Chapter 339: Elemental Energy Suffocation (1/2)

Chapter 339: Elemental Energy Suffocation

Translator: IreneEditor: TYZ/KLKL

The last stroke was like the final brushstroke of a picture scroll. Within the Yin Yang sword formation, the messy sword rays formed a complete ring.

The roving Yin Yang grass swords slowed down and time seemed to stop at this moment.

The ring, made up of disarrayed sword rays, was like a nest built of tree branches picked by a bird. It emitted a delicate light ray that shone on the stationary Yin Yang grass swords, making them appear like a flock of motionless birds.

The fine and drawn-out whistle burst forth from deep underground, as if a monster had been awakened.

The next moment, the Yin Yang sword formation seemed to have sensed danger and started spinning wildly. The Yin Yang grass swords brought wave after wave of turbulent flows. The black and white, criss-crossed flows were like black and white fishes, advancing dauntlessly toward the disordered sword ring.

At the same time, the surging metal wind sprayed out from within the messy sword rays.

The metal wind collided head on with the black and white, crisscrossed Yin Yang turbulent flows.

Ai Hui was almost completely exhausted from the metal wind sword ring, which was emptying out all his elemental energy. It was getting so difficult for him to even move his fingers that he could only watch on helplessly.

He saw an unforgettable sight.

The chaotic rumbling of the turbulent flows came endlessly, wave after wave. The simplest black and white.. no, the simplest Yin and Yang grew and multiplied without end in this simple criss-cross pattern.

The metal wind that was swept into these black and white, crisscrossed flows disappeared rapidly. The flows that swallowed the wind constantly tangled with one another and fused into each other, eventually extinguishing completely.

Ai Hui, who had his eyes wide open, witnessed the whole process, from the birth of the turbulent flows, to how they got tangled with each other, and how they finally welded together and were destroyed.

All was so simple, yet so profound that Ai Hui was deeply attracted to what he’d seen unfolding before his eyes. He made sure to keep his eyes open in fear of missing any detail. He stared on with undivided attention.

The metal wind from underground surged violently and unendingly. The Yin Yang turbulent flows thrived under the continuous agitation of the metal wind.

But Ai Hui quickly realized that along with the incessant interweaving motions, the Yin and Yang of the grass swords started to converge unceasingly.

It seemed as if Ai Hui had started to understand something.

Ai Hui was so engrossed in the mysticality of it all he did not feel that anything was amiss.

The onlookers outside the sword formation, however, saw a different scenario. The silver wind pillar, that carried an ear-piercing whistle, soared into the sky, drowning Ai Hui completely. The Yin Yang sword formation released a rumble that shook the sky as it spun so wildly and quickly that it was difficult for the naked eye to process.

The sword formation was like a cup attached to the ground, sucking and locking the metal wind in.

The metal wind hit against the sword formation ferociously.

The whistling of the wind and the rumbling of the sword formation blended together, but one could clearly feel the two thoroughly different elemental energy waves surging within. It was like two huge monsters tearing at each other.

Sparks flew and electricity flowed like a silver snake. The colorful splendor was like an overturned paint bottle.They were like fireworks, some appearing while others faded away, magnificent and dazzling.

A mysterious sense of fear arose in everyone’s mind.

Blended into the crowd, the big man reacted the quickest. His face changed greatly as the fear within his eyes could no longer be concealed.

He felt as if he was stuck in a pile of quagmire and unable to move, or as if he was underwater, suffocating. He knew that this was a sensory illusion that was caused by a reduction in the concentration of the surrounding elemental energy.

Reduction in concentration of elemental energy…

He stared deadly at the main culprit – sword formation!

It was like a vacuum, frantically sucking in the surrounding elemental energy.

Not only him but Qin Xian and the gang were unable to keep a straight face as they too could feel the elemental energy being emptied out.

Many students were unaware of this. Their mouths were wide open as they looked on at the changing colors and the deafening sword formation.

Elementalists that had achieved elemental externalization were no longer obstructed by the invisible wall between their bodies and Nature’s elemental energies. And because of this, they became more sensitive toward external elemental energies. They would more or less absorb some heaven and earth elemental energy even as they breathed. The absorption became more apparent when they were executing their Circulatory Cycle Revolution.

Elementalists that had achieved elemental externalization were like fishes while Nature’s elemental energies were like water.

Once the surrounding elemental energies thinned, elemental-externalized elementalists would feel discomfort, but not to the point where they really suffocated.

There was a specific terminology for this sensory suffocation –”elemental energy suffocation”.

Elemental energy suffocation would appear in battles at times.

The nature of battles between elemental-externalized elementalists was to fight for control over Nature’s elemental energies. Such a contest was extremely intense. The mysterious interaction between the five elements would complicate the fight, making it difficult to gain an absolute advantage.

Other than that, an elementalist must be able to extract his or her surrounding elemental energies at an insane speed in order to create elemental energy suffocation.

As such, elemental energy suffocation was often seen as an art executed by Masters.

The elemental-externalized elementalists felt increasingly uncomfortable. Their eardrums were about to burst and the sky was spinning around in their heads. There were even some who started to hallucinate.

While the elemental energy surged within his body, Qin Xuan responded by calling out swiftly, ”Retreat! Move back, everybody!”

As if awoken from a dream, people started retreating.

Only after withdrawing about a hundred feet did everybody start to loosen their tensed bodies.

The big man was bewildered. Just then, someone from beside him called in a suppressed voice, ”Boss!”

He turned around.