194: Chapter 193 Clash of Power!! Summon [Overlord - Xiang Yu]!!

In the [Fenglei Mountain Range] secret realm's giant timber jungle.

The giant trees where the [Wind-Roaring Giant Ape]s were currently residing simply could not withstand the impact of the [Armored Rock Boar King]. The ordinary [Armored Rock Boar]s, dozens of meters tall, couldn't knock down those giant trees even after ramming them back and forth dozens of times; yet now, after being rammed just a few times by the [Armored Rock Boar King], the trees began to sway.

Even one [Wind-Roaring Giant Ape], while using the [Howling Wind] skill, accidentally fell off because the big tree was shaking, and as a result, merely getting brushed by the strong wind stirred up by the [Armored Rock Boar King] caused it to burst into a mist of blood right there in mid-air.

Having no choice, the [Wind-Roaring Giant Ape]s scurried across various giant trees, crying out in constant panic.

The combined strike of the [Wind-Roaring Giant Ape]s' [Howling Wind] skill was indeed powerful, but they were unable to move while channeling and charging this skill.

This skill was not very effective most of the time, only allowing them to howl a few times and gather a small whirlwind. After all, in combat, completely stationary situations were rare.

But rare did not mean nonexistent.

The giant trees in the giant timber jungle, reaching a diameter of one hundred meters and an unpredictable height, combined with the [Armored Rock Boar]s, which possessed immense destructive power but practically zero intelligence and lacked ranged capabilities—together, the two fulfilled this harsh condition.

After all, although the [Armored Rock Boar]s had great destructive power, it still took a very long time to knock down a giant tree with a diameter of one hundred meters.

During this time, the [Wind-Roaring Giant Ape]s could safely squat on the tree trunks and use the [Howling Wind] skill to gather a powerful storm to attack the [Armored Rock Boar]s beneath the tree; after all, pigs couldn't climb trees.

Coupled with the fact that the wind and lightning element contents in the [Fenglei Mountain Range] were truly off the charts, this miracle of the lower defeating the upper could be achieved.

Earlier, when the remnant soul of the [Ventilating Great Sage] had [Wuzhiqi] and Sun Po accumulate points by slaughtering [Armored Rock Boar]s, it likely had such considerations in mind.

But now, this method no longer worked. The height of the [Armored Rock Boar King] had reached nearly one hundred meters, and its impact force as well as physical defense far surpassed those of ordinary [Armored Rock Boar]s.

It didn't need many impacts to shake a giant tree. Long before the [Wind-Roaring Giant Ape]s could channel a [Howling Wind] storm strong enough to harm its flesh, they had to quickly transfer from one tree to another.

The [Armored Rock Boar King] was like a terrifying, tireless giant logging machine. Unable to pool the strength of all the monkeys to charge the [Howling Wind] skill, the [Wind-Roaring Giant Ape]s were completely unable to inflict effective attacks on it.

However, this fellow's brain was also not good; it would only go to ram another tree after knocking down one, which also gave the [Wind-Roaring Giant Ape]s a window to catch their breath.

Sun Po had nothing to do by the side of the [Tianhe Naval Forces] at the moment, so he thought of returning first to slaughter that [Armored Rock Boar King].

Even if he merely killed this thing, he could at least harvest points and alleviate the pressure on the [Tianhe Naval Forces].

He felt that he should also exert himself to speed up the process, after all, the competition lasted for only seven days.

But if he were to wear the [Black Rhino Armor] and engage in close combat with this hundred-meter behemoth, that naturally was impossible.

Although the [Black Rhino Armor] was also an orange-quality MOD and excelled in defense, Sun Po had a more suitable candidate to deal with it. Just as Sun Po was preparing to move forward, he suddenly heard [Wuzhiqi]'s voice transmission in his heart: "Master, creating customized [Tianhe Naval Forces] with [Qiankun Great Shift] meridians is not difficult, but having them learn the [Qiankun Great Shift] in a short time is still very hard; it will take at least one day."

Upon hearing this, Sun Po felt somewhat disappointed in his heart. This competition only lasted seven days in total; if making one took a full day, at most they could only make seven, and it would also consume [Wuzhiqi]'s combat energy. Doing so would outweigh the gains.

Just as he intended to make [Wuzhiqi] abandon the move of creating these customized [Tianhe Naval Forces], he heard [Wuzhiqi] say: "However, I just discovered that we can channel calamity energy into their meridians to guide them and speed up their mastery of the [Qiankun Great Shift]. It's just that this method consumes calamity energy quite severely. Ever since the battle in the [Jinshan Temple] secret realm last time, we have lost a large amount of calamity energy."

"Although I intentionally slaughtered the demonic beasts among them and additionally collected some calamity energy, overall, the lost calamity energy is still greater. Now, the calamity energy in [Tianhe Budu] is already not much. Do we need to expend calamity energy to help these [Tianhe Naval Forces] quickly master the [Qiankun Great Shift]?"

Hearing this, Sun Po felt a tight squeeze in his heart.

The remaining calamity energy not being much was indeed a problem that needed to be faced. Since the battle in the [Jinshan Temple] secret realm, the water level of the [Calamity Heavenly River] had dropped a lot.

If it were the consumption from using the [Black Rhino Armor] or the daily creation of [spirit replenishing pill]s, such consumption was naturally negligible. These minor consumptions could be replenished by [Tianhe Budu]'s own ability to produce calamity energy, and naturally would not further deplete the [Calamity Heavenly River].

But if it were matters like training the [Tianhe Naval Forces] or repairing other buildings in the [Tianhe Water Mansion], it would further deplete the [Calamity Heavenly River].

Sun Po pondered for a moment and asked: "The remaining calamity energy in [Tianhe Budu] shouldn't be enough to use a Heavenly Flood anymore, right?"

[Wuzhiqi]'s voice rang out: "Yes, we're still about half short. If we rely on [Tianhe Budu]'s own ability to produce calamity energy, it would take about a year."

Sun Po understood. He had no intention of saving calamity energy.

No matter how precious an energy resource was, it was only a good energy resource if it played its due role.

Now, the [Gaokao] had reached its final step. The secret realm was fraught with crises, and the contestants came from all over the world, with experts gathered like clouds.

If one were to conserve resources at this time, that would truly be foolish.

Especially if the remaining calamity energy was still enough to unleash a Heavenly Flood, then it might still be worth agonizing over.

After all, among Sun Po's existing methods, the Heavenly Flood was considered the conventional method with the strongest lethality and largest destructive scale, and this was also the key power that allowed Sun Po to break through the inner realm's limit.

If the remaining calamity energy could not be used for a Heavenly Flood, then exchanging it for a controllable [Armored Rock Boar] legion was also a good choice.

Sun Po made up his mind to form the [Qiankun Great Shift] legion.

Especially when he learned that if calamity energy was used to guide the meridians of the [Tianhe Naval Forces], after the [Tianhe Naval Forces] mastered how to use the [Qiankun Great Shift], they could directly use that strand of calamity energy responsible for guidance within the meridians, thereby further reducing the consumption when the [Tianhe Naval Forces] used the [Qiankun Great Shift].

Furthermore, after Sun Po expanded the [Tianhe Budu] domain, those [Tianhe Naval Forces] could directly draw calamity energy from the [Calamity Heavenly River], not even needing the [tianhe exclusive spirit-replenishing pill].

Thus, this was equivalent to directly possessing a zero-consumption, large-scale, normalized orange monster legion. When dealing with many terrestrial monsters, its effects performed no worse than a Heavenly Flood.

Hence, Sun Po immediately agreed to let [Wuzhiqi] expend calamity energy to accelerate the [Tianhe Naval Forces]' mastery of the [Qiankun Great Shift].

At the same time, he had also arrived within the line of sight of the hundred-meter behemoth named the [Armored Rock Boar King].

Looking at this giant object from the sky, one only felt that it was clumsy and stupid.

But standing solidly on the ground facing it right now, Sun Po could truly feel the oppressive sense of this undying monster.

It resembled a dark, oppressive mountain peak, flashing two huge blood-red searchlights.

Standing just five hundred meters away from it, Sun Po could feel the terrifying storm stirred up when the monster charged.

But Sun Po was full of confidence right now. Speaking of physical strength, one of the cards in his hand had never feared anyone.

Seemingly sensing Sun Po's intent, the voice of [Overlord Xiang Yu] came from within Sun Po's heart: "My Lord, what a fine wild boar! To this general, it is a massive tonic!! Why not leave it to this general?"

[Sun Po] had intended to send out the [Overlord Xiang Yu], who possessed the might to pull up mountains and the qi that overrode the world, to fight strength with strength and meet recklessness with recklessness!!

Both being [Orange 9-Star], let's see whether the strongest human after the ancient era was fiercer, or the hundred-meter behemoth in the [Fenglei Mountain Range] giant timber jungle was stronger!!

The next second, an orange light flickered.

A pitch-black cloak fluttered, and an extremely robust man slowly condensed his form within the orange light.

He was resolute and stern, with disheveled facial hair and hair, a body like a tiger or bear, and arms like a dragon or python. Standing just like that on the charging path of the hundred-meter-tall behemoth, his aura was not weak by the slightest fraction. Outside the arena, the spectators were already a bit numb.

This person has three cards? And even two gold cards and one orange card?

——

The Card Makers felt that their common sense was stepped on the ground and rubbed fiercely, then stomped into pieces with a single kick.

The populace felt that their children really weren't working hard enough at learning card making, yet they kept making a fuss about things like the bearing limit of spiritual space.

At this time, even the voices slandering Sun Po were much fewer. No one was saying stupid things anymore about Sun Po having good luck or being about to be eliminated soon.

Even those gamblers who hadn't bought Sun Po were just cursing and complaining, saying that Sun Po was acting like a pig to eat a tiger, causing them to lose a large sum.

But besides being shocked by Sun Po's spiritual space bearing limit, more knowledgeable Card Makers felt that while Sun Po might be very strong in power, he didn't quite understand how to compete.

There were over a hundred contestants entering the secret realm exploration in this competition. Even counting those who had been eliminated, not a single contestant had summoned three cards so far.

As strong as [Qin Wudao], at this moment he had only summoned a [Black Dragon], stepping on a large bronze bird beneath his feet—two cards at most. Moreover, that large bronze bird might not even be a card, after all, it was said that the [Qin Family] mastered a magical power known as [Xianqin Heavy Industry Creation].

This power also seemed to be of the summoning category, and the most obvious physical feature of summoned entities was that they were "shaped like bronze artifacts".

That is to say, [Qin Wudao] might have only summoned a [Black Dragon] at this moment. Although he might still have other cards existing, this was only the first day of the competition, and contestants naturally had to keep some energy in reserve.

Just like [Li Tiance], he had always relied solely on the bow and arrows transformed from the two cards [Golden Phoenix] and [White Phoenix]. In fact, he basically fought relying on the golden bow transformed by [Golden Phoenix] plus the various powers stored by his own cultivation technique [Saints Heart Formula], and hadn't even used "[White Phoenix] transforming into an arrow". Furthermore, [Xuanwu Gate], [Qin Qiong], and [Yuchi Yigde] had never been summoned at all.

Not to mention the [Black Pharaoh]; throughout the entire process, he only utilized the earth-yellow crystal floating at the top of his staff to summon a burst of yellow sand surrounding himself to kill enemies. Aside from that, he hadn't used any other methods, let alone summoned cards.

As for the sword-swallowing swordsman, the scholar surrounded by a scroll, the young man driving a mechanism giant, Wizard Harry, [Don Quixote], and others, it could be seen that they were already under heavy pressure. They had summoned two cards quite early on, although they were also orange-grade cards.

But in the hearts of knowledgeable spectators, their strength had already been ranked in the T2 tier.

For no other reason, those T0-tier contestants ranked at the very front all appeared to still have energy in reserve at present. Most of these contestants only used one or two cards to barely cope, striving to consume the least amount of power while achieving the greatest combat results.

After all, the more cards summoned, the greater the consumption of spirituality.

Although one could slowly recover spirituality through methods like resting, meditating, and contemplation, in this perilous secret realm, who could guarantee that they would definitely find a safe environment to recover spirituality?

As for who did the best in conserving spirituality right now, it undoubtedly belonged to [Jiang Cha] of the Shennong [Jiang Family]. Who knew what special constitution she possessed, but simply by walking in the secret realm, the monsters within the secret realm would kill each other over her, and even an orange monster horde couldn't completely force out a single card of hers.

But because her slaughter efficiency was inferior to the previous few T0-tier contestants, in the hearts of most spectators, [Jiang Cha] belonged to the T1 level.

Besides [Jiang Cha], the [Donkey Cart Brothers], who drove their donkey cart the entire way and charged back and forth among monsters brandishing a coiled-dragon staff, as well as [Liu Jianren], who directly transformed into a red dragon after entering the secret realm, were cases like this. They also hadn't summoned a single card after entering the secret realm, but their slaughter efficiency fell short of the top-ranked T0 contestants, and thus they were ranked in T1 in the hearts of the spectators.

Besides that, people like [Yuan Zongli], [Black Dragon Knight Nefarian], and [Red-Bearded Eric] had a slaughter efficiency that was not quite a match, yet they were deemed not as proficient and at ease as the top few T0 contestants, so they were also ranked in the T1 level by busybodies.

As for Sun Po, who had summoned three cards at this moment, he was the most controversial.

The main point was that after entering the secret realm, Sun Po first summoned a gold card, and just when everyone thought his strength was super strong and he was going to slaughter all directions, he directly started standing there blankly.

The spectators thereby thought that Sun Po was a fraud, and with his points falling far behind, he had no hope of winning the championship.

But who would have thought that Sun Po would reach a cooperation with the [Wind-Roaring Giant Ape]s in the secret realm, taking the lead in finding orange-grade monsters and reaching four-digit points.

Just when everyone thought he was going to march forward triumphantly, they discovered that everyone else was actively exploring and finding a large number of orange monsters, whereas he alone was dragged down in his steps at this moment by a few undying wild boars, causing his points to fall behind once again, and even becoming the first contestant to summon three cards.

Spectators who didn't know the inside story felt that Sun Po having a high number of cards didn't conform to common sense, while knowledgeable spectators felt that Sun Po didn't understand the competition and was overly wasting spirituality.

But no matter what, after seeing this orange card summoned by Sun Po, everyone no longer had any doubts about the fact that Sun Po was an expert.