Translator: Sparrow Translations Editor: Sparrow Translations
Yue Hongyan’s body was enveloped in endless raging flames, and continued charging towards the Extreme Tooth Dragon King like a being of fire.
The Extreme Tooth Dragon King was not any better himself. There were over ten gashes of blood dotted over his body, all inflicted by Yue Hongyan’s Royal Extermination Pole-Ax. Even though it was a magic treasure still in the Gestation realm, even the Extreme Tooth Dragon King could not withstand its assault after Yue Hongyan channelled all her martial arts abhijina into its attack. Fortunately for him, Yue Hongyan withdrew her Flashing Electro-Star Holy Spear as soon as she released it, and he intentionally added a layer of Dragon Flame Armor over his body surface, or else Yue Hongyan’s ten gashes would have penetrated his body all the way through.
As horrifying as his wounds looked, the injuries had not damaged his nerves or bones yet. The Extreme Tooth Dragon King groaned as his wounds ignited with sparks of flares which swiftly covered all the wounds on his body. Since his individual wounds were not serious injuries, the Extreme Tooth Dragon King could gradually heal himself just with his own demonic energy.
The wounds stopped bleeding very quickly and then healed in a very short amount of time. This way, the Extreme Tooth Dragon King’s offensive power did not take a significant blow.
The Extreme Tooth Dragon King did not lower his guard. He was not satisfied with both sides taking great amounts of damage. As he hurried to stop his bleeding, he continued lobbing attacks towards Yue Hongyan.
He already had a clear understanding of how ferocious and tenacious Yue Hongyan. Even though she was a woman, he knew that her unbending will was a far greater asset than her exterior beauty. Furthermore, Yue Hongyan specialized in powerful attacks, and was a classic case of being a glass cannon, and might even forsake her defensive capabilities completely just to attack.
As a powerhouse in martial arts, once the rhythm of the battle falls into her control, she could unleash an endless barrage of attacks until she kills her opponent. Once Yue Hongyan seizes a slight advantage, she would keep suppressing her opponent until her opponent has no energy left to retaliate, only forcefully withstanding the assaults until he eventually succumbs. She was like a warrior born solely to attack.
The Extreme Tooth Dragon King assumed that he knew Yue Hongyan well enough, but in fact, he still underestimated her capabilities.
Completely ignoring the flames burning her body, which had already burned through the Seven Merciless Stars Armor and scorched her skin, Yue Hongyan launched another attack. To her, suffering a certain amount of damage to inch closer to securing the control of the battle was something that did not require any second thoughts!
In a moment of carelessness, the Extreme Tooth Dragon King ultimately allowed Yue Hongyan to seize the advantage over their battle. In an instant, her savage attacks crashed down on the Extreme Tooth Dragon King like a cascading storm, with the sheer intensity and concentration of her attacks being extremely suffocating.
Among the Divine Spears of the Four Appearances Heavenly Spell, Yue Hongyan continuously summoned the two most offensive spears, the Unstoppable Thunderstorm Spear and the Heaven-Crossing Squall Spear, as if she summoned wild gales and vicious thunderbolts to suppress the Extreme Tooth Dragon King in a fury. The intensity could be likened to a combined attack by a ten-thousand strong calvary storming through the lands.
Even though the Extreme Tooth Dragon King was a great demon that has attained the Original True Spirit, he was nonetheless disoriented in this moment, being pelted left and right. Under the immense pressure, all he could do was to defend. He was as vexed as ever in such a situation, continuously plotting his counterattack to regain the upper hand.
However, Yue Hongyan’s assault was furious yet coordinated. Between the Unstoppable Thunderstorm Spears and Heaven-Crossing Squall Spears, she included her Flashing Electro-Star Holy Spear to support her attack, securely grasping the rhythm and tide of the battle in her hands.
Her battle style leans towards powerful attacks, and offense is indeed her speciality. Once the initiation and rhythm of the attacks fall into her control, no one would be able to seize the advantage back from her unless they surpassed her in strength by miles.
For Yue Hongyan, the opponents she is least afraid of would be those who counter her attacks with their own, while her favorite opponents are those specializing in defense. She is capable of crushing the opponent’s defenses by sheer force, no matter how sturdy those defense are.
Yue Hongyan’s battling style is unyielding but her techniques are greatly versatile, and can be either forceful or fluid. She could always devise a solution to deal with opponents specializing in various forms of defense. So, once the tide of the battle lands in her control, most of her opponents would be pelted by an incessant barrage of storm-like attacks until they are pulverized to death. Even if they possess any unique techniques or formidable abhijina, they wouldn’t be able to employ in time against Yue Hongyan’s attacks, and could only be slaughtered helplessly.
At this moment, the Extreme Tooth Dragon King was in this exact state of helplessness and despondence.
You always gain and lose something in anything that you do, and there’s a limit to how much you can gain. The Extreme Tooth Dragon King firmly believed that Yue Hongyan could not possibly continue attacking forever, neither could her attacks grow stronger over time without an upper limit.
Hence, even though he stood at a disadvantage presently, he was not in a hurry to regain the upper hand. He believed that Yue Hongyan’s attacks would eventually decrease in power, and that would be his opportunity to change the tides of the battle. Her endless barrage of attacks would certainly drain substantial amounts of her mana and physical energy. When that time comes, once she loses her advantage, she would be unable to regain control over the battle again.
And for a battle style like Yue Hongyan’s, once the user loses the control of the battle and becomes suppressed by her opponent, her defeat would come much swifter than her opponent’s.
However, the Extreme Tooth Dragon King was dealt with another merciless blow of truth. Yue Hongyan’s attack did not subside like a volcano after a violent eruption. Instead, it resembled continuously pounding waves, with the rising and falling tides changing with her own inner rhythm, always within her own control and never giving the Extreme Tooth Dragon King a chance to seize it.
When her barrage of waves seemed to subside, with the Extreme Tooth Dragon King seemingly being granted a chance to retaliate, he was greeted with a new round of even more ferocious waves.
Yue Hongyan’s attack was not only vicious, but also long-lasting. This made the Extreme Tooth Dragon King question that he would be the one suffering another grievous round of damage before Yue Hongyan’s strength decreased.
As the Extreme Tooth Dragon King withstood wave after wave of Yue Hongyan’s tsunami-like assaults, he glared at her menacingly, and noticing that her body was still covered in draconic flames. These flames were undoubtedly burning her body, and he believed that these injuries would certainly be affecting her strength and cause her attacking intensity to decline much quicker.
This was not something that could be overcome simply with pure grit, and it was a actual problem that she had to face.
But very quickly, the Extreme Tooth Dragon King’s expression changed. Azure water surged over Yue Hongyan’s body, dark and pure, and it began extinguishing the draconic flames burning her body.
“The Grand Moon Primordial Water!” The Extreme Tooth Dragon King’s gaze froze. He immediately recognized the flowing water around Yue Hongyan as the Grand Moon Primordial Water of the Six Legendary Primordial Waters of the world.
Previously, when Yue Hongyan wanted to gain the upper hand, she was willing to endure the excruciating pain from the raging flames burning her body, and unleashed her fury while ignoring the pain from her wounds. And now, with her actually clinching the upper hand and summoning the Grand Moon Primordial Water to extinguish the draconic flames, she eased her injuries to a large extent.
Even though the wounds could not be erased immediately, and still affected her physical strength, Yue Hongyan was nonetheless confident of first stabbing her opponent with a lethal blow without her injuries worsening.
When the Extreme Tooth Dragon King witnessed this sight, his gaze grew cold but he dawned upon a realization. “Although she managed to cultivate the Grand Moon Primordial Water, but she has yet to integrate the abhijina with her own martial arts cultivation, and hence can only use the Primordial Water to extinguish the flames on her body while being unable to channel the water to deal any effective damage on me.”
There was still a considerable gap between both of their mastery levels. If Yue Hongyan could not blend the Grand Moon Primordial Water and her martial arts abhijina with the Royal Extermination Pole-Ax and the Seven Merciless Stars Armor, her Primordial Water would not be able to effectively withstand the Extreme Tooth Dragon King’s draconic flames.
Upon realizing this, a cryptic pattern appeared on the Extreme Tooth Dragon King’s forehead!
It was the Divine Original True Spirit Pattern of the Fire Dragon Tribe!
As the Divine Original True Spirit Pattern flickered, the Extreme Tooth Dragon King let out a deep growl. The individually formidable rays of flames that he expectorated suddenly began blending together, intersecting with each other. The criss-crossing flames created a web of fire which curled up into a ball, shielding the Extreme Tooth Dragon King inside.
Amidst the flowing fire, the web of fire continued to swirl and shift, blocking Yue Hongyan’s advance from all directions.
Yue Hongyan’s eyes blazed like fire themselves. She glared at the Extreme Tooth Dragon King as her spear formation abruptly changed. She switched to the Flashing Electro-Star Holy Spear and stabbed continuously at the web of fire with lightning speed.
Suddenly, countless rays of black light swirled continuously in the skies above, surrounding the cocoon-like red flaming sphere and proceeded to pierce it mercilessly.
But as the Extreme Tooth Dragon King continued spitting out draconic flames, the mesh-like web of life gradually changed its appearance, and transformed into a complete layer of film without any slits. On opposite sides of the film, there were seemingly two completely different worlds, segregating Yue Hongyan’s attacks to the other side.
For the Extreme Tooth Dragon King, he temporarily gave up his chances at clinching the upper hand of the battle, concentrating all his strength into defense.
For such a proud Fire Dragon to defend to the death like a turtle in its shell, it was undeniably the greatest form of humiliation for him. But for a great demon like who has attained the Original True Spirit to abandon all pride to defend himself, even Yue Hongyan who specializes in powerful attacks, would be unable to break through his defenses so easily.
The Extreme Tooth Dragon King remained expressionless, his eyes seething with shame and anger, yet also containing cold bloodlust, maintaining the intensity of his draconic flames while healing his injuries at full speed.
After withstanding Yue Hongyan’s current round of attacks, it would be his turn to retaliate.
Facing such impenetrable defenses, Yue Hongyan abruptly withdrew her spears and stared coldly at the blazing line of flames before her.
With a swing of her Royal Exterminating Pole-Ax, torrents of the Grand Moon Primordial Water began gathering at the tip of her spear. Strems of azure water swirled around the tip of the spear, gradually forming a giant vortex.
The water flow was not stable and even sprayed downwards continuously. The azure vortex broke apart in succession and condensed together unsteadily again.
But the Extreme Tooth Dragon King’s expression suddenly changed. “She’s using the pressure I’m putting on her to raise her mastery of martial arts. She’s about to integrate the Grand Moon Primordial Water into her personal martial arts cultivation!”
The vortex created by the Grand Moon Primordial Water gradually stabilized. Amidst the endlessly swirling streams of water, numerous thunderbolts danced across the surface of the water.
Countless purplish-blue flashes of lightning streaked down between the dense layers of clouds, creating consecutive thunderous cracks that erupted throughout the void space. Clouds from all directions began concentrating above the Extreme Tooth Dragon King’s head.
And in the following instant, the Unstoppable Thunderstorm Spear, coupled with the Grand Moon Primordial Water, charged violently towards the Extreme Tooth Dragon King’s barrier of draconic flames!