Coiling Dragon

by welyjesch

  “Battle!” Their ten faces all changed.

  “Captain.” Melina was frantic.

  “Quick, attack!” Shanda let out a low growl, and was the first to fly out, with the other nine Six Star Fiends immediately charging out at high speed as well.

  Although they were more than ten kilometers away, to Six Star Fiends, that sort of distance could be traversed in a twinkling.

  “Captain, you have to be able to hold.”

  The ten Six Star Fiends silently prayed as they moved. To traverse ten kilometers, Six Star Fiends only needed a second. However, a second, in a battle between supreme experts, was enough for many attacks to be exchanged.

  When Six Star Fiends or Seven Star Fiends did battle, every thousandth or ten-thousandth of a second, a person could die.

  “Material attacks!”

  All of the Six Star Fiends, after receiving the order, trusted in Mosley’s judgment. This was because they all knew that in the Four Divine Beasts clan, the clan with the most powerful physical defense was the Black Tortoise clan, while the Azure Dragon clan’s physical defense wasn’t too powerful; only those three famous figures amongst them had truly powerful bodies.

  But Linley…

  Clearly wasn’t one of those three, nor was he on the list of high-danger individuals that their intelligence reports had provided him. His body shouldn’t be too tough.

  Not hesitating at all, the Six Star Fiends all forcibly attempted to resist that gravitational pull while simultaneously attempting to launch their most powerful material attacks. Shattered metallic scraps flew out at high speed from within that Blackstone Space, and a white fog was beginning to spread out.

  It was like a phantom, a bizarre illusion…

  “Swoosh!” A completely translucent icy awl tore through the air, shooting towards Linley.

  “Haaargh!” His clothes exploding, a muscular expert of the Barbary clan brandished a giant icesword, the edge of the icesword gleaming with light. Clutching that giant icesword, he chopped down it with from mid-air in a dominating manner against Linley.

  “Crackle!”

  One slender icy needle after another shot out, translucent and thin, the size and shape of embroidery needles. If one wasn’t paying special attention to them, one wouldn’t even be able to see them clearly.

  Seeing this response from the enemies, the corner of Linley’s lips curved upwards.

  “The second one!” Linley flew directly towards the man who was chopping down at him with that icesword, completely ignoring the icy needles shooting at him from behind. With a series of ‘crunch’ ‘crunch’ sounds, the icy needles struck Linley’s draconic scales, then immediately disintegrated, leaving behind just some white residue on the scales.

  “Not good.” The Six Star Fiends who were surrounding and attacking Linley couldn’t help but have their faces change in worry.

  In particular, that man who was chopping downwards with his icesword. His heart trembled.

  “You won’t be able to flee.” A voice rang out in his mind. The Six Star Fiend realized that a pair of dark golden eyes was staring at him. He could sense that astonishing gravitational pull, and knew that he wouldn’t be able to escape. He let out a bellow. “Die!”

  The muscular man’s face was savage, and as he bellowed, he chopped downwards with full force with his blade.

  Where the icesword passed, voids in space appeared. Clearly, those were made from torn rips in space.

  “Whoosh!” A blur suddenly came chopping over. He only sensed that the air seemed to tremble, then explode. A draconic tail lashed viciously against his icesword, and the terrifying power of that draconic tail was actually completely focused on the sword.

  The muscular man only felt his arms go numb, and the icesword was sent flying away. Immediately afterwards, tears in the palm of his hand appeared, created by the shock of the impact, and blood flowed out.

  “You can follow your captain now.” The voice rang out in his mind.

  “No!” The muscular man roared angrily, his entire body instantly emitting streams of water that completely surrounded him.

  “Whoosh!”

  After whipping the icesword aside, Linley’s draconic tail whistled through the air as it shot backwards, slashing directly against the muscular man’s head. It must be said that Linley’s body was simply too powerful, and that his strength was simply too terrifying.

  “Bang!” A powerful tremor. The muscular man’s head immediately exploded, and a divine spark fell out.

  Yet another Six Star Fiend had died!

  That group of bandits just stared, slack-jawed, at this scene. Linley’s Blackstone Space was made in a way which specially focused his divine earth power against his opponents, and thus didn’t have much of an impact on these bandits.

  After all, if he drew the bandits over, they’d just get in his way.

  The bandits all immediately flew out of the Blackstone Space’s range, but the battle that was going on above them caused them to be utterly dazed.

  The speed of this battle was too fast!

  The power was too terrifying!

  “Those are spatial tears. Spatial tears.” One of the bandits, a God, called out numbly like an idiot. Only the material attacks of someone who was at least at the Six Star Fiend level of power was capable of creating spatial tears. These bandits normally would never have a chance to see such a thing.

  To the likes of them, creating spatial tears in the Infernal Realm was something out of legends.

  “When those icy needles that created spatial tears hit that God, they didn’t do anything!” The bandits stared dumbly.

  For a body to be able to withstand an attack that could create spatial tears was…too terrifying.

  “He…he…” The bandits stared disbelievingly at the Dragonformed Linley.

  “That God, we were actually…”

  “What ‘God’? He’s an expert. A Six Star Fiend. No, a Seven Star Fiend! A true, supreme expert. He was just hiding his power just now.” The leader of the bandits immediately shouted. “Quick, let’s run farther away and watch from a distance. Let’s not get hit by any shockwaves. In battles like this, the slightest shockwaves can take our lives with ease.”

  “Right, right.”

  The bandits were completely stunned, and all of them hurriedly ran farther into the distance.

  From Linley’s killing of the captain to the execution of the Six Star Fiend, barely any time had actually passed, perhaps just as long as it took for the sparks of a flint to emerge when struck. But that instant had caused the ten-plus enemies to be completely stunned.

  “Lord Mosley, his body is very powerful.” The Six Star Fiends hurriedly sent through divine sense.

  “We used our full force against him in material attacks, but weren’t able to hurt him at all.”

  Just now, Linley had only dodged slightly. Even if a few attacks landed on him, he wasn’t too concerned. He didn’t even fear the material attacks of Seven Star Fiends. How could he fear the material attacks of Six Star Fiends?

  “He’s a soul expert, and his material defense is so powerful as well.” Mosley had a bad feeling, but then he made his decision. “Since material attacks are useless, I’ll have to test a soul attack. I want to see if he’ll be able to endure my soul attack.”

  Mosley had no other options.

  “Soul attacks, en masse!” Mosley gave the order.

  Mosley knew that no matter how tough one’s soul was, if one was hit by a large number of soul attacks from many experts, one would still be doomed. This was because when a true expert was dealing with group attacks, the way to successfully deal with them wasn’t to take them all head on, it was to make sure that each time, only a few attacks would actually land.

  “The third!” Linley instantly stared at Mosley.

  Based on quick reaction from the other side, Linley became certain that this devilish man with serpents hanging from his ears should be a tough opponent.

  “Sw
oosh!” Linley immediately flew over.

  Mosley was resisting the gravitational pull; there was no way he could escape Linley’s attack. Mosley didn’t try to escape either; his right palm stretched out, and his eyes shot out with a hazy black light as his lips began to move as he mumbled some strange words.

  “Captain!” Right at this moment, Melina and the others flew over at high speed.

  Linley felt a surge of jubilation in his heart. His right hand flipped out, and a devilish violet light flashed. Bloodviolet, carrying Linley’s force, chopped directly towards Mosley.

  His powerful physical strength, when matched with the Profound Truths of Velocity, caused Bloodviolet’s speed to reach an extreme.

  Where the sword passed by, space cracked apart.

  Mosley’s right palm struck out towards Linley, and instantly, a pitch-black, semi-translucent hand seal shot out towards Linley. Linley’s face changed, and at just this moment, the other Six Star Fiends all launched their own soul attacks as well.

  “Haaargh.” Linley hurriedly changed the direction of his Gravitational Space.

  He made gravity pull downwards!

  Caught by surprise, those Six Star Fiends couldn’t help but drop, and their soul attacks were impacted as well.

  “Crunch.” The translucent hand seal covered by that black light shot directly into Linley’s body. There was no way to block it at all, and Linley himself hurriedly pulled away from the enemy while whole-heartedly focusing on defending against this soul attack.

  The black hand burrowed its way into Linley’s body, then dug towards Linley’s mind.

  “Not good.” Linley’s face changed dramatically.

  He immediately flew into the sky, striving to put some distance between him and his opponents, for fear that another attack would come.

  “BANG!” When that black hand seal entered his mind, it struck directly against that ‘translucent membrane’. It trembled slightly, as though it was about to disperse, but then, strangely enough, the energy of the black hand seal actually spread out, covering Linley’s entire consciousness, instantly discovering the weak spot.

  Amazingly enough, the dispersed energy then reformed, actually transforming into a needle, piercing directly towards the flaw in the membrane…

  Book 17, Indigo Prefecture – Chapter 26, Spiritual Chaos

  The ‘bandage’ over the flaw in the membrane managed to resist for only a moment before being punctured straight through by that black needle. The black needle entered the most important part of Linley’s mind…the area above his sea of consciousness.

  “Rumble…”

  The entire sea of consciousness began to swirl, and countless rays of spiritual energy danced about, merged together with that ‘azure light’ and swept towards that black needle, which had no place to hide.

  “Crackle…” That spiritual energy which glowed with azure light surrounded the black needle and stalemated it, with the two slowly grinding each other down.

  Mosley and the other fourteen Six Star Fiends raised their heads, staring at Linley.

  “Lord Mosley, what should we do?” They looked at Mosley.

  “Keep attacking. His soul defense isn’t exceptionally strong. Otherwise, he wouldn’t need to spend so much time to resist my attack.” Mosley immediately ordered. “Remember. Use soul attacks against him.”

  “Yes!”

  The experts immediately rushed into the sky.

  Linley’s ashen face returned to its normal appearance. At this moment, Melina, Shanda, and the other ten Six Star Fiends of the Azure Dragon clan had gathered here as well.

  “Captain, are you alright?” Melina hurriedly asked.

  “I’m fine.” Linley shook his head, but in his heart, he still felt a surge of fear. “Luckily, I’ve undergone the Ancestral Baptism, and the primal energy of the Azure Dragon clan intensified and merged with my soul. In the end, I was able to endure it.” The primal energy of the Azure Dragon clan, that azure light, was very unusual. It was capable of fusing with spiritual energy in order to execute their innate divine ability.

  At the same time, it could also be used to protect the soul.

  “They are attacking.” A member of the squad suddenly said frantically.

  Linley lowered his head to stare at the fifteen people flying towards them at high speed. He immediately ordered through divine sense, “That bald, gray-robed man is a Seven Star Fiend who specializes in soul attacks. In a little bit, Shanda, you and the other five who are specialized in material attacks should go deal with him. As for the other four, accompany me in killing the other Six Star Fiends.”

  “Captain, just Shanda and the other five? Are they enough?” Melina said with concern.

  “Don’t worry. I still have a card up my sleeve I have yet to play.” Linley looked down at the fifteen people charging from below.

  The reason he hadn’t used his ultimate technique was because his forces hadn’t arrived yet. Another reason was that he was afraid that the enemy would panic and immediately flee. This was why he hadn’t used that technique…Spiritual Chaos! Spiritual Chaos was a technique which could only be used with the assistance of the ‘black stone’.

  At Miluo Island, Linley had relied on this technique to force a large number of Highgods to enter a dazed state.

  Even Seven Star Fiends would be slightly affected. But when experts did battle, just a slight effect would be enough!

  “Eleven of them?” Mosley narrowed his eyes.

  “Ignore the others. Kill that leader!” Mosley shouted through divine sense. “When we kill that Seven Star Fiend, we can be considered as having avenged your captain.”

  “Kill!”

  At this time, nobody was going to retreat. Nobody who dared to join their clan’s war-squads would cower. Mosley led his fourteen Six Star Fiends in an upwards charge, directly into Linley’s ‘Blackstone Space’. These fifteen people were clustered together, for fear of being targeted and killed individually.

  The fifteen flew together, as though they were one unified body, directly towards Linley.

  The ten Six Star Fiends of the Azure Dragon clan were next to Linley as well, and Linley gave the order coolly. “Let’s go!” According to their plan, Linley’s group of eleven would also charge downwards. After all, the distance between them was less than a few hundred meters.

  They would fight in close combat in just a moment!

  “Kill!” Linley’s side seemed to care not one whit for their own lives.

  “Kill!” Mosley’s side, as well, seemed to be utterly fearless towards death.

  Linley’s eyes suddenly flashed and turned cold.

  In his sea of consciousness, his spiritual energy, centered around the ‘black stone’, began to turn, and strange rays of spiritual energy instantly spread out, surrounding the entire Gravitational Space. This ‘Spiritual Chaos’ effect was immediately applied against those fifteen people.

  “Whoooosh.”

  Mosley’s group of fifteen simultaneously heard a very strange, unique wind sound reverberate in their minds. This sort of wind sound caused their minds to uncontrollably feel dazed for a moment. But that moment of being dazed was also the most critical moment in this battle…

  “Slash!” “Slash!” “Slash!”

  Just like slicing watermelons, more than half of the Six Star Fiends of the Barbary clan who were affected by the ‘Spiritual Chaos’ were killed. Linley was like a tiger or like a pack of wolves, instantly killing three of the Six Star Fiends.

  Shanda and the other five who were specialized in material attacks launched their assaults directly against Mosley.

  Mosley just felt his head go slightly dizzy, but his mind was still clear. As a supreme expert who specialized in the soul, this sort of soul effect didn’t impact him too much. But when he saw how many people on his side had been killed, he was instantly enraged.

  Mosley let out an explosive howl.

  A translucent, fan-shaped ripple burst out from Mosley, sprea
ding out towards those six attackers coming from in front of him. Shanda and the other Six Star Fiends only had enough time to unleash a single fierce material attack before they themselves were hit.

  The translucent ripple passed through the bodies of Shanda and the other five. Their bodies trembled, and then three of them collapsed from the skies.

  The three had died!

  “Shanda!” Melina called out frantically.

  “Big Brother!” Another squad member, a female one, howled bitterly as well.

  Shanda was one of the three who had died.

  “Not good.” Watching this from behind, Linley was deeply shocked. “This person was actually unaffected by my Spiritual Chaos technique.” In Miluo Island, he had battled against Seven Star Fiends before, and that time, his opponent had been affected.

  However…

  Mosley clearly was highly specialized in the soul, and thus his endurance in taking these attacks was greater as well.

  “Swish!” “Swish!” “Swish!”

  The material attacks which Shanda’s group of six had launched had transformed into the shapes of sabers, needles, awls, threads…and all of them shot out towards Mosley. Although Mosley’s soul was strong, his material defense was average.

  The gravity was too strong. Mosley didn’t have enough time to dodge.

  “Aaaaaargh!” Mosley let out an angry roar, a deep, rumbling roar.

  Immediately, the illusory image of an enormous long, black, coiling serpent appeared behind Mosley. This black serpent naturally emanated a heart-shaking aura. Its entire body was as black as tar. It only had a single eye, and this eye was vertical, as red as blood.

  “Slash!” “Slash!”

  The material attacks slashed down on Mosley’s body. His armor shattered, and his body was cut into. Mosley, knowing that he didn’t have enough time to dodge, had focused on allowing the energy attacks to strike non-lethal parts of his body, guaranteeing that his head was undamaged.

  This was the problem with material attacks; they weren’t like ‘soul attacks’, which could be aimed at a specific weakness, making it so that there was no real way to protect an ‘important part’ of the body. Material attacks were generally only effective in close combat.