Chapter 32: Earth and Wind
Linley didn't notice Anras rushing over. Instead, he was once again contemplating the 'Pulsations of the Earth.'
"That Mr. Leylin was right. Within the Laws of the Earth, the 'Element of Earth' is for defending against material attacks. And the 'Pulsations of the Earth' is for defending against spiritual attacks. Similarly... if you can defend against spiritual attacks, you can also launch spiritual attacks."
Linley was currently pondering how to use the 'Pulsations of the Earth' to execute a spiritual attack.
Within the quiet valley. On the branch of a large tree in the distance stood a figure. It was Anras.
Anras was watching Linley, who was training in the valley. "Kill him. Just one strike!" Although Anras knew Linley was only a Demigod, he still decided to ambush him and kill him in the shortest possible time. This was Sadista's order.
The valley was very quiet.
"Whoosh!" Very suddenly. A fiery red light streaked across the sky, stabbing towards Linley.
Linley was greatly startled.
"Not good." Linley also felt himself being bound by the 'Divine Domain.'
If it were any other Demigod, suddenly ambushed by a Midgod's 'Divine Domain' and a full-powered sword strike, they would definitely be caught off guard.
But Linley often sparred with the Midgod 'Burgess.' Facing Anras's ambush now, Linley reacted almost instinctively—
First, relying on the two divine clones within his body, he immediately propped up two 'Divine Domains.'
At the same time, a Violet Blood Soft Sword appeared in Linley's hand. He swung it very skillfully, countless sword shadows forming a purple chain that clashed repeatedly with the fiery red light. Linley himself worked hard to absorb the force and retreat.
"Bam!" Linley's entire body slammed heavily into the cliff wall behind the distant waterfall. The cliff wall directly cracked open. Gravel tumbled down.
"Huh?" Anras's expression changed. "This Linley actually blocked my ambush just like that?"
Anras was very surprised.
"Swish!" Anras swooped down like an eagle, tracing an arc as he charged towards the cliff wall where Linley had crashed. With a loud "Boom!" from another spot on the cliff wall, Linley's entire body shot out like lightning, finally landing on the open ground of the valley.
Green-gold dragon scales covered Linley's entire body. His steel-like dragon tail emitted a cold light, swaying slightly. Linley's cold, dark-golden eyes stared coldly at the cliff wall.
"Who are you?" Linley shouted.
After transforming into the Dragonblood Warrior state, Linley's speed could be greatly increased. Even with his two 'Divine Domains' stacked, he was still at a disadvantage against the opponent's Midgod 'Divine Domain.' But relying on the Profound Truths of Velocity and the Dragonblood Warrior transformation, he could still maintain a speed close to his opponent's.
Linley's loud shout not only startled Anras.
At the same time...
In another part of Mount Bronze Gong, Bebe and the white-robed middle-aged man, who were sparring with each other, and Burgess, who was watching from the side, were all jolted awake.
"Boss." Bebe's expression changed, and he immediately flew towards the valley with the two Midgods.
"Not good." Anras knew the situation was bad. If he waited for those two Midgods to arrive, he, Anras, would have no hope at all. Flames burned on Anras's body surface. His entire body, like an arrow released from a bowstring, directly tore through space, charging at Linley.
The cold spear in his hand, wrapped in flames, stabbed straight forward.
"Strongest strike!" Anras's gaze was dark, fixed on Linley.
Linley stood still, his dark-golden eyes coldly watching his opponent. He didn't dodge at all.
"Courting death." Anras sneered inwardly when he saw the opponent not dodging.
In fact, when Linley came out of the cliff wall and shouted loudly, he had already controlled the divine power of the earth within his body, converting it through the 'Pulsations of the Earth.' Streams of 'Pulsation Force' spread out from under Linley's feet. With Linley as the center, the area within a hundred meters became the 'Pulsation Force' zone.
"Now!" Linley's eyes suddenly lit up!
At the same moment, dozens of streams of pulsation force surged up from the ground, rapidly wrapping around Anras from all directions below. It was as if... hands had suddenly emerged from the ground, grabbing Anras's feet and embracing his entire body.
Anras's expression changed drastically.
"Die!" At that moment, Linley, transformed into the Dragonblood Warrior, held the Violet Blood Soft Sword in one hand and the Black Heavy Sword in the other, charging at Anras at extreme speed.
"Bam!" Divine power exploded within his body. Anras broke free from the binding of the massive pulsation force in an extremely short time. However, at the moment he broke free, the distance between him and Linley was less than ten meters. A distance of less than ten meters, for Linley and Anras...
Was too close.
Because their speeds were too fast!
How could Anras retreat? After all, Bebe and the two Midgods were rapidly approaching.
A dazzling light shone from the spear. The cold spear stabbed directly at Linley. A faint reddish light was contained at the spear's tip.
This move was Anras's strongest strike—"Soul, Annihilation!"
An eerie purple light flared up. The pleasant sound of a flute also rang out. Hearing this flute sound, even Anras couldn't help but be slightly affected. After twenty years of training, the power of the 'Gentle Breeze Caress' move was much greater than before.
Most importantly, the sound of the 'Gentle Breeze Caress' was not just the sound of a flute; it also contained a silent 'sound wave attack.'
The Violet Blood Soft Sword directly collided with the spear tip.
"Clang!"
At the same time, the illusory purple sword shadow also collided with an illusory faint red spear shadow.
"Bam!" The illusory purple sword shadow only held on for a moment before shattering. The faint red spear shadow faded slightly but still charged towards Linley.
"Not good." Linley's expression changed.
But this spiritual attack was too fast; it was too late!
"Damn it!" 'Leylin,' who was hiding in a stone not far from the valley, was greatly alarmed. Although his speed was fast, it couldn't match the speed of a spiritual attack.
"Die!" Linley's roar rang out. The Black Heavy Sword in his hand also landed on Anras's body at that moment.
Describing it is slow, but in reality, Linley's Violet Blood Soft Sword and Black Heavy Sword attacked simultaneously. Anras had no choice but to retreat. He could only choose to block one of the weapons. Between the Violet Blood Soft Sword and the Black Heavy Sword, Anras clearly felt the threat from the Violet Blood Soft Sword.
He blocked the Violet Blood Soft Sword, and naturally, the Black Heavy Sword landed on him.
At the same moment the faint red spear shadow pierced into Linley's body—
A peculiar wave, formed from spiritual energy, also transmitted through the 'Black Heavy Sword' into Anras's body.
"Bam!"
A transparent membrane shaped like scales protected the entire Soul Sea, but there was only a gap. The faint red spear shadow slammed into the transparent scale membrane and directly collapsed. A small portion of the scattered red energy tried to rush in through that gap.
However...
Linley's spiritual energy had formed a pulsation defense.
If it had been the full faint red spear shadow, perhaps Linley's 'Pulsation Defense' formed from soul force wouldn't have been able to withstand it. But this was only scattered residual energy.
An illusory transparent sword shadow directly rushed into Anras's Soul Sea.
If this illusory transparent sword shadow were magnified ten thousand times, one could see that it was actually formed by dense waves of spiritual energy condensed into the shape of a sword. Linley's originally ordinary spiritual energy, when used to launch a spiritual attack through the 'Pulsations of the Earth,' was this terrifying.
The illusory transparent sword shadow charged into Anras's Soul Sea. Anras's soul force immediately formed a defensive barrier. However, this ordinary defensive barrier quickly collapsed before the illusory sword shadow formed from countless spiritual waves.
The illusory sword shadow slammed heavily into the Divine Spark.
"Bam!" The Divine Spark trembled. The soul contained within it finally scattered.
Pulsations of the Earth, Return to One—Void Sword Wave!
"It worked?" Linley was overjoyed.
Originally, Linley had been using the 'Pulsations of the Earth' to attack the internal organs of an opponent's body with vibration waves. Based on the experience from 'Gentle Breeze Caress,' after months of research, Linley had already touched the threshold of using the 'Pulsations of the Earth' to launch spiritual attacks. In fact, this 'Void Sword Wave' wasn't fully mastered yet. Sometimes it succeeded, sometimes it failed.
He didn't expect it to actually succeed this time.
"Whoosh!" Very suddenly, a figure emerged from Anras's corpse. This figure grabbed the Divine Spark and shot straight up into the sky.
"He has another body!" Linley's expression changed instantly.
"Swoosh!"
Linley immediately chased after him.
"My Midgod clone is finished!" Anras was filled with rage. He had two bodies: one was a Fire-type Midgod body, and the other was a Wind-type Demigod body. Anras valued the Midgod body the most.
"I will, I will take revenge!" Anras roared inwardly, but at the same time, he also fled with all his might.
"Whoosh~" His divine sense suddenly spread out, extending towards the O'Brien Empire.
"Lord Sadista!"
Sadista was still waiting for good news from Anras. "Oh, Anras. Did you succeed?"
"Lord Sadista, help, help!" Anras cried out urgently. This stunned Sadista. Sadista's divine sense also instantly spread out, enveloping the Mount Bronze Gong region. He could see everything clearly in Mount Bronze Gong.
"What?" Sadista's expression changed drastically.
Describing it is slow, but in reality, Linley and Anras's exchange only lasted two rounds. One was an ambush, the other was a desperate clash. Two rounds, very fast. By now, Bebe and the two Midgods hadn't even reached the valley.
Anras was also unlucky to have encountered Linley, who possessed a damaged soul-defending Sovereign artifact.
No matter how damaged a Sovereign artifact was, it was still a Sovereign artifact! The worst part for Anras was that Linley's Violet Blood Soft Sword and Black Heavy Sword both contained terrifying soul attacks.
"Flee, flee!" Anras fled wildly. As expected of a Wind-type divine clone, his speed was extremely fast.
"Yoo~"
An angry roar sounded. A massive phantom of a God-Eating Rat appeared in midair. The God-Eating Rat opened its mouth, and a strange force instantly enveloped Anras. Anras's entire body froze in midair, unable to move.
"Bebe?" Linley also stopped now, staring in shock at Bebe in the distance.
Bebe had already transformed into the form of a God-Eating Rat, about half a meter in length. But behind Bebe appeared a massive phantom of a giant God-Eating Rat, a hundred meters tall.
"Ah, no—" Anras felt despair.
A Wind-type Divine Spark directly emerged from Anras's body, then turned into a beam of light and flew straight into the mouth of Bebe in the distance. Bebe, as if eating a bean, directly swallowed the Wind-type Divine Spark into his stomach.
Anras's body fell limply to the ground.
Bebe scurried over, grabbed Anras's spatial ring and the Fire-type Midgod Divine Spark, and said, "Hmph, daring to come after my boss and still thinking of running? Dream on!" Bebe even stomped on Anras's corpse a couple of times, looking furious.
The bald, burly man 'Burgess,' the white-robed middle-aged man, and Linley were all dumbfounded.
"This... this is the divine ability of the God-Eating Rat?" Linley's heart trembled.
Devouring someone else's Divine Spark?
No wonder it was called 'God-Eating Rat.' It was just too abnormal.
"Boss." Bebe flew over and tossed the Fire-type Midgod Divine Spark in his hand to Linley. "I can't digest this Midgod Divine Spark. It's for you."
"Oh." Linley took the Midgod Divine Spark. "What did you say?" Linley looked at Bebe. "You said digest?"
Divine Sparks were indestructible. Even using a divine artifact to chop at them wouldn't leave a single scratch. This was also the reason why Divine Sparks remained after a god's death. Even a full-powered strike from a Highgod couldn't shatter a Divine Spark. But Bebe...
"Right. I'm only a Demigod now, so I can only digest Demigod Divine Sparks." Bebe said this.
Linley looked at Bebe, not knowing what to say.