Long Chen's strike was the strongest strike, requiring no probing. The Will of Heaven Opening directly locked onto the opponent, simple and brutal.
"Let me see for myself—your strongest strike."
Gu Yue's expression grew serious. With a sharp shout, his right hand held a dagger in front and his left behind him. The two daggers—one raised and one reversed—formed a circular arc in front of him.
Centered on him, all his vital energy was ignited. Facing Long Chen's strike, he gave it his all.
"Ice Soul Nine Nether Slash"—
Gu Yue's two daggers trembled, and the shadows of the Ten-Thousand-Mile Daggers—one yin and one yang—actually formed a sharp edge resembling a Taiji pattern.
"Boom!"
Radiant for miles, heaven and earth split, the ancient city of Tianhong beneath the battlefield was instantly reduced to dust, countless years of imprints erased with a single blow.
Long Chen and Gu Yue both shook their heads, and this strike ended in a match of evenly matched.
Sss!
Gu Yue's dagger spun like a bolt of lightning, flashing past Long Chen's neck at an unparalleled speed.
"Boom!"
But Gu Yue's dagger didn't strike Long Chen's neck, because Long Chen kicked Gu Yue in the abdomen, sending him flying.
Although the dagger didn't strike Long Chen's neck, the laws attached to it tore through the void, leaving a long bloody wound on Long Chen's neck.
Though his skin wasn't touched, he was still injured—even the golden dragon scales couldn't withstand it. Gu Yue's attack was truly astonishing.
Moreover, a layer of frost appeared on Long Chen's wound, and the bone-chilling cold invaded, almost causing blood to freeze instantly.
"Pfft"
Long Chen was injured, and Gu Yue was also uncomfortable. He risked taking a blow from Long Chen in the lower abdomen to strike, fighting to trade injury for injury. Because if Long Chen was struck by Long Chen's Ice Fang, he would instantly freeze and freeze, without a single breath's time. He would forget about recovery, and Gu Yue would have the chance to annihilate Long Chen in one blow.
He was hit by Long Chen's kick. His lower abdomen ached sharply, feeling as if his stomach was about to explode, his internal organs shattering. He moved the heart-protecting mirror from his chest to his lower abdomen, but it still couldn't block the overwhelming force.
The heart protection mirror shattered. This royal artifact, the heart protection mirror, can absorb energy for its owner without causing any harm.
The Heart Guard Mirror is different from soft armor; soft armor offers proportional protection; it can only block part of the force, while the rest must be borne by the original body.
Generally, soft armor can block at most 70% of attacks. If there are more, the armor's materials must change to support more runes, making it very easy to break.
The heart-protecting mirror is almost a one-time treasure that can completely absorb external forces, but there's one problem: if the absorption exceeds its capacity, it will shatter.
Long Chen's kick was delivered with full force, shattering the heart-protecting mirror. The remaining force shattered Gu Yue's internal organs. Fortunately, the mirror was of good quality; if it had been a little shorter, Long Chen could have killed Gu Yue with a single kick, since the assassin's body was not very strong.
Originally, Gu Yue planned to use the Heart Protection Mirror to block Long Chen's strike, then take advantage of Long Chen's frozen body to kill him with a single move.
But with Long Chen's kick, he spurted blood everywhere, trading injury for injury. Judging by the result, he suffered a huge loss.
The blood on Long Chen's neck had congealed, causing his breathing to become unstable and uncontinuous, temporarily unable to use his own strength.
Long Chen snorted coldly. In his left hand, a flaming lotus appeared. He struck down with a palm, sending flames soaring into the sky.
"Boom!"
The flame lotus shattered, and Long Chen's move missed, causing Gu Yue's figure to vanish.
At that moment, the cold energy in front of Long Chen's neck gradually faded, the wound healed, and his qi and blood flowed smoothly.
"Buzz!" Long Chen's
bone blade slashed backward, shattering the void. Gu Yue, who had just escaped there, was struck by Long Chen's blade.
After this delay, Gu Yue had just finished healing and caught his breath.
"Boom!"
The bone knife collided with the dagger, sending up a sky full of divine radiance. The Taiji radiance swirled around Gu Yue's body, the divine light shooting skyward straight into the firmament.
"The power of yin and yang?" Under reincarnation, unleash my power into the void? This pair of weapons was indeed very powerful. Long Chen narrowed his eyes slightly. After two head-on clashes, he finally saw through the clues of these daggers.
This pair of artifacts—one yin and one yang—their yin and yang energies circulated to form a special standpoint, absorbing Long Chen's power and releasing it.
He could resist Kaitian not because of his own strength, but because these daggers were extremely mysterious—they could absorb and transform.
"Whoosh!"
The dagger Gu Yue had been tucking behind his back suddenly thrust forward, the violent force pressing down on the void, making Long Chen feel a sudden suffocation.
"Boom!"
The runes on Long Chen's bone blade trembled as they struck the dagger. Between the bone knife and the dagger, a red orb of light appeared. The orb, originally only the size of a grain of rice, suddenly exploded, swallowing the entire space.
Flames howled, scorching the sky, and all paths seemed about to ignite. His other dagger actually contained the power of flames.
One ice, one fire, one yin, one yang—the two worked together to switch between them, creating endless mysteries. Long Chen was shaken back more than ten steps before he finally steadied himself.
"How does it feel to hit you with your strength?" Gu Yue held a dagger, standing in midair, coldly staring at Long Chen.
That strike had absorbed Long Chen's power, releasing part of it and keeping the rest for himself. He swapped the Ice Dagger for a Flame Dagger, giving both his own power and Long Chen's strength to Long Chen, causing Long Chen to suffer a huge loss.
"It's just a petty trick. If I'm not mistaken, your climb to second place on the Heavenly Fiend Ranking isn't due to your own strength, but because of the dagger in your hand. You really are quite pitiful." Long Chen shook his numb hand from the shock and said coldly.
This was the first time Long Chen had encountered someone using his power to counterattack him. However, his power was extremely strong and yang, while Gu Yue's own power leaned toward femininity, so he could only absorb a small portion.
But even so, Long Chen had already suffered quite a loss. These daggers were indeed very strange.
"You're the one who's sad. My weapons are part of my strength—what's there to doubt?" Unexpectedly, Long Chen's words provoked Gu Yue's fury.
Clearly, Long Chen had hit a sore spot again. Clearly, not only had Long Chen said this, but others had surely said it too.
In terms of strength alone, Gu Yue was indeed much stronger than Tian Mo, who ranked seventh on the Heavenly Fiend List. But Long Chen felt that with such a big ranking gap, it shouldn't be just this gap. The second rank should be stronger, which didn't match Long Chen's expectations.
Unexpectedly, his casual remark turned out to be spot on. This guy ranked second only because of a pair of weapons, not by his true strength.
"Go to hell, you spouting trash."
Gu Yue roared, his entire body igniting his vital energy. His twin daggers gleamed, and the power of ice and fire was activated. Amidst the thunder of heaven and earth, two unicorn monsters appeared behind him.