76: Chapter 75: Battle against [Dagon]!!

Meanwhile, back at the school's main gate, Li Tiance had a faint feeling that things were slipping out of his control.

The Card Maker technique Li Tiance cultivated was somewhat special; it was named the "Saints Heart Formula."

This technique allowed a Card Maker to generate and store a type of power within their spirituality space while cultivating their spirituality.

Furthermore, this power could be chosen, including the Power of Five Elements, Power of Fate, Power of Time, Power of Space, Power of Mind, and so on.

It was a perfect match for his exclusive talent [Heavenly Khagan], but among them, the hardest to generate was the Power of Fate.

As one of the highest-tier known powers, even after many years of cultivation, Li Tiance had only accumulated enough Power of Fate to shoot three arrows.

Since Li Tiance's [Heavenly Khagan] possessed an absolute hit effect, all he needed to do was draw his bow, nock an arrow, and attach the Power of Fate to the arrow.

Then, he would visualize the destiny he wished to achieve as his target.

This arrow would then pierce through the mists of fate, finding the correct thread of destiny for Li Tiance.

Simply put, whatever he wanted, he just had to shoot an arrow, and fate would grant him the correct script to fulfill his wish.

This was also Li Tiance's greatest trump card, arguably the ultimate technique of foresight.

Last time, he used one arrow to find the thread of destiny that would make him the head of the Li family.

From that, he acquired [Yuchi Yigde], acquired [Xuanwu Gate],

and successfully secured his status as the heir to the Li family.

This time, desiring to achieve an even grander vision in his heart, he shot the second arrow.

And everything about the second arrow pointed toward one person—Sun Po.

That arrow pinned itself to the destiny Li Tiance wished to achieve, serving as an anchor.

Li Tiance could clearly see the script of everything that would unfold along the way. All he had to do was make sure events followed that script as closely as possible.

Although Sun Po was strangely a complete blank within fate, Li Tiance knew everything else about the surrounding fate, allowing him to naturally deduce the blank space.

It was like finding a white cat in the pitch-black night—effortlessly simple.

Before this, everything had been within controllable bounds; at least the target was still there.

Even if there were minor deviations, he only needed to work to pull things back onto that thread of destiny.

But just a moment ago, Li Tiance saw that the thread of destiny had snapped.

The destiny anchor pinned by his precious second arrow of fate had disappeared.

Beside him, Yuan Tiangang looked up at the sky, his expression grave as he spoke:

"The stars are misaligned... such an omen of heavenly upheaval is truly unprecedented."

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Inside the Duel Secret Realm, [Dagon] seemed to have fallen into a frenzy.

As soon as it dragged itself up, it began frantically slaughtering the kneeling [Mutated Deep Ones]. Its massive webbed feet could easily crush ordinary [Mutated Deep Ones] into minced meat.

It was literally squashing them into fish patties with every step, while the larger giant [Mutated Deep Ones] were savagely torn to pieces by its sharp claws.

What's more, these [Mutated Deep Ones] didn't even dare to resist, making the scene brutally cruel.

In fact, when one giant [Mutated Deep One] merely stood up and let out two roars at [Dagon],

it was swarmed by its own kin and ripped to shreds.

Even though [Dagon] was indiscriminately massacring them, they still revered [Dagon] wholeheartedly,

and refused to tolerate any of their kind questioning [Dagon].

Sun Po took in the entire scene:

"So the rumor that these things have a religion might actually be true?

Then why does its IQ look so low?"

Including why these Deep Ones mutated, and what was the so-called Mad Dragon?

Sun Po felt that this whole affair remained shrouded in mystery.

But he didn't want to overthink it either. All truth lay in his blade.

Before long, seeing that [Dagon] had killed off most of its own kind,

Sun Po stayed at the maximum range of the [Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros Horn Slash] and unleashed several sharp [Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros Horn Slashes] at [Dagon]'s good leg.

Rays of blue blade light slammed into the caught-off-guard [Dagon],

but the blue blade light—which had always proven invincible—carved into [Dagon]'s leg without producing any noticeable effect at all.

It was merely like splashes of water skimming past, lightly dispersing and shattering away.

Yet this attack seemed to enrage [Dagon], who hadn't originally noticed this "little ant."

[Dagon] turned its head, tossed aside a giant [Mutated Deep One] it had ripped in half, and pounced straight toward Sun Po.

Despite having only one leg, it hopped surprisingly fast, crashing over like a giant fish-shaped missile.

Sun Po held the [moon-gazing rhinoceros horn blade] across his chest to block, but felt an excruciating pain as if hit square in the chest by a giant sledgehammer.

A metallic taste of blood surged into Sun Po's throat as he watched his [Cold Jade Black Ice Shield] shatter before his eyes.

The [moon-gazing rhinoceros horn blade] was forced back, and Sun Po was slammed into the ground like a cannonball.

As the dust cleared, Sun Po climbed out of the crater and spat hard—

"Pah! That's got some real kick!! A hundred-meter-tall creature is truly built different!"

A single tackle from [Dagon] had instantly filled up his [Power of the Abyss].

But if anyone else had witnessed this scene, they would surely be astounded by Sun Po's madness.

[Dagon] undoubtedly belonged to the realm of deities—even if it was merely a lesser deity, it still carried divine nature.

Card Makers who had faced divine monsters knew that divine entities exercised a tremendous suppression effect on most non-divine units.

Not only did they deal higher damage, but their divine bodies also granted immense damage mitigation against lower-tier powers.

Therefore, [Water Element] damage like Sun Po's [Moon-Gazing Rhinoceros Horn Slash] dealt extremely limited damage to [Dagon].

Meanwhile, every hit [Dagon] landed on him was practically a critical strike.

Yet one had to admit the defense of the [Black Rhino Armor] was absurdly strong.

Even after being sent flying by the hundred-meter-tall [Dagon], Sun Po merely coughed up a little blood

and was still lively enough to stand up and keep fighting, which was exceptionally rare in the world.

What's more, Sun Po had fully charged his [Power of the Abyss] and was ready to deliver a fierce counterattack!!

Climbing out of the crater created by his fall, Sun Po faced the mountain-like [Dagon] and swapped the [moon-gazing rhinoceros horn blade] in his hand for the [meteor spear].

This wasn't the time to harvest materials or focus on slaying speed; he had to ensure maximum power.

A heavy, dark-colored spear imbued with a sense of high technology materialized in Sun Po's palm out of thin air.

He attempted to condense a container's worth of [Power of the Abyss] within the armor,

while simultaneously channeling the surrounding [Water Element] to gather at the tip of the [meteor spear].

It was none other than the technique with the highest armor penetration—[Meteor Raging Waterfall Pierce]!!

But unlike the tiny blue speck of light condensed previously,

this time what materialized was an orb of light radiating a deep blue-black glow.

The terrifying aura it faintly radiated even startled Sun Po himself.

Sun Po sank his knees and crouched, then shot up into the sky like a missile, jumping to roughly the height of the monster's knee.

He thrust the [meteor spear] in his hands viciously into the knee joint of [Dagon]'s good leg—

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