89 Perfect attack (2/2)
Li Yang dropped his now ruined weapon without hesitation, but instead of jumping back to avoid the suddenly shifting parts of the stone stage, he dashed forward. Each of his steps was accompanied by arcs of lightning and carried enough force to shatter the stone stage, rendering the movements of the stone stage useless against him.
Once he caught up to Yuan Yijun, he stomped the stone stage so hard that his right foot sank into it, anchoring him in place as he gave his body a quick spin and sent a sideways kick at Yuan Yijun's waist. Yuan Yijun once again showed her position as one of the top five outer disciples, swiftly reacting and counterattacking.
She pushed down with her right arm, Li Yang's leg suddenly sinking and slowing down, his attack changing direction to aim at her shin instead. At the same time, she narrowed her eyes, a spike of invisible energy heading directly for Li Yang's forehead.
She thought that Li Yang's attack was no longer a problem after being suppressed by her, but when his kick made contact with her shin, she realized just how wrong she had been. She felt like someone had grabbed a massive hammer and slammed it into her leg, her bone creaking slightly under the force. She couldn't help but be somewhat fearful, if this was the force after being suppressed, just how strong had it been when it was at full force?
She quickly jumped to the left, twisting her limbs to dispell the force that still remained in her body. But there was a strange icy energy that accompanied the kick, sticking to her body like a leech. The icy energy even tried to creep towards her soul, forcing her to push it away with all her might. While she jumped away, she cast her gaze towards Li Yang, hoping to see the results of her attack.
But all she found when she looked at him was despair. Floating in front of Li Yang's forehead was a small spike of ice that was crystal clear, without the slightest impurity. In front of her eyes, the frozen spike that had been her attack fell to the floor and shattered, completely ineffective. Li Yang tilted his head slightly, his gaze meeting Yuan Yijun's, his lips slowly curling into a faint smile.
”So you cultivate the law of motion and your soul. And looking at that attack, your soul cultivation should be equal to your Qi cultivation, no wonder you could become one of the top five outer disciples. But what a shame, your soul energy is unable to harm me.”
The law of motion was a rather strange and rare one, focusing on the movement of the world. With just a thought of their mind, a strong cultivator with the law of motion could have an entire planet suddenly rotate in the opposite direction, even causing the blood of their enemies to flow in the opposite direction. It was powerful, but very hard to gain insight into. Of course, the larger the area one wanted to affect, or the stronger the enemy was, the harder it would be to use the law of motion to affect them.
As for her soul attack, had it been in the past, Li Yang would have to be very fearful of it. But that had completely changed after he gained Jinwu's blood and managed to unlock the true strength of the strange ice element that Jinwu carried, the ability to freeze souls and other incorporeal things.
Jinwu's golden flames could destroy anything corporeal, and his ice element could destroy anything that wasn't corporeal. Were it not for the fact that Jinwu had rather weak defenses and regenerative abilities that were below average for a Divine beast, he would be the perfect Demonic beast.
Li Yang couldn't help but grow even more curious about Jinwu's father, just what sort of Demonic beast could use ice that was able to freeze even things like souls and other incorporeal things? Li Yang had heard about Demonic beasts and cultivators doing similar things by turning their ice so cold that nothing was able to escape it, but Jinwu's ice was different, it didn't rely on sheer cold to freeze souls and incorporeal things, it simply relied on its own strange characteristic.
Of course, it wasn't only Jinwu's blood that gave Li Yang great benefits. With the blood of Shenlong flowing in his veins, not only could Li Yang use the golden lightning that was famed to be the strongest wrath of the heavens, turning both body and soul into ash, but he could also turn any of his lightning poisonous thanks to mixed blood that Shenlong carried.
With these two Divine Beast bloodlines joining together in his body, Li Yang could be considered perfect when it came to attacking, having something to deal with both body and soul. Of course, he did not let this get to his head, as long as the difference in strength was large enough, none of these things would matter, he would be squashed like a bug.
Li Yang clenched his fist, his faint smile sending shivers down the spines of Yuan Yijun and most of the onlooking audience. As he spoke up, his voice was still as calm and casual as it had been since he first entered the stage that day, as if he wasn't currently facing one of the five strongest outer disciples.
”Now then, let's see how long you will be able to run before I get my hands on you.”