Chapter 259: Half-Step Earth-Class Dou Technique: Dou Qi Thread!
"Timing is everything. I just happened to see people gathering here, so I came over to take a look." From the tower, Jiang Lin, with his crimson-gold spiritual eyes, gazed at the two opposing sides in the distant square. His focus was on the man at the forefront, whose body was filled with thunder-type Dou Qi.
'If we apply the viewpoint from Wutan City, Xiao Huo Huo's two brothers aren't weak either. They're much stronger than their father,' Jiang Lin thought to himself. While the Xiao family members were nothing compared to Xiao Yan, who had the protagonist's plot armor, they were still quite strong compared to other places in the Gamma Empire.
Bang!
"Shut the hell up!" The negotiations between the Mo Tie Mercenary Group and the Sand Mercenary Group had failed. The man leading the Mo Tie Mercenary Group, Xiao Yan's brother Xiao Li, immediately darkened his expression, and the middle-aged man in yellow facing him sneered. The heavy earth-type Dou Qi collided with Xiao Li's thunder-type Dou Qi in an instant!
Two fists, each wrapped in different colored Dou Qi, collided fiercely in the air, producing a loud noise. The middle-aged man in yellow remained motionless, while Xiao Li felt his arm slightly numb! The middle-aged man in yellow was actually a one-star Great Dou Master!
Buzz!
Thunder flashed, and the Thunder Qi robe appeared on Xiao Li, as he clashed fiercely with the middle-aged man in yellow in the center of the square!
The other members of the Sand Mercenary Group and Mo Tie Mercenary Group watched from the side with different expressions, their eyes filled with a mixture of anticipation and disdain as they looked at the two battling it out in the center of the square!
"A Dou Shi challenging a Great Dou Shi? This is a bit too much," Hai Bodong, sitting next to Jiang Lin in the distant tower, quietly observed the battle below. His eyes were calm as water, and he occasionally offered his opinions.
"You're saying it like that, so from now on, we'll just match each other's cultivation? If your cultivation is lower, does that mean you should just commit suicide?" In the square, under the watchful eyes of both mercenary groups, the battle between Xiao Li and the middle-aged man in yellow continued. However, any observer could clearly see that Xiao Li was like a monkey being played with in front of the yellow-clad man, always on the defensive, unable to face him head-on. It wouldn't be long before he was defeated.
Click!
A uniquely designed black heavy bow appeared in Jiang Lin's hand. Slowly, he pulled the bowstring, and Dou Qi gathered in his hand. A faint Dou Qi thread formed on the string, and throughout the process, Jiang Lin's aura didn't leak out in the slightest.
Hai Bodong watched the entire process, and when the strangely shaped black bow appeared, a trace of shock and surprise flashed in his eyes. His expression grew more serious. In his perception, although Jiang Lin had already started circulating Dou Qi, he still couldn't sense him. It was as if Jiang Lin didn't exist in this world—visible to the eye but undetectable by spiritual senses!
"At a distance of two kilometers, can you hit the target with that bow?" Hai Bodong asked, watching Jiang Lin, who seemed to have entered a meditative state, merging his energy with the world around him. If one didn't pay close attention, they wouldn't even realize Jiang Lin was standing there. After Jiang Lin condensed that thread of Dou Qi, he didn't make any more movements, only his crimson-gold eyes still gleamed with a brilliant light.
Hai Bodong was extremely curious now. Why couldn't he even perceive the Dou Qi thread in Jiang Lin's hand? After all, he was a true Dou Huang. Could it be that Jiang Lin's soul power was hundreds of times stronger than his?
"Normal arrows can hit, but there's an issue with speed," Jiang Lin, seemingly in a meditative state, answered Hai Bodong's question softly, while Hai Bodong looked on in surprise.
Xiao Huo Huo hadn't lied to him! Hai Bodong was shocked, and at the same time, he couldn't help but recall what Xiao Yan had told him earlier. He had asked out of curiosity, never expecting to get an answer. After all, Jiang Lin had already entered such a special state, yet he still got a response!
Jiang Lin really answered anything you asked him! No matter how strange or irrelevant the answer was, he would respond!
"When I was at the Dou Shi stage, I was just an ordinary refiner. The Dou Qi bow was perfect for me. But now, as my cultivation has increased, the targets I face are gradually becoming Dou Wang and Dou Huang, who are able to move quickly. Physical arrows are no longer fast enough to keep up with them," Jiang Lin continued, as he focused on the dangerous battle two kilometers away. "The Gamma Refiner's Guild has 5th-grade Dou Qi bows capable of killing a Dou Wang, but the price is steep—only someone with the strength of a Dou Wang can use the 5th-grade Dou Qi bow to take down another Dou Wang."
Hai Bodong's face twitched slightly at the mention of this price. "What kind of price is that?!"
"Of course, that thing isn't suitable for me at the moment, so I've used a different approach. I've sacrificed the attack power that Dou Qi arrows would bring in exchange for unparalleled arrow speed," Jiang Lin explained. "As my cultivation increases, the targets I face are all becoming faster, and traditional arrows are becoming hard to land. So, at this stage, I've abandoned attack power and adopted a new kind of Dou Qi arrow technique, developing a semi-finished combat method."
"This semi-finished Dou Technique, I'll call it…"
At the moment when Xiao Li was cornered, and everyone exclaimed in shock, a shadow shot out from the distance. But a cyan-golden thread of Dou Qi moved faster than the shadow, like a bolt of lightning, darting across the sky in an instant, and with an unobservable speed, it pierced through the weak but well-defended area of the yellow-clad man's earth-type Dou Qi armor at his throat!
"Half-Step Earth-Class Dou Technique: Dou Qi Thread." The Dou Qi condensed into a thread, a dragon entering the sea.
The cyan light exploded outside the yellow-clad man's earth-type Dou Qi armor, and the wood-type and earth-type Dou Qi caused a strange reaction, like sulfuric acid dropping onto foam, instantly creating a coin-sized ripple at the yellow-clad man's throat. Golden threads then stabbed into the small explosion!
At the same time, Xiao Yan, who had been timing his rescue, arrived from the distance, raising his Xuanzhong Scale high and leaping into the air, slamming it onto the yellow-clad man!
The latter died instantly!
"What???"
(END CHAPTER)
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