Chapter 428 - 356: Don’t Panic, Just Charge
"Old Ghost Eyes, you’re up!" Sword Elder shouted decisively up at Li Tiannan after cleaving through three giant vines in a single strike.
"Coming!" Li Tiannan charged down almost the instant Sword Elder’s voice rang out.
Before him, deep blue, liquid-like lightning poured from the sky, resembling chains forged from electricity.
BOOM!
RUMBLE!
Lightning flashed.
Li Tiannan rammed headfirst into the Dark Ghost Vine’s massive trunk.
And then, a bizarre scene unfolded.
The pouring liquid lightning continuously bored into the Dark Ghost Vine’s trunk. In almost an instant, all of the liquid lightning had vanished.
’Was it devoured?’
’No, wait. It looks like it drilled into the Dark Ghost Vine’s body?!’
...
The Dragon List Geniuses and adventurer teams watching from below were slightly startled.
Then, they saw deep blue, lightning-like veins appear one after another across the Dark Ghost Vine’s body as thunder boomed without end.
RUMBLE!
BOOM!
The lightning veins erupted.
Sparks erupted continuously from the Dark Ghost Vine’s body.
From the inside out.
Bombarding it.
This caused the Dark Ghost Vine to let out nonstop, piercing shrieks.
SKREEE!!
SCREE!
The Dark Ghost Vine was clearly in extreme pain.
Its shrieks attracted the "gaze" of the withered vines below. Then, all the withered vines began to frantically scramble up the Dark Ghost Vine’s trunk.
BOOM!
RUMBLE!
Lightning and thunder roared in unison.
The withered vines climbing the Dark Ghost Vine’s trunk were quickly blasted to nothing.
Everyone watching this scene was utterly shocked.
’This is terrifying!’
’Li Tiannan’s lightning attack actually exploded from inside the Dark Ghost Vine?! Is this the legendary power of a Strongest?’
Sword Elder had cut down three giant vines with a single strike.
Li Tiannan’s lightning could invade the Dark Ghost Vine’s trunk.
The power of the Strongest...
It was simply too immense!
The Dragon List Geniuses and adventurer teams below were truly shaken.
But when Li Tiannan and Sword Elder saw the withered vines swarming frantically upward, worried expressions appeared in both their eyes.
"This Dark Ghost Vine is using the liquid from the withered vines to heal itself!" Soon enough, both Li Tiannan and Sword Elder figured out what was happening.
Logically speaking.
When attacked by lightning exploding from within, the Dark Ghost Vine should have tried to get away from the withered vines below, but it did the opposite.
On the contrary, it was even summoning the withered vines to climb its trunk.
This was highly unusual.
However, when Li Tiannan and Sword Elder saw the green liquid from the dying vines coating the Dark Ghost Vine’s body, they understood.
That green liquid was the "blood" of the withered vines.
The blood contained energy.
When that blood stained the Dark Ghost Vine’s trunk, it could directly absorb the "blood," thus rapidly healing the damage to its trunk.
"Old Ghost Eyes, we can’t let it recover! You have to do it again!" Sword Elder couldn’t charge over right now because lightning was still arcing across the Dark Ghost Vine’s body.
"Do it again?! What do you think I’m made of, steel?!" Li Tiannan exploded. This liquid lightning was no ordinary lightning.
It was formed by drawing lightning into his body, fusing it with his own bodily fluids, and finally, condensing it in his tear glands to create the liquid lightning.
This was the origin of his moniker, Ghost Eyes.
’This technique is incredibly powerful. Its greatest feature is that it ’ignores defense.’ No matter how strong your defenses are, I can invade through your pores.’
But as powerful as it was, forming the liquid lightning was not simple. It was a technique that could only be achieved through long-term accumulation.
To put it bluntly...
It was just like exercise.
There’s an old saying: a man loves to hear his woman say, "Darling, I want it!" but he dreads hearing her say, "Darling, I want more!"
Li Tiannan was feeling exactly that way right now.
’They’re trying to drain me dry, aren’t they?’
"Old Ghost Eyes, stop wasting time! I know you’ve got another one in you! Hurry, now’s our chance! Don’t let it turn the tables!" Sword Elder naturally saw through Li Tiannan’s little act. He didn’t believe for a second that Li Tiannan was spent after just one attack; he could manage at least two.
"I need a damn minute to charge up!" Li Tiannan wasted no more words and decisively flew high into the air again. Ghostly apparitions appeared in his eyes, and soon, liquid lightning began to stream out once more.
But just then, the clearly injured Dark Ghost Vine lunged toward Gao Neng again.
’It’s actually going for a life-or-death struggle with Gao Neng?!’
Gao Neng was startled.
The Dark Ghost Vine was still covered in Li Tiannan’s liquid lightning.
’If I get hit by that...’
’Wouldn’t that be the same as getting zapped by Li Tiannan myself?’
Without any hesitation, Gao Neng decisively controlled his Flying Earth Dragon to fly up and retreat.
But the Dark Ghost Vine’s giant vines were too numerous and too long. A few of them quickly blocked his path, making it impossible for him to escape.
"Gao Neng, get out of the way!" Sword Elder was also extremely anxious now.
"I’m damn well trying to!" Of course Gao Neng wanted to dodge, but the problem was, he couldn’t. ’What now? The only option is to ram through.’
’So it wants a fight to the death, huh?’
’Don’t think you’re the only one who’s willing to risk it all!’
’As the saying goes, fortune favors the bold.’
’Screw it!’
Seeing that he was surrounded by the giant vines, Gao Neng couldn’t waste time thinking. These vines would just regenerate if he cut them down. If this was going to be a desperate fight, he couldn’t afford to get bogged down with them.