Chapter 216 – Black Dragon Valley (1/2)

Chapter 216 - Black Dragon Valley

The hand seals immediately stimulated Zhou Kuang’s body, and thousand surges of gold-tinted Qi rushed out and filled the sky. The thick streams of Qi further condensed into the shape of a gigantic finger. Almost a mile in length, it had a jade-like and translucent glow.

The menacing structure looked large enough to poke a hole in the sky, and millions of runes flowed throughout the whole length in an organized but complex pattern, giving off the semblance of a fingerprint.

“Although Lone Finger Blast is incomplete, it is certainly powerful enough to kill you.” Zhou Kuang murmured while sneering hysterically. The tip segment fell onto Ye Wei with a downward swing like a pendulum.

Zhou Kuang could barely remember the rune sequence, whereas the correct order and the shapes were his limit. Having had very limited knowledge of the mid-level Earth stance, he had yet to become capable of powering the blast efficiently. His face turned completely pale as his Qi and will-force were completely drained.

Feeling as though he was pushed to the edge of a cliff, Zhou Kuang was betting it all on this one last stance; his instinct told him that he had no chance of winning a long fight against Ye Wei’s immaculate and efficient fighting style.

Ye Wei’s robe pressed against his body, and his entire hairdo was pulled backwards, fluttering backwards in the face of the high-pressure turbulence. But he appeared abnormally calm.

“You are finally showing your ace in the sleeve?” Ye Wei smiled indifferently, slowly taking a small step forward. A light orb shot out from between his brows, glowing and expanding into a humanoid shape.

‘Light Clone!’

Having been improved by Blood Devourer crystals, Ye Wei’s clone was also at three-star returned prime level. But unlike his real body, the clone could feel no pain and no fear; it was therefore capable of fighting with reckless abandon.

All it took was a glance, and the light clone turned into a flash as Ye Wei cast his eyes onto the large, falling finger.

“Bang!”

With great speed, the flash of light crashed into the finger’s top joints. The clone was only a thousandth of the Lone Finger Blast’s size, with the semblance of an ant holding onto a giant pillar. But despite the size disadvantage, its momentum and Qi presence was in no way weaker than Zhou Kuang’s best stance.

“Rumble!”

The sky shook and the ground trembled. Although prepared for a huge impact, all the initiates were startled. They could hear nothing as their ears buzzed, whereas the weaker cultivators were even impaired by the vertigo they incurred while the waves of recoil from the impact bounced off and knocked down the group.

Just seconds after the collision, the finger shape was snapped and shredded while the light clone disintegrated.

“That wraps it up.” Ye Wei spoke calmly, as the dispersal of his clone did nothing to affect his well-being by any means. The belt of runes he surfed on brought him immediately next to his opponent.

Zhou Kuang, immobilized by the shockwave produced by Ye Wei’s speed, was swatted down by a palm strike before he could even react.

‘No!’ The disbelieving thought entered Zhou Kuang’s mind before he hit the ground, but the impact of crashing into the ground shut his brain off at almost the same time.

“Bang!”

Another man-shaped crater was made close to where Feng Shan was knocked into the ground.

The square was silenced, the initiates had their eyes widened, jaws dropped, and most had forgotten to breathe; considering they could barely defend themselves against the shockwaves of the mid-level Earth stance even as a collective, they were therefore stunned to see that Ye Wei stood casually and completely unscathed afterwards.

“Zhou Kuang lost…” Bai Qing murmured, and his throat was dry from breathing through his mouth. His voice was therefore breaking and barely audible.

“Take him back here! And feed this to him.” He cleared his throat and gave something to one of his men, sounding panicked despite his efforts to appear calm. “None of us here will be able to handle that newbie. I am going to Black Dragon Valley now to chat with someone who can.”

“Swoosh!”

Bai Qing’s figure had disappeared mysteriously in front of his group while his voice was still ringing in the air.

“This newbie beat Zhou Kuang!?”

“In my opinion, he is one of the strongest three-star returned prime Warriors off the black dragon list. Something will happen to the rankings soon by the look of things.”

“The ones living in the valley won’t let anyone destroy the tradition, we can’t have the initiates think we are equals…”