1359 Making It Past The Second Palace (1/2)
Lin Huang's battle with Sword2 could be described as extremely difficult, to the point where he felt he should completely retract what he said about Sword3 being the strongest opponent that he had ever encountered. Sword2 was much more difficult to deal with than Sword3.
Sword2 completely overwhelmed Lin Huang with rapid speed sword skill alone. Although Lin Huang knew that his opponent's force-type was not as good as his, he had no chance to unleash his capabilities
Every day his robes were slashed to rags by Sword2 and he bled copiously. If not for Divine Regeneration, Lin Huang reckoned he would not be able to last even a day. The amount of blood he shed daily was enough for him to die two or three times.
Under this kind of pressure though, his rapid speed Sword Dao was taxed to the limit. It only took six days for him to complete a breakthrough in Lightning Elemental Skill and successfully master Lightning Elemental Enlightenment—Instant Flash.
Even so, Lin Huang was still outclassed in rapid speed sword skill.
Sword2's speed was like the speed of light and his rapid speed sword skill had been cultivated to the ultimate peak; he was so swift that all his opponents gave up hope.
Even though he had achieved another breakthrough in rapid speed, Lin Huang still could not track Sword2's movements or the trajectory of his attacks. It certainly did not feel any easier than before.
Fortunately, after his breakthrough in rapid speed sword skill, Lin Huang's speed of movement markedly increased. This reduced his daily injuries considerably and the number of new blade scars on his body was reduced by about 80% every day.
Just like that, the days passed by. Even though he still could not track Sword2's movements, Lin Huang chose to fight to the death nonetheless.
After another twelve days, Lin Huang was finally able to elevate the Divine Purification Light skill obtained from Kylie to Light Elemental Enlightenment—Sun Shadow.
The moment he mastered Sun Shadow Enlightenment, Lin Huang suddenly found that he could track Sword2's movements albeit with great difficulty; this made him ecstatic.
Sword2's approaching attack came in the form of a white gleam shooting toward Lin Huang like an arrow of light. Lin Huang's Sun Shadow Enlightenment suddenly activated and his whole body transformed into little specks of blood-red particles that dissipated to one side and then re-formed hundreds of meters away.
”Sun Shadow?!” Sword2 was shocked when he saw that. As a powerhouse who had practiced several kinds of Light Elemental Enlightenment, he recognized at a glance the Enlightenment that Lin Huang had used. ”It seems you've made another breakthrough.”
”I can finally somewhat follow Senior's movements.” Lin Huang grinned.
”Really?” Sword2's ears moved slightly and the smile on his face bore a hint of playfulness.
The next moment, he vanished again.
This time, however, his movements were no longer a straight line as before—instead they were erratic. His voice also seemed to come randomly from all directions.
”Can you still follow my movements now?”
”Uh…”
Lin Huang was more than a little speechless. His opponent only needed to add in ultimate dao-type movement skills and Lin Huang was once again unable to track him. Soon though, he came up with a counter-measure in his mind.
”Xiao Hei, extract Thunder's skill—Phoenix!”
When Thunder advanced to Legendary Level, it awakened its bloodline powers in the dual attributes of wind and fire. In addition to having mastered lightning attributes, it had also mastered many wind attribute skills.
”Host, you have extracted the skills of the Thunder card twice, this is the third time.”
”The third skill extraction requires expending twice the number of card draws of the second extraction, and the expenditure of the designated draw is also twice that of the second designated draw. In other words, to extract the skill ”Phoenix”, it will require the expenditure of 80 card draw chances!”
”Are you sure you want to use 80 card draw chances?!”
Earlier when he extracted his four previous skills, Lin Huang had only used 80 card draw chances. Now, the extraction of a single skill required the expenditure of 80 card draw chances. This caused Lin Huang untold amounts of pain.