage calculation reached the maximum value.
Bai Pu’s Power points were... 588!
This [Immortal King’s Wrath] had a theoretical damage value of—94080!
The Three Calamities Composite Mystical Arts included Seaquake’s Qi Breaker, Earthquake’s Armor Breaker, and Aeroquake’s range amplification! The composite mystical arts’ special effects were all incorporated into this skill!
Emperor Yan’s controlled Great Dark Heaven shell had indeed extraordinarily high defense.
After Emperor Yan extracted the hardest material from the shell to form a glaive, the remaining shell still retained a defense equating to a top Enhanced Lord’s bodily defense. After various damage reduction abilities compounded, the damage reduction reached 82%!
Plus a fixed 100-point all-type damage reduction from the World Waymark Skill.
So, the actual damage from this strike was... 16834 points.
Rein and the others were stunned when they saw a massive "-16834" number appear above Emperor Yan’s head.
Fighting a King-level powerhouse!
Is this damage achievable by carbon-based creatures?
Even the theoretical damage numbers generated by many top-level Awakened can’t reach sixteen thousand!
"Is it a kill?"
This was the common thought echoing in all the Awakened’s minds.
—A vital attack achieving one-third of total Life Value in single damage triggers an instant kill.
After Bai Pu executed this strike, he felt a bit dazed. Although the strike hadn’t depleted his Fighting Qi or Spiritual Power, Bai Pu felt as if most of his life energy had been drained, landing weakly.
Dongbo Cheng rushed over and caught Bai Pu in his arms.
Bai Pu, sweating from his forehead, quickly braced himself to stand straight.
He looked up at the Great Dark Heaven.
The recently unleashed [Immortal King’s Wrath] had directly blown away half of Great Dark Heaven’s head.
The face portion occupied by Emperor Yan was entirely erased.
Large torrents of Demonic Power transformed again into whirling storms, making approach impossible.
The entire scene was silent, plunging into an eerie quietness.
Even the native martial artists were silently praying that the heavily wounded Great Dark Heaven would swiftly perish!
However...
Crack-crack.
The sound of grinding bones echoed.
The Great Dark Heaven’s head twisted one hundred eighty degrees, and the face of Emperor Qing emerged on the front, eyes barely opened.