Chapter 953: Chapter 44: Shocking! Patriarch, You’re Actually This Kind of Person
"Yes, father. The overall situation takes precedence, and securing more benefits is more important. Besides, I’m not certain I can clear the seventh challenge."
After a round of discussion, the overall strategy was prepared and ready.
Wang Zong’an stepped forward first, claiming he had rested well and was ready to challenge the seventh graduation hurdle.
"Honorable Wang Zong’an, as you wish." Miss Artifact Spirit treated all candidates who had passed the sixth challenge with great courtesy, "Please be aware of the rules. If you lose within this challenge, you will lose the opportunity to challenge it again."
"Miss Artifact Spirit, let’s begin." Wang Zong’an replied calmly.
As soon as his voice fell, a demon puppet appeared in the training ground, just like before.
However, this time, it was an early-stage Asura Demon from the Celestial Human Realm. It was a truly terrifying high-level demon among the races of demon kind.
Its body was fully metallicized, with a pair of huge bone wings on its back. Attacking, defending, and its strength were all extremely powerful, possessing the area divine technique "Asura Domain," allowing it to create a negative energy domain filled with demonic qi around itself during attacks, greatly enhancing its own combat effectiveness along with the subordinates.
Generally speaking, the Asura Demon Race appears as high-level generals or commanders-in-chief among the demon race, and its appearance often causes regional disasters.
Asura Demons can grow into Great Asuras, with strength comparable to human Lingxu Realm powerhouses. This particular Asura Demon was evidently still relatively young, far from reaching its peak cultivation.
Yet even so, the aura it emanated was already terrifyingly strong, making people feel as if they were witnessing the legendary Abyssal Purgatory, instinctively generating a sense of suffocation.
Fortunately, Wang Zong’an was no unworldly youngster, having developed the Qingluo Guard, supported the Anbei Guard, lobbied Upper Capital City, and even had an audience with Emperor Longchang.
In a certain sense, Wang Zong’an has truly stepped into the upper echelons of Daqian’s social circle, becoming a figure of high standing.
With Great Celestial Pride Grade C talent and Celestial Human Realm Third Layer cultivation, he may not necessarily fear an early-stage Asura Demon.
Upon engaging in combat, he released his Lifebound Spirit Plant from the Earth Bracelet—Longevity Tree·Wang Yinglu.
Wang Yinglu, eager to escape the confined Earth Bracelet, shook its leafy, green canopy with a rustle, a vibrant green wave instantly spreading in all directions, enveloping a wood domain filled with vitality, centered on itself.
Within this domain, friendly forces receive continuous healing and some augmentation of profound qi energy, greatly enhancing their combat and endurance capabilities.
This clearly shows that Wang Zong’an’s wood talent and spirit plant cultivation lean heavily toward legion-centric warfare, leading troops on the battlefield or marshaling clan members in group combat, to truly unleash his full potential.
Meanwhile, the Asura Demon wasn’t simple either, its massive bone wings stirred, expanding a negative energy domain force field filled with corrosive aura, instantly engulfing the entire training ground.
Those lacking strength and a firm will, upon being corrupted by this demonic qi, would suffer severe cognitive pollution, becoming ferociously uncontrollable, potentially resulting in self-slaughter phenomena.
On the battlefield, this is an extremely potent buff skill as well.
The opposing positive and negative energy effects are distinctly contrary, each nearly capable of determining the war’s trajectory under normal circumstances, but now unexpectedly canceling each other out.
Soon, Wang Zong’an and the Asura Demon Race were locked in fierce battle.
The Asura Demon had a stronger offensive while Wang Zong’an excelled in defense; the "Eternal Spring True Technique" was highly proficient in defense, coupled with the just barely refined top-grade magical treasure "Vajra Body Protection Bell," which enveloped him in a thick golden ancient bell-shaped shield, greatly elevating his defensive power.
Even if momentarily outmatched and wounded, a green energy roll upon him would swiftly restore his vitality.
Time and again, despite the Asura Demon’s main consciousness already largely erased, it was still infuriated almost to rampage, shifting its attack focus onto the Longevity Tree.
Thus, Longevity Tree became unperturbed.
It joyfully played with the Asura Demon, "Come, hit me, let’s see how long it takes for you to kill me."
The name of Longevity Tree wasn’t earned lightly; it not only boasts extraordinary longevity, but its defensive and healing abilities are extremely formidable. Recall how, back then, naturally fallen Immortal Tree Leaves from the old Longevity Tree granted Spirit Platform Realm cultivators powerful blood regeneration ability—it’s evident how potent its healing is.
And while the Asura Demon continued to assault the Longevity Tree, Wang Zong’an was not idle either.
Though more adept at defense, he was by no means ignorant of offense. For a time, various plant vines danced across the battlefield, one after another, Wood Sword Qi continuously bombard that Asura Demon Race.
Forcing the Asura Demon Race to abandon attacking the Longevity Tree and focus solely on dealing with Wang Zong’an.
Time unfurled slowly through their battle.
"Miss Artifact Spirit, once we’ve broken the highest camp record, please make sure to inform me," Wang Shouzhe politely stated.
"Certainly, honorable Lord Shouzhe."
Time continued to pass.
