novelraw Chapter 316 - 225: Peerless Seed, 24 Consecutive Victories
Chapter 316 - 225: Peerless Seed, 24 Consecutive Victories
"Of course, not bad!"
Han Zhuofei lightly tapped the armrest with his fingers and said with a smile:
"This boy has an extremely solid foundation. I’ve seen many elite talents, but few can reach his level. He can be called a peerless seed."
Many people nearby showed astonishment, and one of them asked:
"A peerless seed?"
"He just has a solid foundation, nothing special beyond that. Can he really be called a peerless seed?"
Cheng Shayu glanced at him and said with a smile:
"Condensing True Sword Intent at the Qi Refinement stage, combined with such a solid foundation, isn’t that special enough?"
"Hmm..."
The person hesitated for a moment, then turned his head to see Su Yu already suppressing the eleventh opponent, and couldn’t help but nod:
"Indeed, his foundation is quite extraordinary."
While speaking, Su Yu had already used his extraordinary swordsmanship to defeat another opponent.
The Tier Nine Flying Sword, combined with True Sword Intent, was unstoppable by Qi Refinement-level magic and treasures. At this moment, the concept of "one sword breaks all techniques" took shape.
In less than ten seconds, the twelfth opponent jumped up.
On the side of the Horned Demon People, a Horned Demon Earth Immortal sitting at the highest position saw the twelfth contestant fall into a disadvantage within twenty seconds of entering the arena, his brows furrowed, he exhaled deeply and said solemnly:
"This human has an extremely solid foundation, his swordsmanship is extraordinary, reaching the limit of the Qi Refinement stage."
The Horned Demon officer sitting next to him immediately said:
"Rest assured, True Sovereign, in the next match we will send a master to take action."
The Horned Demon True Sovereign was silent for a moment, then said:
"Isn’t there a few peerless seeds among those accompanying the army? Let them go up."
His subordinate asked in surprise:
"This early?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately changed his tune:
"I will contact them right away."
On the stage, Su Yu effortlessly achieved his twelfth consecutive victory as expected.
After defeating this opponent, Su Yu felt even more at ease than before, feeling that if they were all at this level, his remaining mana could last another four or five rounds.
Sword Cultivators consume less mana compared to magic practitioners. Without using various sword moves, his natural mana recovery was enough to balance the consumption.
All these opponents were among the top tier of the Qi Refinement stage, their treasure grades and Dao techniques might differ slightly, but the gap wasn’t large, and most were not his match.
With this thought in mind, Su Yu dreamed of winning in one go—lighting up the entire path with consecutive victories in twenty battles and securing the second major achievement.
But unexpectedly, after ending the twelfth opponent, the thirteenth opponent who quickly jumped onto the stage immediately transformed, revealing a true form standing ten yards tall with three heads and six arms.
"???"
This guy was dark golden in color, with three heads—the main being a demon’s head, the left one fierce-eyed, the right one benevolent, and six massive arms each holding a weapon.
The top set of hands each held a giant sword, the middle set one held a bead, the other a hammer, and the bottom set one held a bow, the other notching an arrow.
This unknown true form looked down on Su Yu, the central head spoke human language:
"Your strength is commendable, but this is as far as you go."
Su Yu raised an eyebrow, instead showing joy, and asked:
"From this true form, I can see you are no ordinary being. What is your status among the Horned Demon People?"
The true form boomed in response:
"Core Disciple of Tianyan, a peerless seed!"
"A peerless seed?"
Su Yu’s eyes lit up, and he laughed heartily:
"Great, defeating you will make me a peerless seed as well."
As his words fell, the Horned Demon’s true form’s angry head spewed flames, roaring furiously:
"Arrogant!"
If not for the countdown unending, he might have acted immediately.
Seven...
Six...
Su Yu silently counted the countdown in his heart. When the last second ended, and the isolating screen disappeared, he moved with a mind and lightly shouted:
"Time Sword, overdraft the future!"
In an instant, a force from future time descended upon him, with attack power and speed increasing by 100,000, his twin swords suddenly flashed bright and dim.
With a thought, Su Yu’s twin swords flashed and disappeared. The central main head of the unknown true form narrowed its eyes, as if sensing something, that same moment, deep wounds appeared on its body, though aware, it could not react.
"What swift swords!"
Streaks of flowing light flickered rapidly, as if in a blink, the Horned Demon’s true form had twenty to thirty visible wounds.
This Horned Demon was also decisive, realizing in an instant that intercepting this supersonic sword light was impossible. He decisively activated the big move, with divine inscriptions densely covering the three-headed, six-armed true form, and the raised arms igniting golden flames converging on the six weapons.
"Boom!"
A streak of golden lightning, larger than a human, sliced through the air, followed by the bead rising and crashing down like a meteor.
The twin swords slashed in succession, sending forth over a dozen golden sword slashes hundreds of meters long.
The fifth and sixth arms drew the bow and notched an arrow, with golden light flowing towards the arrow skyward.
Even before the arrow arrived, a strong threat surged forth. Su Yu decisively activated the Cloud Protection, the Cyan Cloud Cover brightened as layers of cyan Qingyun shielded himself.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The lightning struck head-on, reducing the defense by forty thousand.
Seventeen sword slashes approached, each slicing away over ten thousand defense from the protective shield, rapidly decreasing the defense by two hundred forty thousand in a blink.
The Treasure Pearl crashed down like a meteor, reducing the defense by one hundred thousand.
Soon after, the charged arrow left deep air-rending marks in the sky as it struck the canopy, blasting a cyan Qingyun apart, reducing the defense by two hundred thousand.
A single burst reached as high as 580,000. Without activating Cloud Protection, it would have directly broken through the defense.
After accounting for the 70% damage reduction of Cloud Protection, this round’s actual burst was 1,930,000, enough to instantly kill a typical level 100 BOSS.
This is still a basic attack; it shows how terrifying the damage of the three-headed six-armed true form is.
Without using a big move, Su Yu really couldn’t handle it.
But "what ifs" don’t exist in this world. After activating the Time Sword, each strike ignores realms, bypasses defense reductions, and comes as true damage.
Ten strikes per second, twenty strikes with dual swords, each dealing 156,000 damage, with an instant burst of up to 3,120,000 in one second.
This three-headed six-armed true form has extremely robust Qi and Blood, with defense comparable to a BOSS, and has very high damage reduction and armor penetration resistance. Other Sword Immortals would find it hard to break through its defenses, even with high-level treasures.
However, the Time Sword unluckily comes with the Power of Time, with defense-ignoring priority much higher than the true form.
In less than three seconds, the three-headed six-armed true form unleashed two bursts in a single breath, but Su Yu had already delivered sixty strikes.
The result was that the Cyan Cloud Cover was about to collapse, and the three-headed six-armed form was torn to pieces.
"This burst..."
The pupils of the Horned Demon People contestants narrowed, all showing apprehension.
Victory +13, human points +13.
"Next!"
In the seating area of the Horned Demon People contestants, the remaining contestants looked at each other, then all turned to look at the two Horned Demons sitting on the edge.
The two Horned Demons exchanged a look, and one of them, holding a sword in both hands, sighed and stood up:
"I’ll go."
With one step forward, the person disappeared and reappeared in the arena.
Su Yu looked up at the new opponent, feeling the unmistakable sharp Sword Intent emanating from him, along with the two high-quality flying swords circling him, knowing this was a formidable enemy he might not be able to handle.
In terms of Swordsmanship, he had no fear, but this Horned Demon expert had two Tier Nine Flying Swords, while he only had one, which put him at a disadvantage in a fight.
The attribute gap between Tier Nine Flying Sword and Tier Seven Flying Sword is too large, making it difficult to match well. While it’s fine against weaker opponents, it doesn’t work against experts of the same level.
Su Yu almost instantly changed his tactics.
"Transform into a Dragon!"
With a thought, the hidden True Dragon Bloodline within him surged, spreading throughout his body, and his form rapidly expanded.
"Roar!"
A heaven-shaking dragon roar echoed in the arena, and in the blink of an eye, he transformed into a red dragon spanning several kilometers across the arena.
On the human side:
"???
On the Horned Demon People side:
"???
On the other side of the boundary membrane, the Horned Demon expert still maintained an expert’s posture, but his widened mouth and dropped jaw revealed his inner shock and speechlessness.
"Damn!"
Just a second ago, he was thinking how rare it was to encounter a Sword Dao expert also mastering Sword Intent, promising a thrilling sword duel, and then the next second, the Sword Dao expert turned into a level 214 mythological template True Dragon, which was utterly absurd.
"What the hell..."
"What am I supposed to play?"
The fifteen-second countdown ended in the blink of an eye, and the red dragon slowly extended its form. It neither used breath nor Magic, just pressed down with a claw.
The Horned Demon Sword Immortal flashed several kilometers away, closed his hands, and the twin swords around his body vanished. The next second, massive sparks flew off the red dragon, and in the blink of an eye appeared more than a dozen deep wounds nearly a meter deep, with copious dragon blood spurting out.
"Hmm?"
"Still dare to resist?"
The red dragon’s pupils glowed with blazing flame, shook its shining dragon whiskers, and spoke a word of truth:
"Stop!"
It wasn’t any Divine Technique, but the terrifying mana comparable to an Earth Immortal that directly acted on a patch of void space, forcibly freezing it, making it unable to move. The dragon claw grasped the void, gathering the world’s energy to form a massive dragon-shaped Grapple, holding the opponent in its claw, with a press, its Protective Treasure twisted violently.
Another press, and the Protective Treasure flew apart, with the remaining force crushing it, causing a horrific death.
This wasn’t even on the same level; not to mention him, even Su Yu now couldn’t match any level 200 super BOSS.
Victory +14, human points +14.
Silence fell over the Horned Demon People contestants’ seating area, even the few senior Horned Demon officers were speechless for a moment.
Although there was still a supreme seed who hadn’t made a move, everyone knew the result would be the same if he went up.
Time passed, and no one dared to challenge for half a day.
"No one stepping up?"
"Who dares to step up?"
"Hahaha..."
Cheng Shayu slapped his thigh, laughing loudly:
"Every minute no one steps up, it’s considered they forfeit a match, and our victory count automatically increases by 1."
The red dragon hovered above the arena, surrounded by rumbling thunderclouds, the roaring sound ringing in the ears, capturing the heart.
One minute later, no one stepped up.
Victory +15, human points +15.
After two minutes, still no one stepped up.
Victory +16, human points +16.
Three minutes later...
The arena remained silent for a total of ten minutes, and Su Yu achieved a ten-match winning streak, with a total of 24 victories.
As time ran out, the immense power rapidly drained from the body, and the dragon stretched across the arena quickly shrank back into human form, vanishing from the arena.
Su Yu didn’t wait for anyone to step up, choosing to leave immediately.
Having already used a big move, and with hardly any mana left, why stay and risk being overturned?
Although he hadn’t yet used the Great Divine Skill of Sky Splitting, the Horned Demon People still had a supreme seed, and in his current state, simply relying on Sky Splitting might not guarantee a win.