Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Smoke and dust rose from every corner of Buried Heaven’s God Territory.
This first clash between Buried Heaven and the raptor was extraordinarily spectacular.
However, Lin Huang was frowning slightly as he watched.
Buried Heaven’s situation was not exactly ideal.
Whether it was physical strength, power, or speed, the raptor was still a cut above.
Furthermore, its battle style was based more on instinct. Even when encountering techniques that it had never seen before, it could react accurately in time.
As for Buried Heaven, even though he displayed great initiative and did not withhold any of his martial arts skills, he was gradually losing the upper hand. His tempo of battle was also beginning to be affected by his opponent.
Buried Heaven’s expression was gradually becoming more serious as well.
From the very beginning, he had not made the mistake of underestimating the raptor. However, after they had exchanged blows, he realized that the raptor was more powerful than he had expected.
The six Blood Sickle members could only see the two fighting within the smoke and dust; they seemed to be equally matched.
However, Lin Huang saw what was going on more clearly than the rest.
The raptor’s overall ability was certainly more powerful than Buried Heaven’s, but its ability also had its limits.
Buried Heaven’s advantage was that the God Territory was his turf. The drain on his Divine Power was minimal there.
As long as he stood his ground and fought steadily without making mistakes and did not allow his opponent to affect his tempo of battle, he would, in essence, be undefeatable.
The raptor was only able to remain in the material realm for a limited time. The longer the battle took, the more it would be at a disadvantage.
Lin Huang had initially thought that Buried Heaven would be aware of this logic.
However, he had never expected that Buried Heaven might fall prey to rashness right from the start, to where his battle rhythm now was affected by the raptor.
If this went on and the raptor gained full control of the tempo of battle, Buried Heaven would completely lose his chance to turn things around.
As a bystander, Lin Huang felt somewhat anxious for him as he watched.
However, Buried Heaven’s physical body was currently in his God Territory at the moment. He could not sense anything in the outside world.
If not for the Heavenly Dao’s projection, Lin Huang and the rest would not be able to see anything at all either.
Within the God Territory, the battle between the two combatants was growing increasingly worrying.
Buried Heaven was gradually beginning to lose the upper hand, to where the six Blood Sickle members could clearly see that something was off. They began an anxious discussion.
“Just now, it was very clear he held the advantage; why has the raptor gained control of the tempo of battle all of a sudden?”
“This raptor’s ability is more powerful than Buried Heaven’s, to begin with, and now it’s seized control of the tempo of battle. If this goes on, I’m afraid Buried Heaven’s unification will fail this time.”
“It has nothing to do with how powerful the raptor is. Buried Heaven was too impulsive and gave his opponent an opportunity. The truth is, he’s always held the advantage because that’s his turf. He could defeat the raptor just by stalling it.”
After all, the onlookers were able to see the situation in a much clearer light. The Blood Sickle members’ estimation of the situation was roughly the same as Lin Huang’s previously.
Unfortunately, Buried Heaven could not hear these discussions.
While the few of them were still in a heated debate, the first clash between the two in the God Territory came to an end at last.
Buried Heaven was sent flying by the one-eyed raptor’s heavy blow, shattering dozens of planets.
The discussion among the Blood Sickle members stopped as soon as they saw what was happening in the projection. They stared at the projection with worry in their eyes.
Lin Huang was the only one who raised his brows.
Buried Heaven had lost this first encounter.
However, as far as Buried Heaven was concerned, this might just be a chance for him to regroup.
Lin Huang clearly noticed that while Buried Heaven seemed to have been sent flying, in reality, he had put up a defense at the very last moment and had not suffered any physical harm.
Furthermore, he had utilized the impact of his opponent’s attack to exit the battlefield temporarily. Perhaps he wanted to buy himself some time to replay the battle mentally and find out what the issue had been in the previous encounter.
Lin Huang had always regarded Buried Heaven as a true powerhouse.
A true powerhouse not only had to have formidable abilities but also extreme mental fortitude.
Lin Huang felt that Buried Heaven possessed such qualities.
Just like Lin Huang had thought, Buried Heaven was indeed rapidly replaying the battle in his mind.
The truth was, he had succumbed to his opponent’s blow on purpose.
He merely wanted to get out of this battle temporarily, so he could utilize the viewpoint of a bystander and see where his problem lay.
It only took a moment for his mind to replay the entire first round of battle.
He instantly realized his problem after watching the entire battle as an observer.
“I was in too much of a rush to defeat him…”
Buried Heaven grinned slightly after discovering the root of the issue.
He felt that in the next round of battle, he would definitely be able to emerge victoriously.
The raptor had no idea what Buried Heaven was thinking. It merely assumed that it held the upper hand.
It did not intend to give Buried Heaven a chance to recoup at all. Right after it had sent Buried Heaven flying, it leaped into the air and pursued its opponent’s falling body.
The minute it caught up and was preparing to deal a heavy blow to the other party, it noticed Buried Heaven’s calm smile as well as the kick that he had been preparing for some time.
In a flash, millions of golden rays shot from Buried Heaven’s right toe, aiming straight for the one-eyed raptor’s single eye.
The angle of the attack was extremely tricky; it was also swift, accurate, and savage!
The raptor immediately used its hands to block the attack.
It was then sent flying by Buried Heaven’s kick.
Almost simultaneously, countless golden chains emerged like undulating boa constrictors, sweeping toward the raptor.
Buried Heaven had now fully understood that this was his turf and he possessed not just combat cultivator techniques.
He had consolidated these chains by invoking the use of his Godly Right’s sequence powers.
He did not need the chains to cause any harm to the raptor. All he needed was for them to obstruct its movements just a little, which would be enough to affect the entire battle situation.
Watching as the raptor tried to free itself from the chains, Buried Heaven was in no hurry to take the initiative and engage in hand-to-hand combat.
Instead, he consolidated more chains to interfere with it, then looked for an opportunity to attack.
Within a few short seconds, he had already taken control of the entire tempo of battle.
“Things should be stable from now on.” Lin Huang gave a slight nod.
Sure enough, Buried Heaven’s performance was now completely different after adjusting his mindset.
The six Blood Sickle members—who had initially felt somewhat worried—were now overjoyed and their spirits lifted.
It was as if they could see that Buried Heaven’s elevation to lord-level was not far off.
However, just when the situation in the God Territory had improved and Buried Heaven was taking control of the battle, an abnormal wave of energy came from the nearby black hole.
Lin Huang sensed the anomaly at once and immediately looked in that direction.
He saw a Dimensional Whirlpool appear inside the black hole. It had almost completely integrated with the black hole so that it appeared as one with it and was extremely hard to see with the naked eye.
Right as Lin Huang looked over, he saw a fair, flawless palm extend itself from the Whirlpool. Imbued with immeasurable force, it hurtled toward the Heavenly Dao’s projection of Buried Heaven’s God Territory.
As soon as the palm appeared, the six Blood Sickle members instantly attacked without hesitation, intending to block the assault.
Thanks to the broken Dao seal’s effect, the power of the six Blood Sickles’ attacks far surpassed that of Heavenly Gods.
The attacks were compounded with over one hundred levels of sequence power.
The minimum was over four hundred levels, with a maximum of over seven hundred levels.
As the six joined forces, a vast and mighty momentum struck the massive palm in succession.
However, the palm breached the six Blood Sickle members’ attacks one by one. Its speed merely decreased slightly; it was still determinedly heading in the direction of Buried Heaven’s God Territory.
“Since you don’t seem to want this hand anymore, you may as well leave it here!”
Lin Huang muttered softly as if he were talking to himself. An instant later, a long, narrow-bladed battle sword had appeared in his hand—when, no one could tell. He returned the sword to its scabbard slowly.
In the distance, a blood-red sword gleam had already swept over the massive palm.
The unstoppable palm halted its advance as if time had stopped that very instant.
