Chapter 413: Duan Jiang! Inverted Sea
Cheng Yuan was dumbfounded!
What the hell!
This wasn’t how it was supposed to go!
’Weren’t they supposed to be intimidated?’
’If I just had a dozen seconds to recover my True Essence, I’d be able to put up a fight!’
Unfortunately, the skeletons gave him no time at all!
’Am I going to die here?’
Just as Cheng Yuan was starting to despair, Little Silkworm flashed forward, its plump body instantly appearing by his side!
THUD! THUD! THUD! THUD!
The skeletons’ attacks landed on Little Silkworm!
With a cry, Little Silkworm coughed up a mouthful of green blood. It was severely injured!
But Little Silkworm’s counterattack was just as ferocious. It shattered one skeleton with a single bite, then rolled over violently, crushing another with its plump body!
Only three skeletons remained on the stone platform!
However, the three skeletons didn’t flinch. Instead, they launched an attack as fierce as a torrential downpour!
Bloody gashes gradually appeared on Little Silkworm’s smooth body, oozing green blood!
In just a few short seconds, Little Silkworm suffered dozens of attacks. It was grievously wounded, and its movements grew clumsy!
But Little Silkworm did not retreat. It used its large, plump body to shield Cheng Yuan completely, not allowing him to suffer even the slightest harm!
Cheng Yuan and Little Silkworm were connected by mind and soul. He could feel its pain, could feel it suffering grievous injuries to protect him!
Cheng Yuan’s eyes welled up.
’What a precious little creature. To be so grievously injured for my sake!’
’These skeletons are unforgivable!!’
’Faster! Come on, faster!!’
’I need to recover my strength faster!!’
Cheng Yuan shoved a handful of Elixirs directly into his mouth, both Bursting Pills and Three Patterns Essence Enhancement Pills!
Cheng Yuan didn’t even care if his body could withstand so many Elixirs; he just wanted to recover his True Essence as quickly as possible! To avenge Little Silkworm!!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Cheng Yuan’s aura skyrocketed madly!
But he had swallowed too many Elixirs!
Even with his incredibly tough constitution, he couldn’t quite take it. Numerous small Meridians and capillaries inside his body burst from the strain!
A layer of crimson blood beads oozed from the surface of Cheng Yuan’s skin, and streams of air vented constantly from his pores!
At that moment, Cheng Yuan looked like a demon god descending upon the world!
"Little Silkworm! Move! Let me teach these bastards who take advantage of the vulnerable a lesson!!"
Cheng Yuan grabbed Little Silkworm’s tail and yanked the creature behind him!
Cheng Yuan casually tossed a handful of Elixirs to Little Silkworm. He only breathed a slight sigh of relief after seeing it swallow them in one gulp.
Cheng Yuan turned and walked forward, step by step.
Cheng Yuan’s aura was terrifying; with every step, he left a bloody footprint on the stone platform!
Overwhelmed by Cheng Yuan’s aura, the Celestial Witch skeletons instinctively retreated until they were at the very edge of the stone platform, with no more room to fall back!
The three Celestial Witch skeletons knew they could not retreat any further. If they were to voluntarily jump from the stone platform, they would become the shame of the Celestial Witch Race!
Even if it meant being smashed to pieces, they could not retreat another step!
"Let’s risk it all!!"
One of the skeletons roared, and all three began to frantically condense their Evil Qi!
"Celestial Witch Nine Extremes First Technique—Moving Mountains!"
"Celestial Witch Nine Extremes Second Technique—Duan Jiang!"
"Celestial Witch Nine Extremes Third Technique—Inverted Sea!"
Cheng Yuan’s eyes lit up. Of the Celestial Witch Nine Extremes, he only knew the First Technique, Moving Mountains. Now, he was finally seeing the Second and Third Techniques!
With his current strength, Cheng Yuan could absolutely destroy the three skeletons before they could unleash their Cultivation Techniques!
But Cheng Yuan was unwilling to miss the chance to observe the Second and Third Techniques!
He was willing to get injured for it, without a second thought!
Cheng Yuan lunged at the skeleton performing Moving Mountains and destroyed it with a single punch. Then he activated his Double Pupil, staring intently at the other two skeletons’ Circulation Routes!
A normal person could not focus on two things at once, but Cheng Yuan’s Spiritual Power was incredibly strong. His Double Pupil had already upgraded to its second form; multitasking was not difficult for him!
Cheng Yuan saw the two skeletons’ Circulation Routes with perfect clarity.
If he just had a few minutes, Cheng Yuan could analyze the techniques, find the flaws in their Circulation Routes, adjust them, and deduce the most perfect versions of Duan Jiang and Inverted Sea!
Unfortunately, the two skeletons weren’t going to give Cheng Yuan that time!
In the hand of the skeleton performing Duan Jiang, a long blade made of Evil Qi materialized. The blade was extremely sharp and looked incredibly sinister!
SWOOSH!
An incomparably sharp Sword Qi came slashing down!
A clear image appeared before Cheng Yuan’s eyes—it seemed as if a great river was flowing in front of him!
The Sword Qi slashed forth, and the river’s flow was instantly severed!
The next second, the Sword Qi broke through the river’s surface and appeared above Cheng Yuan’s head, carrying the momentum to slice him in two!
Cheng Yuan finally understood why this technique was called Duan Jiang!!
When an Ancient Great Witch used this technique, they could indeed sever the flow of a great river! Thus it was named—Duan Jiang!
"Shaoshang Sword!!"
With no time to simulate the optimal Circulation Route for Duan Jiang, Cheng Yuan frantically condensed his True Essence, gathering it at his fingertip!
An incredibly dense ray of white light shot out, even agitating the Light Element Factors to a certain degree!
The power of the Shaoshang Sword surged dramatically!
With a defiant trajectory, the Shaoshang Sword slammed into Duan Jiang!
Empowered by the Light Element Factors, the Shaoshang Sword actually managed to withstand Duan Jiang head-on!
BOOM!!
Their collision unleashed an incredibly violent shockwave!
The skeleton that had performed Duan Jiang was instantly torn to pieces by the shockwave, its shattered bones falling into the hundred-meter-deep trench.
Five or six wounds were also sliced into Cheng Yuan’s body by the aftershocks of the clashing Sword Qi, and he staggered back several steps.
Inverted Sea was the Celestial Witch Nine Extremes Third Technique, and it was a level more difficult to execute than Duan Jiang. That was why the skeleton performing it had only just now barely finished gathering the power for it!
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!~
A vast, boundless sea suddenly appeared before Cheng Yuan!
The skeleton performing Inverted Sea seemed to transform into a hundred-meter-tall Ancient Celestial Witch, standing in the sea and churning it frantically!
The sea churned up terrifying waves dozens of meters high, forming a colossal tsunami that pressed down on Cheng Yuan, blotting out the sky!
Anyone who has seen the news knows how terrifying a tsunami is, how it can destroy an entire coastal city!
And now, such a terrifying tsunami was crashing down on Cheng Yuan’s head, all to destroy a single, tiny human!
After unleashing Inverted Sea, the skeleton was immediately destroyed by the tsunami’s aftershocks, turning into a pile of shattered bones that fell into the hundred-meter-deep trench.
If the aftershocks alone were that terrifying, one can only imagine the pressure on Cheng Yuan, who was facing the main body of the tsunami! The pressure was immense!
Faced with this terrifying, world-ending power, Cheng Yuan’s heart filled with despair!
Furthermore, Cheng Yuan had just unleashed his Shaoshang Sword. It was the precise moment when one’s old strength is spent but new strength has not yet risen. He was completely unable to gather his power to resist the tsunami!
Cheng Yuan could only watch, wide-eyed and helpless, as the towering waves, dozens of meters high, swept in to devour him!!