Five wind blades came in rapid succession,
like swallows in flight, slashing toward him one after another,
their incomparably sharp aura rushing head-on, as though they were cutting apart the very air,
making the Qi Gathering Fourth Level figure's expression change in horror.
What spell was this?!
How could he unleash five wind blade attacks in a row?
Was it some special spell technique?
The figure was utterly shaken,
but,
thanks to Big Brother's earlier warning,
and the time Shen Changchuan had spent ambushing the other man, he had ultimately gained enough time to react.
His hands swiftly formed a Hand Seal,
spiritual light from his mana rippled around him,
and a faint golden glow rose, forming the phantom of a substantial golden bell around his body, enclosing him within.
Golden Bell Technique!
A renowned defensive spell, as famous as the Fireball Technique and Wind Blade Technique, was unleashed in an instant!
Mana transformed into pale golden light around him, layer upon layer,
giving off an indestructible air!
But that was not enough!
Though he could not identify the spell that had fired five wind blades in succession,
the stranger the method, the greater the threat.
He had no intention of capsizing in a gutter!
At once,
almost with a thought, the mana within his body circulated through its cycle and flowed into the leather armor he wore close to his body.
As spiritual mana was infused into it, pale yellow light gradually rose beneath his clothes.
The outline of a suit of leather armor emerged.
It was leather armor forged from the hide of some unknown Demon Beast!
A rare defensive Dharma Artifact found on the market.
He had always worn it beneath his clothes,
until now, at this critical moment of danger, when he dared not be the slightest bit careless and activated it completely.
One Golden Bell Shield spell,
one suit of leather armor,
two layers of defense stacked together,
were enough to withstand the full-force spell attack of any immortal cultivator at the same level!
As the two defensive measures rose,
confidence appeared on the man's face as well.
"Brat, you're dead!"
The man stared fixedly at Shen Changchuan, his pupils filled with hatred and venom.
Second Brother's death
was only because your shameless ambush succeeded.
Now that I have two layers of defense, against one of your spell attacks, the advantage is mine!
Once Big Brother arrives in the next moment,
he'll make sure you die without a burial ground!
The face beneath the golden bell became savage with delight.
Naturally, Shen Changchuan had no way of knowing what his target was thinking.
And at that instant,
the five wind blades raced over like streaks of azure lightning, crossing more than ten zhang of space as the first wind blade came crashing down upon him!
Bang!
The first wind blade struck the golden bell,
and the collision of two powerful spells produced a muffled boom in the air.
The phantom golden bell was torn apart,
while the first wind blade also dissipated into an energy shockwave that swept in every direction.
The explosion produced by the collision of mana created visible currents of air, sweeping across a radius of more than ten zhang,
and the tree trunk beneath his feet and the surrounding trees were all severed at the waist by the near-solid shockwave. Wood chips flew up and fluttered down like snowflakes!
Its formidable power
was clear for all to see!
But the Qi Gathering Fourth Level cultivator had no time to think further,
for the second wind blade fell immediately after,
and as the Golden Bell Technique was completely shattered and dispersed,
the wind blade drove straight through and struck the leather armor Dharma Artifact beneath his clothing.
Bang!
Another muffled impact rang out,
and the second wind blade seemed to sink into a muddy swamp. Layer upon layer of spiritual mana light was steadily ground away beneath the leather armor's defense,
until the wind blade was completely blocked by the power on the leather armor and worn away into nothingness.
But at the same time,
the leather armor Dharma Artifact he wore did not escape without cost.
The leather armor's primary material did not seem particularly strong. It had likely only been refined from the hide of a Qi Gathering Second or Third Level Demon Beast.
And because of that,
after taking a wind blade strike beyond the limit of its own materials, a huge gash appeared where the blade had landed, and the earthy yellow glow over its entire surface completely dimmed!
This life-saving treasure worn close to his body had suffered grave damage in an instant!
But it was not over yet,
because immediately afterward,
the third wind blade arrived!
The five wind blades, one after another, were so fast that there was almost no interval between them as they came crashing down in succession!
Rip!
The third wind blade completely sliced through and shattered the leather armor!
The defensive spiritual light covering it instantly collapsed, revealing the figure behind it, now without the slightest protection!
The man's face turned pale with horror,
and the reflection of the fourth wind blade rapidly enlarged in his pupils as unprecedented terror appeared on his face!
"This is the Wind Blade Technique! A Wind Blade Technique that fires five blades in succession!"
"Not one spell, but five spells fired consecutively!"
"Legend says only by cultivating a spell to perfection can one cast it instantly. Could it be that this man has actually cultivated the ordinary Wind Blade Technique to the realm of perfection?!!"
"How is that possible?!!!"
Only when the edge of the fourth wind blade reached his eyes did the Qi Gathering Fourth Level cultivator suddenly realize it. His eyes widened like bronze bells in terror, and his pupils shrank sharply to pinpoints!
He had been wrong!
He had made an enormous mistake!
Five wind blades
were not some unknown spell capable of releasing five wind blades at once,
but five Wind Blade Techniques!
Five Wind Blade Techniques had been activated one after another in an instant, ultimately creating the scene of five wind blades flying together!
These were five spells,
not one!
This was an utterly fatal error in judgment!
Because every spell had an upper limit to its power. No matter how powerful a spell was, its strength would have a limit based on one's realm!
At the Qi Gathering Fourth Level,
with the dual defenses of the Golden Bell Technique and leather armor Dharma Artifact, he could withstand a single spell attack from any Qi Gathering Fourth Level cultivator head-on.
But the combined attack of five spells
could stack its power to unleash strength far beyond this level!
"No—"
Death descended,
and the figure cried out in terror,
his eyes revealing fear unlike anything before.
But unfortunately,
his realization had come too late!
The azure wind blades crossed over his body as though encountering no obstruction whatsoever.
The fifth wind blade followed close behind, slicing through the middle of his body from a slightly different angle.
Rip!
Blood splattered,
a gale swept through,
and the man's upper body flew up before crashing onto the ground behind him.
His lower body remained standing where it was,
blood gushing like a spring,
dyeing vast swathes of fallen leaves red.
"Ah! Fourth Brother! You little beast! I'll kill you!"
From the moment Shen Changchuan discovered the trap and decisively used the chance to deliver Spirit Stones to ambush and severely injure Zhao Hantao, to when he used Golden Needle Stab to catch the Qi Gathering Fifth Level cultivator on the right off guard and kill him in one stroke,
then to when he used five perfected Wind Blade Techniques to bisect the Qi Gathering Fourth Level cultivator lying in ambush on the left,
only a few short breaths had passed in total,
and at this moment,
the Qi Gathering Sixth Level cultivator who had originally been positioned in the center, deep within the forest behind them, and whom the two men called Big Brother, had finally arrived.
The instant he saw this scene,
the burly man with a long Centipede-like scar over his eye turned bloodshot-eyed and let out a furious roar,
earthy yellow light flared across his body, and he charged toward Shen Changchuan like a massive truck racing at breakneck speed!
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