Chapter 1313: Talent Doesn't Mean You'll Live Long
The A-rank player didn't answer his words. Using absolute force to shove him aside, he waved a hand in the air, and all the decorative objects on the nearby streets floated up, then shot toward him in a concentrated barrage.
Xu Huo pulled out several space barriers in midair to block the attacks, then shifted his body to the right to avoid a spiritual gate that appeared on his left. But he hadn't expected that the old man's first gate was just a feint—he himself was blocking the right side!
Both sides had activated their spiritual realms, and the chaotic mix of spiritual power made it hard to say who was suppressing whom. It all came down to who could better utilize their evolutionary power.
The distance between them wasn't far to begin with, and with one advancing and the other retreating, they clashed in the blink of an eye. The old man stomped his foot, and the stone bricks on the ground rapidly shattered, twisted, and automatically formed several sharp spikes that stabbed toward Xu Huo in the center!
The black blade gleamed with a cold light. After a horizontal sweep that destroyed three spikes and opened a path, Xu Huo moved to a large building five hundred meters away. As his feet touched the ground, he quickly stepped back to avoid the A-rank player who had suddenly appeared in front of him.
But this retreat clearly couldn't truly shake off his opponent. The other party was extremely fast, likely assisted by a speed-boosting item or trait, making him nearly impossible to track with the naked eye. However, Xu Huo turned on the spot and raised the black blade in front of his face!
"Ding!!!" The two sharp weapons collided with a fine metallic ring. Xu Huo was at a disadvantage in strength, and under the forced exchange, he was the one pushed back. But this time, the A-rank player didn't give him a chance to escape. His figure almost blurred into a faint streak of light, circling around Xu Huo and constantly changing angles of attack. In just ten seconds, he launched no fewer than twenty-five strikes!
The three-hundred-sixty-degree, no-blind-spot assault turned the area within thirty meters of Xu Huo into a whirlwind of sharp blades. Forget trying to pass through—even objects accidentally swept in were shredded to pieces by the sword wind. Even the old man who had come to help held back.
But after more than twenty consecutive attacks, Xu Huo was still standing in place.
"He's no ordinary player. He's at least a dual Super Evolver in Spirit and Space. Don't think about taking him alive—just kill him directly!" the old man said.
"Boom!" As his words fell, the A-rank player had already pressed Xu Huo's defense barrier and crashed into the large building behind them. Then came two more booming sounds as the two maintained their positions and smashed through two more buildings, only stopping several hundred meters away.
"Inviolable Domain" failed. "Cat's Triple Life Loan" carried Xu Huo's entire body sideways, completely dodging the A-rank player's sword.
The sword energy slanted through the opposite building. By the time the A-rank player turned his head, Xu Huo had already used his original posture to sink into a spiritual gate that had appeared on the ground.
Several library towers rose from the ground, not only separating the A-rank player but also locking the approaching old man inside a circular room.
"Petty tricks!" The old man had already grasped Xu Huo's overall strength. Ignoring the constantly shifting door-walls before him, he drew a circle on the ground with his foot. Unlike the spiritual gates he had opened before, this one directly bypassed the library towers, allowing him to exit through a spatial passage within his spiritual realm.
As he emerged, the A-rank player also violently broke through the building and leaped onto a neighboring structure. One high, one low, they coordinated to trap Xu Huo within a certain range.
Xu Huo hadn't gone far. He stood on a streetlamp not far away, his figure quickly obscured by the library towers that emerged around him in succession.
The moment their line of sight was cut off, the old man sealed off his own spiritual realm. Then the A-rank player swung his sword on the spot, extending a blade of light over a hundred meters that sliced the entire space in two—including the nearby buildings and the old man's sealed zone!
The clean cut didn't immediately deform the surrounding structures, but the library towers representing Xu Huo's spiritual power sank back down as if sinking into a nonexistent underground. Xu Huo, who should have been inside the sealed zone, had vanished. At the same time, a large number of doors appeared in the air.
The old man's expression shifted slightly. He nodded to the A-rank player from a distance, and then white flames ignited within his spiritual realm—they looked like flames, but had no actual temperature and couldn't truly burn anything. However, they quickly spread across the ground, could burn directly into the air, and gradually connected all the doors in the space.
"There!" He suddenly pointed at one of the doors. The A-rank player, who had been waiting, flashed to the door, not giving whoever was behind it a chance to come out. He directly stabbed his sword through the door panel!
The feedback from the sword confirmed that it had struck something, but the sensation wasn't like hitting a person. Just then, two long blades thrust out from inside the door, crossing to tear it open and knock the A-rank player's sword away!
A flicker of surprise crossed the A-rank player's face. Then he saw a two-meter-tall robot burst through the door and charge at him with astonishing speed!
"Boom!!!" The twin blades and the sword clashed in a fierce shower of sparks. For a moment, the A-rank player was actually forced back several steps by the robot. At the same time, two more hands appeared from behind the robot, wielding the same two blades and swinging down at his head!
The A-rank player's eyes darkened. He immediately pulled back, but an eye pattern appeared beneath his feet. The seemingly living eye automatically moved under him and, like a mouth, swallowed half of his leg.
It wasn't difficult to shake off the spiritual interference. But barely a second after he broke free, the robot was on him again. Its long blades swung at high speed, hacking at the A-rank player's item sword like mincing meat.
"Don't get tangled up with the mechanical item!" the old man shouted from a distance. He opened a gate right beneath the robot's feet, intending to send it away, but suddenly felt a chill at the back of his head. He whipped around and saw a black blade swinging straight toward his eyes—a defense item blocked the strike.
Staring at the blade inches from his face, a cold sweat broke out on the old man's back. He looked up at Xu Huo, and after the initial shock, a powerful killing intent surged: "No wonder you could kill Han Yi. In terms of spiritual evolution, you could be called a genius."
"But don't get too full of yourself, young man. Having talent doesn't mean you'll live long!"
The white flames that had just disappeared surged up violently, burning away all the doors in the air and trapping Xu Huo. The old man clapped his hands together in an empty strike. With a sharp "crack," the street surface that had been ripped up lashed together like two whips!
Xu Huo, caught in the middle like a cookie filling, quickly rose into the air as the stone bricks shattered and fell. When "Holder's Demise" flew out, he had already moved behind the old man.
"Holder's Demise" had been a sneak-attack item with a low success rate ever since it came into Xu Huo's possession. It claimed a 90% success rate, but with him, it seemed to fall into the remaining 10% of failures. This time, however, it didn't let him down. The black metal bead pierced straight through the old man's defense barrier, entered his forehead, and exited through the back of his skull!
"Really dead?" Seeing the man fall, Xu Huo paused.
(Chapter End)