Chapter 96 The Astral Way Inscription (1/2)

With a loud roar, Lu Tianzi drove his Essence energy to the limit as he charged forward to face his seven opponents.

Howling Wraith Sword!

Being targeted by Lu Tianzi, one of his seven opponents halted in his steps even as the other six continued charging forward.

But with Lu Tianzi's movement technique, his speed and maneuverability was still far ahead of these Peak Essence Condensation realm opponents.

He easily glided past them, heading straight for the one who had fallen behind.

However, before Lu Tianzi could even reach him, his opponent had already forcefully broken out of the illusion. He raised his weapon and braced for the attack.

Faced with this opponent who had readied his defensive stance, Lu Tianzi was undeterred as he continued charging forward.

Lu Tianzi channelled his Essence energy into the Torrential Sabre, slashing out without hesitation.

To be precise, he was not channelling his Essence energy into the sabre itself.

He was using the Torrential Blade as a medium to channel his Essence energy to the weapon inscription that he had placed on it.

At this moment, the inscription symbol on the Torrential Sabre suddenly glowed with a brilliant azure light. Along with this light, the sabre started emanating a powerful aura, one that far exceeded that of Lu Tianzi!

Weapon inscriptions were able to strengthen a weapon's offensive capability, and that was not restricted to merely raising its hardiness and durability.

The reason why weapon inscriptions were so highly regarded was because of their ability to amplify the weapon users' energy output, allowing them to bring forth a power that was impossible to achieve without aid of the weapon.

At the same time, certain weapon inscriptions were even able to provide the weapon with an inscription skill. These weapon inscriptions were relatively more complex than others, but were extremely highly regarded for their ability to increase the options available to the weapon users during a fight.

The Astral Way Inscription that Lu Tianzi had placed on the Torrential Sabre was exactly a weapon inscription that provided an inscription skill.

The Astral Way Inscription emphasised on communing with the World Origin Energy in the surroundings. By relying on the synchronisation of energy between the weapon user and the surrounding World Origin Energy, it allowed for a strike that could almost double the energy output of the weapon user, providing a sudden burst of power that could overwhelm any ordinary opponent!

However, to active this inscription skill, the energy expended by the user would naturally be extremely high as well. This was the reason why Lu Tianzi had refrained from using this move until now.

But facing his final opponents, Lu Tianzi no longer cared about such minor matters.

This was the last fight.

What would he be saving his energy for, if not for this?

In order to attain victory in this fight, Lu Tianzi had to find a way to take out a few of his opponents as soon as possible!

The World Origin Energy in the chamber gathered, as though having fallen under the command of the Torrential Sabre.

Sabrelight flashed. Everything was being gathered for this one sabre slash.

Bang-!

The opponent's guard was completely blown away, exposing an opening that Lu Tianzi would never let past.

With a quick follow up using the Sword of Ivory Rock, Lu Tianzi managed to eliminate one of the seven. But at the same time, Lu Tianzi had expended a large chunk of his Essence energy by relying on the Astral Way Inscription.

Even so, Lu Tianzi was satisfied with the result.

The Astral Way Inscription relied heavily on the density of World Origin Energy in the surroundings, so Lu Tianzi had not been completely certain if it would work well in this strange world within the Grand Mirror.

Thankfully, the density of World Origin Energy was still decent enough for it to display its prowess.

However, with his remaining energy, he could only manage a maximum of two to three more activations of the Astral Way Inscription before running out of Essence energy.

That was far from enough to defeat the remaining six opponents!

Lu Tianzi glided out of the way as a fireball flew past, conjured by one of his opponents.

With a swipe of his hands, a cloud of powder filled the air.

Bone Numbing Powder!

But his opponents were way too fast to react. Their higher cultivation level also enhanced their reflexes, allowing them to easily dodge the poison by sidestepping to either side of the cloud of powder.

Lu Tianzi was not too affected by that though. Even if they really were hit by it, Lu Tianzi doubted that the Bone Numbing Powder would have much of an effect on these Peak Essence Condensation realm opponents.

What Lu Tianzi was aiming for was the moment that they sidestepped the cloud of powder. The six of them splited up to both sides of the cloud, and this was exactly the opening that Lu Tianzi was looking to exploit!

Howling Wraith Sword!

Lu Tianzi immediately locked onto the opponent who was the fastest to arrive, and the Sword of Ivory Rock struck out mercilessly.

Clang-!

Lu Tianzi's eyes widened in shock.

Even this attack of his was parried?!

At this moment, Lu Tianzi hurriedly turned around to block a mace that had been swung out from behind him. He managed to block in time, but this mace attack contained within it traits of the earth element, greatly increasing its momentum.

Lu Tianzi's haphazardly prepared defence was far from enough to mitigate the power behind the strike!

Bang-!

The thunderous collision sent Lu Tianzi flying through the air, slamming into the walls of the chamber!

Pu-!

Lu Tianzi spat out a mouthful of blood and the pain assaulted his mind. With the injury incurred from that exchange, his chances of winning just dropped even further.

Even so, he dared not shift his attention away for a single moment.

Looking up to see his six opponents rushing towards him, Lu Tianzi could only forcefully suppress the pain in his chest and glide out of the way.

If nothing else, at least his superior movement technique was still sufficient to keep him out of danger for the time being. But even so, if he continued flitting around the chamber in such a manner, it would be just a matter of time before he finally ran out of energy.

Lu Tianzi's thoughts raced as he desperately tried to think of a plan.

He had expended far too much energy in the previous battles. Otherwise, he could continue skirting around the fight, relying on his speed and agility to slowly wear down his opponents.

Unfortunately, that was no longer an option.

At this point, Lu Tianzi could only think of one last resort, and it was one that he did not have much confidence in at all.