Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Die!”
Li Shou launched his attack before Lu Xuan could finish his statement. He had figured out that Lu Xuan had never planned on letting him go.
As someone who also fought through battles and bloodshed, Li Shou naturally would not sit around and wait to die.
The spear of flame shot out from his hand and transformed into a golden flame phoenix whose screech echoed through the deep sea. The phoenix instantly unfurled its long flaming tail and charged towards Lu Xuan.
Lu Xuan did not spare the phoenix a look. Instead, he lifted a finger and froze the phoenix in place.
The attack couldn’t hurt Lu Xuan!
“You have a long way to go!”
With a yell, he summoned a golden dragon claw and captured the phoenix within its grasp.
The phoenix screeched in agony and struggled, but its efforts were futile. In a split second, the dragon claw scratched into the phoenix and extinguished it, leaving a remaining trail of a blaze in the sea.
“Ugh!”
Li Shou spat the blood out from his mouth. His attack advantage had been stopped and out-staged.
“Agh! How are you so strong?!”
At that moment, Li Shou experienced how strong and terrifying Lu Xuan truly was.
When he first witnessed how Lu Xuan defeated the deep-sea snapping turtle chief with a single punch, he had roughly gauged Lu Xuan’s immense power. However, only after this exchange of strength, he had understood why even the mighty deep-sea snapping turtle chief was crushed by a single punch.
That was also when he learned a shocking truth: the energy emitted by Lu Xuan consisted only of mana. Not a single bit of the energy from the Spiritual Aether was mixed in.
Lu Xuan had completely mastered the transformation from Spiritual Aether to mana, he was had jumped to a completely different level.
Li Shou held himself back from spitting out the blood in his mouth. Despite spending more than twenty years in training, he could not fully complete this transformation.
He assumed that he would have needed a few more decades to obtain the potential to transform, but it only took a day for Lu Xuan to exceed his skills from over 20 years of training.
A pang of sadness Li Shou.
This is too unfair; the world must’ve been messing with him.
In the small space that was fixed by the Chaos Heaven Stabilizer Bell, Lu Xuan’s presence grew increasingly stronger. A terrifying pressure crushed Li Shou; it was as if Mount Tai was pressed down on his body.
Under the immense presence of Lu Xuan’s power, the enchantments he had used to shield his body began to explode. Each enchantment was shaking and scrambling around like ants.
He did not know if other Consolidation Realms in their middle stages would be able to attain this power. Regardless, Lu Xuan’s power had exceeded his expectations.
Lu Xuan laughed coldly, “Do you get it now? Do you still want to kill me even after knowing this difference between us? I will bury you in this boundless sea right now.”
Li Shou asked in shock, “You mean your plan was to lure me in then kill me?”
He dared not to imagine that Lu Xuan had been plotting the assassination of a Consolidation Realm user since the Three Flower Realm. This behavior was dauntless; Lu Xuan must’ve lost his mind.
Anyone sane would never attempt to murder a hyper being of the Consolidation Realm.
No matter how weak the Consolidation Realm hyper being was, they were users of the Consolidation Realm. That alone meant that they possessed a great amount of power.
Someone like Lu Xuan, who was able to hold up to a hyper being of the Consolidation Realm, was one in a million.
Lu Xuan must have been aware of his own abilities to break through the Consolidation Realm for this plan to be possible.
Even if his own abilities had broken through the Consolidation Realm, it did not mean he would stand his ground against a hyper being with over 20 years of training in the Consolidation Realm.
None of this made any sense. This was absurd!
Lu Xuan gave Li Shou a piercing cold gaze and replied, “Not bad, you’ve determined your fate when you caught up with me. You were so caught up in your desire to eliminate me that you failed to notice what state I am in right now.”
Li Shou did not know that Lu Xuan had met the deep-sea snapping turtle chief in the midst of his breakthrough by sheer coincidence. There were many other ways for him to accomplish a breakthrough on his own, but they would have taken a bit more time.
Li Shou could have left Lu Xuan alone, but his fate had been sealed once he chose to chase after him.
“I won’t go down like this. If you want me dead, Lu Xuan, I also want to knock your teeth out.”
Li Shou yelled and the spear in his hands shot out at lightning speed. Summoning all his mana, he filled the sky with his spears.
The countless spears transformed into countless flame phoenixes. Li Shou had concentrated all his energy on this attack. If Lu Xuan wished to kill him, then they would both go down together.
Every qi and blood in him has climbed to its peak, tethering at the edge of a mid-term Consolidation Realm. In his heightened state, Li Shou caught a glimpse of the power of the mid-term Consolidation Realm.
This attack was undeniably powerful. Li Shou had entered a state of madness. The muscles of his body were tearing apart with blood splattering from torn parts of his muscles.
With an attack like this, either Lu Xuan would be heavily wounded, or Li Shou would’ve been wounded or even eliminated.
“How pathetic!”
Lu Xuan did not bother to look at the downpour of attacks, which didn’t seem to faze him; he didn’t even see much of a threat from the attack.
Lu Xuan unsheathed his Geng Metal Sword and struck out in a woosh.
In that split second, every attacking phoenix vanished into the thin air.
The blade sliced through all of the phoenixes. These attacks were nothing to Lu Xuan.
Boom!
The impact of the blade sent Li Shou flying, moments before he had managed to evade the fatal attack, only to sustain a minor injury from a slice by the blade of the Geng Metal Sword.
Even so, every protective enchantment on his body had been cut through. As his inner armor had shattered, the Shield of Great Aether was blasted open.
Additionally, one of his arms had been replaced by a spray of blood after the limb was severed by the blade.
Li Shou stumbled backward, his eyes were full of horror as if he had witnessed a monster. His strongest attack was easily brushed off by Lu Xuan.
A deep fear washed over his heart. He had finally realized his mistake and had regretted his actions.
His initial ambition to bring the Earth under the control of the Xuanhuo Sect had made Lu Xuan his enemy.
Still, he had never taken Lu Xuan seriously. Regardless of talent, it would have still taken years for Lu Xuan to catch up to him. Who would have thought Lu Xuan would accomplish this and even surpass him in such a short amount of time?
If he could return to the sect and the state he was in, he swore to personally remove Lu Xuan; right now, he was the biggest threat to the Xuanhuo Sect.
If he failed to do so, he could imagine what the future of the Xuanhuo sect would be.
