Dakota fell silent.
He was indeed guilty.
Now, because he had suffered losses one after another, because he had used his movement technique three times in a row, and because he had used a secret technique to forcefully increase his strength, he had actually exhausted less than a tenth of his Internal Breath.
Most importantly, the injuries Chu Nan’s punch had caused him were even more serious because of the gradual disappearance of the secret technique, causing his movements to be affected.
Now, he could not even unleash a third of his full strength, but Chu Nan was full of essence energy. There were also no injuries on his entire body, so clearly, his condition was better.
Under the circumstances that both sides were intact, he could not do anything to Chu Nan, so how could he do anything now?
In fact, he did not plan to really fight Chu Nan.
No matter how unwilling he was to admit it, he knew very well that in their current state, it was impossible for him to be Chu Nan’s match.
However, he could not escape faster than the lightning that fell from the sky, forcing him to land on the ground and find another way.
What he wanted to do now was actually stall for time.
While landing on the ground just now, he had given the order to retreat to the fleet and sent his coordinates.
Next, as long as the remaining four hired Void Break Martial Artists took the fastest small shuttle to provide support, he had hope of counterattacking Chu Nan.
Even if this kid was too cunning and might not be able to survive, at the very least, he could save his life.
With a distance of about 800 kilometers between them and the Holy Mountain, if the latest small low-altitude shuttle activated its extreme speed, it would only take 20 minutes to block it.
In other words, as long as he could block Chu Nan for 20 minutes, he could survive.
That was why he had so much nonsense. His goal was to stall for as long as he could.
After hearing Chu Nan’s words, he deliberately fell silent for a moment before slowly saying, “Kid, tell me, who are you? You’re clearly not even 20 years old, so why do you have such powerful strength?”
“You want to know?” Chu Nan smiled at Dakota. There was a trace of cunningness and even mockery in his smile, “I won’t tell you.”
Seeing that Dakota still wanted to speak, Chu Nan waved his hand.
“Alright, there’s no need to think of a way to stall for time. Actually, you’re stalling, and so am I. Originally, I wasn’t completely confident in keeping you here, but you gave me enough time to prepare. There’s no problem now.”
After being exposed by Chu Nan, Dakota’s expression changed and he sneered.
“You’re completely confident in keeping me here? Kid, aren’t you too arrogant?!”
“Is that so?” Chu Nan smiled and pointed behind Dakota, “Look for yourself.”
Dakota frowned slightly and turned to look, but he saw nothing special.
Just as he was feeling puzzled, he suddenly felt a special energy fluctuation coming from the space behind him.
Dakota was immediately shocked, then enlightened. He roared and quickly turned around to punch.
Bang!
His punch firmly struck Chu Nan’s chest, but at the same time, he was slapped in the chest.
The two of them spat out a mouthful of blood at the same time and were sent flying more than ten meters away. Then, they drew a deep groove in the ground and rolled more than ten times before barely stopping.
This time, the two of them attacked with all their might, but Dakota had already exhausted his Internal Breath too much. The force of this punch was less than a third of his peak state, but Chu Nan was in good condition and this palm strike was filled with strength.
In the end, although Dakota’s martial artist level was three levels higher than Chu Nan’s, his situation was much worse than his.
Dakota lay on the ground weakly. He opened his mouth and spat out another mouthful of blood, dying the ground of the wasteland red.
He raised his head weakly and looked at Chu Nan who had already stood up as if nothing had happened. For the first time, his heart was filled with despair.
This kid’s life force was as strong as a monster, and his recovery speed was shocking. He was also heavily injured, but he could quickly recover. The injuries he suffered were real injuries, so it was impossible for him to recover quickly.
Such a collision was undoubtedly a huge loss for Dakota.
“Kid, you… you’re really shameless. You actually want to use such a small method to sneak attack at a time like this.” Seeing that Chu Nan was already walking over, Dakota weakly berated, “You… what kind of martial artist are you?”
“Tsk!” Chu Nan spat at him bluntly, “It is already very embarrassing that you, a fourth-stage Void Break Martial Artist, are chasing after me, an initial-stage Void Break Martial Artist who has just broken through the Cosmic Heaven’s Gate. Alright, cut the crap. I know you’re stalling for time, so I used this method. Otherwise, do you think I’m unwilling to slowly waste time with you and deal with you after I exhaust you? Do you think it doesn’t hurt for me to be punched by you?”
Dakota’s face was ashen, or rather, he was already as gray as a dead man.
He was already close to death. If Chu Nan fought him head-on, he could rely on his rich combat experience to slowly deal with him and have the chance to hold on until reinforcements arrived. However, Chu Nan saw through his thoughts at a glance and directly adopted the most cruel, most direct, and fastest combat method. He even had to trick at this moment. When combined, his combat strength was almost completely destroyed.
The current him did not even have the strength to get up. There was no possibility of winning.
Chu Nan gently exhaled and felt that all the injuries in his body had recovered. He walked to Dakota with relaxed footsteps and threw a punch without holding back.
Dakota widened his eyes and watched Chu Nan’s punch with despair on his face.
In the next moment, just as Chu Nan’s punch was about to land on Dakota’s head, a change occurred!
Dakota, who originally looked like he did not have any breath or strength, suddenly erupted with a ball of white light. It was as if he had suddenly come alive. His body suddenly bounced up and his eyes erupted with endless light. With a palm strike, the countless spatial energy in the surrounding space was absorbed into his palm. This palm strike seemed to have shattered the entire space in front of him before it instantly penetrated the narrow space between the two of them and struck Chu Nan’s lower abdomen.
“Haha, kid, you didn’t expect me to still…”
Seeing that his palm had struck, Dakota laughed wildly.
However, halfway through his sentence, he immediately discovered that something was wrong.
This palm seemed to have struck Chu Nan’s lower abdomen, but regardless of the feeling coming from his palm, it clearly told him that the Chu Nan in front of him was definitely not a real person.
“This is impossible!”
Dakota immediately reacted that Chu Nan was still an illusion.
Moreover, not only did this phantom look extremely realistic, it was even filled with normal spatial energy fluctuations, causing him to be unable to distinguish it.
If not for his palm hitting it, he would not have thought that this was actually an illusion!
Dakota slapped out. The illusion in front of him shook and turned into nothingness.
Chu Nan’s laughter sounded from behind.
“Tsk tsk, to think that I told you just now that it’s best not to use the same move on a Saint Seiya a second time. I originally thought that you wouldn’t be tricked this time after suffering a loss. I didn’t expect you to actually be so straightforward.”
Dakota turned to the left and looked at Chu Nan’s mocking smile. He opened his mouth and wanted to speak, but he spat out a mouthful of blood. Then, his body went soft and he fell to the ground, unable to speak anymore.
Or more accurately, he could no longer say anything from now on.
He was dead.
