Chapter 893: An Era (1/2)
The sylvan dragon was at a loss as to how it should react. It had clearly hidden itself quite well while being ready to flee at a moment’s notice. This area was secret, but it had suddenly been bombarded by a group of birds launching a suicide attack.
The next instance, the ground collapsed as the lava burst forth. The sylvan dragon roared and dashed underground, its body battered and its giant eyes still dazed. However, it was quickly overcome by rage as it roared at the sky.
Coincidentally, when it dashed into the sky, it emerged right where the Sixth Mainland’s Elder Yuan was fighting against some other cultivators from Grayweed Continent.
The sylvan dragon snarled, which frightened quite a few people who saw it.
Bai Ling was puzzled. She had clearly attacked Lu Yin, so why had this strange creature emerged from the explosion?
“Where did this creature come from? Get away!” Elder Yuan barked as he casually swatted at the sylvan dragon.
The dragon was caught off guard by this attack, and its bloodshot eyes searched the area for its ȧssailant. When Elder Yuan attacked, he coincidentally stood out and became the ideal target for the dragon to vent its rage. Countless phantom sylvan dragon images suddenly flew out of the sky, showing that the dragon had reached a shocking speed. Elder Yuan was unable to distinguish between the phantom images, so he was struck by the sylvan dragon and sent flying.
Underground, Lu Yin was stunned. The sylvan dragon tribe had an innate gift of speed that allowed them to form three phantom images at the Sentinel realm, five as a Melder, nine as a Limiteer, and dozens once they reached the Explorer realm. Lu Yin had seen what felt like thousands of dragons just then, which indicated that this sylvan dragon should be an Enlighter realm expert.
The dragon had been so timid that it had hid in a cave when battle broke out, but its cowardly nature belied its true power.
The sylvan dragon clashed with Elder Yuan, and after venting its rage, it subsequently calmed down a bit and glared downwards. It was able to guess that the stupid human from before had lured in those strange birds and then even hid behind its back. “Human, you’re too despicable!”
Lu Yin did not bother quibbling with the dragon, as he had suddenly noticed a large amount of rune lines surging toward him from the corner of his eye. As long as there was sound, Bai Ling would be able to endlessly create those sound wave birds.
He could only watch on as countless birds rose into the sky and rushed at him.
Lu Yin grew flustered. “Lan Si, you can’t even stop a woman?”
Lan Si’s eyes turned cold, as he truly wanted to tie Bai Ling down. However, he could not do anything about the girl’s attacks, as they were simply too numerous.
Countless birds flew at Lu Yin, and he could tell that Bai Ling was determined to deal with him. Even so, he firmed his determination before leaping up and running towards Lan Si.
Bai Ling frowned, as she had never expected Lu Yin to actually get closer to her.
“If you were able to deal with this, then I wouldn’t need to come.” Lu Yin took a slight detour to evade the path of the birds, but he continued charging towards Bai Ling. As he did so, he raised a hand reinforced with eight lined battle force and swung out with Seventy Stacks.
Lan Si’s gaze trembled, but he similarly attacked, though he targeted the flock of birds chasing after Lu Yin.
Bai Ling’s lips curled upwards, as this kid was definitely overestimating himself. She could tell that Lu Yin’s Overlaying Stacks Path was powerful, and it was even being reinforced with his battle force. However, so what? Not even Lan Si’s Overlaying Stacks Path was enough to defeat her quickly, let alone some mere Explorer’s, regardless of how strong this Explorer might be.
Even under the cosmic phenomenon’s suppression, most of the younger generation could freely use their full power. Only those who had reached the level of the Ten Arbiters would be able to unleash full strength attacks that exceeded a power level of 200,000. This was just like back in the Daosource Sect's ruins when Nightking Zhenwu had completely crushed Lu Yin. The disparity between them had been so vast that Lu Yin had been unable to resist in the slightest.
Right now, under the power level suppression of the cosmic phenomenon, Lu Yin was unafraid of fighting against powerhouses whose power levels were above 500,000. Thus, he was quite confident in his ability to fight against this Realmling.
There was a thump, and an explosion shook the sky. However, a strange sound wave accompanied the shockwave that swept out in all directions. Lu Yin and Bai Ling both were forced to retreat, but Lu Yin was only blown back a hundred meters whereas Bai Ling was forced back several hundred meters as fresh blood trickled down from her lips. She had been injured.
Lan Si’s expression changed; how was this possible?
Bai Ling stared at Lu Yin in disbelief. She was able to block Lan Si’s attacks, which were even stronger than Lu Yin’s maximum power. Thus, she should have no problem defending herself against this person. However, at the moment that they had clashed, her strength had been mysteriously sapped away. Could that be a secret technique?
Lu Yin’s palm had forced Bai Ling back, and he immediately moved forward to continue the fight. Since he was capable of defeating a powerhouse like Elder Song whose power level was at 300,000, then he could also defeat this Bai Ling.
Then, the battlefield’s noises condensed into the manifested form of her martial print. At that moment, everything fell silent in Lu Yin’s ears. It was as if all sound had been absorbed by that martial print, including the flock of birds. The world became deathly silent.
In the distance, Lan Si seemed to be shouting something, but Lu Yin could not hear anything. He could only see that the martial print was radiating visible sound waves that formed a single line shooting towards him.
Lu Yin waved a hand and activated the Yu Secret Art. The line was diverted, but it still glanced past his shoulder, and the void was sliced completely open along its path. Then, Lu Yin could hear once more, but his brain had been jostled. An incredible spiritual force had entered his body through the wound on his shoulder and then invaded his brain, causing it to ring like a morning bell.
Lu Yin spat out a mouthful of blood and fell down, quivering.
He had vastly underestimated the strength of a Realmling. Each Realmling was the strongest powerhouse of their realm’s younger generation, but there were multiple Enlighters in each realm. Only top-notch powerhouses could break through the limit of the Enlighter realm and step into the ranks of Imprinters, but the Realmlings were destined to become the strongest Imprinters in the future, and each one would dominate an era.