Chapter 1050: Chapter 1050: Black Teeth Gu Shenghui
Di Xin’s incessant chatter was interrupted by a "seal" character written by Gu Shenghui, facing him. It seemed that Di Xin had anticipated such a situation. He stepped back unhurriedly until he reached a certain distance. Then the large seal character dissolved into an ink-like Source Qi Mist in midair, and subsequently dispersed.
"Gu Shenghui, you cannot win this battle. Some things were predetermined even before the contest began. You might as well bow out gracefully. Taking second place for your cornerstone plane isn’t too shabby."
As he spoke, Di Xin waved his arm, and a massive stream of alcohol flowed from his palm, encircling him and spreading toward the arena’s perimeter. Having witnessed this in Di Xin’s duel with Ning Quanchen, Gu Shenghui was indifferent to the gradually pervasive alcohol vapor. He continued forward slowly, using the iron pen in his hand to write and draw in the air.
"I have long been aware of your abilities through Mu Fanchen—converting written words into the power of their meaning is indeed a formidable ability. However, its drawbacks are equally evident!" Di Xin saw that Gu Shenghui was unmoved by his words, sneered, and waved his hand. The surrounding liquid surged towards Gu Shenghui while he began to move rapidly back and forth across the arena.
"Ha, your moves are too slow! They might suppress an ordinary cultivator, but they don’t even have the right to hit me, someone whose body has been enhanced for high-speed movement." While sprinting, Di Xin looked at the characters passing by him and mockingly sneered as water pillars formed by liquor shot up, congealing into spears that charged towards Gu Shenghui.
Continuing to write with one hand, Gu Shenghui raised his other arm. A high wall, stacked like building blocks, quickly formed behind him. To most spectators, this defense seemed quite ordinary, something any adept cultivator could do. But what happened next exceeded everyone’s expectations.
Bam! Bam! Bam! Each water pillar collided with the wall but didn’t pierce through or corrode it as Di Xin expected, nor did they get blocked and revert to splashes as onlookers predicted. Instead, the water, upon contact with the wall, transformed into heaps of Lego-like toys and clattered to the ground.
Seeing this, Di Xin frowned. He already knew a lot about Gu Shenghui’s abilities through Mu Fanchen. This seemingly low-level ability to sense and manipulate objects like Lego blocks was known to him. It merely decomposes and reassembles objects it contacts. However, the liquid he released was infused with the power of origin after merging with a divine artifact; it should not have been affected so easily.
Only power of origin can affect another power of origin. Di Xin soon figured this out and fixed his stare on Gu Shenghui, saying solemnly, "Do you have the cornerstone plane’s unique power of origin within you, and is your power of origin level higher than mine?"
Gu Shenghui did not answer the question. Like a beast hunting its prey, his eyes saw nothing but his target. Under his control, the wall behind him began to crumble, and the falling Lego blocks spread outwards. When these blocks contacted the surrounding liquor, an intense confrontation ensued. As Di Xin gradually realized, an endless stream of source qi infused into the liquor, preventing its immediate conversion upon contact as before. The two entered a stalemate where the alcohol began to corrode the surface of the blocks, but the blocks kept converting the liquor. Overall, Gu Shenghui, who controlled the blocks, had the upper hand, with large amounts of alcohol being converted into Lego blocks.
"Oh! Gu Chu is really something!" Pei Yan exclaimed excitedly from outside the arena upon witnessing this.
"As a senior, he awakened earlier than you all, and the longer one possesses a power, the more familiar and deeply they understand it," Lin Junzhao within Pei Yan’s body boasted, "I was remiss in providing him a divine artifact. I bestowed two decent artifacts to Ye Ruozai and your sister, meanwhile the other three had to make do with just one. To compensate, I gave each of them two types of origin power most suited to them. Gu Shenghui possesses the power of assimilation and creation, both unique to the cornerstone plane. Extracting these origin powers almost cost me my old life."
"So this means Gu Chu will definitely win this round," Jiang Feiyang said, his previously anxious heart now at ease, allowing him to watch the match with a more relaxed mindset.
"Barring unexpected situations, we should win this match. What he’s showing now is merely two of his abilities. Don’t forget he absorbed another ability at the Secret Prison, and now that he’s at the pinnacle of the eighth level and a Child of Origin, upon awakening, every two levels post-fourth tier guarantees an awakened ability. These abilities are naturally produced during his transformation into a Child of Origin, meaning he still has four abilities yet to display. Based on what I’ve observed during training, his remaining abilities are formidable, which is why I agreed to your request to let him replace your sister in the individual contest." Despite Lin Junzhao’s explanation, there was an undercurrent of unease in her heart. According to Blood Fiend’s level of attention to this competition, to win the championship, they had to secure victory in this second match to clinch the title early, or they’d have to face Pei Yan’s powerful entry.
Yet, she couldn’t discern how Di Xin intended to defeat Gu Shenghui, nor could she fathom what Ivan would deploy against Pei Yan in the third round. Could it be that the Candle Dragon had decided to forgo competing for the championship?
Just as Lin Junzhao was at a loss, the situation on the battlefield changed once more. With the further escalation of their confrontation, more and more of the liquor transformed into Lego blocks. As a result, Di Xin, who initially aimed to entrap Gu Shenghui with his liquor, found himself ensnared in a reverse encirclement, with his maneuvering space continuously shrinking.
Knowing that continuing like this would only lead to capture, Di Xin, unwilling in his heart, had to activate his innate ability, attempting to engage Gu Shenghui in close combat. After his body expanded to its limits, he braced himself against the ground and charged towards Gu Shenghui in the arena’s center, where he was ceaselessly brandishing ink with one hand and manipulating the Lego blocks with the other.
Di Xin’s body, enhanced by various abilities and bloodline power, boasted strength, speed, and regenerative powers that couldn’t match Nero, who embodied a myriad of bloodlines, nor could they compare to Pei Yan, modified and absorbing innumerable resources. Yet, against ordinary cultivators and even other Children of Origin, including the seemingly frail Gu Shenghui, he was far more powerful!
