Book 13, Gebados – Chapter 32, Earth and Wind
Linley didn’t discover that Anras had come. Rather, he was focusing on pondering the Throbbing Pulse of the World.
“Mr. Leylin’s words were correct. The ‘Essence of the Earth’ is the profound mystery of the Laws of the Earth with great defense against material attack, while the ‘Throbbing Pulse of the World’ defends against spiritual attacks. At the same time…it not only can defend against spiritual attacks, it can also engage in spiritual attacks.”
Linley was currently pondering how to rely upon the Throbbing Pulse of the World to execute a spiritual attack.
Within that quiet, gloomy gorge, atop a distant tree, there was a human figure. It was Anras.
Anras was looking at Linley, training within the gorge. “Killing him will only require a single blow!” Although Anras knew Linley was a Demigod, Anras still decided to engage in a sneak attack, so as to kill Linley in a short amount of time. This was the order of Sadista.
It was very quiet within the valley.
“Swish!” Very suddenly, a streak of red, fiery light split through the air, piercing towards Linley.
Linley was shocked.
“Not good.” Linley could feel that he had already become restricted by a Godrealm.
Other Demigods, if suddenly ambushed by the Godrealm of a God and this full-strength attack, definitely wouldn’t be able to react in time.
But Linley had often sparred with Burgess, a full God. Now, in the face of Anras’ sneak attack, Linley reacted almost naturally…
First of all, relying on the two divine clones within his body, he immediately created two Godrealms of his own.
At the same time, Bloodviolet instantly appeared within Linley’s hands, and in a very practiced manner, it danced out. Countless sword shadows transformed into a long violet chain, which intersected with that fiery red light. Linley himself relied on the backlash from those colliding blows to rapidly retreat.
“Bang!” Linley was sent smashing far away into the mountain walls behind the waterfall. The mountain walls cracked open, and stones came tumbling down.
“Hrm?” Anras’ face changed. “Linley was able to block my sneak attack, just like that?”
Anras was very surprised.
“Swish!” Anras slashed downwards in a line, moving like a bird of prey as he charged towards the hole in the mountain wall which Linley had just created. But with a ‘BOOM’ sound, at another part of the mountain wall, Linley suddenly exploded out like a bolt of lightning, landing on the empty ground of the gorge.
Azure-gold draconic scales covered Linley’s entire body, and his iron-whip-like draconic tail flashed with icy cold light as it gently swayed about. Linley’s icy, dark golden eyes stared coldly towards the mountain wall.
“Who are you?” Linley barked.
After having transformed into the Dragonblood Warrior form, Linley’s speed had risen dramatically. Even though he used his two Godrealms together, the opponent’s God-level Godrealm still put him at a disadvantage. However, by relying on the Profound Truths of Velocity and his Dragonblood Warrior form, he was still able to maintain parity with the opponent’s speed.
Linley’s loud shout didn’t just shock Anras.
At the same time…
In a different part of Mount Copper Gong, where Bebe and the white-robed man were sparring, the two of them as well as the spectating Burgess were all shocked.
“Boss.” Bebe’s face changed. He immediately charged towards the gorge alongside those two Gods.
“Not good.” Anras knew that the situation was dire. “If I wait until those two Gods get here, I won’t have any chance at all!” Anras’ body was wrapped in flames, and he slashed through the skies like an arrow, charging towards Linley.
That icy, flame-wrapped spear in his hands pierced directly towards Linley.
“My most powerful attack!” Anras’ eyes glittered coldly as he stared at Linley.
Linley stood there, staring at him with those dark golden eyes, not dodging at all.
“He’s asking to be killed.” Anras, seeing that the opponent wasn’t dodging, couldn’t help but sneer in his heart.
Actually, when Linley came out from the mountain walls and shouted loudly, he had already controlled the divine power in his body to be transformed by the Throbbing Pulse of the World into surges of pulsating power which were spreading out from Linley’s feet. With Linley at the center, an area of a hundred meters had become the domain of that pulsating power.
“Right at this moment!” Linley’s eyes suddenly lit up!
At the same instant, dozens of surges of pulsating power emerged from within the ground, rising up from below to surround Anras at high speed. It was as though…’hands’ had suddenly appeared from the ground, snatching at Anras’ legs and covering his entire body.
Anras’ face changed dramatically.
“Die!” Right at this moment, the Dragonformed Linley swept out with Bloodviolet and his adamantine heavy sword in his hands as he charged at Anras.
“BOOM!” The divine power in his body bursting forth, Anras hurriedly broke free of the restraining power of the large amount of pulsating power. However, at the same moment he broke free of that power, the distance between himself and Linley had been decreased to less than ten meters. A distance of less than ten meters, to Anras and Linley, was simply too close.
Because their speed was too fast!
How could Anras retreat? After all, Bebe and those two Gods were flying over at high speed as well.
A dazzling, cold light flashed out from his spear as he thrust it towards Linley, the tip of the spear carrying a dim surge of faint red light.
This was Anras’ most powerful attack; ‘Soul Destroyer’!
A devilish violet light flashed, while at the same time, a pleasant flute melody could be heard. Upon hearing this melody, even Anras was slightly affected. After having trained for twenty years, Linley’s ‘Hymn of the Wind’ technique was now much more powerful than it had been in the past.
More importantly, this ‘Hymn of the Wind’ wasn’t just a flute melody; it also contained an invisible ‘sound wave attack’.
Bloodviolet clashed head on with the spear.
“Clang!”
Those illusory sword shadows and those illusory faint red spear shadows collided at the same time.
“BOOM!” The illusory sword shadows held on for only an instant before shattering. The faint red spear shadow had only dimmed slightly, continuing to pierce towards Linley.
“Not good.” Linley’s face changed dramatically.
But this spiritual attack was simply too fast. There was no time!
“Terrible!” Leylin, hidden within a distant rock nearby the gorge, was greatly shocked. Although he was fast, he wasn’t as fast as a spiritual attack.
“Die!” Linley bellowed as his adamantine heavy sword landed on Anras’ body.
Although it took a while to describe, in truth, Linley had executed simultaneous attacks with Bloodviolet and the adamantine heavy sword. Anras had chosen to not dodge, but he only had a single weapon. Between Bloodviolet and the adamantine heavy sword, Anras had clearly sensed that Bloodviolet posed a higher threat.
He had blocked Bloodviolet, and so naturally, the adamantine heavy sword landed on his body.
At the same moment that the dim red spear shadow pierced into Linley’s body…
A queer sort of spiritual energy that had been transformed into vibrational waves passed through the adamantine heavy sword and entered Anras’ body.
“BOOM!”