Chapter 93: Five Soul Sublimation Cultivators Part 5
"Damn! I was really stabbed through."
Tyler muttered as he covered the wound and quickly took out a Healing Pill. Taking this pill, the speed of his recovery increased several times.
On the other hand, his flames had completely burned the man using the poison and metal technique.
At the very last moment, he had tried using his metal armor, but it wasn’t strong enough. The armor melted over his body, completely cooking his body.
"Now, it’s just you two!"
Looking at the water user distracted by three of his remaining shadow beasts, Tyler spoke.
The only one who could fight him was the ice technique user. And without wasting any words, he attacked.
[Frozen Burial]
Suddenly, the ice began spreading out of his body, forming a domain around the user and expanding it.
The ice crystals kept spreading like ants, trying to capture everything in the moment of frozen time.
But Tyler wasn’t going to let this ice touch him. Without much hesitation, he released True Dragon Flames like a tidal wave.
As it spread out of his body, it started melting the ice on the spot.
[Ice Spear Technique]
The ice user spread out his arms, condensing nearly dozens of ice spears before the entire section evaporated.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Those ice spears flew towards the flames. Because they condensed into a solid structure, they didn’t melt immediately.
As soon as they passed through the wave of flame, they were in Tyler’s vision.
Now either he could try to dodge them or counter them. But suddenly, those spears fell.
Or rather, they struck the ground all around Tyler.
’An attack strategy? Should I wait?’
Tyler thought to himself, and suddenly his right hand caught the hilt of his sword.
’Of course, I am going to wait. I had to use my full strength just to make the battle even. Now, if I use the same strength, I will not be able to awaken Sword Intent faster.’
He wasn’t just thinking about it. He had also released his Dragon Scales. Previously, the metal spear had already pierced his dragon scale.
So, he removed all of the dragon scales to decrease the consumption.
Suddenly, the temperature around him became colder. Even the fire that was spreading out began to show some exhaustion.
This meant the entire surrounding had turned into a water pool, and the ice user immediately released his ice, freezing that pool into ice land.
’I see. By putting two sources of extreme cold, he can decrease the temperature in between.’
’As long as the ice doesn’t evaporate, the water can instantly be frozen. More importantly, this also exhausts my supply of mana.’
’It’s a good tactic but only because I am allowing it.’
If Tyler wanted, he could easily leave this place or even destroy those ice spears.
As long as those spears were destroyed, the user wouldn’t be able to achieve this kind of effect with low mana consumption.
’I need to concentrate my fire into the sword. This is probably the best chance to make any progress on my new technique.’
Tyler thought to himself before holding the sword in his hand and channeling a large amount of Azure Flame into it.
As the flame entered the sword, its heat started affecting the sword. But unlike before, it didn’t melt immediately.
The immense Sword Energy contained within the sword was able to fuse with the flames and keep it from melting the sword.
The intense heat from the sword started affecting the surroundings. Although it didn’t melt the ice, it stopped the cold from affecting him.
Suddenly, six different ice swords emerged from the ground. The ice user swung his hand, and all six swords struck Tyler in different directions.
He quickly parried those swords, but each contact started melting the ice swords.
At first, he was overwhelmed by six swords since he was relying on simple movements like parrying, blocking, slashing, and stabbing.
But as time passed, his movements became more fluid, allowing him to gain more experience with the swordsmanship.
’I see it. These swords have no coordination. This guy is simply using random movements from a distance to exhaust my mana reserve.’
At the same time, Tyler also noticed two more of his shadows disappearing.
But even though only one shadow remained, it had kept the opponent at a distance.
On the other hand, Sher King was able to hold off against the enemy for quite a while. It seemed like his combat strength wasn’t so bad after all.
’But I must hurry. This sword won’t last long under such circumstances. My Sword Energy is fading.’
The problem with creating flame and sword energy was that sword energy required more concentration.
A slight distraction could decrease or even destroy his sword energy conversion.
On the other hand, he only needed a thought to transform his mana into the flames since these flames had some spirituality.
Not as good as Earth Grade Flames or Heavenly Grade Flames, but still enough to understand his commands.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The ice user wouldn’t let this finish. The moment his ice swords were destroyed, he channeled more of his mana to create even more swords.
Creating twenty swords, he attacked Tyler with every single one of them.
’This attack might not work, but it must.’
At this moment, Tyler closed his eyes. His immense comprehension talent began to understand the fourth stage of Eternal Spring Sword Scripture.
But he wasn’t doing this to understand the Eternal Breeze Intent.
This intent was just a branch of Wind Intent.
What he wanted was Sword Intent. Although he couldn’t comprehend Sword Intent with a single battle, he did understand a lot.
This understanding improved his swordsmanship, allowing him to perfectly blend the temperature flames with his swordsmanship.
Just like how wind intent is merged with the sword intent to make Eternal Breeze Intent.
He couldn’t comprehend the Eternal Breeze Intent without understanding Wind Intent.
But he could use that method to create a new technique.
[Burning Heaven and Earth Sword Technique]
Suddenly, an intense sword energy burst out of his sword. If it were Sword Intent, it would have been better.
But even without Sword Intent, this much Sword Energy was able to contain an impressive amount of heat.
The Sword Intent got so much hotter that the ice all around him melted and evaporated instantly.
At this moment, Tyler had realized he had created a new technique.
Not an extension of another but a completely new technique for him.
’Although this might not be enough to make that old man sweat, I have successfully created this technique.’
[First Stage- Sun Dragon Sword Slash]
According to him, this sword technique was divided into three stages.
First Stage- Sun Dragon Sword Slash was a simple slash that condensed all of his sword energy into the form of a fire dragon that could burn anything it touches.
Second Stage- Clear Sky Burning Ocean was a move that unleashed an enormous sword slash that could create a pillar of flame capable of turning the ground into magma.
Third Stage- Incineration Sword Slash was the final slash he planned to have. It was a move where, anywhere his sword pointed, it could instantly incinerate that part.
Unfortunately, the second and the third stages were too difficult for him.
Right now, he could only unleash the first stage. Even so, the power of this move was astonishing.
The ice user hopelessly stared at a massive fire dragon that flew towards him. Its sheer size and temperature were enough to melt anything in its path.
The ice user didn’t even try to run away. He used all of his mana to create several ice dragons to stop the fire dragon.
For this alone, he even sacrificed one of his artifacts to give himself a huge mana boost.
But this wasn’t just a normal fire dragon. It was a Fire Dragon made out of Sword Energy.
It not only tore apart those ice dragons but also turned those ice dragons into vapor.
"Ahhhhhh!"
Tyler stood far away as he watched the Fire Dragon engulf his opponent. Only a thrilling scream came out of him before his entire body turned into ash.
But Tyler didn’t stop. He swung his sword to the side, and the Fire Dragon followed.
It turned its head and rushed towards the water technique user.
Splash!
The water user released an enormous pool of water. It was enough to contain the entire battlefield.
Even the battle between Sher King and his opponent was disturbed, but this wasn’t enough.
The Fire Dragon roared, bursting into the water pool and turning a large portion of the pool into mist.
Boom!
After nearly five seconds, Tyler heard a loud explosion, followed by the release of an intense and massive mist.
In the middle of that, there was a corpse with burned skin and melted bones.
Seeing this, Tyler only smiled.
"This is the power my technique should possess. But this is just the first stage."
