Chapter 555: A Powerful Opponen (1/2)

Chapter 555

In a split second, the nine fragmentary stars in Nie Tian’s soul blossomed with blindingly bright light.

As soon as the light of the floating fragmentary stars shone upon his sea of awareness, all dizziness and discomfort were eliminated.

His stirred soul was instantly soothed, and he recovered a clear mind.

“What the-?!” Armes gasped, shock appearing in his eyes. “I thought humans at the Greater Heaven stage wouldn’t have developed their soul power yet. Was I mistaken?!”

He seemed to be rather familiar with human cultivation, and thus had expected that Nie Tian wouldn’t be able to withstand his soul attack, and would fall into bewilderment.

The fact that Nie Tian had so effortlessly neutralized his soul magic took him by surprise.

At this moment, Nie Tian realized that the pieces of broken armor wreathed in a misty, cyan aura were already rather close to him.

With a cold snort, he cast a short-range Starshift, and suddenly appeared before Armes.

Dragging a tail of blazing flames, the Flame Star in his hand slashed down with the crushing momentum of thunder.

At the same time, his chaotic magnetic field instantly enveloped Armes.

But what surprised Nie Tian was that Armes didn’t seem to experience any discomfort. He only frowned slightly, and nothing more than a minor stir seemed to occur in his soul.

In his experience, when his previous opponents had been enveloped by his chaotic magnetic field, their spiritual seas would have been thrown into disorder, and their souls would have been distorted, causing great pain.

However, this Phantasm stood unwavering in his chaotic magnetic field, as if nothing had happened.

CLANK!

As Armes raised his hand, his fingers suddenly became as translucent as jade. Wisps of cyan aura flowed within his jade-like fingers. All of a suddenly, the Phantasm’s unique, terrifying power burst forth from those fingers, with which he effortlessly stopped the Flame Star’s crushing momentum.

Glorious sparks sputtered from the contact point, as if the Flame Star had hacked onto a piece of solid iron.

Before Nie Tian could unleash the various powers he had vested the Flame Star with, they were scattered by the cyan aura that exploded out of Armes’ fingers.

With a low chuckle, fine cyan lightning could be seen swimming in the depths of Armes’ unfathomable eyes.

FIZZ! FIZZ!

Armes splayed his other hand and pressed it towards Nie Tian’s unprotected chest.

As he did, a cluster of cyan light was quickly born within his palm, which then suddenly exploded, creating a storm of countless fine cyan lightning bolts that instantly engulfed Nie Tian.

Each and every bolt of cyan lightning contained shocking amounts of flesh power, as well as Armes’ profound soul power.

Aching and sore all over, Nie Tian felt as if he had been caught in a electric net. Even his inner spiritual power flow was slowed down, holding him back from unleashing powerful counterattacks.

Armes shoved his palm into Nie Tian’s chest.

Feeling as if he had been hit by a mountain of steel, Nie Tian was thrown into the air, and fell with a loud crash.

As he struggled to assume a firm foothold, he could still see cyan lightning bolts slithering all over him. Formed with copious flesh and soul power, they were madly drilling into his flesh in an attempt to destroy his meridians and bones.

Cracks appeared in several of his ribs after he took Armes’ violent palm strike.

With a thought, he cast Heavenly Wood Heal.

Refined wood power was instantly summoned out of his spiritual sea, which morphed into bright sparks of life force and infused into his damaged ribs.

Simultaneously, his heart started pounding violently. The blood it pumped into his veins made it seem as if it were seething.

Like an erupting volcano, his raging flesh power wiped out all of the cyan lightning from Armes.

In no more than a few seconds’ time, every last bit of Armes’ flesh power and soul power was washed away from Nie Tian’s body, like smoke blown away by a severe gale.

Confusion and shock filled Armes’s eyes that looked like a pair of cyan gems. “You… I can’t believe you survived my attack! Are you not human? Why do you possess such strong flesh power?!”

With these words, he dashed over, wreathed in cyan light shields.

Even though he was only at the fourth grade, he was much faster than spirit beasts at his grade.

He practically teleported to Nie Tian’s face. Within arm’s reach from him, Nie Tian couldn’t possible display the might of his Flame Star, which was about two meters long.

Therefore, he quickly put his Flame Star away in his ring of holding, and started fighting Armes with punches and kicks at this very limited distance.