Chapter 197 - 122: Celestial Wood Dao Peak
A series of thunderous rumbles echoed.
Countless vines as thick as water buckets rose into the air,
twisting and weaving in midair as if they were alive,
forming a monstrous, sky-blotting wood dragon thousands of feet long!
"Junior Brother,
let me show you the true style of your Senior Brother!"
Pei Ye stood with his arms crossed,
perched atop the head of the colossal, pale-green wood dragon.
His robes fluttered violently, his long hair whipping about in the wind.
An unprecedented battle lust gleamed in his eyes.
A majestic and overwhelming dragon’s might, almost tangible, swept out in all directions.
The powerful currents of air blasted the surroundings, tearing apart the dust and smoke with menacing force.
The wood dragon’s gigantic body radiated an immensely powerful aura, and the invisible pressure it generated seemed capable of crushing space itself!
’He looks pretty strong,’
’I wonder if he can withstand two slashes from me?’
Gu Yun watched the colossal wood dragon coiling in the void above,
muttering softly to himself.
Then he took a sudden step forward. His entire body moved like a bolt of lightning, instantly crossing thousands of feet and vanishing into the sky.
The glint of an impossibly sharp blade flashed in his eyes, like a long saber tearing through the heavens.
"Eight Desolates Star Slash!"
Gu Yun’s soft cry echoed, his clear voice seemingly ringing throughout heaven and earth.
With that, he unleashed a sudden slash.
A colossal Sword Qi imbued with terrifying Sword Intent,
radiating a desolate, ancient aura and stretching thousands of feet long,
soared into the sky, like a star from beyond the heavens tearing through the firmament.
The vast Starlight Blade shone with a dazzling radiance.
Then it tore through layer after layer of space,
plummeting down from the heavens toward Pei Ye!
"Bring it on!"
Pei Ye watched the colossal Sword Qi falling like a star
and furiously commanded his terrifying, coiling wood dragon to meet it with overwhelming force!
BOOM!
The two powerful techniques collided violently in the void.
In that instant, a terrifying explosion erupted, and the surrounding void shuddered like a torrential flood.
The moment the vast Star Blade Qi, filled with Sword Intent, met the coiling wood dragon, it sliced it in two with the ease of snapping a dry twig.
Overpowering! Utterly overpowering!!
The instant it tore through the coiling wood dragon, the vast Star Blade Qi continued its unstoppable descent toward Pei Ye!
"Th-this... How is this possible?!"
Pei Ye’s pupils shrank as he gasped in shock.
His prized Qingming Wood Dragon Technique had been effortlessly and completely torn apart.
Damn it!
How can he be so absurdly strong?!
But despite his shock,
his hands didn’t slow in the slightest.
As the vast Star Blade Qi rained down,
he quickly formed a hand seal.
Within a thousand-foot radius of empty space, countless vines as thick as water buckets suddenly appeared.
They coiled and intertwined, intercepting the incomparably sharp Star Blade Qi.
At the same time,
Pei Ye stamped his foot on the void, creating ripples like those on water.
His figure shot across a thousand feet like a green-glowing meteor, evading the attack of the vast Star Blade Qi!
’I can’t face it head-on. I need to find an opening.’
’A battle of attrition. When he’s exhausted, I’ll be at my peak. Victory will be mine!’
As he sped through the air, Pei Ye thought to himself,
With a flicker of his Spiritual Sense, he had formulated a new battle plan in an instant.
A smile then appeared on his face.
’You can be as strong as you want,’
’my True Yuan is far deeper than yours. I can afford a war of attrition!’
But,
in the next instant,
the smile on Pei Ye’s face froze.
Gu Yun had torn through space like a bolt of lightning and appeared right before his eyes.
A puzzled look crossed his face,
as if asking,
’Senior Brother, what are you smiling about?’
Then, he clenched his five fingers into a fist.
In an instant, terrifying arcs of lightning coiled around it.
He threw a punch that tore through space,
and with the force of a mighty thunderclap, it slammed into Pei Ye’s chest in the blink of an eye!
BANG!!
Pei Ye’s eyes widened.
He felt a monstrous force slam into his chest.
His entire body shot downward like a cannonball, straight into the ground below.
He smashed out a human-shaped crater as dust and smoke instantly billowed into the air!
Standing in the void, his robes and long hair drifting as if in a nonexistent wind, Gu Yun gazed down at Pei Ye in the crater and couldn’t help but sigh to himself:
’Sigh!’
’I’m still too weak, after all.’
’It took me three whole moves to defeat Pei Ye, a master of the True Martial Realm Ninth Layer.’
’He truly lives up to his reputation as the 51st-ranked expert on the Profound Celestial List.’
’The gap between us is really quite small.’