prynovel Chapter 61 : Chapter 61
Chapter 61 : Chapter 61
Chapter 61: I’m Sorry I Couldn’t Give You a Better Fight! Zhao Ziyun Burns Out!
Zhao Ziyun looked at Tian Ji calmly.
“What? You’re Zhao Ziyun?”
The moment Tian Ji heard that name, endless dark flames blazed in his eyes.
His whole body trembled with excitement.
Zhao Ziyun was one of the prodigies he had long since marked for death!
And among all the prodigies in this year’s tournament, Zhao Ziyun was the most talented of them all—a supreme genius who also possessed a Gold Trait!
“So you were skulking around in the shadows. What, were you planning to ambush me? And with only the strength of a mere Great Grandmaster?”
Zhao Ziyun looked at Tian Ji, his tone icy.
“So what if I’m a Great Grandmaster? You’ve only just stepped into the Martial King Realm yourself. Do you really think you’re invincible?”
Tian Ji replied with utter disdain.
Boom!!!
In an instant, monstrous demonic power erupted from his body.
The moment Zhao Ziyun felt that terrifying demonic aura, his pupils narrowed slightly.
“That aura... you actually possess such a powerful demonic bloodline trait!”
Zhao Ziyun immediately sensed that something was wrong with Tian Ji’s bloodline aura.
Of course, the Dark Demon Race Tian Ji belonged to was, in truth, also human—just a human race from another world that possessed the bloodline of the Dark Demon Race.
That made it extraordinarily difficult to identify him as one of the Other Races. Otherwise, there was no way he could have lived peacefully in a place like Imperial Capital University for ten years.
Now that he had felt the terrifying strength Tian Ji had unleashed in this instant, Zhao Ziyun also understood that if he was careless, he really could die here.
Clang!!!
At that moment, Zhao Ziyun wasted no more words and instantly erupted with overwhelming Spear Intent!
A First Level Spear Intent shot into the heavens from his body.
First Level Spear Intent could unleash a terrifying fiftyfold increase in power!
It was a powerful state that only those with a High Silver Technique-Type Talent could trigger.
Under the blessing of that intent, Zhao Ziyun was like a spear piercing through heaven and earth.
A terrifying aura surged wildly around him.
At the same time, his strength rose by well over a hundredfold!
His Gold Strength Enhancement Trait had erupted!
At that moment, the aura around him was equally fearsome.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk. Good. Very good! If I devour you, my talent should improve quite a bit!”
As Tian Ji looked at the terrifying aura erupting from Zhao Ziyun, excitement blazed in his eyes.
“Hmph! Courting death!!”
Zhao Ziyun let out a cold snort. In the next moment, his body turned into a streak of silver light and shot straight toward Tian Ji.
Tian Ji did not waste any words either. His hands flew through a series of seals.
A gigantic magic array spread out behind him.
Against Zhao Ziyun, he intended to use his full power.
He could not afford to repeat what had happened when he fought Xiao Xuan and nearly got killed before he even had the chance to go all out.
“Dark Demon Tianji Break!!”
In the next moment, with a low murmur from Tian Ji—
Boom!!!
The gigantic magic array instantly unleashed a terrifying beam of dark light.
“Cloud-Piercing Thrust!!”
At the same time, Zhao Ziyun bellowed, and a terrifying spear radiance tore through the air.
In the next instant, the beam of destruction collided head-on with Zhao Ziyun’s powerful spear radiance!
Rumble—!!!!!
The moment the two attacks collided, they exploded violently. Terrifying shockwaves and world-destroying energy fluctuations spread out in every direction.
That overwhelmingly powerful force reduced everything in its path to dust in an instant.
The explosion directly engulfed dozens of kilometers of land!
If that clash had taken place inside a city, it might have annihilated the entire city in an instant.
That alone showed that the power of both attacks had already reached the level of an ordinary Martial Emperor. This was the strength of true top-tier prodigies.
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Naturally, that terrifying collision drew the attention of quite a few people!
But it was obvious at a glance that this was a battle between contestants, so no one came over hoping to scavenge any benefit.
After all, there was nothing to scavenge.
...
At the center of the explosion, Zhao Ziyun’s battle armor had been blasted to pieces.
A trickle of blood ran from the corner of his mouth.
The grade of his armor was not low either. It had reached peak sixth tier.
He simply had not expected it to fail to withstand the explosion just now.
Across from him, Tian Ji stood wrapped in a black magical robe, his bloodthirsty eyes fixed on Zhao Ziyun.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk. Are you already done for? Zhao Ziyun, weren’t your words just now a little too bold?”
Tian Ji sneered.
“Your strength is indeed not bad. Unfortunately, if you want to kill me, you’re still lacking a little!”
Zhao Ziyun showed little fear. Instead, boundless battle intent surged from him.
Boom!!
In the next moment, Zhao Ziyun pushed off with one foot. The earth beneath him instantly collapsed into a massive fissure as his body shot toward Tian Ji at an astonishing speed!
He was actually more than twice as fast as before.
Tian Ji frowned at once.
“What is this?”
He was shocked. How had Zhao Ziyun’s speed suddenly increased?
Did he still have hidden traits?
But he did not dare relax.
“Hell Nether Break!!”
A dark scepter instantly appeared in Tian Ji’s hand.
He slammed the staff straight into the ground.
Hummm—!!
In an instant, dozens of mysterious arrays appeared around him.
And the moment Zhao Ziyun rushed into their range—
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!
One dark destructive beam after another shot into the sky from those arrays.
Those beams, powerful enough to instantly kill an ordinary peak Martial King, swallowed Zhao Ziyun whole.
Feeling his energy draining wildly, Tian Ji’s lips curled up slightly.
“Let’s see how you survive this!”
He gave a cold snort.
Clang!!!
But at that very moment, a spear cry sharp enough to pierce the heavens suddenly erupted from within the endless dark pillars of light!
In the next instant, a terrifying spear radiance broke through those pillars with the force to destroy everything and came crushing toward Tian Ji.
“What the hell?!”
Tian Ji’s face turned deathly pale at once.
He did not hesitate. He hurriedly took out a Teleportation Crystal.
Buzz!!!
In the very next instant, space rippled, and his figure vanished from where he stood.
Rumble—!!!!!
Then, with a heaven-shaking explosion, the place where Tian Ji had just been standing was engulfed by that all-destroying spear radiance.
A powerful shockwave spread in every direction.
Everything on the ground in its path was annihilated.
...
It was only a long while later that the dust filling the sky gradually settled.
What it revealed was a young man cloaked in a crimson aura.
Naturally, that was Zhao Ziyun.
At that moment, his body was covered in cracks. The instant blood seeped from them, it was burned into pure Vitality Power and flowed back around him.
“A Teleportation Crystal? Just who was that brat?”
Zhao Ziyun stared at the place where Tian Ji had disappeared, his brows tightly furrowed. If not for the hidden move he had just used, Tian Ji might really have killed him instead.
“Did I come too late?”
At that moment, a helpless voice came from the sky.
Zhao Ziyun suddenly looked up.
He saw a young man in the air with two breathtaking girls beside him.
“What a terrifying explosion! Who is that senior? How can he have such terrifying combat power?!”
In the sky, Su Qingwu looked at the crater spanning dozens of kilometers and could not help crying out in shock.
“A Burst-Type Trait that trades injuries for combat power! You must be Zhao Ziyun, then. Only you could have driven Tian Ji that far back!”
The instant Xiao Xuan saw Zhao Ziyun, he saw through all of his traits.
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Race: Human
Realm: Second Heaven of the Martial King Realm
Traits:
【Spear Technique! Silver】 (Spear technique power +5000%)
【Speed Enhancement! Silver】 (Speed +4500%)
【Strength Enhancement! Gold】 (Strength +11000%)
【Defense Enhancement! Silver】 (Defense +4500%)
【Aptitude Enhancement! Silver】
【Mad God Battle Body! Silver】 (A berserker-type physique. In its normal state, combat power +1000%! The more severely injured the user is, the greater the combat power unleashed. Maximum combat amplification can reach +8000%)
Cultivation Art Grade: Mid Eighth Tier (Skilled)
Martial Technique Grade: Peak Seventh Tier (Skilled)
Overall Assessment: When uninjured, merely an ordinary High Silver talent holder!
Once injured, however, combat power rises explosively. And because it is a berserker-type constitution, it can raise the user’s physical upper limit, greatly magnifying the stacking effects of other traits!
If injured to the limit, his combat power rivals that of a High Gold talent holder!
Extremely dangerous. If you want to defeat him, the best option is to end it instantly!
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After looking at Zhao Ziyun’s traits, Xiao Xuan’s heart jolted.
The Mad God Battle Body could actually exceed the 6000% upper limit of Silver traits and directly reach an 8000% combat amplification?
Now that was a good trait—better even than Xiao Xuan’s Gigantification!
And it could even raise the upper limit of the body.
In other words, if he used Mad God Battle Body and then used Gigantification on top of it, his combat power could rise even more.
Although at first glance this trait looked very similar to the Bloodthirsty Demonic Art, in truth they were completely different!
The Bloodthirsty Demonic Art relied on burning one’s own Essence-Blood to raise the might of one’s Vitality.
But Mad God Battle Body relied on injuries to stimulate the latent power hidden within the body.
They consumed different things, and what they enhanced was also different. That meant the two could stack with one another.
“No. I have to get this trait!”
In that instant, Xiao Xuan made up his mind.
If he let such a powerful trait slip away, it would be a waste of his own cheat ability.
Still, he could not help feeling speechless. After getting beaten by him, Tian Ji had immediately run off and found someone else he still could not beat.
This Zhao Ziyun was the second-place finisher from the Genius Tournament in Xiao Xuan’s future memories.
Although he had not even managed to withstand a single move from Mu Xiying, he had nearly beaten Tian Ji to death.
After all, on an arena stage Tian Ji could not escape with a Teleportation Crystal.
“You know who that person is? Are you friends with him?”
Down below, after hearing Xiao Xuan’s words, Zhao Ziyun spoke in a cold voice.
“We’re not—”
Gu Xuan tried to refute him.
“That’s right. Tian Ji is my friend. We had agreed to hunt you down together. Who would have thought he’d be so useless? He actually let you beat him into retreat. What trash.”
But Xiao Xuan suddenly interrupted with open disdain.
The moment those words came out, Su Qingwu and Gu Xuan were both stunned.
But neither of them was stupid. They quickly realized that Xiao Xuan was probably preparing to fight Zhao Ziyun himself.
That was why he had deliberately provoked him.
With that thought, neither of them said another word. They quickly activated their armor and flew off into the distance.
“Excellent. It seems I usually hide my strength too well. That’s why random vermin like you all think I’m easy to bully!”
Hearing that, Zhao Ziyun’s already cold face turned even colder.
He directly took a pill from his robes and swallowed it.
Boom!!
In an instant, even more cracks spread over his body, and as a result the aura erupting from him grew even stronger than before!
At that moment, the degree to which his power had been unlocked had already reached 6000%.
Compared to the previous thirtyfold level, it was far stronger now.
“A peak sixth-tier healing pill? That kind of ordinary healing pill really does suit your talent trait quite well.”
Seeing that, Xiao Xuan could not help sighing.
At that moment, one 【Blood Loss! Blue】 trait after another was dropping from Zhao Ziyun’s body!
From time to time, a Purple one even fell out.
He was practically a walking trait-drop machine.
Xiao Xuan wasted no time and directly drew the Thunderflame Frenzy Saber.
Hummm!!!
Suddenly, the air all around them shuddered violently, and Xiao Xuan dove downward at terrifying speed.
Clang!!
As he slashed, a terrifying blade radiance tens of thousands of meters long tore through the void and came crashing down toward Zhao Ziyun on the ground.
“Excellent!”
Zhao Ziyun’s eyes lit up.
It was actually the kind of technique-based Martial Artist he liked fighting most!
Boom!!!
Without another word, he kicked off the ground and shot into the sky at terrifying speed, charging straight toward Xiao Xuan.
“Silver Dragon Break!!”
At the same time, a spear radiance shaped like a silver dragon shot skyward and instantly collided with Xiao Xuan’s attack.
Rumble—!!!!!
In an instant, the two attacks smashed into each other, and a powerful shockwave spread in every direction.
And the first to bear the brunt of it were naturally Xiao Xuan and Zhao Ziyun, the two at the center of the explosion.
The terrifying force blasted Zhao Ziyun back several thousand meters, though he stabilized himself almost immediately.
Still, that power shattered his armor and blasted numerous new cracks across his already battered body.
As for Xiao Xuan, he was sent flying backward by that terrifying force.
Rumble—!!!!!
With a deafening explosion, Xiao Xuan smashed straight through a mountain.
His Nanotech Battle Armor exploded apart!
Even so, the armor frantically absorbed the released Thunderflame Power and began repairing itself at once.
Meanwhile, Xiao Xuan’s injuries rapidly healed as he recycled the 【Severely Wounded! Purple】 trait that had appeared on his own body.
“As expected of someone with a Gold Trait. Right now, I really am not his match.”
Xiao Xuan sighed helplessly.
Although Zhao Ziyun had suffered heavy damage, because of his Mad God Battle Body, his combat power continued to rise instead of fall.
The crimson aura around him had become even stronger. At this point, his combat amplification had probably reached seventyfold!
“It looks like I can’t hold back anymore!”
Xiao Xuan took a deep breath and stopped wasting words.
Boom!!!
In an instant, a terrifying Vitality aura burst from his body.
At that moment, Xiao Xuan’s body began expanding wildly.
In the blink of an eye, he became a giant one hundred and fifty meters tall.
At this size, even Ultraman would have looked like a little brother in his eyes.
As Gigantification erupted,
Xiao Xuan’s physical strength also rose to the absolute limit.
That overwhelming Thunderflame Power shot thousands of meters into the sky.
It was so intense that it could be seen clearly even from hundreds of kilometers away.
“No wonder you dared talk so arrogantly. I admit it—your strength truly is something!”
After feeling Xiao Xuan’s aura, Zhao Ziyun’s expression turned grave.
But those who possessed a berserker constitution would never cower, even in death.
Boom!!!
With a violent boom in the air, Zhao Ziyun once more transformed into a streak of silver-red bloody light and charged toward Xiao Xuan!
At the same time, the silver spear in his hand unleashed one terrifying spear radiance after another, each thousands of meters long, smashing toward Xiao Xuan.
Xiao Xuan no longer wasted words either. He pushed the Bloodthirsty Demonic Art to its limit.
The Thunderflame Frenzy Saber, likewise enlarged to over a hundred meters, wildly slashed out blade radiance thousands of meters long.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!!
In an instant, the two of them turned into twin streaks of crimson light and collided wildly again and again.
Although their size difference was enormous, Xiao Xuan’s agility had barely diminished at all.
The terrifying aura released by their attacks was sensed by every other examinee within hundreds of kilometers.
Those examinees flew into the sky and stared at the distant chain of explosions, all of them so shocked their eyes had gone wide.
Especially the top prodigies of the Hundred Provinces.
Looking at the terrifying aftershocks of that battle, they all opened their mouths, unable to say a single word.
This was simply not a fight on the same level as theirs.
In Xiao Xuan’s future memories, Zhao Ziyun’s strength had always been terrifying, but no one had ever forced him to unleash himself to this extent.
Even when he later encountered Tian Ji, Zhao Ziyun had only driven his Mad God Battle Body to a twentyfold amplification before instantly ending the fight.
Even if Tian Ji had been at the same realm, he probably still could not have forced Zhao Ziyun to reveal his full power.
Unfortunately, his final opponent had been Mu Xiying, whose strength had already exceeded Zhao Ziyun’s injury threshold altogether.
She had beaten him half to death in a single move.
No matter how powerful the Mad God Battle Body was, everyone still had a different injury threshold.
If he was hit so hard he could no longer move and lost consciousness, then no matter how strong the physique was, it was useless.
Later, after they entered university, Xiao Xuan and Zhao Ziyun had not had much interaction anyway. Zhao Ziyun had graduated less than two years later.
So now, after witnessing this terrifying battle that had pushed Zhao Ziyun’s power to the absolute limit, even the top talents from the other provinces were all dumbfounded.
They simply could not win.
Even the strongest among them, who had already reached the Fifth Heaven of the Martial King Realm, could only back down in the face of such terrifying power.
At this moment, Zhao Ziyun’s strength had already come infinitely close to that of a terrifying High Gold talent holder.
If Xiao Xuan’s realm had not risen to the First Heaven of the Martial King Realm before his battle with Tian Ji, he would already have lost by now.
Unlike the others, however, Tian Ji—who had fled—was thrilled.
“What the hell? That brat and Zhao Ziyun are actually fighting? Did that brat chase after me and just happen to run into Zhao Ziyun?”
Tian Ji’s eyes lit up as he looked at the distant battle.
He could not beat either of them on his own.
But that did not mean he had no trump cards.
As long as he used his true ace after Xiao Xuan and Zhao Ziyun were both gravely injured, he would absolutely be able to wipe them both out!
The reason he had fled before was simply because there had been no time—his trump card required time to activate.
Now, however, things were different. Since those two were already fighting, he only needed to activate it from the shadows!
At that thought, he wasted no time. He turned into a mass of black mist and rushed toward Xiao Xuan and Zhao Ziyun at tremendous speed.
Buzz!!!
But he had only just taken flight
when he suddenly saw a streak of golden light falling from the sky at terrifying speed.
“What is that?”
Tian Ji froze.
But in the next instant, his face turned deathly pale.
“What the hell?!”
He turned and ran in terror.
But the object dropping from the sky had already smashed into him in the next instant.
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Meanwhile, on the other side, the commotion from Xiao Xuan’s battle with Zhao Ziyun grew more and more terrifying.
At that point, Zhao Ziyun’s body was covered in cracks so deep that bone could be seen.
He looked utterly miserable.
And yet his aura had already climbed to its very peak.
Every move and every strike he unleashed now carried enough terrifying force to instantly kill an ordinary Martial Emperor.
Xiao Xuan, by contrast, looked almost leisurely.
Anyone with half a brain could see that the two were no longer fighting on the same level.
Without Gigantification, Xiao Xuan’s combat power was actually not much stronger than Zhao Ziyun’s.
But after enlarging himself, even if he could not reach the full thirtyfold bonus of Gigantification, it still gave him a five- or sixfold increase!
And against a Zhao Ziyun who had already reached his limit, that five- or sixfold gap was an insurmountable chasm!
That was only because Zhao Ziyun’s talent grade was so high. His traits were almost all high-tier or peak Silver, with even a Gold trait among them.
Only by stacking all those traits together could he fight Xiao Xuan to this extent at the same realm. After all, Zhao Ziyun was a High Silver talent, while Xiao Xuan was already beyond the level of a Peak Silver talent!
“Already running out this quickly?”
At last, after fighting for half an hour, Xiao Xuan let out a helpless sigh.
Zhao Ziyun’s power had begun to decline. That meant his strength was finally running dry.
That was only because he had swallowed two more pills in the middle of the battle. Otherwise, he would have collapsed long ago.
But if anyone could have seen the Trait Orbs, they would have been shocked to discover that large numbers of Blue and Purple traits were pouring out of Zhao Ziyun’s body, all of them being dragged into Xiao Xuan by a powerful force of attraction.
Even so, Xiao Xuan still refused to give Zhao Ziyun a clean end. Instead, he gradually withdrew his Gigantification
and fought Zhao Ziyun in his normal form.
Even then, Zhao Ziyun’s aura only grew weaker and weaker, and the attacks he unleashed grew weaker as well.
Gradually, his movements even seemed to slow to a crawl.
His breathing also became more and more labored.
Unfortunately, by the later stage, even Xiao Xuan could no longer touch him properly!
At last, Zhao Ziyun could no longer hold onto his spear, and it slipped from his grasp.
“So... I still lost, did I? You weren’t even using your full strength, were you?”
Looking at Xiao Xuan, who was not even breathing hard, Zhao Ziyun forced out a bitter smile.
“Not really. I just recover quickly, that’s all.”
Xiao Xuan lied casually.
“Is that so? What a ridiculous lie.”
Zhao Ziyun gave a miserable smile, not believing a word of it.
In the next instant, the light vanished completely from his eyes. After one last 【Near Death! Silver】 trait dropped from his body, he fell from the sky.
Bang!!!
The moment he hit the ground, the flesh all over his body burst apart.
Several Silver traits exploded out of him, making him look as though he had truly died.
“So this is what they call... burning out?”