Chapter 562 "Easy Fight"

Chapter 562 "Easy Fight"

"N-no way... this... this cannot be true..."

Song Guanyu fell to his knees.

He was looking up as did the three female Imperial Family members and all of their entourage.

Even the previously inconsolable uncle and grandfather stopped their sobbing over their crumbled dreams, joining the others in looking up into the sky.

All of their eyes reflected a man with a hand thrust into the lifeless body of a withering bird.

They could not see the entire battle, as it was too fast for their eyes to capture, only seeing the echoes of it in the shadows painted on the dark clouds.

In less time than it took for the barrier dome to completely envelop the area, the battle was over.

But then, a beam of yellowish light coming from the East lit the dark clouds again, heading straight for the man and the bird, easily piercing the already almost complete barrier, as if some Heavenly flame both lighting up the sky and igniting a glimmer of hope in the eyes of the Imperial Family members.

"Heh, finally decided to take a shot?"

The corners of Wu Long's lips curled up as he recognized the attack as the same one that once shattered the Sect Protective Formation of the Brilliant Sun Temple.

However, as the beam came within 100 meters of Wu Long whose hand was still inside the withering Azure Eagle, it suddenly split in two, the two halves passing to the sides.

"Thanks, Ling'er"

Wu Long chuckled.

The shot was actually very well-timed, as Wu Long would have had to lose the last, and coincidentally most precious, bits of the Azure Eagle's bloodline power to block it.

"Anytime, My Love"

Ye Ling stood on the walls of the Mansion, sheathing her sword with a bead of sweat going down the side of her forehead, but a bright smile blooming on her lips.

Wu Long's figure then disappeared along with the bird corpse.

The grass plains below which fell into darkness again after the bright glow of the attack dissipated, were once again basked in the light of a myriad lightnings.

An old man with a thin mustache and goatee stood on top of a distant rocky peak in the Serpent's Spine mountain range.

His hands holing a bow were still in a position of someone who just shot an arrow when he widened his eyes.

Not only did he force the opponent to be focused on escaping the rapidly closing barrier dome, creating a sense of urgency and numbing his perception of what was happening, but he also made sure to always propel the pace of the fight without giving the Spiritual Beast any breathing time.

'Heh, while it is now not a problem to match Reinforced Qi of Essence Awakening Realm cultivators it still is a heck of a drain on my reserves of Spiritual Qi'

Wu Long chuckled.

In truth, aiming for a short decisive battle was his style of combat, each move made with the intention to strike the opponent, but it was also a necessity in this particular case.

Because the longer the battle dragged on, the more advantage would the Azure Eagle have gained.

'If he had enough time to think he might've managed to realize I was manipulating the wind to bridge the gap in our speeds too...

As I thought, I need to at least reach Core Formation Realm before facing Gu Zhen, or I would be outmatched in basic parameters'

Wu Long narrowed his eyes as he rapidly approached the place he left not that long ago.

Another factor which made the battle look easy was that it went smoothly for Wu Long from the beginning to the end, but that also was the wrong way to look at it, as he used his complete knowledge of the opponent's abilities, as well as the tactical advantage he created beforehand to achieve that result.

And even then, he had to exert all of his current capabilities to the full, condensing it into a short but incredibly intense struggle.

'Well, at least Gu Zhen's subordinates should be no problem now, for the most part'

A light chuckle escaped Wu Long's lips.

The reason the second confrontation was truly far easier for Wu Long was in part due to the fact this was an Archery Cultivator.

The old man did not stand a chance against Wu Long as long as he could not maintain distance, and his main strength was firing at a range normal cultivators would not even be able to detect him at, let alone being able to cross in such a short time.

But it was also due to the fact that Azure Eagles were actually far more formidable opponents than any of Gu Zhen's subordinates.

There was a reason these Spiritual Beasts were confident against anyone except Gu Zhen or Zhao Xieren in this war, despite the vast difference in numbers of cultivators in the Seven Profound Realms on both sides, as the likes of Do Bishui or this archer did not stand a chance against them one-on-

one.

Case in point, the Azure Eagle that Wu Long slayed earlier was faster than him in base speed, and could tank the archer's attacks instead of striking them down as Wu Long did.

Thus, if the two were to fight each other, it would have been the same result, with the archer dying, only even faster.

Azure Eagles were members of a Spiritual Beast Race with incredibly high combat capabilities, whose lifespan was on average triple that of humans in the same Realm.

Thus while most human cultivators in the Seven Profound Realms in this Fractured World were in their dusk years, the Azure Eagles were actually still in their prime.