Mighty Lord

Chapter 1353: Chapter 509 Double-headed Lion_2

It was as if he had been struck by an invisible attack, Zhou Tian had clearly been preparing to engage in a hard fight with the lion. However, when he actually encountered the lion, before he could launch an attack, his body was blasted away.

He hadn’t made any physical contact with his adversary, yet as he approached the lion, he suddenly experienced an attack. Given the circumstances at the time, the puzzled Zhou Tian’s complexion drastically changed. freeweɓnovēl.coɱ

If one does not know the limits of their opponent’s abilities during combat, it’s somewhat manageable in the outside world, but in this particular realm, it is considerably dangerous. After all, most beings in this world cultivate various elemental forces, and if one encounters an opponent without understanding their capabilities, they could be overwhelmed by various special abilities, regardless of how powerful they might be.

According to the situation then, if Zhou Tian did not figure out what kind of attack he had endured, it meant that when he fought the lion, the opponent could use that same ability to strike him a second or third time. Given Zhou Tian’s predicament at the time, if he couldn’t figure out the details of the opponent’s abilities, he wouldn’t be able to devise a method to counteract them effectively. In such a case, if no suitable method was found, Zhou Tian might end up being merely a punching bag during the subsequent battle.

"What kind of ability is it?"

Surviving the attack through the Human Emperor’s Immortal Body, Zhou Tian immediately began recalling every detail of what had just transpired. As he replayed the lion’s actions in his memory, he started considering what kind of power the lion had been using to attack him.

As a result, as Zhou Tian’s mind continually replayed these events and analyzed the lion’s various actions, he began to understand what sort of rule-based power the opponent had been using.

"Sound Attack?"

Although wielding elemental powers doesn’t necessarily require any specific action, unless one undertakes specialized training, living beings performing actions will naturally exhibit minor accompanying motions. After reaching a certain level of strength, it might make more sense to spend time cultivating rather than training to mask these minor actions. In this situation, most beings when attacking will unconsciously include these minor actions.

It was the same at that moment; Zhou Tian believed that no matter how powerful that lion was, its attacks would inadvertently include these minor motions. Thus, after carefully revisiting his recent experience, he noticed that aside from a roar, the lion didn’t seem to make any special moves.

Moreover, even if the lion used its powers without any physical indication, Zhou Tian’s level of power should have allowed him to sense the usage of the lion’s elemental powers. However, he had felt no such energy at the time, and it seemed that he had abruptly endured a powerful attack. If not for the Human Emperor’s Immortal Body, which endowed Zhou Tian with an immortal trait, he wouldn’t have been unscathed.

While beings capable of concealing their power’s operation do exist, a prerequisite for this is that the lion’s cultivation of elemental rules must vastly surpass Zhou Tian’s. Clearly, even though Zhou Tian’s cultivation wasn’t significant in this world, he still didn’t believe the lion possessed such advanced cultivation. Therefore, this thought quickly circulated in his mind before he dismissed it.

Thus, since there was no capability to conceal the operation of elemental rules, Zhou Tian concluded that when the lion used its power, he must have had his attention drawn elsewhere. Otherwise, with his current level of cultivation, whether he could block the attack or not, being struck without noticing was unimaginable under normal circumstances.

Consequently, based on various deductions, Zhou Tian felt that if today’s incident wasn’t caused by the lion’s roar drawing his attention before it attacked, there was absolutely no other explanation.

Having understood all this, Zhou Tian felt extremely irritated while simultaneously being forced to take the lion more seriously.

Although he now knew the specifics of his opponent’s ability and wouldn’t panic in the face of such an attack again, he still felt extremely tense when facing the lion’s attacks. Regardless of the world, sound-based powers, though not the strongest, are formidable due to their intangible nature. Defending against sound attacks when not significantly more powerful than the opponent is undoubtedly challenging.

Clearly, Zhou Tian had sensed that the lion’s strength was quite formidable. Thus, with the lion’s considerable intrinsic strength and its deployment of the hard-to-defend Sound Attack, Zhou Tian needed to consider whether he genuinely had the capacity to withstand such attacks.