Chapter 89 Fierce Battle
"You yourself come."
Leng Tianfeng immediately understood the meaning behind Alkaid's words.
The next moment...
He burst into laughter.
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"Su Alkaid, right? I'll call you Su Alkaid then..."
He watched as Alkaid drew his sword, amused by his actions, "Very well, you've successfully caught my attention, now..."
"Whoosh!"
The sword light broke through the air.
Like a whip tearing through the void, carrying a chill that pierced straight to the heart, it appeared instantly in front of Leng Tianfeng.
The next second...
Leng Tianfeng acted like lightning, his right hand clad in a glove made of some special material, grabbing Alkaid's sword with extreme precision as it flashed towards him.
Indescribably precise.
Leng Tianfeng's move to grab Alkaid's thrusting sword showcased ineffable precision and the use of vigor.
It was as if the two were not engaged in a life-and-death battle but were shooting a movie instead, each giving the other moves, just to present the best visual impact.
"Buzz, buzz!"
The sword's hum echoed through the void.
Leng Tianfeng's brows carried a hint of chilliness, "Even without using the combat support module, with my countless years of battle experience, such sword techniques — I'll give you a hundred years, and you still won't be able to hurt a single hair on me..."
The blood and qi burst forth.
The moment the sword in his hand was tightly gripped by Leng Tianfeng, the potential stimulated by the Star Pointing Technique caused the vigor contained in Alkaid's sword to surge, the high-frequency vibrating blade struggling free from Leng Tianfeng's grasp and thrusting forward directly.
"Activated adrenaline, did you?"
Leng Tianfeng's expression didn't change much, as he simply tilted his head lightly, seemingly not in a life-and-death fight but rather dancing gracefully.
As he allowed the Divine Shadow Sword's blade to carry its vigor past his ear into the void, his right hand followed with a thrust, his fingers forming a sword – not very fast, but containing an indescribable mystery.
At his fingertips, a point seemed to appear.
This point, as though forming a black hole on a spiritual and blood-and-qi level, involuntarily attracted Alkaid's essence, blood, and spirit towards it, causing not only his spirit to be disturbed but also impacting the circulation of his qi and blood towards the finger Leng Tianfeng pointed.
It was like...
He was channeling his essence, blood, and spirit towards Leng Tianfeng's finger, matching his move to completely crush his own essence, blood, and spirit in one strike.
"This is..."
Alkaid's pupils contracted.
Life Force Field!
This was the manipulation of one's own Life Force Field to interfere with another being's essence, qi, and spirit!
Unlike Divine Intent, which merely interfered with the mental state, it completely distorted a person's perception of the external world from the levels of essence, qi, and spirit.
Even at this moment, Alkaid could not achieve this extent.
"His realm..."
Alkaid's spiritual state escalated to an unprecedented peak.
The Life Force Field suddenly erupted from him, instantly countering the disruption to his own essence, qi, and spirit caused by that finger.
Simultaneously, he neither dodged nor evaded; his Divine Shadow Sword held in the empty space suddenly swiveled and slashed horizontally, its icy edge nearly grazing past Leng Tianfeng's head.
"To be able to activate the protective field module at this power level?"
Leng Tianfeng was somewhat surprised.
But he quickly realized something.
"The protective field is crucial for survival and indeed is the module most easily activated in a crisis."
As he spoke, his movements were incredibly fast, his head tilting sideways, the Divine Shadow Sword's blade sweeping tightly past it.
The vigor within the blade swept up dozens of his hairs into the void.
At that moment, his finger-point strike also precisely landed on Alkaid.
This finger, disturbing essence, qi, and spirit, did disrupt the Life Force Field, but the moment it hit Alkaid's body, he felt an electrifying vigor penetrating every corner of his body.
His qi and vigor, even his thought processes seemed disrupted by the force of this finger, coming to a halt.
His figure also staggered back three steps under the penetrative vigor contained in this finger.
But...
Leng Tianfeng's body wasn't particularly strong.
Since Alkaid had activated the Life Force Field protecting his organs, the penetrating power of this finger did not shatter his internal organs; and the so-called disruption of qi and vigor was also instantly corrected by the operating Life Force Field.
Feeling his hairs sheared off by the Divine Shadow Sword, a chill gradually emerged in Leng Tianfeng's eyes.
Just now he had said, with Alkaid's swordsmanship, even a hundred years of practice would be insufficient for him to hurt even a single hair on his head, yet how long had passed...
He had been directly proven wrong.
This made him somewhat annoyed and embarrassed.
"Given the power level of your body, the Life Force Field can't last for much time. I can make you exhaust your essence and qi by delaying, which would be your own doing, but... I don't plan to do that!"
Leng Tianfeng's body gradually began to show demonic traits...
"I plan to smash your skull, absorb your soul, place it in a box, and refine it into one of my three thousand six hundred virtual pets, so every day when you see me, the first thing you do is run up to me, wagging your tail and begging..."
Sword like Shocking Thunder!
Very much aware that the demon manifesting its true body would become stronger, Alkaid did not hesitate to strike again with his sword.
Under the Star Pointing Technique, the force of his blood and qi climbed to an unmatched level, and with his body now fully refreshed, it was as if a powerful engine was installed within him. As it operated, his entire body seemed to possess endless strength.
This force converged perfectly within the Divine Shadow Sword through immaculate control over his own vigor, causing a visible white surge to erupt on the blade as it thrust, and a dull roar of Shocking Thunder to sound in the Void.
Despite the thunderous force of that strike, Leng Tianfeng didn't even glance at it, his eyes dead set on Alkaid's figure as he ferociously pounced forward.
"What use is the mightiest attack if it fails to hit its target!?"
In the moment their bodies came into contact, Leng Tianfeng slightly twisted his form and miraculously avoided the potent strike of the thunderous sword at the last possible moment.
It was perilous, yet it seemed calculated.
"Tell me, what use are you!?"
He bellowed, spreading his hands wide as he aimed a blow at Alkaid's head.
Clearly, he intended to use the force of both hands to clap together and crush Alkaid's head into a pulp.
However, before his clasped hands could reach the temples on either side of Alkaid's head, a surge of vigor suddenly exploded from the tip of the Divine Shadow Sword that had stabbed into empty space.
It was as if a mini cannonball had detonated on the tip of his sword.
The savage vigor mixed with the explosive sharpness was shockingly close, blasting towards Leng Tianfeng's evaded head.
This was…
Through exquisite and unmatched control over Pill Energy, causing it to erupt in midair a second after leaving the body!
Clearly, Alkaid had anticipated that this strike would not harm Leng Tianfeng, so his real lethal move was in fact the contained, yet untriggered Pill Energy within the sword!
The sudden dramatic change drastically altered Leng Tianfeng's expression.
Despite his unprecedented level of combat experience, facing an attack that he thought he had evaded, yet exploded close-by anew, his response was still inadequate.
The dispersed vigor brutally slashed at his head, instantaneously shredding his ears into pieces, and the unabated force tore open sword marks across his face, as bright red blood rapidly covered half of his visage!n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
This was not merely a slap on the face!
This was half of the face being torn apart!
"You should die!"
At this moment, even though Leng Tianfeng had been graceful and polite upon arrival, he could no longer contain his furious rage.
The facade of civility and gentlemanliness was hastily cast aside.
Bellowing, his arms that had been set to strike Alkaid's head suddenly crashed downward, turning fists into palms, and viciously slamming onto Alkaid's chest!
Instantly, an explosive force emanated from the struck area, ruthlessly collapsing his Life Force Field.
The moment the Life Force Field collapsed, an unprecedented weakness surged through him.
It was like stripping a person of all their clothes and disguises, exposing them in a public square.
The sensation of being utterly unprotected and exposed filled him with a bone-chilling dread.
Especially since, after these palms crushed his Life Force Field, like a previously experienced single finger, they locked all movement of essence, vigor, and neural signals in his body.
No!
The mysteries contained within these two palms were even more thorough and extreme than the previous single finger.
It was as if the neural signal transmission was severed, halting the connection between his brain and flesh, losing control over his body, leaving him paralyzed and utterly defenseless.
Eight Gates Lock Gold!
"I am going to shred you to pieces! Let you die in the most painful process!"
Leng Tianfeng growled as his hands, having completely locked all his blood flow, vigor, and even neural transmission, transformed from palm to gripping, tightly holding his shoulders...
Suddenly...
After grasping Alkaid's shoulders, he intended to tear Alkaid's arms from his body with a brutally bloody ferocity.
It seemed only this could avenger the humiliation of his blood-streaked face at that moment.
In this life-or-death moment, Alkaid, too, disregarded everything else.
Divine Descent!
Heavenly Demon Disintegration!
The next moment, his mind seemed to directly escape from the shackles of his flesh.
Vigor and blood flow disrupted, neural transmission blocked?
He forcefully controlled his body in a state akin to soul disembodiment, a third-party commanding his body.
To manipulate this body, that had thrown caution to the wind, never more powerful before these moments.
Pain vanished.
The constraints of the flesh, vanished.
At this moment, he possessed absolute manipulation over his body.
He could even make his head turn three hundred sixty degrees if he wished.
Of course, turning three hundred sixty degrees would inevitably sever the cervical spine, and in a state of Divine Descent, it would certainly end in death.
He would not do this, but this did not prevent him from using his own body as a weapon, when Leng Tianfeng was about to rip his arms off, a headbutt, fiercely slamming onto his head.
"Boom!"
The dull thud that spread between their heads was painfully audible.
The severe collision caused Leng Tianfeng, who a second ago held an absolute advantage and was about to tear Alkaid apart, to stagger dizzily.
He was momentarily unable to react, clearly having locked Alkaid down with the Eight Gates Golden Lock Technique, how did he suddenly become lively again?
But he was caught in a daze, while Alkaid under the state of Divine Descent and Heavenly Demon Disintegration was not.
Clutching the Divine Shadow Sword in his hand, he fiercely swung it aside.
Vigor erupted!
"Swish!"
A fine head, chopped off as easily as slicing through vegetables.