Chapter 697: Haoyue, First Demon God in existence? (II)
Chen Zidian's dignified voice reverberated once again, "Fourth rounds of the individual competition, start."
Two lights of selections came, producing swishing sounds. After travelling through the air, one of them directly fell on the lounge of the Knight Temple. This was the most probable, as, after all, the Knight Temple had five people left for this fourth round, while Bright Glimmer of Hope had seven of them, making for over half of the contestants left from the third round.
In a flicker of light, a knight from the Knight Temple was picked alongside a powerhouse from the Mage Temple.
The fourth stage of the competition started with intense clashes.
After that great battle opposing Long Haochen and Yang Haoyu yesterday, today's Li Zhengzhi looked extremely calm, seated on the first row of the Mage Temple's contestant booth. Like he ordinarily did, he carried a faint smile on his face, as if Bright Glimmer of Hope's outstanding performance had nothing to do with him.
In the fourth rounds, the ones left seemed to be only powerhouses of the ninth steps, and only excellent figures at that. The competition thus became increasingly heated.
After one hour passed, a half of the twelve matches went by. Three of Bright Glimmer of Hope's ranks had appeared. Wang Yuanyuan and Lin Xin passed the ordeal, while Zhang Fangfang lost to Li Zhengzhi.
For the seventh match, when the light of selection illuminated Long Haochen's body, the whole audience became quiet.
Long Haochen did not look any different from yesterday, still carrying a light smile on his face, and dispersing a gentle aura. But now, no one underestimated this captain of Bright Glimmer of Hope anymore.
Yang Haoyu was not very well-known before his match against Long Haochen, but after the clashes of domains, Yang Haoyu's identity rapidly spread ear by ear. The number one powerhouse of the Knight Temple!
The ones that really came to this realization during this match were still after all very few, and all the great majority knew was that Long Haochen was the final victor of this match.
For such a young Titled Demon Hunt Squad Captain to defeat in succession the number one powerhouses from the Warrior Temple and Knight Temple, Long Haochen and Bright Glimmer of Hope had already became the main target of attention. The splendor of the Six Great Temples was already outshined by their strong performances.
For the fourth match, Long Haochen entered the stage once again. But, amazingly, it had to be wondered whether this could be called the Will of Heavens or really terrible luck, as he had this time to confront another domain wielder, as well as one of the most well-known powerhouses of the Temple Alliance, the head of the Spiritual Temple and wielder of the Beast Emperor Domain, Chen Hongyu.
Seeing that he had drawn Long Haochen as his opponent, Chen Hongyu couldn't help but shiver lightly. The one he was the most unwilling to face off against was actually Long Haochen.
In the battle between Long Haochen and Yang Haoyu, he had already understood that there was quite a gap between Yang Haoyu's cultivation and his own. Although Long Haochen could be said to have had a modest victory against Yang Haoyu, the fact he had managed to keep up in such a situation was more than ample to prove this youngster's dominant power.
In less than five years since their last confrontation, he already became a domain wielding powerhouse. Losing against him would certainly be a great loss of face. But even winning against such a young person would be nothing glorious.
So when Chen Hongyu came out from the Spiritual Temple's side, his complexion was quite unsightly. Long Haochen was no Chen Ying'er, so as the head of the Spiritual Temple, he naturally couldn't just concede, much less just throw the game.
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Long Haochen took the lead to walk into the stadium, paying his respects to Chen Hongyu, performing a standard knight salute in front of him, "Greetings, Temple Head Chen."
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"En." Chen Hongyu only nodded, "Let's start." He was unwilling to speak more. This match could only be an all out effort; after all, Long Haochen couldn't bring out offensive weapons such as in the previous match. Naturally, he was able to tell that if he hadn't had the Sword of Life and Creation formed with those two divine swords, Long Haochen couldn't possibly cause those two evolutions of his domain. Winning against Long Haochen was not impossible for him. Putting the rest aside, he's a powerhouse reaching the third rank of the ninth step, and Long Haochen should not yet have attained the third rank.
However, Chen Zidian really had a bad affinity with Long Haochen. Back then, his face off against Bright Glimmer of Hope should originally be a totally one-sided match for him, but who could imagine that the instant Long Haochen's six-headed beast came out, his four-headed chimera immediately lost all fighting strength, and up to now, Chen Hongyu had yet to understand what kind of magical beast Long Haochen's mount could be. Thinking about how his summoned beast would certainly be suppressed, he did not feel good at all.
However, in this match, after all, he didn't have Chen Ying'er to suppress his domain, so his Beast Emperor Domain was able to display its full power. But whether it would hold water was heard to say: in the past years, Chen Ying'er's cultivation also increased significantly, be it in his control over his domain or his control over his summoned beast and his quality of summons.
Lifting his hands, milky white radiances appeared in Chen Hongyu's palms, turning in a blink of an eye into a milky-white ball of light floating in front of him. No equipment could be used, so one could only make an imitation made of spiritual energy.
A gate of light instantly took shape behind Chen Hongyu, and his figure flashed, directly disappearing after passing through the gate.
The Divine Unicorn reappeared in front of Long Haochen. It wasn't that he found that sufficient, but Haoyue's abilities were just overly overbearing and likely to cause injuries. As this was the Temples' Great Gathering and not a battle against demons, he wouldn't lightly let him come out unless absolutely necessary. With the rise of his cultivation, Haoyue's tyrannical and destructive aspects rose at extreme speed, and Long Haochen sometimes had difficulty to control well his emotions.
The Divine Unicorn was not the same: Star King had followed Long Haochen since the time he was just a Starlight Unicorn, and couldn't have evolved without him. Therefore, although there was no binding pact between Long Haochen and him, he had extremely deep feelings toward Haochen. And moreover, following a Light God Body owner such a Long Haochen was extremely beneficial for his cultivation. Unicorns were innately close to light, so who else than Long Haochen could get as intimate to him?
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Still, Star King had his own issues. Having evolved into a Divine Unicorn recently, he was still in the midst of adapting, and unable to use a lot of a Divine Unicorn's abilities. Otherwise, the boost he had provided in yesterday's match to Long Haochen would in no way have been so simple. One of Long Haochen's hopes was to stir up Star King's potential through continuous battles, to genuinely make him a Divine Unicorn.
A terrifying roar shook up the whole stage as a huge figure came out from Chen Hongyu's summoning gate.
This huge figure was a whole fifteen meters tall, standing as imposingly as a mountain, and its whole body covered with white hairs flickering in metallic lusters. Standing vertically, it pounded his pair of huge fists onto its own chest, issuing loud Dam Dam Dam sounds.
Long Haochen had never seen such a huge orangutan before. Amongst magical beasts, orangutan were all powerhouses, not only possessing unyielding capabilities, but, moreover, a much higher intelligence than ordinary magical beasts. His powerful physical capabilities, nimble speed, and very dangerous attacks made them one of the favorite targets of summoners.
When Long Haochen's group faced off Chen Hongyu five years ago, he had not seen this magical beast, be it because Chen Hongyu intentionally did not call it out back then or did not have it yet. From the fluctuations it released, one could determine that it was certainly one of Chen Hongyu's nine possible pacted magical beasts, and not an ordinary summon.
And, to Long Haochen's shock, Chen Hongyu's presence totally disappeared after he stepped into this light gate. None of his mental inspections actually managed to find traces of his presence. Just what summoner ability could that be?
That huge orangutan roared, and immediately rushed toward Long Haochen at frantic speed, accelerating all the way. In only two dashes and one leap, it was already in front of Long Haochen.
Abruptly raising its two hands, it immediately punched straight into Long Haochen's face.
Before its palm arrived, a terrifying gale was already whizzing through, and more terrifyingly, a terrible cold air enveloped both Haochen and the Divine Unicorn at the time the orangutan punched out.
An ice-element magical beast of the tenth rank, equivalent to a human powerhouse of the ninth step. This punch alone was sufficient for Long Haochen to sense its great power. Against a summoner, the greatest priority was to stop the opponent from calling out all his summoned beasts.
The piercing chill was not only highly invasive, but moreover caused their speeds to drop down.
Long Haochen didn't avoid such an attack, crossing his hands to form a parrying posture.
With a sound of bang, a lot of people unconsciously believed that Long Haochen would get pushed away by this punch, but the final result was the complete opposite.
Upon contact of that domineering fist with Long Haochen's completely contrasting hands, the orangutan's figure visibly froze, his body being ejected the next instant.
It smashed all the way towards the light gate.
The Divine Unicorn flapped its wings and brought Long Haochen to chase all the way. A huge golden sword appeared in midair. Carrying some similarities with Qiu Yonghao's Sword Intent Domain, that huge light-sword's domineering sword intent instantly locked onto the orangutan, chopping down.
To say nothing about Long Haochen's Heart of Eternity, his internal spiritual energy reached 290,000, so even if his cultivation was a bit weaker, the Divine Unicorn he rode should not be forgotten!
The Divine Unicorn's boost of his spiritual energy was at least of a hundred thousand, totalling over 150,000 if Sacred Light was to be added up. Otherwise, Long Haochen couldn't be a match in yesterday's domain clash.
This Ice Orangutan was a powerful magical beast of the tenth rank, but only equivalent to an initial stage powerhouse of the ninth step. In a direct clash, its ice attribute was no match for Long Haochen's light and neither was its spiritual energy a match, naturally causing it to be ruthlessly sent flying.
Chapter 698: Haoyue, First Demon God in existence? (III)
The Temples' Great Gathering did not allow to wound or kill the enemy, but summoned beasts were exceptions! Seeing Long Haochen, his sword strike looked about to take the Ice Orangutan's life.
Only when facing it for real could one truly realize the extent reached by his sword intent. Reaching the level of materializing the sword's soul, the eruption of his sword intent reached a quite higher level of power than Qiu Yonghao. That Ice Orangutan had an undescriptible sense of terror, and was instantly pressured to a great extent, and locked into an inescapable state. All it could do was to shout grudgingly, crossing its hands to block the attack. But everyone could tell out that the sword strike overflowing with might that came down was really not something he could block.
All of this took place just too fast. In Chen Hongyu's view, Long Haochen was in the end Chen Ying'er's captain, and wouldn't in the end go immediately for the kill. This Ice Orangutan he sent actually didn't have much utility, except from hopefully delaying Haochen. But Long Haochen's sudden burst of power not only showed him Haochen's great strength, but moreover caused him to get panicky and hastingly accelerate the completion of his spell, totally wrecking his rhythm.
But Chen Hongyu was indignant at Long Haochen's really too fast burst of power, making him already too late for the rescue. This Ice Orangutan being one of his pacted magical beast, in case Long Haochen was to kill it, his strength would get importantly affected. Moreover, a summoner has great emotions towards his pacted magical beast. For a moment, Chen Hongyu couldn't help but become greatly furious, great surges of emotions rising into him.
Split in two in a sword strike? Of course not, Long Haochen was the Scion of Light, not a Scion of Slaughter. And moreover, he was facing one of his allies from the Temple Alliance, not a demon.
When that huge sword looked about to split the Ice Orangutan, the sword blade was suddenly reversed, the attack turning into using the flat part, beating the Ice Orangutan's arms.
In yesterday's battle against Yang Haoyu, Haochen was completely suppressed cultivation-wise, but the opposite went today with this Ice Orangutan, whose spiritual energy was completely suppressed by its opponent.
Bang. The Ice Orangutan's body smashed the ground stiff, fragments of ice splattering on his chest's spot, the defensive magic attached onto him getting completely pierced through. Its head took a direct fall, and from the looks, it had completely lost its fighting strength.
And that was Long Haochen showing mercy! After breaking the Orangultan's arms, his massive sword intent shot up above its head, causing it to lose consciousness. If he really wanted, he had at least ten means to kill this magical beast of the tenth rank without much efforts.
With a wave of hand, an intense bright light guushed out all around Long Haochen, shrouding the whole field in a flash. A sweet sounding echo came: the Light God Domain!
Right now, he gave off the feeling of going all out, not showing the any reserves nor probe.
After that huge light sword defeated the Ice Orangutan, the amplification of the Light God Domain could be sensed, instantly gaining in substance. Long Haochen waved his right hand, and immediately shot a direct projectile at that light gate.
This aside, Long Haochen's both hands were crossed in front of his body, and after the Heart of Eternity pulsed thrice, another white colored blade flew up, chasing after that huge light sword and directly causing it to turn into an incandescent color. The terrible sword intent even caused cracks to appear onto the opposite defensive barrier.
The Light God Domain was not only about domain domination and elemental domination! It caused all Long Haochen's light attribute abilities to gain a terrifying boost.
This blow fused sword soul and sword intent in one. Looking at Long Haochen's displayed move, Qiu Yonghao finally understood from the booths of the Warrior Temple, that Long Haochen had been lenient on him that day. Being able to utilize Sword Soul was not a simple as only owning it. Of course, this was accomplished with the help of the Light God Domain.
After discussing with Yang Haoyu and Chen Zidian, Long Haochen had already returned to train in seclusion for the rest of the previous day and until the matches of today? In just a day, he had gained a whole new understanding of his domain's capabilities. Naturally, his cultivation developed accordingly. His newest acquired comprehension acquired through battle was naturally showing the greatest effects.
After his resurrection, Long Haochen's greatest regret was Yating's disappearance. As his heart was smashed into pieces, The spiritual stove fused with her disappeared along, and even the ability of the Saint Spiritual Stove left along.
In the process of thinking back about Yating, Long Haochen gained a deeper level of understanding toward sword intent, which is how he gained sword soul.
At the time he had first made use of sword soul, he faintly became aware that Yating was not dead for real. She seemed to be still existing in a part of his body, but only couldn't be vividly sensed. He believed that as long as his sword soul could grow stronger, there would come a day that he would be able to awaken Yating from her slumbering area.
Sword soul, as the name implies, consists on bestowing a soul to one's sword. A sword intent with no sword soul wouldn't last for too long. As a result, an attack from sword intent would frequently be lacking in adaptability. But with a soul in the sword, sword intent gains myriads of variations, making it inevitably far more powerful.
In the past, when the Holy Sword Wielder Ye Wushang had attained this realm, he had become the number one talent in the Warrior Temple. And now, Long Haochen clearly also attained it.
On the Knight Temple's lounge, Yang Haohan couldn't help but nod secretly to Long Haochen. The match they had yesterday was mostly a contest of domains. If at that time, Long Haochen had used his sword intent fused wih sword soul along with the Light God Domain, that would be a great threat against him. Only, because the two of them were immersed in a clash of domains, Long Haochen just did not use it.
Houu--
A thunderous roar rang out, and immediately, a four-colored luster came out from that light gate, colliding with Long Haochen's huge sword.
Speaking of which, that four-colored radiance were really bizarre. Upon clashing with Long Haochen's huge sword fused with sword intent and sword soul, not only stopping the advance of the huge sword, but also condensing into four spherical projectiles of different colors.
Long Haochen urged out his sword intent, and abruptly, the Light God Domain shrank, gathering its amplifying effects. And that instant, those four projectiles blowed up.
A terrifying blasting force caused instantly massive pressure onto the defensive barrier outside, to the extent of forcing Chen Zidian to once again intervene personally.
Long Haochen's immense light sword was smashed to thin pieces, as he was pushed a hundred meters away alongside the Divine Unicorn in a deep shock.
The light gate enlarging, a massive figure rushed out from within. That was nothing else but Chen Hongyu's contracted beast, the four-headed chimera.
Seeing that four-headed chimera, Long Haochen almost had the unconscious urge of summoning Haoyue. In front of Haoyue's blood suppression, this four-headed chimera should not be of any use.
But very rapidly, Long Haochen dispelled these thoughts, because he sensed that this four-headed chimera seemed to be growing to a whole different level from before.
The first change was relevent to Long Haochen's previous attack, which already exerted all his strength. Even a powerhouse of the third or fourth rank of the ninth step would find it strenuous to respond. That was an attack mixing both sword intent and sword's soul, but it was simply received like that by the four-headed chimera. It was far from being as powerful previously, and the difference was really very wide.
The other change was that in the eyes of this four-headed chimera, Long Haochen could see a great wrath and extremely fierce human nature.
That's?
Without leaving Long Haochen the time to ponder over the issue, the four-headed medusa launched a powerful attack, all four heads spitting breaths simulteously, not aimed directly at Long Haochen, but gathering in midair to turned into a four colored ball shot sharply at Long Haochen.
In the meantime, a four-colored radiance of blue, red, yellow and green instantly spread out from the four-headed medusa. That was actually a four-elemental domain.
Chen Ying'er was in great alarm seeing this scene, murmuring, "Wow, Grandpa! To actually have achieved contracted fusion, he really has already broken through the third rank of the ninth step."
Lin Xin asked curiously, "What is a contracted fusion?"
Chen Ying'er replied, "That's the fusion between a summoner and his contracted beast. Grandpa's current strength has made one with the four-headed chimera Xingxuan. But the downside is that he cannot utilize any more summoning magic that way. However, Xingxuan's strength has been greatly upgraded, and is now fully under Grandpa's control. Her abilities have risen to a next level, haven't you seen the domain Xingxuan has just unleashed?"
"Puhu." Lin Xin suddenly laughed.
Chen Ying'er asked in puzzlement, "What are you laughing about, has-drug-bro?"
Lin Xin laughingly replied, "Oh, I suddenly realized that if you rise to the third rank of the ninth stpe, you will have this contracted fusion ability. Won't that turn you into a pig? Wahaha, so funny!"
"You!" Chen Ying'er erupted in fury, fiercely pinching off Lin Xin's waist. The others already couldn't help but burst out in laughter as well.
That's actually exactly the case. McDull being just a little pig, if Chen Ying'er undergoes contracted fusion with it, that will really turn her into a pig!
In the stadium, Long Haochen was able to sense abnormalities in the four-headed chimera, but hadn't guessed that this was a contracted fusion between Chen Hongyu and Xingxuan.
Four elemental chaotic magic. Although that was just a simple spit, the authenticity of its might was already proved.
Long Haochen didn't dare tarry. Raising his right hand, a bright white glow came out instantly in the empty space, bombarding that four-elemental cage.
Instant cast, Light of Trial.
At the time this Light of Trial burst out, it emitted a clear and all around-spreading sound. All around it, series of angels were faintly seen revolving.
In the midst of a loud explosion, the four-elemental cage ruptured, and although its massive blasting force engulfed the Light of Trial, it didn't come flying toward Long Haochen's side until the end.