Ch.26: The Spar (2)
Qinglong City, City Lords Mansion
Lu Sheng still hadn't recovered from the shock.
His eyes remained open as, with a silver blurr he was already on the ground.
Her eyes remained fixed on the dust-filled arena where only the figure in silver stood without so much as a scratch.
He didn't understand why his attack didn't do any damage.
But he didn't have time to think much as the next instant his instinct screamed at him.
Danger!
He saw another blur, not even being able to clearly see due to the after shock and rising dust.
On instinct, he raised his arms, crossing them in front of him.
But the blow which connected almost made his bones crack.
Only a split second had passed, but felt like a long time to him.
He knew he had to do something, or the next one would definitely break not only his arms but his ribs as well.
So, with the situation as it was, he stopped holding back.
The instant his eyes gained clarity, a ripple spread outwards from them.
Making the air itself feel heavy.
Pressure.
He activated the innate ability/domain.
Though the feeling of suppression on those stronger than him was small, but it was still there.
Not to mention, even a soul douluo gets affected by his skills; the opponent was only a soul grandmaster.
Even if it could only create a second of time gap, it was enough.
Seeing the next attack stop in its track he quickly activated Elemental Core again.
Gathering a large amount of soul power in his heart, he passed it through the core, converting it to lightning attribute soul power.
Channeling the lighting through his legs, he blitzed through the disaster's way.
Another second, and the opponent also broke through the trance.
Although the domain's suppression was still there, the opponent had adapted to it.
"Now show me who you are."
{Appraisal}
[Name: Li Yao]
[Innate Soul Power: 20]
[Soul Power: 26]
[Martial Spirit: Heavenly Demon Body(Variant: Ice)(2+), Hundred Sacred Armaments Armor]
[Bloodline: Human]
[Physique: Same as martial spirit]
[Spirit Skills:
1st: Ice Demon's Might- Soul Power in the body is directly converted to the ice attribute. With the increase in the number of spirit rings, all physical stats and affinity to ice and darkness attributes get multiplied by 2.
2nd: Demonic Frostflame- A dual ice-darkness attribute flame with soul power devouring and other auxiliary effects.]
[Description: A reincarnator from a higher dimension with Sealed memories. Blessed with 2 strong martial spirits and innate soul power. May lose control during certain times, such as during martial spirit possession.]
"A reincarnator..."
His eyes flickered at the description.
But he didn't have time to think more cause the opponent was right in front of him, and the next instant, the speed was exactly 4 times faster.
Barely enough for him to see, but too fast react.
And the conclusion was what could be predicted.
And soon a figure clad in golden armor could be seen flying in the sky.
A torrent of wind can be seen swirling around him.
"Fuh... Barely escaped."
Yes, Lu Sheng had dodged that one.
Forming an air shield in front of him and wind propellers below his feet, along with the slight positioning, he successfully managed to use the shockwave generated to throw him into the sky.
Neutralizing most of the damage.
Converting it to momentum.
But he can't stay in the sky for long.
Not to mention his soul power, his proficiency was nowhere nearly enough for him to maintain the ability to float.
He was barely hanging in the air for the moment, and that too consumed too much soul power.
If possible, he wanted to stop it now; he was even willing to surrender.
But...
Looking at the silver-haired girl glaring at him with a frosty expression.
It didn't seem like she would like to hear anything right now.
She seems to be in the same state as he was some time ago.
'Today is the day I will debut most of my trump cards, it seems...' He thought so wryly.
And the second his foot touched the ground, he acted.
"Deoxys: Speed Form!"
In the next instant, a feeling of weakness arose from his body like he had lost half of his strength, making him feel weak all over.
But at the same time, the speed increased by a large margin.
An increase of about 250%.
This speed not only included movement or running speed, but also the brain's processing capability, and even the speed of information transfer between neurons.
Becoming 3.5 times just a bit short of Li Yao.
But with all other auxiliary effects added, it was much easier for him to dodge, even if his strength was much weaker.
As an axe kick made its way towards his head, he simply moved aside, with the world moving in slow motion in his eyes, and he held the leg in his hand.
The touch was soft and smooth, but not warm like a human body, but cold like an ice block.
Which gave one the feeling of touching an ice cream.
He shifted the force to the left, causing the opponent to fall face-first as her foot would have landed on the ground.
But unfortunately, Li Yao was a fast learner.
She quickly shifted her position, using her hands cushion the fall and sprint towards Lu Sheng this time with her body coated in thick ice attribute energy.
While dodging her punches, Lu Sheng again tried the same method, but the ice attribute energy was truly troublesome.
He also understood why his fireball didn't work on her.
Her ice attribute was much closer to ultimate ice, and even if she didn't emit it outwards, it kept on surging inside her body.
With all those things going on, it was fruitless to use fire attribute attacks on her unless you have ultimate fire.
With things like this, Lu Sheng didn't waste much time hoping to stall for time.
"Deoxys: Mage form!"
Quickly entering the mage form, his golden armor again changed.
It remained similar to the previous light armor, with the armor disappearing in places, and a mage-like robe was added to it.
Standing at the distance created before transforming, he launched a barrage of multi-attribute attacks on her.
All of these attacks dealt twice the damage they normally would cause and also allowed multi-casting and twice as large energy pool, all of these at a much lower cost and with high energy regeneration.
In a certain way, the Mage form can be said to be much stronger than the default 3 forms.
Using hit and run tactic, he kept on doing the same trick.
Sometimes, even dismissing the pattern and shifting to attack mode to do a single strong attack and retreating even more.
He was gaining the upper hand, but Li Yao was also getting better and better.
Whenever encountering a situation for the second time, she was dealing really well with it, and the third time... She was not falling for the same tricks again.
Even though her clothes were covered in dust, and she had scratches and bruises, the fire burning in her eyes did not diminish in the slightest.
She had fully adapted to the ability: Pressure.
Only the energy expenditure effect is being applied to her.
The psychological pressure was like non-existent.
Even her fighting style kept on improving, making it hard for Lu Sheng to keep up with her in any one of his forms, with all of his max stats being much lower than hers.
Only the speed form with the greatest multiplier was somewhat doable, so he knew he had to end it now.