novelraw Chapter 519: The Situation Begins to Reverse
Chapter 519: The Situation Begins to Reverse
Boom!!!
Two fists carrying completely different powers collided fiercely in the air!
On the surface of Jie Ming’s fist, the pale golden spiritual light of the Body Forging Method intertwined violently with the lingering traces of the invisible [Imaginary] Law. They annihilated each other madly, erupting into a muffled thunderous roar!
Pure physical strength confronted the law’s erosion head-on. The overflowing power transformed into visible ring-shaped shockwaves that scraped away another thick layer of the already riddled gobi rock below, grinding it into fine powder!
To conserve budget, the black-robed wizard no longer flickered and “flashed” about. Instead, he advanced with an eerie stride that seemed to skip parts of the acceleration process, pressing in like a ghost at close range!
Every one of his attacks was concise and sharp to the extreme!
And each strike carried the feeling of a “predetermined result.”
Often the moment he made a move, the result of “hitting” or “producing a certain effect” would partially manifest, making defense extremely difficult!
Jie Ming’s pupils contracted sharply. The Great Void Step operated at full power!
His figure turned into a golden rainbow streak, executing all kinds of illogical dodges and blocks within a tiny space.
His fists and feet were equally heavy. Every strike contained the terrifying physical power tempered by the Body Forging Method and the vast Spiritual Qi of a Spirit Transformation Stage cultivator.
In the instant of another fist-palm clash…
A highly compressed ball of Trigram Fire Annihilation Divine Light exploded at the point of contact. Dark golden light detonated violently.
The black-robed wizard’s brows furrowed slightly. Although he had already defined the result of “completing the defense,” the edge of his robe was still singed with a charred mark.
Jie Ming’s eyes brightened.
His combat instincts sharpened madly at the edge of death. Those eyes, almost dyed red with blood, immediately caught this detail.
This was the flaw!
As long as he attacked frequently enough and forced the opponent to exhaust his budget per unit of time as quickly as possible, he could inflict effective damage!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
But before he could feel any joy, a series of crisp bone-cracking sounds entered his ears, making one’s scalp tingle!
This exchange caused Jie Ming’s arm to explode section by section.
From finger bones to wrist bones, from forearm to scapula—every single bone shattered completely.
Flesh turned into a mist of blood filling the sky!
Only white bone fragments remained, barely holding their shape through the connection of fascia.
Yet in the next instant, the broken bones in this arm automatically healed. Flesh and skin grew over them at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The black-robed wizard’s figure paused slightly, then attacked again.
Facing the palm that was once more inches away, Jie Ming raised his other arm without hesitation to block.
During the block, he twisted his elbow half an instant in advance, shifting the impact point from the vulnerable joint to the thicker forearm.
Crack!
This time, only the ulna of the forearm shattered!
Pale golden regenerative spiritual light surged over almost simultaneously with the break. The speed of reconnection was a full half-beat faster than before!
The black-robed wizard’s offensive remained airtight like a storm, but the “willow-fluff” feeling of fragility that could be destroyed at any moment was rapidly fading from Jie Ming’s figure. In its place was an extreme, taut resilience!
Boom boom boom boom!!!
Continuous explosions thundered across the gray-white wasteland!
Dark golden light, invisible law ripples, and shockwaves born from pure power clashes turned the entire area into a deadly zone of rampant energy!
The earth wailed as it continuously sank, shattered, and melted. The sky was dyed into bizarre, chaotic colors by turbulent energy flows!
From a distance, it looked like a scene of apocalypse!
Jie Ming discovered that this black-robed wizard was also an absolute master of body techniques and close-quarters combat!
His moves were exquisitely subtle, his force exertion unpredictable, and his control over his body had reached a shocking degree.
Combined with the [Imaginary] effects, every strike was lethally threatening!
“As expected…” Jie Ming understood in his heart.
As a law that could “skip the process and reach the result directly,” the [Imaginary] power was indeed most suited to two extreme combat styles: one was, large-scale “result definition,” such as directly causing a certain area to collapse or a certain group of targets to annihilate.
The second was the current close-range instant kill!
The Imaginary Law could realize the complex result of “the attack hits and causes maximum damage” with the highest efficiency!
With every clash, Jie Ming’s arms, legs, feet, even scapulae and ribs would have their bones shattered and flesh disintegrate under the enormous force and the erosion of the [Imaginary] effect!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The sound of breaking bones never ceased!
Agonizing pain surged against every nerve like tidal waves, nearly drowning his consciousness!
But…
The adaptive evolution of the Body Forging Method displayed its terrifying power at this moment!
The shattered flesh had yet to fully scatter, the broken bones had yet to completely separate, when a vast surge of life force came rushing madly!
Flesh wriggled and intertwined like living creatures!
Bones mended and reshaped at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Often in the blink of an eye, a heavy injury that would incapacitate an ordinary fifth-ring wizard had already recovered completely!
The newly grown tissue even seemed denser in microscopic structure, gaining another fraction of resistance against the [Imaginary] power!
This allowed Jie Ming to fight like an tireless, continuously self-strengthening combat machine, engaging the black-robed wizard in the most brutal exchange of injuries!
Severed arms regrew, shattered bones restored, flesh reshaped…
However, as the fight continued, the excitement in Jie Ming’s heart gradually cooled. His brows furrowed slightly.
Although he had pulled the situation back, he had now encountered a new bottleneck.
The evolution of the Body Forging Method mainly enhanced survival and endurance capabilities.
His fists could barely withstand the opponent’s attacks without complete annihilation, but his own attacks—whether the physical strikes carrying immense force or the close-range bursts of Trigram Fire Divine Light and spatial tears—had almost negligible effect when they landed on the black-robed wizard!
Clearly, after discovering that he could not quickly disintegrate Jie Ming with the [Imaginary] power in a short time, the black-robed wizard had swiftly adjusted his strategy.
He allocated more of his available “budget” preferentially to the defensive side!
Jie Ming’s fist, brimming with Spiritual Qi, slammed into the opponent’s chest. The force was like a mud ox entering the sea, completely absorbed by an invisible barrier!
A point-blank exploding Trigram Fire Divine Light vanished silently before it could even touch the opponent’s skin!
Once the “budget” tilted toward defense, the flaw Jie Ming had previously discovered quickly lost effectiveness. The black-robed wizard seemed to have donned a conceptual “absolute defense armor”!
Although his attack frequency and instantaneous threat had decreased somewhat, it made him almost invincible!
“Tch… troublesome,” Jie Ming thought with secret annoyance.
He could endure, he could fight, he could recover…
But he just couldn’t break through the defense!
On the other side, while steadily parrying Jie Ming’s storm-like and ever-changing attacks, the black-robed wizard’s heart filled with growing astonishment and confusion, sprouting like wild grass!
This minor wizard before him had far too many unreasonable aspects!
Those defenses, attack spells, summons, and bizarre movement methods that surpassed his current rank could be set aside for now…
That monstrous physique capable of withstanding the erosion of [Imaginary] power without being destroyed could also be temporarily ignored…
What he found most incomprehensible was Jie Ming’s seemingly endless stamina and recovery resources!
They had been engaged in this high-intensity close-quarters combat—where every strike was powerful enough to shatter mountains and split the earth—for nearly ten minutes!
Ten minutes was very short for mortals.
But for wizards whose neural reaction speed increased exponentially with rank, every second was stretched extremely long, enough to complete dozens or even hundreds of tactical thoughts, energy mobilizations, and move variations!
From the moment the two had encountered each other, various probes, long-range attacks, eerie defense, severed arms, and evolution…
Until Jie Ming, relying on the adaptive evolution of the Body Forging Method, could resist a single strike from the black-robed wizard, the total duration had been no more than a dozen seconds. Yet after that, the two had fought for another ten minutes.
One could imagine just how intense the confrontation between both sides had been during this “long” ten minutes!
Even the black-robed wizard himself could barely remember how many times he had smashed and shattered Jie Ming’s body.
Arms, legs, feet, chest, even the head had all deformed and shattered under his fists and palms!
Yet every time, the opponent would recover completely in the blink of an eye, full of vigor, and charge forward again!
“Just how much biomass and energy has this guy stockpiled?!” the black-robed wizard could not help roaring inwardly.
He had used the characteristics of the [Imaginary] Law very early on to “define” and destroy all the spatial storage equipment on Jie Ming that he could perceive during the fight.
Logically speaking, once a wizard lost his storage equipment, it was equivalent to cutting off his supply line!
But Jie Ming?
Where was the biomass and energy for his regeneration coming from?!
Could he have an elemental pool and biomass synthesis factory built inside his body?!
How could this possibly be something a fifth-ring wizard could achieve?!
What shocked him even more was that even he himself, during these ten minutes of high-intensity offense and defense, had already consumed a large portion of the high-grade energy crystals, rapid recovery potions, and spare wizard tool materials stored in his own spatial storage!
Maintaining high-frequency use of the [Imaginary] Law—especially allocating large amounts of budget to defense—placed enormous strain on spiritual power and specific resources!
In contrast, Jie Ming…
Aside from his face being somewhat pale from intense pain and consumption, his breathing was growing longer and steadier, and his eyes were becoming brighter!
There were even faint signs that the power and energy intensity of his occasional counterattacks were increasing!
“He’s actually getting more spirited the longer he fights? What kind of monster is this?!”
The black-robed wizard felt a wave of absurdity and faint unease.
On Jie Ming’s side, he indeed felt his condition was quite good.
The energy transmission between his inner grotto-heaven and the Incense Fire Divine Dao was stable and efficient. Spiritual Qi flowed endlessly.
Under the continuous high-pressure confrontation, the evolution speed of the Body Forging Method seemed to be accelerating further!
From the initial need to sacrifice an entire arm to block a single strike, to now often only needing to suffer damage from the forearm to the palm to neutralize the exchange, the situation had shifted from him being unilaterally beaten to a mutual back-and-forth!
He could even seize opportunities to launch some effective counterattacks, forcing the opponent to expend more budget on defense!