This shouldn't be happening.
Chen Ying frowned as she faced Zhou Yuntao, who had breached her first layer of defense in an instant.
There are many sorcerers in Jiangnan who are skilled in wind magic. Both Lord Chen Qing and Murong Yunji are experts in this field, but this is the first time she has encountered someone who can sense direction using wind magic.
The more easily an element is separated from its body, the less perceptible it becomes. Generally, only solid and stable objects can be transferred to it to achieve a certain level of perception. Therefore, the techniques used to detect intelligence are usually metal-based. There are also more special Spirit Energy ghost techniques that can achieve this, such as Seventh Master Shen's Thousand-Eye Technique.
However, these ex-body techniques all have one thing in common: they have a fixed form and the amount cannot be too large.
If elemental spells without fixed forms can gather intelligence, then wouldn't even the most powerful wind sorcerers be able to monitor the entire world? After all, who can be aware of the movement of air?
It is well known that wind magic is the least effective in long-range combat. Even a little poison hidden in the wind will slowly dissipate within a hundred meters, making it extremely difficult to maintain its form. It is also difficult for a sorcerer to maintain their spiritual power within a wind magic for too long. After all, wind is formless and clouds are shapeless, making it extremely unpredictable. Once it is far away, it is extremely difficult to control.
My own spatial array, considering its distance, can reach tens of thousands of feet. Moreover, it is folded, twisted, and bends, with hundreds of passages. If one does not know the route in advance, it would take at least 300,000 feet to explore the specific location within my spatial array using only some kind of energy. Such a distance, yet the opponent can use wind magic to explore the location of hundreds of thousands of feet of space. This simply breaks the common sense of magic.
Is this the White Tiger Spell?
Chen Ying recalled Chen Qing's words
The Four Saints Spell are unique existences that transcend ordinary techniques, even surpassing the common sense of top-tier techniques like the Heavenly Stems Earthly Fiends. Their upper limit is beyond the imagination of many people today. You think your Azure Dragon Spell is much weaker than the Dragon Palace's inheritance, that's because you haven't truly learned it yet. The true Four Saints Spell are far more powerful than you imagine.
Bang!
With a crisp cracking sound, space shattered, layer upon layer, and finally a figure broke through the distorted magic array, reaching himself.
Without the protection of the space, Chen Ying witnessed the opponent's true power: a raging storm, like blades, sweeping across the sky like a natural disaster. If this were before the Transcendent, one person could probably fight against a million soldiers. No wonder no one dared to attack Cloud Capital back then; even a direct descendant of the Zhou Household had this ability. Just how terrifying was the true power of the Celestial Master Mansion?
Chen Ying sighed, formed a hand seal, and a beam of azure light shot into the sky. The dragon's roar shook the heavens, forming a stark contrast with the White Tiger on the ground. Thunder roared in the azure sky, the dragon's might was overwhelming, while the tiger roared in all directions from the ground. The terrifying baleful aura seemed to tear the azure sky apart. This exaggerated scene immediately caused a chorus of exclamations from the commoners outside the palace gate. Having watched for so long, this was probably the most spectacular scene they had ever witnessed.
The sorcerers in Hall of Rectitude and Harmony watched without blinking; the entire hall was eerily quiet, with almost everyone holding their breath as they watched.
Many family elders have seen the Four Saints Sorcerer before; wasn't one of the Fei Family the inheritor of the so-called Vermilion Bird Technique?
After the advent of the Transcendent era, many people no longer attached great importance to the so-called Four Saints Spell. However, they never expected that after the Transcendent, the power of these Four Saints Spell would be so terrifying.
"So you've finally decided to use it?" Zhou Yuntao looked at the dragon's might in the sky, a hint of excitement flashing in his eyes. Sure enough, this woman had also comprehended the second level of the Four Saints Spell!
In Cloud Capital, and even within the Zhou Household, only he knew that the Four Saints Spell were only considered truly mastered upon reaching the second level. His Zhou Household, for tens of thousands of years, had never even scratched the surface. Otherwise, how could a prestigious family specializing in White Tiger Spell be relegated to the bottom of the Five Colors Great Families?
He was one of only two people in the Zhou Household's history to have grasped the essence of the White Tiger Spell, which is why he was able to defeat the Five Colors Great Families.
"I thought Dean Chen would remain arrogant to the end, intending to fight me with your array formations."
Above the sky, Chen Ying coldly stared at the other person, then gave a cold laugh, "That's exactly what I think."
He then formed hand seals, and countless cyan runes appeared on the entire ground, covering an area so vast that they almost entirely enveloped the entire competition space.
Zhou Yuntao was taken aback. When did the other party set up such a large-scale magic array on the ground?
That's right. For the past half hour, I was leisurely wandering around the opponent's spatial array, while the opponent used that time to set up such a deadly move?
"My use of array techniques against you isn't out of arrogance, but because it's what I'm best at. You keep saying you want to see my Azure Dragon Spell, but you've never really taken this fight seriously from the start. If we're talking about arrogance, Young Master Yuntao, you're the most arrogant one." Chen Ying's cold voice made Zhou Yuntao's face stiffen below.
Azure Dragon Fourth Form: All Things in Creation!!
The dragon's roar descended from above, and countless blue lights responded from the ground. In the next instant, countless giant trees shot into the sky. In almost the blink of an eye, the entire space was enveloped by those towering trees, and the landscape that resembled a town was instantly transformed into a forest.
The ability to change the landscape with a mere gesture amazed ordinary people, while the expert sorcerers in the Hall of Rectitude and Harmony were filled with disbelief!
Each space in that trial was the size of a county town, and in the blink of an eye, the terrain and environment of that county town were completely transformed. This ability was almost beyond that of a sorcerer; it was more like that of a deity in the stories of storytellers.
Zhou Yuntao frowned as he looked around. This energy was indeed too terrifying. The Four Saints each had two attributes. Black Tortoise belonged to water and was skilled in earth and rock techniques. White Tiger belonged to metal and was skilled in wind techniques. Azure Dragon was the same. Azure Dragon belonged to wood but was also skilled in thunder techniques!
In this space, the opponent is actually at a disadvantage, since wind is everywhere, but the attributes of wood and lightning are not so useful.
Unexpectedly, the opponent had laid out a formation in advance to alter the terrain.
Thinking of this, Zhou Yuntao returned the bow solemnly. "Dean Chen is right, I was careless."
While he spent his half-hour leisurely, the other party was intensifying their preparations. He thought the other party didn't take him seriously, but in reality, it was the other way around.
He sensed his surroundings and saw that the giant trees were breathing rapidly, as if trying to absorb all the air around them. This immediately made him recognize the origin of these giant trees.
Hollow Mulberry Tree!!
"It's actually Hollow Mulberry Tree!" Chen Baifeng of Hall of Rectitude and Harmony also recognized it, his face full of surprise.
The Hollow Mulberry Tree, a legendary divine tree, grows taller when the wind blows and can form a bridge to the sky!
This kind of thing only exists in ancient records. I never thought it actually existed in the world. Could it be that this thing was unique to the Azure Dragon Spell from the very beginning?
Chen Qing looked at the ever-growing towering tree and smiled slightly. The Four Saints Spell all have two sides: life and death. For example, the Black Tortoise is born from the earth and dies from the Mysterious Water. Samsara and alternate, endlessly regenerating. The Azure Dragon is the same. The Hollow Mulberry Tree grows when it encounters the wind, which can cover the sky and absorb the resources of the world to strengthen itself. It is a very ominous creature. However, if it expands infinitely, it will attract lightning punishment. As the saying goes, "When a whale falls, all things are born." Whenever a Hollow Mulberry Tree falls, the energy it disperses into the world will become the nourishment for the revival of all things.
This kind of thing is very effective against the White Tiger, because the White Tiger's wind magic always requires the presence of air, but the Hollow Mulberry Tree can absorb all the airflow in one go.
Zhou Yuntao, who was in the middle of it, immediately felt this. The air around him was disappearing rapidly. If he didn't make a move, in ten breaths at most, the air in the entire space would be sucked clean, and he would suffocate to death without the other party having to do anything!