Chapter 178: Battle

Olivia continued to run towards them. When she got to a distance of ten feet in front of them, she did an aerial cartwheel.

While airborne and looking down at them in the cartwheel motion, she slashed out at them with her Nine Skies Burning sword.

Each time she slashed out, a wide ray of blue-colored compacted flame shot out and struck each of these men. But they weren't injured. They were only blasted to far distances away.

Their skin was harder than steel as the focused energy-ray she unleashed from her treasure-sword could punch a large hole though a twenty feet-thick steel and instantly melt it.

She landed with a solemn face, then her sword began to emit a more dazzling blue light and heat. She was ready to discharge a more powerful attack.

While Alex who had gotten to their front prepared for a close-range battle. He was going to use his fists and feet as his weapons. He was going to utilize a battle-technique from the Banishment Sword methodology called 'Annihilating Banishing Fists'. With this technique, he would transform his hands or fists into sharp weapons. This is done by wrapping his fists with golden swordforce energy. Also, the bones of his hands and tissues had been permeated with strengthforce energy, increasing their toughness and denseness to an astonishing degree.

Then one of the men that appeared before him tried stabbing him with a spear.

Alex just stepped to a side, dodging the spear. Then he grabbed the spear, and mustering strength, he lifted it along with the earth adept stage cultivator holding it, turned around and in the process, flung the man towards the others that were running towards him from behind the man.

Bang!

The man smashed into several of them and they were all launched further into the distance. But there were no injuries on them, not even a mark.

.......

Where Olivia fought, before the men she blasted away using the rays of energy from her Nine Skies Burning sword could stand back to their feet, Olivia punched the earth, amplifying the devastating force her punch could produce with the power of earth the terraforce energy that she cultivated granted her.

Boom!!

Once her fist struck the earth, it was like tons of bombs detonated. The earth shattered in a wave-like pattern as a strong seismic wave moved through it in all directions.

This earth-shattering seismic wave traveled into the far distance wreaking havoc. While a wave carrying high destructive power which had erupted from her fist impacting the earth swept out in all directions in the air. It caused everything in it path to shatter into bits.

The earth stage cultivators were knocked heavily and far into the distance, about thirty feet away by the devastating seismic wave and highly destructive wave spreading through the air.

Dusts filled the air and saturated it. While a gigantic, ripple-like crack could be seen where she punched into the earth, spreading into the far distance

Her fist had caused this much damage to the earth but it was all for nothing as the men shoved into the far distance simply stood up again.

She grunted when she saw them, alive and kicking. They hadn't sustained any injury.

Huuuu!

She took a deep breath, then her eyes shone with unbridled desire to slay all in her path.

Then she activated her Great Infernobringer Firecloud physique. Her eyes turned orange, same with her hair as it began to burn like it was on fire. In this form, she looked like a goddess of fire.

Her body then put out an enormous, fiery orange aura that seemed as if it wanted to melt everything in it path. Also, it radiated with a pressure that gave a feeling that it would crush all things. This aura of power was put out in preparation of what she was about to do next.

After transforming, she temporarily removed a seal from the sword in her hand, then the aura of power emitting from it increased to a shocking level. The Nine Skies Burning sword was a powerful treasure-sword which had been partially sealed and given to her for her use. Therefore, reversibly opening a single seal from it caused it to begin to emit the pulse of power that would match that of a Great Saint-stage cultivator. But then, she began to bleed from the nose. She had begun straining herself to handle the power put out by the sword.

But it was only with this power that she could do what she wanted to do next.

"Godkilling Imperial Sword of Fire" she uttered and jumped high into the air.

The sword which had begun to glow with an intense colorful light and grew larger that it became sixteen feet long and thirteen feet wide, and on it surface appeared hundreds of abstruse patterns that had rings of resplendent light revolve around them, she pulled the large sword with her as she launched herself into the air and lifting the sword over her head, she surprisingly launched a massive attack at the Sky Lord stage cultivators floating in the air.

One wouldn't be able to imagine that Olivia would actually be able to wield such a large sword. This was a sword that should be wielded by a giant.

When the earth adept stage cultivators who had stood back to their feet from the distances they were shoved to by the seismic wave and began running towards her with their treasure-weapons now in their hands saw the new development, they came to an abrupt stop. The new development which was Olivia transforming and her sword unleashing a fearsome aura of power had instilled great fear in their heart. The sword gave them the chills.

But they wouldn't know that she was going to direct her attack at the Sky Lord stage cultivators.

The attack she sent out produced a constraining pressure that came upon the Sky Lord stage cultivators.

Once the pressure acted on them, the Sky Lord stage cultivators became locked in their positions in the air. They couldn't move as they remained fixed at the area they floated in. Also, their blood began to to roil like it was going to burst out of their bodies the next moment. Besides, their eyes became larger, giving the feeling they were going to shoot off the next instant. Many cracks rapidly appeared on their bodies as their blood began to spurt out like fountains from them.

The overwhelming restrictive pressure acting on them made them feel like they were tightly bound in thousands of large, invisible shackles that squeezed tighter around them with the intention to make them burst into mists of blood.

Rmmm!

As they were 'locked' by the pressure, a massive, solidified beam of blue energy that seemed to outshine the sun as it dyed everywhere blue and was thousands of meters wide, radiating extreme heat shot towards them. Then moving at a great speed, it blasting into the men.

BANG!!!

A very loud explosive sound rang out. When the beam disappeared, nothing could be seen of the men. They had been thoroughly vanquished.

Then she dropped back to the ground with great weakness in her body. Besides, she now looked sickly pale.

Blood could be seen streaming down her two nostrils unendingly. She quickly brought out a white herb which she chewed and swallowed.

After a few minutes, the bleeding stopped but she still looked very pale. Using that sword at that level of power took a great toll on her. However, she was strong enough to withstand that kind of power. If it were other people, they would be utterly reduced to pieces.