Chapter 370 - Chapter 370: Chapter 71: The Shield of Tao (2/2)

“And you too…”

“After I kill him, I’ll deal with you.”

……

The power of the thunder lasted for quite a few breaths.

After the thunder dissipated, the white-robed cultivator looked towards Lin Jing, who stood in the center.

Lin Jing appeared somewhat disheveled at the moment, with countless wounds all over his body.

Moreover, thin arcs of lightning were emanating from the wounds on Lin Jing’s body.

Apart from the wounds, some of the flesh on Lin Jing’s body had also turned charred black from the bombardment of the thunderous power.

Although Lin Jing looked somewhat miserable, he seemed to have avoided any serious harm.

Even the injuries on his body were only skin deep, without truly damaging his muscles or bones.

Seeing this, the white-robed cultivator pointed at Lin Jing, almost unable to speak.

“You… you…”

“How… how is it possible that you’re… you’re unharmed?”

“Impossible, the self-destructive power of the Thunder-Slaying Sword is supposed to be equivalent to a strike from a Nascent Soul Cultivator, isn’t it?”

“How could you possibly be unharmed?”

The white-robed cultivator wore a face of disbelief.

However, Lin Jing knew what was going on.

He himself was cultivating the Overlord Divine Physique, which was inherently resistant to spell attacks.

Furthermore, this spell attack was of thunderous power.

You should know that when Lin Jing faced his Heavenly Tribulation, he withstood it with his body alone.

After surviving the Heavenly Tribulation, he had absorbed a bit of the tribulation lightning’s power into his body, granting him additional resistance to thunderous attacks.

Lastly, the self-destruction of the Thunder-Slaying Sword, while said to be equivalent to a strike from a Nascent Soul Cultivator, was actually slightly less powerful.

And for that reason,

although Lin Jing looked disheveled now, he was actually not in any serious trouble.

Next, it was Lin Jing’s turn to make a move…

This time, Lin Jing immediately focused his Divine Sense and surged towards the sea of consciousness of the white-robed cultivator.

The white-robed cultivator was momentarily dazed, and seizing this opportunity, Lin Jing charged forward.

Because Lin Jing’s Divine Sense, although stronger than that of the white-robed cultivator, was only marginally so.

Caught off guard by Lin Jing’s sudden attack, the white-robed cultivator only faltered for a moment before quickly recovering.

As he regained his bearings, he hurriedly manipulated the black shield to block in front of himself.

At the same time, he kept moving backwards.

Moreover, the white-robed cultivator summoned another grim-green magical treasure, which upon its release, formed a deep green fog before him.

This fog, upon contact with the surrounding rocks and trees, immediately emitted a sizzling and cracking sound.

The rocks and trees were rapidly corroding as well.

Clearly, this deep green fog was lethally corrosive to everything it touched.

Faced with this unknown poisonous fog, Lin Jing did not recklessly plunge in.

Rather, he bypassed the poisonous fog and continued to rush towards the white-robed cultivator.

Seeing this, the white-robed cultivator quickly retreated,

and gathered a large swath of poison fog again.

This time, Lin Jing suddenly burst forth at high speed, circling around the poisonous fog and instantly closing in on the white-robed cultivator.

His Divine Sense attack and the multicolored radiance struck simultaneously, aimed at the white-robed cultivator.

However, this time the white-robed cultivator was prepared; Lin Jing’s Divine Sense attack was forcibly withstood by him, and the multicolored radiance was blocked by the black shield.

Meanwhile, the white-robed cultivator retreated rapidly, while Lin Jing relentlessly pursued.

The two slowly moved farther away, leaving only Zhang Jian alone in that area.

Although he felt he could not contribute much to the fight, after a brief pondering, Zhang Jian still decided to follow and watch.

And so,

the battle between Lin Jing and the white-robed cultivator continued for several hours.

It was not until the white-robed cultivator’s spiritual power was exhausted, and he could no longer manipulate the black shield, that Lin Jing found an opportunity and landed a direct punch on the white-robed cultivator.

At the same time, the multicolored radiance erupted from within the white-robed cultivator’s body, and amidst immense terror, he fell.

After slaying the white-robed cultivator, Lin Jing sat down on the ground with a thud.

The fight had been truly exhausting.

The black shield’s effectiveness was inexplicable; it seemed impenetrable by Lin Jing’s close-quarters attacks as well as the multicolored radiance.

However, recalling the white-robed cultivator’s claim that the shield was a Magical Treasure of Daoist grade, Lin Jing felt relieved.

Then, Lin Jing reached out, summoning the black shield that had fallen to the ground after the white-robed cultivator’s death, into his hands.

Picking up the shield, Lin Jing began to inspect it.

The shield was entirely black, and what type of metal it was made from was unknown, but Lin Jing was well aware of its hardness.

Moreover, the shield was engraved with innumerable formation patterns which, when activated by channeling spiritual power into it, would envelop the entire shield.

The multicolored light array released by Lin Jing had been blocked by those formation patterns.

As Lin Jing was observing the shield,

Zhang Jian walked over at that moment.

At this moment, Zhang Jian looked at Lin Jing as if he were a creature from another world.

Zhang Jian then spoke up:

“Are you really just at the first level of the Golden Core? Aren’t you hiding your cultivation?”

Lin Jing smiled and then said:

“Don’t you have a Pupil Skill you practice? Just take a look and you’ll know.”

Zhang Jian smiled helplessly and said:

“I suspect I’ve been cultivating a counterfeit Pupil Skill.”