Chapter 449: Intense Battle

The wind stilled as a rustling noise sounded from the forest. The trees seem to path ways and two figures jumped down from a tree, appearing a hundred meters away from David.

A hundred meter, this was a range at which one's sword kinetic will either be less effective or more effective. But it was definitely a kill range for mental energy practitioners. Within this range, they could conquer their foes with just a flick of their hands.

The breezes blew and some invisible force strayed brewing, suppressing the gigantic grasses that was twice as tall a man down to the ground as though bowing to some kind of supremacy.

As the grass bowed, the figure if the two people were finally revealed. It was both Long Zhi and Lady Chyou together.

Long Zhi was expressionless, although with David's strength he had decided to take David seriously, but even then, he still looked down on David. From his perceptive, David was only a weakling that might have received some type of enlightenment, giving him some type of amazing perception to practise mental skills to a very high level.

If he could kill David or capture him, whatever belonged to David would belong to him and he would naturally be able to uncover why David's perception was so high. And if its a treasure or some form of technique, it would naturally belong to him.

Long Zhi's brown eyes some with a greedy look as he stared at David. Suppressing his emotions, he walked forward and spoke.

"If you had said those things back in the outside world, I would have had you and your entire family dead with one snap of my fingers. But I'm suddenly feeling generous and in a good mood. I will also let what you did in the past go."

Lady's Chyou's expression changed and she immediately interrupted. "This isn't what we agreed on!"

"Although I'm aware that you are stronger than me, you don't tell me what to do." Long Zhi replied expressionlessly, making Lady Chyou's face darken. She hadn't imagine Long Zhi would suddenly change his mind all of a sudden. If this continues, the outcome would certainly not bode well for her.

David's eyes brightened, he was intrigued as to what Long Zhi was planning to do. "And what's the catch?"

Long Zhi smiled, seeing as David was cooperating. "There is no catch to it, instead it's a reward. You just have to become my follower. If you are under me, I guarantee that you will be respected in every academy and people will certainly show you face the moment my name is mentioned if you are stuck in any sort of situation. There are also lots of benefits in having me as your backer which I can't be bothered to explain." Long Zhi finished his words with pride written all over his face as he took an arrogant stance, but he was unable to contain the look of disdain his eyes hid.

David was tongue tied, he hadn't expected Long Zhi to bring up something as stupid as this. David was immediately vexed. He had has pride too and even though he was doing this fro his own amusement, there was a limit of insult he could accept. Thinking about himself becoming someone's henchmen, his anger continuously brewed. And his face changed and the atmosphere within the vicinity seem to have changed with him.

"You are a moron." He replied word for word, swiftly stunning Long Zhi in place.

It was as though he heard properly, Long Zhi eyes popped open in disbelief and he asked. "What did you say?"

"I said you are a f*cling idiot!" David replied indifferently.

"Y-you!" Long Zhi's anger flared and he actually laughed.

"Well done, really well done. I gave you a way to survive but you actually decided to court death, when you reach the underworld, don't blame me for not giving you a chance."

Lady Chyou immediately retreated. She had been worried that things wouldn't go according to her plan and would backfire on her instead but thankfully, David was a conceited idiot, he didn't know when to compromise. Her smile widened as she saw the atmosphere was getting incredibly tense.

As soon as Long Zhi's words sounded, be had completed one revolution of hand seal, and a flash of golden lightening formed, heading towards David with speed that was two times fastwr than bullet.

Whoosh!

But David wasn't your regular individual, from their first attack, he knew how fast Long Zhi's attack was and had been ready for it. Moreover, he was now a perfect-earth realm expert, his perception and speed had increased together with his ability and mental strength, he was on a whole knew level compared to the last time he fought Long Zhi.

From within his robes, his flying blade turned into a red streak of lightning and collided with the thin golden flash of light headed his way.

Ding!

Shockwaves rippled out in a small circular direction as the rebounding noise of two metals slammed into each other.

It was the same as thing that had happened in their previous clash the first time they both attacked using the same technique. But clearly, something changed this time.

Contrary to what Long Zhi had expected, according to his knowledge of their previous fight, David didn't react like he previously did. His body didn't stagger backwards due to the force of his attack and he didn't seem uncomfortable which meant that he wasn't affected by the sub effect from his dragon talon attack.

Long Zhi frowned as he gazed at David, it was at that moment he realized something had changed. David was previously a late mortal realm expert, how did he suddenly become a Perfect Mortal realm practitioner in this short period time.

He then remembered about the herbs. Right, it was definitely the precious herbs. Those herbs were supposed to be his, but David had now used some of them to advance in his mental strength, this was absolutely intolerable!

His rage immediately increased and he formed several hand seals and then two sword fingers with his hands as crossed them.

Two large talon instantly formed out of thin air and in a flash, they slammed right into David.

David wasn't slow witted. He knew the strength of Fury-packed Thrust was severely limited , it could only for one swift and deadly attack but the fact still remains, it could only form one attack at once which meant that even if he managed to block of Long Zhi golden dragon talon attack, there was not enough time to form a second Fury-packed Thrust which meant that he would definitely be hit by the second attack.

Which was why he had formed his handseal ahead of time. The skies immediately darkened and thunder rumbled as they formed together like droplets of water and then forming into some sort of thunder lake.

The lake if thunder then immediately coagulate, from into a large flying blade as they sliced into fast moving golden talon with speed akin to a bolt of lightning.

The atmosphere seem to crackle and smell of burnt grass and leaves could be perceived as the lightning drew an arc in mid air, striking at the golden talon.

BANG!

The first and the fastest golden talon struck at the arc of blade, creating a loud explosion, but it then disintegrated after its energy was being used up. Whereas, the flash of purple lightning faded and the colour reduced slightly and the strength within had been cut down by half.

In the next milliseconds, the second golden talon struck at the lighting, bringing with it a large destructive booming sound that echoed throughout the forest. A massive shockwaves rippled and blasted apart the trees within a 50 meter radius, turning them into a bunch of burnt wooden logs.

David instantaneous staggered backwards five times to reduce the pounding headache. Long Zhi also had no choice but to shift backwards as resisting such strength might damage one's foundation and brain, bleeding was also a light side effect.

Long Zhi immediately attacked again without warning, striking at David repeatedly with his golden dragon talon line a machine, coming from every angle. But David had been fast to deflect the attacks. He was planning on wasting David's energy.

Shockwaves rippled around their vicinity like stones being repeatedly casted on the calm surface of a lake. The shockwaves reached a point, they covered together forming some type of suppressive domain that seem to take everything within its surroundings expect the people standing there in its violent storm.

When David was a Late-earth realm practitioner, his mental strength was almost equal to that of an earth realm expert. His foundation was incredibly firm and even though he wasn't as talented as the others, his way of practicing his mental energy by exhausting and then refilling his mental energy made his capacity to store energy increase bit by bit.

But now that he was now a perfect-earth realm expert, his energy capacity had increased even further, there was no way his energy would be exhausted before Long Zhi's own ever could.