Chapter 1490: Chapter 1490: Kip-Up
Approaching the square, the Magic Power is significantly drained, making it impossible to use any magic or skills.
So if you distance yourself from the square, can you reduce the negative impact?
Lifting her wooden clogs buried in the yellow sand, Tian Hanxue moved away from the square, feeling the impact of the square lessening. The Magic Power released from within her didn’t dissipate instantaneously and she could barely control it in her palm to perform magic.
Like grabbing hold of a lifeline, Tian Hanxue repeatedly pulled out her feet.
It was obvious that the reason Bai Jin could create this area devoid of Magic Power was entirely due to those upright Shark Catching Spears.
As long as the Shark Catching Spears can be broken, the magic around will surely surge over, possibly even accelerated by the square, and then the situation could be easily resolved.
However, given Tian Hanxue’s current Speed, she probably couldn’t move to a safer area.
Even though she couldn’t spread Magic Power around, Tian Hanxue knew Yang Yu and the others must have already taken action. She didn’t have much time to capture enough Magic Power to destroy the spear amidst the continuously depleting Magic Power.
Therefore, Tian Hanxue changed her strategy.
Tian Hanxue opened the folded fan, gently spinning in place, outlining a cyan-blue luminescence, stirring up a whirlwind.
The cyan-blue luminescence transformed into countless intricate symbols, weaving a picture.
Utilizing the limited Magic Power, Tian Hanxue activated Storage Magic, taking out her clan’s Secret Treasure, the Ice Sealed Scroll.
Activating the Ice Sealed Scroll requires an enormously large amount of Magic Power. In this Magic Power deficient area, it was clearly impossible to use the Ice Sealed Scroll.
However, to activate the Ice Sealed Scroll, the user must continually infuse Magic Power into it, recharging it after each use.
In such a critical situation, the Magic Power contained in the Ice Sealed Scroll was like a fleeting oasis in the desert. Only by capturing the Magic Power surging from this spring could there be a glimmer of hope.
Forcibly releasing the Magic Power within the Ice Sealed Scroll might cause some damage to this Secret Treasure, but now is not the time to worry about that!
Just as Tian Hanxue was about to damage the Ice Sealed Scroll, a Light Arrow silently appeared from the void, piercing through Tian Hanxue’s arm viciously.
Holy Light and magic are two different power systems.
Holy Light isn’t affected by the lack of Magic Power, nor is it absorbed by the Magic Absorption Cube.
Iyas used the Guaranteed Hit Arrow to accurately strike Tian Hanxue’s arm. The previously floating mysterious symbols slowly disappeared, turning into a transparent scroll falling to the ground.
Feeling that things were bad, Tian Hanxue stumbled forward, trying to grab back the Ice Sealed Scroll.
Suddenly something tightly grasped her ankle.
Turning back, she saw a slightly scaled hand reaching out from the desert, gripping her heel firmly.
The scales on that hand didn’t seem like real ones, more like something stuck on with plastic bags.
There is only one race capable of Sand Diving, that is the Lamia living in the desert!
But the hand holding Tian Hanxue didn’t look like one from the Lamia Clan at all, it was more like a Human’s hand!
No way...
Tian Hanxue searched for Yang Yu’s figure with the corner of her eye, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t find it.
Yang Yu didn’t chase from above ground but dived under the sand!
How is this possible? Isn’t Sand Diving a racial skill of the Lamia Clan? How could he possibly have learned that?
Does he have the bloodline of the Lamia Clan flowing within him? Or did he use the Racial Essence of the Lamia Clan?
Tian Hanxue accidentally stumbled upon the correct answer.
Before leaving the city of the Lamia, Yang Yu made an extra trade with the Lamia Queen for three items.
At first, Yang Yu only planned to trade for two additional items: a small block of Racial Essence from the Lamia Clan and the Sand Diving skill Yang Yu was currently using.
Initially, Yang Yu wanted an additional option for himself. In case the square capable of turning the surrounding area into a desert sands too many places, Yang Yu would be able to make a surprise attack using Sand Diving.
After a series of experiments, Yang Yu gradually increased the priority of the Sand Diving skill, ultimately allowing this skill-led plan to replace his previous first plan.
To ensure the smooth implementation of this plan, Yang Yu and the others even opened a Barrier, pre-converting the soil under the square into sand.
This was also why Yang Yu went to the trouble of luring Tian Hanxue here.
Yang Yu never overlooked another trait of the Snow Woman. If he could find a way to bury her in the sand and place another Mini Magic Absorption Cube nearby, she would be immobilized, also reducing the changes brought by that trait.
A crisp "snap" sound rang out.
Tian Hanxue’s leg suddenly detached from her body, turning into a large block of ice, and she recklessly lunged towards the transparent scroll.
Yang Yu was not at all surprised.
The reason he didn’t grab Tian Hanxue’s thigh with both hands was for this moment.
As Tian Hanxue lost a leg and leaned forward lurching towards the scroll, Yang Yu used the ice-blocked leg Tian Hanxue left as a driftwood in the Sand Sea, leveraging himself out.
Although Yang Yu learned the Sand Diving skill through using the Racial Essence of the Lamia Clan and Skill Points, as a Human diving into sand, he would still encounter a series of problems. For example, due to the lack of the spring-like elasticity provided by a tail, Yang Yu had no way to dart out of the sand like an ordinary Lamia.
The "driftwood" provided by Tian Hanxue greatly facilitated Yang Yu.
Wearing goggles, Yang Yu emerged from the sand like a shark breaking the water’s surface, his arms gripping Tian Hanxue’s waist tightly, pulling her to the ground, submerging her into the Sand Sea, leaving only her head above the sand.
Activating another Mini Magic Absorption Cube and placing it next to Tian Hanxue, Yang Yu swam to the almost transparent Ice Sealed Scroll.
Firmly grasping the Ice Sealed Scroll, bathed in golden sand, Yang Yu slowly stood up, with small golden mounds rising beside him, carefully decorated with pristine white snowflakes.
Yang Yu slightly lowered his head, looking down at Tian Hanxue, whose entire body was buried in sand.
The third confrontation between Yang Yu and Tian Hanxue, which might be the last, came to a close in such a manner.
There was no grand battle, no fierce life-and-death struggle, merely a process of step-by-step execution and gentle guidance.
While frontal confrontation might stir the emotions and the back-and-forth showcase a person’s impressive personal skills, in the end, Yang Yu somewhat abandoned his past martial arts aesthetics, opting for a relatively safe, secure, and swift approach that might also maximize his gains, temporarily ending the battle with Tian Hanxue.
