Chapter 401 (1/2)

Chapter 401: An Informative Battle

The last time the two sparred Lan Jue walked aith the man’s Harlequin Silver Now he knew the ins and outs of the Barber’s poell

He was very skilled in speed and force A solid erous Considering the Barber’s age, his future looked bright He’d said during their last confrontation that there were no ninth level ninth rank Wind Adepts yet Of course Lan Jue disagreed – his brother was living proof that there was

Luckily for the Jewelry Master, the Barber was still unaware of his sudden drop in power He would be hesitant to try and test Lan Jue’s limits directly

The Barber waved his hands, and the air became thick with condensed air They were visible only by a shi+h bone The wind blades filled the air, then fired toward Lan Jue like a hail of arrows

There were different cultivationAdepts of the sauy from the Driver battle was specialized in wind-accelerated speed The specialty lacked direct attack force, which hy he turned to ether made him a capable foe

His decision was not a poor one, but there were consequences A Bionic was no longer entirely theh to Paragon became far more difficult once an Adept surrendered himself to the knife In fact, in all the history of huh some unknown h the barrier to super-huerous as it was mysterious

The Barber did not possess the sarasp of Wind that the other ths lied elsewhere In the future it was likely the Avenue denizen would far outstrip that Northern contemporary

Every Adept was faced with a choice; take the short path to power, or build on what you were given The Driver’s opponent probably came to a barrier he couldn’t breach, and elected for help to overcome it Most Adepts with adequate Talent didn’t choose to become Bionics

That was not to say there weren’t advantages to e At the very least, ht In the North they called it Stratified Refinement, and many low-order Adepts chose this path For most they knew that advancement beyond a certain point was hopeless The desire for strength was especially strong for these unfortunates It was for most the best way, as the West’s Fantascia Genetica was both expensive and uncertain At worst, a failed surgery resulted in being maimed

The wind blades joined together in a veritable tidal wave that covered the entire arena It was aspeed

He didn’t have any illusions that he would beat the vastly stronger Lan Jue His hope was that he’d be able to stick it out a little longer this tiht he knew – that Lan Jue was a seventh ranked Adept, and you couldn’t feasibly overcome that at his level The sour look on his face was due to that realization

Dappled sunlight shi+mmered as the rain of wind blades covered the sky Lan Jue was on the move His advance wasn’t quick, but steady With a wave of his right hand there was a flash, and lightning condensed in to his trademark spear

He thrust the weapon forward, then it blasted outward like a colu slice of wind it encountered was dissolved It carved a path directly toward the Barber

The Barber paused He half-expected Lan Jue to start with his overpowered Forest of Lightning, and had his nextwas scrapped – Lan Jue was taking a different approach

A close-quarters battle, eh?

The Barber was as touched as he was stunned For someone so far above his skill level to elect for a close-coive hie than a competition

The re back to the Barber’s hands and fused in to a spear of his own The cyan-hued weapon was surrounded by the sound of buffeting winds – the sounds of his ele to strike

“Die!” he hollered, as the councilht for his adversary The spear of wind becah to cut steel It cut at Lan Jue and all the areas around hi scene to run head-first in to

With a grunt, Lan Jue tore his own spear through the air Where it passed, a sizzling crescent of energy was cast outward The Barber’s thrusts and Lan Jue’s sweep collided A blast of energy resulted, that nearly knocked theround

It was i was explosive, but it also had a tendency to spread Wind, alternatively, had a powerful coverage and cutting force Both were strong, at their level much of these battles came down to mastery, control and application

The intensity of their collision continued for a longtheir

Meanwhile the Barber was focusing his concentration He could feel hi all around The fierceness of his earlier attacks was so entle face, these attacks could punch a hole through a man if they weren’t careful

Lan Jue faced the change calain and again, so entirely frohtning element There were benefits to this, of course – such as a tree – but there was also an increasing ele and thunderbolt Disciplines were inherently chaotic One could never rely on them completely in the heat of battle