Free Web NovelChapter 337: Chapter 171: Under the Divine Will, He Is Invincible
Nie Cang watched the battle unfolding, his voice hoarse.
"I never thought they would end up in a situation like this."
"But looking at it now, I think Dongfang Zhen still has the upper hand."
Nie Cang began his calm analysis.
"Once he enters the Thunder Monarch Dharma Aspect state, if I’m not mistaken, he can completely ignore any and all physical attacks."
"Lin Ye’s attacks shouldn’t have any effect on him."
Nie Cang’s tone was confident, a certainty rooted in his knowledge of the top-tier Cultivation Technique, the Nine Tribulations Thunder Prison.
"During the last assessment against the Celestial Abyss Race, Lin Ye only managed to defeat the final 30 waves because of that freakish puppet-type Martial Arts Spirituality."
"If he had to rely on his own strength, he probably wouldn’t have performed as well as Dongfang Zhen."
His words were part analysis, part self-reassurance.
Otherwise, Lin Ye’s very existence was just too far beyond all reason.
Yin Liulan remained noncommittal, her eyes fixed on the two blurs of light in the arena.
After a moment, her eyes narrowed slightly, as if she had noticed something.
"I think... quite the opposite."
"It looks like Dongfang Zhen is deliberately trying to keep his distance from Lin Ye."
Yin Liulan’s voice was soft, but she stated a fact that left Nie Cang stunned.
"He’s only using his Thunder Halberd for slashes and calling down lightning. The frequency with which he uses his family’s boxing style for close-quarters combat has dropped significantly."
Hearing this, Nie Cang finally noticed it too.
Correct. Although it looked like the Thunder Monarch Dharma Aspect was overwhelming Lin Ye, with rampant bolts of lightning filling nearly the entire space, a closer look revealed a different story. Dongfang Zhen was launching every attack from maximum range. The moment Lin Ye showed any sign of closing in, he would immediately retreat to open up the distance again.
This was very strange.
When you can ignore your opponent’s physical attacks and every one of your punches can cause maximum damage, there’s no reason to fight like this.
Close-quarters combat was the obvious choice to maximize his advantage.
’What... is he afraid of?’
Just as the doubt arose in Nie Cang’s mind, another thunderous explosion rang out in the arena!
Except this time, the sound didn’t come from Dongfang Zhen’s lightning.
It came from Lin Ye.
No one could follow Lin Ye’s movements anymore.
At full speed, he already approached twice the speed of sound, moving so fast that most of the students present could only see his afterimages.
But now, the moment he used Instant Body, his instantaneous speed reached an absolutely unbelievable level!
Unbelievably fast!
And completely unexpected!
BOOM!!!
An afterimage, completely invisible to the naked eye, flashed through the air and was gone.
The next moment, the majestic, domineering, and burly Thunder Monarch Dharma Aspect’s aura suddenly faltered. Like a punctured balloon, it instantly deflated.
At the same time, a terrifying hole appeared on its right shoulder—a shoulder composed entirely of lightning and violet electricity—boring straight through from front to back!
SPLURT!
A torrent of fresh blood sprayed out from the elementalized body, atomizing into a startling mist in the air.
For the first time, a look of pure shock and confusion appeared on the majestic face of Dongfang Zhen’s Dharma Aspect.
’How is this possible...!’
The scene made every spectator’s brain short-circuit.
This was especially true for Nie Cang. His face burned as if an invisible hand had slapped him a dozen times across both cheeks.
’What happened to physical attacks being useless?’
’What happened to the Thunder Monarch Dharma Aspect’s Elementalization?’
’What the hell is this!’
Yin Liulan’s eyes narrowed into a slit.
She reached out her right hand and swiped lightly across the virtual screen in front of her, dragging the progress bar.
"Replay. Ten times slow motion."
Following her command, the flow of time in the entire battle space instantly slowed down.
Everyone stared with wide eyes, wanting to see clearly what Lin Ye had done.
Unfortunately, even at ten times slow motion, they could still only see a blurry afterimage appearing like a phantom behind Dongfang Zhen.
Meanwhile, Dongfang Zhen’s massive Thunder Monarch Dharma Aspect had failed to react in the slightest.
Then, the most bizarre thing happened.
Just as the afterimage was about to make contact with Dongfang Zhen’s right shoulder, his elementalized body—composed entirely of lightning and violet electricity—suddenly and without warning solidified. In that instant, it seemed to revert from a being of pure energy back into a physical body of flesh and blood!
And then, it was pierced through.
They still couldn’t see it!
What exactly was that afterimage?
And how did he nullify Dongfang Zhen’s Elementalization?
"Fifty times slow motion!"
A hint of gravity now touched Yin Liulan’s voice.
This time, the image was finally clear.
The afterimage was, of course, Lin Ye.
The golden Gang Sha flowing around the tip of the Star-Piercing Spear in his hand was condensed to its absolute limit, seemingly forming a single, eternal pinpoint of starlight.
Even slowed down fifty times, his movements were still shockingly swift.
A single thrust of the spear—simple and direct.
There were no special energies they couldn’t comprehend, nor any flashy martial arts.
It was just one thrust.
A thrust that was both unbelievably fast and devastatingly pure.
And yet, this single thrust had actually shattered Dongfang Zhen’s Thunder Monarch Dharma Aspect, shattering the Cultivation Technique and Martial Arts Spirituality that were his greatest pride!
’How did that happen?’
...
「On the arena stage.」
Wincing in pain from his injury, Dongfang Zhen’s figure flashed. In the next moment, his speed also soared to its limit as he desperately tried to put distance between himself and Lin Ye.
A bone-deep sense of crisis told him that if Lin Ye got close, he probably wouldn’t be able to use even half of his immense power!
