Chapter 490: Fighting Xie Ziwen Again; Despicable (2/2)
The crowd fell utterly silent. Everyone stared at Xiao Chen in shock. Zuo Mo revealed a deep, pondering look before saying, “There is more than meets the eye to this saber strike!”
Ding Fengchou said softly, “I just managed to notice this. The movements are closely linked with one another. It looked like there were hundreds of openings, but in reality, there was none. However, there are still some flaws with the changing of positions. This is probably because it is a newly learned technique.”
Jiang Zimo nodded enviously. “I wonder what benefits he managed to obtain on the upper floors? Unexpectedly, he gained such strength.”
After s.h.i.+ Hailong recovered from his mild astonishment, he finally reacted. He smiled and said, “This brat…no wonder he was so confident. I worried for nothing.”
“I have not lost yet. It is impossible for me to lose!”
Suddenly, something odd happened. Xie Ziwen grabbed Xiao Chen’s saber with his hand and then quickly moved backwards. After that, he took out a Medicinal Pill and popped it into his mouth.
“Boom!”
The Medicinal Pill immediately melted and Xie Ziwen’s aura soared rapidly. His hair and clothes fluttered as strong winds howled behind him.
“Bang!”
Xie Ziwen ignored the wound on his chest and let loose another palm strike. A huge flame palm the size of a small hill appeared and pressed towards Xiao Chen.
Xiao Chen’s expression changed slightly. Unexpectedly, this huge flame palm gave him a sense of danger.
Xiao Chen did not block blindly. He pushed off the ground and retreated backwards.
“Pa!”
When the flame palm hit the ground, a palm-shaped pit appeared in the arena. Countless stone shards blasted out into the surroundings.
s.h.i.+ Hailong said sullenly, “Half-step Martial Monarch…what kind of Medicinal Pill is that? How could Xie Ziwen’s strength be boosted to half-step Martial Monarch in an instant?”
The flow of the battle reversed instantly. Xie Ziwen, who had swallowed a mysterious Medicinal Pill, suddenly became as strong as a half-step Martial Monarch.
As Xie Ziwen fired off palm strikes, a berserk Essence poured out of him with the torrent of attacks. This prevented Xiao Chen from counterattacking.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
Explosions rang out continuously. Xie Ziwen’s frenetic offensive completely shattered the resilient arena, reducing it to a pile of rubble.
He is very strong. However, he became a half-step Martial Monarch only by forceful means. His aura is unstable. Although his energy seems quite wild, it is not that dense. I should wait awhile longer.
Xiao Chen calmly a.n.a.lyzed the situation. His figure flashed and headed for another arena.
“Hu chi!”
Xie Ziwen quickly followed after him, sticking tightly to him.
The two figures flashed and landed on another arena. Xie Ziwen smiled and said, “Xiao Chen, aren’t you very powerful? Why aren’t you attacking? Let’s see where you can run to!”
“Thousand Flaming Palms!”
Xie Ziwen took a deep breath and released a resplendent red light from his right palm. Like a miniature sun, the light seemed as bright as daylight.
“Boom!”
Xie Ziwen spat out a mouthful of turbid Qi before shouting a warcry. Then, he thrust the palm that shone as brightly as the sun forward.
The palm strike blasted out and flaming palms rained down like a meteor shower aimed at Xiao Chen. Such a large AOE attack could not be dodged.
Xiao Chen raised his head to look at the rain of flames that filled the sky. He muttered, “It is time to end this. A half-step Martial Monarch is merely this strong.”
The purple Qi whirlpool in Xiao Chen’s body spun quickly. A surging, pure lightning-attributed Essence flowed through his meridians and poured into his saber.
The energy that Xiao Chen poured into his saber was extremely dense. It filled the saber without leaking at all.
The pitch-black saber immediately flickered with a bright purple light. Its very plainness created a sharp contrast to Xie Ziwen’s berserk Essence.
“Break!”
Xiao Chen shouted as he thrust his saber forward. The flaming palms descending from the sky immediately burst apart.
“Break! Break! Break!”
Xiao Chen did not move from his spot as he faced the rain of flaming palms. His feet remained rooted to the ground as he stabbed at all the flaming palms flying at him.
Without exception, all the flaming palms that were stabbed shattered into countless sparks before vanis.h.i.+ng completely.
Xiao Chen made it seem effortless, as if the berserk Essence directed at him were only tiles.
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
When the flaming palms that missed Xiao Chen struck the ground, they blasted the arena into a pitiful state. Cracks covered the arena as a cloud of dust filled the air.
Everyone clearly knew that these flaming palms might look small and weak, but they had extraordinary might. They were definitely not tiles.
However, when facing the flames that filled the sky, the white-robed bladesman calmly shattered the flaming palms with ease.
Such a large difference seemed incredible. After all, these flaming palms were very strong. This created confusion in everyone’s hearts.
When s.h.i.+ Hailong saw this scene, his restless heart relaxed. Given this, Xiao Chen had a fifty percent chance of victory at the very least.
Xie Ziwen’s chest tightened. What he had eaten was a Rank 7 Blood Essence Pill. It could raise his strength by fifty percent for the duration for a joss stick to burn.
[TL note: In ancient China, the duration for a joss stick to burn is considered to be thirty minutes. For brewing a pot of tea, that is fifteen minutes.]