Chapter 35 - Am, I, Clear? (2/2)

The chance finally appeared.

”Skill merge! Blazing Wind Blades!”

All 62 Blazing Wind Blades were aimed at the same point, the Earth Dragon who wasn't paying any attention to Krune a second ago felt danger approaching, when it used it's Divine Sense to check, it could see a sea of fiery red blades coming at it. Fast! Really Fast! It was already to late to dodge, the Earth Dragon Focused all of it's spiritual energy on his scale, using earth element to strengthen them!

Blod spurted out and was burnt away as soon as it left its body, the Earth Dragon roared in pain, Krune had left a gruesome injury close to his neck, if the Earth Dragon hadn't noticed the Blazing Wind Baldes in time, it wouldn't have reinforced it's scales with earth element and death would be the only outcome.

Krune started to sweat a little, to use so many Blazing Wind Blades at the same time is quite hard, even for himself, not to mention that because he is in his human body, he has to circulate spiritual energy through his body before he can use any skill, that's the main reason for him to be weaker in human form.

The Earth Dragon got up, it looked at Krune in hatred, it almost died just now and then, it has decided to get rid of Krune before dealing with his companions first. The Earth Dragon immediately pounced at Krune while using its Earth Element to stop him from dodge, but Krune still had his friends with him, now that the Earth Dragon is focusing Krune, they had the space to act as they liked, Ao kept doing his best to disturb the Earth Draon while Yusa kept using her Water Frame to save Krune every time he didn't have the capability to dodge.

The Earth Dragon noticed a problem, the injury in its body was too deep, its blood kept flowing out, if it continued like this, it would have to flee, but how many battles had it gone through before? It used Krune to get close to his companions without them noticing, just when it was about to pounce at Krune another time, a water frame appeared in front of Krune again, but the Earth Dragon was waiting for it, it didn't know if Yusa could use two water frames at the same time to deceive it's sense, but it felt it was worth a try, at worst it would just flee, these cultivators won't be able to follow it underground.

The moment the water frame appeared, the Earth Dragon changed direction and pounced at Yusa instead, Krune's group wasn't expecting for that at all, sure enough, Yusa couldn't use two water frames at the same time, she had just used one in front of Krune, she can't use it again straight away, Krune was too far away, he wouldn't get there in time, Yusa also doesn't have the necessary speed to dodge, just as the Earth Dragon was about to kill Yusa, Ao appeared between them. He had a formation runestone in his hand, it was a protection formation, as long as it is charged with enough spiritual energy, it can be activated at any time, Ao had kept charging it ever since the Earth Dragon appeared, it is another one time use runestone andnow was the time to use it!

A barrier appeared in front of Yusa and Ao, the Earth Dragon attack that should have killed Yusa hit the barrier, but how could a barrier created with the spiritual energy of a 3rd stage Foundation Establishment cultivator resist the attack? It only lasted a split of a second before breaking apart, Yusa and Ao were sent flying! Fortunately, the barrier had enough power to reduce the damage, so they didn't die even though they received serious injuries. The Earth Dragon didn't waste time, those two wouldn't be able to dodge the next attack with those injuries, it also knows that Krune couldn't ready that many fiery blades so fast either, so he wouldn't be able to save them, the dragon immediately pounced at Yusa and Ao.

It was at this moment that it felt extreme danger coming from behind, but that didn't make sense, that 2nd stage Foundation Establishment guy shouldn't be able to use that many fiery blades to attack again so soon, when the Earth Dragon used its Divine Sense to check, the human form beast cultivator was no where to be seen, but right above his own dragon head there was something that shouldn't have been there, it had an spiritual energy body, but the strange part is that that spiritual energy body was completely red! Crimson red! The dragon couldn't help but think.

'Is that a wisp?'

It was the Earth Dragon's last thought.

Krune was enraged! His body crimson because of his madness, when he saw that his friends were about to die, he completely threw caution to the wind! He reverted into his true form and used wind movement, now that his human body wasn't in the way his control over the spiritual energy soared, the weight of his body wasn't a hindrance anymore, he immediately appeared above the Earth Dragon, and all around Krune one could see over a hundred Blazing Wind Blades had taken form, not only there was more blades, they were even more powerful than any other he had ever used! Krune used all the spiritual energy available to him till the last bit.

The blades showered down, the Earth Dragon didn't even have the time to focus on its defense, it's body cut into hundreds of pieces, even its demon core was split in half, releasing all the spiritual energy inside like an explosion, the Earth Dragon was no more!

Ao and Yusa looked at that amazed! They saw the entire process, they saw the moment Krune reverted to his wisp form till the moment he killed the Earth Dragon, they thought they would die but Krune reverted the situation in the last second, but they simply couldn't believe that Krune was a wisp, where have they ever seen a Foundation Establishment wisp before?

Krune's crimson spiritual energy body reverted back to the wisps natural white blue one, his energy body was very dim at moment, even his core could totally be seen, as for Krune himself, he had never used so much spiritual energy at once before, in the end he lost his consciousness, he floated there without moving, just like that.

Yusa was the first to come back to herself, she struggled to get up while looking at Krune, she then told Ao.

”Hurry, we need to leave, there will be demon beasts flocking this area very soon, we need to leave and hide, we are in no condition to battle anymore.”

Ao nodded, he got up and rushed at Krune, he grabbed Krune's core and left with Yusa, he also helped her on their way out, he was a little better than Yusa after the attack thanks to his faster reactions, as expected of a wind element user.

Not long after, they could hear roars coming from where the Earth Dragon died, the body of an Earth Dragon is extremely precious, specially it's blood which has some Dragon Blood in it, it will certainly create chaos among the beast around.

Around 1700 kilometers away, an old man was sit inside of a sealed cave, he wasn't human, but a best in human form, an early stage Divine Soul Demon Thunder Lion! He was doing his recognition in the area as he always do with his Divine Sense when he noticed the battle between Krune's group and the Earth Dragon, he didn't pay attention at first, such scenes happen way too often after all, he was sure that the Earth Dragon was going to win when suddenly, Krune became a wisp, at that moment he was really amazed! It was a Foundation Establishment wisp, and a very strong one at that! If he were to put his hands on Krune, he might be able to use his spiritual energy to breakthrough to the middle Divine Soul Realm!

The Thunder Lion was ecstatic! It was just about to move when suddenly, he felt a pressure coming from above at him, it was extremely strong, whoever was doing it to him could totally smash him to a pulp with just a finger, he used all his strength just to say a few words.

”Senior, did I do something wrong?”

He was afraid! He never felt so terrified before. After a few seconds, the pressure disappeared, only a powerful presence remained, the Thunder Lion then heard a voice that it couldn't tell from where it was coming.

”About that wisp, you didn't see anything, you didn't hear anything either.”

”Am, I, Clear?”

The Thunder Lion nodded its head so strongly that it felt his neck was going to break, the voice then just said one more word.

”Good.”

And then that presence that could destroy a planet was finally gone, just like that.

The Thunder Lion was sweating all over, it decided that it won't touch another wisp for the rest of it's life!

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Countless galaxies away, the old man who had noticed Krune's success during his first Spiritual Energy Meridians creation closed his eyes, one could just hear him murmuring.

”Little friend, you better get strong fast, I won't be able to protect you for long.”

The cave then turned silent once more.