Chapter 629: Chapter 628: Unrivaled (Part 2)
"This Wings of the Tiger technique, which amassed eighty percent of my power paired with the top-grade lower-tier Spiritual Weapon, the Cloud Tiger Staff, holds more destructive power than my previous full-strength attack. Still, he managed to effortlessly break it?"
The Cloud Tiger Lord didn’t expect to defeat Shi Xiaole with just one move, but he believed it would put him on guard sufficiently to gauge his real strength. Yet, things seemed to develop in an adverse direction, catching him off guard.
"Ground Tiger’s Heart Snatcher, die!"
His face contorted, and wave after wave of Vigorous Air flowed from the Cloud Tiger Lord’s arms into the Cloud Tiger Staff. Amid buzzing tremors, the surface of the Cloud Tiger Staff faintly showcased a menacing flat-bodied tiger with fierce, bone-white sharp teeth.
With a swing of his staff by the Cloud Tiger Lord, a twenty meters high fierce tiger shot up. Its paws, each three meters in length and similar to a cone, with a tip thinner than a needle, tore apart the void, leaving behind traces of spatial fractures, as though a giant cloth was torn apart.
Everyone who witnessed this couldn’t help but shudder from the depths of their hearts. The martial artists several hundred meters behind Shi Xiaole subconsciously screamed, but they couldn’t dodge as the void was restrained by the massive tiger. Their only choice was to close their eyes and wait for death.
"This move certainly ranks among the top five on the Lord Leaderboard."
Lan Haichen drew a deep breath.
If the formidable experts on the Lord Leaderboard represented an invincibility regarding other lords from the Flying Horse Dynasty, the top five represented a power that could challenge other high-ranking experts on the leaderboard.
They were just as invincible when faced with the Invincible Lords.
In other words, only those five, the true Invincible Lords, regardless of whom they faced from the Flying Horse Dynasty, would be invincible as long as they were of the Lord rank.
The rankings among the five were determined by the Divine Strategy Academy based on their individual records. The academy even stated that the strength of these five was roughly equal. Who was stronger or weaker still depended on their performance at that moment.
Of course, it should be noted that being invincible at the Lord level does not mean invincibility below the Divine Barrier Realm.
Because between the Lords and the Divine Barrier Realm, there exist experts of the False Divine Barrier Realm. However, these individuals are incredibly rare, far fewer than even the terrestrial immortals counted among Lords or the Divine Barrier Realm. And due to some special reasons, they do not appear on the Lord Leaderboard.
Lan Haichen had once met one of the five Invincible Lords. He knew well that the Cloud Tiger Lord’s attack at this moment had reached that person’s standard. He wondered how the young man in green would respond.
As these thoughts flashed through his mind, Lan Haichen looked at Shi Xiaole, his breath suddenly became sharp.
"The attack power is indeed formidable, but in pursuit of power, he has abandoned the essence of the Truth of the Cloud."
As the massive tiger rushed towards him, Shi Xiaole remained calm, analyzing the pros and cons of the Cloud Tiger Lord’s move.
One must understand that the characteristic of the Truth of the Cloud is not its destructive power, but its variability and interference.
With the Cloud Tiger Staff, the Cloud Tiger Lord indeed enhanced his attack power, but he suppressed the features of the Truth of the Cloud, causing this ultimate move to be far from perfect.
"Lie in wait!"
Maintaining the sword’s movement at its peak, Shi Xiaole still waved his sword with his left hand, cutting vertically with the Sword Qi, utilizing the fifth move of the Immortal Sword technique.
Shi Shi Shi...
An ocean comprised of grayish-silver Sword Qi surrounded the Heavenly Tiger at its center. The Heavenly Tiger wildly swung its claws, hence obliterating pieces of Sword Qi. Yet, the Sword Qi seemed endless, needle-like thrusting into the Heavenly Tiger’s body.
In an instant, the ferocious Heavenly Tiger roared in pain, battered by the ocean of grayish-silver Sword Qi.
After the defensive sword move, utilizing the Life and Death Dual Qi, Shi Xiaole launched consecutively without a break. The attacks were so fast that they exceeded everyone else’s imagination.
Zi!
A cross-shaped Sword Qi tore through the void, the horizontal Sword Qi was white, and the vertical Sword Qi was black. The Cloud Tiger Lord swiftly retreated, realizing it was too late to escape; he hastily applied seventy percent of his power to strike the cross-shaped Sword Qi with his staff.
Unexpectedly, the cross-shaped Sword Qi had a strange pattern. The white Sword Qi was slightly squirming as if absorbing some energy, while the black Sword Qi held a corroding aura, dissolving most of his Vigorous Air.
Luckily, this obstruction granted a breather for the Cloud Tiger Lord, who immediately utilized the Cloud Tiger’s Thirteen Transformations agility technique to exhaust Shi Xiaole with a continuous onslaught of unique moves, unleashing beast-like roars, consumed by madness.
"I wonder where my current strength ranks among the Lords."
Shi Xiaole remained stationary, continuously waving his sword.
His present power was extraordinarily formidable.
In the past, limited by the realm of the Heavenly Sword, he couldn’t fully display his swordsmanship, which indirectly hindered the exertion of his combat skills, eventually nullifying the advantage of his mental strength.
Once he elevated the Heavenly Sword to its peak, it entirely unleashed Shi Xiaole’s numerous strengths. Although each progressed slightly, collectively it was a world of difference.
Having sized up the Cloud Tiger Lord’s strength, Shi Xiaole didn’t waste any more time.
He didn’t seem to move, yet his shadows appeared all over the cloud sea, as many as the Cloud Tiger Lord’s; then they disappeared in pairs until only their real bodies remained.
"Heavenly Tiger Soul Plunderer, time to die!"
The Cloud Tiger Lord struck down with his staff, an earth-shattering tiger’s roar as if it truly existed accompanied by two massive claw-shaped shadows attached to the staff’s aura, swooped down on Shi Xiaole’s head.
After releasing the defensive sword move, which consumed most of the staff’s power, Shi Xiaole launched five consecutive sword strikes.
The first two strikes shattered the shadowy claws, the next two deflected the Cloud Tiger Staff, and the fifth one pierced the Cloud Tiger Lord’s right arm. As he twisted his wrist, the latter’s wrist warped like a twisted dough strip. Amid the snapping sounds, his arm was dislocated, and blood spurted out.
"Won’t you fight back!"
The Cloud Tiger Lord howled in rage, his face pale as a sheet.
"Mysterious Yin Divine Finger!"
"Duba Divine Fist!"
"Dragon Shape Burst!"
"Xuanshui Realm!"
"Red Leaf Sword!"
Surrounding him, a grey-white finger radiance suddenly appeared, reflecting the world in the same hue, fiercely struck at Shi Xiaole. At the same time, a domineering shadow of a fist descended from above him, on his right was a majestic dragon-shaped stick glow, on his left were heavy ripples like water waves, and behind him was a sword qi like a red leaf.
It turned out that when fighting with Shi Xiaole, Cloud Tiger Lord knew that he was inferior, so without caring about losing face, he secretly sent messages to the other invincible lords to assist him.
Thus, seeing Shi Xiaole launch two moves, the five invincible lords who were ready to go, immediately pounced, unleashing the strongest attacks of their lives.
Even more so, many peak masters of the Dragon Gate Realm in the rear were also accumulating power. Under the guidance of thoughtful people, they were waiting for the first wave of the five lords to launch, immediately launching a second wave, not giving Shi Xiaole a chance to catch his breath.
This cooperation was ruthless, decisive, and unexpected. While the people of the martial world did not wish for Shi Xiaole to die, there was no time to warn or assist him.
"Overestimating his abilities."
Shi Xiaole had been observing everything, Cloud Tiger Lord alone was not enough to make him focus wholeheartedly.
Under the wanton stimulation of the Heavenly Sword realm, a vast and boundless sword qi suddenly exploded from Shi Xiaole. Many of the Dragon Gate Realm peak masters who were accumulating power felt a supreme sharp sword hanging over their heads, ready to cleave at any time, scaring their vigorous air into chaos and the moves they were about to launch into stillbirth.
At the same time, Shi Xiaole made his move. The five swords just now were the most ordinary sword moves, not consuming much of his vigorous air. His body spun, sending out a circle of sword qi, radiating outward into a green disk.
Sword move, Wind Kill.
Thanks to the promotion of the sword realm, this move was no longer just a simple single killing move, but could also perform mass attacks over a large range.
Chi chi chi chi chi chi.
Six cutting sounds were heard one after another.
Red Leaf Sword Lord was the weakest and was decapitated first.
The second one was Yin Pole Lord because he was too close, and his arm hadn’t yet fully extended, the power of the finger glow hadn’t reached its maximum potency, his upper body and lower body had already separated.
The third one was Tyrant Sky Lord, and the fourth one was Dragon Stick Lord.
Although Xuanshui Lord’s strength wasn’t that great, his defense was the strongest. Unfortunately, his famous Xuanshui realm was not as fast as the Wind Kill sword qi. A beam of sword qi pierced through the gap, cutting him in half diagonally.
Cloud Tiger Lord was indeed the strongest. Plus, when Wind Kill became a large-scale killing move, its power was dispersed. At the key moment, he evaded it using Cloud Tiger’s Thirteen Transformations, but also lost his entire right shoulder, blood was gushing out.
In an instant, five out of the six masters who surrounded Shi Xiaole were killed, one was seriously injured.
In front of Shi Xiaole’s true meaning sword move, what invincible lords, what combined encirclement, all were just jokes, as weak as beanstalk-crushingly fragile.
The Cloud Tiger Lord who lost a shoulder had no time to shout, turning his head to flee in terror, only wishing he had an extra pair of wings. However, as Shi Xiaole waved his sword, his head sprung up, following the others into death.
All gone without a trace.
Cloud Tiger Lord and the other five, each with immense strength, enjoyed a high reputation in the South Sea. Especially Cloud Tiger Lord, as a first-class invincible lord, many people said that he had a chance to rank in the top ten of Tian State’s Lord list.
Yet, such a group of people were collectively annihilated today. The person who annihilated them was calm, gentle and unperturbed throughout, like it took no effort at all.
Silence.
A silence like death.
At this moment on the sea, there were no fewer than a hundred thousand people, but no one spoke, so quiet that the sound of the light wind brushing against the sea could be heard.
The word ’shocked’ is not enough to describe the mood of the crowd, ’horrified’ would be more appropriate.
"Dead, all dead, killed by his one sword?"
The helping hand of the Whale Alliance trembled his lips, couldn’t believe it, couldn’t accept it.
The blue-cloaked young man with white temples was clearly trying to make peace and avoid conflict at the beginning, and this also caused Cloud Tiger Lord and the others to misconstrue the situation, again and again.
Not until he unsheathed his sword did they all realize that his gentleness, his concession, were just disguises to deceive the enemy. The real him, like the sharp sword in his hand, lethal as soon as it is unsheathed, hits the mark every time, leaving no blood on the sword.
"This person is the most fearsome, and most unfathomable person I have ever seen in my life," Lan Haichen couldn’t help but sigh.
He could never imagine that a Dragon Gate Realm warrior could possess such a shockingly unorthodox strength, essentially crushing all his peers. Even those who rank in the top five of the Lord’s List would not be able to do so.
"This person..."
Zhu Dongqing began trembling all over. This was a nervousness and excitement close to terror.
The strength of Shi Xiaole made him admire and fear, but what he felt even more was admiration. He didn’t know if this was the limit for a Dragon Gate Realm warrior, but he would strive towards this direction, even if it cost him everything.
