Chapter 156: Explosive Talismans (2/2)

From time to time, he came in and struck Huo Tu from his blind side. But not one of those managed to deal any sort of damage. 'Damn it,' he thought and used Smiting Blade. Yellow Qi flowed into his sword, dying the whole blade yellow.

With his strong body and his amazing movement technique, Huo Tu could no longer keep track of him. Alex started attacking more and more. His skin started so show some scratches after he used the Smiting blade, and also Huo Tu's robes were slowly being cut apart.

Something blue in color shone underneath, Alex cut more and more until the robe was in tatters and the underbody was visible.

”That is…” Alex thought in shock. He looked at the shiny blue armor underneath the man's body. 'That's the armor from the auction house. I thought it was taken by that merchant guy. Why does he have this?' he thought.

”Haha, you shocked. This is a Common Earth Grade armor artifact that my father got for me. Your physical attack does nothing to me. Not even Luo Mei or Du Yuhan can harm me with their attacks when I'm wearing this.” He started to laugh manically.

The situation started to seem grimmer and grimmer by the second.

Alex ran away after realizing that he couldn't beat him by just attacking him. So, he decided to try some Qi-based techniques and see if those worked. Green Qi filled his sword and he got ready to swing it.

He used the 2nd strike of the Elusive Heavenly sword and let the attack fly. Huo Tu didn't do anything and simply let the attack hit him.

An explosion rang out, but Alex could tell that Huo Tu wasn't injured at all. 'Dammit,' he thought and prepared another attack. Darker green light filled the sword as Alex got ready to attack.

At the same time, Huo Tu did something as well. He reached into his storage bag and took out something. Alex looked at it and was surprised. 'A talisman?' he thought.

He let swung his sword and used the 3rd strike of the Elusive Heavenly sword. A green slash flowed through the air towards Huo Tu. Huo Tu as well threw the talisman directly at the incoming slash.

BOOM

Massive energy erupted where the two attacks met. Huo Tu had no problem standing through the shockwave, which Alex was pushed back a little.

”What was that?” Alex looked at the explosion in shock. He hadn't expected Huo Tu to use a talisman for fighting. He had remembered his master speaking about such things but had finally seen it for the first time.

Suddenly, Huo Tu took two talismans out and looked at Alex with a smile. Before Alex could even prepare another attack, he immediately threw both the talismans on either side of Alex, trying to sandwich him in between the explosions.

Alex got terrified. Without any other immediate ideas, he switched his holding of the sword from over to under and threw it right at Huo Tu just as the talismans exploded.

BOOM

Before Alex could even use any defensive techniques, the explosions devoured him whole.