Chapter 221: Mongrel Victorious
Sunny swayed slightly and thrust the Soul Serpent into the ground, leaning on it for support. His breath was labored and ragged. He hadn’t been hit even once, and yet, his body had begun to recoil from the absolute intensity of his battle. His skills had gotten so outrageously sublime, that the body of an Awakened Demon couldn’t withstand it.
All around him, the crowd was going crazy.
"Mongrel! Mongrel! Mongrel!"
The fight against Yanqing had not been as savage and bloody as some of his previous ones, but it had been incomparably harder. Even though neither of them had been struck until the very end, the mental strain and physical effort the duel had required of them was nothing short of tremendous. Facing a true battle master was a tough trial. Especially one that kept growing during the battle.
Sunny was completely spent.
Not paying the crowd any attention, he closed his eyes and tried to concentrate on the dissipating sensation he had felt during the last seconds of the intense battle against the young swordsman.
During their fight, after the endless breaking and rebuilding of his battle art, he had come close to making a breakthrough in his mastery of the Shadow Dance. It had been so close that Sunny could practically see it... but in the end, he failed to make the last step. There was an invisible obstacle in his way that had pushed him back, one that he didn’t know how to overcome.
It was abnormal. Sunny could tell that his skills had reached an inhuman level, almost devoid of imperfections. And yet, that didn’t seem to be the direction his Aspect Legacy wanted him to go.
Something was still missing... all the styles he had absorbed created a vast and solid foundation, but it was not enough. At this point, he knew that the problem was not quantity. He had already done the groundwork. Then what? What did he need to do to bring this stage of Shadow Dance to completion? Find a unifying element? Face even more formidable opponents?
Sunny didn’t know, which made him extremely frustrated.
However, he didn’t receive any time to savor his frustration or consider the issue deeper, because a thundering voice suddenly drowned out the roar of the crowd.