Dual Cultivation God Returns

Chapter 749: We’ll have to add that to our training



"Tsk, it seems we're late", the Elder clicked his tongue as he didn't see Disciples of the Ember Palm Pavilion anywhere, and the group were traveling to the Silver Wing City, not from it, "Haa~... what a waste of time. Alright, let's deal with these and-..."

Wu Long took a step forward, and a large crimson saber, the Blood Drinker, that once belonged to the Blood Demon of the Wood Spirit Continent appeared in his left hand.

"Hah! Laughable", the Elder didn't bat an eye, only slightly annoyed at being interrupted mid-sentence, his Spiritual Qi growing in crystal-like shapes, forming a small shield-like structure that floated not far from the back of his palm, which he then used to deflect the attack.

But a moment before the crimson saber landed, his eyebrow twitched as he recognized that he wouldn't be able to just swat away the blade, and possibly lose out in close combat, and he switched to quickly growing a bigger shield of crystalline-shaped Spiritual Qi in front of him. "Mountain Cleaving Blade", the next moment the Elder heard a cold voice, and a dangerous premonition caused him to evade without relying on the makeshift defense he made, and a Spiritual Qi image of the saber in Wu Long's hand, only much larger, shattered the defense.

"Nine Orchids Spear Art", when Wu Long reappeared in the Elder's view floating through the halves of the Elder's shield, his thereto free right hand was already holding a spear.

Nine Spiritual Qi images of the spear appeared around him, moving in unison but with different trajectories.

The Elder's eyes widened as the sense he got from these spear images was confusing, there was a sense of danger but it seemed to not be contained within the spears.

'Could it be...?!?!', he quickly constructed another shield, this time using a proper technique of his Sect.

And the next moment, sparks flew on the surface of the shield he constructed. And even though to others it seemed as if it was just a normal attack, the Elder could see that the spears seemed to speed up to meet the points where sparks flew.

The Elder's forehead became covered with beads of cold sweat as he realized that had he timed his defense to the visible spears it would have already been late, the actual attack was invisible and traveled ahead of the spear images, which only later matched the speed to create an illusion of making damage.

Meanwhile talismans were swirling in the air around Wu Long, and more concealed ones were flying out to the surroundings.

This entire sequence of attacks happened in mere moments, and the subsequent attacks launched by Wu Long were as swift and deadly, leaving the Elder in shock at being driven into a corner by someone in Mortal Transcendence Realm. He didn't have time to give out instructions, while the two groups watched the two fight.

The Crystal Wood Sect Protectors believed this would be over soon and that the Elder was toying with his opponent, while the Thousand Eyes Palace members were told to not engage as long as the other side didn't move.

"Hahaha, you! You are quite good!!! You won't last long spending your Spiritual Qi like that, but the fact you can fight with me like an equal even for a short while is incredible!", after some time passed, the Elder spoke in the heat of the battle, as with time, the advantage of Wu Long's attacks being sudden and not letting the Elder adjust was gradually lost.

More importantly, the Elder was now treating Wu Long like an extremely dangerous opponent unlike in the beginning, so his responses to every attack were appropriate, and he also started to send out attacks.

He could see that Wu Long used several times the amount of Spiritual Qi, combining and layering it in a way to match the strength of the Elder's Reinforced Qi.

Profound Qi of someone in the Essence Gathering Realm was, after all, too powerful to go against it with normal Spiritual Qi.

"What a shame, you must be a once-in-a-generation genius, if you had been in our Sect, you would have no doubt taken the Prime Disciple position...", the Elder lamented that this talented man was going to die here. The fact he belonged to some other group and not the Crystal Wood Sect was already reason enough to eliminate him before he had the chance to grow further.

However, the man in the bamboo hat that fought the Elder continued to silently attack with the spear in one hand and a large saber in another, still somewhat controlling the flow of the fight by the sheer amount and speed of dominating attacks.

"Hahaha, Elder Ro seems to be enjoying himself", one of the Sect Protectors spoke as he saw that the fight stabilized in a kind of stalemate.

"Hmm, I was wondering if that guy was really pushing in the beginning, or Elder Ro was just having fun, it seems I didn't even need to question it", the other answered him.

'Idiots...', Fen Baihu thought as she looked at the fight with a completely different

perspective.

"Hmm? What's that?", one of the Sect Protectors suddenly narrowed his eyes, looking slightly above the fight.

"What?"

"There", he pointed out, as the others seemingly didn't notice anything.

'Heh, they finally noticed...', the Celestial Fox shook her head as it was already late.

The sky above the two locked in battle had unnatural-looking distortions, as if looking through a very clear glass so that it almost looked like there was nothing there, but something didn't quite feel right.

The Elder also noticed something strange, but since he was focused on Wu Long, his discovery was different. Throughout the fight, two of the Spatial Rings on Wu Long's hand were constantly active. It was a small detail, but it didn't seem like Wu Long was taking anything out of the Spatial Rings, or putting anything in.

At first the Elder thought the rings were Spiritual Treasures that helped Wu Long concentrate his Spiritual Qi in such an elaborate and highly intricate way, that allowed him to match his own Profound Qi, since the control required for such delicate manipulation of Spiritual Qi was too complex to keep up in the heat of battle, and at such speeds and amounts. He was already anticipating getting his hands on such valuable Spiritual Treasures.

However, as he concentrated on the rings more and more, he finally recognized that they really were just Spatial Rings.

'Wait, if those are Spatial Rings... then what is he-...', as this thought traveled through his mind, the sky above him opened up.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

The image of the sky matching the pattern around it was seemingly painted on the faces of thousands upon thousands of talismans that now gave way, and an enormous column of water mixed with soil poured down from above.

"Wha-...?!?! G-great Indomitable Crystal Prison!!!", the Elder widened his eyes and then quickly constructed a spherical-shaped uneven shell of crystal-like structures around himself

while Wu Long retreated back.

"Wh-what in the Heavens?!"

"What is that?!"

"Elder Ro!!!"

The Sect Protectors looked at that scene with shock, as the enormous amount of water, muddy

as it was mixed with soil, was only visible from below, the rest of the column stretching far into the sky still covered with sky-like image from all sides, as if a cylindrical wall of swirling and moving talismans was covering it.

"Hahaha! It seems there's more to you than meets the eyes!", however, an excited laughter resounded next, the voice intentionally amplified with Spiritual Qi, and calming down the

Sect Protectors.

Instead of being flustered by something so unexpected the Elder of the Crystal Wood Sect grew excited, since his opponent seemed to hold great secrets. Secrets that would be his soon.

The water covered the Elder in his protective shell completely from all sides, creating a sphere that was constantly pressured to accumulate around the crystal shell, and connected to the column from above that also exerted pressure.

"Falcon Talon Piercing Strike, second form, Flying Talon", Wu Long made a thrust with his spear, and then added Annihilation Lightning to the Spear Qi that was sent forth.

The strike looked like a streak of light that pierced the sphere in a split moment, and at the same time, a channel formed in the water bubble.

The next moment everything returned to the way it was before the strike that Wu Long unleashed, and after opening up the water sphere, he started collecting the water back into

his Spatial Ring.

The Elder's disfigured body fell down lifelessly onto the ground below, causing confusion to appear on the faces of the Sect Protectors.

"W-What...", one of them muttered in a daze. Fear and panic didn't even begin to form as not one of them registered what happened.

"Fen Baihu", Wu Long calmly said out loud, and a mist spirited away the Sect Protectors who belatedly tried to struggle, but couldn't do anything against the Celestial Fox.

"W-what happened?", Hong Yue asked with widened eyes as the turn of events was sudden

for her too.

And though the faces of the Thousand Eyes Palace members were not visible under bamboo hats, their body language spoke loudly of their confusion.

Only Hong Ye seemingly didn't really care about what it was, the only thing that mattered to her was that her Darling won, as she appeared next to him to hug his waist.

"It's pressure", Fen Baihu said, appearing next to the white-haired twin, her eight tails swirling behind her as she looked at the body of the Elder with amusement.

"Pressure?", Hong Yue turned to the Celestial Fox.

"Mm, cultivators in higher Boundless Worlds learn to constantly, almost on instinct-level,

control the pressure and temperature of their bodies, as the world around them sometimes

can exert sudden and great changes in conditions, such as pressure and temperature when they travel, but people in the Boundless Profound World don't have that habit yet, so he used that to his advantage", Fen Baihu nodded.

And seeing the confusion remaining on the face of the assassin, added, "He first put enormous pressure on that man, such pressure travels regardless of whether you are in direct contact with the water or not. He was basically suddenly thrust deep into the ocean floor. To counter that, he increased his body pressure to conform to his environment, instead of insulating his body with a completely different method. So when Wu Long suddenly made an opening in the water pressuring him along with breaking a hole in the side of the shell that man created, the inside of the shell decompressed in just a moment, so all the liquids in his body that were under extreme pressure boiled in an instant. This has nothing to do with how tough a cultivator's body is in such a High Realm, but the way it behaves under certain conditions, so a mortal and cultivator would die the exact same way if the cultivator is not regulating his body in a certain way"

"I figured there was a chance, but it actually worked", Wu Long shrugged, since the fact none of the cultivators regulated pressure and temperature properly, only adjusting to the conditions around them and not creating a constant internal condition of the body, was something he noticed quite a while ago, adding, "We'll have to add that to our training soon anyway, so now's a good time to demonstrate why it's important"