Chapter 1084: Defeating Chen Xuan
The sudden addition of two Heavenly Pearls left the crowd dumbstruck and silent. Chen Xuan had just made a breakthrough to bolster his strength, but where ha Li Luo's sudden burst of power come from?
Was this what the Empyrean Chronicle had recorded? That Li Luo's body contained a great spirit beast's power that he could tap upon at will? Wouldn't this be considered an external source of power, something that was prohibited in the evaluation?
A clamor ensued.
At the highest point, Wu Yu and Qing Man, the two vice principals of Heavenly Origin Ancient College, were closely observing the situation. Their calm gazes swept across the battlefield, focusing upon Li Luo.
With their King Stage strength, they could naturally see that the sudden outburst from Li Luo did not come from an external source. Instead, it came from his own body.
"His resonant power contains a trace of source origin energy. This is something that only those at the Heavenly Resonance Tier should have." Vice Principal Qing Man smiled wryly.
"That little brat has a lot of trump cards indeed."
Vice Principal Wu Yu remained emotionless as he glanced at the stands. His indifferent voice resounded in every individual's ears. "Do not disrupt the competition."
Hearing his voice, the crowd ceased their uproar. If the King who was adjudicating the competition had decided not to penalize Li Luo, it meant that this was not some form of external aid.
Did this mean that he had boosted himself with the aid of a secret art?
This left countless people shocked. It was no wonder he had left his mark upon the Empyrean Chronicle. The amount of secret aces he had up his sleeve was beyond comprehension.
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As the people watching sighed, Chen Xuan felt incomparably frustrated. To his knowledge, the only reason Li Luo had managed to slay Lesser Heavenly Resonance Tier opponents was because he had some form of aid. Since he hadn't used his own strength, he had no right to be so arrogant.
"You can use a secret art to boost yourself to the seven-pearl tier?" Chen Xuan tightly clutched the halberd in his hand. The fact that the referee had not booted Li Luo from the stage implied that this method had come from himself.
However, with his own breakthrough, his own resonant power was constantly strengthening and so was his own confidence in his own abilities.
So what if the opponent had reached the seven-pearl tier? He was at the Lesser Heavenly Resonance Tier, an entire stage above!
Chen Xuan stood in midair as an azure wind blanketed the world around him. The whistling sounds of the wind raged all around before transforming into numerous blades of wind that circled around him. Thanks to his breakthrough, his affinity with the wind elemental worldly natural energy reached its peak.
Li Luo, on the other hand, didn't seem concerned with Chen Xuan's elevated state. He was sensing the invigorated flow of resonant power in his body with a look of satisfaction.
After his period of cultivation, the five Primordial Golden Seals within his waterlight resonant palace had refined source origin energy of a higher quality. Fusing with it allowed him to reach a level of power that far surpassed what he wielded in the Fiendish Devil Cave.
Li Luo's body surged with majestic amounts of resonant power thanks to his three resonances. The fusion of all three powers gave off an ethereal and inscrutable sort of feeling.
"Triple resonances..." Lu Ming stared at the scene with a complicated look. Li Luo possessing three resonances was already well known, but it could not be compared to seeing it in the flesh. He only had dual resonances in the Holy Grail Meet, so the third one must have formed afterwards.
It was no wonder he had managed to thrive in the inner divine continent, considering how exceptional he was.
Chen Xuan's joy did not go unnoticed by Li Luo's sharp gaze. He couldn't help but smirk at how naive he was.
The next moment, he pointed towards Chen Xuan.
Roar!
The black dragon roared and its maw opened. Icy dragonbreath poured forth towards the wings in a deluge of destruction.
Chen Xuan counterattacked immediately. The azure wings soared upwards and countless azure lights shot out of it, colliding with the dragonbreath.
When the two attacks made contact once again, the dragonbreath easily ripped through the azure lights.
Before Chen Xuan could heave a sigh of relief, he felt the hairs on his back stand on end.
He could sense terrifying energy undulations shrouded by the dragonbreath.
He hurriedly focused his gaze and noticed a hint of blue light in the depths of the dragonbreath. Inside the light was a slightly curved Dragon Fang Sword, silently biding its time. In the next instant, the Dragon Fang Sword slashed outwards together with the dragonbreath.
Whoosh!
The draconic growl of the dragon fused with the hymns of the ringing sword, resulting in a sound that filled the heavens and the earth.
The Dragon Fang Sword was simply too swift, and Chen Xuan could feel a chill in his heart. He willed the azure wings to intercept it, then a massive gust of wind wrapped around his legs, bolstering his speed and hastening his retreat.
A blue sword arced across the skies, leaving a beautiful trail of blue light.
The azure wings were cleaved into two when they attempted to obstruct it, and an unfathomable chasm opened up in the ground in the wake of that slash.
Chen Xuan, in the midst of hastily retreating, was caught by the sword. He felt death loom over him, and he could not fathom how tyrannical the sword energy was.
His eyes were only filled with the light left behind by the sword's energy, which seemed capable of ignoring the distance between them. That was when horror flooded his heart.
Was this sword Li Luo's true killing ace?
It was absolutely terrifying. As his mind spun, Chen Xuan was unable to put up any defenses. The sword energy penetrated all his defenses, passing through him like a hot knife through butter.
A mountaintop behind him began to shift, then it collapsed in the wake of that strike. He felt like he had been struck hard as blood burst out of every orifice on his body. Afterwards, he fell from the sky like a bird with clipped wings.
He landed exactly where the other squads were currently battling.
Crash!
When they saw the bloody Chen Xuan collapse before them, both sides stopped fighting. Their gazes turned towards him.
The Lesser Heavenly Resonance Tier Chen Xuan had actually... lost?
At the same time, the crowd's gazes began to change.