Chapter 400 - 234: Dragon Fighting Skill Tier 2: Dragon Stance
Zhang Jin also said, "Otherwise, Lin Chen wouldn’t have become the youngest elder of the Spirit Academy."
Guo Hua nodded.
The Spirit Academy has already announced to the public that Lin Chen is the Great Elder of the Spirit Academy, and everyone understands that the Spirit Academy is taking preemptive action.
A young elder possessing the Divine and Demonic Power will definitely be top-tier strength in the future.
As everyone was speaking, the second round of confrontation between the two spirit beasts commenced. Both sides instantly increased their intensity, and the White Flood Dragon Beast, which had fallen in the initial clash, roared, glowing under the enhancement of the Dragon Fighting Skill.
It lunged forward, charging at Xiaobai like the whipping tail of a divine dragon.
Xiaobai took a step back, choosing to activate the full state of the Eternal Damnation Demon Horn, once again using the Thousand Shadows Unification to charge up.
This time, it was using a Thousand Shadows Unification with sixteen residual shadows.
The collision of the bull and the flood dragon resounded with a loud boom, and even the ground felt the massive energy ripples. The central area caved in, with dust billowing all around.
As everyone watched, they saw a bull being flung backward.
The Big White Bear and Little Fox, who were cheering, were momentarily stunned; they had followed Lin Chen for so long and had never seen Xiaobai fall behind in a contest of raw strength.
All eyes turned to the gradually dispersing dust. At this moment, the White Flood Dragon Beast stood its ground, but its appearance had a noticeable change...
The White Flood Dragon Beast’s horns, which almost appeared non-existent and feeble, now seemed to have nearly complete dragon horns!
...
Sunlight poured down, making the dragon horns glint with a dazzling and mysterious brilliance.
They were both illusionary and real, akin to the Little Fox’s unique fifth tail, presenting a translucent yet somewhat substantial peculiar state.
Strictly speaking, they were indeed dragon horns.
Lin Chen witnessed this scene, filled with shock.
Whether it’s the Dragon Fighting Skill or the Dragon Transformation Skill, both are terrifyingly powerful existences.
The Dragon Transformation Skill is like a key, able to harness the vast powers between heaven and earth for one’s own use.
Meanwhile, the Dragon Fighting Skill acts as a bridge, leveraging the power of heaven and earth to activate the latent bloodline power within a spirit beast.
At this moment, although the White Flood Dragon Beast still retained the appearance of a flood dragon, it already possessed some abilities of a dragon, as if endowed with new life.
Lin Chen understood clearly in his heart that the Dragon Fighting Skill Gu Ning displayed was undoubtedly more profound than Li Bei’s.
And he wasn’t wrong; this was Tier Two of the Dragon Fighting Skill.
The Tier One Dragon Fighting Skill is Entry-Level, and reaching Tier Two allows one to activate some abilities of the Spirit Dragon for use.
The empowered White Flood Dragon Beast roared again, preparing to directly suppress Xiaobai.
Xiaobai sensed the overwhelming dragon’s might and understood that it must go all out now.
It fully activated its Tier Five Barbaric Bloodline while also activating the Eternal Damnation Demon Horn.
Recently, Xiaobai had encountered more Advanced-level spirit beasts and increasingly understood the benefits brought by the Eternal Damnation Demon Horn.
Such as the dragon’s might is a form of bloodline suppression by higher-level creatures on lower-level creatures, which even with high spiritual power is hard to resist.
Xiaobai’s birth was indeed very humble, as a Low Level Mortal Beast, its body had long been ingrained with such bloodline suppression.
However, after activating the Eternal Damnation Demon Horn, it significantly weakened this influence.
After all, the Divine and Demonic Power is not weaker than the dragon’s might.
Xiaobai’s skin turned an unprecedented shade of red, steam rising all around it, like a volcano about to erupt.
The two spirit beasts entered a grappling state, with intense collision sounds exploding in the air.
They fought desperately for two rounds, with each clash stirring up a gust of wind.
Both sides were probing each other’s limits, yet neither could overpower the other.
Eventually, the White Flood Dragon Beast took the initiative. Its tail rapidly swung, creating residual shadows in the air with its speed.
The tail gradually gathered highly compressed Dragon Combat Qi, its aura seemingly tangible, exuding a cataclysmic oppressive force, then headed straight for Xiaobai.
This was its skill:
[Void-Cutting Tail]
Xiaobai raised its forehooves high, and with a heavy stomp on the ground, the earth trembled.
Then, it executed a Soul-Calming Hoof · Illusion Spirit, and a cyan illusion spirit momentarily formed, meeting the Dragon Combat Qi head-on.
However, the illusion spirit’s strength was so small before the opponent’s Dragon Combat Qi that it was instantly scattered.
The dragon’s aura was unstoppable, breaching the defense with ease, rushing towards Xiaobai at a terrifying speed.
The White Flood Dragon Beast’s expression showed a hint of triumph, but at that moment, Xiaobai’s body flashed and seemed to disappear from the spot as if teleporting, letting the White Flood Dragon Beast’s attack hit nothing but air.
At that moment, Yu Xiu and his two companions, sitting on the rock observing, had their pupils dilate suddenly, their faces full of astonishment.
Xiaobai’s movement didn’t escape their keen eyes. It wasn’t using teleportation but rather moving at an extremely high speed, so fast it was shocking, nearly impossible to capture with the naked eye if they weren’t of such a high level.
Redirecting their gaze to the battlefield, as Xiaobai sped forward, it produced an exceptionally stunning image.
A full 20 residual shadows trailed behind it, each vividly lifelike and seemingly substantial.
Indeed, after Xiaobai’s Barbaric Bloodline successfully broke through to Tier Five, the upper limit of its Thousand Shadows Unification skill also broke through.
Xiaobai had never displayed this before, leaving Lin Chen in the dark.
"This Xiaobai..." Lin Chen saw this scene and couldn’t help but let out a bitter laugh.
He naturally wouldn’t blame Xiaobai, for even though this Thousand Shadows Unification skill was mighty, it was no match for the power of Demon Bull Appearance, and Lin Chen only needed to consider the strongest combat strength when calculating a spirit beast’s power.
Yu Xiu and others were full of astonishment, and the disbelief in their eyes seemed to overflow.
Signature skills to spirit beasts are like cornerstones; most spirit beasts abandon basic skills as they level up, chasing after stronger and more glamorous skills.
However, Xiaobai was different; not only did it not abandon Iron Horn Impact, but it persistently refined it like a dedicated artisan, constantly enhancing this skill to break through its limits.
In terms of skill form, Iron Horn Impact was perfect.
Its explosive power and speed are battlefield weapons, capable of delivering a lethal strike to the enemy in an instant.
But this skill also has a significant limitation, which is beast power support.
As a Low Level Mortal Beast, the Plowhorn Beast’s species dictates it has limited beast power, restricting them from reaching Xiaobai’s current level when using Iron Horn Impact.
And all of this success is attributed to the Barbaric Bloodline.
Without the substantial beast power brought by the Barbaric Bloodline, even if Xiaobai were exceptionally talented, it could only cultivate Iron Horn Impact up to the Thousand Shadows Unification realm at most.
Achieving continuous breakthroughs in the number of residual shadows as it does now would absolutely be impossible.
Seeing the 20 residual shadows coalesce into one, Xiaobai burned with scorching red light all over, its muscles taut like red lightning, cutting a dazzling trajectory through the air.
In the instant it dodged the dragon aura, Xiaobai swiftly appeared right before the White Flood Dragon Beast.
Witnessing this, the previously unconcerned White Flood Dragon Beast displayed a hint of astonishment, sniffing sharply once and triggering a sense of danger that fiercely echoed in its mind like an alarm.
The White Flood Dragon Beast’s nostrils flared, but it was too late; in a heartbeat, Xiaobai was upon it.
Xiaobai’s powerful aura, almost demanding divine forbearance, caused everyone to hold their breath, thinking the White Flood Dragon Beast was about to be severely injured. However, gazing into the scene, Xiaobai’s assault was abruptly halted, as if it had slammed into an iron wall, staggering several steps backward uncontrollably.
Looking over, the White Flood Dragon Beast maintained a nonchalant expression, exuding a mysterious and powerful energy aura, its scales standing in reverse as the Dragon Combat Qi blazed like tangible flames in its eyes.
...
"Dragon Fighting Stance!"
Yu Xiu recognized it immediately, his breath stopping for a moment, inhaling deeply.
Even though Xiaobai’s strike was formidable, any spirit beast with high talent encountering this move would be left heavily wounded if not dead.
Thus lies the terror of the Dragon Fighting Skill—an art of beast taming that not only provides the spirit beast with augmented strength but also creates new powers for it.
Therefore, the scales covering the White Flood Dragon Beast rose, as Dragon Combat Qi burned like tangible flames, and its eyes erupted with an intense white glow.
This was an example of the terror that the Dragon Fighting Skill could invoke, an art that bestows not just strength but the creation of new powers for the spirit beast.
Knowing that it was the Dragon Fighting Stance, Yu Xiu took a deep breath.
Even though Xiaobai’s technique was terrifying, and would severely wound even the most talented spirit beast if not outright kill, the White Flood Dragon Beast showed only a stunned expression.
Thus, the White Flood Dragon Beast, with its scales bristling on its surface and Dragon Combat Qi burning like solid flames, its eyes blazing with a dazzling white light.
This was it, the fearsome power of the Dragon Fighting Skill that the beast taming art provided, not only empowering the provision of strength to spirit beasts but also creating new powers for them.
Given this, the White Flood Dragon Beast was different now, possessing partly the abilities of a dragon, as if it had been granted a new life.
Gu Ning, exerting such a profound level of Dragon Fighting Skill, made Lin Chen realize the depth that was beyond Li Bei’s reach.
That’s right, Xiaobai’s move was already terrifying, rendering even the most gifted spirit beasts half-defeated, if not dead.
The moment had not passed unnoticed by Yu Xiu, as his eyes widened in shock upon the release of Xiaobai’s Thousand Shadows Unification Skill, enhanced to an unprecedented level.
Thus, stood the White Flood Dragon Beast its semblance transformed, imbuing the form of a dragon and prepared to obliterate Xiaobai within a mere ten-second window.