Chapter 380 (1/2)

There they stood, two people from a different world that now came together on the battlefield. Zhang Dong was on one side wearing a somewhat uncharacteristic white and golden armor. It made him look like a certain metallic superhero from a comic book that he used to read when he was younger.

On the other side, there was Wang Long, a person that he just met. Both of them might have come from the same world and might have even had similar backgrounds. While one chose to succumb to the carnal pŀėȧsurės of this world where power was paramount, the other managed to retain some of his core values.

”Were you one of those cringe weebs or something?”

”I guess talking sense into you will be impossible…”

Zhang Dong raised his sword up over his head and was ready to deliver a strike.

”Do you think you can win against me? With such a low cultivation level? You really didn't use your time well to grind for points.”

Wang Long laughed while waving his own sword around. From his perspective, he had a clear advantage. Zhang Dong could also see that his opponent was at the nascent soul stage and in the middle realm of it.

The time he was gone has given the man time to catch up but from Zhang Dong's perspective, his level was somewhat low. He was a member of a prestigious clan but he only managed to get to the same point that he did before he was ejected from this world.

This person's progress was somewhat slow but there were a few explanations. When he was looking at how he behaved it was somewhat clear to him why.

”Low cultivation huh?”

There was a clear surprise on Wang Long's face as he probably expected to overpower Zhang Dong's strike with pure cultivation power. But this moment of confusion would not be wasted by his enemy.

Zhang Dong's body faded away as the area that he was previously in had only an after image left behind. Wang Long's reaction was somewhat slow as a protective barrier around his body appeared and he finally turned to the side. There he saw a blade being pressed against this barrier that was protecting him.

”You little shit!”

He swung back but his opponent quickly dodged in a strange fashion. His heightened senses pointed him to where he vanished to but when he swung his blade towards that spot it was as if Zhang Dong knew that the attack was going and was able to parry.

The two fighters started clashing through the sky and one of them was obviously coming out on top. Soon the exchange ended and Wang Long's face started contorting into an ugly frown.

”How the hell… it's that armor isn't it?”

Zhang Dong didn't reply as he was done with the talking. The diplomatic approach had been refused by Wang Long so he would not give him an opportunity to back out now.

'This guy clearly doesn't know how to fight.'

After the couple exchanges, Zhang Dong came to this conclusion. Wang Long's cultivation was high and if he tried to pit power against power, Zhang Dong would be on the losing end. This he was able to counter with his superior battle scene which he gained through experience.

Battling at the foundation establishment and core formation level was quite different from the nascent soul level. The enhanced spiritual sense that a nascent soul master had could be used in certain ways to read your opponent's movements.

The two masters would pit it against each other to affect the flow battle. For some reason, this Wang Long was not very good at doing this so he could read him like an open book. After progressing to this level it was obvious that he didn't study the techniques that were available to him.

With his status of Soaring Dragon Sect's future Patriarch, he had a big shield around him. No one in their right mind would try to offend him or ask him for a sparring match. Thus Zhang Dong believed that his opponent didn't actually know how to fully use his current abilities.

The system was also probably responsible. He remembered the days when he was also dependent on it. Instead of learning the techniques himself he spent his days using points on skills that sounded cool and had a good rating.

Some points were used on abilities that were not even that good or somewhat similar to others that he already had. After the system store went away he was forced to actually train his skills up but then he finally noticed that being proficient in his skills was actually better.

It was much better to train in a certain sword art that he could also later upgrade with his system than to buy a new sword skill from the store. This was probably what this man he was facing doing. When he was done with the lower level skill he just replaced it with a new version that might not particularly go well with his own fighting style.

'It would be nice if that was the case but I'm not doing much to him either way…'

While he didn't find it hard to land a few hits here and there, he wasn't able to do any damage. Any time he went in for the kill a protective barrier surrounded Wang Long's whole body. It was as if he had an intelligent defensive formation on his body that sprung up every time he was in danger.

”Don't get ahead of yourself, this fight has almost started, let me show you the difference in levels!”