146: Lotus reappears

Under Dai Zhongquan's enhancement, Long Bow Three's overall strength surged to a level close to a Spirit Saint!

"Struggling in vain! No matter how much you struggle, you can't even break the Soul Power defense of a Spirit Emperor!" The Clear Sky Hammer in Long Bow Three's hand missed again, giving him a new understanding of Shen Guyan's speed while also making him somewhat exasperated.

Who would have thought that a Spirit Ancestor's speed would make it impossible for a Spirit Emperor to catch them in a short time?

The trio of Haste, Void Step, and the Great Teleportation Technique was enough to allow Shen Guyan to handle opponents far stronger than himself with ease.

"Can't break your defense?" Shen Guyan sneered. After retreating several steps again, he actually charged toward Long Bow Three while holding the canglang sword.

"A ten-year-old child is still just a child after all!" Long Bow Three thought smugly, swinging his Clear Sky Hammer to meet him.

As the two sides moved toward each other, just as they were about to collide, the canglang sword was thrown out by Shen Guyan first.

"Naive!" Long Bow Three grinned savagely and held the hammer's handle horizontally in front of him, knocking the canglang sword away.

Activating his Second Soul Skill, Shen Guyan's figure appeared beside the canglang sword in the next instant.

"I knew you'd do that!" Long Bow Three backhanded with the hammer handle leading. Using the rotational force of the Chaotic Cape, he swung the Clear Sky Hammer in a swift circle, smashing it fiercely toward Shen Guyan, who had appeared by his side.

However, this time Shen Guyan was in mid-air and did not grab the canglang sword. Instead, he kicked its hilt, sending it flying back directly in front of Long Bow Three.

Just as the Clear Sky Hammer was about to hit Shen Guyan, his figure returned to the front of Long Bow Three, inches away!

"What!"

Long Bow Three was wide open now, his power fully committed to the side. If his opponent had been a Spirit Master of the same Rank, he might have already lost with this single move.

"This is the second stage of Void Step." Shen Guyan smiled faintly. If any Spirit Ability could not be combined with one's own various abilities and Martial Skills, it would be impossible to develop even more powerful self-created Spirit Abilities.

Seeing Shen Guyan about to close in, Long Bow Three, in this critical moment, could no longer care about his pride and released his two-word battle armor.

This kid's abilities are too strange; if I let him hit me, I might be in serious trouble... The coldness in Shen Guyan's eyes did not fade. He changed his fist into a palm, a faint, imperceptible purple light flickering in his palm, as he pressed it heavily onto the two-word battle armor on Long Bow Three's chest. Soul Power erupted instantly!

Bang! Long Bow Three was sent flying backward by the strike, combined with the counterforce of his own hammer swing.

To the onlookers, it looked like he had been blasted away by a single palm strike from Shen Guyan.

As the match progressed to this point, no one questioned Shen Guyan's combat strength anymore. This guy... was clearly only a Spirit Ancestor, yet he could go toe-to-toe with a Spirit Emperor expert!

However, could Shen Guyan's seemingly light palm strike really injure a Spirit Emperor through battle armor?

Just as everyone was wondering, Long Bow Three, sitting on the ground, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

Shen Guyan smiled. That move just now was none other than the Heavenly Sever Earthly Annihilate Great Purple Sun Hand!

The battle armor receded, and Long Bow Three suddenly reached out and pulled open his collar. On his solid chest, five finger marks were clearly visible. The purple finger marks looked as if they had been painted on with pigment.

Poison? What kind of Spirit Ability is this? Long Bow Three and Dai Zhongquan hadn't even seen Shen Guyan's spirit ring light up.

The people from Sea and Land Academy, who knew Shen Guyan best, were equally shocked watching this—another Self-created Spirit Ability they had never seen before!

"I underestimated you..." Long Bow Three clutched his chest and stood up staggeringly. Shen Guyan's palm strike was extremely strange; he could even feel a highly destructive Soul Power permeating his flesh and blood, constantly trying to assault his internal organs, causing him unbearable pain.

He would no longer look down on the person before him. This boy, who looked only about ten years old, definitely deserved to be the top scorer of the Youth Genius Competition! If for nothing else, then for the fact that he had forced a Spirit Emperor to use battle armor using only a Self-created Spirit Ability and two flexible Spirit Abilities!

"Next, I will use my full strength." Long Bow Three wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and slammed the Clear Sky Hammer onto the ground. A dazzling set of blue-purple two-word battle armor immediately covered his entire body—

The people in the audience cried out in surprise, "That's... two-word battle armor!"

Shen Guyan just watched him without saying a word, the three spirit rings beneath his feet pulsing up and down and gradually changing color.

The scene that made everyone's expression change finally arrived.

Shen Guyan's first and second spirit rings gradually changed from purple to yellow, then to white, and finally even became somewhat transparent.

However, his third spirit ring gradually turned from purple to a deep black—

This... what kind of ability is this? Could it be some kind of simulation Spirit Ability?

To this, Shen Guyan could only answer silently: the Heavenly Shift Earthly Turn Great Acupoint Relocation Method! A practitioner who can shift an acupoint by an inch has reached at least ninety percent mastery... but how many acupoints are there in the human body?

The spirit rings of this World seemed to be a special existence that carried skills and Soul Power. Through the Great Acupoint Shifting Method, it seemed possible to inversely control the output of Soul Power and the power of Spirit Abilities!

Shen Guyan's third spirit ring shone brightly, and the canglang sword in his hand immediately glowed with a dazzling azure light—

Third Soul Skill—Sky Sever!

Long Bow Three hurriedly assumed a defensive posture.

However, the sword strike Shen Guyan swung was aimed toward Dai Zhongquan—

"No, this is bad—" Long Bow Three immediately seemed to realize something and shouted a warning.

Shen Guyan's Third Soul Skill originated from a ten-thousand-year Thorn Dragon; this sword strike that ignored spatial distance was not something Star Guardian could defend against!

The sword light swept across. Dai Zhongquan was still maintaining his posture of using the star crown to assist Long Bow Three, but blood was already flying from his chest—

*Pfft—*

The Star Guardian instantly dissipated. Dai Zhongquan clutched the deep wound on his chest and retreated several steps, looking at Shen Guyan, who had swung the sword, with a face full of disbelief.

The distance between them was nearly fifty meters!

If not for his two-word battle armor completing its possession in time, it was hard to imagine what would have happened to him if he had taken that sword strike directly... As the saying goes, "besiege Wei to rescue Zhao," Long Bow Three did not dare to let Shen Guyan attack again. After switching his Spirit back to the Blue Silver King, a completely blue long spear appeared in his palm, and he immediately thrust it fiercely toward Shen Guyan.

*Clang!*

As if having anticipated Long Bow Three's move, countless metal fragments quickly formed a shield by Shen Guyan's side, which was then shattered by Long Bow Three's Blue Silver Overlord Spear.

The shattered and scattered metal fragments reorganized under invisible threads, eventually combining into an exquisitely crafted lotus that flew toward the nearby Dai Zhongquan.

As a member of the Tang Sect on the Douluo Continent, Dai Zhongquan only felt that this object before him looked somewhat familiar.

Meanwhile, Zang Xin, sitting in the audience, suddenly stood up.

That thing, there was absolutely no mistake, it was... one of the Tang Sect's once most powerful Hidden Weapons—the Buddha's Fury Tang Lotus!