Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 171 Shaking the Heaven
In the individual competition of this "World Heroes Conference", Tongxin League has made a historic breakthrough. Finally, I am no longer the only representative fighting alone. Other "red flowers" have appeared. Afeng can also be said to have further improved his strength with the power of the newly acquired artifact "Blood-sucking Spear". He has been recognized as a hot candidate for the "Top Ten". Such an achievement is naturally expected, but the leader Xue Wuxia, who has always been relatively low-key and has not performed very well, suddenly broke out this time and defeated the highly expected Guangming Vice Senate President Hua Mantian in one fell swoop. Breaking into the top 64 is beyond the expectations of most players. In particular, the tactics she used in the game seemed a bit incredible at the time, but it was obviously carefully designed, forcing the opponent to passively respond. It can be said that she was led by the nose from beginning to end, and it was difficult to play her own characteristics. In the end, she lost a good game and suffered a disastrous defeat. She showed a fearless spirit and high tactical quality, and was worthy of being the leader of the "World's No. 1 Mercenary Group". Three members advanced to the top 64. Such a record is no less inferior to several old and powerful mercenary groups such as Glory and Longteng. The title of "No. 1 Mercenary Group in the World" is well deserved. Many players no longer think that we only rely on me, a super strong man, to conquer the world, which has caused a lot of doubts or even criticisms.
While I was happy about Xue Wuxia's victory, the doubts that had been in my mind for some time were faintly showing signs of being concluded. Since the establishment of Tongxinmeng, her attitude towards Huadu and Hua Mantian, as well as the increasingly "ambiguous" relationship between her and Afeng, Afeng's increasingly puzzling mentality and actions towards her, especially the way he dealt with Hua Mantian this time, all showed that her true identity was suspicious, which made me involuntarily connect her with Afeng's ex-girlfriend. Is it the same person, or a relative or friend who knows each other? In short, it is definitely not like an outsider with no relationship. It's just that these belong to Afeng's privacy, and things related to his ex-girlfriend are even more taboo topics. Every time he mentioned it in the past, he would feel sad and regretful. Unless he is willing to tell me actively, I can't be so gossipy and ask about the specific situation. In fact, no matter who Xue Wuxia is or what happened to her, as long as Afeng can live a happy life, it is the most ideal and happy ending. As Afeng's closest friend, all I need to do is to sincerely wish them well, support and help them achieve their unfulfilled wishes.
Except for Xue Wuxia defeating Hua Mantian and successfully advancing to the top 64, there were no other upsets in the fourth round. Xiaoyue was just as I expected. When Xiaobailong was unable to play due to the "blood explosion" in the previous round, her strength was greatly affected. She was easily eliminated by the wolf in sheep's clothing holding the artifact "Heart of the Earth Element". The other artifact holders who attracted the most attention from the audience also defeated their opponents and passed the test smoothly. However, as the number of participants decreased round by round, the probability of a duel between the thirteen artifact holders increased a lot. In the subsequent fifth round, all restrictions on top powerhouses have been cancelled. Even the last individual champion and runner-up, Fearless Warrior and Long Xing Tianxia, may encounter each other in this round or any subsequent rounds, which will make the subsequent games more exciting and full of suspense.
Sure enough, in the fifth round, there were a total of 32 pairs of players, and finally there was a duel between the holders of divine weapons. Only one pair was the elf archer Bing Xin Yu Po holding the "Fairy Helmet" against the assassin Goryeo Warrior holding the "Dark Night Dragon Fang". Such an early encounter can be said to be quite unlucky. The loser will stop outside the top 32, losing the opportunity to strive for the "Top Ten" in the individual competition and the first place in the professional competition to obtain double rewards. Naturally, it became a classic event in this round.
My opponent is Angel in the Human World, who has fallen from the second place in the early days to the fifth place in the Knight of Light. We have fought several times before, but all ended in his defeat. Unless he has cultivated the "God's Domain" to a higher level and is willing to use it against me, other means, including using the "God Summoning Card" to summon the tenth-level eight-winged holy angel to possess him, will hardly cause me too much trouble. According to the new rules of the game, there is no need to fight him hard. As long as the time limit is exceeded, the victory will belong to me.
Afeng's opponent is the Ganges God of War, who is also a dark director. He has just experienced the destruction of the Blue Falun Mercenary Group, which he founded. His pseudo-artifacts must have been consumed a lot. They were rarely used in the previous rounds of games. In the last game, he narrowly exceeded the time limit. He relied on the advantage of using fewer pseudo-artifacts than his opponent to achieve the final victory. Being able to break into the top 64 is almost the limit of his current state. The hope of successfully winning the "Top Ten" is definitely slim. Facing Afeng, who belongs to his own camp and holds the "Blood-sucking Gun", he should not make a desperate resistance, and winning should not be a problem.
As for Xue Wuxia, she was not able to continue her previous good luck in this round. She encountered the defending champion, the Fearless Warrior who held the "Thor's Hammer". He was good at both close combat and long-range attacks, and had a stronger resistance to magic attacks. His strength was obviously better than Xue Wuxia's. It was estimated that it was impossible for her to create a miracle and continue to advance to the next round. Anyway, losing to the Fearless Warrior should be a normal result for most contestants. As long as the situation was not too ugly and she was not easily defeated by the Fearless Warrior, it would not damage her dark horse nature.
The fifth round of the competition began. As one of the three most powerful people in the world so far, as rated by the "Heavenly Media", with my current strength and status, I am no longer comparable to the angel who has fallen to the fifth knight of light. Winning should be a matter of course, and there will not be much suspense. Therefore, it was not listed as a wonderful event in this round and was promoted as a key event. The competition was carried out according to the normal schedule. The battle situation was indeed calm, and even seemed a bit dull at one point. Although the angel was very active in the competition, he only used a pseudo-artifact "Summoning God Card" to summon a level 10 eight-winged holy angel to possess him, and did not use other more threatening means. No matter how I pretended to be weak and gave him more opportunities to counterattack, hoping to trick him into using two more pseudo-artifacts so that I could take advantage of my chance of winning to try to weaken the strength of this enemy who was definitely going to participate in the rehearsal match for the ultimate battle of light and darkness , he seemed to have already made up his mind and remained unmoved. He just kept dealing with me with conventional means and tried various different offensive routines. I really didn't have the patience to continue to fight with him in this dull way, so I had to launch an all-out attack, killing him in one fell swoop and easily winning the match.
The battle between Afeng and the Ganges War God, which was also defined as an ordinary event, also decided the winner. Not surprisingly, although the Ganges War God resisted fiercely, he did not fight desperately. It was more like he was exchanging fighting experience with Afeng. In a peaceful atmosphere, Afeng won the victory. Xue Wuxia also relied on his strong defense ability against the attack of "Crazy Thunder Prison" as a thunder magician. He put up a tenacious resistance without using pseudo-artifacts, but he was still weak and defeated, and stopped in the top 64. As the highlight of this round of competition, the duel between the two artifact holders of Bingxin Yupo and Goryeo Warrior, the offensive "Dark Night Dragon Fang" naturally took the initiative compared to the defensive "Fairy Helmet". It can be said that the shooter has his own strengths against the assassin. In terms of professional characteristics, the shooter suffered a little bit. Neither side took advantage. The Goryeo Warrior was a master who had been in the field for a long time and would not make any active mistakes. In the end, he won and advanced to the top 32.
In this round of competition, in addition to Bing Xin Yu Po, the artifact holders also included Phantom Swordsman Lost World who was eliminated. He encountered Phantom Knight Romantic Sakura, one of the "Top Ten" in the previous individual competition and the leader of the Star Moon Mercenary Group. It was also a wonderful competition arranged separately. The "Holy Cloak" could not play a big role in such a real sword and gun duel, and each could only compete with its own strength. However, probably because of the consideration of the next few events, the two sides did not fight very hard. After an hour of hard fighting, no one was able to kill the opponent. After the unanimous decision of the three referees, Romantic Sakura won with a slight advantage and qualified for the next round of competition.
A new day, the sixth round of competition began. There were still eleven artifact holders left, and the remaining twenty-one were all top-level masters. No matter who they faced, it would be impossible to win easily, and the battle would become increasingly difficult. Of course, compared to those pseudo-artifacts that can only be used once, artifact holders have more choices in the competition and a greater chance of winning. To defeat them, it may take more effort or even cost, so no one, including artifact holders, would want to encounter such a strong opponent too early. The result of the sixth round of draws showed that the newcomer Afeng, who made it to the top thirty-two for the first time, had good luck. His opponent was his old friend Bai Yunjian, who held the artifact "Blood-sucking Spear" and the high-level holy artifact "Silver Armor" that reduced the effect of magic damage. In terms of the strength of both sides, as long as Bai Yunjian was not as perverted as Xue Wuxia and used several powerful pseudo-artifacts to help in the battle, Afeng should be able to advance to the top sixteen smoothly.
My opponent was more difficult. He was Hua Mantian's ally, the Phantom Rage Swordsman Yamato Spirit, who had recently spent a lot of money to buy the artifact "Heaven Shaking Sword" and further improved his strength. He was also one of the favorites to be honored as one of the "Top Ten". After several rounds of competition, I finally became the protagonist of a highly recommended exciting event, and the audience could feast their eyes, but I didn't want to encounter a strong enemy of similar strength too early. Moreover, in the previous few rounds of competition, Yamato was very cautious, relying entirely on the attributes and attack power of the "Sword of Heaven Shaking" to fight with his opponent. He would rather drag the game with his opponent beyond the time limit when he had the advantage, rather than use the special attack skill of "Sword of Heaven Shaking" that was rumored to come with it to deliver a decisive blow and seek a beautiful victory. The purpose should be to hide his strength and prevent his opponent from knowing the specific attack method and power of "Sword of Heaven Shaking", so as to achieve the effect of surprise. Even if I am the favorite to win the championship, if he is willing to use a powerful pseudo-artifact to fight me to the death, it will probably take some effort to defeat him. After all, this is just a competition for the top 16, and the Yamato Spirit is not the most threatening opponent to me. To win the individual championship, I have to defeat four more opponents. I can only use "Blood Transformation" twice a day to summon the ninth-level upper-level undead subordinates. I don't want to consume too much on the Yamato Spirit. If I encounter a stronger fearless warrior or the highest honor, I will not be able to exert my strongest strength, which will cause regrets. I only have to fight against the ninth-level middle-level undead, and I am reluctant to use the pseudo-artifact. I don't know the details of the Yamato Spirit. How much chance of winning I have, I really don't know.
When we met on the field, Yamato Spirit seemed quite calm. I couldn't tell if he had any grudge against me and was desperate to snipe me. At the beginning of the game, I was very cautious. I didn't summon a pet like Yamato Spirit did. Instead, I used the "Summoning of the Dead" which took more time and summoned two white bone dragons first. One stayed by my side and cast the "Sacrifice" magic to share the damage I might suffer. The other took the initiative to attack to see if I could force Yamato Spirit to use the special attack skill "Sword Shaking the Sky", so as to make a judgment on how much effort it would take to deal with him.
The eighth-level swordsman skill of Yamato Spirit is "Sword Walking on the Edge", which can be described as a powerful skill that combines offense and defense. It can effectively dodge the enemy's attacks by moving erratically, and at the same time launch a counterattack from an unexpected place to attack the enemy's weaknesses, making it difficult for the opponent to defend. Even if one's own strength is slightly stronger than him, it may not necessarily be able to defeat him. In addition to having a strong physical attack power, the "Heaven-shaking Sword" also has a strong shock effect, which can effectively prevent the enemy from launching continuous attacks at close range. With other holy equipment and rich fighting experience, a ninth-level intermediate bone dragon really can't do anything to him. Not to mention forcing out his "Divine Sword Shaking the Sky" skill, even his actions could not be effectively restrained. He was repeatedly forced to retreat and could not cause any damage, and he was approaching me quickly.
During this time, I summoned Taotao and Shaman , and arranged Shaman to rush forward to help the bone dragon deal with Yamato's spirit. I rode on Taotao and quickly moved to the rear. I kept a distance from Yamato's spirit and cast the "Unparalleled Guardian" magic on myself, paying attention to the sudden attack of the "Divine Sword Shaking the Sky" skill whose power I didn't know. Then I activated the "Touch of Death" to absorb the spiritual power of the bone dragon that stayed behind, to see how Yamato's spirit, a melee professional, would deal with it.
As a frequent visitor of the "Top Ten", I have summed up many battle experiences. If I cannot stop the action of absorbing spiritual power with "Touch of Death", and I summon more and more undead minions to show their strengths, there will be no chance of winning. Although the fighting power of Shaman is not as good as that of the Bone Dragon, and he is not the opponent of Yamato's spirit, he can continuously spit out blood mist in a small range, and cooperate with the attack of the Bone Dragon to affect the actions of Yamato's spirit, so that he cannot smoothly approach me and destroy my spell.
About 70 to 80 meters away from me, Yamato once again repelled the attack of the white bone dragon. He suddenly raised the "Heaven Shaking Sword" and the sword body began to flash with golden light, which immediately extended to his body, covering him in a layer of golden light shield, which seemed to have a protective effect - the blood mist that was sprayed out could not penetrate and was blocked outside. Then, about one meter around the "Heaven Shaking Sword", eight phantoms of pale golden swords of the same appearance appeared, rotating rapidly around the "Heaven Shaking Sword", and the white bone dragon that pounced on it again bumped into it and was actually repelled. After a moment, I saw a sudden burst of golden light, and the "Heaven-shaking Sword" itself transformed into a golden sword, flying into the air with eight lighter golden sword shadows surrounding it, then moved sideways, shooting straight towards where I was, and in the blink of an eye it reached above my head, and moved sideways again, with the tip of the sword facing downwards. There was another flash of golden light, and the golden sword shadow in the center was aimed at me, while the other eight light golden sword shadows around it spread to an area of about ten meters. After the arrangement took shape, it paused for a moment, and quickly transformed into more slender sword shadows, but they were not vertically still. They crisscrossed and dancing, covering all the space within a radius of ten meters, and instantly shot down.
This should be the "Divine Sword Shaking the Sky" skill that comes with the "Sword of Shaking the Sky". I didn't know its specific attack method before, so I was caught off guard and didn't take action early. In addition, the sword shadow came at a very fast speed, and Taotao was too fast to dodge. I was activating the "Touch of Death", which is a range attack, and I couldn't transform into a bat and escape in time. However, it was enough for me to command Taotao to run a few steps and hide under the body of the white bone dragon hovering in the sky, at least to escape the attack of the golden sword shadow that was directly aimed at me and seemed to be the most powerful.
Countless sword shadows fell, and the most powerful golden sword shadow that shot directly at me was received by the bone dragon, which penetrated from the back. There was a crackling sound, and a big hole was blown in the body, almost reaching half the depth. The power was really not small. I was hiding below and could not escape the damage. The other sword shadows that appeared were flying in all directions, circling and shooting from other directions. I had no way to dodge, and was hit quite a lot.
