Published at 1st of January 2020 04:25:13 AM
Chapter 735
Lou Cheng was sure that Liang Yifan would target his left shoulder . considering that his injuries hadn't fully recovered . If he didn't consider this and take the easiest approach, others would doubt the genuinity of his super-class status .
Because of this, Lou Cheng had thought specifically about how to deal with this problem . He wasn't a deity of legends and couldn't possibly remove this weakness by recovering from the shoulder injury immediately . So if Liang Yifan continued to attack this spot, it would be a matter of time before Lou Cheng gave an opening and lost the match .
This was an outcome that both parties could agree on silently .
The only way around it would be to set traps based on this weakness . Before the real problem emerged, Lou Cheng wanted to use a false image to hook his opponent so he could deal a heavy blow and win the match directly, or at least get the upper hand .
However, Liang Yifan was also an experienced expert and would definitely guard against this possibility . If Lou Cheng was to plainly show an opening, his plan might very well fail and even allow his opponent to take advantage of the opening .
Therefore, Lou Cheng's plan was to defend with all his might and look for ways to dodge . When he "failed" time after time, before the real risks truly set in, he would then make use of a moment to lure and misdirect his opponent . That meant he needed to reduce Liang Yifan's alertness as much as possible .
Having already had such thoughts, Lou Cheng didn't have time to think about it further . He pulled his left shoulder back and followed through the momentum, twisting his waist to throw a kick covered in purple flames towards his opponent's knee .
Liang Yifan's footwork might have seemed ordinary, but he was extremely fluid and allowed him to move as he wished . Facing Lou Cheng's whipping kick, it was as though he was engulfed by the waves as he shifted away to avoid the attack before making a detour to the left side of Lou Cheng . After which, he threw his right punch directly towards Lou Cheng's shoulders .
Pa pa pa! Bam bam bam! Lou Cheng attacked furiously as he attempted to push back his opponent or slow down Liang Yifan's attack on his left shoulder . However, Liang Yifan was always able to dodge before attacking back incessantly, as he fully demonstrated the saying, "Constant effort brings success . "
He had long gained full mastery of the seventh move of Water Sect, Lake and Mirror-Like Wisdom . Although it might have been as good as Enemy Heart Freezing Move for stabilizing one's emotions and reflecting the surroundings, it was better for improvisation and accurate judgement .
Bam bam bam!
Fists and forearms clashed incessantly, and Lou Cheng could feel his left shoulder start to ache . He acted accordingly and jumped a small step back as he lifted his right forearm to guard and covered his left arm in ice frost before punching out . When Liang Yifan defended, Lou Cheng made use of the recoil to open up some distance by jumping back again . While he was suspended in the air, he exploded his Fire Force to shift sideways and avoid the relentless attacks .
Shifting his waist slightly, Liang Yifan made a turn and chased ahead . However, the moment Lou Cheng landed on his toes, he exploded Fire Force once again and drifted diagonally away .
Bam! While moving in the air, he didn't continue to use the last directional change propelled by Emperor Yan Force . Instead, he lifted both of his hands and pushed forward .
Faint blue flames spewed from his palm as he accelerated and broke away from his opponent like a phantom .
With this opening, he created a scorching red fireball behind him and shot it towards his opponent like a cannon, as he took on a fighting stance for long range battle .
Liang Yifan ejected his dark blue Force . He absorbed the surrounding moisture and turned it into a beautiful flowers that stopped the fireball perfectly .
Rumble!
The explosion wasn't loud and the light dissipated after a flash . The water droplets evaporated into a white fog and lingered in the air .
Following which, Lou Cheng entered the usual state of Nine Rotations of Five Flames as he shot out cannonball after cannonball . He always maintained three fireballs that rotated around him, faint purple, scorching red, golden, light blue, or dazzling white, in no particular order .
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
The fireballs were completely stopped by the blue water flowers and dissipated together into heat and water vapour . With the assistance of Lake and Mirror-Like Wisdom, Liang Yifan's defence surprisingly had no openings . But facing this special, human-shaped cannon tower, he couldn't keep up with his firing frequency and therefore could only defend passively, unable to make his counterattack .
"This battle reminds me of a shooting game," an unknown commentator laughed lightly . After which, he said, "At this rate, the concentration of water vapour will get denser and denser, and the temperature will get higher and higher . Are they intending to make a sauna? Just imagine how great it would be to steam for a while before dipping into ice cold water! Hmm . It's about time for Lou Cheng to use Ice Spirit Holy Light . "
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The commentator suddenly had an idea . In a half-doubting, half-guessing manner, he added,
"If this continues, it would be really disadvantageous for Liang Yifan . The water vapour around the arena will only get hotter and hotter, making it equivalent to a strengthened version of Lou Cheng's High Temperature Hell . Under such conditions, Lou Cheng, who can enter and leave the Volcano Experiment Lab with ease, will be like a fish in water . However, Liang Yifan will have to divert some of his attention to guard against the heat or he might get cooked… "
"He probably expects such a problem, given the fact that he didn't resist and readily accepted a long range fight . He's probably hiding something, too . "
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
As Talker explained, the area around Liang Yifan was already shrouded by white fog and boiling air currents . It was as though he was in a large steamer .
At this moment, Liang Yifan ignored the incoming scorching red fireball . He didn't eject his Force out to gather the water vapour but instead had his hands placed in front of his chest, one above the other . After which, he suddenly made a "return" motion from tai chi .
Rumble! The surrounding water vapour seemed to have been stirred in that instant, forming a white fog ocean around Liang Yifan .
He seemed to have become the master of that water vapor ocean and the deity of the environment .
Rumble! As Liang Yifan straightened his back, he pounced towards his opponent . When he swung opened his palms, the ocean of water vapor flooded towards Lou Cheng like waves of the sea .
Surrounded by fog, everywhere around him was scorching hot . When Lou Cheng's scorching red fireball entered the fog, it disappeared without a trace .
At the same time, Liang Yifan had disappeared too . What was left behind was the water vapour regaining its weight as it turned into droplets . The audience could feel the heaviness of the water and shivered from the bottom of their hearts .
The ninth move of Water Sect, Bipolar Fusion, Inundated Nation!
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This was a version unique to Liang Yifan . He had intentionally endured so as to allow Lou Cheng to help him finish his preparation .
This move was a combination of mind and reality .
Rumble! Lou Cheng lost sight of his opponent, as all that was left was the white fog ocean that surrounded everything like a tsunami .
He understood that this was probably his mind being affected, but he didn't dare execute a Force Concentration or the complete Nine Words Formula to resist . This was because Liang Yifan was hiding within, and he didn't know when he would ambush him . Therefore, Lou Cheng didn't want to give Liang Yifan an opening to take advantage of .
Changing his mind, Lou Cheng lowered his stance, tensed his arms, clenched his fist, and smashed diagonally across . The surrounding faint purple, light blue, and dazzling white shot out accordingly and merged into one .
He wanted to use the might of Three Flames to withstand the tsunami, create a temporary safety zone, and force Liang Yifan to continue to wait .
The moment his opponent paused, that's when he would execute the complete Nine Words Formula .
This was what one would call relentless defense, paying no mind to exhaustion .
Rumble!
The white fog ocean couldn't mask the brilliance of the light, and it swallowed the thunderous explosion . The raging air current forced the ocean into the sky or the surroundings like a giant fountain .
When he struck out his fist, Lou Cheng immediately retracted his breathing and blood blow and balanced them in his lower abdomen . At the same time, he allowed the brilliant stars to trace out the Nine Words Formula .
Confrontation! Army! Fighting! Swordsman! Wholeness! Formation! Dequeuing! Forwarding! Attainment!
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He pushed his palms out suddenly and his vision immediately cleared . The water vapor lost its weight and no longer felt like a tsunami . As for Liang Yifan, he had made his way in front of Lou Cheng amidst the weakened shockwaves . His fist was covered in heavy, blue, fluid momentum as it shot towards Lou Cheng .
Wu!
Following the shockwaves, Lou Cheng drifted back at high speed . In his mind, he quickly traced out complicated visualization while making the respective reactions with his body .
Bam! When Liang Yifan's fist was about to hit him, he finished his preparations . Lifting his right arm and clenching this fist slightly, he threw a palm strike out . The hidden stars within disintegrated in the process .
"Tilting Northwestern Skies, Sinking Southeastern Earth!"
Rumble!
Shockwaves stopped and the water vapour solidified . Other than the headache-inducing explosion, everything seemed to be engulfed by destruction and no longer existed .
After a momentarily vision black-out, the audience noticed that the white fog had disappeared with the shockwaves . There was a huge pothole in the arena, as though a small pond had appeared out of nowhere .
Lou Cheng and Liang Yifan both took several steps back . However, Liang Yifan was just like moving water as he rapidly adjusted himself and grabbed onto his opponent at the edge of the pond . He immediately launched a series of close combat attacks focused on Lou Cheng's left body .
Bam bam bam!
Lou Cheng defended himself constantly . With his Fire Force not ready, it was hard for him to break off . The pain in his left shoulder intensified as he showed that he was clearly uncomfortable .
Pa!
His left shoulder and arm were slightly slower . It seemed that his effort to hold on bitterly while trying hard to maintain had finally come to an end .