Chapter 702: Mythological Beasts God Fights Wind God (I)
There was no other choice but to concede! That terrifying Domain of Purification seemed to suppress the darkness attribute in a way no weaker than a light attribute domain. Not only was his spiritual energy purified, but moreover, his soul was the target. Even more terrifyingly, the purified spiritual energy was the core of his power. That is to say that under the effects of the Domain of Purification, his cultivation would continuously decrease. How could Mo Wu bear such a loss?
As for the escape of the Dark Sovereign, his only reason was that he was afraid, having gotten caught by a terrible sense of dread. Perhaps he was strong enough to put up a fight against Cai'er, but how about after that? If the Domain of Purification were to purify his soul, he would be gone forever. The Dark Sovereign was no idiot, and he had no deep bond with Mo Wu, only a special connection. How could he be willing to throw his life away for the sake of this connection? That was simply impossible.
Just go die by yourself if that's what you want but don't implicate me. After sensing the terror of the Domain of Purification, the Dark Sovereign instantly fled.
Cai'er slowly landed from the sky, retrieved the petals forming Domain of Purification, and flashed out of the match ground after shooting a glance at Mo Wu.
Actually, the most disadvantaged in this individual competition out of Bright Glimmer of Hope was Cai'er. Although she did have her Domain of Purification, her real fighting strength lay mostly in the Sickle of the God of Death she had been cultivating since young. Without the real weapon in her hands, she had no way to wield the seven arts of the God of Death. Furthermore, in times of battle, the Sickle of the God of Death would be struggling to get out, so not only could Cai'er not use it, but had moreover to put some of her focus on suppressing it. So it would be already pretty good for Cai'er to wield a half of her strength in this individual competition, and her terrifying bursting force could by no means be displayed.
The fourth match in Bright Glimmer of Hope's ranks was designated.
They had already occupied a third of the spots, and moreover had a person who had yet to take part.
When Chen Ying'er went on stage, she encountered the last leftover competitor of the Assassin Temple, and managed to achieve victory by the means of her powerful summoning magic.
The fourth match having ended, time had come for the fifth and more terrifying leader match.
The individual competition having reached this point, Bright Glimmer of Hope's advance was already unstoppable. A group of ten, formed with two powerhouses reaching the peak of the eighth step and eight reaching the ninth step, with four domain wielding powerhouses among the lot. Their captain Long Haochen had displayed the use of the two ultimate weapons known as domain technique and domain evolution, managing to defeat two Temple Heads and the number one powerhouse of the Knight Temple. A lot of people sensed that this Temple's Great Gathering would inevitably get recorded in the annals. And they were still so young; if they were given enough time to keep growing, destroying demonkind wouldn't be impossible.
Although each of the Six Great Temples had its own way to do things, which caused the Temple Alliance to be relatively dispersed, their struggle for over six thousand years of dark era against demonkind had already lasted for far too long. Who knew how much blood of how many powerhouses of the six Temples had flown. Bright Glimmer of Hope were really showing them a glimmer of a new dawn and causing indescribable feelings to rise up in a lot of people's minds. If there was one thing it brought to them, they would definitely declare that it's hope!
Each victor of the fourth round could gain eight points, and after passing through this hurdle, the Knight Temple had only two people left, the Mage Temple had three, the Spiritual Temple had two, and Bright Glimmer of Hope had two! The Assassin Temple and Warrior Temple were already eliminated.
Thanks to this fourth round, five of them had already earned forty more points, giving them a proud lead score of ninety-six points after getting added to their previous fifty-six points. The Mage Temple was second with eighty-nine points, the Knight Temple, third with eighty-two points, the Spiritual Temple fourth with fifty-eight points, the Assassin Temple still had thirty-four points and the Warrior Temple remained at twenty-four points.
As it was already noon, if the Temple's Great Gathering proceeded normally, the winner will come out today. Although the schedule was delayed with yesterday's incident, the matches still had to go on. The Five Temples and Bright Glimmer of Hope had already gotten the news that no matter how late it ends, the individual matches need to be done with today.
The matches in the Temples' Great Gathering did not last for long; these were definitely not matches of long time endurance, the main reason for that being the demon threat: what if demonkind took advantage of the return of a great amount of powerhouses from the Six Great Temples to the Holy City to launch a large scale raid. As a result, although the Temples' Great Gathering was taking place once every ten years, the specific starting time would be fixed at the last moment to prevent the demon side from grasping their rhythm. So the time of the gathering was compressed as far as possible, to enable to powerhouses from all Temples to return as soon as possible when it's all done.
This was especially the case this time, as a series of new policies and important matters pertaining to the whole Alliance needed to be discussed.
After the fourth rounds were over and the points were totalled, the fifth round of matches immediately took place.
It had a total of six matches, and although based on the prior patterns, Bright Glimmer of Hope's five remaining members would get placed in five of the matches, running into each other was not impossible for them. But in short, Bright Glimmer of Hope would have to face at the same time the top of the Knight, Mage, and Spiritual Temples.
Every one of their remaining members had gotten over sixteen points, but although Bright Glimmer was currently in the lead, that lead was not yet stable and could change at anytime.
The first match was already a great clash of power. Chen Ying'er's good luck seemed to be finally exhausted, the Light of Selection having landed on her and the head of the Mage Temple, Li Zhengzhi.
Long Haochen's expression changed slightly, looking face to face at Chen Ying'er, before she nodded back to him, standing up and slowly advancing toward the stage.
In this match, Li Zhengzhi was especially calm. Although Bright Glimmer of Hope had gotten prideful results, he remained impassive, his feelings devoid of the slightest ripple. Who knew if he really did not care about them or had other kinds of thoughts.
Currently, the only leftover Temple leader was Li Zhengzhi, the other four having all gotten eliminated. Him facing Chen Ying'er right off the bat really rose the excitation of the spectators to the peak.
This Chen Ying'er was a domain wielder as well! Could Bright Glimmer of Hope keep bringing nice surprises to everyone here?
With a faint smile on her face, Chen Ying'er advanced to the field, performing a salute to Li Zhengzhi. After all, Li Zhengzhi was still a senior.
Li Zhengzhi nodded slightly, and performed an inviting gesture. With his status, there's naturally no way he could rush to take the first move against someone of Chen Ying'er's age.
Chen Ying'er directly sat cross-legged before starting a chant, without the slightest defensive measure taken beforehand.
Looking at her, Li Zhengzhi couldn't help but smile in reaction. What a girl! She was clearly taking advantage of his unwillingness to take the first move.
But even if I don't take the first move, do you really think I have no other means? Li Zhengzhi maintained a slight smile, but still kept standing still and started a chant. A fantastic calm filled the whole stadium.
Ever since the start of the Temples' Great Gathering, this was the first time two mages were facing off each other without the slightest probing attack.
An insipid entity spread out from Li Zhengzhi's body, very rapidly taking shape on his back, forming green light interwoven around him. Being shaped into into an enlarged version of Li Zhengzhi, its chubby looks actually gave off a silly feeling of cuteness.
Seated on the Knight Temple's side, Long Haochen couldn't help but feel a chill of alarm.
Li Zhengzhi used a sort of wind god summoning magic, but which took less than twenty second to complete. The formidable power of this spell reached the forbidden spell level without a doubt. That was just crazy. Furthermore, that was accomplished without any equipment, and in the meantime, Li Zhengzhi had yet to even deploy his Wind God Domain.
Chen Ying'er seemed not to be perturbed by Li Zhengzhi's magic at all, still continuing her chant, which continued in an even more obscure and redundant manner.
After that, some changes finally couldn't help but occur to Li Zhengzhi's face, because he couldn't identity the spell corresponding to her incantation.
As a peak level mage, Li Zhengzhi may be unwilling to make the first move, but was even least willing to remain passive. So he immediately made preparations for a forbidden spell, this way no matter what kind of magical beast gets called out by Chen Ying'er, he could be confident in being able to destroy it with his magic. Even if Chen Ying'er would come with an especially strong magical beast, he could still make use of the Wind God Domain to boost his own magic.
It was not that Li Zhengzhi couldn't cast multiple spell, but he didn't see such a need. Moreover, maintaining a magic after cast without releasing it would come with a very large spiritual energy consumption. He really did not expect Chen Ying'er's cast to take such a long time. For this girl being a powerhouse of the ninth step as well to need such a long time to achieve her chant, just what level could this summoning magic reach?
Although Li Zhengzhi had some ideas on the matter, he had still underestimated the chanting time Chen Ying'er would take. In a blink of an eye, three minutes had passed, yet Chen Ying'er was still going on, and her spell had yet to take effect. If it wasn't because he already knew that Chen Ying'er had reached the ninth step, Li Zhengzhi would be thinking of her to be faking a chant. Just what chant could last so long?
"Girl, if you keep going on like that, this old man will make his move." Li Zhengzhi's dim voice reverberated in the whole stadium. Even for his face, he couldn't waste his energy in this Temples' Great Gathering. Maintaining this forbidden spell depleted his spiritual energy rapidly, and as other matches were coming next, an excessive consumption would very clearly be unfavorable to him.
Chapter 703: Mythological Beasts God Fights Wind God (II)
Right after Li Zhengzhi was done speaking, Chen Ying'er suddenly opened her eyes and showed him a sweet smile, giving the reply, "Done."
Saying that, Chen Ying'er lifted her hands and extended her fingertip, pointing her palms upwards, as if releasing something.
Immediately, roars from myriad beasts came gushing out from her body like a tsunami, but moreover, it was accompanied with the images of countless magical beast coming out behind Chen Ying'er's back.
Is that a domain? But how could a domain need such a long chant? Li Zhengzhi recognized in a glance a powerful summoner domain. Could that be the same Beast Emperor Domain as her grandfather? Chen Ying'er had displayed the use of her domain in the previous matches, but only in the shape of single targeted amplifications of magical beasts, aimed at most at two targets, but seeing such a large area extended domain from her was really a first.
The next instant after Li Zhengzhi was filled with those questions, his look changed.
Light gates surfaced in an orderly manner behind Chen Ying'er's back. Seeing these, the most shocked were no one else but those from her own Spiritual Temple.
Even the head of the Spiritual Temple Chen Hongyu was dumbstruck by this scene. He never thought his own granddaughter to be able to utilize such a magic.
He was also puzzled over why Chen Ying'er had been chanting for so long. Even after having been in control of the Spiritual Temple for so many years, he had no memories of such a long chant from their Spiritual Temple. Even summoning a magical beast of the ninth step wouldn't need so long! Otherwise, in the battlefield, a summoner had the time to die a hundred times in the lapse of three minutes.
Right now, Chen Hongyu was really crushed by his own granddaughter, and the same went for every present summoners, who never expected a single summoner to be able to display a strength reaching such a peak. Just count these gates: one, two, three, four, five… Counting them in a glance was simply impossibel.
These gates formed an immense semi circular shape, as if surrounding and protecting Chen Ying'er. In the midst of those myriad beasts' roars, all the light gates opened at the same time, letting magical beasts come out one after another from within.
There were a total of thirty-six light gates, from whence thirty-six magical beasts immediately came out right upon appearance.
Seeing these magical beasts, Li Zhengzhi's look became slightly better: they only reached the eighth step and not the ninth. If Chen Ying'er was able to summon thirty-six magical beasts equivalent to powerhouses of the ninth step at once, that would really be overly terrifying.
But even so, Chen Ying'er summoning magic still shocked the whole audience. Thirty-six simultaneous magical beasts of the eighth step, what was that? That would be enough to turn the tides in a whole portion of the battlefield in just a few instants.
So Bright Glimmer of Hope's most powerful member was this summoner?
The other members of Bright Glimmer of Hope had their own conclusion on whether Chen Ying'er was the most powerful, but one thing was certain: she was a god's chosen one just like Long Haochen and Cai'er. Even if she may not have earned as much as Long Haochen and Cai'er in these years, she was in no way inferior.
This summon before her eyes had depleted all her spiritual energy, but what if she had her Saint Spiritual Robe? Would the chanting time even be so long? And the same goes for her spiritual energy.
Even Long Haochen hadn't had a clear understanding of Chen Ying'er's real strength; right now Bright Glimmer of Hope could already be said to have in some meaning three cores, one of them being Chen Ying'er.
In the previous match, Chen Ying'er had exercised great restraint, but finally came out with her full strength when facing Li Zhengzhi.
After returning the day before, the members of Bright Glimmer of Hope convened a simple meeting, as they were certain to run against Li Zhengzhi on today. But how should they counter him? They very rapidly reached a conclusion: no matter who encounters Li Zhengzhi, that person has, while making an all out effort in battle, to deplete to the greatest extent the opponent's strength. After all, even though Li Zhengzhi's strength was not at Yang Haoyu's level, it should not differ too much. It was because the other side let him win that Long Haochen had managed to win against Yang Haoyu, but in a one versus one, Haochen was not confident in being able to surely defeat Li Zhengzhi.
But their Demon Hunt Squad Bright Glimmer of Hope was a whole, and a whole was bound to be even stronger than separate individuals. And since the individual competition would end today anyway, better focus on the team battles.
Zhang Fangfang had previously effectively depleted Li Zhengzhi, but since a lot of matches had gone on since then, his spiritual energy should have already gotten replenished. But in this match, Chen Ying'er had already resolved herself to at least make Li Zhengzhi use up the overwhelming majority of his fighting strength if she could not defeat him.
Chen Ying'er's plan went on right off the bat, making plentiful use of Li Zhengzhi's high esteem of his status to complete her summoning spell of largest scale.
Thirty-six magical beasts of the eighth step appearing in the stadium simultaneously had absolutely shaken the whole audience.
Although these magical beasts were of different races, they listened wholeheartedly to Chen Ying'er's orders! Right off the bat, they madly charged at Li Zhengzhi.
Li Zhengzhi snorted coldly. Mere magical beasts reaching the eighth step were nothing in his eyes. Even if they were even more numerous, at his cultivation level, killing magical beasts of this level was just too simple.
As he waved his hands, the massive green figure on his back immediately drifted away, both hands raised to the sky releasing green moon-shaped blades. It appeared like an uncrossable barrier standing in front of Li Zhengzhi. But his look grew unsightly once again the next instant.
Chen Ying'er issued a shriek, and immediately, the myriad beasts' images that had come out previously solidified, rushing at the magical beasts of the eighth step that had surged out, and attached themselves onto them, causing the beasts to start undergoing rapid changes.
A gigantic black bear bellowed loudly, swelling to twice its previous size growing twice as large, as its hairs astonishingly started to turn into a dark gold color. In the midst of roars, it let out terrifying seismic waves aimed at the wind god called out by Li Zhengzhi.
Evolution!
What Chen Ying'er had utilized was obviously not the same Myriad Beasts Domain as Chen Hongyu, but her Mythologic Beast Domain!
Being the Beast God's Chosen One, a unique Saint Spiritual Daughter to have come in existence in the human world, her boosting ability on magical beasts fundamentally even exceeded Ye Xiaolei's back in the Illusory Paradise.
Under the boost of the Beast Emperor Domain, these magical beasts of the eighth step all evolved to the ninth step, turning into thirty-six magical beasts of the ninth step, releasing a terrible might which frantically pounced on Li Zhengzhi.
A miscalculation! Li Zhengzhi had immediately come to this judgment, causing him to have traces of regrets. He really should not have let Chen Ying'er complete her previous magic! Thirty-six magical beasts of the ninth step and thirty-six magical beasts of the eighth step were two fundamentally different concepts.
After completion of these global boosts, Chen Ying'er sat down in a quite weakened state, but still had the energy to ferociously utter, "Everyone, get rid of him!"
Thirty-six magical beasts of the ninth step pouncing on a single opponent was a really spectacular sight.
The pair of massive moon-shaped blades in the Wind God's hands managed to stop the attack of three magical beasts of the ninth step, but then started to get somewhat unstable.
Ninth step would be the assessment based on human cultivation, but in terms of magical beast grade, these would be magical beasts of the tenth rank.
They may not be as strong as the four-headed Medusa or Divine Unicorn, but as magical beasts of tenth rank, they still reached the peak of magical beasts.
Simply said, right now it was as if Li Zhengzhi was assaulted by the whole Golden Foundation Knight Regiment. That lineup didn't feel any easier to face.
Not daring to take things easy, Li Zhengzhi immediately unleashed the Wind God Domain, not daring to let these thirty-six magical beasts of the ninth step unleash all their power. If it really went like that, himself aside, even the Demon God Emperor could find that situation troublesome.
Right now, Li Zhengzhi completely flared up.
A strong display of power immediately surged out, as a terrible hurricane immediately swept all the thirty-six magical beasts of the ninth step. Immediately, the beasts' attacks got twisted aside while slowing down under the hurricane's effects.
This was not a simple domain. For constricting so many magical beasts of the ninth step, that could only be a domain technique!
For the sake of safety, and to make sure to achieve victory in this match, Li Zhengzhi had no other choice but to utilize his own domain technique.
That terrible hurricane was entirely colored dark green. Everywhere it passed, every magical beast it encountered was getting cut frantically. If these were magical beasts of the eighth step, their bodies would certainly get smashed to pieces under attacks of this level. But magical beasts of the ninth step were not the same: their defensive power was far stronger than at the eighth step, so there was no immediate danger for them.
Chen Ying'er ignored this situation, only silently sitting there to replenish her spiritual energy, the little pig McDull being held in her arms.
Li Zhengzhi having restricted these magical beasts thanks to his domain technique, his Wind God Summoning's power started to emerge. With the boost from the Wind God Domain, Li Zhengzhi's wind god incarnated body gained an explosive burst in speed and offensive power. In a flash of green light, that gigantic bear stood like nothing in its way, while in response his incarnation got repelled ten meters back in the blast of the bear's palm attack. But in front of the Wind God Domain's amplification, an attack of this level was nothing.
The look on Li Zhengzhi's face did not improve just because of getting rid of one magical beast of the ninth step. Quite the opposite, it got even more strained. A domain technique's spiritual energy consumption could only be described as terrifying: even with his internal spiritual energy having already broken through 400,000, he couldn't keep utilizing it for too long. He had only one choice left now, which would be to take advantage of the situation to get rid of Chen Ying'er. This way these magical beasts would go out of control, causing a better turn for his situation.