Five wind blades came in rapid succession,
like a flock of swallows diving toward him one after another,
their razor-sharp aura bearing down on him, as though slicing through the very air,
making the figure at the fourth level of Qi Induction turn pale with shock.
What kind of spell was this?!
How could he unleash five wind blades in a row?
Was it some kind of special spell technique?
The figure was stunned, his mind reeling,
but,
thanks to his elder brother's earlier warning,
and the brief window Shen Changchuan had spent attacking the other man, he had managed to buy himself enough time to react.
He swiftly formed hand seals,
his mana surged around him,
and faint golden light rose, taking the shape of a tangible-looking golden bell that enveloped his entire body.
Golden Bell Technique!
A renowned defensive spell, much like the Fireball Technique and Wind Blade Technique, was unleashed in an instant!
Mana transformed into pale golden light around him, layer upon layer,
giving the impression that it was indestructible!
But that still wasn't enough!
Though he couldn't identify the spell that had launched five wind blades in succession,
the stranger the technique, the greater the threat.
He wasn't about to let his guard down and get caught out!
At once,
almost with a thought, mana coursed through his body, activating the leather armor he wore beneath his clothes.
As mana poured into it, pale yellow light gradually rose beneath his clothes.
The outline of a suit of leather armor appeared.
It had been forged from the hide of an unknown Demon Beast!
A rare defensive magical artifact on the market.
He had always worn it,
and now, with danger at hand, he didn't dare show the slightest carelessness. He activated it fully.
A Golden Bell Cover spell,
and a suit of leather armor—
two layers of defense combined,
enough to withstand the full-force spell attack of any cultivator at the same level!
As the two defensive measures came into effect,
a confident look appeared on the man's face.
"Brat, you're dead!"
The man glared at Shen Changchuan, his pupils filled with hatred and venom.
His second brother had died
only because you'd caught him with a shameless sneak attack.
Now I have two layers of defense. Against your single spell attack, I have the advantage!
Once big brother gets here,
I'll make sure you die without a burial place!
The face beneath the golden bell twisted into a triumphant, vicious grin.
Shen Changchuan had no way of knowing what his target was thinking.
At that very moment,
the five wind blades shot toward him like streaks of green lightning, crossing more than a dozen yards in an instant. The first blade was already crashing down on him!
Boom!
The first wind blade struck the golden bell,
and the two powerful spells collided with a muffled roar that rang through the air.
The bell's phantom image was torn apart and shattered,
while the first wind blade also dissipated into a blast of energy that swept in every direction.
The explosion from the collision of mana sent visible currents of air surging through the surroundings, sweeping across a radius of more than a dozen yards.
The tree trunk beneath their feet and the surrounding trees were all sheared in half by the tangible shockwave. Wood chips flew up and drifted down like snowflakes!
The sheer power
was plain to see!
But the cultivator at the fourth level of Qi Induction had no time to think,
as the second wind blade came crashing down in its wake.
As the Golden Bell Technique shattered completely,
the wind blade pressed straight through and struck the leather armor beneath his clothes.
Boom!
Another muffled impact rang out.
The second wind blade sank into the armor as if into a muddy swamp. Layer upon layer of mana light wore away beneath the armor's defenses,
until the blade was finally stopped by the armor's power and vanished.
But at the same time,
the leather armor artifact he wore had paid a price.
The armor's main material didn't seem very strong, probably made from the hide of a Demon Beast at the second or third level of Qi Induction.
And so,
after taking a wind blade that exceeded the limits of its material, a huge gash appeared where the blade had struck. The earth-yellow glow covering the armor dimmed completely!
This life-saving treasure he wore close to his body had been dealt a devastating blow in an instant!
But it wasn't over yet,
because right after that,
the third wind blade arrived!
The five wind blades came one after another, moving so fast that there was almost no pause between them. They crashed down in rapid succession!
Rip!
The third wind blade completely sliced through and shattered the leather armor!
Its defensive glow crumbled in an instant, revealing the figure behind it, now completely unprotected!
The man's face went pale with terror,
as the fourth wind blade reflected in his eyes rapidly grew larger. A look of unprecedented fear spread across his face!
"This is the Wind Blade Technique! Five Wind Blade Techniques fired in succession!"
"It isn't one spell. It's five spells unleashed one after another!"
"Legend has it that only when you master a spell to perfection can you cast it instantly. Could this man really have cultivated an ordinary Wind Blade Technique to perfection?!"
"How is that possible?!"
Only when the fourth wind blade's edge was right before him did the cultivator at the fourth level of Qi Induction finally realize the truth. His eyes bulged like copper bells, his pupils contracting to pinpricks!
He had been wrong!
He had made an enormous mistake!
Five wind blades—
they weren't one unknown spell that could instantly launch five blades,
but five Wind Blade Techniques!
Five Wind Blade Techniques had been activated one after another in an instant, creating the sight of five wind blades flying together!
They were five spells,
not one!
This was a fatal misjudgment!
A spell's power had a limit. No matter how powerful the spell, its strength was capped by the caster's cultivation level!
At the fourth level of Qi Induction,
the Golden Bell Technique and a leather armor artifact together were enough to withstand a single spell attack from any cultivator at the same level.
But five spells striking together
could stack their power and unleash a force far beyond that level!
"No—!"
As death closed in,
the man screamed in terror,
his eyes filled with fear unlike anything he had ever felt.
But unfortunately,
he had realized too late!
The green wind blade passed through him without the slightest resistance.
The fifth blade followed close behind, cutting through the middle of his body at a slightly different angle.
Rip!
Blood sprayed,
the gale swept through,
and the man's upper body flew through the air, landing on the ground behind him.
His lower body remained standing where it was,
blood gushing like a spring,
staining a vast swath of fallen leaves red.
"Ah! Fourth brother! You little beast! I'll kill you!"
From the moment Shen Changchuan discovered the ambush and, under the pretext of delivering Spirit Stones, decisively struck Zhao Hangao and badly wounded him, to the moment he used a Golden Needle Stab to catch the cultivator at the fifth level of Qi Induction on the right off guard and kill him in one blow,
then cut the fourth-level cultivator lying in wait on the left in half at the waist with five perfected Wind Blade Techniques,
only a few breaths had passed.
And now,
the cultivator at the sixth level of Qi Induction, who had been in the middle at the back, deep in the woods, and whom the other two had called big brother, finally arrived.
Seeing this scene,
the burly man, a long scar like a centipede stretching across his eye, glared with blood-red eyes and roared.
Earth-yellow light blazed across his body, and he charged at Shen Changchuan like a speeding truck!
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